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Master's Corner

I want to thank all of you that attended our March stated meeting and our first annual Law Enforcement recognition luncheon. This community involvement will surely help us in getting to be better known in the community. The Police Officer of the year from the Globe Police Department is Gabriel Guerrero. The Police Officer of the year from the Miami Police Department is John Gamboa. The Deputy of the year from Gila County is Craig Jones.

Brethren, if you missed our Law Enforcement program you missed a great lunch and program. The Honorable Mayor of Globe, Brother Stan Gibson was our speaker and presented an interesting talk on the history of Globe. We had 50 brothers, sisters and friends for lunch.

I want to thank the brother Bill Sneyd for organizing various Masonic groups to participate in the Gila County Rodeo parade.

Wednesday March 10^th, Hank Johnson, Vic Owen, Bob Gillette, Joe Henry, and Howard Billingsley helped me with a funeral for Brother Forest Hover a member of a lodge in Montana. The services went very well and I thank these brothers for their participation and help. On another sad note. Brother Harold Cranswick was raised to the Celestial Lodge above on March 11, 2004. Brother Cranswick was raised on August 17, 1948 in Doric Lodge No. 26, Miami, Arizona. He affiliated with White Mountain Lodge No. 3 in 1980. A funeral service was held on March 18, 2004 and brothers Bob Gillette, Oscar T Lyon Jr., and Joe Henry assisted me. Other brothers in attendance were: Earl Cunningham and Harold Benjamin.

I also want to thank the brothers and sisters that cleaned the section of the highway on March 20^th, which we have accepted with the Eastern Star as our responsibility. I would have been there but had another commitment.

At our April stated meeting we will honor some of our brothers that have served Masonry for many years. Let’s make a special effort to attend lodge on this day to congratulate these brothers.

Don’t forget coffee and donuts from 9AM till 10AM prior to our lodge meeting on April 10^th. We are starting to receive recognition from he community and I would like to know what we could do to help our lodge even more. Your comments will be appreciated. pauldoresr@cox.net or 602-920-0456 or call Joe Henry 928-425-6686. Also my home address is 13824 N Canterbury Dr. Phoenix, Arizona 85023.

White Mountain Lodge 1954

April

It was reported that Brother Vernon Johnson had passed his third degree proficiency.

The first degree was conferred on Silas L McGinness. Presiding in the East was JW Oscar T Lyon Jr.

The third degree of Masonry was conferred on Brothers Donovan B Dawson, Merle F Harper, Wesley C Langdon and Harold D Ward. Alternating in the East were brothers WM Sidney Fix and PM Cecil Kling.

DORIC LODGE #26 1954

April

A communication from Bakersfield, California was received notifying the lodge that brother John E Weaver had passed away.

Past Master Thomas Tizard announced that the Mimi Townsite Building on Sullivan Street could be purchased for a Masonic Hall at a reasonable cost to the Lodge.

Permission was also given to the owners of the building on

the Lodge’s lots on Live Oak Street to remove the building.

Bro Stan Gibson's Remarks at the Law Enforcement Luncheon

White Mt. Lodge, today, is honoring our Law enforcement personnel. It is my privilege to give a brief background into the History of this Lodge in its association with a few of Gila

County’s Sheriff’s. My references are: Minutes of the Lodge 1880 to 1883, Gila

Centennials, 1976, Globe AZ Robert Bigando 1989, and the Globe City minutes 1914.

As the Mayor of Globe I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention Globe’s early Government.

The Worship Full Master in 1881 was A. W. Morehead “A. Morehead was chosen Mayor of the Village of Globe in 1881, and he was also listed as Mayor in 1884. But after this the County Supervisors seemed to gradually take over the duties of the town”

¹City Government Again

At the same time the city and county were growing and prospering, the move again was started to form a city government. Petitions were circulated in 1904 asking again for incorporation. The supervisors appointed five men to form a town organization. JAMES PASCOE (he was Tyler in 18911, W. T. McNelly, Eugene Middleton, Edward Wekk and George W. P. Hunt

It only took 11 months for the city to decide that incorporation and city government were too expensive, so the supervisors were petitioned for dis-incorporation and they were once again put in charge of government for the city. After twice being incorporated and unincorporated, the people of Globe just a year later, in 1906, once again felt they wanted city government However, the petitions were accepted right at election time, so they were not completely processed until January of 1907, when seven men were named to form a city Government, S. L. Gibson (no relation) , Anton Trojanovich, Lyman C. Woods, G. S. Van Wagenen, Charles T. Martin, (He was the Lodge secretary in 1888 and was President of the Pinals Mountain Water System, which the City later purchased) , Dennis Murphy,, and W. S. Sultan.

² LAWMEN

W. W. Lowther was the Senior Steward of this Lodge in1882

“The first elected sheriff was W. W. Lowther, who was to serve until the end of 1882, but during that time had the misfortune to lose two prisoners to a mob. Globe was in a furor on August 20 1882, when packer Frank Porter raced into town with the news that the pack train carrying the mail from Florence had been attacked by Apaches near Pioneer Pass in the Pinal Mt. Porter had been riding at the rear of the train when it was ambushed. Andy Hall, the Wells Fargo agent, was riding in the lead and hollered out to Porter to ride to town for help.

Sheriff Bill Lowther quickly rounded up a posse and rode toward the Pinals to investigate. Lowther and the posse first came upon Globe’s pioneer pharmacist, Dr. Vail, badly wounded and failing rapidly, but before he died. Vail did his best to describe his attackers. Just up the trail they found the body of Andy Hall, his chest riddled with bullets. The sheriff next came upon the pack train. The mules had been killed. Both mail pouches and freight were found un -disturbed. The only thing taken was an express box holding $5,000 in gold coin bound for the payroll office at the Mack Morris Mine. This mine was located in the Apaches Mts. Tracks around the train confirmed Dr. Vail’s last words; the murders were white men ,not Apaches.

Globe’s concern over the robbery of the pack train turned to sullen rage when the posse brought in the bodies of Vail and Hall.

From Dr. Vail’s description, Sheriff Lowther had a good idea as to the identity of the murderers, but he took no action to arresting them until he had secured the assistance of U.S. Deputy Marshall Pete Gabriel, who had to be brought from Florence.

Gabriel arrived in town two days after the murders. Acting on the advice of Lowther, he went to the home of Lafayette Grimes and his brother Cicero, the town photographer, and a wood contractor named Curtis B. Hawley as accomplices. Gabriel was in the process of hauling them to Florence on a charge of robbing the U.S. Mail when he was intercepted near Bloody Tanks by Sheriff Lowther, who demanded that they be remanded over to him to stand trail in Globe for the murders of Vail and Hall.

Reluctantly, Gabriel agreed, and the three were brought to Globe and locked in the little adobe jail.

That evening, an angry mob gathered outside the jail and called out for Sheriff Lowther to release the prisoners into their hand, threatening to break the door down and take them by force if he refused. Clearly at a disadvantage, Lowther agreed to the crowd’s demand, with the provision that the three be given a fair trial before they were hung.

The two Grimes brothers and Hawley were taken to Stallo’s Hall, and Justice of the Peace George Allen summoned for the trial. In order to buy time and perhaps to get an opportunity to escape. Hawley and Lafayette Grimes agreed to guide a group of townspeople to the hiding place of the Mack Morris payroll.

With a heavily armed escort, they rode about twelve miles up Russell Gulch and recovered the gold.

The party who had gone in search of the stolen payroll returned around midnight. They had found the loot divided in three equal shares and demanded that Cicero be turned over to them to be hung along with his brother and Hawley. When Lowther refused to comply, the crowd had to satisfy its desire for revenge on the two prisoners still in custody.

As soon as their wills were completed, the murderers were marched out the door of Stallo’s hall, nooses place around their necks, and ropes tossed over the limb of a huge old sycamore that stood in the middle of Main Street. Just before the ropes were pulled tight, Grimes dropped down in the street and pulled off his boots. “Damned if I’ll die with my boots on”’ he exclaimed.

Lowther left Globe when he was not re-elected and went to Bisbee where he was killed while attempting to serve a writ of ejectment.

Ben Pasco was Jr. Deacon in 1882 when he was elected sheriff and served the next two terms. Pasco took his own life shortly after he left office.

The office of City Marshal of the City of Globe is run at an approximate cost of $600.00 per month plus office expenses [for salaries 1’ of this amount, it would not be amiss to charge one half [ $300.00 Ito assessing and tax collecting, leaving one-half [$300.00] to be charged to Policing the town.

During the 18 months just passed I have collected in fines $7,943.00, charging $300.00 per month for that period to Police work and $100.00 per month to Police Judge makes a total charge against the Police Department of $7,200.00 leaving a small profit to the City from the Police Department.

1914 Globe City minutes

Duties of the City Marshal of the City of Globe consists of the making of the annual Assessment, collecting the Real Estate & Personal property taxes, Street taxes, License’s doing the office work for the pound department, preparing and handling the pay rolls for the Health Department and the Policing of the City. It is also my duty to collect the Dog License but at present, Harry Houser is doing that as my deputy as a matter of accommodation. It is safe to say that 95% of the revenue of the City is collected and handled through my office.

The Street tax collections alone means that I have to keep a correct record [in a book set aside for that purpose [of every one that pays Street taxes, enter the collection of all Street tax collected from property owners in the tax roll. Keep an alphabetically arranged typed written list of all persons paying Street taxes and carrying a daily balance of that account in the cash-book.

All other accounts require about the same amount of work and attention. This I am doing with a force of four men.

In Phoenix, a quiet, old farming town, or a little more then twice the population of Globe, where the Police Department have nothing to do with the Assessing or collecting, they have a Police force consisting to twenty two men, one hurry up wagon, one automobile and three motor cycles. In Tucson, with a population larger than Globe but considerably smaller than Phoenix, they have fourteen men on the Police force, with no assessing or collecting to do.

It has been said that the Police of Globe do not perform their duty and one case mentioned in particular; that was the case of the fire at the International Rooming House, where it was said that if my officers has been attending their duties as was proper, the fire would have been discovered and reported before it had gained headway; would like to say in this connection that the officer on the north beat would have had to have been standing along the Rail Road track in rear of above mentioned building to have seen and reported the fire sooner than it was reported, and if he stands in one particular place all the time to watch for a fire to start, what will become of the actual work that he is supposed to do, as his beat if from the active Police of three men; If I was to use the entire force for the purpose alone of enforcing the Ordinance [the Automobile Ordinance] and leave all other acts alone, I would not have men sufficient to make a success of it, and that would mean that all other Police duties would have to be abandoned.

In the larger cities of the State the Policemen have eight hours shifts, which here in Globe we have twelve hours shifts and there is hardly a day that some one of my men do not work several hours in excess of twelve hours and sometimes working as much as 15 orl7 hours in one day.

It is not my wish, nor do I want any members of the Council or any taxpayer to think that I want to add any unnecessary expense to the tax payers of Globe, but I do want the members of the present Council to know that the Police forces of the City of Globe is not sufficiently strong to do the work that seems to be expected of it; an addition of two men, one day, and one night, would not be in excess of the number required.

Very respectful, R. L. Pinyan City Marshal:

The Globe Police department, today, has 33 employees. There is a chief, one lieutenant, six sergeants, fourteen officers, four dispatchers, one office supervisor, two record clerks, and evidence custodian, one motorcycle officer, and an animal control officer. The required duties have changed in 90 years!

1 Gila Centennials, 1976

2 Globe Arizona Robert Bigando 1989

³Statement of fact concerning the Globe Police Department April 15. 1914

2004 Officers