MR. HITCHENS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
September 7, 1904
The Republican's Cave Creek correspondent writes:"Mr.
Hitchens, postmaster of Cave Creek died soon after midnight
of September 3, apparently of a cancerous lesion of the
stomach. Soon after discharging his Thursday mail, M.
Davis found him at his camp, prostrate. Mose Houck and
Judge McCormick were summoned. Hitchens told McCormick
that he had thrown up a lot of blood. Mrs. Houck had
him removed to an annex of her home where he was cared
for to the end after a sixty hour desperate fight to
keep him alive. W.F. Reed and M. Gates made a nice
coffin on Sunday afternoon and he was interred, Judge
McCormick reading at the grave. The post office is
in charge of A.J. Linville, the resident bondsman, who
will be administered by him till another person is
duly commissioned.
V.H. HOBSON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
September 29, 1904
V.H. Hobson died yesterday morning at his residence in the
Capitol Addition north of Adams Street. He was a lawyer
by profession having served as district attorney in his
home county in the state of Washington. He came here
about two years ago suffering of lung trouble from which
he sought relief. He made many friends who will regret
his untimely death for he was scarcely yet in middle
life. He leaves a wife and a son eight years old.
He was a member of the Masonic and Redmen Lodges which
societies will participate in the funeral ceremonies
that will be held today at 3 o'clock at the undertaking
parlors of Easterling and Whitney.
FRANK HOLME
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 28, 1904
Frank Holme, the artist, died at Denver yesterday morning at
8:45 o'clock. Mr. Holme who had lived in Phoenix since a
year ago last fall, left here for Denver about a month ago,
hoping that the climate of that region might prolong his
life a few weeks, but those who saw him on the night of
his departure did not believe that he would live to reach
his destination. Not long after his arrival in Denver a
telegram was received from his wife who was in Chicago
saying that she had been sent for to go to the bedside
of her husband.
During his brief stay in Phoenix Mr. Holme made himself a
part of the community and there was no one in it more
generally beloved. He came here a sufferer of tuberculosis
which had already reached an advanced stage. There was
for a time an appararent improvement of his condition and
his friends hoped that he might not have come here in
vain. But for six months before his departure his
decline was steady and gradual. Most of the time of
Mr. Holme here was spent on a ranch near the city
surrounded by similarly afflicted newspaper men,
artists and actors and he passed many enjoyable hours
with them.
In his illness he was never idle. Before he left the east,
fellow artists, actors and journalists formed a syndicate
to assist him in the prosecution of his work. The Bandar
Log Press was organized and from it was issued the "Poker
Rubaiyat" and a series of stories by George Ade. Mr.
Holme, by the way, had made some of the illustrations of
Ade's Fables although the greater part of this work had
been done by the famous John T. McCutcheon. Mr. Holme
gave an interesting series of chalk talks at the Dorris
Theater in this city. He also performed an illustration
for the Republican newspaper of the hanging of Rentaria
and Hildalgo at Prescott a year ago.
Mr. Holme was born at Corinth West Virginia in 1868 and was
educated in the public schools of Keyser of the same state.
He worked on a country newspaper until 1884 and on a civil
engineering corps a year later. He became connected with
the Wheeling Register as an artist and reporter in 1885
and remained with that journal for two years. The
succeeding two years he was with the Pittsburgh Press
and it then that he first came into public notice as a
newspaper illustrator by his delineation of the scenes
of the Johnstown flood. He was subsequently connected
with the Chicago Saturday Blade, the Chicago Times, the
San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Post, the Chicago
Chronicle and the Chicago Daily News. He started the
Chicago School of Illustration which is still in existence
under the management of Mrs. Holme.
QUONG HOP
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 9, 1904
Yesterday morning about 5 o'clock Quong Hop one of the oldest
and best known Chinamen in the vicinity of Tempe died. Quong
had been in this country for the past twenty five years and
the greater part of this time had been spent in the Salt River
Valley. For years past he had conducted a small mercantile
business in different places about Tempe and for the past
three years has had his store about half a mile east of the
town on the road to the creamery.
He had a great many friends, particularly among the children
for whom he always had a cheerful word. He was noted for
his liberality and it was seldom that a child bought anything
there that he or she did not receive a penny. Notwithstanding
his generosity, he did a good business and up to the time he
was taken with his last sickness had built up a good trade.
He was sixty eight years old and had not been in the best of
health for a long time. It was believed by some that he was
suffering with lingering consumption but his death was probably
the result of old age, and a general giving up. His final
illness dated from about a month back.
Upon his death his cousin, Hi Wau of Phoenix was notified and
the body was taken there this afternoon where the funeral will
take place today. Quong Hop leaves a wife and several children
in China.
FRANK HORTON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 14, 1904
Frank G. Horton died yesterday morning at the insane
asylum of brain fever having been taken there but a
few days ago. Mr. Horton was the farmer who lived
west of the city and was sent to the asylum in the
belief that he had become insane through worry over
a shortage of irrigation water. While there is no
question but that his affliction had dethroned his
reason, it seems that it was illness rather than
worry that had done the mischief. Mr. Horton was
given careful attention but grew worse till the end.
He leaves a wife and three children and one other
relative, Tom Horton. He came to this valley about
fifteen years ago from England and some years ago he
was married to Miss Ivy who lived west of Phoenix.
Mr. Horton was an industrious and successful farmer,
had an eighty acre ranch and had it well stocked
with cattle. He was 30 years old.
GEORGE HOSTETTER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
September 17, 1904
News was received here that George Hostetter had died
suddenly on the S.F.P & P. train yesterday afternoon,
somewhere between Ash Fork and Prescott. No details of
the incident were given and it was expected the body
would arrive here this morning. The dead man was about
twenty four years old and was a young man of good
character. He came here about four years ago for
his health being subject to hemorrhages, though since
living here he had greatly improved and it is presumed
that it was a return of this affection that caused his
death. Before his illness he was employed for a long
time as a train news agent. Harry Ketcham, a step
son of the late S.H. Turner whose death was announced
yesterday was a regular news agent who under ordinary
circumstances would have had the run on yesterday's
train but owing to the death of Mr. Turner, he got Mr.
Hostetter to take the run and so far as is known here
he was in good health. The mother and other relatives
of Mr. Hostetter live in the state of Washington.
Robert Howard
August 29, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
From a private telegram received in the city late yesterday
afternoon it is learned that Robert Howard, a son of Joseph
Howard, a well known rancher of the Date Creek district was
struck by lightning yesterday afternoon and both he and the
horse he was riding were instantly killed. The young man,
who was about seventeen years old was enroute to Congress
from his home traveling on the Congress trail.
