Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

quoted his wife as replying tWhere- l upon the husband immediately moved to the brim of the canyon" he said.
 Richard Gibbons, a pioneer of Pi- ute county il. 1865, was next intro duced by the chairman. He spoke briefly of his experiences in the north and of his trip from St. Louis to old Fort Yuma by boat, thence overland | to Tucson. He extended his thanks to the Arizona Republican for the op- portunity of attending the reunion. l Billy Fourr. a pioneer of Cochise county, spoke briefly of encounters with the Apache Indians The boys who fought the Apache fought the fight of the pioneers he said.
 Was Pioneer School Teacher
 Mir Heard then introduced J. A. Woods, one of the pioneer school teachers of the state. He came to Arizona in 1876 and taught his first | school in 1878. When he asked if any I of this former pupils were in attend ance. eight raised their hands In I those days, he said, the teacher had to be pugilist, and educational l standards were far below those of the present day. A total of 1S3 stu dents were enrolled with only two teachers, he declared
 1 John R. Norton, an arrival in 1861. 1 followed. He spoke of Arizona's na- tive sons and the things they were accomplishing, referring especially to Governor Thomas E. Campbell, Sen ator Henry Ashurst and Congressman Carl Hayden
 You'll find the pioneers all Amer ican all the time" he concluded.
 Governor Campbell, scheduled as one of the speakers of the morning , was unable to be present, but he ad- , dressed a letter to the pioneers which , was read by Chairman Heard D. K Udall of Apache county, an . arrival in 1SS0 spoke briefly of his experiences in this state. He told f how he had crossed the territorial line into the Buckskin mountains in . 1878 and filed on the lands in that district
 t Tells or Indian Warfare n Experiences during years of war D fare with the Apache Indians were : told by John s. Branaman, the next d speaker. MT. Branaman is a resident of Pearce, Ariz., coming to the ter S ritory in 1868.
 : The youngest people in the world e are the early settlers of Arizona" MT. i Branaman opened.
 .'In the early days my father farm l ed the biggest ranch on the lower It Aqua Fria. One day, while two as- ]. sistants were working in the fields 2 on their horses, the Indians swept y down upon them and before they had e an opportunity to get away, botf tt men, Ben Saxon and William Den- l. nison, had been killed. The Indians g. took the horses and left.
 IS My father, who had witnessed the ie killing, told my mother to get his $ saddle and ammunition while he wen d after another horse. He started out late that afternoon and although d there were IS Indians in the raidins n party he rode alone in pursuit. H' l. returned about o'clock the nex t. morning with the horses. and witl ,e three Indian scalps in his hand. = Exterminated Whole Band
 sLater we moved down to Pinyor station, where my father killed al Apache chief after terrific hand to-hand struggle. The chieftain at tackled my father in his own home while we were eating supper Fo minutes. they were locked in a deatf struggle. My father finally succeed ed in throwing off the attacker anC then shot him.
 "A few months later, Apaches mum bering 54 wounded a 17-year-o olt herder of the district. A posse o white men started in pursuit The, came across tle trail of the Indians | the mountains, where they were pre- pairing a pow-wow over a fat mule recently killeC The white men sur rounded the tribe and before return ing to their homes killed the entir band, These men then returned { Prescott with the scalps of the 1ndi ans in their hands, and there pho tograph was taken" he concluded.
 Mrs. C. H. Gray, a resident of tn
 Salt River valley since 1868, and N L. Osborn, who arrived in Arizona l
 1864 were also introduced during tn
 morning session and spoke briefly 7
 their experiences. At noon the as
 semblage adjourned to partake of tn
 barbecue prepared at the park fC
 them Many of the pioneers declare
 the barbecue was the finest they ha
 ever attended. Between 1.2o0 an
 1,400 were served.
 Women Have Big Part In Day
 The afternoon session was give
 over principally to the women. MT
 Lizzie Steel of Tempe was intro
 duced as the first white woman bor
 in the state of Arizona. She wa
 born at Tucson, February s, 1S6
 After thanking MT. Heard and Il
 Arizona Republican for planning u
 celebration, she declared that she ws
 ready to establish her right as bei1
 the first white child born in AriZor
 Her challenge to this honor went LII
 accepted. Mrs Steel is a daughter
 Mrs. R. F. Kirkland. She raised s
 children. she said, the youngest
 whom is 2 years old.
 The widow of the late Jack Swil
 ing, now Mrs. T. Shoemaker, ar
 wearing a gold star on her left sleev
 denoting that she had given a son