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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1915
Page
1
In Cochise County residents near Tombstone are urged to move to Tombstone for superior schools and a balanced life. The notice touts teachers, pure water, climate, stores, sanitation, and active religious and fraternal groups as reasons to relocate. It also reports August land sales in McNeal basin, noting heavy government land interest and swift activity by land commissioners.
Mrs Woodruff wife of County Stenographer RA Woodruff arrived in Tombstone from Douglas and will stay with her husband in the Gilmore cottage on Sixth Street. County Attorney J F Rows and Assistant Bruce Stephenson traveled to Bisbee and Douglas for official business, planning to return for Monday court. Deputy Sheriff Percy Bowden subpoenaing jurors in Bisbee and Douglas, reports to court Monday. John Parfax Montora Mining general manager visited Tombstone with a few workers on the Golden Rule Property. Ernest Ivey returned from Bisbee to Tombstone to spend his vacation with his brothers.
Col Henry Pyrat returns from Elgin ranch as A F Parker and Dr H A Bishop arrive. Clerk A C Karger and State Bank Examiner Johnson head to Douglas to review county hospital operations. Sheriff seeks a brown mare branded T4, missing since last night at Sonoita. Dr C A Morris to open permanent Tombstone offices August 10.
A month of intense mining development across Cochise County includes filings and agreements among Middle Mountain Copper Company Los Angeles based parties and multiple claims in Dragoon Tombstone Dos Cabezas and Gleeson districts. Signal Point Mining Company incorporated in Douglas with 400000 capital led by Philligm Hemphill and Richards, Bruce Stephenson as state agent.
Washington has been selected as the mace for holding the national encempt mt of the GA. Ron sue Tombstone has better fire protect cleaner streets, owns a water works at a fine city hall, and owes fess wes, and shows fewer deaths per capita than any city in Arizona. and yet we are not happy. JE. Barker way wased his residence property in Tombstone to Dr. Huse The Yuma Ties says that Chas Cowell and Robert S. Hatch handed in their resignations as prison guards last Friday Hoth intend to remain there. No reason is assigned for their resignation. Charlie Stowe left today for Chino Calfornia, where he will take a posi tion open for him on Dick Gird's mam moth beet sugar plantation. Two brothers named Mathews were judged in the county jail today from Willows for a term of five months for trying to get out of the county with property not belonging to them. It is an open question in Tombstone at the present time, whether a June bug or goldbug is the most detestable.
The State truck from the Tombstone canyon camp and the county truck left this morning to Florence to assist in moving prisoners over the interstate highway. They expect to reach Tucson this evening and Florence tomorrow, then return Monday morning with more prisoners. Long sentence inmates will work on the state highway, shorter sentence inmates on county roads.
The piece contrasts a Phoenix man jailed for drinking lemon extract with a Tombstone case where a colored cook at a hoarding house admitted drinking vanilla extract. The bottle was found empty, suggesting prior consumption, and the cook’s admission contrasted with the Phoenix man’s legal trouble.
Reports from Kentucky claim United States Senator Mark Smith is gravely ill and may die soon prompting revived talk that George W. Fiant could fill the unexpired term. The rumor ties Sidney P. Osborn to a possible governor rise, though both men have ridiculed the tale. Smith has more than five years left in office. Hunt’s term ends January 1, 1017 in Phoenix.
The Arizona College of Mines and Engineering employment bureau reports notable success this summer. Over 130 students secured summer work with daily wages from 3.30 to 4.25, including about thirty University of Arizona undergrads. Mines across the state cooperated, with companies like Copper Queen United Verde and Miami Copper adopting workers.
The Los Angeles Times notes a suggestion for Arizona to adopt a state song titled How Dry I Am as a possible topic for consideration at an upcoming extraordinary session of the Legislature.
Interest centers on a Labor Day event to crown Cochise County champions with five potential title contenders. A full program of races is expected to be announced next week, likely Thursday, featuring Tombstone City Band music and a special Matinee by the Giacomo Brothers for children at the Crystal Theater.
The July reports from Cochise officers show notable revenues. JE James of the Superior Court records 790.00 in fees plus 1.70 miscellaneous fees and civil fee balance. Recorder Owen E Murphy logs 30 for instruments filed, 405 instruments placed on record. The E P and S W Railroad mortgage to Merchants B and T Co yielded 52.90. Sherr Wheeler’s office reports 50.00 civil fees and 475.00 total for licenses including marriage licenses.
Arizona expects its largest ever delegation to the National Education Association meeting in Oakland San Francisco due to the Expo. Arizona contingent headquarters are at the Oakland hotel rooms 458 469 462 with neighbors Illinois and Pennsylvania nearby. Call at headquarters to rendezvous from opening day through closing.
An article in the Phoenix Republican argues Phoenix has endorsed the Borderland transcontinental route over Ocean to Ocean options. It stresses Borderland’s practicality, year round reliability, growing Phoenix El Paso ties, and urges trade toward San Diego or El Paso while viewing Los Angeles unfavorably for business reasons.
Sheriff Wheeler destroyed whiskey seized from John Horton and Joe Lecher in the rear of the courthouse Thursday evening. As six cases were broken, booze flowed down the alley and fumes filled the air, prompting many to joke about leaving the courthouse.
Five Points Herald notes Tombstone's renewed mining boom with dramatic town growth. Editor Heiner praises the rapid improvements since last year, declaring the Old Camp cannot be kept down.
Quite 1 Miss Fay Kennedy deputy County School Superintendent is confined to her bed with a severe case of lagrippe. Her many friends hope for her early recovery.
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