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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1909
Page
3
The large Boe Mining dredging plant on Lower Lynx Creek is finished and operating. The abstract of title for the Amos Pioneer House site near Prescott is complete and the title has passed to the territory.
Arizona’s rail map may radically change within ten months as lines expand. The Twin Butte road extension toward a Southern Pacific link will reroute freight via Tucson. A San Carlos to Winkelman push opens a through line to Phoenix and the coast, with SP rumored to build Rice Station to Graber County and Durango Colorado.
Frank M. Murphy reports Prescott West. He says Arizona mining and investments are healthy with eastern financial centers active. He notes the territory is highly regarded by investment hubs and the mineral field attracts investors, predicting bright prospects and continued prosperity.
Maud B Scott files in district court for divorce from William P Scott whom she married in Broce on December 16 1847. They have four children and he deserted her on December 22 1907. she seeks custody of the children and both temporary and permanent alimony. William P Miller represents the plaintiff. A judgment transcript from a justice court is filed in Luke Balaclovich vs Giles Arhman et al. James F White sues Cochise County for 807.90 dollars in fees through Neale & Sutter.
George F Buxton president of the Bisbee board of trade and county fair commissioner to the territorial fair has sent in his resignation to the clerk due to pressing business matters requiring his full attention. Advices from Chicago ask police to search for Jobo Breen a 17 year old boy missing since September who is believed to be in the region.
A crowded day in Tombstone features diplomats and professionals passing through from Bisbee Douglas Benson and Nogales. Lawyers auditors postmasters and county officials mingle with cattle ranchers en route to the Chrislia Cattle company roundup. Multiple judges deputies and journalists arrive or depart to and from court. Local residents return from trips to Los Angeles Clifton and Los Angeles while new births and a court case loom over the copper camp. A post office opens at Briamrock Cochise county.
The probate court issued four marriage licenses today as Cupid Ed James officiated. John Doyle of Bisbee and Janie Mullholland of Cumberland England plan marriage, with John Greener and Lucia Mary Waiters both Bisbee residents. Charles O Christenson and Mary F Kelly, Bisbee and St David residents, will wed, alongside Walter W Hunt and Eunice Dunagan, Bisbee residents. The community in Tombstone sends best wishes for a happy union.
Reported near Tombstone at 10 pm an illuminated craft, resembling a chariot, hung a half mile up and drifted eastward. Spectators claimed it resembled a Wright brothers dirigible and speculated it carried Elks delegates from Los Angeles to Texas. If it cannot land by tomorrow, Tombstone may mount a local expedition to Lenoir.
The Douglas Dieputch reports active surveying for the Southern Pacific extension from Giveson to Douglas begins today. A camp is at Hannigan ranch with extra workers to hasten the job, as tents are set and the party plans an extended stay to push the Gleeson Pearce branch toward Douglas.
Long Beach dispatch reports Emmett Cochrane, once a government agent, now serves three years in Fort Leavenworth for leading a major scheme to smuggle Chinese into the United States. The operation used fraudulent certificates with Cananea as the base, and investigators Connell and Jones in Douglas and Naco helped uncover the plot.
Sport lovers in Tucson gear up for a combined ball tournament and Southwestern Shooters association meeting in September. The Citizen notes shooters from Arizona New Mexico and southwestern Texas will attend a large event drawing many visitors to the Old Pueblo for a banner week of sports.
John O. Dunbar returns from Prescott after buying the Arizona Herald plant for his new Arizona Daily Globe. He plans to ship it to Globe and issue the first number around August 10. The Herald plant is new and among the territory’s best despite having only one linotype. another machine has been ordered. The Globe will be an evening, independent paper.
A San Diego dispatch reports at the San Diego & Arizona Railway office, with John D Spreckels as president, that tracklaying will begin next week and the line will reach the Mexican border in sixty days. Orders were placed in St. Louis for a locomotive, thirty six steel flat cars of forty tons each, ten steel box cars of fifty tons each, two tank cars and several thousand tons of rail.
Railroad workers laid the spur at the Y terminal in Gleeson townsite completing Eapee work except for the new station. Copper Bell mine, Shannon Copper, reports three high grade ore strikes with John Gleeson mine also firing, signaling bright camp prospects and planned two carloads daily sulphide ore from Gleeson.
The Chicago Tribune reiterates plans to boost the arid west and support the proposed exposition of carrigated Janda in Chicago this November. The July issue features multiple columns on northern reclamation service projects and a full page ad with a suitable illustration.
The airship attraction reappeared in the eastern horizon near the same spot as Monday. Mayor Wentworth used a telescope to identify it as the 47th star rumored to mark Arizona's statehood flag, a distance suggesting Arizona’s statehood chances remain distant with the Republican Congress.
Sheriff’s office reports the arrest of Jeeus Ortes, captured by Deputy Morrison at Fairbank. He shot Milton Quirog of Sibyl on Sunday night during a quarrel between Southern Pacific railroad section hands. Quirog is in critical condition with slim hopes of recovery.
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