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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1892
Page
3
Thursday’s Daily reports Lewis Vidal returning from El Paso, Pritchard reappointed postmaster, and various local notes. Mentions of World’s Fair coins circulating, John Slaughter greeting friends, cattle shipment from Benson to Lae Angries, and criticizations of city officials. Reports on weather, legal matters, mining, banking, and social headlines including a bankrupt San Francisco widow and a shooting incident in town.
A hostile composition in Tombstone mocks a young writer and a teacher, accuses a columnist of bias, and calls for grammatical corrections from the county board. It laments the paper's quality and hints at controversy over certificates and school governance. The item notes Bishop Kettrick may hold services at the Epical church on Sunday.
Ten Huachuca men join the Bowie expedition as Lieut Wallace seeks Kid. Five riders from each 24 Cavalry company and ten packers join the party with a goal to capture Kid dead or alive. Rewards total 2500 plus county adds 500. Wallace vows to press into Mexico if needed and stay a day to two years. Sheriff Keltow returns with attachment in Stewart v Casey case for tax debt of 9?
The Casey mines at Doe Cabesas were sold yesterday to a New Mexico syndicate for 95000. B. 8. Cuffman of this city and mining man Moore negotiated the deal. Terms of the bond are unknown, but the mines will be worked immediately.
Sheriff Kelton reports Louie Prus was thrown from his horse while rounding cattle near his ranch in the Chiricahua mountains. He suffered a fracture of the skull and was started toward Port Bowie, though survival and arrival are in doubt. Friends hold hope for his recovery.
James Reilly filed a district court suit against Pasquale Nigra seeking 415.70. The complaint states Nigra issued two promissory notes on May 1 for 12.30 to H. C. Fisher and 101.40 to another firm. Reilly additionally holds a signed rent claim from Martin Costello for 190. The three amounts sum to 416.70 sued for.
The report covers contracts for a New Mexico Arizons home building project with a $10,000 bid, wagon loads of brick to Fort Huachuca from Grand Central Hill, an attached Bisbee property to satisfy a $415.20 district court judgment, a $1,500,000 deed transfer from Arizona Improvement Co. to Merchants Loan and Trust Co. of Chicago, Fort Thomas survey by Interior, and a minimum land price of $2.50 per acre. Also noted are Lena Smith and Otto Moore's marriage in Dos Cabezas, Gilded Age drill progress, Indians near Animas valley after Taylor’s murder, and a civil suit by Chas. Marsden against U.S. Marshal Bob Paul and Deputy Wm. Shilliam for $243.87.
An 1893 Illustrated Annual from D M Ferry & Co details seed selection, weed knowledge, and practical gardening tips. The firm presents the work as reliable and valuable, offered free upon application to the Detail, Michigan company.
The Yuma Times reports Min Rembert, contracted to teach at the local school and later discharged, secured her rights by receiving a total of 483.72 dollars from the county. The sum includes 765 principal, 149 interest, 120.15 district court costs, 31.57 sheriff's fees, plus 150 attorney fees.
Firdow's Daily notes the Army appropriation bill passed by the House. Reports mention Richard Gathmen of New York in Cochise, local business and post office activity, new post routes in Yavapai County, and a range of regional concerns from saloon ownership to railroad issues and anticipated political visits in Tombstone and Prescott.
City Council met in regular session with full board present. They read minutes from December and adopted the prior minutes despite two votes. Warrants totaling about 990 dollars were endorsed but unregistered. an indemnifying bond was offered to fund them. Huachuca Water Co warrants of 70 dollars were endorsed but not found in register. November receipts included license 240.70 and delinquent taxes 37.20. total indebtedness, including accrued interest, approached 1,861.78. The council ordered repairs to a pipe at Protection House and adjourned. The Post Office seeks bids to carry Aztec to Harqua Fisa, route changes from Phoenix.
The Southern Pacific offers a one third reduction on round trip fares from starting point to Maricopa for teachers attending the Teachers Institute in Phoenix next week. A certificate of full fare is required at Maricopa, and on return the agent will sell at the reduced rate upon presentation of institute attendance proof. Also, half rate requires a certificate from F A Gulley at Tucson. A town tax of ten cents per hen is levied in Ensenada, Lower California.
The Ladie Home Journal will publish Straus waltz pieces in its pages. A musical judge hails the work as one of his brightest dance compositions. A local paper photo shows Tombstone’s town scene amid tobacco, undertaker, lawyers, doctors, stores, saloons, jewelers and druggists.
A Chicago speaker argues that Mrs Christopher Columbus, the wife of the navigator, deserved recognition equal to her husband. He notes Miss Palestrello’s influence and early voyages, detailing her education, courage, and contributions to Columbus’s explorations. He urges tribute on the upcoming anniversary event.
A humorous advance agent tale set in a southern one-horse hotel. The landlord, curious about the troop type, learns minstrels are blacked up performers with songs and comedy. The host decides to accommodate, calling the show a new batch of Troopers as he orders preparations.
The fragmentary text notes Oxroxp winning twenty five boat races and Cam bridge twenty two. It credits Brigham Young with origin of the pony express in Utah. It mentions the last survivor of the Parry North Pole expedition dying and Aycekrow California an Indian Justice of the peace who is a lawyer and popular speaker. It adds that continental glass blowing uses compressed air and compares horsepower on Travel road and Macadam road with a 139 percent and 313 percent draw on a good earth road.
The item blends maxims on love with a humorous note about a Chicago man claiming a monkey steals his master's shoes and wrecks them with ink. It mentions playful signals from rabbits, a guard for danger, and a curious salary offer of 25 per week for selling merchandise by the Chicago General Supply Co. at 3178 W Van Buren Street.
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