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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1892
Page
3
Tombstone items cover notary appointment, shop openings, lodging at San Jose and Schieffelin Hall show, jail break, tax delinquency warnings, new jewelry store in Phoenix, mining talks, railroad board plans, and state line treaty reflections. Includes regional business, transportation, lawsuits, and local personalities like J W Wright, J Busby, Dixwell Hewitt, and J E Johnson.
Friday’s itemized notes show M M Donohue of St Louis registered at the Palace, Charles Helm a convict at Yuma Prison died last Monday, Guy Powell registered at the Commercial Hotel in Phoenix, M W Cobo and Tom Mason of Tucson registered at the San Jose, and G W Seaverns returning to Tombstone. Also hay from the Bali river valley shipped to Guaymas, cold spell in Yuma, Edgar Earl arriving from San Diego, Phoenix editors investing in real estate, a hog stolen from Overlock’s butcher shop, a Los Angeles girl collecting 1100 seaweed specimens for the world’s fair, and Justice-elect Duncan occupying Republican club rooms on Allen Street.
The Southwest silver convention at El Paso adopted a preamble and resolutions arguing silver demonetization in 1873 harmed U S. farmers and workers, calling for immediate free coinage of silver at a ratio not exceeding 16 to 1 gold, full legal tender status, and U S. control of money coinage under the constitution.
The LaBlanche combination arrives under Billy Reid for an exhibition at Schiefflin Hall. George LaBlanche, a 12 year veteran pugilist, and Chatel promise public sparring and bouts. Dempsey looms as a February New Orleans match with past meetings noted.
A Lanou majority of the delegates to the silver convention were Third Party men or Populista. It shows the populist party is not ashamed to discuss its principles.
The Southwest Silver Convention met in El Paso and adopted two resolutions urging Congress to admit New Mexico Arizona and Utah to statehood and to convene a Pan American Monetary Conference to pursue a common currency for silver nations. The report also notes local social and business chatter around El Paso, Phoenix, and Prescott, including personnel movements, railroad publicity, and a brief court dispute involving Charley Cowell and Rafael Martinez.
Evin Haxby Warrexsox of the Courier-Journal jokes that they have defeated rivals in every direction from Alpha to Omegs and across many places, using a comic travel from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo line.
An advance guard from the New York Free Silver league operates in Washington urging Congress to raise government monthly silver purchases from 4.5 million to 18 million dollars. Delegates also advocate restricting immigration by imposing a heavy tax on each newcomer to deter settlement.
In a letter to Secretary Foster, Asien of Bowe Montana proposes partnering to mint silver dollars containing 400 grains of fine silver. He argues counterfeit coins could rival government issues, yielding large profits from small silver investments. He notes Mexico rejects a reciprocity treaty aside from cattle duty concessions. He believes a favorable arrangement would benefit AK-2908 and urges quick action.
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