Apolonio Mendez
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 28, 1905
Apolonio Mendez, a section hand on the S.F.P. & P. was
struck by a train and killed about 100 yards north of the
Yuma Road sometime on Saturday night or Sunday morning.
The train which struck him might have been the freight
which arrived late on Saturday night, the incoming passenger,
or either of the outgoing trains in the morning. The body
was not found until shortly before ten o'clock. It appears
that Mendez had gone to sleep on the track, probably with
his head on a tie too close to the rail. He had not been
run over. His skull on the left side was crushed.
The sheriff's office was informed and Deputy Cunningham
went out. He said that the man was lying on the road bed
at the side of the track, doubled up, the head partly
hanging over the grade which is about four feet high at
that point. He thought the man breathed three or four
times after his arrival. He moved him and heard a
gurgling in the throat and after that there was no
breathing.
The officer returned to town and informed Justice Burnett
who ordered the body brought in and an inquest was begun.
It will be concluded this morning.
It was at first thought that the man was a Japanese. He
had a heavy shock of short black hair and a short black
mustache but he was later identified at Merryman and
Moore's by Eugenio Montenegro, a section hand here.
He said he had seen Mendez on Saturday night and he was
under the influence of liquor.
Mendez was little more than thirty years old. He came here
three years ago from El Paso.
REV. W.P. MILLER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 14, 1905
Rev. W.P. Miller of Dayton Ohiodied suddenly in this city
yesterday morning. About a week ago Mr. Miller who was the
pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church at Dayton arrived in
Phoenix accompanied by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
He had for some time been suffering of an affection of the
heart. There was an apparently decided improvement in his
condition until yesterday morning his heart stopped. The
body will be taken back to Dayton this morning. Mr. Miller
for forty three years of age.
R.G. MITCHELL
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 16, 1905
News has been received here of the death of R.G. Mitchell
on a train in South Carolina on March 30 while en route
from El Paso to the home of his mother in Connecticut.
Mr. Mitchell was about forty years old and had no family,
his wife dying in the east about a year ago. He came to
Phoenix about a year and a half ago hoping that his health
might be benefited. He was a window trimmer by profession
and probably no better one ever lived in this section of the
country. While here he was employed whenever he was able to
work by the New York Store and was the author of many
attractive displays that have been noted in the windows
of that establishment. Some months ago he went from here
to Duncan thinking his health might improve and from there
he went to a hospital in El Paso. During his brief
residence here he made many friends who loved him and
his cheerful and sunny personality.
S.E. MOORE
January 4, 1905
The friends of S.E. Moore will be grieved to hear of his
death on December 26 at Wallhalla, S.C. Mr. Moore and
family left Phoenix about four weeks ago. He had
resided in this city for some time. He was for a
short time circulator for the Enterprise, but afterward
engaged in the real estate business.
JUD MULLINO
Arizona Republican Newspaper
March 30, 1905
Fred Hicklin is under sentence of the killing of Jud Mullino
in Yavapai County last summer. Hicklin and his sister Florence
Hicklin were both indicted for the killing of Mullino who had
been the lover of Miss Hicklin and with whom Hicklin had no
acquaintance. The trial of the case perhaps did not bring
out all the facts but it appears from the evidence that on
the morning of the killing Miss Hicklin at the breakfast
table said that Mullino had insulted her in the course of
a walk the day before. Soon after breakfast looking out
of the window she saw Mullino and two other men approaching
on horse back and told her brother who armed himself with a
Winchester and shot Mullino from his horse. In his testimony
he said that having the gun in his hand he called to Mullino
and asked him why he had insulted his sister. Mullino made
no reply but threw his hand behind him and then Hicklin
fired. This plea of self defense was disregarded, the
court yesterday holding properly so.
Jud Mullino
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 17, 1904
Prescott: The jury in the case of Florence Hicklin,
accused of complicity in the murder of Jud Mullino who
was shot by her brother, Fred, in the latter part of
June, returned a verdict of manslaughter. The verdict
returned a few days ago in the trial of Fred Hicklin
found him guilty of murder in the second degree.
Mullino was an intimate friend of Florence Hicklin
and it was supposed they were to be married. The
night before the killing they were out together and
the girl had reported to the family that Mullino had
attempted an assault upon her and she escaped by
telling him friends were approaching. The next day
while Mullino and two friends were riding by the
Hicklin residence, Fred Hicklin came out of the house
and killed him, the sister following and covering the
other two men with a shotgun. Fred Hicklin's defense
was insanity.
SIMON MURPHY
February 2, 1905
A telegram was received last night from Detroit,
announcing the death there yesterday of Mr. Simon J.
Murphy, whom all Arizonians know by reason of his
extensive interests in this territory. Mr. Murphy
was for years one of the foremost businessmen of
Michigan and was intimately associated with a number
of Detroit and Chicago men who have done so much for
the development of the resources of this part of the
country.
Mr. Murphy's introduction to Arizona was in connection
with the building of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix
Railroad in which he was one of the stockholders.
Soon after that, foreseeing the future of the valley
he invested in agricultural lands on the south side.
His farm of more than 700 acres near Mesa is one of
the model farms of the valley.
Though in his ninetieth year at the time of his death,
Mr. Murphy preserved a vigorous mind until the last.
After the death of his wife, almost two years ago, he
failed bodily but he was able at all times to keep a
grasp on his extensive and varied interests
throughout the country.
Mr. Murphy was a distant relative of Mr. F.M. Murphy and
former governor N.O. Murphy. He was born at Demarlscotta,
Me. April 22, 1815. He removed from Maine to Michigan
more than thirty years ago and engaged in the lumber
business with which he was connected to the end of
his life. He soon laid the foundation for a fortune
which is estimated at $50,000,000.
In early manhood Mr. Murphy married Miss Ann Dorr whose
death as had been stated preceded his by less than
two years. They were the parents of twelve children,
six of whom survive, five sons and a daughter, Charles,
Simon J., A.N., Frank, William H. and Anna.
JESUS OROZCO
December 5, 1905
No later details have been received regarding the
stabbing affray in Los Angeles one night last week
in which Jesus Orozco was fatally wounded. The
first information received here came in a letter
to Theodore Olea, interpreter at Judge Burnett's
court from Simon N. Robles, a former resident of
this city. According to the letter Orozco who
also made this city his home several months ago,
quarreled with a Main Street tamale vendor over
the price of tamales and the fight resulted.
Menden, the man wielding the knife is under
arrest and will be examined today at Los Angeles.
Orozco died at the receiving hospital where he was
taken after the fight.
