Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page F019

ARIZONA DAILY STAR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011 ARIZONA AT 100 PAGE 19 wasn't repealeduntil 1943. (fa She was a New Englander who married Lt John Summerhayes in 1873 and came with him to Arizona, moving from one remote fort to another. She tells of sleeping on the ground, their mattress on top of a buffalo robe and surrounded with a hair lariat to keep off snakes, which they understood didn't like to cross it. That and many other wonderful stories are in her book "Vanished Arizona," which she wrote in 1908 at her children's urging. Apache leader who spent his adult life negotiating the difficult terrain between the American military and the White Mountain Apache people.

He also was the last hereditary chief of the White Mountain people, said Ramon Riley, the tribe's cultural resource director. Born in about 1853, Alchesay enlisted as a scout for the U.S. Army in 1871. He did several tours, serving under the famous Gen. George Crook.

In 1875, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallant conduct during the different campaigns against, and engagements with, the Apaches during the winter of 1872-1873." In 1886, Alchesay negotiated a surrender by Geronimo, but the warrior ended up fleeing. When he settled back in the White Mountains area, Alchesay began raising cattle and horses, and grew in economic importance while serving as chief. He died in 1928. all were of Chinese heritage. Wong, who was born in San Francisco, started out here in 1900 as a farmer near what is now Tucson Country Club.

He parlayed that into a restaurant downtown, then into a No-gales grocery and back to Tucson in 1944 with and Fancy Foods at Broadway and Campbell. He diedinl985atagel04. Chinese were in Tucson by at least the 1870s when three men named Wong ran the O.K. Restaurant. Many more came to help build the railroad.

As early as the 1890s, Tucson had a Chinese Mission School and a fraternal society, Chee Kung Tong. By 1910, the census showed 1,305 Chinese in the territory. Wong recalled that they were grocers, farmers, traders, cooks and laundry owners. Prejudice against Chinese natives and immigrants ran high in parts of the territory, and anti- Chinese leagues formed in Tombstone Prescott and Bisbee. By 1902, the U.S.

government had banned immigration from China, a law that WING SEEN WONG MARTHA DUNHAM SUMMERHAYES ALCHESAY Restaurateur and grocer lived to 104 Army wife describes Arizona in the 1870s Apache intermediary Tucson had about 50 grocers at the time of statehood, and nearly Alchesay was a pragmatic HOW KITT PEAK GOT ITS NAME BEST GUESSES FACTS ABOUT ARIZONA PLACE NAMES msmSmSimmM Anson Pacely Killen Safford. Globe: There was a Globe mine but why that word? Some say prospectors found the rich silver area as big as the globe Others say someone found a globe-shaped chunk of silver. Florence: A historic marker in the town says Florence was a favorite name in the family of its first settler, Levi Ruggles. Other sources say his friend, Gov. Richard McCormick, named it after his sister.

Tucson: The Tohono O'odham called the city something that sounded like chuk-shon, schookson or stjukson. It translates as black base, or at the foot of the black hill. That black hill is Sentinel Peak. Arizona Daily Star Kitt Peak: Pima County surveyor George Roskruge might have named it for his sister, Philippa Kitt, or his nephews. His original map labeled it Kits Peak, and there was a man named Kit on Roskruge's crew.

Bisbee: It's named after DeWitt Bisbee, a San Francisco judge and financial backer of the Copper Queen mine. A history of the mine says he never visited the town. Marana: The name first appears on a railroad map about 1890, but who gave it that name isn't clear. A marana in Spanish is a tangle or thicket. Safford: Farmers most certainly named it for Arizona's third territorial governor,.