Anecdotes of Prescott History Brought to Life From the Pages of Old Newspapers and Other Sources.
It was autumn when a representative of the Arizona Miner made a railway trip from Jerome Junction (today a part of southern Chino Valley), along the narrow-gauge line to Jerome. His description of the journey, published in the October 20th edition of the Weekly Arizona Miner, was delightfully depictive.
To most people in Yavapai County and even the entire Arizona territory, the news produced a shock as great as an earthquake.
On March 1, 1878, Samuel C (“SC”) Miller along with his brother Jacob (“Jake,”) were arrested causing “great excitement here in financial circles,” the Phoenix Weekly Herald reported. “They are charged with endeavoring to put property out of their hands with intent to defraud creditors. Much of their business seems to have been transacted in a loose way.” Those who were owed money from the brothers rushed to court, and the pair were declared insolvent and bankrupt.
Paul and Jack Fodge were two brothers with dubious reputations. Aged 26 and 23 respectively, both had already spent time in prison. They didn’t exactly exhibit criminal mastermind-ship either when they decided to hold-up a large group of cowboys and their companions at an early, holiday-season dance November 14-15th, 1931.
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| Dan Fain around the time of the incident. |
It was seven years before the Rafter 11 would brand its first bovine; when Norman Fain was just a lil’ cowpoke, at the mere age of 3. “Dan Fain was assaulted at Humboldt [May 31, 1910,] and escaped death solely through good fortune,” the Weekly Journal-Miner exclaimed.
It was the height of summer; late July 1912, when two railroad accidents occurred on the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railway.
