05 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Tombstone Daily Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1887
Page
1
Daily Epitaph outlines a time schedule noting Pacific time runs 36 minutes slower than CCOA time. It describes daily teaing, with a focus on daily timing adjustments and routine observations for the newspaper's daily timeline.
Connect with Western bound train at 15 o clock and Eastern bound at 15 o clock. Stage connections to Guaymas left at 1 o clock pm. Charleston service from 6 am, except Sunday. Office 406 Allon atBout, under Occidental Hotel. Paper available at B C Dake's Advertising Agency 64 65 Merchants' Exchange San Francisco for advertising contracts.
Prescott correspondent reports on C M Hooker Wilcoxon cattle man in town, Bruce of Land and Hayes cattle company visiting, and officials traveling to Phoenix. Worsening arm injury of a boy at hospital, and police sending away suspicious strangers. Paper Social at Skating Rink on the 11th features music and inventive paper uses.
Arizona will assume her proper place as a growing frontier. A large land sale in Sulphur Spring Valley transfers about eighty thousand acres to a new corporation led by C S Abbott son Whitby and Company and investors from Tombstone and Bisbee. The deal signals capital inflow, six thousand cattle, and a vast range extending twenty miles east and west, with Cochise County set to lead stock interests as prosperity spreads across the region.
Col Hafford amasses a growing bird collection in Arizona, aiming to present a full Arizona species set to the Smithsonian. The report lists many birds including eagles, canaries, cockatoos, larks, doves, and road runners, inviting donations at his Allen Street residence alongside a note on interstate commerce bill proceedings and Massawah fighting not between Italians and Arabs but Italians and Abyssinians.
Prescott message recounts a militia gathering with two dollar dance tickets and coffee, praises local figures, and mocks opposition. It notes a Republican advance in the Arizona Legislature, cross-party maneuvers over immigration, and the waning of party discipline amid a measles outbreak among lawmakers and citizens.
Arizona mining interests urge local producers to submit mineral samples for Professor A E Foote to display at the Mammoth American Exposition in London May next. Samples should be left with Frank Earle, Foote’s agent, to ensure labeling and care. The effort aims to raise Arizona’s profile among the world’s mining leaders and capital groups amid a projected vast international audience.
The county Recorder reports numerous mining title registrations and many renamings of mines in Clark, Turquois, and Tombstone districts. Notable changes include Eclipse mine renamed from 83 mine and Empire renamed from Silver Reef mine, Star of the West from Works’s Wonder, and Star mine from Lake Superior adjoiner. Two hundred sixty five Chicago firms are told they will be boycotted by the Knights of Labor if Armour goods continue to be handled.
The Tombstone post office has uncalled letters for the week ending February 5 1887. Names include Bishop Henry Lang Me Boner Joaquin Land Jamis N. Boon Daniel McDonald Allan J Boner Jaedier McDonald Mike Brace Mrs A J McDonald Joseph J Bradon Lea Merrill FW Hubiard J C Partey J M Burns Mrs E Pidwell Thomas Chatham J J Reilly William Coleman Henry Shea James Caffery P C Shea Michael Garnet George Stamp Ed Harris J Joseph Thompson BR M Jackson A M Willams J 8. Callers should say advertised and give date. Co 3. CiawK
Pacific Coast items report that Alameda county desires a local government agency in Los Angeles. Riverside to hold a five day citrus fair starting Tuesday February 22. Daily excursion trains to run from Los Angeles and other points. Nine new diphtheria cases reported in San Francisco on Wednesday. A Senate introduced amendment would ax salaries of legislators and bar adjournment without acting on bills. Senate concurrent resolution to withdraw government timber lands from sale passed Wednesday. Daughters of A D Walsh Misses Mary and Nellie opened a new store at Fourth and Fremont, offering ladies underwear and related sewing and embroidery services.
San Francisco specialists Liebig and partners announce private offices to treat medical and surgical cases in Tombstone starting February 13 at Rooms 27 and 28 of the Occidental Hotel on Allen Street. They boast leading status on the Pacific Coast with a focus on chronic private and complicated diseases, surgical cases, deformities, and women's diseases. Buckingham's Dye for Whiskers is offered for beard color correction.
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