Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-15
Cherokee Jack Erred
When He Met Pat O'DaJ
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ing court cases or to handling personal
mail.
While no one claims that he makes
the weather for the mountains, he is
the government weather observer also
keeping his water guage, thermometer
and barometer for daily observation
and record.
Native of HOOsier State
There is a chapter to Hancock's his
tory that adds further interest to him.
According to his own statement, he
was born in Indiana some years back
of the date when he first holds memory
of events; and when yet too young
either to approve or protest the move,
his parents took him with them to
Louisiana, thence back to Indiana, and
to Ohio. He is of English ancestry
with q southern extract running g
through the line. He agrees with
George Ade who once wrote Many
great men have gone from Indiana.
The greater they were the sooner they
went" A part of his childhood career
was passed on the banks of the Wa
bash river where the novelist laid the
scenes of that once popular but now
almost forgotten novel, 'Alice of Old
Vinoennes, but he says that he was
too young then for the scene to have
any influence on him.
With his parents, before he had
reached his teens, Hancock arrived in
California and settled at Santa Bar
bara, the parents living there most of
the remainder of their lives. Their
ashes now rest in the cemetery there,
although they also lived for time at
Monterey. It was from Santa Bar
bara, however, that Hancock started
his trek across the desert sands which
brought him to Arizona and eyentu-
ally landed him in Paradise. That was
almost half century ago-it was in
1880, to be exact, and he first came to
Tucson
Crossing Desert a Hard Trip
october 6, 1880, he started with
companion and a pair of mules to
prairie wagon to the Arizona silver
and gold mining area. He doesn't re-
call any experience that even ap-
proaches that of crossing the hot sands
Of the California desert, but he says
he looks back upon it with pleasant
memory as being merely day that is
gone. "But of all the things ever
endured, that trek was my worst, ne
says.
Arriving at Tucson on November s,
one month of travel behind, he almost
Immediately went to work for Push
and Terwilliger in butcher shop and
he worked there until the excitement
which flared up at the Galeyville camp
once more put the incentive to travel
into his system and he left Tucson on
the move that brought him to the
place that was to be his home. He
arrived iii GaleyviIle on January ID,
1881, and since that day he has lived
and enioyed the friendship of his
neighbors almost within gunshot OF
there. Even before the old town Of
Galeyville faded from the scene ne
had become interested in Paradise
where ever since he has been one OF
the active figures in the towns busl-'
ness and affairs. But it was at Galley
vile that Hancock, as only youth
saw one of the most sanguinary events
that he has ever witnessed, anywhere.
His story runs thus:
Things had been quiet about the
camp for a. few days. The boys were
working at the diggings and OF eve
rings they would congregate around
the stores and bars and talk OF the
results at the prospect hole or IN the
mine. Games were common thing
and many indulged in poker or the
worries and everybody went along and
had a fairly good time.
.sChcrokee Jack" Appears
TN those days, as today, there were
all sorts Of people. One of the types
that often proved pest in camp was
what we called the 'tin-horn sport
which, like the poor, was always with
us one of that type was Cherokee
Jack, Jack wasn't really a bad fell
low. but he thought he was and tried
to live up TO his own picture OF nm
self. When he was in liquor ne was
really a rough diamond.
cone morning Cherokee Jack ap-
peared with his disposition to pc PAD
away out in front. He was posing az
his worst. He came to the postofflce
and called for mail and when the post
master told him there was none ne
GOT, bOisterous but he soon lett ana
walked down to where some OF the
bovs. we're gathered in a hardware
store. pat O'Day was one of the group
and WlCA his OC1ACA 4A1-CCAAAPSA' cSV~
had it in for the Irish. But he over
looked the fact that Pat O'Day was
one of the Celts who long years before
had marked the word fear out Of his
dictionary.
Cherokee Jack announced MS pur-
nose to run certain persons out OF the
canau or kill them, including O'Day IN
that number ODay heard his procla-
nation of prescription unmoved. Jack
pulled his revolver from its holster and
stepped over to O'Day with menaclng
maneuver as if to enforce his order
when ODay grappled with him and
knocked the revolver away. The strug-
gle landed both on the floor with
0'Day on top They fell against a
box of three pound hammers Whlch
O,Day saw as his weapon OF defense
and he grabbed one and started TO
work upon Jack He was doing effec-
tive work when G. S. Shotwel stepped
IN and said, Wait minute, Pat. Il
you're goin' to kill him, take him OUT
side
Pat Takes Him Outside
.Pat obeyed the order. Jack was