03 Feb 1907
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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1907
Page
1
The Columbia Opera Co. debuts at the Schieffelin with strong El Paso reception as audiences praise the operatic attraction. Tickets for both nights go on sale next Thursday with early reservations for both shows. single-night seats available on performance day.
Bank condition report dated January 26, 1907 lists assets and liabilities for The First National Bank. Cashier T. R. Brandt swears the statement is true to the best knowledge, with officers' attestations and a commissioner’s oath on file.
Reports from Cochise County detail Charles Strong and others opening a promising Gold Camp property near Gleeson with ore shipments soon to El Paso. Santa Ana Mining Company and Copper Belle activity in the Dragoons and Gleason area drive heavy development, with multiple crews sinking shafts, opening sulphide ore, and planning regular smelter shipments to Clifton and Douglas.
An array of church notices invites attendance at services across multiple denominations including Episcopal St Pauls Methodist Episcopal and Congregational. Evangelical events like Epworth League prayer meetings and Sunday school sessions are listed with times. A Catholic service schedule is shown. A reform wave closes Tombstone’s Allen Street red light district. Charity drives urge old clothes for county hospital patients. Edwin Hughes plans a cottage at First and Fremont to improve city streetscape.
A fragment mentions Chamberlain’s cough remedy with repeated wordage and unclear claim. The readable bits hint at a product health remedy but lack concrete details, dates, or affiliated organizations.
The Hagenbarth ranched in Chihuahua and Sonora Mexico has been bought by John D. Ryan Thomas F. Cole and Col W C Greene copper mine owner from J D Hagenbarth Frank J. Hagenbarth W S McCormick and S C Wood of Salt Lake City. The ranch value nears 1 million with 25000 cattle involved boosting the stake well over 1 million. The property lies along the northern Mexican border near El Paso and will be held by a Mexican corporation with stock transfer at closing.
The National Cattle Growers Association executive committee at Denver lists Arizona delegates J. W. Vickers Tombstone E 8 Geeney Fiazela M. M. Sherman Crawford J. J. Riggs Des Cabeane and W. H. McKittrick Wilcox. Los Angeles to host next convention. W. G. Gilmore confined with grippe. John Walker and Arlie Gardner visit the Hasshuceas reservoir guest of Al Hoagland. Fred Brouscome travels to Douglas en route to Sonora for mining business.
Preliminary steps to annex Bowman addi tion to Tombstone for city benefit are filed at the Phoenix land office. Mayor Went Worth appears as official trustee in a separate pre-emption notice. The northwestern addition includes many new residences built in recent years. Mrs Tarbell and Grace Tarbell depart for Santa Ana California to establish a home, to be joined later by Mr Tarbell. Ben Goodrich is confined to his room at the Adams hotel in Phoenix with a mild pneumonia attack.
A Phoenix dispatch reports rumors of a new territorial governor and a political junta to steer the Republican party and federal patronage. George Maul, chief clerk of the legislative council, met in Washington with Harry New, and Col W S Sturgis of Pima is named as governor nominee with C A Overlock of Douglas as a potential U S marshal insider.
Al Hoagland, a voluntary weather observer at Hua Chuca Water Co. reservoir, reports January rainfall reaching a record 322 inches in 24 hours on January 15 and four to six feet of snow on north slopes later in the month. D W Linn returned from Tucson after a dispute over painting proceeds was cleared in court with the case dismissed. Linn is noted as an accomplished landscape painter and decorator with works shown at the Pers house.
A gambling game run by Jim Hayes at a local venue disregarded government orders against gambling. A passenger from the city reports about 75 people, mostly Americans, were rounded up Wednesday evening and jailed without trial, with all money on tables confiscated. Mrs A Clark, widow of C B Clark, visiting, plans to return to Los Angeles soon.
The legislature advances several new measures including land title registration and train stopping rules. Proposals target liquor wholesaler licensing and retailer licenses while pay for jurors remains set at three dollars per day with mileage. Visiting committees have left territorial institutions, delaying further business until they return.
The Globe area sees a large Mormon population slated for a new place of worship as a contract awarded to George Simms will erect a church on the ball ground. The building measures forty by twenty two feet. Dell Lewis visits from St. David valley. Sam Miller, Tucson drummer, in town on business. John Miller and wife to return from Los Angeles soon.
To secure masks for the coming Red Men masquerade ball at F N Wolcott's for the event on thePdins orders must be left by the 17th Williams Trealeve former Tombstone mining master mechanic visits from San Francisco en route to Sonora to oversee mining interests Harry Hasselgren of Lewis Springs reports cattle along the river in good condition during a city visit.
Governor Kibbey's message warns against underage tobacco use and urges a law banning sales to anyone under 21 with severe penalties. The excerpt argues tobacco harms youth, citing the cigarette boy as a symbol of vice and its impact on future prospects. The notice also lists a seven-room partly furnished house for rent with inquiries at the office.
A steamship carrying about 1000 coolie laborers is due this month at a Mexican port, likely Guaymas, to support Cananea Yaqui River and Pacific extension projects. Labor shortages hindered progress as Yaqui conflicts limited available workers, prompting use of Mexican Indian and Chinese laborers arriving in large numbers.
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