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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1909
Page
4
Tombstone should be considered in selecting a site for Judge Nave of the district court. The Tombstone bar, pioneer of the territory, has long been at the forefront of Southwest legal developments. Many members later gained national reputations, blending education, erudition and frontier grit.
State lawmakers grapple with a flood of communications petitions and protests from reform advocates. The assembly and council face a delicate situation and must proceed carefully to address the contentious contentions.
The Phoenix scene pits an aging veteran against a rising rival and a calculated promoter. The piece warns that Arizona’s past haste produced bungling statutes and a tangled civil code, urging the Prospector to steer the assembly toward learning from prior errors for better laws.
A report notes a Arizona figure facing accusations linked to intoxication with self voice. The piece remarks that if the prohibition trend continues, statesmen could be left intoxicated by their own voices. The territorial convention of supervisors revived the bullion tax issue by urging the legislature to raise the taxation on bullion value from 30 to 40 percent.
The session opened with a petition signed by ERB McDaniels and railroad labor leaders in Tucson asking lawmakers to refrain from railroad commission bills. Bills introduced include spouse property conveyance, insane infirmary divorce, mining claim provisions, and prebating wills. A pair of bills abolish the public examiner and rangers offices. Hightower proposes pensions for teachers after thirty years. Bailey seeks to move capital punishment to the territorial penitentiary and appoint the warden as hangman.
Council bills address mining code drafting and mine safety, with a tax and sheriff recovery funding note. House actions push road tax to cash, wage liens for miners and material suppliers, and Pine county petition on Pace local option and segregation. Benson Industrial School site favored with limited buildings. oppose moving territorial institutions.
William Gilson longtime Arizona settler and mining pioneer on the Tempe road died Monday morning at his home after forty six years in the territory. He arrived in 1863 and worked in Walnut Grove with WH Kirkland and others.
A letter from Yaqui country warns of renewed unrest as surrendering Indians keep their arms and reportedly pass firearms to others. Authorities anticipate harsher measures and more proclamations against Yaquis amid rising tensions and fears of further violence.
James Laub, road overseer of the Tombstone district, led a crew yesterday to repair roads near Gleason and in South Pars in the cortland lanes, under instructions from the board of supervisors. The action follows the Citizens Committee meeting at City Hall Monday night. The committee, called by Mayor Wentworth, may be reconvened soon to discuss a board of trade or chamber of commerce, seen as vital to Tombstone.
Miss Bernadette Brown celebrated at the Brown residence on Third Street near Safford in Tombstone with a late evening birthday luncheon. Guests included Mrs. Joe Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. M. Brown, and several Misses and Mesdames, who offered congratulations and well wishes.
Mrs D Miller former Tombstone teacher visited the town after 28 years away meeting old friends and recalling pioneer days. She and her husband now reside in Lake Valley New Mexico en route to Douglas to visit their daughter Florence Miller a local teacher. Walter Lorimer Hill son of Prescott prominent fruit company manager died in Los Angeles at 28 from ptomaine poisoning after eating canned salmon last Christmas.
Thursday's Daily reports Arbor Day weather and summer-like heat as Ton Miss Bosnadette Brown endures illness. Tembe rtone teachers Mise Chowning Benediet and Axtell plan a Reeves Ranch holiday outing, while John G Kerr of Arizona Marble visits Bowie to buy machinery and attend the Old Pueblo club reception. Kerr notes the marble’s fine white quality with a blue vein similar to Italian stone.
Mrs. M. B. Harlan of Bisbee writes under the pen name Marie Cottrell. The Land of Extremes, to be issued by Cochrane Publishing, portrays Prescott and nearby areas ten years ago during the big Prescott fire. The author aims to dispel eastern notions of Arizona as wild and Apache-haunted, showing a civilized territory deserving statehood.
Report from Tombstone says 400 more laborers and equipment arrived to advance the 8 P. extension of the Pearce line toward Courtland Gleeson Bisbee and Douglas. An official says SP trains may reach Bisbee and Douglas by May. Additional 500 workers expected by Monday.
The county needs a bridge near Charleston to improve the road to the Huachucas. The present board of supervisors should act this year to place the Charleston bridge before summer rains and upgrade the Pittsburg Arizona mine road toward the river.
Wednesday’s Daily notes Arizona agents in Tombstone diverting shows, while Wektus travels. Prescott City Attorney works on a sidewalk bill to empower property owners, with Frank DeSouza likely to introduce it. County hospital upgrades eyed, Cochice club expands, and a Lincoln Day banquet planned at the Pueblo Club in Tucson on February 12. Judge Fletcher M. Doan may speak. a new lunch room opens tomorrow.
A band in the Dragoons stole seven horses at night from the Swain camp and fled toward Mexico. Sheriff White and Undersheriff Hopkins led the pursuit with Rangers assisting, suspecting an organized band active in Santa Cruz and Pima counties. Part of the posse followed into Mexico while White pushed toward Cananea to coordinate with Mexican officials. Recovery seems unlikely and the thieves may escape across the border. A separate incident reports Jim Allen, a five year old, leaping from a moving Indian school car and suffering severe injuries.
The long running national push for better roads reaches Cochise County Arizona with claims of prior wasted funds and neglected ditching. The piece argues road beds should be treated like railroad beds to ensure proper drainage and lasting improvements, predicting substantial road improvements from here on.
The piece outlines February holidays and observances including Arbor Day on February 6, a Lincoln birthday anniversary celebration on February 12, a Valentine custom on February 14, Washington’s birthday on February 22, and Mardi Gras tied to Ash Wednesday on February 28. Lent begins February 24 and lasts thirty nine days for adherents.
Washington dispatch reports a lively senate contest over bills to admit Arizona and New Mexico. A canvass by southwestern senators shows sixty one or more voters ready to back the measure, signaling possible moves to discharge the committee on territories. If opposed by Beveridge and the committee majority, action may be deferred to after the next census.
Representatives Tycson and Douglas of peers of commerce and the Phoenix board of trade convened to form a union of all territorial commercial clubs. A February 15 Phoenix meeting will invite every chamber of commerce bond of trade or commercial club to send a representative as Tombstone should be represented.
Tombstone hosts a new social club named Entre Nous forming a twenty member group. Mel Austin Brown serves as president with Sadie Cowan as vice president Helen Benedict as treasurer and Mire Josephine McPherson as secretary. Regular monthly meetings are planned and a first social debut is anticipated this month.
A Washington dispatch reports Hamilton in the house introduced a resolution setting February 1 for the Statehood bill to be read. After two hours of general debate a vote will be taken and final passage without further voting or appeal. The total agricultural appropriation bill is $12,580,000.
A Washington dispatch reports congressional leaders told President Roosevelt that statehood bills for Arizona and New Mexico face slim chances this session due to Senate opposition. Representative Hamilton, on the House Territories Committee, hopes to bring the measure to the House next week and believes it will pass, but Senate hurdles are expected to block it in the upper chamber.
A Washington dispatch reports Delegate Andrews of New Mexico introduced a bill granting pensions to surviving officers and enlisted men from Arizona and New Mexico who defended the frontier from 1855 to 1890 against Mexican raiders and Indian depredations.
The moon reached its closest point to Earth in 29 years last night and will be nearer than it will be for 29 years to come. Tonight, weather permitting, observers may see the moon about a few degrees south of the zenith at midnight, a historic alignment noted by readers and linked to Jules Verne’s A Trip to the Moon.
Tombstone observed Arbor Day with school, post office, bank, and county offices closing. The Prospector planted eight trees near the press room and dedicated some to the office, with a joking note about shade. Sixteen Japanese laborers arrived in Mesa from Colorado beet fields, forming a permanent camp near the section house in Tempe to work in nearby fields.
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