Territorial News www.territorialnewspapers.com Vol. 20, No. 9 Your Connection to the Old West May 1, 2013 Next Issue Wednesday Commodore May 15 Play Perry Owens Arizona Trivia See Page 2 for Details ommodore Perry two Indians who were Owens was the hero in attempting to steal some Ca bloody chapter of horses that he was guarding. Arizona history, helping bring This episode supposedly This Week’s law and order to Holbrook, a resulted in Owens earning the Question: tiny northeastern Arizona nickname “Iron Man.” town known to be “too tough Owens had a homestead for women and churches.” near Holbrook, Arizona, What lake was Owens became the called the Z Bar Ranch, and sheriff of Arizona’s Apache in 1866 was elected as sheriff created by the County in 1886. As sheriff he of Apache County. Many construction of helped bring peace to an area people thought he was Glen Canyon Dam? filled with lawlessness and eccentric because of his name (10 Letters) became involved in the and his appearance. He wore notorious Pleasant Valley War. a fringed buckskin jacket and Owens was born in silver-studded leather chaps Tennessee in 1852. His and a wide-brimmed felt top parents named him after the hat. His long hair was quite out legendary British war hero, of fashion and men thought he Index Oliver Hazard Perry, whose was too girly looking. He also exploits they admired. The had a strange habit of taking Arizona Kid...................12 family later moved to Indiana, a bath once a week. The ladies Arizona Trivia................2 and it was there that young thought he was quiet and Business Directory........14 Owens gained a reputation as mannerly. He also had a Classifieds.....................14 a fine shot and an outstanding cowboy and quickly learned curling it up underneath his practice of wearing either a Jim Harvey......................2 racer of horses. He left home how to rope and brand cattle hat. He was popular with the long-barreled pistol or two six- at the age of 13 and headed to and spent his spare time ladies, but was often made fun shooters around his waist. He Recipe.........................5 Oklahoma to find work as a practicing with his six-shooter of due to his unusual name. was a dead shot with either 125 Years Ago.................14 ranch hand. Owens had no and Winchester. He had red By 1881, he was working weapon from either hand. He trouble finding jobs as a hair, which he wore long, often as a ranch foreman in was also famous for using the Arizona. There are plenty of cross-draw, drawing with the stories regarding Owens’ right hand from the left hip dealings with the local Navajo and vice versa. It gained him The History of Arizona Indians, including one incident Conditions in 1867 & 1868 that involved Owens killing (See Sheriff on Page 4) In the spring of 1867, the In Their Own Words War Department sent General In the early part of the 1900s writer/historian Thomas Edwin Farish was commissioned by the Arizona Territorial Legislature to write a history James E. Rusling to inspect the of Arizona. This was a mammoth undertaking in its day and took several Fighting Comanche military posts in Arizona. In years to complete. The original volumes of the book were published in previous issues, Thomas Farish 1915-1918. related Rusling’s descriptions of The Territorial News is publishing excerpts of these volumes over Warriors the conditions in the territory. In the next several issues. This is an extensive work and, unfortunately, we this issue, Farish continues the are not able to publish the complete text on these pages. Every attempt is A Gruesome Aftermath made to do justice to the author and preserve the integrity of his work in James Pike was the son ing is an excerpt from that book, observations of Rusling’s party the selections we publish. as they the appraise the mines of a newspaper editor who where Pike relates a Texas around Wickenburg and to visit the mine. The General Seventy or eighty men—half of grew up in Ohio and Missouri. Ranger action against a war- Prescott. reports it as follows: “It is them or more Mexicans— He migrated to Texas in 1859 ring band of Comanches. In the really a fine specimen of gold- were hard at work, sinking and joined the Texas Rangers, story, Pike is allied with Caddo By Thomas Edwin Farish bearing quartz, off in the shafts and getting out ore; and taking part in a series of cam- Indians, whose reservation was mountains, some fifteen miles already a large amount of paigns against Comanche In- near Fort Belnap, west of Fort ickenburg was west of Wickenburg, whence work had been done there. dians. He later fought for the Worth. found to be an the ore was then wagoned to One shaft was already down a Union in the Civil War. Pike W adobe hamlet of the mill, on the Hassayampa hundred feet, and another half wrote about his adventures as e were all well perhaps two hundred at Wickenburg. It consists of as far—it being intended to a Ranger and a soldier in a concealed, be- inhabitants, depending chiefly a fine vein of free quartz, connect the two by a lateral book titled The Scout and W hind bushes, on the Vulture mine. Here the from five to fifteen feet wide, gallery to insure ventilation, Ranger: Being the Personal rocks, and trees, lying party halted for two or three and mostly devoid of etc. Unfortunately, no water Adventures of Corporal Pike down as closely to the days to rest and recruit, which sulphurets, or other of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, afforded them an opportunity refractory substances. (See Conditions on Page 6) published in 1865. The follow- (See Eyewitness on Page 10) Page 2 Territorial News May 1, 2013 Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, Arizona - Web of Time to give and not to count the cost, of Kingman, Peach Springs, to fight and not to heed the wounds, Seligman, Ashfork, to toil and not to seek for rest, Jim Harvey Williams, Flagstaff, Winslow to labour and ask not for reward, and Holbrook. Even though save that of knowing that The Arizona Trail the steam-powered I do your most holy will. locomotives averaged only —St. Ignatius Loyola - 16th century The meteor that hit year and Joe Cuburn won the 24 miles an hour, they were Arizona east of present-day American boxing four times faster than Flagstaff 50,000 years ago championship by beating horses, mules and oxen on blasted out 175 million tons Mike McCoole in 63 rounds. which travelers previously Captain’s Bar Presents of rock to form a crater had relied. visitors can see today. The A literary society was ARIZONA TRIVIA impact created a thousand- organized at Tucson in 1873. An outlaw named mile-an-hour wind and every Members were English- Bronco Bill robbed a train in This Week’s Question: What lake was created by the tree within 12 miles was speaking Americans who met 1898 and was captured by a construction of Glen Canyon Dam? (10 Letters) leveled. to discuss books and current posse at a place called Last Issue’s Question: Where in Arizona events. Geronimo. He spent 20 was the westernmost battle of the In 1863, during the years in prison and died Civil War fought? Answer: Picacho Pass Civil War, the Territory of The Atlantic and when he fell off a windmill Arizona was created from Pacific Railroad, later on his cattle ranch. half of New Mexico named the Santa Fe, began Congratulations! You got the right answer! Territory. Future automaker east-west passenger service 1904 was the year You are entered into our drawing Henry Ford was born that across Arizona in 1883. It construction of a $250,000 Larry Damer, Vicki Damer, Doyle Ekey, Jack Gajewski, Marsha connected the Arizona towns hotel called El Tovar started Gartley, Clarence Hodges, Evelyn Kolsrud, Nikki Leschuck, at the Grand Canyon’s south Robert Lidgett, Roger McDaniel, Marilyn Olsen, Jean Powers, MIKE’S AUTO WORKS rim. 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