FRANK JOHNSON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 5, 1905
Frank B. Johnson, son of Mrs. E.A. Johnson died night before
last of spinal meningitis after a long illness. The funeral
will take place this afternoon at three o'clock from the
family residence, no. 315 North Fifth Avenue. The dead man
was born in this city June 15, 1871 and had spent the greater
part of his life here.
ASBURY JONES
Feburary 3, 1905
Asbury Jones, for a long time a Pullman porter out of
Phoenix died yesterday. He had for a long time been a
sufferer of consumption. At the time that he was
compelled to give up work he had the run between
Phoenix and Tucson. The body will be sent to Tucson
for burial.
Funreal
February 20, 1905
The funeral of Asbury Jones was held yesterday afternoon
at 5 o'clock at the undertaking parlors of Easterling
and Whitney. He was an employee of the Pullman company
and until recently filled the position of porter on the
Phoenix-Tucson run.
BABY JONES
January 29, 1095
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Jones died
early yesterday morning and the funeral services were
held from the home yesterday afternoon conducted by
Rev. C.P. Wilson. The interment was made in the
Double Butte Cemetery. The baby has been sick but
a short time, death resulting from a severe attack
of pneumonia.
DICK JONES
December 18, 1905
News was brought to the sheriff's office in Tombstone
of the finding of the body of a man in Sulphur Springs
Valley, who had evidently bene dead for a week or more.
The remains were believed to be those of a cowboy named
Dick Jones, woh was reported missing some weeks ago.
Whether the unfortunate man was the victim of foul
play or not could not be learned.
FRANK JONES
GEORGE MOULWING
November 3, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Mrs. Wolf of the Upper Tombstone Canyon, says the Bisbee
Review, returned yesterday from Douglas where she went on
Saturday to investigate a rumor of the hanging of her son,
Frank Jones and George Moulwing somewhere in the Guadalupe
Canyon country in Mexico below the San Bernardino Ranch.
The two men left Bisbee about three weeks ago for a hunting
trip in Mexico. Nothing has since been heard from them.
Saturday morning an unknown man brought word to Mrs. Wolf
that her son's body and that of his companion had been
found hanging from a tree in Guadalupe Canyon. At Douglas
she was unable to learn anything. A message to San
Bernardino Ranch brought answer that nothing was known
there. Mrs. Wolf then employed a man familiar with the
canyon country to go there and make search for her son,
following which she returned to this city to await
developments.
The Guadalupe Hanging
November 9, 1905
Several days ago the Republican printed a story of the
reported execution of two young men by hanging somewhere
in the Guadalupe Canyon below the San Bernardino Ranch in
Santa Cruz County. One of the young men supposed to have
met his death was Frank Jones, who made his home in this
city several years ago. His father, J.T. Jones is a wagon
maker and at present has his shop in the same building
with Jack Kersting, the blacksmith.
Yesterday Mr. Jones received a letter from his daughter,
Mrs. M.E. Hodges, who is now in Bisbee but the missive
threw little light on the affair. She wrote that young
Jones in company with a friend, had left for a month's
hunt in Mexico and that the month would not be up until
the 15th of November. After he had been out about a
week, a man coming across the border by way of the
Canyon Guadalupe brought the news that the two men
were hanged there several days before. He gave no
particulars. A messenger was at once dispatched to
the scene of the reported tragedy and he has now
returned with the report that he could find no trace
of the boys or of any hanging. On this information
the police at Bisbee are inclined to doubt the truth
of the first report. Mr. Jones several days ago
offered a reward for the arrest of the murderers.
Living or Dead
November 18, 1905
J.T. Jones, the father of the young man who was reported
to have been hanged by desperadoes in the Guadalupe Canyon
in Mexico, received a letter from his daughter in Bisbee.
From the letter it is now learned that his son was not h
anged but may possibly have been one of a party of six
that were shot by a mob. Three of the party were killed
outright and three very dangerously. One of the six
men was by name Frank Jones, the same as that of the
young man who is missing and it is for that reason that
his father is so uneasy.
The information contained in the letter was obtained from
the man who first started the report of the story. If it
should develop that young Jones was one of the men killed,
the father will at once take action to locate the
murderer. If no trouble has befallen him the father
will hear in a few days. No motive in the letter
received is given for the action of the mob in taking
the lives of the Americans. All that is stated is
that the bodies of the three men killed were identified
and turned over to the parties who claimed them. The
three injured men were taken to a hospital.
Whether Frank Jones is alive or not, his absence from Bisbee
has caused his parents and family no end of worry. If he
did not reach Bisbee on the 15th of the month, the Arizona
Rangers will be asked to locate the Frank Jones who was
shot and ascertain if he is the son of J.T. Jones of
this city.
MRS. MARY J. KARLS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 27, 1905
Mrs. Mary J. Karls, wife of Henry Karls died Saturday morning
at 2 o'clock at the family residence in Brill's Addition. She
had been ill about three months of heart trouble. There will
be a short funeral service this afternoon at the undertaking
parlors of G.F. Merryman and the body will be sent to Nebraska
for interment leaving on tomorrow morning's S.F.P & P train
escorted by the bereaved husband. The family came here about
three years ago though a son, Ed Karls was here several years
before. Beside her husband Mrs. Karls leaves her immediate
family eight children, five of whom are here and three are
living in Nebraska.
T.U. Keefer
November 26, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
T.U. Keefer died yesterday morning at his home east of the
Normal at 4 o'clock. Deceased had been sick for over a year
with dropsy but for the last few weeks had been confined to
his bed. Everything known to medical science had been tried
in his case but to no avail.
The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the home, Rev. R.A. White, pastor of the Christian Church
officiating. The funeral will be in charge of the local
undertakers, Hodnett and Carr by whom the body was embalmed
yesterday. The interment will be made in the Double Butte
Cemetery.
Mr. Keefer was a man of about 45 years of age. He was a
native of Bradford Pa. and by occupation was a well
driller. During his life he had been employed in the
largest oil fields in the United States and before
coming to Arizona was working in California. He
drilled the wells for the Tempe Water Works and it was
while working here two years ago last July that he was
married to Miss Minnie Goodwin. Since that time they
have made their home in the southern part of the
territory until some months ago when they returned
to Tempe. Mr. Keefer had but recently completed a
neat little home, but lived to enjoy its comforts
but a short time. He was a man of struck honesty
and was well liked and highly respected by those
who knew him.
Funeral
November 27, 1905
Immediately after the death of T.U. Keefer Saturday
morning his relatives in Pennsylvania wre wired and
an answer was received that day. Arrangements had
been made for holding the funeral yesterday afternoon
and the remains were to have been interred in the
Double Butte Cemetery. A brother living in Bradford,
Pa, however, wished the remains shipped there to the
former home of the deceased. His wishes were therefore
complied with and the body was sent out on this
morning's Santa Fe train, it having been embalmed
Saturday by Mr. Carr of the firm of Hodnet and Carr.
