Arizona republican., 1922-04-12
CRIMSON CHAPTERS
! Of THE PIONEER DAY
HISTORY OF TUCSON

OF the early history or Tucson,
especially Of its criminal chapters,
Charles Fl. Tully, secretary of the
| Arizona Historical society. has WRIT
ten interestingly The following
"reminiscences OF Mr.. Tully concern
ing the early days of the Old Pueblo
are given in the Arizona Star:
Many crimes went unatoned for,
n. Ivy, Winthrop Sears, George
Hamllns j. A. Ward, r. C. Bicknell.
We knew ]. Elliott walker. Mrs.
Walker, who was then Mrs. Robbins,
and her little daughter Edith, now
Mrs. d. FL. Burtis. in Tucson. Judge
Porter, Mr.. Walkers uncle, appointed
MIN clerk OF the court and they
moved to Phoenix. We had almost
daily business with Mr.. Walker and
! considered him one of my personal
friends. Later he ran for school
trustee and sent j. w. Crenshaw to
take me to the polls to vote for him.
! knew nothing of the merits of the
case, but IL ]. Elliott Walker wanted
my vote he was going to get it. Mrs.
j. M. Evans was leader of the oppo-
sition and met me with the "glad
hand and gave me her ticket, which
! took with my sweetest smile. J. w.
Crenshaw called to me, but / paid no
attention to him. After all these
years | can still see his disgusted
lace. When / had voted / handed
him her ticket. though that course
better than to get into an argument
was not prepared to discuss That
was my first vote. Since then I have
tried to learn something about the
subject matter before going to the
polls
Their First Client
Before we came to Phoenix. p, K
| Hickey wrote that Michael Wormser
had a large tract Of land and wanted
us to come to Phoenix to look after
his land office business. Sc we had
one ready made client when we ar
| rived. We assisted him to ACQUIRE
title to a large tract of land on the
south side. After his death this be-
came the property of the Bartlett
Heard company. NJ. H., Williams was
| associated with us in some Wormser
contest cases. At one time he and ]
We're In Tucson on a contest case and
when we arrived at Maricopa he said
he would have to lay over and wait
for Mr.. Wormser to send him return
fare. as he did not have enough to
bring him home. / had shortly be-
fore been in the same predicament.
had been north and had my return
ticket and sleeper to Tucson, but had
only enough to get ac UP of tea be-
tween Sacramento and Tucson.
After that I always took precaution
to take enough and to spare to carry
me through, and so Mr.. Williams did
not have to remain over one day.
I had to go TO Tucson every week
or so. My first stage ride was to
nj II IL
only enough TO get a cup OF tea be-
the stage as tiresorne a conveyance as
the "one horse shay" and thereafter
made many trips
We had the Arizona Canal business.
! recall three notable sections under
this canal The section now known
as Orangewood and the two Bartlett
sections. The OrangewooQ section
was Under contest and was the first
case prosecuted under my name.
After a hard fight the case was de-
cided in our favor and the right OF
George w. Craighead sustained The
Bartlett sections were highly devel-
soped. There was no pretense or
make believe in their reclamation.
There were miles and hundreds OF
miles planted in grapes and figs.
Other Early Acquaintances
or course. while doing work for the
Arizona Canal we were thrown in
close contact with ". J. Murphy, the
head Of the work, and his assistants.
As | now recall it among them were
Frank 1.rott, C. A. Mariner. Sam
Davidson and Herbert Robinson, en-
glneers, and w. A. Fulwiler and w.
ii. Robinson, who ran the office.
The name of w. H. Robinson nat
urally reminds me OF Bruce Perley
and his efafarc
and Anne, and the dear young girl
who went across before she had
time to learn the many trials of this
| life.
Quite a number OF the young boys
came to the office. Originally they
came to look up vacant land, but il
they ever came once they We're sure
to find their way back to see my
father, who was a real entertainer.
Nothing ever happened that he could
not tell of something just little bet
ter. Among "the boys" who were fire.
quent visitors were Colonel McClin-
took, George Mintz, Clinton Scott, ].
G. Goodwin and the Fowler boys.
| Among the attorneys i met were
Ben Goodrich, ''the noblest Roman of
them all, Joseph Campbell, Judge
Baker, Frank Cox, III. NJ Alexander.
j. L. B. Alexander, Jerry AIillay, Tom
Hpine, Briggs Goodrich, Clark Church
! i'll, DeForest Porter, Frank Baxter
NJ. II. Williams, w. A. Hancock. I.
| TT. Chalmers and J. w. Crenshaw
Tom Fitch was away at that time ana
did not meet him until later. 1
think Judge Kibbey resided at Flor
ence then, and | cannot recall meet
ing Mrs. Eibbey until the reception
| to the governor and members of the
legislature on the removal of the
capital
Close Friends Of Haydens
| attended to land office business
for Mr.. and Mrs. C. T. Hayden and
became quite intimately acquainted
with them. On Carl Hayden's twen-
| ty-first birthday he wrote a letter to
his father. who brought it to the Of
| flee for me to read. It was a beau
| tifui letter and my comment was "If
had a son that is just the kind OF
letter l would want him to write"
Other Tempe pioneers I met
! through my work were James T.
| Priest, John L. Gregg, j. o. FIolmes-
ley. J. A. Harmon, Lon Harmon and
their sister. Neils Peterson, Mons Ell
| lingson, Winchester Miller, Albert
Miller and A. J. Halbert
Among our Mesa acquaintances
we're Timothy Nets, the father of
Philip. John and Leonard. Ann Peter
son. the mother of ]. c.. Peterson;
the Barnetts, Pomeroys, LeBaron,
Robson, Hunsaker. Stewart, Kimball,
Brizzie and many others.
| think the Buckeye canal was
originally organized by M. M. Jack
son, one of my old time friends. At
the time I began to look after its
business it was being promoted by