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Next Issue Wednesday The Gunfight at October 30 the OK Corral Play Arizona Trivia Long Simmering Feud Explodes in Violence See Page 2 for Details his month marks outlaws.” The town also the 138th anniver- attracted an all-star cast of This Week’s Tsary of the most fa- Western personalities, in- mous western gunfight of cluding Bat Masterson, Doc Question: them all. The Gunfight at Holliday, Johnny Ringo, the O.K. Corral wasn’t the Nellie Cashman, and the longest gunfight in west- aforementioned Wyatt Arizona’s population ern history; it lasted less Earp. grew rapidly after than 30 seconds. It wasn’t Wyatt, along with his World War II, due in the deadliest, either; three brothers Virgil and Mor- part to the develop- men died and two were gan arrived in Tombstone ment of what? wounded. It didn’t even in 1879. Tagging along (15 Letters) occur at the O.K. Corral; with them was an ornery, it happened in a fifteen-to consumptive dentist named twenty-foot space between Doc Holliday and his com- Fly’s Lodging House and panion “Big Nose” Kate. photographic studio, and Before arriving in Tomb- the MacDonald assay house stone, Wyatt had a check- Index west of it, then spilling out ered past. While working onto Fremont Street. as a deputy marshal in Mis- souri in 1871, he was ac- Arizona Kid...... 9 Tombstone, Arizona, cused of pocketing license Arizona Trivia...... 2 was a tough place in 1881. fees he had collected. Lat- Business Directory...... 14 The promise of wealth from er that same year he was Classifieds...... 14 mines rich in silver and oth- charged with stealing two Jim Harvey...... 2 er minerals helped swell the population to over 12,000. horses in Indian Territory. Clockwise from upper left: Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp estimated that There was even an accusa- Doc Holliday, Ike Clanton of that 12,000, “about 400 tion of “Keeping and Being were cattle thieves, stage In Their Own Words robbers, murderers, and (See Tombstone on Page 4) Allotment John Doyle Lee Plan to Divide and Allot Tribal Land to Individual Indian Owners Controversial Mormon Figure he long-running cul- The politics behind the some of its strongest sup- ohn Doyle Lee is per- ligion, which had been tural battle between plan were complicated. Al- porters were Indian rights haps the most contro- formally organized only the com- advocates, who Jversial figure in Mor- seven years before. Lee’s T mon history. He was born religious passion quickly munal land claims hoped a land deed of various Indian would ensure legal in 1812 in Kaskaskia, Illi- became the driving force tribes and the indi- protection. nois Territory. As a young in his life. Over the next vidual land deeds Many clans man Lee moved to Van- several years, Lee became of the new settlers were divided on the dalia, Illinois, where he more involved in the Mor- ended with a plan question of accept- met and married Agatha mon Church and in 1838 called “allotment.” ing it. Some people Ann Woolsey in 1833. he was promoted within By an act of Con- agreed with U.S. It was in Vandalia the priesthood and made gress, tribal lands Senator Henry Tell- that Lee and his wife en- a member of the First were surveyed and Government surveyors plotting er: “The real aim is countered Mormonism. Quorum of the Seventy, parceled to individ- Indian land for Allotment to get at the Indians’ In 1837 a Mormon mis- the body that directed ual Indian families in 160- though it meant the end of a sionary converted the acre lots. traditional Indian lifestyle, (See Survey on Page 7) couple to the young re- (See Controversy on Page 6) Page 2 Territorial News October 16, 2019

Come Holy Spirit Arizona - Web of Time Come, Holy Spirit, come Let thy bright beams arise, Dispel the darkness from early 1860s there were cattle our minds, And open all our eyes. drives by Texas and New Jim Harvey Mexico ranchers across the Revive our drooping faith, Our doubts The Arizona Trail and fears remove, And kindle in our deserts of southern Arizona to California where beef breasts the flame Of everlasting Love. Oatman, southwest of carried supplies for pros- sold at inflated prices. It was Amen! Kingman on old Route 66, pectors. a dangerous business, and was turned into a boom town in 1854, Apache warriors by a 1915 gold strike. A Long before it was a ter- ran off 3,000 head of cattle, Captain’s Bar Presents year later the population in- ritory of the United States, which was one third of all creased from a few hundred Arizona was the northern the herds bound for the West ARIZONA TRIVIA to more than 3,000 miners, frontier of Spain’s new world Coast on Arizona trails that This Week’s Question: Arizona’s population grew rapidly speculators, merchants, sa- empire from the late 1600s year. after World War II, due in part to the development of what? loon keepers, restaurant and to 1821 when it was claimed (15 Letters) hotel operators. The boom by a Mexican government Cynthia Miller was Last Issue’s Question: Which US President visited the ended in the 1920s when the independent of Spanish rule. 15 years old and Thomas Grand Canyon on numerous occasions to hunt gold began to run out. The It became part of the U.S. in Sanders was 20 when they mountain lion and enjoy the scenery? public is welcome to visit 1848. got married on a ranch near Answer: Theodore Roosevelt today and feed the wild bur- 1873 Prescott. They rode to Congratulations! You got the right answer! ros, whose ancestors once During the 1850s and California in a horse-drawn wagon for their honeymoon. Leo Achin, Sid Clarke, Larry Damer, Serena Desylva, Doyle Ekey, Jeanne Finch, Richard Fordyce, Kevin Gartley, Robert Lidgett, Robert Ringer, Bill Riordan, William Smith, Gary Swanson, Nancy Swanson. A Phoenix vigilante committee of farmers deter- How to Play mined to maintain law and Letters are hidden in the advertisements. Find the letters to spell order hanged six outlaws in the answer. Submit your answer with your name, address & phone 1879. Those were the days number on a postcard for the current issue’s question to Territorial when the stagecoach line Publishing, P.O. Box 1690, Apache Junction, AZ 85217. Look for the answer in the next issue. To have your name listed in the next south from Phoenix was be- issue, cards must be received no later than 10 days past the current ing held up an average of issue of the Territorial News. For example: submitted answers to twice a week. the 10/16/19 question, deadline is 10/26/19. Limit one postcard per household per issue. Must be at least 18 years old. Remember to put your name on your entry! At a March, 1889 dance in Flagstaff celebrating the inauguration of U.S. Presi- dent Benjamin Harrison, women wore gowns of satin, velvet, lace, plush and silk. Colors, according to a report in the local newspaper, were cream, wine, pink, black, gold, brown and blue.

Dinosaur Canyon on the west side of the Navajo Res- ervation was named in 1928 because of three-toed dino- saur tracks found there.

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Copies are distributed free at convenience and grocery stores, restaurants and bars, RV parks and subdivisions and libraries. Subscriptions are also available. Merchandise or services advertised in the Territorial News are expected to be accurately described and readily available at advertised prices. Deceptive or misleading advertising is never knowingly accepted. To find out if a contractor is licensed call the Registrar of Contractors at 602-542-1525.All classified ads must be paid in advance. Standard ad rate is $2.00 per line or $10.00 per column inch. Payment may be made by check or credit card. Mail to Territorial News, P.O. Box 1690, Apache Junction, AZ 85117 or E-mail [email protected]. The Territorial News publishes every other Wednesday. Ad deadline is one week prior to printing. October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 3 Uncle Billy’s Trouble With His Glass Eyes By Richard W. Kimball concerned were boarders Not long after he re- at the Shoo-Fly boarding turned to Arizona, Uncle Bil- rontier life for most house. All are now dead, ly lost all his money during people in the Old West or out of service years and a gambling frenzy. Bourke Fwas usually mighty years ago.” said it happened as he made humdrum. Except for an oc- He said Uncle Billy his way around the gaming casional gunfight or bank had the “grievance misfor- tables during the Fest of Saint robbery, life in most western tune of losing one of his Augustine. “He happened to towns was uneventful. But eyes but bore his trouble ‘copper’ the ace, when he once in a while, something with stoicism and without should have bet ‘straight,’ extraordinary happens that complaint.” While making and bet on the queen when leaves an indelible impres- a short visit to Boston, he that fickle lady was refusing sion on memory. That’s what contacted an eye doctor who the smile of her countenance happened to Uncle Billy sent him to an optician with to all her admirers.” When when he tried to get replace- a prescription for a glass eye. Uncle Billy awoke the next ments for the three glass eyes Uncle Billy told the optician day, he discovered, much to he always carried around in to make three glass eyes. “I his dismay, that he had no his vest pocket. don’t clearly understand,” more than a dollar left in his According to notes kept the optician said. “Why you pocket. He couldn’t depend R by John G. Bourke, a per- need so many?” on his paycheck either. The sonal aide to General George “Well, I’ll tell you,” Un- paymaster from San Fran- Crook, “There were military cle Billy answered, “You see, cisco would not get to Tuc- as well as non-military men I want one for use when I’m son for at least two more living in Tucson during the sober, one when I’m drunk, months. Then he got an idea. Apache Wars. Old Uncle and another when I’m falling He decided that he probably Billy (whose last name is not down drunk.” could send two of his glass known) was one of these. He The optician made no eyes back to the Boston op- was a retired Army field of- other comments and soon tician since the ‘sober’ and ficer. A colonel, I think. I’m had the three glass eyes the ‘tolerably drunk” glass telling this story to describe ready to pick up. Uncle Billy eyes had never been used. life as it was in Arizona was quite pleased when he years ago. All the persons saw them. (See Trouble on Page 9) Page 4 Territorial News October 16, 2019 OK Corral Gunfight Tombstone According to Behan, to what happened next. Wy- he broke his promise to ap- att later testified that when (From Page 1) point Earp because some- he arrived at the Clanton thing that occurred shortly ranch, Billy Clanton gave Found In A House Of Ill- before his appointment. The up the horse even before Fame” in Peoria, Illinois. incident arose after Wyatt being presented with own- In Tombstone, Wyatt heard that one of his brand- ership papers. According worked for a while as a ed horses, stolen more than to Behan’s testimony, how- Wells Fargo guard and later a year earlier, was in the ever, Earp and Holliday put became a deputy sheriff for possession of brothers Ike a scare into the Clantons by Pima Coun- telling them ty. Pima that Behan County was was on his later split to way with an form Coch- armed pos- ise County se to arrest and Wyatt them for coveted the horse theft. position of Whatever sheriff of the the effect of new county. the incident Unfortu- on Wyatt’s nately for relationship him, in Feb- with Be- ruary 1881, han, it cer- rival John tainly dam- Behan was Tom and Frank McLaury aged the appointed as Clantons’ sheriff. Behan had promised and Billy Clanton. Earp and reputations and convinced to appoint Wyatt as under- Holliday rode to the Clan- the Earps that the Clantons sheriff, but instead chose ton ranch near Charleston were horse thieves. Harry Woods, a prominent to recover the horse. On the Enmity between the Democrat. Virgil Earp later way, they overtook Behan, Earps and the Clantons, became Tombstone’s town riding in a wagon. Behan and their cohorts Tom and marshal and deputized was also heading for the Frank McLaury, increased brothers Wyatt and Morgan ranch to serve an election- through 1881. In March as “special deputy police- hearing subpoena on Ike 1881, three men attempted men.” Clanton. Accounts differ as an unsuccessful stagecoach holdup near Benson, dur- ing which the driver and a passenger were murdered in the gunfire. There were rumors that Doc Holliday, who was a known friend of one of the suspects, had been involved. The for- mal accusation of Doc’s involvement was started by Doc’s companion “Big Nose” Kate after a drunken quarrel, a charge she later

(See Tombstone on Page 8)

I October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 5 Arizona’s Fort Tyson eeking “of every- were as fireproof as adobe the reactions of travelers to thing unclean, mor- plastering could make them, the accommodations. Rally and physically,” a spring with good water Michael Welz bought Fort Tyson so displeased was inside and everything the fort from Tyson and Martha Summerhayes in was connected and enclosed added a post office. The 1874 that “we slept in our so that each building could menu improved when his tents that night, for of all protect its neighbors. widowed half-sister arrived places on the earth a poorly Records suggest that from New York and took kept ranch in Arizona is the Tyson was successful in dis- over the cooking chores. most melancholy and unin- couraging attack; either his This was the best change in viting.” defenses were too strong, or the history of Fort Tyson, In common with hun- his relations with the Indi- travelers and stage drivers dreds of others, Tyson was ans continuously friendly. It unanimously agreed. a stage station at which rid- appears that the most violent Fort Tyson is located ers changed horse, stages activities at Tyson’s were near Quartzsite, Arizona. changed teams, and pas- sengers changed places. As Mrs. Summerhayes com- mented, some “were clean and attractive,” but the ma- jority were no better than Tyson’s. When Charles Tyson built his fortified stage sta- tion in 1856, safety rather than sanitation had prior- ity. Mojave Indians were frequent visitors, and Tyson had no intention of offering them an easy prize. Several adobe buildings provided living, working, eating, and sleeping quarters for man and beast alike. Walls were thick, roofs and exteriors

C Page 6 Territorial News October 16, 2019 John Doyle Lee Controversy mally announced within the cuted from their religion’s church in 1843. Lee accept- birthplace in New York to (From Page 1) ed the new doctrine, soon Missouri and Illinois, the taking five more wives, and Mormons had by 1846 de- the church’s ex- cided to seek their tensive mission- own Zion in the ary activities. American West. This From 1839 to journey was to take 1844 he spent the Mormons to Utah. much of his time By 1847 the first wag- winning converts ons began arriving in Illinois, Ten- in Utah’s Salt Lake nessee and Ken- valley. After serving tucky. briefly in the Mexi- In June 1844 can-American War as a mob dragged a member of Brigham Joseph Smith Young’s “Mormon and his brother Battalion,” Lee joined from their jail the gathering masses cell in Carthage, of Zion in Utah. Illinois, and For the next de- murdered them, cade, Lee played an causing a crisis important role in ex- of leadership within the he remained devotedly loy- panding the Mormon ref- church. In addition, there al to the church leadership, uge in the West. He became was internal dissension over especially the new leader, a prosperous farmer and the doctrine of plural mar- Brigham Young. businessman in Southwest- riage, which had been for- Having been perse- ern Utah, helping to es- tablish communal mining, milling and manufacturing complexes. He became the local bishop and the Indian agent to the nearby Paiute Indians. And he continued to be a frequent visitor and trusted confidant of the church leadership in Salt Lake City. In 1857, prompted by complaints about church power in the territory and a public outcry against polyg- amy, the United States sent an army to Utah, raising Mormon fears that the final annihilation was at hand. This invasion was the back- drop for the still-controver- sial Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which Mor- mon and Paiute forces in

(See Controversy on Page 15) October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 7 Allotment Survey the food, and the surplus of signed to her, from some stores for barter depends of the lands of her fam- (From Page 1) upon her thrift. ily group, and her husband A man plants the fields takes care of them. Hence lands and open them up for of his wife, and the fields our fields are numerous but O resettlement.” But some assigned to the children she small, and several belong- believed that the communal bears, and informally he ing to the same family may title could not be defend- calls them his, although in be close together, or they ed anyway, and allotment fact they are not. Even of may be miles apart, because would prevent a wholesale the field which he inherits arable localities are not loss of land. from his mother, its har- continuous. There are other The General Allotment vests he may dispose of at reasons for the irregularity Act passed easily in 1887. will, but the field itself he in size and situation of our The following petition, may not. He may permit his family lands, as interrupted signed by 123 Hopi clan son to occupy it and gather sequence of inheritance chiefs from Arizona, was its produce, but at the fa- caused by extinction of written in 1894, after the ther’s death the son may not families, but chiefly owing government had surveyed own it, for then it passes to to the following condition, the land in preparation for the father’s sister’s son or and to which we especially the final allotment. nearest mother’s kin, and invite your attention. thus our fields and houses In the Spring and To the Washington Chiefs: always remain with our early Summer there usu- During the last two mother’s family. ally comes from the South- years strangers have looked According to the num- west a succession of gales, over our land with spy- ber of children a woman glasses and made marks has, fields for them are as- (See Survey on Page 14) upon it, and we know but little of what it means. As we believe that you have no wish to disturb our Posses- sions, we want to tell you something about this Hopi land. None of us were asked that it should be measured into separate lots, and giv- en to individuals for they would cause confusion. The family, the dwell- ing house and the field are inseparable, because the woman is the heart of these, and they rest with her. Among us the family trac- es its kin from the mother, hence all its possessions are hers. The man builds the house but the woman is the owner, because she repairs and preserves it; the man cultivates the field, but he renders its harvest into the woman’s keeping, because upon her it rests to prepare Page 8 Territorial News October 16, 2019 OK Corral Gunfight

Tombstone out. Earps. On October 25, Ike By this time, all of the (From Page 4) was reported in Tombstone, Earps had started looking drunk and very loud, after for Ike. Virgil and Mor- recanted once sober. Wyatt Holliday accused him of ly- gan Earp caught Ike un- later testified that in order ing about the whole stage- aware and “buffaloed” him to help clear Doc’s name coach robbery matter. A (knocking him unconscious and to help himself win fight between Ike and Holli- with the butt or barrel of a the next sheriff’s election, day was averted at first only pistol). Ike was held at the he went to Ike Clanton and because Clanton was either recorder’s office until a Frank McLaury and offered not armed or not yet pre- judge appeared to fine him to give them all the reward pared to fight. After -Mor for disorderly conduct and money for information gan and Virgil threatened carrying a concealed weap- leading to the capture of the to arrest both Doc and Ike on in the city. robbers. According to Earp, if they did not stop arguing, At the courtroom on both McLaury and Clanton Clanton left and Holliday Fifth Street, Ike and the agreed to provide informa- went home to sleep. Earps traded deadly threats tion for the capture. Later, Ike, however, did not as Ike was leaving. Tom after the last of the holdup go home, but instead stayed McLaury had arrived to men had died in separate in- up all night in a card game. get Ike, after which Wyatt cidents, Wyatt claimed that After the game broke up and McLaury had a heated Clanton was leaking details at dawn, Ike kept drinking exchange outside the court- of this secret deal. Clanton, and, according to many re- room that led to Wyatt hit- in contrast, claimed that ports of witnesses at trial, ting Tom over the head with word of Doc Holliday’s in- by noon of the next day his pistol as Tom stepped volvement, as well as the was seen about town with towards him. rest of the Earps’ involve- a Winchester rifle and side- At about this time, ment in the robbery, was arm, allegedly looking what was beginning to leak for Holliday or one of the (See Tombstone on Page 12)

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G October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 9 Uncle Billy’s Trouble O Trouble older. Garrett was thought tenden, some 60 miles south to be the best horseman in of Tucson. Bourke described (From Page 3) the whole army. He often him as being originally from claimed he could ride any- Vienna. He was “a very cul- He figured that they must thing with four legs, be it a tivated man, a graduate in be worth something even at “tarantula or a megatheri- medicine, an excellent mu- second-hand prices. um” (a rhino-size prehistoric sician, a graceful dancer, Unfortunately, the Bos- ground sloth). Uncle Billy’s well versed in modern lan- ton optician refused to ne- other best friend was a man guages and well-educated gotiate a sale with the old named B. Semig, an assis- Arizona man. He sent Uncle tant surgeon at Camp Crit- (See Trouble on Page 11) Billy a terse letter stating that he did not do business that way. To further make his point, the optician also re- turned the two eyes wrapped up in a loose piece of news- paper. The newspaper con- tained a sad story headlined as “The Drunkard Saved.” Uncle Bill had to beg his friends for weeks before any of them would buy a drink or two so the old man could drown his sorrows. He hated that his friends always asked questions about the “brutal treatment” he received from the Boston man. Al Garrett was one of Uncle Billy’s two best friends. Garrett was a tall and good-looking young man, while Uncle Billy was large and heavy and much Page 10 Territorial News October 16, 2019 The Burros Were N Back in Superior, AZ By Ralph Henderson

Reminiscent of past days when wild burros could be found on the streets of Supe- rior, Arizona, our latest Ter- ritorial Road Trip took us to the inaugural “Burro Cross” race sponsored by the Supe- rior Chamber of Commerce. Burro Cross, Arizona’s ver- sion of Pack Burro racing, made its Arizona debut at Ramona and Bette served up a lot of smiles and the new Burro Run Festival information about the Equine WellBeing Rescue T in historic Superior on Octo- and “Burro Poop Bingo” ber 12. Sixty-eight burros of While all sizes and types--and their the race human partners--from sev- was going on there were many other activi- ties going on that you would ex- pect to find And the race is off! at any event eral states participated in the of this type- The local Los Hermanos entry inaugural event. Burro Cross - v e n d o r s , is a unique Arizona version street food, a beer garden, types of celebrations going of Pack Burro racing, very 50/50 raffles, live music, and on. Check out their many popular in Colorado for over lots of local shopping. The other activities at www.su- ladies with Equine periorarizonachamber.org Well Being Rescue from Snowflake, Arizona, ran a “Burro Poop” Bin- go and raised a lot of money for their non-profit organiza- tion helping horses, donkeys, mules and Apache Junction’s “Lit’l Dee” giving Burro Cart rides minis who need as- sistance. The Tonto 70 years. Burro Cross in- National Forest sponsored volves “Burros” (donkeys) Wild Burro adoptions. being led by hand on either a Superior’s scenic, his- six or 12-mile course around torical location close to the Superior and Tonto National East Valley is fast becoming a popular tourist attraction Forest. There was also a fun Local favorite “Teton Ken” run on a shorter three mile with its newly renovated was the honorary course. main street and many of these race mascot October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 11 Uncle Billy’s Trouble Trouble shots into the sky in hopes that their friend was not someone would hear them. with then. They turned and (From Page 9) A small group of Mexicans went back to look for him. returning home from a dance Garrett was the first to hear in every respect.” heard the shots coming from what seemed to be muffled Late one evening, Un- a well and went to inves- pistol shots coming out of an cle Billy, Garrett and Semig tigate. When Semig asked abandoned well. When they were walking through town them to get a rope or some- went closer to investigate, after eating a large supper at thing and help him climb out, they had to chase off several the Shoo-Fly. Once they left the Mexicans talked it over Mexicans who were throw- the town’s plaza, they start- with each other. They finally ing things at a man stuck ed cutting across lots in the decided that the man in the in a well. Investigating fur- darkness instead of staying well was only a Gringo and ther, they were surprised to in the streets. It was a dan- he was probably looking for discover that the man in the gerous thing to do in those a fight. One of them threw a well was Semig. After pro- days because most wells in chunk of adobe into the well. curing a rope, they were able Tucson, either used or aban- When Semig screamed, the to rescue him in short order. doned, were not fenced off other Mexicans laughed and Of course, the poor young and most had no covers. threw more pieces of adobe doctor had to withstand There was nothing to pre- bricks into the well, too. good-natured joking about vent someone from falling Eventually, Semig’s two his ordeal for many weeks into one It seemed that every companions became aware afterward. block had at least two wells. As the three friends walked through the darkness discussing irrelevant town gossip, Semig abruptly disap- peared. He was in the middle between his two friends when suddenly he fell right down into an open well. Garrett and Uncle Billy, both loudly arguing over a trivial detail, never noticed that their com- panion had mysteriously dis- appeared. Semig fell about 20 feet to the bottom of the well. The only thing to break A his fall was a pile of broken adobe bricks at the bottom. When he retrieved his wits, he shouted out to his friends, but because he was so far into the earth his cries went unheard. After a while, Semig’s voice became hoarse from shouting. That’s about the time he decided to take out his pistol and fire a few Page 12 Territorial News October 16, 2019 OK Corral Gunfight

Tombstone down the streets of Tomb- rado. stone to the vacant lot for Ike Clanton contin- (From Page 8) the purpose of disarming ued to have run-ins with their armed opponents. the law. Charged with Tom’s older brother Frank Behan tried to disarm cattle-rustling, Ike and his McLaury and Ike’s young- that group, too, but they brother Phineas were cor- er brother Billy Clanton ar- brushed him aside. Some nered by detective Jonas V. rived in town fully-armed, say Virgil commanded the Brighton on June 1, 1887, on horseback, to do some Clanton men to “throw in Springerville, Arizona. business before heading to your hands up.” Others say Phin Clanton surrendered, Fort Worth, Texas. They Wyatt spoke first: “You but Ike resisted and was soon learned of their broth- sons of bitches, you have shot dead. ers’ confrontation with been looking for a fight On December 28, the Earps. That afternoon and now you can have it!” 1881, Virgil Earp was se- witnesses reported to the Less than 30 seconds riously wounded in the Earps that the Clantons and later, the Mclaurys lay left arm in an ambush McLaurys were gathering dead and Billy Clanton was outside the Oriental Sa- at a vacant lot on Fremont mortally wounded. Virgil loon. On March 18, 1882, street, through the block and Morgan were wound- Morgan was assasinated and in back of the O.K. ed, but survived. Ike Clan- while playing billiards at Corral. Several witnesses ton escaped unharmed. Campbell & Hatch’s Bil- told the Earps that the men Sheriff John Behan ar- liard Parlor. Wyatt, bent on were armed and were mak- rested Virgil, Wyatt, Mor- revenge, formed a posse, ing threatening comments gan and Doc Holliday for killing several men who he regarding the Earps. Sher- the murders of Billy Clan- suspected were complicit iff Behan got wind of what ton, Tom McLaury and in Morgan’s death, includ- was happening and raced Frank McLaury. However, ing Frank Stillwell and to Fremont Street urging after a hearing, Judge Wells “Curly Bill” Brocius. He Billy Clanton and Frank Spicer, who was related to later left the area, making McLaury to hand over the Earps, decided that the his way north to Colorado, their guns to him. They re- defendants had been justi- Idaho, and eventually, to plied, “Not unless you first fied in their actions. the Klondike, operating a disarm the Earps.” Doc Holliday left saloon in Nome, Alaska. In My life coach keeps throwing his headset at me. At that moment, the town soon after, eventually 1901 he moved on to a gold three Earp brothers, joined dying of tuberculosis in strike in Tonopah, Nevada, by Doc Holliday, marched Glenwood Springs, Colo- where saloon, gambling and mining interests again proved profitable. N Wyatt Earp lived his last years living between Los Angeles and his min- ing camp west of Parker, Arizona, in the Califor- nia desert. In 1927, he re- counted his memoirs to writer Stuart N. Lake who wrote the book Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal. He died on January 13, 1929. He was cremated and buried at Colma, California, just south of San Francisco.

I October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 13 The Mysterious Etta Place tta Place is the most trait. Looking refined and ways and this time Etta was mysterious female ladylike, she wears a black an active participant. When Echaracter in the dress with a white fichu law enforcement authori- American West. and a small watch-pin. In ties began to close in on the Some historians be- the portrait, her long brown outlaws, Etta returned to the lieve she was a school- hair is pulled back from United States where she all teacher who left her honest her flawless face and piled but disappeared. There are life for the sex and romance on her head in a roll. Her several stories regarding of the outlaw trail. Others expression is serious and what became of Etta, but think she might just be an- thoughtful. none have been substantiat- other soiled dove who fell There is no evidence ed. One legend claims Etta in love with the wrong man that Etta rode with the Wild returned to Fort Worth as and followed him to his Bunch during the gang’s Eunice Gray and operated doom. crime spree across the West. a bordello for some years, Etta Place, or Ethel However, after spending then ran the Waco Hotel un- Place, as the Pinkerton several peaceful years in til her death in a fire there National Detective Agen- South America, the out- in January 1962 at the age cy sometimes listed her, laws resumed their criminal of 81. first appeared at the Wild Bunch’s hideout, the Rob- ber’s Roost, in the winter of 1896-1897. There is a pos- sibility that she is a cousin of the Sundance Kid, as his mother’s maiden name was Annie Place. For that mat- ter, the entire name “Etta Place” could be an alias. The common theory is that Etta was a prostitute from Fanny Porter’s bordello in Fort Worth, Texas, where the Wild Bunch frequently went to relax and celebrate their latest robbery. In February 1901, while in New York City, Sundance and Etta had their picture taken togeth- er. This is the sole docu- mented photo of Etta Place. The photograph was taken in DeYoung’s Studio on N lower Broadway. Sundance and Etta stand as though for a formal wedding por- Page 14 Territorial News October 16, 2019 Allotment Survey may be given back to its The American is our former owner, or if a long elder brother, and in every- (From Page 7) time has elapsed, to other thing he can teach us, ex- heirs, or it may be given to cept in the method of grow- oftentimes strong enough some person of the same ing corn in these waterless to blow away the sandy soil family group, more in need sand valleys, and in that we from the face of some of of a planting place. are sure we can teach him. our fields, and to We most ear- expose the under- nestly desire to lying clay, which have one continu- is hard, and sour, ous boundary rung and barren; as enclosing all the the sand is the Tewa and all the only fertile land, Hopi lands, and when it moves, that it shall be the planters must large enough to follow it, and oth- afford sustenance er fields must be for our increasing provided in place flocks and herds. If of those which such a scope can be have been devastated. These limited changes confirmed to us by a paper Sometimes generations in land holding are effect- from your hands, securing pass away and these bar- ed by mutual discussion us forever against intru- ren spots remain, while in and concession among the sion, all our people will be D other instances, after a few elders and among all the satisfied. years, the winds have again thinking men and women restored the desirable sand of the family groups inter- A land grab was built upon them. In such event ested. In effect, the same into the allotment law: Any its fertility is disclosed by system of holding, and the land remaining after allot- the nature of the grass and same method of planting, ment, in some cases more shrubs that grow upon it. obtain among the Tewa, than half the reservation, If these are promis- and all the Hopi villages, was auctioned off to white ing, a number of us unite to and under them we pro- settlers. It often sold at a clear off the land and make vide ourselves with food in rigged price. it fit for planting, when it abundance. “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood!” – The violent anti- slavery activist before he was hanged by the local militia for his attack on Harper’s Ferry two years before the Civil War began Business & Services October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 15 John Doyle Lee

Controversy mony, Utah, elected him as of his wives deserted him. their presiding elder. Nevertheless, he was man- (From Page 6) But Lee could not es- aging to eke out a living cape the legacy of Moun- in a homesteader’s cabin southwestern Utah de- tain Meadows. He endured near the Colorado River in stroyed a wagon train of persistent harassment by Northern Arizona (at one about 120 non-Mormon im- his Mormon neighbors for point hosting John Wesley migrants, suspected of hos- his connection with the Powell’s 1869 expedition tility toward the church. massacre, including threat- before their trip through Lee’s involvement in ening letters and the ostra- the Grand Canyon) when a the massacre—the extent cization of his children. In sheriff captured him in No- of which is still vigorously 1870 a Utah paper openly vember 1874. disputed and will prob- condemned Brigham Young Lee’s first trial ended ably never be known—was for covering up the massa- inconclusively with a hung to haunt him for the next cre. That same year Young jury, probably because two decades, and would exiled Lee to a remote part of the prosecution’s mis- ultimately lead to his ex- of northern Arizona and guided attempt to portray ecution. He had written a excommunicated him from Brigham Young as the true letter to Brigham Young the church, instructing his mastermind of the massa- shortly after the massacre former confidant to “make cre. A second trial, in which that laid the blame squarely yourself scarce and keep the prosecution placed the on the Paiute Indians, but out of the way.” blame squarely on Lee’s even among his own neigh- In Arizona, Lee estab- shoulders, ended with his bors rumors of Lee’s guilt lished Lee’s Ferry, a remote conviction. Nearly twenty abounded. In 1858 a federal crossing of the Colorado years after the massacre, judge came to southwest- River that became a vital Lee was executed at Moun- ern Utah to investigate the link connecting southern tain Meadows. Although massacre and Lee’s part in Utah with Mormon settle- angry at Brigham Young’s it, but Lee went into hiding ments in northeastern Ari- treatment of him, Lee’s fi- and local Mormons refused zona. nal words maintained the to cooperate with the inves- The next several years deep religious faith that had tigation. brought a continued decline marked his entire adult life: Although the church in Lee’s fortunes. He had I have but little to say sought to lower Lee’s pro- several episodes of severe this morning. Of course I file, by removing him as a illness; drought followed feel that I am at the brink probate judge, the Mormon by torrential rains destroyed of eternity, and the solem- leadership continued to re- many of his buildings and nities of eternity should turn his immense loyalty. crops; former neighbors rest upon my mind at the In 1860, Brigham Young preyed upon his livestock present... I am ready to die. visited one of Lee’s man- and otherwise took advan- I trust in God. I have no sions and publicly praised tage of his absence; several fear. Death has no terror. his personal industrious- ness and communal eco- Advertise in the Territorial News nomic contributions. In 1861 the residents of Har- Call Linda Rae @ 480*522-7728

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