Colter Pledges Prison Policy Similar to Hunt Plan
Arizona voters read a sixteen page pamphlet by gubernatorial candidate Fred Colter praising humane prison discipline and education while warning against broad parole. Critics contrast his stance with Hunt's regime and Senator Sutter’s calls to withhold clemency until justice is served. Ongoing scrutiny follows a Phoenix prison investigation.
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Fred Colter
Colter
W. W
Hunt Cathe Beoe
Arizona
Hunt
Hume
Poller
Rosa Roso
Phoenix
Ernie James
Cochise County
Thut
Fred Sutter
Sutter
Sister seeks aid to find missing brother William Holder
A general appeal from Ella Holder, dated August 6 1918 in Tombstone Arizona, requests help from all peace officers to locate her brother William S Holder who left San Francisco on April 29 in a Hudson Six with license 273282. Sheriff Guy C Welch of Tombstone forwards the letter, noting the mining claim plan and urging officers to share information.
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Brother
William &. Holder
San Francisco
Guy C. Welch
Ella Holder
Tombstone
Ariz
William S. Holder
Tam
Pigeon protection law cited by Douglas military
Aug 17 Douglas reports a new federal law protects carrier pigeons owned or banded by the United States. Interfering with Antwerp or homing pigeons is unlawful under the act, with penalties up to 100 dollars fine or six months imprisonment.
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Douglas
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Antwerp
United States
U.S. A
Prisoner Husband Letter Reaches Fort Huschuca Visitor
Mrs Isaacs visiting Fort Huschuca yesterday received a letter from her husband detained in a German prison camp. The letter confirms contact despite wartime separations and notes conditions of confinement.
Cochise Girls Plan Movie From Tombstone History
Co chise County Bank president Mo W. 8 travels from Benson with Gladys Kelly Ethlyn Kelly Robertson and Mrs McKibbla to Tombstone. They tour the Bird Cage Mil lion Dollar and Epitaph office, to write a moving picture about early Olt Camp life using current scenes. They aim to stage the film before winter.
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Mo W. 8
Cochise
Tombstone
Will
Douglas Shift Boss Charged With Disloyal Talk
Aug. 16 Dave Lambert shift boss at the C A smelter faces a hearing before US Commissioner Beumler on espionage act violation charges. Indications point to binding over to the federal grand jury at Tucson. Testimony cites his remark a worker calls a fool to fight for the government. Lambert oversees fifteen men at the plant.
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Douglas
Dave Lambert
C. & A. Smelter
United States
Beumler
Federal Grand Jury
Tucson
Lambert
Justin C Daspit
Department of Justice
C. L McFarlane
Bisbee
Cochise Graham Cattle Growers Meet Set in Safford
The Cochise Graham Cattle Growers association holds its regular semiannual meeting in Safford September 12 and 14. HL Johnson president says the gathering is extremely important to cattlemen in Arizona and the region. He urges full attendance to advance stock raiser interests in the Southwest.
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Arizona
Southwest
Street Car Strike in Tucson Demands Higher Wages
In Tucson on August 1, manager Frank Russell of the Tucson Rapid Transit urged striking motormen to return to work while the state corporation commission reviews its rate increase application. The strike halted streetcars and bus drivers joined in, with a hearing set for September 3 after an earlier delay. Also noted is Mrs. Mary Holand being moved to Bisbee to stay with her daughter for recovery.
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Tucson
Frank Russell
Tucson Rapid Transit Company
State Corporation Commission
University of Arizona
Corporation Commission
Mary Holand
Fremont Street
Bisbee
Harry Hazelwood
Marriage Licenses Issued This Week From Tombstone
Weekly list from Clerk J. E. James of the Superior Court shows marriages across Douglas Bisbee and Cananea names. Couples include Bacarins and Vuinones, Traut and McFarland, Roderiguee and Villa, Glenn and Vance, Bakes and Denton, Wilabe and Martin, Haw ley and Rutledge, Sindle and Baby Prince, Sayre and Wright, Villegah and Villaovas, Kolman and Menze, Rodriguez and Herrera, Wheeler and O'Brien, Standberg and Holden, McCullough and Fountain, Hart and Clinton, Tuttle and Watkins, Gonzales and Contre ras.
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J. E. James
Superior Court
Bacarins Arraza
Eufamia Vuinones
Johnson
Fred W. Traut
Bernice McFarland
Douglas
Gabriel Roderiguee
Apolonio Villa
Joe B Glenn
Lucy B. Vance
Calvin John Bakes
Anna Denton
Bisbee
Clarence J. Wilabe
Jennie Martin
Arthur Standberg
Julia Holden
James Evans McCullough
May Ella Fountain
Ralph Hart
Delia Clinton
Hereford
James W. Tuttle
Lowell
Ida Watkins
Rafael ‘Gonzales
Maria Luisa Contreras
Cananea
Arizona man charged with misuse of railroad pass
United States Commissioner Long ordered the return to Phoenix for trial of Peter Hutchinson and Juana Cervantes. Hutchinson, a former railroad employee, is accused of obtaining a railroad pass for himself, wife, and three children and misrepresenting Cervantes as his wife. He claimed his wife had died and that Cervantes cared for his children on a trip from Arizona to Southern California.
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Los Angeles
United States
Long
Phoenix
Peter Hutchinson
Juana Cervantes
Mary Perez
Hutchinson
Miss Cervantes
Arizona
California
Arizona Doctors Recalled for War Service and Others
Arizona physicians and other professionals are being drafted into military service. Doctors from Cochise, Bisbee, Phoenix, Thatcher and Glendale head to camps in New Mexico and beyond. Promotions, commissions, and assignments in France, with several Arizona names linked to the effort, are noted alongside national war updates from Europe and Asia.
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Cutter
Culter
Cath
Ey Armon Ave
U.S. Transport
Pal
Old
Cochise-Grahm
Safford
Noyon
Japan
Erian
Irk Saman
Roye Noyon
W. M. Randolph
Camp Harry J. Jones
Bimiston Darragh
Calumet & Arizona Hospital
Camp Riley
Kan
Carl Pace
W. W. Pace
Thatcher
Saltake
Camp Fremont
Vernon
Charleston
Spillman D. Little
Jonge Advocate General
W. Paul
State Corporation
Nre
Daugins
W. Pack
el Paso & Southwestern
France
Afikael Hannon
Leonard Loehr
Engineer
Loehr
Bavaria
Copper Queen
Hannon
L. O. Street
Glendale
M. W
Prentice Dill
Eddie Powell
Phoenix Republican
Marine Corps
Boston
E. Q Snider
Ordinance Corps
W. A. Harwood
Jerome
Averill D. Carlisle
Evans School For Boys
Mesa
Theodore Roosevelt
Leonard Wond
Loges Wood
War Office
Roye
Ribecourt
Paris
Roy
tiaingy-Noyon Salient
Echo 1
Biers
Gera
Hindenburg
Var
Amsterdam
Kazan
Volga Region
Moscow
Berlin
Vologeda
Kirilov
Voggorod
Pe Tograd
Kronstadt
Stockholm
la Matia
Tokio
Ave
China
Manchuria
Washington
Poole
State Department
Irkutsk
Lake Baikal
Siberian Peoples Army
Harris
Senate Military Committee
Canton
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