William J. Edwards died Tuesday and will be buried this
afternoon, the funeral being held at the M.E. church
south at 2:30 o'clock. It will be under the auspices
of J.W. Owens Post G.A.R. of which he was a member.
Mr. Edwards has lived in Arizona for a great many years,
probably a quarter of a century and has always called
Phoenix his home, though much of his time has been
spent in the mountains at various mines and cattle
camps. He has lived in the Cave Creek section more
than anywhere else, late years having been employed
on the Gibson cattle ranch. He was a union soldier
during the Civil War and received a wound from which
he was never fully restored and was the contributory
cause of his death. He was only 62 years old and was
a native of Pennsylvania. He had no relatives here
but has some in Philadelphia.
PETER ELLINGSON
August 25, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Peter Ellingson, the well known sign painter, died last
night at his home, 1200 East Van Buren Street shortly
before midnight. Mr. Ellingson came here for his health
twelve years ago and found the improvement which he
sought. But for several weeks his health had been failing
again. He was fifty four years of age. He leaves a wife,
a son and three daughters. The son, Walter Ellingson, is
occupying a responsible position with the Salt Lake Road at
Salt Lake and the eldest daughter, Miss Hilda Ellingson is
a copyist in the office of the county recorder. No
funeral arrangements will be made until the son has
been communicated with.
The funeral
August 26, 1905
It is likely that the funeral of Peter Ellingson whose death
was announced yesterday morning will take place on Sunday
afternoon under the direction of Phoenix Lodge No. 2,
Knights of Pythias. The exact time of the funeral,
however, will depend upon the arrival of Walter Ellingson
from Salt Lake. When on Thursday afternoon the early
death of Mr. Ellingson was seen to be at hand a telegram
was sent to his son urging him to come at once. He
replied saying that he would start immediately and would
arrive in Phoenix on Sunday morning.
JOSE ENCINAS
February 15, 1905
Jose Encinas died yesterday morning about 7:15 o'clock
at his home on South Sixth Avenue after a severe illness
of about twenty four hours. No one had seen him for three
quarters of an hour before and when the undertaker was
called he reported the situation to the coroner, thinking
an investigation would be a measure of safety. Governor
Burnett summoned a jury and a physician and an inquest
was held yesterday afternoon, the verdict being death
from natural causes, it being very clearly shown that
death resulted from heart disease.
The dead man was fifty five years old and was very well
known in the community. The principal testimony at the
inquest ws that of a daughter who was with him most of
the night before. She said her father had been affected
with heart disease to some extent for several years and
frequently complained of choking spells. He had at
various times taken medicine for his trouble. Monday
afternoon he went up to the S.F.P.& P. roundhouse where
some children were loading coal and he assisted them.
While there he had an altercation with somebody but
no blows were struck. His daughter said he refused
to reply to the insults offered him and came home but
when he arrived there he was very much excited and
had a fainting spell. A physician was sent for but
was busy and could not come and then the old man sent
for a Chinese doctor who gave him a herb preparation.
It was a four ounce bottle and the instructions were
to take half of it first and the rest fifteen minutes
later. He took the first dose about 5:30 Monday
evening. The most of the rest of it was taken in
another dose but there was a couple of teaspoons
left which the coroner took charge of.
The effect of the medicine was extreme nausea, made worse
no doubt by the fact that Encinas had been drinking a
little on Sunday. He was sick all night long and could
hardly lie down sitting on the side of the bed most of
the night. This incident first aroused the suspicion
of some of the jurymen who thought the medicine ought
to be analyzed. The symptoms, however, so clearly
defined heart disease that the Chinese medicine man
was absolved of suspicion. The Chinese remedies,
it is said, are mostly herbs and the quantity that
could be taken in two doses, prepared as they
prepare it, could scarcely prove very harmful
even if it did no good. That at least seemed
to be the opinion of the physician and the
jurymen.
KITTIE ENGLEHEART
January 5, 1905
Sheriff Walter Brown of Mohave County arrived in the
city yesterday to procure a requisition for Jose Sigala,
the murderer of Kittie Engleheart who was arrested at
El Paso a few days ago. The murder was committed in
Mohave County more than six months ago. The woman was
a negress with whom Sigala had been living in a mining
camp in Mohave County. One Sunday night in a fit of
jealousy he shot her in the stomach with a shotgun
and fled. The woman was the next day taken to
Congress, the nearest place where surgical aid
could be obtained, but she died before reaching
that place. The murderer was pursued toward the
Colorado River and was later traced to Yuma where
the officer arrived the day after his departure.
He learned from a woman who harbored him the night
before that he had been there. After that all
trace of him was lost until last week when he was
picked up at El Paso.
PEDRO EREDIAS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 8, 1905
Jesus Eredias came to Phoenix yesterday morning on an
unnecessary mission of vengeance. He wanted in the first
place to know what, if anything, had been done with the
murderer of his brother Pedro Eredias, who was killed in the
Harqua Hallas about a year ago. Eredias had just heard of it.
He is a hunter of lions and other big game and for a year had
been operating in the southern part of the territory and
Mexico. He had been employed on various large cattle ranches
to keep the lions thinned out. He had heard nothing of his
brother, but he did not wonder at that, for much of the time
he was where letters would hardly reach him; besides, he and
his brother were not frequent correspondents.
The brother was in the Harqua Halas when he went away and
Jesus Eredias set out to pay him a visit. When he reached
Billy Moore's ranch on the Agua Fria, a woman there told him
that his brother was dead, had been murdered. She related
all the circumstances of the murder but she had not heard that
the murderer had ever been arrested. Accordingly he came to
Phoenix and inquired of the police who referred him to the
sheriff's office. Deputy Sheriff King began an inquiry and
soon found out that Deputy Sheriff Balsz knew all about it.
The murder occurred in Yuma County and the murderer was soon
after arrested, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in
the territorial prison where he now is. The killing took
place over a women. The brother of Eredias was killed with
a rock and his body was thrown into a deserted shaft where
it was soon after found with the skull crushed.
Martha Evans
November 11, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Mrs. Martha J. Evans died quite suddenly yesterday at
the home of her son Elliott Evans, two miles north of
Six Points and a half mile west. The funeral will be
held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the family home and
all friends are invited to attend. Mrs. Evans was in
her eighty third year and had lived here about eleven
years. She leaves two children here.
Charles Ezekiels
November 27, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Word reached the city yesterday of the death at Salt
Lake of Charles Ezekiels on November 3. Mr. Ezekiels
was well known throughout the territory and had lived
for a long time in Phoenix. He left a wife.
J.R. FANCHER
October 17, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
J.R. Fancher of McGraw, N.Y. died Monday night at the
Sister's Hospital. The body will be sent back to New
York for interment. Mr. McGraw was a lawyer by profession
and came here about a year ago with his wife and son,
settling on a farm a mile and a half northeast of the
Indian School. Sunday night he was taken suddenly ill
of heart trouble and was brought in to the hospital
where he died twenty four hours later.
