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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1892
Page
8
Globe reports George Cheyney and Frank Kibbey news while Bisbee, Willcox, Nogales, and Tucson areas note hotel changes, primaries plans, and local commerce. The Can Can hosts dinners, Miller's Drug Store features soups and roots, and the International Hotel rebuild is planned.
Elmer E. Heg of Portland, Oregon, with the Arizona loan commission, arranged $1,000,000 in territorial bonds for Equitable Mortgage Co of 206 Broadway New York. The bonds mature in five years at five percent, cover county municipal and school district indebtedness, sold at par, funds payable immediately. Gov Murphy Col Christy and Mark Smith supported the effort, credited for the success.
The government awarded a contract to the Boleo Copper Mining Company of Lower California to improve Santa Rosalia harbor on the Gulf of California. Plans must be submitted within six months, work must begin within six months after acceptance, and the entire project must finish within six years. The company will receive fifty years of exemption from harbor dues for its vessels and cargo and fifty percent of harbor dues from other vessels.
General William ONeill as president of the World’s Fair managers private secretary Hughes reports good prospects for Arizona receiving seven thousand dollars from the Fair Commission for a display of the prehistoric and present irrigation system.
An armed mob of about 100 men from Kolb attempted to assault and overturn the probate judge and canvassing board at the Coos county seat Stockford Alabama. They failed to tamper with the ballot box and departed town vowing to return while hiding the judge sheriff and circuit clerk.
An Algol observation described by Vogel using the spectrographic method shows the star's velocity reversing direction, implying a dark companion star in a near circular orbit. The discovery weighs and measures the unseen body and explains the star's periodic brightness changes.
Rev F W Downs pastor announces Sunday school at 6 30 p m and evening services at 7 30 p m no morning service sermon titled How to Fight the Devil all are invited to attend
An assortment of notes from Duncan reports a rich mine strike near Carlisle New Mexico with ore values over 1000 dollars per ton and long-running work by Pete McDermond and a Chinaman. The column also mentions rain in the valley, Tehuantepec railway plans, plus local ads for footwear hats and desks.
The Professor Truman Henry Safford of Williams College demonstrates his extraordinary lightning calculating skills. A tester challenges him with a birth date August 15 1852 and today’s date June 20 168%, seeking his age in seconds. He pauses and delivers a billions‑range estimate, while the rival paper mocks the result.
The report notes Ruessia exports over 3 million pounds of caviar annually derived from sturgeon. It mentions England and Wales ending forty four million in trade in 1501, contrasting with about 37 million in 189. Pittsburgh Dispatch references the data.
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