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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1893
Page
3
Thuradlay's Daily reports a busy period with Good Friday observed, multiple residents traveling to Tucson and Phoenix, and local industry updates. A rockbreaker starts at Bors mine, a legal case yields acquittal, and a cattle round up begins near Separ. Easter events and a large immigrant train pass through Benson are noted, along with weather readings and public notices on expected court activity.
Readings and recitations marked the Teachers Institute session as educators from Tombstone and surrounding areas met to discuss pedagogy in primary grades and geography while a morning program featured student performances. Legislative items included bills on vacation of judgments, animal control, placer mining work, and jail salaries, with several measures referred to committees or passed over vetoes.
Reports from Phoenix show irrigation canal measures sent to agri cultural committee and county boundary panel. Several bills progress or fail including a dental regulation measure and a University management substitute, while a race prize act fails and probate judge salaries are debated.
Fragmentary copy cites a murder suicide in which a man shot his wife and then killed himself, details unclear. The piece mentions nominations for Arizona governor, electoral fare notes, local arrivals, trials, and a funeral notice for Miss Ellie Berry in Tombstone with a 4 p.m. Saturday service.
The bill by Co. G.N.G. A. at Armory Hall last night drew praise for its superb trash and seductive strains. Attendees, including fair women and brave men, danced until the weekma hours and left convinced the ball offered thorough enjoyment.
Bisbee’s school owns a fine cabinet collection with minerals and marine curios. Prof. Varnum secured additions from a professional collector in West Medford, Massachusetts. The assortment includes quartz, tourmaline, corals, shells, a whale vertebra, a large pearl oyster shell, a horse shoe crab, and various fossils. The article urges similar collections in other towns to promote education and exchange mine specimens for distant curios.
Warcouser, B C, vows revenge on Batmore captain after raid exposed aboard a steamer. Nanimo reports a wrecking attempt with 20 sticks of powder and a clock timing device. Separately, Charles F Tomes, American Preserve manager, vanished admitting a defalcation of 10000 to 20000 dollars. bank books missing amid alleged extravagance.
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