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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1916
Page
4
Unclear OCR fragment mentions a periodical item with garbled pricing and dates. Readable bits include a repeated title fragment and a reference to a weekly column or page. No distinct persons, places, or organizations are recoverable from the legible text.
The Tucson Citizen responds to a Winter Visitor query on Arizona papers versus Phoenix and El Paso. It argues a daily Tucson paper is essential and notes broader issues in the Arizona press field, Mexican bandit outrages, Villa Carranza tensions, and calls for action to protect Americans abroad. It also reports local weather, tax, jail projects, and community notes from Tombstone, Cochise county, and nearby towns.
Southern Arizona auto clubs, split over a proposed shift from Lordsburg to Deming along the Borderland Route. They claim the Lordsburg to Rodeo stretch is nearly impassable, while supporters argue the alternative routes through Hachita and Malpais lack evidence of lakes or rough terrain.
Detailed report from Whyman Lab & Development outlines reclamation of 12000 fertile acres in Casa Grande valley near Maricopa. Land divided into seven units of about 1500 acres each, every unit with three wells and oil-fired pumps. Water at 25 to 60 feet, pumps handed to buyers after unit sale, irrigation not exceeding $2.40 per acre yearly.
County School Superintendent Miss Minnie Lintz distributed 10 000 to districts in need as the first apportionment of the year. The 64 000 from a recent source will be allocated, with a reserve fund apportionment after five months in each district. Tombstone 1000 and Douglas 14 000 and Bisbee 10 000 received allocations. towns Douglas Bisbee Warren Lowell Tombstone and Tucson pushed for equal treatment and fair road funding.
The document reports on ongoing cases in the state supreme court including the Ancle Ob murder charge at Barer and Powell murder in the second degree at Bisbee. It lists jury selections, judge remarks, calendar scheduling, and forthcoming trial dates through March and February varied by case with multiple parties and venues named.
In Bisbee the case State versus Walter Powell, charged with murdering J Brazier, went to the jury. The jury returned a verdict of murder in the second degree and Powell was sentenced to ten years to life. The court adjourned criminal business and prepared for civil proceedings over a receiver for Federal Plantation Co. repeats of distant figures and names fill the remainder of the text.
Court reconvenes as defense argues the verdict and motions reveal a contested bill of exceptions. Attorneys for the defendant seek bail while County Attorney Ross and assistant resist, aiming to hold the defendant in the county jail until the case is resolved.
In Tomberone Cochise county four men were hanged after a mass murder tied to a store robbery and shooting a woman. The scene recalled past crimes as Daney Dowd Wit Tian Delaney Doeiet Kelly and James Howard faced their fate while heavyweight champion John AL Seltiwan visited the condemned block.
during 1915 Arizona established ten new banks as recorded in the year end roll. named banks include Bank of Cocmae, Central Bank of Poon, Valley Bank of Five at Gila Bet, and others across Somerton Willows and nearby towns. the list shows local lenders expanding under statewide banking oversight.
Four victims at a west Chihuahua mining site are linked to a mass murder. Authorities identify the corpse as Mrs. Tessie Jones and others, with Sheriff Wheeler coordinating public notices. The case centers on Thomas F Johnson and the Warnekris family, as efforts uncover the identity of the victims and trace the killings to Villa bandits last week.
Patents for acres across Arizona to Navajo and Mogut bases have been received from Washington. The land offer targets early settlement, with patents routed through agents and railroad interests controlling deed transfers to purchasers.
Six Arizona pioneers were admitted to the Pioneers Home in Prescott at a State Board of Control meeting. Named are A. F. Banta of Apache County, Edwin Payne of Pinal, John Lathan of Cochise, Pred Rowe of Yavapai, Deaugh erty of Santa Cruz, and John Brannen. The board paroled Chester Arnold, sixteen, from Port Grant Industrial School to P. T. Coleman of Holbrook.
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