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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1884
Page
3
A terse public notice from the PHE Herald records A Morford in relation to January events with terse reference to insured terms and a dated schedule. The fragmentary item hints at a formal notice process without full details.
Fragmented items report street crimes and stage robbery on Florence and Globe road. Towns Quijotoa and Logan City develop on mountainside as water is found at 85 feet. Knight of Rhythmas ball draws 28 couples. Postmaster Mowrey ends stamp confusion over rates and dead letters.
A list of mining sites established in the county and mainly around Cave Creek from December 15 to today includes Last Chance Silver Chariot J. M Asher et al War Eagle F M Lagat Cleopatra J Romand Silver Beauty D P Wright Yellow Jacket Ida Mine Philadelphia Colorado Joseph Mine Iron Duke Chase EB Philes Julia Mine Wm Taplin Chalk Homeward Bound J Chaney Tenor Lena and Stella Cox.
Military communications from Prescott dated December 31 1883 note transfers and discharges. Private Frederick Donaldson of Troop C Sixth Cavalry moves to clerks general service at these headquarters dated the 8th inst. Private Milford E James of Troop I Third Cavalry to clerks general service. Private Milfire L C James of general service detachment discharged. By order of Brig Gen Crow J P Mantis Assistant Adjutant General.
Mr. FM Fowler circulates a petition to fund a Maricopa to Quijotoa road and wells. Merchants and farmers seek solid returns, with about 310 subscribed so far and Tempe and Maricopa promising more. The plan envisions stage lines once the road is finished, aided by display of local enterprise and support from the stage company.
Local notes report a forthcoming Democratic paper for Phoe tz and a long overdue collection day. Billy Vigus works on the new courthouse tower, boosting its look. Geo D Wilbur travels through on vacation from Fort McDowell toward Fort Hanchuca. Chas Wandever named post trader at Hanchuca arrival expected soon. J T Priest from Tempe visits, crops praised after rain, Odron opens at old St Louis Well with Sefiorita Marie as manager. Bananas and beer rumors surface in local chatter. Progreso Las adopts El Progreso Catlico name not tied to Fuhrer Sloise.
Monday’s town session and today’s board of supervisors met. Hon Geo F Coates left for Yuma for prison commission. St Jacobs Oil ad proclaims its readability. A Linville addition map hangs in Recorder’s office. Masonic lodge notes meetings on Jan 8 and 10. Overland Monthly praised. Baptist Society trustees named. A stage robbery near Florence to Globe details reported with District Attorney Graves aboard. $400 on him, $40 in cargo recovered. Arizona Live Stock Journal Vol.1 No.1 from Tucson released. praise for future growth.
Subscribers of the Quijoten road fund are asked to meet at the court house this evening at 7 o clock to elect a Superintendent of the work and a Treasurer. The notice mentions bead varieties and fashion notes on Roman pearls and new string colors like gold silver parlot mute and sea green.
Bisbee officer Daniels and two Mexicans tracked outlaw Big Dan Dowd from Bisbee to Corralitos and La Sierra Madre. Dowd, held at the American-owned Corralitos house, surrendered under guard after supervisor Muenzenberger entered first. Dowd is to be transferred toward Bowie, with Billy Delaney still at large and believed to be within ten days’ capture or death.
An inquest is held on Patrick McAteer who died after a month’s suffering from a gunshot wound received from Chas W. Beach. The autopsy shows the bullet lodged near the ninth dorsal vertebra, with exhaustion as the cause. McAteer, 52, Irish native, funeral postponed to tomorrow at 2 o’clock from the Catholic church.
A compiled fragment from Philadelphia Call mentions leap year jokes limited to every four years, the illumination of Mel Gate, and playful visuals with keys and cards. It quotes Mr. Beecher on modern church audiences, critiques Plymouth church, and hints at gunboats and trading antique vases. It also touches on standard time, mathematics, dog trousers lore, horse breeding excitement, and trotting training complexities.
A garbled row from Chicago News and Philadelphia Call items mentions a young man in central Illinois losing brain ounces, describes Brain as a local drug, and cites adulteration. It also notes Indians selling hay to the government with rocks in bales and laments Indians learning to read and follow papers in a Prek’s Sum style.
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