Tombstone Arizona’s History and Information Journal - September 2014 - Vol. 12 - Issue 09 - ISSN 1942-096X Interesting historical tidbits of news and information from the Town Too Tough to die. Tombstone Epitpah - December 15, 1927 “Oh! Oh! What a Night ‘Twas Says A. H. Gardner, Tombstone, Ariz. That Night Before Christmas “The evening’s entertainment began with a knockout. Johnny Walker – John W. Walker, you understand, then federal court reporter and fresh from Chicago – and I were just about putting the finishing touches to a roast mallard duck supper at the old Kreuder Café on Allen Street when Kreuder met one of his customers at the cashier’s counter and laid him cold with an uppercut that would have at that time done credit to even hard hitting bog Fitzsimmons. There were no frills to the affair. Kreuder just waited until his man came down the aisle, gave one glance at the check he handed to the cashier, and then applied a clenched fist to the point of his customer’s jaw. All was over but the shouting. “The proceedings struck me as not only being odd but as being carried out in a rather cold-blooded, businesslike manner. Being just from New York City, one might think that such an occurrence would have little effect on me. But I had never seen anything in which Kreuder laid low the man which 5 his establishment had just feasted. “Oh, yes! I did forget to tell you why Kreuder took a punch at his customer. It was this way. “I supposed the customer got some peculiar notion that a 50 per cent discount should be made on all T-bone steak dinners which he ate at Kreuder’s for every time a check for 50 cents was handed to him, he erased the ‘0,’ put a ‘2’ in front of the ‘5’ and then put the ‘cents’ mark – ‘c’ – after the ‘25.’ It seemed that the cashier became suspicious, told Kreuder CORNER OF 5TH & ALLEN STREETS about it, and according to the customs of old Tombstone of a quarter-century ago, the customer ‘had it coming to him.’ Forthwith Kreuder was duly bound to see that ‘it’ arrived in true western style. When the customer came to his senses, he got up, dusted his clothes, shook himself a few times, grunted and walked off. No questions were asked. He knew that he got ‘what was coming to him,’ and was honored in knowing that he had been properly treated according to the ‘code.’ That happened the night before Christmas, twenty-five years ago. Tombstone, you know, even as late as that time, was far from being dead, even if it was nearly a quarter-century after the notorious Earps, Clantons, and the rest of their like had COLDEST BEER IN TOWN! goen their way out of old Arizona. CRYSTAL PALACE SALOON AND RESTAURANT “If my memory serves me right, there were 17 saloons going Corner of 5th & Allen Streets - Tombstone, Arizona full blast in Tombstone at that time, and among them were the (520) 457-3611 famous – or ‘infamous,’ Crystal Palace, the Pony, www.CrystalPalaceSaloon.com Wentworth’s, and so on down the line.” ◙ ~ 2 ~ Tombstone Times Tombstone Arizona’s Monthly History and Tourist Information Journal. CONTENTS: Tombstone’s Clipped History for September - Page 2 In Memoriam - Lewis Williams- by Troy Kelley - Page 3 The Arizona Rangers - by Bill O’Neal - Page 4 LEWIS WILLIAMS Hope and Hardship - chapter 57 - by Joyce Aros - Page 5 Los Angeles Herald Tombstone Map and Tourist Directory - Pages 6-7 September 06, 1907 Rumor Has It... - by Janice - Page 9 DIED What’s Happening in Tombstone and Southern Arizona - Page 12 Yesterwest for September - by Gary Ledoux - Page 13 Williams – Sept. 5, 1907, at 2:20 a.m., at his Jailbreak- by Rita Ackerman - Page 14 residence, 1938 Harvard Boulevard, Lewis Tasting Tombstone’s History - by Sherry Monahan - Page 15 Williams, formerly of Bisbee, Ariz., in his 73rd A Taste of Splendor - Charles Kreuder Jr. - by Karen Mazzeo - Page 16 year, father of Mrs. J.S. Douglas of Nacazori, Corral Shotgun Ads - Page 18 & 19 Sonora, Mexico, and brother of Mrs. Elizabeth Day Trip from Tombstone by Janice- Page 20 Bisbee of San Francisco, and Ben Williams of Western Word Scrambler Puzzle & Comics - Page 21 Los Angeles. Funeral notice later. ◙ September2014 - Volume 12 - Issue 09 - ISSN 1942-096X Published Monthly in Tombstone, Arizona by Goose Flats Graphics & Publishing P.O. Box 813, Tombstone Arizona - (520) 457-3884 U.S. Subscription rate is $22.00 per year (12 issues) Canada/Mexico Subscription rate is $26.00 per year in U.S. funds. Foreign Subscription rate is $33.00 per year in U.S. funds. Email PDF Subscriptions are $9.00 per year Worldwide! Mail your payment along with your Name and Mailing Address to: Goose Flats Graphics P.O. 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Please patronize their fine businesses when in the Tombstone area. Keith Davis Publisher / Editor / Graphic Design / Research / Paper Boy / Webmaster [email protected] Janice Davis Writer Wrangler / Editor / Public Relations / Research / Inspiration [email protected] Joyce Aros Writer /Artist / Thought Provoker [email protected] Frank Barco Print Master - Copper Queen Publishing Co. Additional material supplied by: Joyce Aros, Gary Ledoux, Rita Ackerman, Troy Kelley, Bill O’Neal, Karen Mazzeo, Sherry Monahan, Dawn Hill, Judy Miller and Jan Hofmeister. www.TombstoneMercantileCo.com ~ 3 ~ THE ARIZONA RANGERS by Bill O’Neal At the turn of the century, when horseless On Oct. 8, 1901, the Rangers engaged in their first carriages, electric trolley cars and rickety flying fight against desperadoes. Pvts. Carlos Tafolla and machines were first being built, residents of the Duane Hamblin were part of a posse who cornered Arizona Territory were plagued by an outbreak of the notorious Bill Smith gang of cattle rustlers. crime. Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Maxwell boldly marched into a clearing as Smith followed, armed with a new Cattle rustlers, horse thieves and train robbers were Savage .303 rifle. As Smith and Maxwell walked numerous. Train holdups, bank robberies and towards each other in a classic showdown, Smith jailbreaks were commonplace. opened fire and shot Maxwell in the forehead, killing Newspaper editorials clamored for a territorial law him. During the ensuing shootout, Tafolla was enforcement force similar to the famous Texas wounded – shot twice in the torso – and later died Rangers. Influential Arizona ranchers, fearful that the that night. Smith and his desperadoes escaped into continued criminal activities would retard progress New Mexico. towards statehood, appealed to Governor Nathan The Arizona legislature voted Tafolla a small pension. Murphy. He left a penniless widow and three children. Tafolla On March 13, 1901, Murphy established the Arizona was the only Arizona Ranger ever slain in the line of Rangers. Although the Rangers were in existence for duty. only nine years, they experienced a lively and colorful According to his own prearranged personal plans, career and had a profound influence upon the policing Mossman served only one year as captain. But just in the Old West. before leaving, he crossed into Mexico to capture the Burt Mossman, 34, who had successfully stopped a territory’s most wanted felon, the vicious killer large-scale rustling ring on the Hash Knife Ranch and Augustin Chacon, who had been scheduled to hang helped write the legislation creating the Rangers, was at Solomonville but had escaped. Mossman picked to head the Rangers and given the title of befriended Billy Stiles, a former Arizona peace officer “Captain”. He established Ranger headquarters in the who had turned outlaw. Stiles betrayed Chacon and mining town of Bisbee. helped Mossman smuggle the murderer back to Arizona. In exchange for his help, Stiles was Capt. Mossman was paid $120 per month, his promised leniency in the courts and safe passage sergeant received $75 per month and 12 privates, back to Arizona to his wife.