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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1912
Page
2
Thursday afternoon a fire swept the Flvke Bron store building at Snowslake, total loss with no insurance. The blaze likely started in the roof from a defective fuel. Content removed included items belonging to the Stake Academy manual training school on the second story.
From Monday's Daily to Tombstone February 12 Lionifer Heo aged 64 born a daughter to Mr and Mrs H E Berner at Phoeais on February 1. The new arrival is a welcome gift and may grow up to be Miss Arizona. Question if the President acts on it at once or delays to the 22nd. Dr H H Hughart and wife Mrs Al Ralph Mrs Wm Lantley and Ed Hughes left for Prescott to attend the appeal meeting of the grand lodge of Arizona Masons. De Hughart delegate of Chepter Masons and Ed Hughes delegate of King Solomon Lodge No 5 AF&AM. Ladies delegates to grand lodge of the Eastern States. A fine shower around Tombstone and Sulphur Spring Valley last night increased the profits of stockmen and farmers. Chairman G J McCabe of the board of supervisors arrival on the noon train. Mire Martin Costello and son Cecil visiting from Los Angeles. Gus Baron returned from his mines in the Huschnees. Mise Ruth Benedict left for Honolulu indefinitely after a short Tombstone visit. WM Riggs elected supervisor arrived from El Dorado for a few days. Wilkings and wife of Black Diamond in the Dragoon mountains visiting Tombstone. Attorney Lyman H Hays of Willcox arrived on legal business. Chas H Wheeler Knight of the Grip traveling from Tucson to Tombstone for business. Francie Goodman of St David in Tombstone with a TH Bridge election returns from precinct.
Unofficial returns show the Cochise bridge election failed to carry with wide opposition across major cities and smaller precincts. The canvassing board declared precinct officers elected in multiple districts, listing the justices and constables for Bisbee Douglas Willcox Hereford Port and many other precincts, with several appointments and resignations noted.
A rich strike was reported at Pearce near the Commonwealth Extension Co group. Workers sank a shaft to a depth of 135 feet and encountered ore. Samples sent to Tombstone show good grade, with higher expectations as development continues.
A mammoth jack rabbit hunt is planned for Saturday February 17 at Ash Creek flat near Safford. The event aims to be a day of sport with prizes for the side that kills the greatest number of rabbits and for the individual who kills the most.
In Tucson there are about 25 cases of smallpox in the peat house and nearby route, with remaining cases in strict quarantine outside city limits. There has been one death and all afflicted are Mexican.
A one year old, Rafael Fimbrez Jr., died after a scorpion sting at his parents’ Phoenix home. The mother saw a small gray scorpion fall on the child, striking him on the thigh and arm before Mia Fimbrez killed it. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon.
Dr Perrin of San Francisco, owner of Barbacomariland along Barbacomari creek from Elgin to the San Pedro at Ferrbank, visited the Line property this week. The grant extends along the foresk a number of miles and spans Santa Crux and Cochise counties. It includes much mernd, and reports say Dr Perrie intends to subdivide and sell it.
Sheriff’s office received word of a killing at a grading camp near Charleston. A Mexican suspect surrounded in a tent, then after gunfire a Mexican lay wounded, others threatened, and the scene led to a tense wait for authorities. Sands fired, was struck, the Mexican fled to his tent, and was later taken to hospital in Douglas for treatment.
Arthur L Fountain of Roswell New Mexico arrived in Tombstone last evening while traveling from Turner to Rodeo New Mexico. The twelve year old youth is making the journey alone driving a team of horses.
Tuesday's Daily notes the fiftieth anniversary of Lefferton Davin, president of the southern confederacy, and the declaration of Arizona Territory. Court Reporter John W Walker travels to Fat Hascbuck to take testimony in several court martial cases at the post. Dr Brady of Douglas serves Tombstone during Dr Hughart's absence, and JA Jenkins of Cochise visits. Various local officials, pastors, postmasters, and residents are mentioned in routine travel, appointments, and social events amid a day’s notices.
EV Sands left Douglas yesterday for Tombstone with his family and expects to settle there as jailor. Sands, employed the past year and a half at the Copper Queen Smelter, announced he was departing Douglas due to many rende there.
A Washington dispatch reports Delegate Cameron named Thomas Deshrell of Prescott and Dennis Leo Ryan of Tucson as cadets to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, with John Morgan Lupicher of Kingman as alternate, while John Stewart Scott of Douglas and Jesse Chene weth Cathem of Nogales as alternates at West Point. Globe records show thirteen births and thirteen deaths in the previous month according to vital statistics presented to the city census.
JA Jenkins toured Cochise county seat on a several day visit and spoke of future possibilities. He farms two miles south of Cochise, demonstrated what can be done, and raised twenty acres of Mexican beans last year at twenty seven dollars per acre without irrigation. This year he plans sixty acres of beans and expects about 140 acres under cultivation.
W H Sands, raised from a grading camp, faced a judge for an assault on a Mexican and was ordered freed after a hearing. Evidence said he acted in self defense. The Mexicans in the incident also testified and departed. One Mexican was jailed twenty days in Fairbank for disturbing the peace.
W H Sands had a very narrow escape from death when boarding a moving train near a grading camp. He slipped and fell under the rear car, the wheel passing over his body but the brake rod on the far side prevented a fatal end. He survived with injuries to his pocket and coat.
Tombstone friends learn Me Frank Abril has been appointed postmaster of Sonora Arizona in Pinal county. He has lived in Sonora since leaving there and sought a postoffice for the growing burg. The department established the office and Abril becomes the first postmaster in what may be the newest postoffice in the coming new state.
A letter from Mrs Della Long of Pendersrass says she suffered for six years with pain and fainting from womanly troubles. After taking Cardul she could work normally, and recommends others feel weak or under the weather to try this tonic.
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