A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.June 12On this date in 1888, an Apache Indian who had fired one shot that killed two men was tried for murder in one of the deaths and acquitted. He later was tried again for the murder of the second man and convicted on precisely the same set of facts.On this date in
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June 13
On this date in 1862, Sylvester Mowry’s silver mine at Patagonia was confiscated and Mowry was arrested on charges of being a Confederate sympathizer.
On this date in 1901, the first commencement exercises were held at Northern Arizona Normal School with class of four graduates.
On this date in 1908, 2,000 residents of the Salt River Valley watched as Gov. Joseph H. Kibbey pulled the lever which raised gates on the newly completed Granite Reef Dam.
On this date in 1913, Thomas E. Farish, author and mining engineer, was appointed state historian.
June 14
On this date in 1879, an executive order set aside the Salt River Indian Reservation for Pima and Maricopa Indians.