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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1909
Page
1
Benson will see the smelter in operation soon as the Boston & Arizona Smelting Company is formed with $2,500,000 capital. Incorporators RA Burgess F Bowring and AJ Ried name Doane Merrill as Benson agent. Offices planned in Carson City Nevada and Benson Arizona.
Tomorrow schedule lists Congregational church service at 11:00 with Rev W Meyers of Louisville to preach an introductory sermon. Methodist church shows a 1:00 p.m. lecture and 10:00 a.m. Sunday school. Catholic services include 8:30 a.m. Mass and 7:39 p.m. rosary benediction. a note on Frank Thompson states he returned to Phoenix to answer a criminal charge and explains his alleged drunken wandering with a scriptural item kept for sale.
The clipping lists metal prices for silver copper and lead from New York markets with weekly quotations from Engineering and Mining Journal and a El Paso smelter quote. It also includes a wanted ad in Success Magazine seeking a Tombstone based marketer to secure new business using special methods, with address for K Peacock Room 102 Success Magazine Building New York.
DD Grimm, Indian allotment agent from Washington, arrives for the Yuma reservation land division before white settlement. Under Bureau of Indian Affairs oversight, each Indian household will receive five acres to hold forever with location preferences considered. The story notes the Yumas as original owners and mentions tempering with cold remedies advertised by a local vendor.
The following letters are advertised as remaining in general delivery for the week ending August 8, 1909 at the Tombstone postoffice. Names include Alvero Librada, Renton Dot Giminez Luis Freeman Mrs R Herriera Joe Janee TW Lee Mee Lara Chona A de Lorimer Alex (2) Martin Nelson Minchan Bill Serbantes Ramona Smith Leon Stephenson Mrs(2) Trourse Maria Thatcher Mise N Weatherly. Postmaster Cuantx notes to state advertised when calling for store letters.
The government experiment station, with Superintendent Peterson and workers, relocated to the new California side farm while the old valley station closed. Egyptian cotton for two seasons of tests should be ready by mid September with three months needed for picking. The raw cotton will go to eastern factories, likely Providence Rhode Island, for spinning tests. If successful, cotton cultivation in the Yuma and Gila valleys will expand once water is available.
A roundup of items from Yavapai to Tucson: Kirkland valley seeks a local option election, a Prescott man sentenced to twenty days, first ore shipment from Courtland to El Paso, mosquito plague in Phoenix, Typhoid in Pima, Nogales firemen seek a ladder truck, Tucson Chinese Masons dedicate a Joss house, and a July to August forecast of events including Arizona day at Seattle and Twin Butte railroad bonds. Also noted are a fatal crossing near Silver Bell, and a Tucson hotel clerk tied to counterfeit checks偿
A no1 Jersey cow for sale with four years and good color along with a grade Jersey Holstein pair and calves, raised at LA Whites sweet potato ranch in St David Arizona. Also Woods Liver Medicine liquid form marketed by Barney Binns St David Arizona promising liver regulation and relief from ailments with a $1 bottle offering more quantity than the 50c size.
A Tucson company named Arizona Snake Company plans to supply rattlesnakes Gila monsters scorpions tarantulas centipedes and even harmless horned toads for shipment. Officers Bowen Cole Pogue Le noir and Smith are snake handlers and catchers with live prices paid for captured reptiles. Shipments go to a Brooklyn man with European orders. several live consignments already sent.
The territorial board of equalization closed its session with a major change adopting the Yavapai per acre rate as the standard for non producing mines across all counties. The blanket rate raises or lowers assessments per county with Yavapai at 39.67 and Cochise showing a 23.67 per acre increase. The Cochise board may oppose at Monday's meeting and further action is anticipated.
Hon. B A Fowler of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, former Republican congressional candidate in 1904, has been selected as president of the National Irrigation Congress for the coming year, a notable honor for the Territory of Arizona.
Mr Totten representing Western Rectigraph of Spokane demonstrated a new rectizeaph device to Phoenix officials and real estate interests. The machine photographs documents with automatic development, turning a crank to operate, capable of capturing four pages of a record book in nine minutes. Demonstrations are planned for Cochhee County.
President Taft appoints Chas A Overlock of Douglas A to be United States marshal for the territory following the retirement of Ben Daniels, a Rough Rider era figure. Also notes on local travel and crime in Bree and a generic remedy ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
The Board of Supervisors will meet in regular session Monday to approve county bills and warrants and to receive bids for copying the duplicate assessment roll. They will act on D A Adame’s petition for a Willcox to Pearce and Gleeson telephone franchise. A marriage license was issued to Francisco Peralta of Nakaies and May Fuller of Denver.
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