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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1918
Page
2
The Arizona Republic discusses deserters from the war, noting about 6000 listed nationwide and questioning amnesty for those who avoided registration or responses to calls. It argues deserters deserve harsher treatment, while some favor amnesty as a corrective act, though many would refuse or oppose such mercy.
A fragmented historical Item surveys a famed road map maker and his 1919 improvement notes, touches on wartime literacy, conscientious objectors, and postwar labor pledges. The piece moves through digs at geopolitics, console with a jab at Holland and Germany, ending with a travel-humored aside.
W Hu Clark of Los Angeles heads a capitalist group backing a vast Arizona venture to spend hundreds of thousands for electric power plants. Plans include burning coal mined near Black Mesa and shipping steam power to Globe, Miami, Prescott districts, and far beyond, with oil prospects near Holbrook and renewed drilling activity at adjacent fields as snow clears.
Secretary of the Interior Lane declared the Colorado River offers the greatest reclamation opportunity in the Western Hemisphere. He outlined plans for two dams high in the river and a potential large dam below the Grand Canyon to reclaim and make fertile about one million acres of American land. Lane spoke before western congressmen and agreed to repeat the talk to about 150 lawmakers after the holidays.
Five Mexicans hiding under seats in an empty passenger coach were arrested near Ash Fork. Twenty two cases of whisky valued at about 2000 dollars were confiscated by United States deputy marshals at Selignani. The Mexicans named Juaz Baroneges Rosales and Santos Agrebano. Prisoners were taken to Prescott where they remain in custody.
Thomas N. Lowell a Swinsea mining man died recently and left a will directing that his entire several-thousand-dollar estate go to Phoenicians with no relatives identified. Probate petition notes the bequest to residents of Phoenix.
Dec. 24 Phoenix reports the state fair price boards will not relax in preventing profiteering. Riordan, federal food administrator for Arizona, warns margins must balance remote merchants with high costs. The aim is a square deal for merchants and public, avoiding abuse of maximum profit margins. A letter to board chairmen stresses moral and practical limits to profiteering and outlines the administration’s expectations.
Rainy weather has flooded surface streams affecting smaller mining properties. Water and obstructed openings force halted work and occasional ore transport by a single miner. With copper prices unsure after January 1, many small prospects may cease operations until market adjustment. Widespread tendency to pause extends to other districts.
An epidemic of petty stealing has erupted in downtown Phoenix with hotel and restaurant operators and stores reporting missing packages and loose items from parked cars. Police show difficulty identifying the gang behind the operations as customers lodge complaints.
Joseph Breicher, an honor inmate in the Clifton road camp prison gang, who had months to serve, vanished a week ago after issuing three time checks in the city. He was seen at Lordsburg and traced east from there.
Over 100 residents joined in forming the Holbrook oil district to explore ten sections. Elected officers include President Judge Sidney Sapp of Holbrook, Vice President W L McKay of Kingman, and Secretary George M Branton of Holbrook.
A letter from a manganese miner laments postwar policy. Miners opened deposits, shipped carloads for war needs, backed by a $50 million Metals Bill, yet buyers now refuse manganese ore, preferring Brazil or Germany. The writer asks if the government will grant a square deal or risk many mines closing and owners ruined.
Hundreds gather for dedicatory exercises at Camp Stephen D Littles as the new YMCA building is turned over to soldiers. The facility opens to provide recreation for American troops stationed at the post.
Dec 27 report lists many Arizona men who died or were missing in World War I with affiliations to units such as the 340th Field Artillery from Camp Funston and the 198th Infantry from Camp Kearny. Names include Hanson Aros Tucson, Julian Borelo Fort Thomas, Lieut James J. Hisley Phoenix, and many others. Some were lost to disease like influenza, others by accident. several were later clarified as wounded or prisoners.
City residents react to disclosures of widespread garbage dumping in the Miami watershed. The city council plans prosecutions to halt the practice.
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