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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1909
Page
4
The governor reports steady population rise in the territory aided by eastern immigration. Copper output and cattle industries flourish with strong disease immunity due to territorial vigilance. Total property value tops 53.7 million with over 2.6 million assessable for taxation. Recommends desert well development. bill pending before Congress.
After Sapho, Mrs Otto Croose urged Miss Nethersole to mobilize wealthy eastern donors to fund a Tucson hospital for the destitute ill. Nethersole promised to seek funds from JP Morgan and to press the Arizona Health League’s appeal, aiming to secure free care for Tucson’s poor.
A trial of the new patent cement mining method is under way at the Copper Queen mine in Bistee, reportedly in some of the worst ground seen at Copper Queen.
W. H. Whalen of the Tucson division reports a wreck No. 4 six rail lengths from West Point ten degree curve with 25 mph restriction. The engine derailed after excessive speed, four cars were carried 300 feet over rough ground, overturned at a galley, with rails and track condition noted and wheelset and air systems inspected. Conductor confirms excessive speed in signed report.
The territorial entomologist Dr A W Morrill drafts a Citrus Growers series for the Gazette. The horticultural law, backed by growers, aims to guard citrus interests and notes dangers from pests. Topics include pests in Arizona California and Florida and inspection services. James M Smith of Phoenix was arrested in San Francisco for taking a salt shaker as a joke after failing to buy it from a waiter. He was released, the judge ruling the act was a joke.
Records show transfers and mortgages in Cochise County including Jos N Curtis to Helen B Folcom, Gregory claims in Naco. Overlook addition to Douglas. McKinney to Van Meter on Little Rock claim. Aguilar to Van Meter on Turquoise district. US to Samuel Coleman patent for section 28. Cooper to Willcox Bank Trust on Dos Cabezas property. Livings ton to Lacy on Bisbee property. Knight-Brinkerhoff piano mortgage. Scott to Kirke Bisbee mortgage. Meare to Pioneer Lumber mortgage. Meddur to Scheerer chattel mortgage. State Mutual Building and Loan to Chas Crawford mortgage satisfaction. Cochise Building and Loan satisfaction to Chas E May Warren. John Deutsch homestead claim in section 3. Maurice and Ellen Foley to Sherwood Bisbee. Pauline Wood and Waters to Cesarine Conmean Winward Bisbee. International Land & Improvement to Joe Kline Douglas. W E Plumb to EB Mason Hedberg Bisbee townsite.
Wm Holmes of Leadville Mining Co visits Tombstone from Courtland then sails to Bisbee and Ban Gabriel Cal to join family for holidays. District Attorney Williams departs for Bisbee on office business. John L Miller family heads to Bisbee for Christmas. Sante Claus nears Tombstone as Cunningham returns from Bisbee for professional work. A L Dukois begins as Benson graded school principal eight weeks ago. Mail traffic rises with holiday rush. Charles Applegate leads a democratic rally singalong at Prescott with a song he wrote for the event.
County Recorder McDonald and wife travel to Bisbee for Christmas with friends. Probate Judge Goodbody leaves for Bisbee on official business. She arrived from Nogales after bereavement in her husband’s death. Mrs Howard expected to stay. Mrs J Miller near Fourth and Bruce suffers blood poisoning from a splinter. The Indy shows improvement. Christmas trees and mistletoe fill Tombstone as Yuletide spirit rises. Ray the brakeman recovers from influenza and will resume duty. Fifty-five prisoners are confined at the Hotel de White for winter. Undersheriff Hopkins travels to Douglas on sheriff’s office business. Harry Wheeler reports stolen hotel activity near Arizpe, Mexico. Tombstone theatregoers are again disappointed as the Coon King troupe fails to arrive for Behive/Berinefellin show. refunds issued.
JC Alin of Moses Best Floor visits Tombstone praising Arizona air as a life saving cure. Alleniss, a steadfast believer in the climate, moved here three years ago amid TB fears and now shows vigor and optimism. The opening of the Yams Indian Reservation is officially set for February 21, 1910.
Globe mining figures Horard Smith and Henry B Hoveland, both tied to the Republican territorial committee, are described as on the way to fortune as Globe district mines show rising values. In sixty days stock in the two controlled companies jumped five to ten dollars, with observers claiming Smith and Hoveland have become millionaires in two months.
Arizona cattlemen foresee a severe famine as calving failures and poor range conditions reduce yearling numbers to about seventy percent. Dispatch notes widespread declines across Arizona Sonora and the Southwest with packing houses paying higher prices and pigs rising in cost ahead of the shortage.
The landzide of thousands who have used them will be glad to know that their combined pocket diary memorandum book and calendar for 1810 and 1911, with other handy information, is issued by CA Low & Co of Washington DC and ready to be sent to any address on receipt of two cents postage.
Southern Pacific officials report a new line extending from Tucson down the West Coast of Mexico will be finished in about ninety days with trains running directly south. The Tucson Citizen notes the project is about half built and will run roughly sixty two miles once complete with 240 workers onsite and more to come. Sidings for freight are being added every few miles, including two at Canon for wood shipments.
Charges filed against Professor AH McClure of Yura will be heard by the Territorial Board of Education on January 6. The case involves educational misconduct claims and potential sanctions pending the board’s proceedings. The timeline pinpoints the date for formal hearing and review of evidence.
Attorney LB Alex filed a federal action today against Grant Brothers Construction for allegedly importing 45 Mexican laborers from Hermosillo to Naco Cochise County Arizona to perform construction work. The workers arrived October 29, 1909, with transportation and expenses paid by the company. Penalties could total up to 15,000 if found guilty under federal law, and cited claims suggest 430 to 450 laborers may have been imported. The case highlights labor shortages and reliance on Mexican labor for Arizona projects, including the Phoenix & Eastern extension work by Grant Brothers.
A rookie farmer near Cochise set two one pound sticks of dynamite to clear land and allowed hens to snack on fragments. He fears explosive traces in eggs and refuses to eat or harvest eggs this Christmas. He requested anonymity when speaking to the reporter.
Senator Clark United Verde mine in Jerome Arizona has paid regular monthly dividends this year and leads copper producers with 2 475 000 dollars in dividends over eleven months. Since incorporation the property has paid a total of 24 022 000 dollars in dividends, eight times its capitalization, more than 800 percent.
Congress adjourns for holidays until January 4 as the statehood bill remains stalled in committee. The lull delays progress on statehood amid a busy legislative season.
A Tucson reunion for Arizona pioneers is planned by the All 200% Historical Society for December 29. Numerous local items follow, including a marked badger discovery at the Gadsden hotel, editor James Healy beaten, charity Christmas boxes by Douglas Woman's Club, Captain Wolfe to play for Wichita, new electrical gear at Arizona Central Copper, Prescott Menu contest winner Clara Colbert, Gamewell fire alarms in Prescott, a Mohave railroad tax settlement, a gold bar at Prescott National Bank from Congress Consolidated Mines, customs smuggling across Nogales, Mrs. Louisa Miller committed to asylum, Arizona Power line extension to Fool’s Gulch, Brock couple homeward trip, independent Prescott-Wilson telephone link, Peter Kiokovich convicted, Ricardo Rotch guilty in white slave case, and Tucson liquor traffic petition sent to council.
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