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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1907
Page
4
An old Denver Republic piece notes that for the first time in thirty years there is no open gambling in Arizona. The musical hokum style bluesy prose recalls a season ended, gamblers hiking away, townsfolk uneasy, and simple pastimes taking hold as curfew sounds.
The postmaster general orders Station No 1 Brewery Gulch Bisbee opened May 1 with money order registry services and postal supplies. David Garrett named postmaster Basin J A Gillet resigned Elizabeth W Layton named at Thatcher replacing Claridge removed.
President Roosevelt cannot attend the Rough Rider reunion planned with the unveiling of the ONeill monument in Prescott. Rough Rider association president Hunter says the event will be postponed one to two years. The monument is still set for July 3 with visitors expected nationwide.
Minutes detail resignations and appointments including C A Wallace as assistant clerk and JN Christenson HC Kimball as road overseers for St David and Marcus districts. Board divides St David district, approves Pirtleville road district, and grants jail building petition with county deeded lot. Numerous county expenses listed and adjournment to April 2.
Attorney General Clay interprets the reform as allowing poker unless run as a banking of percentage game. In a Prescott Journal-Miner interview he says no house takeoffs are allowed under anti gambling law. Sheriff Sury of Yaxapai ordered closures of take-off poker games, making Prescott a strictly “good town.”
Kingman dispatch reports a mining rush near a large vanite ore discovery north of Gold Road mine. Fred Brown J C Duscall and George Smii identified a vein 30 to 50 feet wide with 6 feet yielding nearly 690 in gold per ton. Claims widely staked. Kingman camps see unprecedented rushes tonight.
A Tucson Post report details George J. Roskruge of Arizona who refuses surgical removal of a small tumor on his lower left eyelid. He follows an extreme fast, consuming only hot water with lemon, claiming rapid flesh loss yet improved vigor. After thirty days he weighs about twenty pounds less but asserts the tumor is shrinking toward absorption and plans to resume normal intake.
The Albuquerque Citizen reports a treaty opening the Carrizo Mountains to mineral exploration on the Navajo reservation with royalties to the tribe. The mountains are described as rich in gold deposits, once jealously guarded by Indians wary of invasion by pale settlers, and a legend recalls a 19th century prospectors being robbed and killed while carrying gold nuggets.
Los Angeles reports that the Mammoth mine merger in Arizona values about 15 million dollars and creates the Arizona Amalgamated Copper Company. Four large properties within thirty miles of Clifton join the merger, with plans for a central smelter and rail links to producing properties. Included claims are Brevens, Keystone, Milky, and Celtic.
A playful instruction invites girls to test a boy’s patience by a number puzzle. Start with a chosen digit one to nine, add one, multiply by nine, erase the left hand figure, add fourteen, add the original number, then watch the youth’s count.
Cummings arrived from Gleeson with mining prospects. Tom Cowan visited from Gleeson while George B Wilcox returned from Tempe accompanied by Mr Wilcox. The Occidental wall work advances, lumber staged for completion. Certificates issued for marriages among locals. Grand jury actions loom as Charles Lewis awaits proceedings. Various visitors, residents, and officials add to a bustling day in Tombstone and nearby towns.
Friday's Daily notes Inyra a Yuma Indian paid a five dollar fine in the justice court for being drunk and disorderly. Yuma Sun Manager S Duvall of Tomstone Electric Light Power Co ill at home. Eight carloads of mules pass Fairbank en route to Nogales for Arig4 Sonora railroad grading.
Willis Woods once of Arizona and arrested in Los Angeles seeks to return to the scene of alleged depredations. He is linked to Billy Stiles and Burt Alvord and reputed to have escaped Cochise county jail. Ordered returned to Arizona to stand federal trial. he may resist, prompting witness transport to Los Angeles.
Rumors say over 2,000 Chinese and Russians are en route to Nacozari to be employed by Southern Pacific. They will travel in three trains via Nogales and Douglas to Naco tari in hond. The company plans rapid work from the Guaymas line and others. Mules machinery and supplies have already been sent to Nucozari.
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