Daily Epitaph trains schedule note briefs
Daily Epitaph reports Pacific time runs 86 minutes slower than oeal time with trains listed as daily services. The note notes timing discrepancy and constant daily train service.
12 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Tombstone Daily Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1887
Page
1
Daily Epitaph reports Pacific time runs 86 minutes slower than oeal time with trains listed as daily services. The note notes timing discrepancy and constant daily train service.
The notice lists connecting train times with Western and Eastern bound services and stage connections for Quaymad trans. It notes Charleston stage departures at 7 am and Bisbee at 6 am except Sundays. Advertising contracts available at B C Dake's Agency in San Francisco and at Allen Street office for the Chic paper.
Local notes report a wide mix of topics including debt figures for Canada and brief remarks on civil service reform, updates on immigration and consular figures, storm and war anxieties in Europe, and Arizona mining and theater events. Mentions include Par nel, Miss Margaret Blaine, Henry Watterson, and Haffard collecting birds in Tombstone.
Proceedings show various civil actions with judgments for plaintiffs. Cases include Hayley versus Watt with judgment for plaintiff, Dailey versus Rafferty for $44, Escoboza versus Montgomery, and Reaney versus Stevens. The Copper Queen mining company versus the Prince had a demurrer overruled and several injunctions or foreclosures resolved.
Local record office lists several mine relocations and renamings including Mary Emma mine to Keystone mine in Silver Camp district with locators Thomas Hlaun J Hatton and J Trippett. Other changes rename June Bug mine and Lucky Minerva mine plus Chester Dundon and Home Stake revisions. deeds mention transfers for Mountain Maid Running Co and a $100 transaction with Jos Stumpflot No. 11.
A Chicago man at a Chinese ball recalls home while comments on hog packing and local industry appear. The item lists the Tombstone foundry’s recent work for Charlestonsmilier and a Girard mill project, plus a notice seeking Andrew Jackson and George Robinson. Masonic lodge announcements, debt notices, and shop ads for Palace dress goods and Dr Liebig & Co appear, with San Francisco address.
A fragment notes that no one spoke to death nor urged buyers to rush for deals at Palace, implying a cautious or restrained scene without sales pressure or loud persuasion. The readable text centers on restraint and absence of aggressive marketing in a public setting.
Stage leaves Tombstone for Fairbank to connect with a Nogales train at 8 40 a m and at 3 30 p m for Fairbank to connect with East and Westbound trains at Benson arriving Tombstone at 1 45 am. Stage to Charleston leaves Tombstone AL 12 65 ppm. Regular company meetings will be called by nine taps of the firebell half an hour before and nine taps when ordered. sale notices offer redwood tanks and lumber, Red Store stock and fixtures with a horse wagon and harness. For particulars contact Daniel O Connor Tombstone Arizona and R P Mansfield Fifth Street Tombstone. Black Walnut bed room set for sale.
The text describes the onset of disease as debility of vital organs chiefly the stomach liver or bowels with dyspeptic symptoms and right side pains. It claims such issues progress to prostration but notes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is effective if used early, and prefers it over quinine for fever and ague and malarial complaints to protect the stomach and overall health.
Public notice of a sheriff sale following a Cochise County court order issued in 1888. W. Hooper vs J. W. Stump and E. W. Stump. property includes several mining claims in Huachuca Mountains with improvements and appurtenances. Sale set for March 3, 1837, in Losbitone, Cochise County, Arizona, to satisfy judgment, costs, and interest. Authority by A. Shao, Sheriff, with E. Suattuck as Under Sheriff.
By order of the district court in Cochise County Arizona a judgment in favor of TH Gerwcia against Short Gi Lalsatiin and others prompts a public sale of Lots 7 8 9 and 10 in Mock number at Tiveli Gardens Benson. The sale takes place March 1887 in Tombstone to satisfy the judgment plus costs and interest.
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