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Next Issue Cochise County Sheriff Wednesday May 3 John Behan Play Arizona Trivia Known for Opposing the Earps See Page 2 for Details

ohn Harris Behan was Behan became the under This Week’s born in Westport, Mis- sheriff to John Bourke of Jsouri, on October 25, Yavapai County where he Question: 1845. As a young man he gained a reputation as a brave traveled to where and honest lawman. He later he worked as a freighter and a served as sheriff of Yavapai What is the name miner. During the Civil War, County in 1871-72. A mem- of the lodge and 19-year-old Behan joined ber of the Democratic Party, small village located Colonel James Henry Carle- Behan became a member of at the bottom of the ton’s California Column and the territorial assembly in Grand Canyon? fought with them at Apache 1873. (12 Letters) Pass near Fort Bowie, Arizo- In 1880, Behan became na, in July 1862. sheriff of Cochise County. In 1863, he decided to Soon afterwards settle in Arizona and first became city marshal of worked at a freighter at Fort Tombstone. In this role he Lowell, then at the Cerro recruited his brothers Wyatt Index Colorado Mine in Pima and as “special County before moving on to deputy policemen.” At that the Prescott area, where he time the Earp family came Arizona Kid...... 17 worked in various jobs. On into conflict with two local Arizona Trivia...... 2 February 28, 1866, while families, the Clantons and Business Directory...... 18 prospecting along the Verde the McLaurys. , Classifieds...... 18 River, he and several other Phineas Clanton, Billy Clan- Jim Harvey...... 2 men were attacked by Indi- ton, Tom McLaury and Frank ans, but successfully fought Sheriff them off. In that same year (See Sheriff on Page 4) Don’t Cheat Jim Sam Lincoln’s Great Basin Compromise He May Shoot You Down! By Ralph Henderson dealing, these documents By Richard W. Kimball customers. Several rough researched and compiled men came into his estab- n the settlement of the by Dr. Richard Forschen ost Chinese lishment intent on caus- West no one would of Nevada’s Comstock His- i m m i g r a n t s ing so much trouble that Iplay a larger role than torical Society reveal Lin- Mthat arrived in the Chinaman would go that of a person we do not coln’s belief in his need to the early West came as running back to China. normally associate with split western Utah off from laborers—most often as They didn’t realize the Western history or Western its Salt Lake City connec- railroad workers. Others, fighting spirit of Jim Sam. politics: Abraham Lincoln. tions. who were more ambi- The Asian was highly pro- Hundreds of pages of Prior to the Civil War, tious, operated laundries Pinal City ficient with firearms and official U. S. government the West was relatively out or Asian restaurants. A Chi- such a success, Sam decided sometimes staged exhibitions documents bearing his sig- of touch with events in the nese man named Jim Sam to establish more restaurants of his marksmanship. He nature have woven a pic- rest of the country. With was one such entrepreneur. in several other mining towns could easily shoot the marks ture of shocking Civil War the development of Cali- When he opened a restaurant throughout the Territory. out of playing cards with politics and skullduggery. fornia and Oregon the Far in Prescott in 1865, it soon It was in his Globe res- ease. His aim was true with a Known more for his Eman- West began to take on an air became a popular eatery for taurant that Sam realized how cipation Proclamation than local residents. Since it was much power he held over his (See Shoot-Em on Page 6) his political wheeling and (See Politics on Page 8) Page 2 Territorial News April 19, 2017

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; Arizona - Web of Time when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. land. The tribe welcomes visi- So long as mists envelope you, be still; tors today to their part of the be still until the sunlight pours through and Jim Harvey Grand Canyon. dispels the mists— as it surely will. The Arizona Trail Then act with courage. Yavapai Country deputy The federal government’s articles.” sheriff George Rich who was Ponca Chief White Eagle agent to the Navajo Tribe was assigned to Williams sud- stationed at northeastern Ari- Passengers traveling denly resigned his position zona’s Fort Defiance in 1868. from Prescott to the Arizona- in 1882 and disappeared. It Captain’s Bar Presents He said members of the tribe California border on 1871 was said he feared arrest for “are no doubt the best in the stagecoaches were escorted helping to rob a liquor store. ARIZONA TRIVIA country for rapid progress in by U.S. Army troops through Williams had been founded a This Week’s Question: What is the name of the agriculture, as history proves Hualapai Indian Country. year before on a cattle ranch. lodge and small village located at the that for several centuries they Two soldiers rode ahead to bottom of the Grand Canyon? have been engaged in plant- give advance warning of an 1890 entertainment at (12 Letters) ing.” He added that the Na- ambush. The Hualapai were Tombstone’s Bird Cage The- Last Issue’s Question: Who was the first vajos were “far in advance of at war with the United States ater included wrestling and female Governor of Arizona? other tribes in manufacturing to keep white prospectors weight lifting. Answer: Rose Mofford blankets, bridles and other and ranchers off Hualapai A visitor to Flagstaff Congratulations! You got the right answer! the winter of 1903 said San- Ed Baker, Sid Clarke, Larry Damer, Joyce Davis, Kevin Gartley, dy Donahue’s saloon was Robert Lidgett, Roger Ringer, Bill Riordan, Nancy Swanson, crowded with cowboys and Dorothy Tangeman, Richard Valley. lumberjacks. They kept three bartenders busy, were enter- How to Play tained with fiddle music, and Letters are hidden in the advertisements. Find the letters to spell gambled at cards and dice. the answer. Submit your answer with your name, address & phone Down the street a little way number on a postcard for the current issue’s question to Territorial Publishing, P.O. Box 1690, Apache Junction, AZ 85217. Look for was a Chinese restaurant the answer in the next issue. To have your name listed in the next called the American Chop issue, cards must be received no later than 10 days past the current House where a meal cost 25 issue of the Territorial News. For example: submitted answers to the 4/19/17 question, deadline is 4/29/17. Limit one postcard per cents. household per issue. Must be at least 18 years old. Remember to put your name and address on your entry! In 1905, the four-year- old Santa Fe Railroad line from Williams to the Grand GREAT GIFT IDEA! Canyon was being publicized A subscription to the Territorial News is a great all over the country as the gift for anyone who loves the Old West best way to see Arizona’s great natural wonder. The Subscriptions are $39.95 ($59.95 Canadian) for One Year. Grand Canyon was described Fill out this form and send it to: The Territorial News, P.O. Box 1690 in magazine advertising as “a Apache Junction, AZ 85117. whole chaotic underworld” Make Checks payable to The Territorial News. and “the most sublime scene Name: on earth.” Round trip fare on the steam-powered train was Address: $6.50. City: State: The 1928 motion picture Nine Digit Zip Code: version of a Zane Grey story Phone #: titled “Avalanche” was filmed near Flagstaff. 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April 19, 2017 Territorial News Page 3 In Their Own Words Vigilantes At Work In San Francisco n many areas of the Old city. The Committee was dis- 1852, she wrote a number of West, the absence of es- banded within a year after its letters to her sister in Massa- I tablished institutions of creation. chusetts describing her experi- law and order led the local The mining camps, often ence. Under the byline “Dame community to literally take the in remote, unorganized terri- Shirley,” these letters were law into its own hands and dis- tories, were beyond the reach originally published in Pioneer pense justice through Vigilante of the law. In this unruly en- Magazine (1854-55) and then Committees. as a book in 1922. In San Francis- In a letter written co, for example, the on December 14, 1851, news of the discovery Louise describes how of gold to its north de- the mining communi- pleted its police force ty established its own while simultaneously form of law and order: triggering an explo- sion in its population. The re- vironment, volunteers formed The facts in this sad sulting increase in crime and Committees of Vigilance that case are as follows. Last fall, violence prompted the estab- established basic rules of con- two men were arrested by lishment of a Vigilante Com- duct and assured at least a their partners on suspicion mittee to maintain law and or- minimum level of order. The of having stolen from them der. The Committee was made community entrusted the Vigi- eighteen hundred dollars up of 600 local volunteers, lante Committee with the com- in gold-dust. The evidence most of whom were prominent bined responsibilities of judge, was not sufficient to convict members of the business com- jury and executioner. them, and they were acquit- munity. During its first year Mrs. Louise Clappe was ted. They were tried before (1851), the Committee hanged the wife of a physician and a meeting of the miners, four lawbreakers, whipped lived in the mining area known as at that time the law did one, deported 20 and released as Indian Bar along the Feath- not even pretend to wave 41 after trial. As a result, vio- er River in Northern Califor- lent crime was reduced in the nia. In the period from 1851 to (See Eyewitness on Page 14) Page 4 Territorial News April 19, 2017 Johnny Behan

Sheriff and planned to run against liday wanted a gunfight with him in the next election. The Clanton, but he declined the (From Page 1) two men also clashed over the offer and walked off. decision by Behan to arrest The following day Ike McLaury sold livestock in on suspicion of Clanton and Tom McLaury Tombstone. The Earp broth- killing a stage driver during an were arrested by Virgil Earp ers believed that some of attempted hold-up outside of and charged with carrying these animals had been stolen town. Holliday protested his firearms within the city lim- from farmers in Mexico. Wy- innocence and he was even- its. After they were disarmed att Earp was also convinced tually released. In September and released, the two men that the Clanton brothers 1881, Virgil Earp retaliated joined and had stolen one of his horses. by arresting one of Behan’s Frank McLaury, who had O also came deputies, , for just arrived in town. The men into conflict with Sheriff Be- holding up a stagecoach. gathered at a place called han. At first this started as On October 25, 1881, Ike the OK Corral on Fremont a quarrel over a woman, Jo- Clanton and Tom McLaury Street. sephine Sarah Marcus. She arrived in Tombstone. Later Virgil Earp now decid- had lived with Behan before that day Doc Holiday got ed to disarm Billy Clanton becoming Earp’s third wife. into a fight with Ike Clanton and Frank McLaury. He re- Earp also wanted Behan’s job in the Alhambra Saloon. Hol- cruited Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, James Earp and Doc Holliday to help him in this dangerous task. Sheriff Be- han was in town and when he heard what was happening he raced to Fremont Street and urged Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury to hand over their guns to him. They re- fused. Behan now headed to- wards the advancing Earps and Holliday. He pleaded for Virgil Earp not to get involved in a shoot-out, but he was brushed aside as the men continued on. As the two groups of armed men converged, hostilities quickly escalated, resulting in the famous Gunfight at the OK

(See Sheriff on Page 10) April 19, 2017 Territorial News Page 5 Kathy Needs Our Help Charity Breakfast & Golf Tourney Kathy Johnson is in a Formed in 2008, the Kathy’s battle. fight for her life. In Septem- Rowdy Johnson Band (RJB) “She has way more fans ber 2000, Rowdy Johnson burst on the scene with their than I do,” Rowdy says. married his best friend and original songs and sound. The Little Mesa Cafe soul mate Kathy. After 16 From dive bars and honky- and Roosters Country are do- years, countless moves, loos- tonks to big stages, RJB be- ing their part, teaming up for ing a home, and their third annual repo-ed cars, life charity Pancake began to work Breakfast and and they pur- Golf Tournament chased their first to benefit Kathy. home together. The benefit Kathy went back breakfast will be to school and held Saturday, Rowdy chased April 29, from his musical 7:00 a.m.-1:00 dream with the p.m. at the Little Rowdy Johnson Mesa Cafe. One Band. half of the pro- Kathy Johnson Then four ceeds from all short months later, at age 47, gan to hone their craft playing pancake breakfasts sold will Kathy was diagnosed with an music somewhere between go to Kathy. Food specials, aggressive form of breast can- classic southern rock and the prizes, and raffles will be of- R cer. Through chemotherapy, unmistakable outlaw sounds fered to all. surgery, and now radiation, of Waylon and Willie. The Golf Tournament, compounded by a signifi- As part of Kathy’s a four-person scramble, will cant drop in liver function, bucket list the Johnsons be held Saturday, May 6, at Kathy continues to inspire have planned a concert tour Apache Wells Golf Course others with her sheer will to this September with 14 solo in Mesa. Cost is $65 per per- survive. “Medical and every- acoustic concert dates over son with a shotgun start at day bills keep piling up,” says three weeks and 6800 miles 7:30 a.m. The event includes: Rowdy. “We’re praying for a to create breast cancer aware- miracle.” ness and to raise money for (See Benefit on Page 16) Page 6 Territorial News April 19, 2017 Don’t Cheat Jim Sam Shoot-Em reached his early twenties, he was working for a while as a (From Page 1) cowboy in the Arizona Strip region near Colorado City. pistol in either hand. He later showed up farther to The trouble-makers the south in Cochise County. who came into his restau- That’s where he found work rant to create a ruckus were as a cow camp cook for the surprised when Sam came San Simon Cattle Company. out of his kitchen armed He earned his nickname, to the teeth. He had pistols “Shoot-Em-Up Dick” about strapped on both hips and that same time. The cow a huge carving knife in his hands used to tease Chinese mouth. The Chinaman didn’t workers during those days, shoot any of the miscreants, often belittling them or pull- but he did manage to beat Ed Cullen ing on their pigtails. The two of them over their heads consisted of a bank, a church, Chinamen usually took the with the barrels of his pistols. a hotel, several stores and abuse and rarely complained. They toughs quickly got out saloons, and, of course, Jim Cullen enjoyed firing his of the restaurant and as far as Sam’s Chinese restaurant. guns into the air to scare the is known, never came back. Cullen worked at a near- Chinese. That all changed Once, while working at by ranch as a range cook dur- when Cullen decided to visit his restaurant in the mining ing round-ups. He considered Jim Sam’s restaurant. town of Pinal City, Jim Sam himself thoroughly knowl- Cullen ordered the most had a little set-to with a local edgeable in the preparation expensive meal he could find N cowboy named Ed Cullen. of all kinds of food, but in re- on the restaurant’s menu. The town, founded in the late ality, his “specialty” consisted When it arrived at his table 1870s by silver miners and mostly of beans, biscuits and he ate it with great relish and local ranchers, had a popu- cowboy coffee, and occasion- then told the Asian waiter to lation of 2,000 and its own ally a range steak. bring him a nice expensive newspaper, The Pinal Drill. Edwin H. Cullen was cigar. When it was offered Besides a scattering of small born in Texas on Decem- residential houses, the town ber 4, 1872. By the time he (See Shoot-Em on Page 19)

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of importance, but for the civilized eastern states every- thing west of “Bleeding Kan- sas’ was considered nothing more than an uncivilized wilderness glorified by dime store novelists, tall tales, and greatly exaggerated newspa- per articles. In the late 1850s prospectors and miners be- gan pouring into the region displacing the few Mormon farmers trying to eek out a living in the unforgiving pla- teau of western Utah. This would lead to the discovery of the greatest silver strike in the history of the world in The possibility existed that Golden State, hence the need the Comstock region. the immense wealth of this to create a separate state and Having been at odds with region would fall under the bring it into the union imme- the Federal Government for control of the Confederates diately to insure control of the many years over the polyga- or the Mormon Church. mines. It became obvious to my issue and church politics, With the boundaries having Lincoln that the State of Ne- the Government considered been previously surveyed vada would have to be creat- the Mormons untrustworthy and established for the states ed out of Utah to protect this and adversarial, an enemy of of California and Oregon, vast natural resource. What the United States. Lincoln it became clear to Lincoln on the surface appeared to was torn between which was that the wealth of the Com- be a simple matter became a the greater evil, the Mor- stock mines were stranded bitter impasse as the idea was mons or the Confederacy. some twenty miles east of the met with fierce opposition by the eastern states, leading to the “Lincoln Compromise.” It had been Lincoln’s in- tention to create a state out of the Great Basin. However, heavy lobbying coupled with threats from several states, nearly derailed the plan. Eastern politicians protested that the area did not pos- sess nearly the population to qualify for statehood making www.territorialnews.com the establishment of a state illegal, especially if it was en- We’re On The titled to equal status with the likes of New York, Pennsylva- Internet! nia and Ohio. The politicians Check us out! were fearful of having their political influence diluted by www.facebook.com/TerritorialNews (See Politics on Page 15) April 19, 2017 Territorial News Page 9 Page 10 Territorial News April 19, 2017 Johnny Behan

Sheriff sources. Due to public and tal manner.” The complaint legislative unhappiness with against him specifically cit- (From Page 4) Behan’s performance, he ed the prison privileges af- failed to win reelection and forded Manuela Fimbres, a Corral. In the end, Billy left office at the end of his woman incarcerated in the Clanton, Tom McLaury and term, in November 1882. Yuma penitentiary. She was Frank McLaury died and Vir- Behan lived primarily allowed to roam free within gil Earp, Morgan Earp and in Tombstone through 1886. the prison, and she became Doc Holliday were wounded. In 1887, he moved to Yuma, pregnant, delivered a child, Sheriff Behan arrested Vir- where he became the assis- and got pregnant again while gil, Wyatt, and Morgan Earp tant superintendent of the he was warden. The super- and Doc Holliday for mur- Territorial State Prison and intendent’s management of der. However, after a 30-day was later promoted to super- the prison prompted former preliminary hearing, Judge intendent, serving until July Tombstone resident and Wells Spicer decided that the 1890. His administration of writer George W. Parsons to defendants had been justified the prison was marked by dis- comment that he thought Be- in their actions and would order and mismanagement of han was “on the wrong side not be bound over for trial. public funds, generating com- of the bars.” In September 1882, plaints by the press. The Ari- After twenty-seven years Sheriff Behan got into a feud zona Republican noted that in Arizona, Behan moved with his own deputy, Billy $50,000 had passed through east, and in 1891 he was in Breakenridge, and at the same prison officials’ hands with- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, time, an investigation found out any accounting. He faced and by 1892 in Washington, that Behan had somehow set censure for misuse of public D.C. He worked in various aside $5,000 in funds while funds and for running the government and commissary he was sheriff from unknown prison in a “coarse and bru- capacities until the end of his life. H On July 3, 1893, he be- came a Customs Inspector at El Paso, Texas. On March 12, 1894, he received a 50 percent pay increase and was elevated to the position of Chinese Exclusion Inspec- tor. (The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed in order to limit the number of Chinese laborers enter- ing the United States and to prevent the Chinese already in the U.S. from becoming naturalized citizens.) Later, he spent several years trav- eling throughout the South- west. In 1897 he worked in the U.S. Patent Office, until at the outbreak of the Span- ish-American War, Behan volunteered for and became corral-master or quartermas- ter at Tampa, Florida. When this conflict ended, trouble in the Far East began, and in 1900 he served in China dur- ing the Boxer Rebellion. In 1901, he was living in Willard’s Hotel at 1400

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Florence Founder Levi Ruggles In 1866, Civil War veteran Levi Ruggles came to Arizona as Special Indian Agent for the Pima, Papago, Maricopa, and Apache tribes. Upon arriv- ing in the area now known as Florence, he estab- lished a trading post. Ruggles quickly realized the potential for the area, with the nearby Gila River providing fertile ground and abundant water for farming. Ruggles purchased the Walbridge Ranch and, along with partner Thomas Ewing, laid out a town site. He built a house and soon opened up a land office to register plots for newly arriving settlers. By 1868, there were a few buildings and a flour mill was in operation. One of the first lots was sold to E. N. Fish & Co., of Tucson, who built the first store on the south side of Main Street, across from Ruggles’ own house. Fish & Co. held government contracts to provide Army outposts with wheat and barley, which provided the spark for the town’s early growth. The demand spurred a group of farmers from Tucson to claim arable land in the Florence area. With the influx of farm- ers, Fish & Co. was assured of a steady supply of crops needed to meet the military’s quotas. By 1868, the name “Florence” was applied to the growing town. Page 12 Territorial News April 19, 2017 Emmett Dalton n October 5, 1892, Bob and Grat Dalton died background as an authentic Bob, Emmett, and of their wounds, but Emmett Wild West outlaw into a brief OGrat Dalton, the infa- survived and was sentenced career as a technical advisor mous Dalton Gang, achieved to life in prison. However, he for Hollywood westerns. He a lifelong ambition. They was pardoned in 1907. even appeared in a couple of staged the most spectacular After getting out of pris- silent films himself. In 1909, bank holdup in the history of on, Emmett Dalton “went he returned to Coffeyville to the West. The Dalton Gang straight.” He turned to hon- act as the advisor on a short simultaneously hit two banks est labor to make a living, in- film about the Dalton’s fa- in Coffeyville, Kansas, and in cluding working as a building mous raid. the bloodbath that followed, a contractor and a real estate Emmett also used his dozen men were shot, includ- agent. former career to try to keep ing all three Dalton brothers He moved to Hollywood others on the straight and and their two confederates. and parlayed his colorful narrow. He spent much of his time crusading against crime by describing the tragic and violent deaths of his broth- ers. He declared that anyone who thought he could beat the law was “the biggest fool on earth,” and he pointed to his brothers as examples. He detailed his exploits as an outlaw in numerous I’ll clean my house when the last kid has moved out. lectures and writings, includ- ing When the Daltons Rode, published in 1931. “One thing I must say to the credit of the old-fash- ioned badman. He seldom shot his victim in the back. He had a certain pride at arms, a code of craft, a cer- tain punctilio in his deadly dealings. His reputation didn’t hang on potting some- one in the rear or on the run— which requires no guts at all. When he came a-smokin’ it was in the face of his chal- lenger…In this respect the Western gunplay was more like the older duello. It was entirely unlike the savage behavior of the modern city gangster or mountain feudist who places his victim ‘on a spot’ without a chance, to be mowed down in the dark with machine guns or rifles spitting from ambush.” Emmett Dalton died in 1937. April 19, 2017 Territorial News Page 13

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Politics the short-term problems had paramount. Any notions been solved, the new infusion of Nevada reverting to ter- (From Page 8) of wealth into Union coffers ritorial status or merging was assured and the long- into California, Arizona, or opportunistic westerners term agreements had not Utah were forgotten in the elected by a few hundred been fully revealed. boom years of the 1870s and votes. Lengthy negotiations In the years following 1880s. By the time the Vir- in November and December the Civil War, no one could ginia City mines were played of 1863 between Lincoln and have foreseen the events to out, a full two decades had eastern political leaders led follow, the assassination passed since the war’s end to an historic compromise, of Lincoln, the rise of San and ten years since the disso- and the birth of a bold, dar- Francisco, the transconti- lution was supposed to take ing and somewhat under- nental railroad and the ever place. The historic Lincoln handed plan. more increasing wealth of compromise had been lost The first of these very the Comstock mines. As to history and those dusty secret compromises was that time went on wealthy men secret records gradually dis- the new state would be tem- of power and ambition grew appeared or were filed away porary; it would extend from to realize the importance with volumes of old records the eastern border of Oregon of their voice in national in the basements of govern- south until it intersected the politics, and preserving ment buildings in Washing- California border. This new their desert empire became ton and Nevada. temporary wedge shaped state would be 156 miles wide and would include all the valuable mining prop- erty on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. Within a decade the new state was to be dissolved and merged with California. Before this understand- ing could be formalized, a new problem confronted Lin- coln: Las Vegas. This sleepy little town located on the old Spanish trail became signifi- cant due to its location. Serv- ing as the southern entrance into California and the only passable route in the winter, it served as the halfway point between Salt Lake City and San Bernardino. It played a major role in the Mormon plan to have a corridor to the sea. With the threat of war over the mines to the north that could spell victory or de- feat for either side, it became obvious Las Vegas should also come into Union hands. The revised compromise ex- tended the southern border of Utah eastward from Cali- fornia along the 37th paral- lel effectively cutting off Los Vegas and placing it into the . This solved the problem of Mormon control of the area, but presented a new problem, namely Arizona’s legendary lawlessness. Any form of government in Arizo- na at the time was minimal. By June of 1864 the final so- lution had been reached. The new boundaries were moved three degrees farther east to 114 degrees placing Las Ve- gas firmly in Union hands. When Nevada joined the union on October 31, 1864, Page 16 Territorial News April 19, 2017 The Conestoga Wagon riginally developed was the canvas bonnet, the Conestoga and other cov- around 1750 by set- frame of which sloped for- ered wagons remained the O tlers of German de- ward and over the wagon’s standard rural freight car- scent in Pennsylvania, the rear, protecting its goods rier until the internal com- Conestoga wagon served from rain. Carrying up to bustion engine revolution- for over 100 years as Amer- five tons of cargo, the Con- ized transport. icans’ main form of freight estoga was pulled by teams Because the Cones- transport. Large (up to 28 of up to eight large draft toga proved too cumber- feet long) and heavy, the horses. some for the Oregon Trail, Conestoga had an unusual, The Conestoga wag- a derivative, the so-called boat-like shape, with a floor on’s robust build made it Prairie Schooner, evolved. that dipped towards the popular for settlers moving Less than half the size of middle and up at each end, west I the early nineteenth the Conestoga, the Prairie ensuring barrels and bales century and for traders Schooner was about 12 feet would not tip out when go- along the Santa Fe Trail. long and four to five feet ing up or down hills. An- Even when the railroads wide, and could be easily other distinctive feature crossed the continent, the dismantled. Kathy’s Fight

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A April 19, 2017 Territorial News Page 17 Vigilantes At Work

Eyewitness holm. God help them when ever, he seemed startled into that fatal post shall arrive, for, a consciousness of the awful (From Page 14) no doubt, he also, although a reality of his position, and criminal, was fondly garnered requested a few moments for At one o’clock, so rap- in many a loving heart. prayer. idly was the trial conducted, He had exhibited, dur- The execution was con- the judge charged the jury, ing the trial, the utmost reck- ducted by the jury, and was and gently insinuated that lessness and nonchalance, performed by throwing the they could do no less than had drank many times in the cord, one end of which was to bring in with their verdict course of the day, and when attached to the neck of the of guilty a sentence of death! the rope was placed about prisoner, across the limb of Perhaps you know that when his neck, was evidently much a trial is conducted without intoxicated. All at once, how- (See Eyewitness on Page 19) the majesty of the law, the jury are compelled to decide not only upon the guilt of the prisoner, but the mode of his punishment also. After a few minutes absence, the twelve men, who had consented to burden their souls with a responsibility so fearful, returned, and the foreman handed to the judge a paper, from which he read the will of the people, as follows: That William Brown, convict- ed of stealing, etc., should, in one hour from that time, be hung by the neck until he was dead. By the persuasions of some men more mildly dis- posed, they granted him a respite of three hours to pre- The only way I know something is bad for me is if I enjoy it. pare for his sudden entrance into eternity. He employed the time in writing, in his na- tive language (he is a Swede), to some friends in Stock-

M Page 18 Territorial News April 19, 2017 Johnny Behan Sheriff

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Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The census gave his occupation as “Promoter.” He returned to Tuc- son in 1901, where he became the business manager for the Tucson Citi- zen newspaper. He then moved to El Paso, where he worked as a purchas- ing agent for Texas Bitulithic, a pav- ing company. While in El Paso dur- ing 1908, he campaigned for sheriff, but lost. On December 14, 1910, the acting governor of Arizona Territory son, on June 7, 1912. His funeral was gave him a commission as a railroad conducted by the Arizona Pioneers policeman in Arizona. He followed Historical Society, and their eulogy that with work supervising survey declared, “he held positions of pub- parties repairing levee breaks on the lic trust, and in all was active, faith- lower Colorado River. During 1911– ful, and honest.” John Behan was 12, he was head of the commissary buried on the day after his death in for the Arizona Eastern Railroad. Tucson’s Holy Hope Cemetery, in a Behan died of kidney disease at grave whose exact location has since St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital in Tuc- been lost. Classified

Business & Services April 19, 2017 Territorial News Page 19 Vigilantes At Work Eyewitness first accused), to drop it as business it was to inter the soon as he was drawn up into remains arrived at the spot, (From Page 17) the air, but if guilty, not to let they found them enwrapped it fall on any account. in a soft white shroud of a tree standing outside of the The body of the criminal feathery snow-flakes, as if Rich Bar graveyard, when all was allowed to hang for some pitying nature had tried to who felt disposed to engage hours after the execution. It hide from the offended face in so revolting a task lifted had commenced storming of Heaven the cruel deed the poor wretch from the in the earlier part of the eve- which her mountain-children ground in the most awkward ning, and when those whose had committed. manner possible. The whole affair, indeed, was a piece of cruel butchery, though Don’t Cheat that was not intentional, but arose from the ignorance of those who made the prepara- Jim Sam tions. In truth, life was only Shoot-Em Em-Up Dick!” he shouted. crushed out of him by haul- “Me Shoot-Em-Down Sam! ing the writhing body up and (From Page 6) You pay up! You pay pretty down, several times in suc- damn quick!” cession, by the rope, which to him, he took it and struck Cullen, it was said, was wound round a large a match. He lit the cigar, turned deathly pale. He bough of his green-leaved gal- inhaled and blew a cloud sheepishly poked his fingers lows. Almost everybody was of smoke into the waiter’s into his pocket and took out surprised at the severity of face and got up to leave. the money he owed to the the sentence, and many, with The surprised waiter quickly restaurant. He dropped the C their hands on the cord, did scurried off into the kitchen coins into the Chinaman’s not believe even then that it where Jim Sam was prepar- outstretched hand. Then, would be carried into effect, ing food. as other restaurant patrons but thought that at the last A few seconds later, watched in amazement, moment the jury would re- Jim Sam confronted Cullen pulled his hat down over his lease the prisoner and substi- at the entrance of the eatery. eyes and left. tute a milder punishment. “Hey, you cowboy! You for- When Cullen got back It is said that the crowd get something!” to the ranch’s cow camp, generally seemed to feel the “No, you damned hea- he discovered that his cow solemnity of the occasion, then,” Cullen was quoted as puncher friends had al- but many of the drunkards, saying. “I didn’t forget noth- ready heard about his con- who form a large part of the in’,” He decided to scare the frontation in the Chinese community on these bars, restaurant owner by stating restaurant and it wasn’t laughed and shouted as if it his reputation as a danger- long before he became the were a spectacle got up for ous gun-slinger. “My name butt of many a joke around their particular amusement. is Shoot-Em-Up Dick! I the campfire. Jim Sam, in A disgusting specimen of don’t pay!” he said. the meantime, had his own intoxicated humanity, struck Jim Sam didn’t flinch reputation and nickname to with one of those luminous a bit. He just put a hand uphold. From that day for- ideas peculiar to his class, underneath his apron and ward, he was known among staggered up to the victim, pulled out a six-shooter. He the Chinese community of who was praying at the mo- brandished it before Cullen’s Pinal City as Shoot-Em- ment, and, crowding a dirty face. “You say you Shoot- Down Sam. rag into his almost uncon- scious hand, in a voice bro- ken by a drunken hiccough, After church one Sunday, one of the congregants tearfully implored him to walked up to the priest and said, “Father, is it take his “hankercher,” and if a sin to play golf on Sunday? he were innocent (the man “My son,” said the priest, putting his hand on the man’s had not denied his guilt since shoulder, “I’ve seen you play golf. It’s a sin any day.” Page 20 Territorial News April 19, 2017