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He wanted the establishment of a board of control for government agencies like the Territorial Prison and the Insane Asylum and also the establishment of a Board of Immigration to encourage business to come to Arizona. Irrigation and the booming lumber industry in Flagstaff was his major priority.
Arizona Insane asylum's construction is completed. [55] Casa Grande suffers from a devastating fire. [31] Judge William T. Day House is built in Casa Grande. [71] Fire destroys a major portion of Flagstaff on Valentine's Day. [80] 1887 Maricopa-Phoenix railway and horse-drawn Street Railway begin operating. [81] Public water system created in ...
Finally, Barnes wrote in Insane Asylum v. Wolfley (1889), 3 Arizona 132, which dealt with a writ of mandamus that "The court ought not to issue the writ unless it is prepared to enforce (it)." [13] One of the final issues Barnes dealt with from the bench was the Wham Paymaster Robbery.
The asylum was put in Phoenix, a normal school (teachers college) went to Tempe (near Phoenix), the territorial prison was kept in Yuma, and a bridge was built across the Gila River in Florence. While the Tucson delegation had been working to move the capital to Tucson, near the end of the session the Tucson Arizona Weekly Citizen said Tucson ...
A 36-year-old Arizona man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for illegally owning guns and for filming himself torturing and killing pigeons, some by burning their eyes with a torch ...
After her death sentence was overturned, Judd was committed to the Arizona State Asylum for the Insane (later renamed the Arizona State Hospital) in Phoenix, the state's only mental institution. Judd escaped from the institution six times between [ 17 ] 1933 and 1963, in one instance walking all the way to Yuma , along the old Southern Pacific ...
Arizona Insane asylum's construction is completed. [10] 1887 Maricopa-Phoenix railway and horse-drawn Street Railway begin operating. [23] Public water system created. [17] Public Health Department is established. [10] Mule-drawn streetcar system established. [17] Salt River Valley News begins weekly publication. [10] 1888 Electric power ...
Monte Vista Hotel in Flagstaff is reputed to be haunted. A phantom bellboy is said to knock on the door of room 210 and announce "Room service." John Wayne reported seeing a ghost in his room while staying at the hotel in the early 1950s. [25]