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Territorial News www.territorialnews.com www.facebook.com/TerritorialNews Vol. 30, No. 12 Your Connection to the Old West June 13, 2018 Next Issue Wednesday Pancho Villa July 11 Famed Mexican Revolutionary here’s a saying about he spent his time alternating Play Pancho Villa: he was between banditry and more Arizona Trivia T“hated by thousands legitimate pursuits. It was and loved by millions.” The during this period that he See Page 2 for Details controversial hero of the became something of a folk Mexican Revolution was a hero for his ability to evade Robin Hood to many and a the government’s oppressive This Week’s cruel, cold-blooded killer to rurales police force. others. In the early stages of the Question: Pancho Villa’s real Mexican Revolution, Villa name was José Doroteo Ar- acquired a gang of bandit ango Arámbula, and he was followers and in 1910 he and Grat, Emmett and Bob Dalton born around 1877 in San Before Arizona his men came down from the Juan del Rio, State of Dur- became its own hills to join Francisco Ma- territory in 1863, ango, Mexico. His parents dero’s revolutionary forces, it was part of were sharecropper peasants thereby making a historical which territory? on a hacienda. According to transition from bandidos to (9 Letters) Villa, his outlaw career be- revolucionarios. The charis- gan at the age of 16 when he matic figure was able to re- came home one day to find cruit an army of thousands, that the hacianda’s owner including a substantial num- had attempted to rape his ber of Americans, some of younger sister. Young Doro- whom were made captains in Index teo took up his revolver, shot the División del Norte. Villa the man and escaped into the even created one squadron Arizona Kid..................14 mountains. Some historians made up entirely of Ameri- Arizona Trivia................2 have cast doubt on this story, It was then that he took the connections with the pow- cans under the leadership of Business Directory........18 however. name “Francisco Villa” after erful Pablo Venezuela (to Capt. Tracey Richardson, a Classifieds....................18 In any case, he became his paternal grandfather, Je- whom Villa would sell the man who apparently fought Jim Harvey.....................2 part of a bandit band, eventu- sus Villa. stolen goods), he was forced with many different insur- 150 Years Ago.............16 ally joining an outlaw gang In 1902, Villa was ar- to join the federal army. Sev- gent armies around the world headed by Ignacio Parra, rested for stealing mules and eral months later he deserted at that time. one of the most famous ban- assault. While he was spared and fled to the neighboring dits of Durango at the time. the death sentence due to his state of Chihuahua, where (See Revolutionary on Page 4) In Their Own Words Thief Steals Gold From Mint in Hollow False Leg Buffalo Bill Takes the Stage t age 43, Orville started at the tender age of Harrington was eleven, when he was shot illiam “Buffalo Cody’s marquee value. dissatisfied with in the leg during a hunting Bill” Cody was Cody went to Chicago A his lot in life. His wooden accident. His sciatic nerve an Indian scout, with J. B. “Texas Jack” W leg had kept him from pur- was severely damaged. In miner, trapper, and Pony Ex- Omohundro--also a dime suing his goal to be a min- attempts to alleviate the press rider before receiving novel hero--and Buntline ing engineer. Instead, he pain, his toes, then his his nickname, which he was rented a theater for a play, had a routine job in a refin- foot, and finally his right given while hunting buffalo not yet written, which would ery, earning a meager four leg was amputated below to feed the men building open just a few days later, dollars a day. However, the knee. Overcoming the the Kansas Pacific Rail- before his friends could Orville had a plan to turn handicap, he graduated road. When his fame grew, change their minds. it all around. He would use from the Colorado School his friend Ned Buntline, an The following excerpt his reputation as a trusted of Mines in 1898 with an adventurer and bestselling is taken from An Autobiog- worker to his advantage in engineering degree. author, convinced him to raphy of Buffalo Bill, pub- a diabolical scheme to rob During a 1903 hospital take the stage. Buntline had lished in 1920. the U.S. Mint in Denver. already made Cody the hero Buffalo Bill Cody Orville’s bad luck had (See Harrington on Page 8) of dime novels, so he knew (See Theater on Page 6) Page 2 Territorial News June 13, 2018 A Pueblo Blessing Arizona - Web of Time Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth. March and corn, pumpkins Hold on to what you believe and melons in late June. even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Jim Harvey Hold on to what you must do The Arizona Trail One way white settlers even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go. made money during the days Hold on to my hand The prehistoric ruins at were white English-speak- of the Apache Indian wars even when I have gone away from you. Betatakin on the Navajo Res- ing Americans was born on a when Arizona was a fed- ervation north of Winslow Gila River raft in 1849 as his eral territory was to submit are in a huge alcove formed mother floated west toward false claims requesting pay- Captain’s Bar Presents in a canyon wall by erosion California. ment from the government of a salmon-colored Jurassic for damage to property and ARIZONA TRIVIA sandstone formation created An 1864 southern Arizo- loss of livestock caused by This Week’s Question: Before Arizona became its own from ancient sand dunes. na traveler visited O’odham Apache attacks. An audit of territory in 1863, it was part of which territory? The ruins are part of Navajo Indian farmers who irrigated 1,490 claims filed between (9 Letters) National Monument. their desert fields and he was November 1874 and March told they planted wheat in 1878 revealed that only one Last Issue’s Question: Who was the first woman to It is said that Arizona’s December and January, to- was truthful. All the rest become Governor of Arizona? Answer: Rose Mofford first baby whose parents bacco and cotton the first of were frauds. Congratulations! You got the right answer! At the turn of the 20th Century, playing baseball Leo Achin, Sid Clarke, Larry Damer, Joyce Davis, Doyle Ekey, was popular among Je- Kevin Gartley, Robert Lidgett, Micky McGraw-Stein, Roger Ringer, rome’s miners and smelter Bill Riordan. workers, and the incentive How to Play to score was a keg of beer Letters are hidden in the advertisements. Find the letters to spell the an- behind home plate. Players swer. 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