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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1916
Page
4
Long article lauds Harry Wheeler and deputies for arresting bootleggers across Cochise County with hard labor and fines. Judge Road imposes penalties along county roads and arrests are praised as essential to convictors. Mention of local Christmas busying and calls for neighborly spending at home amid ongoing anti bootlegging efforts.
Over 150 people filled Benson High School assembly room on December 17 for a social agricultural program led by Principal H Robertson. A L Paschall and S F Morse spoke on farming prospects for Cochise Santa Cruz counties as pupils performed and a debate on rural development crowned the event with a negative win. Refreshments followed in domestic science, and locals hailed Benson as headed for a bright agricultural future with proper resource development.
A daughter was born Friday night to Mr and Mrs Harry Kolberg at the home of Mrs Kolberg's mother M George Wilcox on North Third avenue. Grandfather Wilcox is in Nogales on business but will return soon to celebrate the grandchild’s arrival.
In Old Tombstone on Christmas Day two car accidents occurred. The Overland driven by H Hughart and the Buick of Dr. W M Randolph collided causing minor damage and injuries to Hughart and others. Later a Bord car carrying Jack Wickstrom and family turned over on a hill as they neared Bisbee, trapping occupants but rescuers freeing them with non fatal injuries and the car continuing to Bisbee.
The Younes Men's Business Association backs a corrected Gadsden purchase survey and pushes Arizona seaports on the Gulf of California and Pacific coast. They telegrammed Senator Marcus A Smith urging support, with a formal resolution backing the move and urging state groups to join. The initiative is endorsed by Arizona's governor and Phoenix mayor.
Phoenix December 24 The Land Commissioner states that lessees opposing appraisals do not ruin sales for compliant lessees. Any willing lessee can accept the appraisal and complete a sale by visiting the commissioner’s office.
Editor W A Sherwood and Mrs Sherwood from Courtland joined Mr L E King Mrs W F King on a motor visit to the county seat to view historic sights including the old Modoc camp Bird Cage and the Prospector and Epitaph offices before returning this afternoon.
In Phoenix a debate over taxing improvements on homesteads surfaced after AB Ming questioned if improvements like ditches and fences on claimed lands should be state property. Attorney General Jones reviewed Judge King’s Reclamation Service view but advised against abandoning years of policy requiring settlers to pay taxes on improvements until patent finalization.
Five Mexicans are in the county jail on suspicion tied to the murder of a Chinese merchant and the wounding of a Mexican woman in Solomonville. Four other suspects face burglary charges. police believe they disrupted a gang robbing Globe and Mist rooming houses. One man was arrested in Rice by Sheriff Frank Haynes and undersheriff Gene Shute after tips from Solomonville authorities. The laborer had been employed on a railroad section near the crime scene and disappeared after the murder.
Col. Dr. Johnston, a well known Cochise county cattleman and popular figure, killed himself with a .25 caliber automatic revolver a few minutes before 10 o clock Friday morning. Death was instantaneous and the act came during a moment of temporary despondency.
This morning Judge Leckwondt of the Superior Court sentenced two individuals who pleaded guilty to illicit liquor offenses. Rentien received sixty days and $25, while Wont received winery days and $25. Several other cases included divorce matters, with Anne Old charged with kiting her husband set for a hearing before Judge O Connor in Santa Cluz county.
In Courtland on Thursday Miss Myrtle Ratcliffe married Clarence Brown with Judes Cerlas E Bolton performing the ceremony. The couple, well known locally, received greetings and congratulations as they begin married life and plan to make their home in Courtland.
A telegraphic bid of free space for Arizona was extended by San Diego exposition officials. A Phoenix chamber directors meeting adopted a resolution thanking San Diego and urged broad organizational representation for a January 15 conference to discuss plans and action. Deputy Bowden at Silver Creek burned 288 bottles of confiscated liquor, destroying the contraband despite a cold day, as more cases remain to be broken in the warehouse.
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