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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1892
Page
4
A 1892 Arizona column notes silver gaining two cents per ounce in two days, announces The Williams News weekly, and discusses party lines. It covers Third party talk, Tucson Rhodes acquittal, and Cochise Republican primaries. It laments public opinion and calls for honesty and justice in offices.
The Two Republics reports a Mexican scheme where an Indian minted woolen money stamped with a seal and sold to merchants at a heavy discount. Merchants circulated it at one cent and amassed large quantities before refusing redemption, prompting state intervention to halt circulation.
The article alleges a vast plot to drain the U.S. treasury of gold. It reports a Washington concentration of gold holdings and claims a German bank firm received $1,000,000 in treasury notes in exchange for gold. It notes over $100,000,000 in notes exchanged for silver purchases, implying gold and silver are treated as equivalent in government spending.
Two weeks past four Grand Rapids and Indiana engineers were discharged for alleged color blindness. The Brotherhood and Trainmen unions threaten action if reinstatement is denied. Reports from El Paso Juarez and other cities cover murders, robberies, accidents, and labor disputes affecting railroads, banks, and public works.
A mixed set of archaic facts notes Paris lifting a 10 000 000 projector for George Eiffel, German parliament chatter about cigar makers, swift Paris Berlin transit, conqueror era horse shoeing, ancient Eure yew trees, Loxpox coal use, Derby Day Commons history.
A fragmentary item notes a bog in Matta Vsumkeng Maine with bridges built and then abandoned by sight. It mentions migratory birds crossing a narrow point of the Mediterranean and details a three year old peach tree at Tucker Ripley County Missouri destined for a world fair. It also remarks on spiders Dolomedes and Argyroneta and their aquatic habits.
Figures show Tremm four times as many Trish men in the United States as English men. New York and Brooklyn hold 2,900,000 inhabitants with 13,000 homeowners. Philadelphia mint stores vast silver and gold reserves while US tuner factories burn through albumen paper. Emigration from Ireland reaches over five million since 1851, with 87 percent to the US and only six percent to England.
The piece notes that railway dining cars out-earn sleeping and baggage cars, lists 176255 miles of U S railways, and mentions a deluxe train for Emperor Francis Joseph. It reports Manhattan elevated line carrying 500000 passengers daily, annual receipts about 9125000, and national railway employment totals with 2451 deaths and 2200 injuries in the prior year. It also mentions a Belize to Peten rail contract opening fertile lands and mineral regions in British Honduras.
Tenrepiias notes kissing origins to detect tippling guilt. Servians once gave a farewell kiss to deceased friends, linked to a diphtheria outbreak and later forbidden. Delphi thought to sit at the world’s center per ancient belief. Danish Vikings showed a throat-stab ritual linked to drinking health and banter.
Gensasy holds 283 military bonds. A ONE-1 HUNDRED-AND-TEN-TOS gun can fire two shots per minute at a cost of 1,375 per discharge. Reference to testing big Iran at Krupp works causing damage at Essen. A stray line of samples from Lone srag corporation mentions a live man. A traveler earned about $350 monthly for six years. P.O. srole to entry Orashed Java Coffee at Hoefler's.
In Santa Fe the land court, under Justice Department instructions, heard a U.S. petition by A S Reynolds to quiet title to the Nogales grant in Pima County Arizona Territory. Attorney George Hill Howard, for Mexican-based claimants, said he would soon file a petition for the claimants’ side.
The group met briefly and read the new license ordinance for the third time before printing. A $7.50 bill from George Fitts was approved. The new election law was discussed informally before adjournment.
A collage of humor notes from New Jersey and Philadelphia recounts witty exchanges and social quirks. Jokes touch on wealth versus birth, courting habits, whisky odors at work, and a telephone miscommunication with a comic twist.
The piece notes Queen Margherita’s jewels and regal adornment, mentions the Duchess of Edinburgh’s happiness, and reports Spain’s queen regent commuting sentences for criminals. It also cites Mintaxeny as a royal talent, and references royal audiences in Russia, Denmark, Persia, and a Sultan’s acknowledgment to publishers.
Report outlines Berlin heiress Fraulein Hildegard von Louca Jon with an estimated fortune of 82,090,000. Mentions Mirzasius not admiring Portugal's queen and Paixce Peemxasp of Bulgaria as a noted ornithologist. Also notes Jules Lo bandy of Paris as a major sugar refiner with an estimated fortune of 960.
The note offers practical maxims on domestic harmony and courteous conduct. It urges quiet entry butts doors, polite speech at home and abroad, and better manners at home than with outsiders. It also advises kindly behavior toward spouses and partners, linking domestic conduct to social civility.
Properties owned by Grand Central, including the Silver Toread Last Chance and State of Maine, are leased to chloriders. Both lessees and owners prosper as virgin ground near large ore bodies sustains a growing workforce across many mine sites.
County records note J C Wiser and Botcher Lefort OlN A Gilman listed among officials. July cattle slaughtered reached 30 dead in the month.
Chas Leach and Col Herring visited the State of Maines mine area noting activity at Guiding Star owned by Col Herring and other mines like Herschel owned by Ben Cook and Mark Smith. Low silver prices and ample means have halted work, a smelter shipment is near, and Grand Central has shifted to chloriding boosting Tombstone area ore output with turquoise and other precious metals rising.
An old retired physician claims to have tested a simple vegetable remedy for consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and nervous debility. He offers to mail the recipe free in German, French, or English with full instructions, from Rochester New York. Also notes Mexican dollars at 64 cents in El Paso and discusses political sentiment for Weaver and a rising third-party influence.
The court reconvened in Santa Fe on Monday. Over March 3, 1893, claimants and grant owners cannot file petitions for adjudication and settlement unless the time is extended by an amendment to the present law.
A remark on judging character by one’s circle and the age of a man by local views. The ovation for Mark Smith upon his return drew broad popular favor beyond partisan lines, though it could be misread.
The new license ordinance will be printed soon with a radical across the board reduction. It notes a few kickers but stresses that pleasing all is impossible and that civil government aims to reduce taxes for the greatest number. The council has granted the appeal in general levy and in the Jew tax rate.
An Ex miner interview claims Ernester as TM and M Co manager at Turbste Hoe misstates Tombstone population as 1000. The piece says Tombstone’s camp population is stable, only one mine closed due to low silver prices, ten men laid off who moved to ranching and earning more.
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