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In February 1903, U.S. Senator Hamilton Kean spoke against Arizona's statehood. He said Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mexico would return to the U.S. and mix in the politics of Arizona. [44] In 1912, Arizona almost entered the Union as part of New Mexico in a Republican plan to keep control of the U.S. Senate. The plan, while accepted by most ...
A new trial date was set on May 15 but not enough jurors could be found. Hickey was not well-liked and when a jury was finally convened, Billy was found not guilty and set free. [2] [5] In 1881, after William "Billy the Kid" Bonney was killed, Claiborne demanded that others call him "Billy the Kid". He reportedly killed one to three men who ...
Hinchcliffe Court opens near Tucson, the first auto court motel in Arizona. [116] 1912 February 14: Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States; Phoenix becomes the state capital. [108] U.S. President William Howard Taft issues Proclamation 1180: Admitting Arizona to the Union. [117] The Territory of Arizona becomes the State of Arizona.
Earp was interviewed in 1888 by an agent of California historian Hubert H. Bancroft, and in 1932, Frank Lockwood, who authored Pioneer Days in Arizona, wrote that Earp told both of them that he killed Ringo as he left Arizona in March 1882 – almost four months before Ringo died. He included other details that do not match what is known about ...
The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, [1] until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.
But on Nov. 11, 2009, a construction worker in Arizona working to widen Highway 93 found what appeared to be a bone. Workers soon found other bones, concluded they were human and notified National ...
Billy the Axeman [4] (also referred to as the Ax-Man, [5] the Midwest Axeman, [6] and the Man from the Train [3]) was the name of a suspected serial killer thought to be responsible for a series of family murders that occurred mainly in the U.S. Midwest between September 1911 and June 1912.
One of the suspects, Leonardo Santiago, 21, later confessed to the March killing of Osvaldo Hernandez Castillo, 20, officials said, and he has since been indicted on first-degree murder charges in ...