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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1920
Page
8
Tombstone brief item list covers games postponed due to storm, visitors from Tucson Bisbee and Gleeson, university and church matters, police notes on murders, a wedding, and a reward increase. Notable names include Christine Kore Belle Gamay Helen Benedict Ray Krebs KV Saunders and J F McDonald, with actions in Tombstone Cochise County and Fort Huachuca.
Thursday Manager WP Walker announces that practice will be held tomorrow at 3 o'clock. All players must attend. presence on the grounds is compulsory this season. Publisher Mrs. a T Hoy of the Bisbee Distorter in Tombstone attends deportation trials in the Superior court.
Mrs Mary Black mother of Mrs G W Holland who has been visiting here with her daughter for months left today for her Fort Thomas Graham County home Frank Sanders arrived in Tombstone from Vail in charge of repair maintenance of the Tucson Wall state highway section working under the state engineer He will stay several days and praise for the Wall Tucson stretch has been heard from motorists Emma Faulkner stenographer returned home from Phoenix after a week with relatives Judge M J Sullivan E W Crozier and Young Short of Gleeson spent the day in Tombstone boosting for the cowboy celebration to be staged there May 1st and 2nd Manager J A Murray Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph says repairs nearly complete on the local system entirely new improvements Gleeson Courtland sections under jurisdiction
Friday reports Chief Deputy Recorder Hut chison to Tucson on federal court business. Tombstone fans attended a Bisbee fight where Woods defeated Chambers Woods by technical knockout in the 10th round, hailed as a thrilling ring battle. Local visitors include W P Walker and many others, with Henshaw acting as official announcer on request of the Bisbee Athletic Club.
Oscar Pigg a nine year old boy was found alive and well by a searching party near the Apache Maid ranch east of Jerome after a days long disappearance. The rescue broke a tense search that drew volunteers and local residents into the rugged area surrounding the mountains.
Livestock in good condition as abundant old grass and browse sustain herds. Calving underway with high fraction expected to progress well. Agriculture behind schedule due to wet cool weather, frost and delayed plowing but planting and first alfalfa cuttings progressing in Salt River Valley with excellent yield anticipated.
Phoenix April 23 County lists for federal aid equipment show large sums with Pinal county at 75000 and Mohay and Yavapai counties planning uses of state funds. Santa Cruz declines, others await action after Hot Springs convention.
State engineer Maddock said the railroad strike halted construction on the Tempe bridge and the Agua Fria crossing, delaying paving between Mesa and Tempe due to cement shortages. The Believed deaths and camper fires are noted as related hardships while adding the San Carlos bridge extension near Globe also faced delays.
Phoenix April 2 Arizona will be represented by two delegates at a Washington conference to discuss leasing public coal lands for operation. Gov Campbell will name delegates per Van H Mating, director of the bureau of mines. Arizona hosts extensive undeveloped coal fields in Apache and Navajo counties north of the Santa Fe railroad. Smaller deposits lie in the same counties to the south of the Santa Fe. The fields are on government lands and will be leased under a recent act of Congress.
The Phoenix chamber focuses on the ailing Betts, chairman of the corporation commission, bedridden for 12 days after a Bisbee trip. City officials anticipate a $40,000 Phoenix gift to the armory fund, with donation approval and a bond election likely in the fall. Betts shows slight improvement but remains weak and semi stupor.
At Hot Springs Arkansas the Monkhead National Highway association adopted a resolution urging a fixed annual appropriation of more than 100 dollars for cooperative highway work and driver safety. The Arizona and New Mexico groups discussed similar road funding schemes while a land cession plan by Governor Las Razola drew support in some circles and rejection in others.
In Nogales on April 13 Simona Badilla allegedly fired at Cortega and his bride as they prepared to board a train at the Southern Pacific depot. A sister and Badilla were wounded in the exchange. Ortega was scratched and the bride unharmed while one sister was jailed. Hospitalized Badilla and the other sister await hearings. Captain John Christy, former Arizona legislator and land company president, died at Gila Bend, Greenlee county linked project leader.
In Phoenix on April 23 a civil service board in the weather bureau headquarters did not see any applicants from Arizona for appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The article notes youths in the state showed little interest in the government funded education and naval training.
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