THE ST. JOHNS HERALD

LOCAL NEWS
January 6, 1887

"Diamond" the man who was shot in Springerville on last Monday week, was brought to the county seat last Saturday night by Justice John T. Hogue and a posse, and lodged in the county jail. His wound was dressed by Dr. Dalby, and his injuries although serious and painful, are not considered dangerous.  He will be held to await the action of the grand jury.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
January 6, 1887

Springerville, Apache county, seems to be about as rough a place as Arizona produces, especially just at present.   A week ago a most unprovoked murder took place there and again last week another shooting took place which will probably result in the death of one of the parties.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
March 3, 1887
There were twenty-five different persons indicted by the grand jury. Some of whom have as many as four charges preferred against them. This is a pretty good showing for one grand jury.
THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
MARCH 3, 1887
Peace again reigns in Springerville.  Shotguns, Winchesters and cheese-knives, have all been superceded by order.  A man there can now go out in his back-yard at night, without being held up and made dance a jig on a fence post.  Whether there will be any increase in the demand for undertakers and coroners in the next six months remains to be determined.

THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
March 3, 1887
There have been some six or eight left our county for its good. The list of the grand jury published in the HERALD was a sufficient hint to them that Apache county was not what it once was, and that instead of being a haven for criminals, it is likely to become a place for them to dread. Well, we can afford to lose such characters, but would have preferred to see them go by the way of Yuma when they left us. One or two more grand juries such as we have just had, and there will be very few of them left.

APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
March 10, 1887

The Grand Jury Committees appointment to examine the books and accounts of County Officials, report on the books of Dinicio Baca, late Treasurer of this County as follows: For the part of 1885, no entries have been made at all up to about April 1st.   After that time, the entries have been made in such a manner that it would be a task for an expert to either understand or interpret them.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
March 10, 1887

25 indictments, it is said, were found by the late Grand Jury against evil doers in this County.  Several of the parties accused of crime have been arrested and are now in jail, while others, asertaining their warrants had been issued for their arrest, have left the County for parts unknown.  It is said that in Springerville alone, there are a dozen or more of these individuals who have changed their Post-Office address.  The grand Jury, as a whole, have evidently done good work in the interest of law and order, but as separate committies, it must be said that their reports have the appearance of having received a coating of that liquid used by the Knights of the bucket and the brush.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
March 17, 1887
Under Sheriff McKinney reports Springerville as one of the most quiet and orderly places in Arizona. Indiscrimate shooting is indulged in no longer--people are not awakened every night by such a fusilade of fire arms, as would lead one to suppose, who was unacquainted with the customs of the place, that the town had been attacked by a band of roving Apaches--saloon keepers do not have to close their places of business, as they did a short time back, when a gang of the would-be bad men rode into town. So much for having officers who dare do their duty.

Holbrook, Apache County, Arizona
APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
April 18, 1887
DISTRICT COURT NOTES

The half-dozen, or more, indictments found against Nathan Barth by the Grand Jury, at the session of the County Court, were quashed at the present term and the bondsmen released.  Two new indictments were found, however, the first for Grand Larcency, the second for Embracery--attempting to bribe one of the Trial Jurors on the case of Sol Barth.  For this latter crime and on the same specifications, A.B.Lambson was indicted.  The accused pleaded "Not Guilty"; furnished bonds and the cases were laid over until next term.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
April 18, 1887
DISTRICT COURT NOTES

The trial of Sol Barth, indicted by the Grand Jury for Forgery, occupied nearly the entire term of the Court.  It was the sixth day before a Jury were found to try the case.  The Trial lasted two days and the Jury were but eighteen hours before agreeing upon a verdict.  The verdict returned was as expected, Guilty. The people were represented by the District Attorney, assisted by Mr. Barry Mathews, The Defendant by Messrs.  Herndon, Sanford and Judge Sumner Howard, three of the ablest members of the bar of Arizona.  Judge Wright's sentence was pronounced on the last day of the Term--ten years in the Territorial Penitentiary at Yuma. Barth's Attorneys took an appeal to the Supreme Court which convenes at Phoenix today.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
Apr. 28, 1887
MURDER IN ST. JOHNS

Sunday night last, at St. Johns, Patrick Mullen of Showlow was shot and killed by Frank Clark, the Bartender, in Darling's Saloon. Noone was in the Saloon but the two men. Clark claims they had a dispute over a game at cards and that Mullen reached for his revolver and he then shot him.  As Mullen had no revolver when found, this story looks improbable.  Clark is in jail.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
May 5, 1887
We are informed that some parties have appropriated, stolen and driven off almost every saddle horse St. George Creaghe had--some eight or ten in number.  The horses are branded with a bar and a flying V on the right thigh. Any information leading to their recovery will be gratefully received by the owner.  It would not be healthy for the thieves should Mr. Creaghe happen across them with the horses.  We are of the opinion there would be one or two rustlers less in the country after the meeting.

THE ST. JOHNS HEARALD
LOCAL NEWS
May 19, 1887
There must be something wrong with the "boys."  we have not heard of any horses having been stolen for a week or more.  Our enterprising "rustlers" must all be at the other end on the line, blowing in the proceeds of what horses they have stolen heretofore.  The stockmen of the county had better keep a sharp look out.  This unprecedented calm in the horse stealing line, may portend a heavy business in the near future.

 
THE ST. JOHNS HERALD                                 May 19, 1887
We clip the following item, which will prove, entertaining to most of our readers, from the Albuquerque Democrat:
Sol Barth, who was convicted of forging county warrants at St. Johns last month and sentenced to ten years in the Yuma penitentiary, has filed a motion for an appeal to the Supreme Court at Phoenix, but as the Court has deferred the hearing of argument on the motion until next July, he will enjoy the hospitality of the territory for at least two months longer. From all reports it appears that as a convict, the lines of the festive Sol have not fallen into the most unpleasant places.  It is said that the warden of the penitentiary was Barth's colleague in a former session of the Arizona legislature, that they were good companions, and that the imprisonment of the convicted forger is but a name.  The story is current that no key has been turned upon Sol since he was consigned as a prisoner to his friend, the warden, but he is permitted to go and come at his own sweet will, boarding with a pleasant family outside of the prison walls, and being privileged to occupy his own apartments in the village, only keeping the form of spending his nights within the penitentiary.  If this be true Mr. Barth is certainly the most fortunate prisoner ever sentenced to imprisonment on conviction of crime, and judging by reports regarding certain episodes of his defense during the progress of his trial, it would be well for the accommodating warden to take a reef in the lines of the prisoners latitude, about the time the Supreme Court reaches the consideration of his appeal.
If this is the kind of punishment the warden metes to his friends, we would like to call him by that name, if we should ever be so unfortunate as to be consigned to his care for safe keeping.  The punishment of Mr. Barth according to the above is no hardship at all. In fact he is more pleasantly situated than if he were in St. Johns, being on the line of the Southern Pacific railroad.  He is within reach of freas(?) fruits, vegetables and other luxuries that are raised in that favored clime.  If this report be true, Apache county had better send her convicts to the summer resort of Santa Monica, or to the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. Such partiality is not going to suit the people of this county, and is not what they expect. Sol Barth was fairly and impartially tried and convicted of a heinous crime, and is now a convict serving out a ten years sentence. If the Territory is under any obligations to Mr. Barth, whereby he is to be made the exception to other convicts confined in the Territorial Prison, we would suggest that he be transported from Yuma to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
THE ST. JOHNS HERALD June 2, 1887
A CARD FROM WARDEN GATES
Yuma, Arizona, May 24, 1887.
EDITOR HERALD--I notice in your issue of the 19th instant, a clipping from the Albuquerque Democrat which does me great injustice. I never was a member of the Arizona Legislature. I never was Sol Barth's friend nor boon companion. I have never had even business transactions with him. Sol Barth is locked up every night at the usual hour. He has never been outside the prison walls except yesterday, when he came to my office at my request, to meet his brother, who had come to see him. He is treated in every way the same as other convicts, and any report to the contrary is false and malicious. I trust you will give this the same publicity you gave the Albuquerque Democrat clipping.
Thos. Gates.
We take great pleasure in publishing the above contradiction from Mr. Gates. It is far from our intention to do injustice to anyone, and if by chance we do so, are always ready and willing to do any and everything in our power to right the wrong.
THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
June 9, 1887
We are informed the Graham boys, who sold their ranch, cattle and
horses at a forced sale, and who took their departure from their old and familiar haunts around the Escudilla Mountains, in rather a hasty
and unceremonious manner, disguised themselves in some "new store clothes" at Solomonville, shook the dust of Arizona from the soles of their boots, and took their departure for some healthier locality in the far East. May they never return.

June 11, 1887

KILLED WHILE RESISTING ARREST

On Eagle Creek, near the ranch of Jas. Wilson, on the first day of June, Ike Clanton was shot and killed by deputy sheriff Brighton.  It appears that deputy sheriff's Miller and Brighton had a warrant to arrest Clanton, on a charge of cattle stealing. A demand upon Clanton to throw up his hands was only answered by an attempt to shoot the officers.  Phin Clanton, a brother of Ike, was arrested a few weeks ago, on a similar charge, and is now in the St. Johns jail awaiting trial.  The Clanton brothers are well known throughout the territory and at one time resided in Tombstone.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
June 23, 1887
LOCAL NEWS

The buckboard driver from Springerville brought the report last Saturday that Charlie Thomas, Jack Cooper and a Mr. Eaddy had followed some horse thiefs, overtook them and killed two out of three.  From what we can learn the circumstances were as follows: A man called Sprague, alias, "Long Hair","Jack of Diamonds", alias Timberline with half a dozen other aliases, and a man supposed to be Lee Renfro, were on the headwaters of Eagle Creek; in fact, stopped at the ranch of Thomas, and got something to eat.  In the course of conversation, however, a short time after they rode up to Thomas' cabin, one of trio remarked "that it was a bad place for them to stop--if they were rounded up, there was very little chance of escape."  Thereupon Thomas told them "that if they were being hunted, he did not want them about him.  They might have something to eat, but then they would have to move--that he was not going to be dragged into any trouble on their account."  Cooper and Eaddy were stopping at the cabin at the time.  It is supposed the trio became incensed because Thomas would not let them stop and rest up.  Cooper, it is said, is an early riser, and the first thing he does in the morning when he gets up, is to look after the horses.  The morning after the gentlemen left who are so abundantly blessed with ailaises, Cooper pursued his usual custom of looking up the horses before sunrise, and when he found them, there were some four or five missing.  It did not take him long to make the others acquainted with the situaton of affairs, and as the cabin of Thomas is situated in a canyon, they were not long in striking the trail, and not slow in following it, after it was found.  They came up with the rustlers at the mouth of Eagle Creek, in camp, and told them to throw up their hands. "Long-Hair" responded with a shot, which was quickly returned, and, it is said, the gentleman with the long tresses had three bullet holes in him.  "Diamond" , not to be outdone by his companion, in crime, made his Winchester speak, and met the same fate as Long-Hair.  Renfro, thinking discretion the better part of valor, made good his escape. Whether this report is true or not, we do not pretend to say, but give it as it was told the HERALD reporter.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
June 23, 1887
LOCAL NEWS

Should the report of the killing of Diamond and Sprague prove true, the backbone of the gang of rustlers who have infested the southern end of this county for the past four or five years will have been broken their forces scattered and the authorities can now take them in by detail, without much trouble.  As soon as they have bagged the last of this gang, they should co-operate with the officials of Yavapai, and pick up the rest that is in existence in the western portion of our county.  The Canyon Creek gang broken up, our citizens can then turn a horse out with some knowledge that when he wants to use it, it can be found somewhere on the range, which is not the case now.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
June 30, 1887
LOCAL NEWS

Ebin Stanley returned Tuesday afternoon from a trip through the Blue and Eagle Creek country, and confirms the report as to the killing of Sprague, alias "Long Hair," and Timberline, alias "Jack of Diamonds," with various other aliases.  Mr. Stanley says that Charlie Thomas, when questioned as to the killing, would neither say yes or no, but remarked that they would never steal any more horses from him.  Some prospectors, it is said, came along shortly after the killing and buried the corpses, and from their description of the bodies there can be very little doubt that the first report was correct.  It is said that "Long Hair" has been dodging the authorities of one or two States and two or three Territories for the last ten years, and that the rewards had increased to such an extent on his head, that he frequently made the remark that "the man who took him could afford to wear diamonds."  He, like every one else of his kind, had to pay the penalty of his crimes.


THE ST, JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
July 14, 1887
Francisco Baca, ex-Deputy Treasurer of Apache county was arrested upon a warrant at Springerville, a few days ago, by Sheriff Owens, and is now lodged in the county jail. Mr. Baca has been arrested on a charge of grand larcency, and as three or four arrests were made through him for the same offence some time ago, we now hope he will be equally efficient in proving his own innocence, as he was in thinking others did what he now stands charged with himself.
Some eighteen months ago, the Treasurer's safe of Apache county was reported to have been robbed. The night on which the deed was supposed to have been done, was cloudy and dark--well suited for such work, with one exception. In the afternoon and early in the evening of the night the safe was robbed it had rained. The ground was full of water, and, of course, soft. It would have been next to impossible for three or four men to have moved about, in any limited space, without leaving footprints. Neither could three or four men have ridden into, or out of town, on that night without having left a broad, open trail that a blind man could have almost followed. It was sometime after the robbery, before the people began to look, reason and think over the matter coolly and calmly--to weigh all the circumstances--take in the situation in all its bearings. When they did, however, almost every one of ordinary intelligence, arrived at the same conclusion. We will recapitulate some of the more material points that almost drove them to the same mind. One of the first things that struck the observant was the official letter head of the Treasurer, on which was printed the following signficant sentences: "All payments due this office must be made in cash. Positively no checks or banker's drafts received." It had been customary since the organization of the county, for the Treasurer to take checks from parties who were known to be responsible, and whose checks had always been and are still honored on presentation in payment of taxes. It was the first time in the history of the county, that cash--and nothing but cash--was demanded by the tax collector. The second remarkable circumstance that struck a great many thinking men, was, that there was in the neighborhood of $20,000 in the Treasurer's hands, and there had been no call made for warrants. Another innovation on time honored custom.
The third was that the county had gone to considerable expense in procuring a safe of the latest and most improved pattern, which is acknowledged to be almost burglar proof, with all the safeguard attachments. Our Treasurer, however, through carelessness, or something worse, had neglected to use the most important one of these; and not until after the robbery, was the time lock put in working order. These are some of the points on which a great many are just as well satisfied; and that is, that there are quite a number of men walking the streets of St. Johns, who are well acquainted with all the facts in regard to this robbery; but who, from some cause, maintain a criminal silence. These men are tax-payers and consider themselves good citizens; are as much interested in an honest, economical government, as almost any one in the county--yet their lips are hermetically sealed as to this, one of the gravest and most serious offences that can be committed against a commonwealth.

Tucson ARIZONA DAILY STAR, SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1887
Took Leave of Arizona by the Winchester Route
     In a recent issue mention this made of the killing, in Graham county, of Joe Williams and Bill Evans, better known as "Long Hair"
and "Timberline," who enjoyed the reputation of being two of the most desperate and daring outlaws who have infested Arizona and New Mexico for years past. A correspondent of the Apache County Critic furnishes the following account of their taking off.
     "On the evening of the 9th inst. they made a raid on the horses of a prominent ranchman, on the Upper Blue, who soon discovered that three of his horses were gone, together with two horses belonging to two guests who were stopping with him. The ranchman who is one of the best and most fearless citizens of the Territory, together with his two guests, immediately started in pursuit of the thieves and, when within about a mile of Blue Creek, they saw smoke rising from a canyon, which came into Blue Creek from the south near where it empties into the San Francisco.
     The pursuing party here dismounted and hitched their horses and took a straight cut across the hills, through a country that could not be traversed except on foot. They approached the camp of the rustlers from the west, and found them in a canyon with abrupt walls on either side, and they could not be seen until they reached the bluff right over them, and not over thirty or forty yards distant. The pursuing party, of course, approached the edge of the bluff very cautiously, and saw their horses first, and upon advancing closer to the edge of the bluff, they discovered the bandits.
     They had just finished their supper and were taking a smoke around the fire which had cooked the last supper for two out of the three. The pursuing party fired on them simultaneously, and "Long Hair" and Billy Evans fell dead, both shot through the heart. The third man supposed to be Kid Swingle, succeeded in making his escape on foot in the thick undergrowth and timber."
     Thus ended the career of two as dangerous and desperate outlaws as ever stole a horse or held up a railroad train. But they are "good rustlers" now. They are quietly sleeping the last sleep in a weird and untimely grave at the mouth of the Blue. It's rough but it's right.

THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
July 21, 1887
Word was brought to town Tuesday morning that a party of six or seven Mexicans were rounding up nearly all the horses between El Tule and Saladas, for the purpose of driving them off to other parts of the country.

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1887

It is reported that the recent killing (?) of Lee Renfro, Long Hair, Jack of Diamonds and even Ike Clanton was all a hoax, gotten up for a purpose.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
July 23, 1889
We understand Francisco Baca has been pardoned out of the penitentiary by Governor Wolfley. It will be remembered that he was tried and convicted of robbing the treasury of this county of some $12,000, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The evidence against him, however, was rather weak, hence his pardon.


THE ST, JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
August 4, 1887
We have been requested to warn parties who own horses between St Johns and El Tule on the Little Colorado to keep a sharp eye out for them. There are several parties fixing to leave this part of the county, and who are not above suspicion. It will do no harm to keep your eyes on your horses until they have left.

Aug. 27, 1887

William Jackson for trying to do the "John L. Sullivan" act with six-shooter attachments, in St. Johns last week, was brought up with a sharp turn at the "business" end of a Winchester, lodged in jail, and subsequently arraigned before his Honor, Judge Patterson, who bound him over in the sum of $1,000. "John L." promptly furnished the required bond.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
Oct. 1, 1887
DISTRICT COURT NOTES
Frank Clark for the murder of Pat Mullen, a ranchman, in April last, at St. Johns, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and received a life sentence.

APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
Oct. 1, 1887
DISTRICT COURT NOTES

Juan Carrillo, who killed a man in Springerville in 1884, and who was at large until a few months ago, was tried at this term and found guilty of manslaughter.   Five years in Yuma was the sentence in this case.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
Oct. 1, 1887
DISTRICT COURT NOTES

Nathan Barth pleaded guilty to the charge of embracery, in trying to tamper with the Jury that tried his brother Sol, at the last term of Court.   He was fined $500.   A settlement was made in the matter of the suit against Nathan Barth, as administrator of the estate of Morris Barth, deceased, by the payment of $9,000 by Barth.   The several indictments against him were continued conditionally for the term and Barth was given until January to leave the Territory.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
Oct. 1, 1887
DISTRICT COURT NOTES

The case against Antonio Gonzales, charged with Perjury, was continued for the Term; also the case against A.B.Lambson, charged with Embracery, and Charles Blevins indicted for assault with attempt to commit murder.


Oct. 1, 1887 DISTRICT COURT NOTES In the case of Francisco Baca, Ex-Deputy Treasurer, charged with the embezzlement of $11,166.34 of County funds, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Baca was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the Territorial Penitentiary.


Holbrook, Apache County, Arizona
APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
ARRESTED FOR CATTLE STEALING

A gentleman just in from St. Johns reports Phineas Clanton and Charles Gray as being jailed at that place, under indictments for cattle stealing, found against them at the last term of court. Mr. George Powell is the deputy sheriff who discovered their rendesvous and made the arrest. Our informant further says that the brother-in-law of Phin Clanton, Mr. Ebin Stanley, is out on a hunt for bondsmen.  The sheriff now has three boarders, vis: Frank Clark, Murder; Phin Clanton, grand larcency; Charles Gray, ditto.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
DISTRICT COURT NOTES
Oct. 1, 1887

Phin Clanton, against whom several indictments were found for cattle stealing, was tried on the first count--the property of Mr. Richard Bumgreaser---the theft of a calf, and found guilty. Judge Wright sentenced the prisoner to ten years in the territorial penitentiary.


APACHE COUNTY CRITIC
DISTRICT COURT NOTES
Oct. 1, 1887

The cases against Ebin Stanley were continued for the term and Stanley released on his own recognizance, with the understanding that he leave the territory within sixty days, otherwise a bench warrant would be issued for him.  Charles Gray, indicted on a similar charge was given the same privilege.


THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
November 3, 1887
UNITED STATES MAIL ROBBED
The Buckboards between this place
and Navajo held up
On Monday night last, the buckboard from Navajo to St. Johns was held up, the driver robbed of some $80 express money, and the United States mail bags rifled. The story told by the driver is about as follows, as near as we could learn.  He says that when about 8 miles this side of Navajo, and just as he had driven in amongst some scrubby cedars, a man jumped out from the side of the road, with pistol in hand, and told him to throw up; which he did.  The highwayman then searched him to see if he had any arms, and finding none proceeded to cut open the mail bags, and examine the registered matter.  After he had satisfied himself in this line, he searched the driver, who had on his person $80 belonging to Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express, which the bold, bad highwayman confiscated.  The driver says he then put the mail matter back into the sacks and onto the buckboard, got on himself, and made him drive towards St. Johns for about five miles, when he ordered him to stop.  They then dismounted, took a seat on the side of the road, and waited for the buckboard from this place to Navajo to come along.  After waiting about four hours their patience was rewarded by the appearance of the buckboard from this place, which the highwayman ransacked in the same manner as he had the one from Navajo.  This, we believe, is the third time the United States mail has been stopped and robbed in this county within the past two or three months.  The Alantic and Pacific Railroad was the first; then the buckboard between Fort Apache and Holbrook, and now between Navajo and this place.  Three men are reported to have been engaged in the robbery of the railroad train, while a lone highwayman held up the buckboards.  To our mind, the most remarkable part of the whole transaction of the last robbery, is the story of the buckboard driver.  The night on which the robbery took place was perfectly clear--not a fleck or a cloud to be seen--the moon was about full, and it was almost light enough to have read large print.  The robber is reported to have worn no mask--searched the driver for concealed weapons and afterward for money--rode some four or five miles on the buckboard with him.  They then got out of the buckboard, took seats on the side
of the road and were talking until the mail from this place came along, which the driver says was about four hours.  After so many opportunities
to have examined the man closely--after four hours time in which to
have recovered from any fright he may have felt at the outset, he is utterly unable to describe the man, except that he wore a light colored hat, and was rather tall and slender.  This story is almost as gauzy as that told by the Deputy Treasurer--that six or seven men could surround his house on a wet night, when the ground was soft, take him to the Treasurers office, rifle the safe, and make no tracks at either place, nor pack any mud into the office on their boots.
THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
LOCAL NEWS
November 10, 1887
Mr. Walters, the gentleman who drove the buckboard from this place to Navajo on the night it was robbed, requests us to publish
a correction of the account we gave last week. He says the statement we gave of the affair is substantially correct with one exception, and that is, that the highwayman had a white handkerchief of cloth over his face. We stated he wore no mask.  That when he was stopped, the first question asked by the robber was, whether he had a gun? Which was answered in the negative. During this time the foot-pad was standing in the shade of a tree, so that Mr. Walters could not see him closely.  He then ordered the driver to throw off the mail sacks, and warned him not to look at him.  After he had cut open and pillaged the mail sacks, he ordered the drivers to move on.  A few minutes afterwards there were three shots fired, it is supposed by the highwayman, either in a spirit of excultation at the successful termination of his bold exploit or as a signal to a confederate.  We cheerfully make the correction above.  Our informant may have misunderstood Mr. Waite, when he made the statement the morning after the occurance, that the robber wore no mask.

THE ST. JOHNS HERALD
November 10, 1887
GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION
Territory of Arizona
Executive Department
Office of the Governor
   To all whom these presents may come greeting, Whereas the United States mail and express cars of the Alantic and Pacific Railroad Co. were stopped and the express car robbed by five or more unknown persons at a point some three miles west of Navajo Springs, Arizona, on the night of the 16th inst. Now, therefore, I C. Meyer Zulich, Governor of the Territory of Arizona, by virtue of authority in me vested, do

From the files of Jack A. Becker