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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1910
Page
2
The Tombstone Epitaph announces a weekly Sunday edition under WM Hattich as editor and proprietor with a subscription price of 3.00 dollars.
Col H L Pickett of Tombstone strongly linked to a U S Senate bid should Arizona win statehood. Reports in Democratic circles say he remains receptive, though he would not confirm candidacy. He notes hope for early passage of the enabling act and supports direct primaries as a political reform.
A Cincinnati dispatch reports Arthur Goebel left all he possessed to his brother Justus Goebel in a Kenton county will filed at Covington. Justus, of Phoenix Arizona, becomes sole beneficiary of the estate whose value is not estimated.
The new Florence prison now has a completed septic facility and the sewerage is being conveyed in an approved sanitary manner.
A Roswell resident laments New Mexico statehood delay in a sorrowful verse. The piece, touching on unrealized hopes and regional history, is noted by the El Paso Times which questions its poetic merit but praises its pathos and bathos.
Phoenix plans a historic religious gathering March 4 5 and 6 under the National Laymen's Missionary Movement. The three day event in Arizona aims to mobilize laymen from Christian churches to spread the gospel globally, beyond traditional pastoral efforts.
J J. Benton Crump and Baits Crump and Reno report a new oil well in Sulphur Springs valley about 25 miles northwest of Douglas and 12 miles from Courtland. The well is 250 feet deep with a windmill pumping oil and water. A Los Angeles oil owner visiting says Arizona may host a major oil boom. A July 14 celebration marks Prescott’s 10th anniversary fire disaster with plans for committees to organize events.
Arizona buyers from California push cattle prices to five cents per pound as demand rises. In Phoenix, Gilett and Meirin bought ten cars from Niels Peterson, shipping five last night and five more within ten days. Mike Lang of Los Angeles offered a nickel per pound for fat cattle, negotiating for ten cars with Brown for immediate and later shipment.
Former United States Marshal Ben Daniel’s account is held up in the justice department due to an error claiming the United Water government overpaid 36 cents. The issue centers on an amount wrongfully paid to Deputy Marshal Porterie and is awaiting audit.
Wm P O Neill of O Neill Schwab law firm in Indiana told an Albuquerque Journal reporter that a Democrat will be elected by the next Indiana legislature to succeed U S Senator Albert J Beveridge. He noted Indiana's current and expected Democratic majorities and recalled predicting Shively’s election last year.
The contract end bond for buying a 50 000 gallon steel water tank from Dee Moines Bridge & Iron Co for the territorial prison was drawn and signed on Wednesday with a purchase price of 3780 dollars. James Roberto, a 15 year old who used the name Chas Johnson, ran away from El Casco California seeking freedom and wealth in Mexico but was arrested in Phoenix on his father’s request to hold him until the father could retrieve him.
From Wednesday's Daily Tombstone news notes a frosty shift in local weather and a note on mail weighings. Inspectors will weigh all mails on trains in Arizona for three months, with railroads paid for the next four years based on the average. A proposed schedule change for Rock Island train No 3 could cut El Paso to Yuma running time by fifty minutes.
A historical note reports no large Army appropriation for Fort Huachuca this year and a possible practical abandonment of the site in favor of a hospital camp. Whipple barracks at Prescott is slated for larger funds to become a regimental post. The government weighs moving border troops from Huachuca to rail-adjacent points and even considers an aviation station near Nigger Head peak. A Beatty’s hall masquerade drew 75 couples. Colonel George Paradine showcases metronomical feats amid humorous references to Halley’s Comet sightings.
University of Michigan astronomer W L Hussey asserts no life risk as Earth passer through the tail of Halley or a similar comet. He notes comets are chemically similar, the tail gas distant about 14 million miles, and far too sparse to affect insects or the environment.
Blackwater elected chief of the Pima tribe by a large majority over Antonito. John Arnen Reaves starts a new magazine “Arizona” in Phoenix. Bishop Granton to visit Bisbee in April for confirmation then to New York for a Rome audience. Ore from the Poor Man mine near Quartzsite yields $400 to $15,700 per ton. Tucson Printing & Publishing Co incorporated in Pima County with $50,000 capitalization to print a daily paper and do job printing. Osborn school district to vote March 3 on $17,000 bonds for additions and improvements. A fire in Humboldt suspected incendiary linked to plans for 25-cent meals. Parole petition for Hobart, life-term inmate in Prescott, circulates. Sixteen Chinese men deported after being found illegal in Yuma. Knights of Pythias Clifton Lodge to mark 47th anniversary February 18. Aero Club pays $9,100 to Hamilton and Willard plus $100 for Sunday flights. McDougal notes aviation fund may need less than 50 percent of pledges. Hereford man loses $75 at Tucson post office. Two women among census enumerator examinees at Douglas. Bisbee high school girls beat Douglas Dooglee 30–5. Japanese man Totkake robbed of $70 and a gold watch near Tucson. Sheep men meeting in Phoenix with forest supervisors reporting on northern counties’ plans.
Saint Valentine’s Day was observed with many sending cards by those following the custom. Postal valentines were common as a convenient expression of affection. Don O’Keefe collector of customs Nogales attends court, with Immigration Inspector Chas Connell among officials present. Attorneys Sutter O’Connell Murray arrived from Bisbee. Over 10,000 head of steers will depart Tucson for California ranges before slaughter, the largest shipment ever from Tucson.
An immigration officer photographs a large number of Chinamen confined in the county jail under sentence of deportation. Aliens ordered deported must be photographed and described for future reference. After the grand jury completes its labors, Overiock will take the cases to San Francisco for deportation.
K Dorbin of Denver, traveling with eastern capitalists, has toured electric plants in Arizona and New Mexico. They may consolidate electric holdings in key cities across both territories. Notices for bid to carry mail between Mesa and Roosevelt issued by the postal department. Bid received March 1 with a July start for a four year contract. Bond of the successful bidder set at 3100 dollars.
United States Attorney Joe Morriton has filed a civil action in federal court to cancel the citizenship papers of Michael Koller of Bisbee. The complaint asserts Koller obtained papers at Iron Mountain Michigan on April 12, 1900s, claiming five years of U.S. residency, but he reportedly arrived in February 1900 that he could not have fulfilled the residency requirement, seeking cancellation of the papers and related costs.
Delegate Cameron introduced a bill on February 3 to establish fish culture in the territory of Arizona. It would appropriate 25000 dollars for site purchase, buildings, ponds, and equipment, to be designated by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. A separate Washington report notes Silas L. Gilan of Prescott named a practical miner in the land office.
Public notice states that the undersigned owners have bonded the Geronimo Little Jap Little Hope Homestak mining claims in the Turquoise district Ochise county Arizona to W C Humphrey of Douglas with a June 10 date. The bondor will not be responsible for any labor supplies or other expenses during the bond term to Humphrey or assigns. D W Brows dated June 10 19.
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