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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1911
Page
3
Transaction notes show numerous mortgages satisfactions releases and deeds including transfers to Lia M Smith David T Chaplin Chas Ere kine and Warren prop owners. Listings include live stock branding mortgages to Standard Furn Co furniture loans and various Douglas and Warren property records with amounts mainly in the hundreds to thousands.
From Bisbee William Hughes visits his son Ed Hughes and family while Mrs Fitzpatrick arrives from Canada with her parents Judge Daffy, and Judge Nogales returns after brief court business. Sheri White returns from Phoenix with the new deputy and a healthy Mrs White. Deputy Marchal Will White brings prisoners to the county jail as a grand democratic dance is planned at Gage Hall with the Blackburn Orchestra. The Morans Chapter meets at the Masonic Hall. Frank M Dean of Douglas attends court in town.
A Phoenix meeting of the arena school laws committee proposes changes to statehood era codes. Plans include district tax levies up to twenty five cents per hundred added to county rates, revived truancy laws raising compulsory attendance to sixteen, extended terms, and authorized vacation schools to aid backward or absent students.
Jack Rabbit mine near Casa Grande will restart operations after a year’s suspension caused by wrecked overhaul works. The company rebuilt boilers, erected temporary buildings, and contracted Los Angeles for fuel oil delivery. Copper prices are around 14 cents with expectations of higher activity.
Tuesday's Daily Society notes the Congregational church elected officers for 1912 with Miss Emily Axtell as president Miss Henriette Rockfellow as vice president and Norman Abell as treasurer Also reports various social and legal happenings in Tombstone including court witnesses and local officials duties amid tax delinquency and a bishop death in Los Angeles with burial planned in Phoenix
Upon his return from Tucson FM Murphy stated the Imperial Copper and Tombstone Consolidated Mines affairs are being put in better order but nothing definite was announced. He hoped activity would resume on those properties before January, depending on eastern capital’s view of Arizona and new state policies. He noted the Port Lobos railroad is a certainty but its start hinges on conditions in Mexico and promoter plans.
Four well refrigerated Chinese well frigerated men hidden in an Armour refrigerator car near El Paso were discovered Sunday afternoon. They admitted to immigration officers they were smuggled from Mexico and aimed to reach Chicago. The incident appears tied to a gang operating in Ri Pato and Arizona as part of a larger plot.
The article recalls medieval archery limits from mailed knights to 40 yards for effective shots and cites Nese, an archer under Charles I, noting common ranges of 120 to 400 yards with a record 462 yards. It contrasts these with a vastly longer modern firearm range of fifteen miles.
The Mexico earthquake from Guanajuato to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was recorded by a seismograph at the United States Magnetic Observatory east of Tucson. The tremor lasted 1 hour 40 minutes with a maximum needle movement exceeding 21 inches on the chart.
It is understood that the fellows are regarded as slated for the new Mullord Winsor, private secretary to Governor Hunt, J H Robinson, chief clerk of the office of secretary of state, Frank DeLoure, clerk of eu preme court, Thomas F Weedin, superintendent of territorial prison, Dr G 3 Lampoon, of Winslow, health officer, B F Thum, public examiner, Pierce Bayne, adjutant general, Lamar Cobb state engineer, JR Keegan, mine inspector.
Unofficial counts show 21 000 votes cast in Arizona on Tuesday December 12 with Maricopa leading county totals at 4482 Cochise 4200 Yavapai 2300 and others ranging lower. Despite a Democratic statewide sweep Republicans win multiple county offices including sheriff assessor treasurer and various clerical posts across Maricopa Gila Cochise Graham Pima and Coronado while Apache Navajo and parts of Yuma Mohave vote solidly for Republicans.
Col Walter Scott of the United States Army reported to Secretary Fisher on the Hopi uprising against schooling mandates. He claimed success in enforcing attendance despite Chief Okeemwa protesting the white education methods. The report mentions the Hopis’ resistance and the cultural clash over forced schooling.
The narrative predicts Democratic majorities in Arizona as Smith Ashurst and Hayden form a strong bloc in Washington. The first Arizona state legislature is expected to be democratic by about eighty percent, with the campaign over and parties urged to set aside partisan tensions to govern.
Arizona with under two hundred inhabitants per square mile possesses mineral wealth greater than most European countries. The Roosevelt Dam, Yuma and Parker irrigation projects mark the early stage of agricultural development set to support millions.
William Randolph Hearst telegram to Henry F. Ashurst compliments Arizona’s admission as a state and the election of senators by the people. Hearst praises Ashurst and Mr Smith as efficient, progressive representatives and notes the hopeful political horizon for Republicans amid Democratic gains.
Mexico agrees to compensate China with 3,100,000 pesos to be paid by July 1 for the Torreon massacre. The settlement outlines the amount and deadline, reflecting diplomatic restitution terms between the two nations.
A study of its personnel shows Arizona’s first state legislature will be progressive and aligned with the constitution. It will have 46 Democrats and nine Republicans in a 54 member body, including four Republican senators out of nineteen and 35 representatives, yielding an overwhelming Democratic majority to expedite enacted measures endorsed by the people.
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