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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1883
Page
4
Re count of town happenings from Tombstone including visits by L Bewis and Al King, a Louisiana Lottery win, a boot of Whipple sharpshooters, police court actions against Jesus Pifa for horse stealing, quarantine alerts, saloon improvements, and plans for local broom production. Reports on residents traveling to Prescott, arrivals from Charleston and Iowa, church services, a proposed smelter, and impending court activity.
The reader is urged to value ads as proof of business vitality. Frank Cox, a local attorney, and Mrs Anna Boyd wed at the M E Church South with Rev Tok McCann officiating. A small reception followed as the couple begins housekeeping.
Elated citizen and farmer Mr F M Fowler secures contract to build an ornate brick two story residence in Phoenix. Plans by J M Creighton show 42 foot by 48 foot footprint, front veranda, two 12 foot high stories, attic with dormers, and a wide central hall with operable summer opening doors. Builders Patton and Cox and Foushe handle wood and brick respectively. Fowler supplies lumber. project boosts local property values.
A night watchman near the lockup repelled an assault by two Mexican detainees after one struck him with a whiskey bottle. He fired in the air to frighten them, then shot at the attacking man’s groin as the other fled. The second assailant escaped, and pursuit was not possible with a second detainee still present. Also described is Mr Minor’s new lumber yard at Montezuma and Adams streets with well equipped sheds, a hose cart, a large pump, and a ready stock of lumber and building materials arriving daily.
A day time theft at Mr. J. M. Gregory’s lumber office in Phoenix involved a man claiming kinship to Judge Rush of Prescott. The robber stole about $59 from a desk and later $26 from a telegraph office, with Gregory and a deputy pursuing Rush who was captured and taken to a U S Court Commissioner for examination. The incident marks a bold, practiced crime pattern observed by local witnesses.
Telegraph from Clifton and Tombstone details a string of events including Delaney Weather Sawyer’s escape after being taken to town for clothes, a cowboy named Mat shot and wounded with one suspect jailed, Latren adding rumors of Delaney near Church's ranch, and various criminal incidents across Arizona and New Mexico such as rustling, embezzlement, and a shipboard slaver case aboard Athinian. The report also notes funeral arrangements and law enforcement movements in the region.
The pest house is now empty and all employees except the health officer and patrol are discharged. No new cases within the past fourteen days. John T. Sson, Chairman Health Committee.
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