Arizona Historical Review, Vol. 1 No. 4 (January 1929) Item Type text; Article Publisher Arizona State Historian (Phoenix, AZ) Journal Arizona Historical Review Rights This content is in the public domain. Download date 24/09/2021 09:38:18 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623301 ARIZONA HISTORICAL REVIEW CONTENTS Pioneers Pass Away Geo. H. Kelly Geronimo—(Concluded) John P. Clum Arizonans in the Spanish-American War. ... A. D. Webb Woman Suffrage Mrs. Hattie L. Williams Gila Valley Pioneers Mrs. C. A. Teeples "The Noonan" John A. Rockfellow Tucson in 1847 Judge F. Adams Arizona in 1881 Geo. H. Kelly Camels in Southwest Col. C. C. Smith Building Southern Pacific S P. Bulletin Vol. 1 JANUARY, 1929 No. 4 Published Quarterly by ARIZONA STATE HISTORIAN PHOENIX, ARIZONA Entered as Second Class Mail ARIZONA Historical Review A QUARTERLY SUBSCRIPTION $3.00 PER YEAR Volume 1 JANUARY, 1929 Number 4 STATE CAPITOL BUILDING HON. CHAS. D. POSTON "The Father of Arizona" Devoted several years to his effort to have Arizona constituted as a territor:-. finally succeeding on February 24. 1863, when Congress passed an act cutting Ari- zona from New Mexico. Mr. Poston was among the first territorial officials, holding the office of Indian Agent. At the first election held in July, 1864, Poston was elected as Arizona's first delegate to Congress. After his term in Ccngress he was appointed to have charge of and administer the U. S. land office at Florence. He died in the year 1902 at Phoenix. Arizona Historical Data The territory now included within the limits of Arizona was acquired by virtue of treaties concluded with Mexico in 1848 and in 1854. Previous to that time this country belonged to Mexico as a part of Sonora. The act cutting Arizona away from the territory of New Mexico was passed by the United States congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln on February 24, 1863. Governor John N. Goodwin and other territorial officials reached Navajo Springs, now in Navajo County, on December 29, 1863, where, on that date, the governor issued a proclamation inaugurating the territorial government. The first Arizona territorial legislature was convened in Prescott, the temporary capital, September 26, 1864. Territorial capital located in Tucson, November 1, 1867, under an act of the legislature. The territorial capital was relocated at Prescott the first Monday in May, 1877. On February 4, 4.889, the territorial capital was permanently located at Phoenix, where it has remained since. Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912, by virtue of a congressional act passed in 1911. The officers appointed by President Lincoln, who were responsible for the first Arizona territorial government were: John N. Goodwin, of Maine, Governor; Richard C. McCormick, of New York, Secretary of the Territory; William F Turner, of Iowa, Chief Justice; William T Howell, of Michigan and Joseph P. Allyn, of Connecticut, associate justices; Almon Gage, of New York, attorney general; Levi Bashford, of Wisconsin, Surveyor General; Milton B. Duffield, of New York, U. S. Marshal; Charles D. Poston, of Kentucky, Superintendent Indian affairs. The first Arizona State officials, elected in 1911, included the following: George W. P. Hunt, Governor; Sidney P. Osborn, Secretary of State; J. C. Callaghan, State auditor; D. F. Johnson, State treasurer; C. O. Case, Super- intendent of Public instruction; W. P. Geary, F. A. Jones and A. W. Cole, Corporation Commissioners; Alfred Franklin, Chief Justice; D. L. Cunning- ham and H. D. Ross, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. ANNOUNCEMENT To Our Subscribers The first year of the publication of the Arizona Historical Review will be completed with this number, January 1, 1929. The four quarterly numbers included in the first year were those of April, July and October, 1928 and the present number, January 1, 1929. Practically all subscribers to the Arizona Historical Review began with the initial number in April. If you desire to continue as a subscriber to the Review please send check for $3 to GEORGE H. KELLY, State Historian, Phoenix, Arizona. PIONEERS PASS AWAY Hon. Sol Barth Hon. Sol Barth, Arizona pioneer and a resident of St. Johns, Apache County since that county was created in 1879, and for a number of years prior to that date, died at his home at St. Johns on Friday, November 30, 1928, having reached the age of 87 years. He had been a resident of Arizona for 67 years. His first stop in Arizona was either on Christmas Day, 1860, or on New Years Day, 1861, when he arrived in Tucson with a freighting outfit which brought freight across the desert from San Bernardino, Califor- nia. He returned to California with the freighting teams and re- mained there until 1862, when he returned to Arizona, going to the old town of La Paz, on the Colorado River, where he entered the service of Michael Goldwater, the pioneer merchant of that locality. • In 1864 he secured the contract to carry the government mail from Prescott to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the route pass- ing through the Zuni Villages. He secured the assistance of the late Alfred F. Banta in carrying the mail. In those days hostile Indians were plentiful in the country, and Barth and Banta would ride at night and hide in the rocks and canyons during the day, as Indians very seldom attacked during the night. In 1869 he owned the Suttler 's Store at Fort Apache, and from this point traded with Indians over a wide area. In 1874 he located, perma- nently, at the present site of St. Johns. During his earlier resi- dence in Arizona, and after he acquired the traders' store at Fort Apache, he engaged in trading with Indians, carrying his goods to the camps of the Indians on pack animals, usually burros. Sev- eral times he narrowly escaped death at the hands of the hostiles, 'once when he went to an Apache camp and instead of finding his friendly chief, Pedro, whom he knew, he found the Apache war- rior chief Cochise in charge. He lost his pack animals and his roods, including his clothing and the clothes worn by six Mexicans who accompanied him. Thus stripped, he and his companions were allowed to go and they returned to the Zuni Villages, a dis- tance of one hundred miles, subsisting on the flesh of a dog that followed them from the Indian camp. Chief Cochise had Barth kind the Mexicans tied to trees and was making preparations to dispatch them when Chief Pedro returned to the camp, and inter- ceding in behalf of his friend Barth, succeeded in having them rekased. 6 ARIZONA HISTORICAL REVIEW It was through the influence of Barth that Apache County was created by the Twelfth Territorial Legislature in 1879. The cr act provided that the county seat of the new county should be located by a vote of the people residing therein. After a strenuous fight at the special election Barth succeeded in locat- ing the county seat in his home town. Soon after he located per- manently in St. Johns. Barth sold a possessory right to twelve hundred acres of land in that vicinity to the Mormon Church, negotiations for this deal being conducted by Joseph Smith and Df'IC. Udall, representatives of the church. Barth had a personal acquaintance with Kit Carson, meeting this famous scout when he came through the Zuni Villages as a colonel of volunteers to set- tle some trouble among the Navajo Indians. Mr. Barth was a member of the Eleventh and Nineteenth territorial legislatures. He was a successful business man and continued in the mercantile and hotel business to the time of his death; in recent years assisted by two daughters and a son. The death of Sol Barth leaves Billy Fourr, of Cochise County, as the dean of Arizona pioneers, he, too, having arrived in Arizona in 1861. W. C. Trueman W. C. Trueman, prominent pioneer citizen of Pinal County, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, November 29, 1928, having reached the age of 74 years. Mr. Trueman was a native of the State of New York. He had resided, almost continually, in Pival County since 1878, when he went to the old Silver King Mine where he secured employment as a carpenter. He soon became foreman of all carpenter work at the mine and remained there until the mine was abandoned in 1889. From Silver King he went to Florence, the county seat, and in 1890 was elected sheriff, and served Pinal County in that ca- pacity for six terms, a total of twelve years. After leaving the sheriff 's office he was county treasurer for one term. Soon after this he went to Alaska and remained there for several years, and while there acquired some of the original shares in the Kennecut Copper Company. During the time he was sheriff, Mr. Trueman had a correct vision of the future mining and agricultural indus- tries in Pinal County and acquired numerous mining claims in the mining district, of which Superior is now the metropolis, and also lands in the Casa Grande Valley. Several years ago he dis- posed of his mining claims and later, three years ago, on account PIONEERS PASS AWAY 7 of failing health, he disposed of his lands and retired from busi- ness activity and since then has resided in Phoenix during the winter and in Los Angeles during the summer He left here last June. The announcement of his death caused sincere sorrow among a large circle of acquaintances throughout the State of Arizona. His last official service was in the capacity of sergeant- at-arms of the state constitutional convention.