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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1895
Page
3
Fragmented 1895 items report on Tombstone and Cochise County affairs. Mentions hillside town leaders, railroad and cattle trade moves, bicycle races in Phoenix, civil service exams, grand jury lists, and local politics including equal suffrage talk. Also notes Chinese New Year customs and upcoming travel service changes.
The Eighteenth Assembly of the Territory urges Congress to admit Arizona as a state. It states Arizona has wealth, population, and intelligence fit for statehood and requests speedy admission regardless of political affiliation.
Allen K. English reports on proposed measures by Governor Hughes and the legislature. Key points include appointments replacing elections for county offices, semiannual tax payments, annual fiscal estimates for public institutions, a board of control replacing prison boards, expanded superintendent of public instruction powers, county audits, probate and county treasurer reforms, reduction of the stock sanitary commission, redefining grand larceny, expanded railroad commission powers, parole jurisdiction for county jails, female suffrage in Arizona, and election residency changes. County division emerges as a campaign issue, stirring concern over its political impact.
The fragment notes Soha with the Girls and Dunbar of the Gazette commenting on pretty girls inspiring clerks in the legislature. It also criticizes the idea that Arizona supreme judges should maintain their mothers and pay income tax.
The Gazette prints a fairy tale featuring James Daly as hero and declaring his death. The tale has Daly alias Chevalier, recounts travels to San Francisco, marriage to a housekeeper, murder of Bill Lowther at Bisbee, fear of Arizona execution, and a requested cremation of his body. The nurse narrator notes Daly’s Arizona antecedents and the burial remains sealed within a narrow urn.
The Cochise County supervisors met January 2 1895 with no quorum and adjourned to 2 pm then to 4 pm and finally to January 23 1895. They awarded county printing and delinquent tax matter contracts to S C Bagg and Chas W Pugh, with bonds and performance required. Chairman Williams and Gilman present, Perkins absent. War Coombs local indigent support approved at 20 per month. Several county claims approved and warrants issued. Minutes read and approved, attested by Hanwoop Clerk.
A reader touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as superior to substitutes urging firm resistance to inferior imitations. The note recalls personal satisfaction with Hood's and warns against other brands while promoting Hood and its 100 Dose bottle at one dollar. Local ad mentions the Tombstone Dr. offering a full line of remedies.
Readable fragments indicate SLMMERT CARRIAGE and BARRELS MFG. CO in California. No clear event or outcome is stated.
A garbled summary notes large butter imports to London from Australia, New Zealand whale station efforts, and land purchases by a duke. It mentions Austrian war ministry stocks to Freelanders, a socialist African colony, and an international Paris exhibition on book and paper industries with printing and illustrating machinery.
A collection of aphoristic lines about waiting, effort, and restraint. It extolls patience as a path to success, warns against rash action, and suggests enduring hardship until a larger payoff appears. The text riffs on self discipline and timing as keys to progress.
An OCR fragment from a Trenton Maine piece mentions a misread headline and editor wit. It hints at a mistaken line about a tomb and a sigh over type settings, with unclear proper nouns and a garbled byline.
Landowner Ew Lexoasanp warns all persons not to trespass on the ranch lands and improvements along the San Pedro river between the Grand Central of and Fairbank under any pretext. Trespassers do so at their own risk.
A sprawling cattle brand catalog notes subscribers to Dairy Prospector and Were uy bu gurrarn receive matching run rights in Ervrarn with no compensation. It lists many ranchers and brands by name, location, and designation, including A Bauer Tonitetane left lip and left side, Monk Bros Westoffice Wicos Kanee Railroad Park, Braley Poutothos Wilcox Arie Kango Sik miles east of Tortstone, and Richardson Dos Cabceas Arigs Range Apache Springs. The page mixes brand illustrations with notices of one page devoted to cattle interests and a subscription incentive for brand advertising.
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