Captain W.L. George died at his residence on the Black Canyon
Road at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. The cause of death was
neuralgia of the heart which was first manifested in a sudden
attack at the court house plaza concert last Sunday evening. Dr.
Ancil Martin was called to attend him and he rallied readily
leaving little apprehension of an early fatal result. The
trouble recurred on Tuesday and passed away but by this time
there was so much ground for alarm that a telegram was sent to
Mrs. George who was visiting in California. She arrived
yesterday morning, five hours before her husband's death. The
last attack occurred late on Thursday and in the early
morning death came without pain and left its victim as
if he were in a peaceful sleep.
The beginning of the trouble dated back probably twenty years
ago when Captain George was seized with rheumatism from which
he never quite recovered. His rheumatic ailment increased
two years ago, since which time he gradually failed in health
and strength.
When the last illness began the only relatives at home were his
son William and family. Mrs. George was visiting in California.
His youngest son, Dick was at the King of Arizona Mine and his
son, Henry, was in Kentucky. He had started home before the death
of his father, but he could not be located yesterday by telegraph.
The funeral will take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the
family residence. It will be conducted under the direction of
the ex-Confederate Veteran Association of which Captain George
was a member. The pall bearers will be F.L. Warner, J.E. Walker,
ex Governor B.J. Franklin, E. Ganz, Dr. O.L. Mahoney and D.W.
Kalfus.
In all Arizona there is no man more highl respected than Captain
George and there is none in possession of more admirable
qualities. He was born in Shelby County Kentucky in 1832.
Twenty two years later he moved to Texas and remained there
until the beginning of the war. He entered the Confederate
service and fought until the war was ended. Some time after
he moved to Missouri and became interested in various
enterprises, being at one time president of a Kansas City
bank.
He came to the Salt River Valley twelve years ago and for a while
resided at Tempe. He held several remunerative government
contracts and was at the same time engaged in freighting on an
extensive scale. His business methods were uniformly of such a
character that it is said of him that his word was as good as
his bond.
LEWIS GILLAM
July 3, 1987
Lewis Gillam, a young man of 31, died suddenly last night. He
was seized with a vomiting spell about noon yesterday. It
continued at intervals during the day. He seemed to be
better in the evening but his roommate returning to the
house after a short absence found him dying.
A physician who was summoned, but reached the house after
he was dead, suspected the death had resulted from an
overdose of morphone. Gillam was at the asylum until a
week ago. He was known there by the name of Rogers. He
had been a restaurant waiter and had worked about mines
near Phoneix.
July 4, 1897
An inquest was held by Justice Johnstone yesterday upon the
body of Lewis Gillam, who died suddenly on Friday night at
231 East Madison Street. The only witnesses who saw him
immediately before death were his friend and roommate Thomas
Norris and Dr. Stroud. Dr. Stroud said that the symptoms he
observed indicated morphine poisoning but as no post mortem
had been made the coroner's jury found that Gilliam's death
had resulted from unknown causes.
Gilliam was 31 years old and was a native of Pennsylvania but
his relatives are now living in Mississippi. He was well
educated and had been brought up a gentleman but became a
morphine fiend. He came to Phoenix several months ago and
worked as a cook and waiter in a restaurant. He was sent
to the asylum last November and was discharged from custody
in February though he was retained there a month longer as a
helper about the institution.
HENRY W. GILMAN
April 28,1897
Henry W. Gilman died at McDowell on Monday night. His body was
brought to town yesterday and is held awaiting instructions from
his father, Charles H. Gilman, a prominent Boston business man.
Mr. Gilman had been traveling for years in search of health. He
came here a month ago from Honolulu where he had resided for
fifteen months with a relative, who is a high official in the
Hawaiian government. A couple of weeks ago he went to
McDowell. The immediate cause of death was a hemorrhage.
SAM GISH
Mr. McCLOSKEY
April 24, 1897
Two more men are reported drowned on the Gila near Agua Caliente.
One was Sam Gish, an old resident of Phoenix and at one time the
owner of a collar here. The other was a teamster named McCloskey
who also made Phoenix his headquarters. The man found in the river
last Tuesday was at first believed to be Gish who had disappeared
two or three days before. No particulars of the reported death
of Gish and McCloskey have been received.
MRS. GOLDMAN
June 9, 1897
Messrs. Charles and Leo Goldman yesterday morning received word
of the death of their mother at Minich, Bavaria after a brief
illness. Their place of business was closed for the day in
consequence of the sad intelligence.
DOC GOODIN
March 2, 1897
Word was received here yesterday of the killing of Doc Goodin at
Monte, Montana. The information came to Goodin's father in a
letter from California from a friend of the family who writes
that she had lately received a letter from a friend at Monte
saying that Goodin had been shot and instantly killed there
on the night of Feb. 2. Mr. Goodin telegraphed to Monte late
last night for particulars of the tragedy. Doc Goodin was
one of the best known and most expert cowboys in Arizona. His
operations were confined to the ranges in the valley and the
adjacent mountains until a couple of years ago he joined Arizona
Charlie's Wild West Show for a tour of the country. He returned
to Phoenix after the collapse of the show but did not remain
long. The best remembered performance of his cowboy life in
this section was the lassoing of a mountain lion along the
Agua Fria four years ago.
JOHN GRAHAM
June 4, 1897
News reached here last week that Mr. John Graham, who moved
to this district last winter in search of health and who had
left some days ago for his home in the east, died while on the
way between here and Chicago. The gentleman leaves a wife and
a daughter.
JOHN GRAVES
April 11, 1897
Letters of administration upon the estate of John Graves were
issued yesterday to Mrs. Amanda Prichard at whose residence near
Mesa, Graves died a couple of months ago. The estate and property
is valued at about $275.00
DAN GREISENGER
February 14, 1897
More and more is remembered of the drowning of Dan Greisinger
recalled by an inquiry last Saturday by a relative concerning
his death. He was on his way from old Maricopa to Phoenix and
had stopped all night at Viall's Crossing. One of his teamsters
was William Bennett. The water in the river was not deep but
it was terribly swift.
MRS. GROSS
July 12, 1897
A woman died suddenly here from a disease of the kidneys. She
became slightly better but rapidly slipped into death. In
the course of incoherent conversation on Wednesday her nurse
learned that the woman's name was Gross, that she lived at
Congress and that her husband, George Gross, a miner, was
working near Wickenburg.
At the request of Dr. Duffield, a telegram was sent from
the sheriff's office to Wickenburg making inquiry about
him. It happened that Gross who had been working at a camp
seventeen miles west of Wickenburg had just arrived at the
station, bringing with him his earnings, which he was going
to send to his wife, who he supposed was still at Congress.
Learning that she was here and near death he came down.
On arriving in town, instead of going directly to the hotel
he sat down in the courthouse plaza, evidently to meditate
upon the confusing turn his affairs had taken. At last he
rose and went to the hotel, only to meet at the foot of the
stairway some men carrying the body of his wife to the
undertakers.
Gross is unable to offer any explanation regarding his
wife's strange conduct. He said she had for some time been
afflicted with the disease of which she died. She was
29 years old and was married to him in Prescott four
years ago. They had no children.
On the day of her arrival, Mrs. Gross spoke of the man who had
come with her as her husband. She said he was a gambler
by profession but after his disappearance she refused to
say anything by which his identity might be disclosed.
He is described by those who saw him in the brief time he
was about the hotel as a man under middle age, dark hair
and eyes, slightly over six feet in height and a tendency
to carry his head forward.
Gross says he knows no man of that description. He has a man
in mind, but the description in no way applies to him. It is
supposed to be possible that the man was a stranger to Mrs.
Gross and that he met her on the train. That his association
with her was not born of improper motive, that observing the
woman to be on the verge of imbecility and in need of
assistance he took charge of her. The register entry
may be accounted for by supposing that he believed that was
the least troublesome way to secure her admission to a
good hotel. It would involve no inquires and explanations.
Gross wrote to Congress yesterday making inquiry concerning her
departure and her companion, if she had any, when she left there.
She was buried yesterday afternoon from the rooms of the Phoenix
Undertaking Company.
