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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1920
Page
8
Mrs Geo Henshaw and children tell the morning for Cochise where they will spend several days. the Bilis family and W J Mieke visiting Douglas. ranch travels include a search party for G J Peterson with no developments yet. Busyness topics, local events, races, and visits across towns are noted.
County officers and residents visit Tombstone with deputies and officials from Bisbee, St David, Douglas, and Fairbank stopping for meetings, licensing, and social events. Local staff include Miss Lella Spence resigning, Mr Foster running for State Mine Inspector, and visitors from Texas and Fort Worth. Weathered notes cover bank directors, powder plant planning, and Congregational conference preparations in the town.
Local superior judge A G McAlister conducts a chamber session in Tombstone amid absence of Sheriff Lockwood in Prescott. Attending attorneys include Fred Sutter Walter Roche J W Ross and Sam Hi Kyle of Bisbee. Nearby reports note Emma Faulkner and Emma Bishop in Phoenix Bisbee respectively, and Ray B Krebs selling a Chevrolet truck to Goodman Merrill of St David. Stronghold and Cochise County baseball plans form as W Walker to manage Tombstone team. grounds at Schuster Park to be prepared. practice game slated Sunday. Mrs Guy Welch underwent a small operation at Copper Queen hospital Bisbee and is reported to be recovering well. Esther Schneider visiting Bisbee. Treble Clef Club held its regular meeting at Miss Lorna Lockwood’s Toughnut Street home.
Town newspaper page reports George Gibson in Navy care and planned electrical cure, a benefit dance for St John’s Episcopal church, multiple local visits, a Calcutta Chautauqua meeting, and a ball game upcoming as Tombstone residents share town events.
The report details the defense beginning its rebuttal in a deportation case. It references a witness describing being taken to Warren and loaded with about 60 others, a trip to Hermanas New Mexico, and prior testimony about dynamite found in a woodshed linked to a man named Dixon.
A Bisbee resident described seeing a raid on the IWW and a machine gun during the morning hours, with about 16 raiders and violence observed as he and his family traveled home. Max Mosler of Bisbee visited the city, while others described actions by the raiding party.
Witnesses from Bisbee and Tombstone recount deportation and violence during the strike. Participants include H. P. Merrill, Mrs. Enochs, Capt. Hodgson, and W. E. Hawthorne, describing gunmen, forced marches, and injuries at Warren. Judge Pattee adjourns proceedings until Monday afternoon.
Larrieu and a Mexican named Quijada were arrested last year on charges related to a mountain shooting that killed Ernest Gray. Quijada was acquitted by a jury last October and the case against Larrieu was dismissed. The matter now to be retried in Tucson.
April 17 Brooklyn Eagle tour party of 119 formed the Grand Canyon dedication guests in Tucson for two hours. The group arrived by special train in the early morning, toured San Xavier del Bac Mission and the University of Arizona, then visited Casa Grande ruins before departing around 10:30.
J H Larsen, superintendent of the state industrial school for delinquent children at Fort Grant, arrived in Bisbee yesterday to oversee more than 100 inmates. The youths, age range unclear, are in a program balancing schooling and labor aimed at reform through vocational and industrial training as parolees transition to freedom.
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