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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1916
Page
5
A fragmented list of instruments filed with Cochise County Recorder including mining deeds, mortgages, and warranty deeds. Entries name grantors and grantees such as Kindrick to Fred Surter, Chambers to various holders, and property transfers in Douglas Bisbee Willcox Naco and surrounding districts. amounts and dates are inconsistently legible. several entries reference props in Bisbee and Douglas and assets like pool tables and fixtures.
Multiple cases listed including several actions for divorce and damages. Names include Holt Alma Gardner, Annie Pendiburg, Toivo Lucio, Alice Sleight, Fannie Lueto, and others. Also mentions guardianship matters, estate distributions, hearings set for February and March, and various chattel mortgage items and real estate notices.
Fragmentary Arizona item notes rhetoric about cooperation with the military to remove Apache menace and improve progress. Mentions Tom Schot mine at Turquoise, ore shipments, and war department boundary survey issues with Mexico. Also reports BHORN in Tombstone and a court matter involving a woman connected to a McKinley Bill violation.
A Benson column recounts a late night gambling house scene with a stranger and Dunbar, noting a rule about a fully cooler hand. Other items cover a stabbing at Benson, Tom Allison selling sheep, a death near the Stone Ranch, boundary survey talks, ranch shipments, tax delinquencies, and local letters from Gov Murphy and Inclined Apache movement.
Bootleggers tied to Sheriff Wheeler in Douglas as deputies seize whiskey and suspects flee. A Rodeo saloon operator reports losses after a bootlegged shipment is hidden then found missing. A farmer witnessed the hiding and loaded thirty cases for keeps. Other bootleg shipments nearby were dumped to dodge pursuit, with Johnson and Murray amid arrests and bonds. State vs Michael Murphy for Norris murder proceeds, with Doan and Doas as defense.
Mrs Ed Rekok returns to home at Dragoon this morning after visiting in Tomly for a week with her sister Mrs J Stone and Gus Fred Bevsett.
Wednesday's Daily reports Douglas Deputy Sheriff Charles is busy with Superior Court work. Judge, attorneys, and court reporters move transcripts from the Cunningham-Costello case, which totaled over 900 pages. Various Douglas residents visit Tombstone for court matters and local business.
Francis Bert Aaron, former Douglas city councilman, was convicted of violating the prohibition law in Cochise County Superior Court. He received a $100 fine and one year in jail, tried before Judge A C Lockword, and he resigned his council seat after arrest. He appealed to the supreme court from the lower court ruling.
An old advertise page warns readers about a dubious catarrh remedy sold from Toledo Ohio and Foleda Ohio claiming to cure by affecting the blood and system. It imitates reputable physicians and markets various variants at a stated price, urging internal use and suggesting family use.
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