1892 news clippings from Phoenix Arizona REPUBLICAN

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May 17, 1892
On Sunday afternoon George Kirkland, Victor Hanni and several 
other young men were out for a horse back ride. As they were 
returning by the old Maricopa Road about two miles south of 
the city, the horse which young Kirkland was riding stumbled 
and fell, catching his rider under him and breaking his arm.

E.K. Walbridge, A. Buck and W. Osborn returned Sunday evening 
from a trip down the Gila River.

H.B. St. Clair has the mail contract between Phoenix and 
Prescott by the Castle Creek route, to take effect July 1.

R. Corella went to Tucson on last night's train.

E.K. Walbridge leaves on this morning's stage for Prescott.

Miss Alice Williams left on the train last night for her 
home in Milsap, Texas.

J.W. Kincaid left yesterday for Castle Creek and will 
return the last of the week.

Frank Cox returned yesterday from the south where he has 
been fixing up the fences.

U.S. Marshal R.H. Paul came up form Tucson yesterday to attend 
the federal court in this city.

George T. Williams, general agent of the Equitable Life 
Insurance for Arizona went to Maricopa on business last night.

Miss Agnes Dobbie who has been visiting Mrs. J.A. Marshall 
the past few days, returned on last night's train to her 
home in Tempe.

Mrs. E.P. Johnson who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. 
O.J. Thibodo, the past winter, returned to her home in San 
Francisco on last night's train.

Mrs. O.L. Pease, of Gila Bend, the popular lady in the piano 
contest is in the city visiting with her many friends.  Mrs. 
Pease was formerly a resident of this city and is popular 
here as well as at Gila Bend.

Jim Haley was arrested and fined $15 on Sunday for striking 
a Mexican with a singletree.  No doubt he would have received 
$30 if he had used the doubletree instead.

May 18, 1892

Charles B. Pratt, brother of W.B. Pratt of this city started 
for Big Bug yesterday to spend a few weeks in that vicinity. 
Mr. Pratt came to Arizona on a visit form New York not long 
since.

L.B. Gabbert returned yesterday from Prescott.

C.J. Dyer returned from frog Tanks yesterday where he has been 
taking data to make a map of the reservoir and the surrounding 
country.

A.M. Hartson, a cattleman from Prescott arrived by private 
conveyance last evening.

The children from the kindergarten conducted by Mrs. C.H. 
Burns had their pictures taken a few days ago. It is a happy 
smiling little group of innocents.

The little daughter of Major R.G. Andrie who has been 
seriously ill for some time has taken a relapse and is in 
critical condition.

May 19, 1892

Miss Nettie Carrier, Miss Addie Irvin, Mrs. A. Buck, Mrs. 
W.J. Carrier , William Cunningham and Mrs. C.M. Kupp and 
A.P. Petit were passengers on the train to Gila Bend last night.

Miss Myra Lechner who has resided in the valley for a number 
of years, went to Denver Colorado last night where she will 
reside in the future.

May 21, 1892

Two prisoners who were convicted during the present term 
of court received their sentences yesterday.  Miguel Barra, 
convicted of burglarizing the Bee Hive Store and taking a 
half dozen shirts was sentenced for two years.  Octavio Nair 
was given three years for burglarizing the residence of 
Eugene Jackson.

W.T. Stanlick is building a residence on North Yuma Street.

William Black came down yesterday from his mine in the 
Bradshaw's with a broken ankle, occasioned by a premature 
discharge while blasting.  A heavy stone struck him on the 
ankle breaking the bone.  He was alone in the mine but 
managed to get to the surface, where he was picked up 
shortly afterwards.

Alexander Nicoll, who has large tailoring establishments 
in all the principal cities of the United States and is 
known as Nicoll the Tailor, arrived in Phoenix by yesterdays 
train.  Mr. Nicoll has numerous mining properties in this 
country.

John Clay, who was on trial yesterday, is a young man of 21 
years, dark hair, mild blue eyes about 6 feet 2 inches and 
of commanding appearance.  His true name is John Clayton 
and his parents live near Memphis, Tenn.  They are well 
to do people and John was tried under an assumed name to 
avoid letting his parents hear he was accused of a crime.  
John has been in the west about five years.  

May 25, 1892

Tucson--The shooting of Captain Jack burgess, the superintendent 
of the Canada del Oro mines by Kit Carson, the Indian, 
reported yesterday will not prove as serious as at first 
supposed though Captain Burgess is full of shot and will 
probably lose his right eye.

For some time Kit Carson has been in the employ of the Canada 
del Oro company in the capacity of hostler. Monday afternoon, 
so the story goes, he left his work and got drunk.  About 7 
o'clock in the evening he returned to the house and the 
captain accused him of being drunk. He had enough liquor 
in him to make him ugly and he and the captain had hot words.  
He left the house, got his shotgun and repaired to the 
sidewalk in front of the house and challenged Burgess 
to come out.  Captain Burgess started for him and when 
about ten feet the Indian fired two shots at him.

Judge Satterwhite whose residence is next to the captain's home, 
hearing the shots, called for D.r Fenner who was soon at the 
residence along with Dr. Goodfellow.

Kit Carson was taken when a mere child and raised by 
Colonel Wood.  After the shooting he at once went to the 
colonel's home and related what he had done.  He was advised 
to go at once to the county jail and give himself up which he did.

May 26, 1892

A.B. Wiley has opened up a stand at the Red Corner and is 
selling orange cider.

P.H. Coyle is erecting a building 30 x 60 feet near the 
junction of Grand Avenue and the Black Canyon Road, to be 
used as a blacksmith and wagon shop.  A. McDonald will have 
charge of the wood working department and J.A. Gilmore, the 
blacksmithing.

Fred Miller and James Daly, who have been working on a 
small scale on the Little Mint Mine in Minnehaha Flat near 
Bayard post office came into the city yesterday with a gold 
nugget weighing thirty two ounces.

May 28, 1892

J.S. Deats has his neat brick cottage in the Church Addition 
nearly completed.

Shepherd and Company have sold their lease to J.W. Dorris 
who will move his grocery to the McNulty and Chapman Building 
on June 1st.

Mrs. Dr. C. Anderson, recently of Los Angeles has located in 
Phoenix. She comes well recommended.

Mrs. Fred Holder and daughter Myrtle of Maricopa and Mrs. 
Hill of Tempe were in the city yesterday.

Pierce, the man from Tempe engaged in the shooting affray 
last winter in this city is again in critical condition, 
his leg being badly swollen.  Dr. Mahoney was summoned 
yesterday to treat him.

W.D. Fulwiler, secretary of the Arizona Improvement Company 
returned yesterday form Illinois where he has been the past 
few weeks.

Joseph Thalheimer, the enterprising proprietor of the Central 
Hotel of this city has established a business at Tempe.  Mr. 
Thalheimer, like a true representative of the ambitious and 
frugal German people will not be outdone in anything he 
undertakes.

May 29, 1892

Jessie Maycloud was arrested yesterday on a charge of 
forgery.  The prosecuting witness is P.H. Coyle, a former 
partner of the firm of Coyle and maycloud, former owners of 
the Avenue Corral and Blacksmith Shop.  The charge is the 
forging of the name of the firm of Talbott and Hubbard 
to a bill claimed to have been paid by Maycloud to the 
firm.  The amount of the bill is $25 but has never been 
paid.  Mr. P.H. Coyle is well known to the people of this 
city and before this the name of Jesse Maycloud has been 
beyond reproach.  He is a single man about forty years 
of age while Coyle is his brother-in-law having married 
the sister of Mr. Maycloud.  Jesse was arrested and fined 
heavily a short time ago for striking an invalid named Murray.

June 3, 1892

Charles A. Rodig, an old time prospector who has for some 
years been engaged in the shoemakers trade in this city, 
has closed his shop, sent his wife to Germany and will go 
out prospecting again.  In 1877 Mr. Rodig was in the 
vicinity of Four Peaks and although the Indians were quite 
hostile, managed to push into a rough undeveloped country 
never before entered by white men. He found gold in great 
quantities in ledges as well as placer gold.

Three years ago Mr. Rodig started to again locate the rich 
find of former years, but he received a sunstroke while 
crossing the desert and lay for five days before he was 
rescued by a passing stranger and brought back to the 
city.  He was compelled to take up the awl again for 
several years but recently has decided to return to his 
favorite pursuit of prospecting.

august 22, 1892

Charles A. Rodig returned to the city last sunday after an 
absence of five weeks and brought back with him speciments 
of ore in which are half buried chunks of glittering yellow 
gold.  The orginal discovery of this mine was made by Mr. 
Rodig severla years ago in the vicinity of the Spanish Peaks.  
More than a month ago he started with a companion and the 
expedition was subjected to the greatest privations.  Their 
horses wandered away from camp one night and weren't found 
for several days.  Food was scarce and the terrain and 
mountainious solitudes were climbed with difficulty.


June 7, 1892--Gila Bend

A new Chinese restaurant has been recently opened.

Eugene Caruthers has just completed a second adobe building 
on his lots in the west end of town.

E.A. Stout is putting up an adobe to rent.

A.P. Black of Texas has leased M.W. Reedy's store building 
and will open up a saloon there in a few days.

James Coyle, who is interested in the Gila Bend Hotel is in 
town from Stein's Pass.

June 15, 1892

T.E. Farish, superintendent of the Vulture Mine is in the 
city on business.

George Brum of the Round Tree Ranch brought in a fine bunch 
of cattle to the valley recently.

Winifred Sears, the gentlemanly bookkeeper at Burtis' Place 
extends more courtesies to the reporters of the city than 
any other man in Phoenix.

Suit for divorce was filed yesterday by Concepcion McGown 
versus John McGown on the grounds of abandonment.

June 19, 1892

A sneak thief attempted to burglarize the house of J.A. 
Plattner, the harness maker at 1 o'clock yesterday morning 
and was frustrated in his plans and had a narrow escape 
from being captured.  Mr. Plattner lives on Van Buren near 
Maricopa Street.  Shortly after midnight he was awakened by 
his wife, who whispered that someone was trying to get into 
the house.  He sprang out of bed and made a rush for the 
fellow, not having an opportunity to get his shoes. It was 
from the point of his front door to the old theater building 
on Center Street, a closely contested race with the harness 
maker chasing the would be thief who began dropping his 
stolen cache.  After about five blocks distance Mr. Plattner's 
wind now began to fail and the thief, throwing off some of 
his clothes began to pass through space at a rattling gait, 
leaving the now thoroughly winded Plattner far enough behind 
to shut him out of the next block.  After covering his 
breath, he returned to the dwelling, picking up the family 
clock along the way.

June 22, 1892

The handsomest place in the city will open tonight with a 
glittering display of new furniture, fixtures and modern 
conveniences.  This is the new saloon in  the old Shaver 
place which has been refitted by Frank Luke at an outlay of 
many thousand dollars.  The furnishings are unique and 
costly, the doors, arches, bar, etc. being of antique oak, 
while the top of the bar is mahogany of the richest quality 
from San Domingo.  Homes, Gregory and Lindsley did the wood 
work while J.Q. White and Charley Coon, the decorative art.  
The proprietor Frank Luke is well know to the people of 
Phoenix and the territory having been in business for 
years.  The place will be called the Reception.

Reliable word was received last night that Tom Graham had not 
fallen a victim to the Graham Tewksbury feud as had been 
reported the day before.  A man, a stranger who arrived in 
the city from Tonto Basin the night before said that he knew 
Graham had been killed. It was well known here that he had 
left for the basin to remove his cattle.

Late yesterday afternoon, however, Mr. Irving Pierce who had 
been out in that region returned to the city and reported 
that he had seen grahma near McDowell.  Graham was moving a 
large herd of cattle from the basin.  Mr. Pierce who had 
heard nothing of the report of the killing had no 
conversation with Graham and was unable to state whether 
or not any trouble at all had occurred.

The friends of the Tewksburys and the Grahams and both have 
many in this city, will lbe gratified to learn this morning 
that another homicide has not been added to the list of 
killings which have grown out of that unfortunate family war.

July 5, 1892

A marriage license was issued to James A. Allen amd Miss A. 
Blake of Tempe.

July 6, 1892
Mrs. Nellie Washburn yesterday proved up on a homestead claim.

July 17, 1892

W. McLabron was badly bitten by a large rattlesnake on July 4 
at the Algodones Cattle Ranch twenty miles below Yuma while 
he was untying his horse.

John Scott, living near Tempe was fined $7.50 yesterday for 
assaulting his wife, proprietress of a Monroe Street house of 
ill fame.  He was drunk at the time and explained in Justice 
Huson's court that he had married the woman some years ago.  
He had not meant, he said, to hurt her.

antonio Paca, suspected of being the instigator of that obscene letter sent last November to the mother of Antonia Gonzales, the girl with whom he was hopelessly in love, was released yesterday on bond. His aged mother has been searching tirelessly since last Thursday but had been unable until yesterday to convince anyone of her son's innocense.

It has since bee nshown not legally perhaps, but conclusivley that Alatorez, the self-confessed writer of the letter had a motive.  The part of the confession that he had been paid is open to the objection that Paca could not have afforded to pay so mch when he could easily have found friends who would have written it for nothing.  alatorez is said to be a schemer, is a man of considerable education and is well known throughout Mexico as a circus clown.


July 9, 1892

W.H. Johnson became the victim of overstimulation yesterday 
morning and added several degrees to the already superheated 
atmosphere in the part of the city where he resides.  It 
is said that Mr. Johnson threatened to anatomize his wife 
and do other unpleasant and unreasonable things.  Anyhow, 
his wife notifeid the police and Mr. Johnson was locked up. 
He was not able yesterday to present himself with a proper 
degree of dignity before a court of justice so he was 
locked up and submitted to the renovating influences of time.

A funny case came up yesterday before Justice Huson. A man 
known as William Brewster, alias "Hair-Trigger Bill" came 
before him and claimed that he had been seriously maltreated 
by a man named William Roe. His face showed it and a warrant 
was issued for Mr. Roe who was not hard to find.  He pleaded 
guilty to the charge and further enlightened the court 
as to the causes that led to Mr. Brewstter's discomfiture. 
He said that several gentlemen of a commercial turn of mind 
had thrown in and purchased a keg of beer which Hair Trigger 
Bill had converted to his own use and employed for his own 
edification.  He might have sold it or drink it, Mr. Roe 
didn't know which.  The court decided that however 
reprehensible Mr. Brewster may have been Mr. Roe had never 
been appointed a territorial officer to inflict punishment. 
He was fined $5.


July 12, 1892

A weird complaint reached the city yesterday by letter from 
Williams, directed to the territoral lauthorties. The writer 
is May Gilbert, the proprietress of a house of ill fame, 
who sets up that last winter she was compleled to move her 
place of business and she and her girls were prohibited 
from visiting saloons.  She was compelled to move three 
quarters of a mile from town and feels this is an unjust 
discrimination.  There is, she says, a Mexican house right 
in the heart of town in comparison with which her residence 
is a temple of virtue.  May desires that this evil house may be 
removed or else she may become contributory to it.

July 16, 1892

Deputy Sheriff Harry McPaul arrived in the city yesterday 
morning via the Black Canyon stage from Prescott with W.E. 
Gillette wanted at Gila Bend for obtaining goods under false 
pretenses.  Gillette formerly lived at Gila Bend and received 
goods of E.G. Carruthers merchange there who swore out a 
warrant for his arrest.  Mr. McPaul traced Gillette to 
Prescott and finally located him at the house of a relative 
at Sanders Station.  He had recently been married and when 
the deputy came upon him he was sitting by his bride with 
his arm about her.  McPaul is a young man or little more 
than a boy, who has for years been taking murderers, horse 
thieves and smaller criminals, but under his courage is an 
exceedingly warm heart.  It was painful to him to take him 
away from his heart broken wife, and Mr. McPaul believed 
he had never before seen quite so sad a thing.  Gillette 
was taken to Gila Bend last night.

July 20, 1892

Bob Archer, whom everbody knows, went home drunk last night 
and during a quarrel, his wife seized a carving knife with 
which she struck him a blow on the left side of the thoat.  
The knife just punctured the jugular.  Bob became sober enough 
to know he was badly hurt and hurried to Dr. Helm's office.  
The puncture was finally dressed by sewing it with catgut.  
His wife stood outside and lamented that she hadn't cut deeper.

July 23, 1892

Mrs. J.L.B. Alexander is spending the summer in California.

Charles A. Frye of Riverside will remain in the city a 
couple of months.

Fred Vagel of Tip Top is in the city.

Andy Carpenter, the colored hair-lifter was yesterday enrolled 
among the gentlemen engaged in beautifying the city. Mr. 
Carpenter's salary is $1 a day and can be found every morning 
at the county jail.

August 6, 1892

A serious and almost  fatal accident occurred at 10 o'clock 
yesterday moring in the sewer company's trench on Center 
Street between Madison and Jackson.  The side caved in burying 
five men all of whom were injured.  Yesterday, a slide was 
discovered and the men set about shoring up the sides under 
Foreman J.D. Boston.  Probably a jar caused by putting the 
heavy timber in place cause the sides to give way and five 
men were buried benearth a mass of stones and dirt.  All the 
men employed upon the sewer began the work of rescue.  
Richard Painter was not found for half an hour after the 
slide occurred and was unconscous when found.  The most 
seriously hurt man was Leonicia Berdugo, with two broken 
ribs and an ugly looking scalp wound.  Jose Ruiz had a 
broken rib and S.W. Bailey appeared to be slightly hurt 
in the back.  Charles Chicini, a boy, had a brused shoulder.

August 17, 1892
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, a newly married couple of Bisbee 
are spending their honeymoon at the Mills house.

Harry Wills, who has for some time been working on the McFall 
Ranch, left yesterday for his home in Texas on account of the 
serious illness of his brother.

Early yesterday morning a barbershop near the northwest corner 
of Cortez and Washington was broken into and a trunk was 
taken.  Within an hour Asst. Marshal James Blackenship 
captured two of the burglars, James McKinney and Dave Norman. 
The trunk was not found till yesterday.  McKinney and Norman 
will be given a hearing tomorrow.

Ed Tewksbury is in the Phoneix jail at last. He was put in 
yesterday at noon without the knowledge of a man except a 
few of the officials.  The affair was managed with the utmost 
secrecy.  Marshall DeNure reached Tucson on Sunday night, 
spent the next day there without making known his errend to 
even the officials. He waited until it was so late on Monday 
that Assc. Press dispatches could not be sent out when he 
presented his credentials to Sheriff Brown.  Denure left 
with the prisoner at 4 am yesterday.  On arriving at Maricopa, 
the enigneer of the M&P train was instructed to look out for 
a signal on the desert about six miles the other side of 
Kyrene.  At a point agreed upon between them Henry Garcias 
was in waiting with two saddle horses.  Tewksbury dropped 
from the slowly moving train and mounting one of thte horses 
accompanied Mr. Garcias to the city.  Tewksbury was 
visited at the jail yesterday by a Republican reporter.  
The prisoner was in a pleasant mood but nothing was said 
concerning the murder of Tom Graham.  He said his greatest 
annoyance was the excessive heat in the jail.

August 19, 1892

George H. Thompson, a carpenter, well known in this city 
has been missing since Saturday night and many think that 
some misfortune has befallen him.  He has been suffering for 
some time with consumption and was in very poor health.  
Last Saturday night he was considerably under the influence 
of liquor and was last seen in that ocndition.  Henry Morgan, 
with two Indians, searched for him most of yesterday. 

August 18, 1892

A nearly fatal case of poisoning occurred at a camp near the 
western city limits yesterday afternoon. There were four men 
in camp, W.W. Walls, H.S. Walls, J.R. Riley and a Mexican named 
Espinsosa.  Among the articles of food for dinner was some 
canned corn beef and it is supposed the extreme heat to which 
the can had been exposed liberated certain poisonous acids 
of the tin.

No immediate sickness was experienced and the younger Mr. 
Walls and Riley started off into the country after a load 
of hay. Nealry an hour after having eaten they were taken 
violently ill.  They both fell from the wagon and lay in the 
merciless sun until found several hours later and brought 
back to the city.  In the meantime the elder Mr. Walls, 
remaining at camp, was seized with a deathly sickness.  
Espinsosa who lives on grand Avenue not far from the camp 
went home soon after dinner and he too became violently ill.


Flemming Franklyn and his famliy will spend the remaineder of 
the heated summer with his brother, who has a fine ranch in 
People's Valley.

June 2, 1892

Frank Miller, the enterprising proprietor of the Phoenix, 
Tempe and Mesa Stage Line, has increased the stock and will 
hereafter make tri-weekly trips between this city and 
Florence.  They will make the trip in twelve hours.  The 
new arrangement will be of great imporance and shorten the 
distance between the two cities.

MR. REEVIS, "HERMIT of the DESERT"
June 14, 1892

The report that old man Reevis had mysteriously disappeared is 
a pure fabrication as the old man has never for a moment been 
missing.  During the past week the old hermit with flowing 
beard and shaggy locks reaching to his belt was in attendance 
on court at Florence and starated for his ranch thirty miles 
distant in the foothills of the Superstitions on Friday.  
The old man, as usual, rode with a Winchester across his 
knee, his belt full of cartridges and his eagle eye fixed 
on the three burros which slowly wended their way along 
the trail in front of him.

While attending court at Florence the old hermit was an object 
of great curiosity.  He was the center of an admiring circle 
on account of the heroic deeds of valor performed during 
Apache days and by the great fund of frontier stories of 
which he had an abundance.

He is not poor neither is he rich, but such comforts as money 
will buy for the pioneer he has in abundance.  Every pioneer 
knows him and his picutre decorates the walls of many homes.

May 19, 1892
A horseback party consisting of a dozen charming young ladies 
with Willie Rhodes, armed with a rifle as a guide, went out 
the the Camel's Back yesterday and spent the day in rambling 
over the craggy peak.

June 14, 1892
There are no flies on the barbers or customers at Shumaker's 
Shop.

September 1, 1892

A.C. Morse, a subcontractor on the Sante Fe, Prescott and 
Phoneix Railroad and who is well known to a number of our 
citizens, has suddenly left his contracts and departed for 
greener pastures. He led a gay and festive life in Prescott, 
where wine and women cut a large hole in his money bag, and 
knowing that there was no avenue of escape from the 
scorn of his creditors, except by skippin gaway, he 
concluded to do the act and his present whereabouts are 
unknown. He had a subcontract under the Langtry Brothers, 
but his failure will in no way affect the intentions of 
the compnay or their work, for outside of the breaking 
up of the Morse Camp, no delay will be occasioned in 
completing the grading by the Lantrys themselves.

September 7, 1892

Salt Lake papers have recenty mentioned a fatal shooting 
affair there which is of considerable interest to many 
Arioznians.  the man who did the shooting is supposed to be 
Mr. I.J. Cramer, of Bisbee though this supposition has not 
been autheniticated. Mr. crame is a delegate from Arizona 
to the national encampment GAR to be held at Washington DC, 
commencing Sept. 19. He formerly lived at Salt Lake.  
The circumstances of the shooting are that Mr. Crame, 
soon after his arriva lat Salt Lake, met a men whom he 
had not seen for years and charged him with having wronged 
his family by seducing a female relative of Mr. Cramer's'.  
The man insultingly admitted the seduction and threatneed 
to kill Mr. cramer, whreupon the latter drew a revolver 
and fired with fatal result. He was at once arrested but 
public opinoin was so strong in his favor that he was 
released on bail.  It is said that Cramer has relatives 
in Phoenix, but none could be found yesterday.

September 8, 1892

While in the Graham Mountains one day lst week looking after 
their cattle, Granville Cheyney, Zach Stallings, John Williamson 
and Fred Ralph jumped a very large silver tip bear, and after 
a protracted firght succeeded in killing it.  The bear was 
chased several miles before being dispatched, receiving 
seven Winchester bullets in various prts of his body.  The 
bear would have wighted between seven and eight hundred 
pounds.

Mr. Geroge W. Atkinson, of Calabasas was in town last Monday. 
In discussing the range matters Mr. Atkinson said that four 
years ago southern Arizona experienced about such another 
dry season as is upon us this year.