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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1918
Page
2
July copper production in Arizona shows potential to surpass May’s record. June output reached about 470,000 pounds daily over 30 days, with likely extra output from May replaced by delayed transport. The Meh month hints at July exceeding May, despite Walled Verde Extension disruptions and smelter startup challenges at the new site.
July incident at Florence state prison involved about 70 life term convicts who stripped elderly contractor Frank J. Vaughn of his clothing and splashed him with paint during the painting. Guards and workers attempted to shield him. Vaughn was rescued after the painting was finished and later left the area.
County supervisors decided to name their own county council of defense, voting 11 to, instead of providing fourteen names from each board as ordered by the state council. They resolved they are capable of forming the county body themselves and will not send fourteen names.
Phoenix July 27 W A Barr the new state dairy commissioner announces strict enforcement rules for dairy operations. Inspections will cover milk container scaling after use coin braiding insect control disease attic sanitation and machinery. Licenses will be examined and revoked for violations.
Pinal county has become one of the state’s first class counties as its assessed valuation surpasses 50 million dollars. Subdivision A of section 5 chapter 61 of the 1917 sessions law sets the threshold at 56 million dollars for first class designation.
Two sections of Southern Pacific train No 102 crash in a rear end collision at Bohn west of Tucson yesterday morning. No soldiers hurt and no trainmen injured though baggage men Metzger and Walker were slightly shaken. Damage is slight and trains reached Tucson later under their own steam. Cause of crash not yet determined.
Eliott travels from Flagstaff to Washington to press dairy and hay producer unity with Food Administration policy during wartime. He plans talks with dairy hay grain and meat packing leaders and aims to align Arizona groups with national food programs, returning in two weeks then to Phoenix to coordinate Salt River Valley interests.
A July 25 letter from the American Iron and Steel Institute, under U S government orders, urges scrap iron and steel dealers and farmers to conserve all scrap metals for war material manufacture. M Egron company of Phoenix received one copy yesterday highlighting the nationwide drive and the active role of junk dealers.
Federal officers continue investigations into Mrs. Fred Schmidt who remains jailed awaiting a $500 bond for appearance in the superior court in Tombstone to answer a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. She, who claims to be a divine healer, was moved from jail this morning for photographing.
Phoenix July 29 The soldiers voting law reveals gaps in timing and procedure for sending ballots to cantonments 49 days before elections. Questions arise if absent soldiers should take ballots overseas or be allowed to vote after departure, with county attorney opinions noting possible remedies but no law permitting predeparture voting.
Olivir De Fue ret, jailed in Nogales for desertion, ends a weeklong hunger strike claiming eating is better than starvation. He says he avoided military service after leaving France and Canada and intends to cross into Mexico. He has been examined as unfit for duty and refused weeks ago, threatening self harm if given a weapon.
Word arrives of the marriage in San Antonio between Miss Dorothy Drake and Lieut. Harry Ulmo, formerly of Prescott and now with the aviation corps. The wedding ties a prominent Prescott family to military service amid wartime needs.
A letter dated June 30 1948 from private Tam Wing recounts experiences in England. He details a cathedral built starting in 600 AD, its historic damage and restoration, grand organ, chimes, and graves of notable figures. He notes clean countryside, priced goods, and cheerful locals despite prior war rumors. He asks his mother to greet family and promises to return home after the war. The letter accompanies wartime reclassification news from the Local Advisory Board shifting many registrants between classes for July examinations.
Leroy Hicks aged 11 and Edward Hicks aged 12 confessed aiding the theft of mail from a Gila Valley post office box. Checks totaling thousands were recovered after information from the youths. Thirty-one checks remain missing. Officers traced the loot to a location on lower Broad Street where envelopes and checks were found, many scattered by wind after being opened. The pair said they would do anything for attention.
Mr. Clark proprietor of Clark Ranch on west Pinto creek reports bears raiding his ranch for several days. Bears have caused havoc with cattle and hogs, 20 miles from Miami. Whitney in Cochise. Attorney L B Whitney member of state institutions commission traveled to Cochise county for highway work.
Plans are under way to erect a Mormon temple in Mesa at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. The temple would centralize southeast church activities and aid the many members who travel to Salt Lake City for marriages. The church shows growing strength in Arizona with 15,900 communicants and a second Phoenix edifice under construction at Monroe and Seventeenth streets at a cost of about 811.
Kingman is held on a federal charge after arrest at Goldroad by Deputy Mackey. Percival demanded a bread card, knocked a clerk down, and cursed the President and the United States. Goldroad, Ohio Toledo area. Frank J. Cheney senior partner of CHEREY & CO. Totty, Ohio. Family Pilla for emancipation.
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