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Day in the Life

Jul 7, 1882

Journal Entry

July 07, 1882 ~ Friday

7 I spent the day in the office word has reached us by Telegraph
[FIGURES] and Letters from St John that about the 24 of June while
[sideways text] [FIGURE] N C Tinney [end of sideways text] the Mexicans were celebrating St Johns Day 3 of Greers
sons, & highered hired man, J Von & a son of Hatch rode
into Town armed with Pistols & guns. The Mexicans ordered them
to leave town or put away their arms which they refused to do then
fighting between the two parties commenced. Mexicans gathered their
arms and drove the cowboys into some unfinished houses James Von
was Killed The Hatch boy shot in the shoulder. The three Greer
Boys taken Prisioner & Nathan C Tinney killed while thrying to stop the fight

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Hatch, Hyrum
1865-1912
1 mention
1 mention
58 mentions
Tenney, Nathan Cram
28 Jul 1817 - 24 Jun 1882
9 mentions
17 mentions

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Historian's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory

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Business/Financial-Account Book, 1882
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Jul 7, 1882