ALEX CHOUTEAU
December 2, 1897
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Late telegraph dispatches announce the killing of Alex Chouteau at 
Vinta, I.T.  The slayer was a merchant named John Davis, who killed 
another man at Vinita a few months ago.  Interest in this affair 
to Arizonans lies in the fact that the murdered man was a brother 
of Mrs. A.C. Bernard of Tucson, wife of one of Pima County's 
representive in the Nineteenth legislature.  The Chouteau family 
is one of the best known in Missouri and among its descendants 
are numbered many influential citizens.  Chouteau Avenue, St. 
Louis was named after one of the early members of the family. 
Frederick Chouteau, father of the dead man, established a trading 
post at the mouth of the Kaw in 1830.

Alex Chouteau and his wife moved to the territory in 1884 and 
both joined the Cherokee tribe of Indians.


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