Guadalupe, an Apache murderer, died of old age at the territorial
prison on Monday. He was sent up from Gila county on November 8,
1890 for life. He was tried before Judge Kibbey at Globe along
with his two sons and another Indian and all were convicted. One
of the sons, Dardy Jim was pardoned a couple of years ago.
The crime of which Guadalupe was convicted was the murder of Ed
Baker in the Sierras early in 1890. There were no witnesses of
the tragedy but the facts were brought out by circumstantial
evidence and later the Indians themselves confirmed the reliability
of the evidence.
Baker was a young man about twenty three years old and lived with
his father who still resides there, in the Sierra Anchua Mountains.
Four Indians stopped at Baker's house one day when there was nobody
but the young man at home. There had been no recent outrages in
that vicinity so that the Indians who appeared to be beggars
rather than warriors, easily induced him to join them in
shooting at a target. The mark was on a tree some distance
from the house and had long been a target for Baker and others
who stopped at the house. Having this time emptied his
Winchester at the mark, he started toward it with an ax,
intending to cut the cullets out. Halfway to the tree he was
shot in the back and an Indian coming up took the ax and
split his head.
The body was found on the return of the father. There was no
doubt that the outrage had been committed by Indians but there
was at first no trace. of the murders of no clue which would
likely lead to them. It turned out though that one man had seen
them, Mr. Moore, now deputy sheriff who lived within a few miles
of the place of the murder. A few hours before or a few hours
after it had been committed a party of four Indians were at
Moore's Ranch, begging old clothes. Moore gave them among other
articles an old vest.
Suspicion naturally attached to this band of Indians because no
others had lately been seen off the reservation on that side but
the difficulty of tracing them and of identifying them even if
they should be found was presented. Finally, though the Indians
were found on the Cibicu in the northern part of the reservation.
It was easily to identify Guadalupe for he was still wearing the
vest Moore had given him. The four which were afterward known
to be members of the marauding party were taken to Globe, tried
and convicted. This was the first outrage of importance in
which a White Mountain Indian was tried at Globe since the
trial of the Apache Kid and his associates a couple of years
before, when they were sentenced to Yuma. Their escape on the
way and the murder of Sheriff Reynolds are now matters of
Arizona Indian history.
MRS. MARTHA HARBERT
March 16, 1897
Mrs. Martha J. Harbert, wife of Josiah Harbert, died on Sunday
night at the family residence, 414 West Jefferson Street. The
funeral conducted by the Rev. C.J. Chase will take place from
the First M.E. Church at 10 o'clock this morning. The fatal
illness, a complication of pneumonia and heart disease began
more than a month ago and was attended by keen suffering which
was borne with patience.
Mrs. Harbert was 67 years, 4 months and 12 days of age. She was
born in Ohio, November 2, 1829 and was married to Josiah Harbert
in 1850. They first moved to California and came to Arizona ten
years ago. Beside her sorrowing husband, three children mourn her
loss, John T. Harbert, Mrs. A.E. Hinton and Mrs. H.L. Kaufman.
JOHN HATCH
January 16, 1897
John Hatch, an old time printer, died at the hospital yesterday
after a prolonged illness. His funeral, directed by the local
typographical union, will take place this afternoon.
Hatch was for twenty years a compositor on the San Francisco Call
and after that was eight years on the Chronicle. He was also a
mining expert of considerable note. He had a mining exhibit
valued at $12,000 at the Centennial Exposition and he also had
an exhibit at the World's Fair. It has gradually been scattered
until now nothing has been left of it. A telegram was sent to a
brother, who lives at San Francisco but word was sent back that
he was out of the city. The deceased was a native of New York.
C.H. HATHAWAY
September 4, 1897
Mr. C.H. Hathaway, a Colorado banker, who has been in this city
for the past seven months in search of health, died of
consumption yesterday. The body was embalmed and will be
taken east for burial tonight.
His nurse, Miss Hull, will accompany the remains to LaPorte,
Indiana, his old home, where they will be interred.
Mr. Hathaway was an old Colorado banker and at the time of
his death was connected with several banking institutions
in that state. He was 53 years of age.
MICHAEL HIGGINS
April 16, 1897
Michael Higgins died at the hospital yesterday. He had been
living in the valley for some time and owned a ranch not far
from town. A telegram inquiring what disposition to make of his
body was sent to his relatives at Pittsburgh, Penn. last night.
MRS. A.D. HINTON
July 22, 1897
A.D. Hinton yesterday received a telegram informing him of the death
of his wife at Los Angles, where she was visiting relatives. He
left last night for Los Angles.
July 25, 1987
The many friends of Mrs. A.D. Hinton were grieved to learn of
her death at Los Angeles yesterday. Mrs. Hinton or Miss Randal,
before her marriage, served one term as teacher in our school
and endeared herself to both pupils and parents. We sympathize
with Mr. Hinton and his sad loss.
DR. FREDERICK O. HOLMAN
June 17, 1897
The man friends of Dr. Frederick O. Holman will be distressed at
the news of his death in Minneapolis last Saturday. Dr. Holman
came to Phoenix last December in search of relief from the
pain of a hopeless illness. Notwithstanding his weakness he
worked when it was possible for him to do so and his eloquence
filled the churches at which he preached. It was the more
striking that frequently his thoughts were conveyed to his
hearers in a voice that hardly rose above a whisper. The
decline of his health was steady and Dr. Holman went from
here to Tucson where he remained a short time before
returning north.
Of his death the Minneapolis Journal says: Pursued for three
years by death under cover of one of the most subtle diseases
known to man--consumption--Rev. Frederick O. Holman finally
succumbed this morning at the home of his father-in-law T.B.
Walker. For the last few weeks since his return from Denver
he had been very low and the end when it came was no entirely
unexpected.
It was a hard fight which Mr. Holman made against his arch
enemy. He was threatened with pulmonary trouble first in
1882 when he was preaching in Massachusetts. Friends advised
him to test the invigorating climate of the northwest and he
came to St. Paul. It seemed that he had conquered but after
six years truce he again found himself in danger. For
two years he rested, during a part of which time he was in Europe.
In the early nineties he returned to Minnesota and assumed the
pastorate of the Hennepin Avenue M.E. Church in which capacity
he became widely known.
Dr. Holman was a theological writer of some note, a pulpit
orator of ability and his loss to the denomination will be
a serious blow in many ways. Personally he was magnetic,
warm heated, generous, of sterling qualities and extremely
popular among his congregation. He was a fine looking man
and of commanding presence. He leaves no children.
ALLIE HOLMSLEY
March 16, 1897
The Holmesley estate, if indeed, there is such an estate, is in
probate court and has set Judge Crouse to guessing. What is
called the Holmesley estate, with Georgia Holmesly administratrix,
consists of a quarter of a section of land near Tempe. It was
government land and was entered by the late Allie Holmesley.
Before she had finished making proof of it she died and the
patent finally issued in the name of the "infant orphan heirs
of Allie Holmesley" so that the title of the land never rested
in her. The question then, is has the probate court anything
to do with it and if so, what? There are other heirs of Allie
Holmesley than the infant orphan heirs, but they do not appear
to figure in this unique controversy. After some, but not all,
the infant heirs had reached their majority, it was agreed to
divide the land, one of them having sold his one-fifth undivided
interest to Joseph Birchett. Then the land laws satisfactorily
divided without troubling the courts or anybody else and Birchett
proceeded to improve his thirty odd acres until now, it is more
valuable than all the other four-fifths. Birchett is not sure
that the land was divided according to law and he does not know
that he could put his foot down on a square foot of it and say
that particular square foot belongs to him. In other words, he
fears that instead of improving his own land he has been
improving his undivided one-fifth. The probate judge has
the estate under advisement.
