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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1908
Page
2
The execution of young Hawkins at Tucson yesterday serves as an object lesson on society’s right to protection, the sacredness of life, and warns youths against bad company, drinking, smoking, gambling, and risky bravado that leads to trouble.
A vivid account recalls a heavy hour long rain in Tombstone that drenched Allen Street to a depth, then vanished, leaving the street white and dry within an hour. The sky followed with a rainbow and sunset, signaling the weather’s return and a promise to come again.
The Prospector notes a plan to create a Pythian home within Arizona, an institution exclusive to the order and tied to the territory. The Knights of Pythias are praised for supporting the endowment and aiding the effort, with emphasis on benevolent work and local community improvement.
A principled officer years ago organized support for the endowment rank without obligation, advancing funds from private contributions. The relief fund for that party grew strong and several thousand dollars were donated to the Supreme lodge, stabilizing the fund.
An odd local observation notes that Tombstone deaths are rare from physical flaws, with few exceptions. It lists causes such as accidents, old age, or odd circumstances like misadventures with rope, sapped by heat, or odd misdirections, suggesting a morbid humor about mortality in the town.
The recent Wardwell episode drew excessive press fanfare with little real danger. Doctors and hospital management bore the burden, performing heroically as the supposed morbid devotion proved to be imagination. The effort to guard the ward failed to reveal a real threat and the issue has subsided.
Frank G Sherlock, who escaped from Santa Fe penitentiary eleven years ago, is pardoned by Governor Curry. He later served as a peace officer in Arizona before being captured recently. The town scene in Tombstone is described with vivid, humorous local detail from the lightning editor’s reporting.
An Alvely board meeting fixed the tax rate at $2 per $100 and approved the First National Bank of Bisbee bid for a safe at 3200. The court ordered a new trial in the Copper Queen back tax case, reversing Judge Nave’s verdict and allowing renewed contest by county and territory for $200,000. The decision hinges on misapplied assessment rules and waivers by the taxpayer. The tax plan also details district school levies and road, bond, and general funds, plus election notices and upcoming primaries and conventions.
In Tombstone various items unfold from Mrs Wardwell's baffling behavior after a doctor’s report, to Vernette Bachelder’s return from El Paso, and plans for a royal entertainment for troops. The page notes a funeral in Tucson for Sarah Tarbox, a possible town holiday, and a celebrated crystal offered for sale in New York, amid routine county updates.
In Tombstone a leper patient from the county hospital vanishes amid humane care claims with theories of movement toward California. Meanwhile Mrs Guadalupe Ward, 37, mother of eight, dies when struck by lightning at 531 North Fourth avenue in Tucson yesterday afternoon.
Sheriff Nabor Pachero of Tucson urges private executions at the state penitentiary, arguing public hangings cause morbid spectacles. He contrasts eastern practices with Arizona and says counties should not bear the burden of as public a method. Also reported is a Tombstone suburb disturbance where a man fired a bull-dog revolver at Latothario and fled. suspects remain at large.
Se ar F Miller of the El Paso immigration service was named inspector in chief at the Port of Nogales with district stations at Douglas Naco and Nogales reporting directly to the San Antonio based supervisor Frank W Berkshire. George Webb remains inspector in charge at Tucson while Chas T Connell and Lloyd T Meade assume chief duties at Douglas and Naco respectively.
A philanthropic widow, Mee Elliott of Tempe, desires a property not larger than twenty five acres with ample water. She plans to spend twenty five thousand dollars on improvements including orchards vineyards and a fine residence to support alfalfa raising and provide work for the needy and disabled. Benson Press.
A colossal fossil lizard near sixty feet long and thirty three feet high weighs about fifteen tons with four foot teeth. Prof. Riggs displays the most complete specimen in the world at Chicago’s Field Museum. Found near Fruita Colorado in 1901 the giant once roamed Colorado mountains.
After repeated denials, reports surface of an $8,000,000 sale to New York interests for the Rich El Tigre mine. The mine is not yet bonded or transferred, but a deal may be imminent pending expert reports to visit the mine within days. Superintendent Musgrave in Douglas could not confirm but suggested a pending agreement likely above seven and a half million, with a renewable figure.
Five companies of the Fifth Cavalry at Fort Huachuca are ordered on a practice march. The route includes Naco, Bisbee, Douglas, and Tombstone with a Saturday night arrival at the county seat. A ball game with locals may be arranged and Tombstone prepares a warm welcome for the visiting soldiers.
Twenty four legislature members show limited use of the right to nominate pupils for Arizona territorial normal schools under Paragraph 3693 Sec 90. The holder may pick a county pupil within sixty days after qualification. after that, nominations may shift to other counties. Students meeting exams gain two years free tuition. Blank forms available from A J Matthews, president Tempe Normal School.
A letter from the Territorial Board of Equalization to county boards argues for assessing non producing patented mining property at actual value. It urges boards of supervisors to apply the territorial 600 percent raise as a guide, noting Cochise County adopted the increase without change and applying only the territorial raise, not altering local tax rates.
Arlington Zelner Remington English Phoenix Neel and wife 4Bar ranch George Lowen Connell John Bisbee Evans Los Angeles read as scattered identifiers from a notice listing individuals and locations without full context.
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