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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1897
Page
4
Arizona daily notes eight leaders backing eastern push to erect a first‑in valley creamery near Safford at about $5000 with no down payment required yet. An agent may inspect soon to start work. locals urged prompt support to seize the opportunity amid industrial optimism in the region.
Viron Mitchell, a seventeen or eighteen year old badly wounded, testifies that conductor J H Butler fired on him as the Maricopa and Phoenix train left Tempe. Butler insists he fired no shot, claiming his revolver’s empty chamber was left for safety. Mitchell names no shooter. Authorities in Tempe and Phoenix proceed with the case as Butler is jailed and Mitchell lingers near death.
A San Francisco money-back promotion from Schilling's Best baking powder and tea offers $2000 to the first or sole finder of a word hidden in each package. Tickets, words, and rules require sending by December 31 with brown or yellow tickets. Early limit allows two words per ticket. after October 1 only one set. Prizes split if multiple winners. everyone sending a ticket earns creeping babies and three-or-more senders get a pocket calendar. address MONEY-BACK, SAN FRANCISCO.
A jumbled Tempe page notes Mr Feed Evchelor shipping cattle to Riverside and Pomona, plus local figures Penn Bros connections. Reports on council actions, water tank funding, and upcoming Territorial Sunday School Association convention in Tempe M E church. Also mentions mayor Jack Frazier, local arrivals, and civic wage debates with oddities in phrasing.
The item bundles various local notices and society items: vendor notes about fruit shipments near Tempe, a lecture tour by J. J. Clement and Prof. James Waneton, a millman Don Currie’s death, canal and county administration updates, rising cattle values and mining activity, coroner’s inquest outcomes, legal notices on liquor sales, and social club plans including a coming women’s event and Electric Bitters promotion. The report emphasizes Arizona prosperity, local governance actions, and community announcements.
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