Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

day night after supper while Stanton was at his place of business, and tramp Gas we then called them, the word hobo being unknown to our Western lexicon-and at that, l may be doing injustice to some now stall wart citizen) by the name of Kelly was washing fishes in the kitchen, cavalvade of horsemen rode up to the stanton place and someone called out Olga Listed, Senor Stanton, venga aca," and Stanton went to the door to be met with a fusilade of shots, and he died instantly upon his
 own threshold. There were many in this cavalcade, but as soon as Kelly heard the shots, showing that he did not belle his name, and that he belonged to the fighting race, he jumped, took down a rifle that was hanging over the kitchen door, ran to the front door of the store, fired into the retreating horsemen with fatal effect as to one of them. who died as suddenly as did Stanton. There were to be two inquests held as quickly as coroner could come from Prescott; and witnesses were called from all around the Stanton and Weaver district; and yet not single witness was found to testify that he knew the man that Kelly had killed; and who he was, or whence he came, Is yet, mystery. Again dame rumor was busy It was said that Stanton had received all of the poodle from the Martin murders, and that he had failed and refused to divide the spells with the men who had actually and foully won them, and that in revenge Stanton's CO., murderers had killed him. But that is another mystery, that probably will never be solved-unless those should speak, for whom silence is safety.
 The Gribble Murders
 Thus ended the Martin tragedy, ex- l cept for the horror of the event, and the terror created by the name of
 Francisco Vega.
 From the winter of 'S6-s7 till some
 months after the Gribble murders
 drove the Jack Baker ten-mule team 1 hauling supplies from Phoenix to the Vulture, including monthly consign- | ments of cash to meet payday l checks. No doubt that aggravated
 my terror, but l knew others, who
 were without fear, to mention Vegas that he had rendezvous at Castle Dome, from out of which he might
 sally forth at any time and rob and
 assissinate the wayfarer But later | investigations and a residence of ov- CT 20 years in Yuma county, after diligent inquiry, has failed to dis l close that anyone of the name of Francisco Vega was ever known to
 have been in the vicinity of Castle | Dome.
 | In those days there were no rail- | roads and no automobiles. There 1 fore, the bullion produced at the Vul- | ture mine had to be transported 60 miles by team of some sort from the | Vulture to Phoenix In March, 1888, | the superintendent of the Vulture
 mine was Cyrus Gribble. He had in him an immense stock of egotism and | bullheadedness. His predecessor, FL more, was impressed with the terror | of Vegas name, and being desirous | of avoiding hold-ups as much as pos
 sible, managed so that few knew just
 exactly when the bullion left the Nul- 1 ture or how it was conveyed to Phoe-
 nix. After each cleanup, but on no
 stated day, at no particular hour of
 the day or night, Fillmore would leave
 the Vulture with his team and bug gy, and perhaps accompanied by one,
 two or three other teams or buggies. and a crowd of good fellows. and make a flying trip to Phoenix: and
 each of those flying trips would be
 we'll marked, on either side of the l road at not long distances apart, | by dead soldiers" But not always did the bullion accompany these par | ties, perhaps by days on & slow nov
 ing freight wagon, or by stage, or
 with a man on horseback; and, as
 frequently the bullion did not leave the Nulture until after the superin-
 tendent had ostensibly conveyed it
 to Phoenix And Fillmore caused it