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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1908
Page
3
The county records show numerous instruments filed with the county recorder including deed transfers in Douglas and Benson towns. Entries name James Mocrhead and multiple grantors with interests in mining claims, additions, and properties, plus mortgage and security activity and a decree of final accounting in estate matters.
The Huachuca Water Company undergoes full reorganization after foreclosure sale by A. E. Davis. New officers are John W. Walker president Henry A. O'Brien vice president A H Gardner secretary treasurer with M R Hoar and Chas Fredericks as directors. Immediate plans include building a rock dam at Miller Canyon reservoir to store millions of gallons of water.
A well known Los Angeles businessman toured Tombstone seeking a clear view of the city and its surroundings. He praised Tombstone Consolidated and Macho mich Mercantile, comparing its prospects to a city of fifty thousand, and expressed belief the town could become the leading commercial center of the region.
A flood event floods the city after a cloudburst. Santa Fe depot and Harvey house submerged. A temporary bridge structure replaces washed out crossing. Cananea Dairy Co plans a branch in Hereford. A man named Nouns faces arrest in Bisbee for forging orders. Roughly six thousand sacks of Irish potatoes shipped from near Fairbanks this season. Pima county public schools cost last year was 44 000 with 54 705 spent in the city of Tue. Mark Smith returns from Los Angeles to Tucson and may stay for the Prescott convention. Yuma valley farmers seek 14 per ton for alfalfa. Tucson unions plan a Labor Day celebration. Automobile races with prizes worth 00 at territorial fair. Found guilty of neglect of an infant. Francisco Aurique and Eufugia Flores fined and jailed in Tucson. U S Marshal Daniels to depart Tucson for San Francisco with 38 Chinese deportees. Tempe Cantaloupe association ends season with 31 can total. Pauly Jail Co bid accepted for 64 steel cells at Florence for 25 221. Tempe Arizona National Guard to send four riflemen to Camp Ferry Ohio for an annual shoot.
In Tucson a death watch guards D. W. Hawkins who is condemned to die on August 1 for the December murder of Albert Leonhardt. No commutation steps have been taken, petitions are scarce, and officials doubt Governor Kibbey will intervene in the case.
Notice is given of the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Arizona & Couonano Barcxoan Company at the company office in Taccon Arizona on September 1 1908 at 10:00 a.m. for electing a Board of Directors for the ensuing year and other business. Secretary Chas E Walker signs the notice dated July 29 1908 in Tucson Arizona.
John Wesley Walker, longtime reporter for the United States and District courts, departs for assignments in the East. He will be gone about two months, taking with him new stories from Arizona and the Southwest as well as coverage of stocks in mining, water utilities, and orange groves.
The board met on the 34th of August, disposing business with a night session. Bisbee district may sell 42000 in bonds by private sale. Clerk to advertise bids for cemetery fence at Tombstone. Miller canyon county road petition laid on the table. Ed F Williams named immigration commissioner. Delegates to Albuquerque irrigation congress: John Merrill J J Bowen G Mitchener Ed F Williams G J McCabe. M Fairlee named trustee for Sie Benson road district. Steve Roemer resigned. Bridge repairs on the Sen Pedro at Hereford authorized.
The Prosecution office acknowledges Miss Florence Irwin for a fine market of fruit, praising peaches and grapes from the Irwin Ranch near Tombstone. The shipment highlights the area's horticultural wealth along the eastern Arizona valley. James J. White, worker at the Lagunas project, was killed Friday when a boulder rolled down and crushed him.
The birth occurred Friday night with the newborn girl delivered to Mr and Mrs Frank Bennett. The mother Mrs Vennett is recovering with her mother Mrs James Lamb of the city. Both mother and baby are reported doing nicely.
Mine Shepard leaves Tombstone after resigning from Attorney Len Goodrich to relocate to Los Angeles. Wreck of the Giollen State Limited near Hado, with eighteen passengers injured and one seriously hurt, caused by a broken rail on the Southern Pacific line.
Sam Garrett named Tombstone representative of the Arizona Marching Club started by the Bisbee Elks. Objective to recruit 500 men for the next national Elks gathering in Los Angeles next July to showcase Arizona. Elks insignia changes mean old pins obsolete and wearing unauthorized emblems is prosecutable.
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