Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IN CIIY
 FOUR 0 .TAVE MELODLO PhOUC II
 IN BY THE WILLIAM ISAAC FAMILY

camped north of town and one alt ernoon the cowboy and the two sons rode in town and began to shoot up the place. They rode their ho ses into a saloon and had their drin6s seated in the saddle. As they were leaving, MT. Isaac said, Marshal Henry Garvis, the first marshal elect ed in Phoenix, started to put them under arrest This angered the cow boy. who rode back to shoot Garvis. The latter was a bit quicker on th- draw and shot the revolver from the others hand before he could fire. The cowboy then turned ho ride away and Garyis attempted to fire at him, but his gun damned. Drop ping his own gun, Garyis seized the cowboys gun from the street and killed the fleeing man. His two com panions were fined sfo0 each.
 MT. Isaac said his brother. w. O. Isaac, was in Phoenix one afternoon when a Mexican known as the sword Slasher' rode down Washington street on a fine horse, slashing at the people on the street with a sword. After cutting several severely the Mexican came to where w. o. Isaac, who was then about IT. was standing and drew back to slash him. As the stroke started down the Mexican S eye left young Isaac and he struck a man standing close by. The slasher then rode down the street, turned and rode back through the crowd which had run out to see where he the sidewalks and the Mexican rode on and made his escape
 During the entire performance. MT. Isaac said, number of men who were armed forget to use their guns in the excitement. The Mexican We later arrested in Tucson by Marshal Garvis, brought back to Phoenix and put in jail, which in those days stood near where the National Bank of Arizona now stands. One afternoon shortly after the Mexican had been | brought back, two men went into the l jail to see friend. As they stepped into the yard the Mexican seized ? 1 board and started to strike one of the men. The latter promptly drew his gun and killed the Mexican. A few days later a mob took two men charged with murder from the jail and hanged them to trees in the city hall plaza. They had planned to hang the Mexican at the same time Mir Isaac later bought the horse ridden by the Mexican Sword | Slasher.''
 1 During the first years the Isaac family lived in Phoenix, MT. Isaac | said, they planted their crops ana then in the spring and fall the mer would make several trips to Yuma
 to haul freight back. They used two
 wagons coupled tog0ther, and 10 horses. The wagons would be loaded with enough feed to make the triI down and back and as they wen
 down they would deposit feed at eacf
 of the camps. The load coming bacl
 would be about 12.000 pounds.
 took about 25 days to make the trip
 Each camp was run by a man wh' sold hay to the teamsters at 25 cent! a head for the teams. The rout, taken to Yuma, the end of the South ern Pacific railway in those days
 was by the way of Oatman flats tt Maricopa, and then down the rive l to Yuma.
 In the early days in the valley, Mir Isaac believes it was much hotte than it is now. The summer thel lasted four long months. he said 1 and the sand and dust storms wer,
 more frequent The growth of tree.
 and vegetation, he thinks, had tn,
 effect of cooling the air and relieving the extreme heat felt in the earl, times. Most of the houses in Phoe
 nix in the old days. MT. Isaac said were made of adobe with dirt roofs and the city was like one big family
 Everyone knew everyone and the
 all joined in the social times. Ma
 day picnics were always held in Apri because of the heat.