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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1902
Page
1
Bisbee notes for February 1902 recount court activity Arbor Day observance, school closures, and public improvements. Residents like Mr and Mrs Zends travel from Naco, and Frank Meador visits from Phoenix. Weather remains mild with routine railway and mining updates, weddings planned in Tombstone, and community notices on schools, churches, and new businesses in Bisbee and Douglas.
Webster and his wife were seen yesterday en route from the coast to Douglas where Mr Webster holds a joint aged position. He was popular there and was reported worried recently about a coma. Friends will be pleased by the news.
John Grees, a miner from Ariane, outwits three thugs attempting a $10,000 robbery in Chicago. He could have traveled widely with the money, but the assault was unrelenting. Additionally, F E Coles and bride Mist Jane McHugh depart for a westward honeymoon then to BeeBee to make their home, with a bridal supper and rice shower marking their departure. Separately, new livestock movement rules from Feb 1 impact Arisanne to Sonora, restricting spring cattle crossings.
In Fairbank the railroad center buzzes with names and travel as Capt Ben Cook and daughter Miss Willette visit Tucson while others like Meyers and W H Kane head to Tombstone and Bisbee. The column notes growing mesquite brush, a dip in settlement, and mentions smallpox and public health lessons as Chinese New Year approaches with three days of celebration and calendar oddities.
A notable social event occurred this morning at Saint Marys Catholic church in Bisbee as Mr F. E. Coles and Miss Jane McHugh wed in Catholic rites officiated by Rev Father Meurer. The couple, well known in Cochise county, received many wedding presents while friends and relatives praised the bride and groom.
Phelps Dodge & Co plan to move the Copper Queen Smelting Works to Douglas Arizona twenty eight miles from Bisbee. The new plant with capacity around 1,900 tons of ore will be built west of Douglas with surveys in progress. Superintendent Douglas will travel to New York for contracts and the plan is to be implemented within about eighteen months.
The census data outlines unmarried rates at 66 percent with a median age around 25, home residence at 45 percent, 45 percent boarding, and 15 percent employed by others. It notes fraternal order membership at 22 percent, church engagement variety, urban versus rural birth origins, and city versus town youth church attendance patterns with ages 1 to 35 used in estimates.
Reports claim Amalgamated Copper Company and Union Metals Selling Company have disposed of most of their copper surplus created to prop up prices. The Akron Democrat notes related business and labor movements, alongside local notices about Mrs. Martha R. Hardy’s death and funeral plans at 180 Bowery Street.
A mid 1901 county financial summary lists total expenses of 9,694 13 for the last quarter, with detailed charges including district court sheriff’s office indigents roads and bridges hospital and recorder among others. A nearby prospector asked why hauling water involved a fourteen mile trek, noting it was about as far as the other camp.
Yesterday a party of engineers and personnel arrived at Fairbank to survey the Feithene to Towle Jege Peak route. The group will evaluate the main line from Deming to Douglas and the Tombstone cutoff, with depot sites and possible master survey details under review. Local optimism grows for a future iron horse reaching Tombstone soon.
The fragmentaries suggest Daly rosin through a dramatic event at Niagara Falls and hint at a Depp victory in Arizona. The clipped text remains unclear but implies political polling or contest outcomes tied to a Trembstone reference and 18 karatine material.
Santos Lopes reports excitement in Mexico over a well preserved giant skeleton found at Quintens's ranch. Lucinis Christians led five men to locate the grave, marked by rough stones at head and foot. The grave measured fifteen feet long and eight feet wide, with the body broken to fit.
The Old Terrible Mining Co minus Gollen Rale now employs about 75 men digging for water and preparing to erect a mill. Anderson & Co have opened a commissary at the mining camp near Cochire to supply workers.
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