Tombstone Epitaph Highlights Reform, War News
A verbose archive column notes Governor Hunt defending the honor system in penal reforms, Bryan as future secretary of state rumor, amnesty talk for Orozco’s band, a Chicago judge on divorced men, and war news with Mexico’s unrest. Also mentions compulsory voting, a university health note on feet, and looming potential U.S. intervention.
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Hunt
Arizona
Board of Commissioners of
William J. Bryan
Washington
Coonel Bryan
Arizona News Briefs From Prescott Phoenix 1913
Thomas Humphrey reported from Prescott with updates on local politics and finances. The January Phoenix post office receipts totaled 9417.11 dollars, up 22 percent from January 1912, including about 800 dollars from parcel stamps. A trio of girls escaped a reform officer near Maricopa and remained at large. City council narrowly passed a streets fakir ordinance imposing a 25 dollar daily fine for street vendors, cars, or stands on public property. Also noted were obituaries, railroad news, mining activity, and a 12.00 mile motorcycle voyage announced by F G Baker of Indianapolis.
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Phoenix
Pioneers
Prescott
Norman McKensie
Tucson
Percy
Tonto Basin
Arizona
Gila County
Morales
Benson Reform School
Sseaton
F G Baker
Indianapolis
Baker
Allants
Savannah
Jacksonville
Miamia
Havana
Santiago
Jamaica
Colon
Panama City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Albuquerque
Dallas
New Orleans
Memphis
Louisville
Madame Griselda
Elksater
Work on the Big Dragoons District Reported Active
Activities continue at the Big Dragoons south of Dragoon Station with extensive work on the great sine deposit. Engineers call the district the best for sine in the country. Wolfram properties are shipping tungsten regularly to Philadelphia for a large wholesale chemical house.
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Big Dragoons
Dragoon Station
Wolfram Properties
Philadelphia
Kosterlitzky Plans Rebel Hunt in Mexican Territory
Col Emilio Kosterlitzky leads about 100 troops en route to Fronteras and Agua Prieta. He intends to send 25 men into the Ajo mountains to scour rebel bands while stationing 75 at Fronteras amid reports of insurgent activity in the area.
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Emilio Kosterlitzky
Raraies
Agua Prieta
Fronteras
Ajo Mountains
Sign Painter Follows Copy In Lobby Window Inscription
Postmaster JH McClintock commissioned a sign painter for Phoenix’s new 200000 pest office. He provided a lobby drawing with inscriptions to be set on each window. One window was to be left blank, but the painter copied the text anyway, likely related to the printer who copied copy for a four story window.
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Phoenix
JH McClintock
No Chinese New Year In Arizona Observed
Lee Park Lin an immigration interpreter says Arizona did not celebrate the Chinese New Year Tuesday night due to the calendar shift in China. He notes celebrations persist in larger cities and expects broader adoption as people adjust.
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Arizona
Lee Park Lin
Immigration Service
China
Turton
Chios
Aaid Lee
Passing of Chivalry in Arizona
A Bisbee band of gamblers rejected the time honored code and instead of yielding their cash with customary sanctuary faced six shooters and refused to surrender their spoils. The piece laments the decline of gamblerly chivalry and notes the loss as a moral setback for Arizona.
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Arizona
Bisbee
Hoyle
Robin Hood
Dick Turpin
Tombstone Delegates to Eastern Star Conclave Bisbee
The Maronic Grand Lodge meeting of Eastern Stars at Bisbee draws wide state attendance. This morning Mrs Hughart, Mrs Lutley, Mrs Dalgleish, and Mrs McPherson departed Tombstone to attend the Bisbee conclave as representatives of the local lodge.
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Maronic Grand Lodge
Eastern Stars
Bisbee
HH Hughart
Wm Lutley
Jas Dalgleish
JH McPherson
Eastern Star
Tombstone Welcomes Dayton Exec On Visit
JF Ware of Dayton Ohio vice president of The Hoppes Manufacturing Company, visiting Tombstone on business with TGM Co. He inspects company interests in Arizona and expresses interest in Tombstone's historic mining lore. Ware will extend his stay to enjoy the climate and scenery.
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JF Ware
Dayton
Ohio
Hoppes Manufacturing Company
Springfeld
Tombstone
TGM Co
Arizona
Ware
Sepulchral
Arizona Supervisors Back Ten Million Road Bond Plan
Arizona supervisors at the Phoenix convention endorsed a statewide road bond not to exceed ten million dollars. The plan calls for a 1 percent interest rate, pro rata county allocations, local control under county boards, 75 percent spending locally and 25 percent via the state engineering department, to form a connected north south and east west highway system.
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State Supervisors
Phoenix
Als Henderson
Santa Cruz
Aselso
Cochise Ranks Second in State School Children
The state board of education set the apportionment of state aid with Cochise County listing second in the number of school children. Full rate per child is ninety cents but some counties use eighty cents. The total school fund balance is about $6,008 with state funds reported at $19,509.04. draft amount subject to change.
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Cochise
State Board of Education
C.conino
Gila
Graham
Gromlee
Maricopa
Mohave
Arizonans Favor New Liquor Bill in Senate Debate
A Washington dispatch notes strong support for the Kenyon Webb style bill allowing Arizona state officials to regulate liquor shipments once they enter the state. Senator Ashurat urged consideration of two petitions from Arizona voters favoring the measure, while Senator Gallagher initially objected before withdrawing.
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Washington Dispatch
Senate
Caa
Tice
Ashurat
Arizona
Gallagher
All Aboard for Fort Huachuca New Branch Ready for First Train Service
Fort Huachuca gains a new rail extension on the Paso & Southwestern line to Lewis Springs. The first regular service is planned for Sunday morning with two daily trains likely, inaugurating the new route over the completed extension.
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Fort Huachuca
Lewis Springs
Paso & Southwestern
Suit for 30000 Damages Against E P S W Injured On Spur
Thomas Atchison of El Paso filed suit in the 7th district court alleging negligence by El Paso and Southwestern Railroad and others. He seeks 30000 damages for injuries to himself and his wife sustained while operating a boarding car for the defendants’ employees on July 18 1911 on a spur track. An engine on the main line backed into the car causing her to be thrown to the floor and later injured again.
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EE Campbell
Rreecott
Haynes
Jerome
Arizona and New Mexico Railway
United States
Phoenix
Ninth Circuit Court of
Spoenis
Clark
E.P
S. W
Arizona
Thomas Atchison
Mth
el Paso
el Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company
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University of Chicago
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Solomon
Mexico
Madero
Uncle Sam
Standard Oil Company
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Thomas Humphrey
Williamson Valley
Alters
Man Brawner
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Benson
Arizona Bar Association
T T Scott
Ray
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Bee
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Ore Blanco
W T Webb
Ocotillo Club
Yuma
Edith Eogle
Alexander Neil Mann
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Charles Kerrick
New York
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Florence
William Feltin
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