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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1916
Page
5
A compressed listing of Cochise County legal notices including mortgages satisfactions and chattel mortgages for properties in Tombstone Bisbee Willcox and Douglas. Entries note parties such as Margaret Ivey L Cummings F Weight J Angle and firms like Min & Merch Bank with properties and sums tied to numerous real estate and mining transactions.
A historic court docket shows numerous new cases filed in the Superior Court. Listed are debt actions, divorces, and probate matters including estates and guardianships. It notes filings against individuals and firms with numbers, filings, and dates across a broad range of civil actions.
A fragmented retrospective notes Crawford's return to the Southwestern Advertiser, local transportation hints from Southern Pacific, upcoming Adoboha Brees Association meeting in Phoenix, and a string of town items. Includes marriage news of Alma Agirre and Miss Wit Speed, a funeral, Arbor Day mention, local crimes, deaths, and weather with a heavy snowstorm and its effects.
Visiting Col Henry Pyeart and Attorney J B Wright call Tombstone. Public School Basketball team tops Gleeson 20 to 15 in a well played game with Prof Tilford and Myers. A return game is planned in Tombstone next Saturday. Compilers begin work on the Arizona business directory and a local printing plant for rent.
The board of Supervisors will during the near future arrange a partial readjustment of the voting precincts. The notice outlines planned changes to district boundaries and precinct assignments affecting voters and polling locations.
The February dances and fairs draw crowds as Tombstone hosts a grand masquerade at Gage Hall on the 21st, Gleeson plans a daytime event, and Benson stages Gow Ruurls Dance on the 20th. Local merchants and residents visit, with road fundraisers and community meetings shaping up for Washington's Birthday celebrations and county events.
Assessed Huachuca District Chief Deputy Walter Th mas returned home after completing property value assessments in the Huachuca mountains including Buena and Garces districts. Assessor EA Hughes also returned to verify deputy work while Reece Cornelius handles Machomich Mercantile. social and business visits follow, with couples married at the Congregational church and locals traveling between Bisbee, Tombstone, Gleeson, and Willcox on various errands.
Harold Greene and George Kimball skied to the summit of Bull Williams Tuesday. Their diver planned to repair the telephone line but they faced deep snow with drifts up to 40 feet higher than the line, yet reached the site without trouble.
A Fort Huachuca building contract will be advertised for bids including four captain quarters four blacksmith shops and a model laundry with an estimated cost of seventy thousand dollars. The post is advancing toward brigade status due to water climate railroad access and strategic location.
In Douglas Feh 941 A hires B to bring four consignments of whiskey to the Arivna New Messey border and the driver searches for contraband items. A is captured and faces possible violation of law. Andy Johnson and James Murray, newly bonded, will present questions to the superior court in Tombstone. Sheriff Wheeler reports a crowd and dumped bottles along Stein's Pass in New Mexico, with an elderly couple delivering liquor onto Arizona soil.
Publisher Jo Conners, longtime Kingman resident and Arizona figure behind Who's Who, returns to Mohave County. He spent the past year in Mexico preparing a Villa biography and plans to chronicle local mines, resources, and notable figures in a new Arizona focused work, detailing Copper and other district prospects.
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