Fourth of July Celebrations in Tombstone and St David
The Fourth was a lively affair with about 5000 visitors in Douglas, as Tombstone’s hose team placed second in the hose contest. A drilling contest ended in a draw, with plans to drill again. St David hosted parades, goddess ceremonies, and a ball, while Tombstone held music, a barbecue, and patriotic addresses.
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Tombstone
Douglas
Douglas Smelter
Cananen
Bisber
Bradshaw
Perkins
Molver
Ross
Graham
Sanmmertick
Arthur Jones
Ombstone
St. David
Union
St. David Young Indies
Uncle Ram
Charle Merrill
St. David's
Liberty
Columbia
Mix Mary Roberts
Mies Elsie Curti
H. C. Kimball Wa
St David
Douglas St David
Southern Pacific Short on Brakemen
The Tucson Citizen notes heavy summer freight traffic keeps Southern Pacific crews in demand. Training master Bonarden is short on brackemen and switchmen as pay ranges from $85 to $125 a month. A renewed need for crews arises with unusually heavy freight business and extra freights. Also, Captain Thomas Rynning reported that eight illegally branded colts were seized by Lieutenant Harry Wheeler of the Arizona Rangers in the Meets Springs area.
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Tucson
Southern Pacific
Bonarden
Thomas Rynning
Harry Wheeler
Arizona Rangers
Meets Springs
Uncle Sam Sues the Southwestern in El Paso Texas
The United States sues El Paso and Southwestern Railway and its Texas company in three counts over railcar incidents in February 1906. Allegations involve a coal car with a missing grab-hold, a coke car with out of gauge coupling, and a tank car with hand-held device issues. Total penalties amount to 300 dollars.
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el Paso
Texas
States of America
el Paso and Southwestern Railway Company
el Paso and Southwestern Railroad Company of Texas
Arizona
Dawson
Douglas
Ariz
Segundo
Volo
Naco
Ari
Segond Naco
E P and S W Suit Sparks Wide Comment
A U S safety acts suit against the Southwestern Railway causes extensive discussion in El Paso railroad circles. The suit targets neglected safety appliances for employee protection but cites equipment from another line hauled over the road. The Southwestern is praised for its superior rolling stock, with the suit unlikely to reflect on its own equipment.
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Southwestern
United States
Cvreles
el Paso
el Paso News
Roosevelt urges Arizona statehood in 1920 letter
A Tucson dispatch reports President Roosevelt writes to old friend Mark A. Rogers urging Arizonans to vote for admission as a state alongside New Mexico. He warns the chance may not come again for years and notes the White House date June 27.
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Tucson
Roosevelt
Arizona
Mark A. Rogers
New Mexico
White
Tombstone Fourth of July Excursion Crowds To Douglas
Over 200 tickets sold today at the E. P. & S. W. depot for Douglas. Both trains crowded with Tombstone Fourth of July excursionists to the smelter city. An equal number of Tombstone visitors expected to leave on the early train tomorrow.
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Douglas
Tombstone
Mammoth Artesian Well at St. David Progress Update
Prospector representative pays a substantial sum toward the big artesian well in St. David. Superintendent Mackay reports the drill is roughly 380 feet down and moving through gravel. The 12 inch casing should yield 2500 gallons per minute with deeper surveying. If successful, more wells may follow and land speculation rises. plans include a hotel and a lake with fish near the wells. Southern Pacific also eyes sinking two deep wells if this venture succeeds.
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St. David
Mackay
Wr. Mackay
San Pedro
Bisbee
Southern Pacific
A Papago Indian Superstition
The Papago Indians hold peculiar beliefs about killing top-knot quail. They say the male top knot is distinctly papago and the call sounds different to nonbelievers. The Papago would seldom shoot a top-knot quail, treating it with reverence and care.
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Congress
Kansas
Nogales Names Train Route After Kick on Name
The Nogales Times weighs in on the longtime passenger train between Nogales and Benson and Tuccon. It argues the affectionate label the Barro may be misnamed and out of date, reflecting changes in the service and route details.
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Nogales
Benson and Tuccon
Import Trade Rises as Mexico Increases US Ties
During the first four months of the current fiscal year Mexican trade with the United States shows higher imports by over 1 million dollars and exports reaching 56.80125 million dollars, up more than 12 million from the same period last year.
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United States
Cuban man injured after fall from moving freight train near Maricopa
A Cuban man, about forty eight hours without food or water, was found near Maricopa with a fractured leg after claiming a brakeman threw him from a freight train. He was taken to Phoenix for treatment after paying a dollar to ride the division.
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Phoenix
Asert
Maricopa
Doings in the District Court
Court convened at nine this morning with judgments entered in Friedman v Friedman and Wilson v Dos Cabezas Gold Mining Co. Patrick McNulty was admitted to citizenship. J N Gaines v Cochise County addressed tax valuation timing, with salary increase to $2500 ordered. Kreuder v Cochise County awarded $385 for juror meals. McDonald and Shropshire fee cases explained county vs city liability under territorial versus city ordinances, noting Arizona law flaws.
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Bowman & Pickett
Sam Fr
Wilson
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Dos Cabezas Gold Mining Co
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J. N. Gaines
Cochise
Formalary
Board of Equalization
Chas. Kreuder
Cochise County
Triat
Justice McDonald
Constable Shropshire
Douglas
Arizona
Immigrants Enter United States at El Paso Port
The El Paso immigration bureau reports for the year ending June 30 show 32 465 admissions at the port and 33 533 applicants for admission with 1 068 debarred. Mexicans total 31 358 applicants while 2 175 were aliens of other nationalities, about four fifths Syrians. Authorities estimate three quarters of the debarred were prevented due to contagious disease symptoms.
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United States
Jsst
el Paso
el Paso Bureau
el Paso News
Card of Thanks to Tombstone Friends
To the many Tombstone friends who by friendly visits and kindly ministrations lightened the burden of my daughter's illness I desire to extend my thanks It is hoped her trip to California will prove beneficial and result in her complete recovery A C Keaen H A Swarts of the Bank of Bisbee returned to Bisbee yesterday after brief visits to the county seat
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California
Was. A C. Keaen
Benson Breezes By Joe Bush
Benson residents receive a sample of the city water company's proposed rate hike. Rates would rise from 2 for private households and 5 for saloons to 2.50 for families and 10 cents per month for shade trees, with examples like Hotel Banks. Editor W P White of Cochise County Press slipped on a balcony but was saved by a lash on a nail. He will recover.
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Arizona Prophet in Cincinnati Leads Unlikely Career
Rev W A Cuddy, once a Tombstone activist and journalist, now in Cincinnati, drives YMCA religious work while pursuing varied jobs. He backed Carr for Tombstone mayor, served as sergeant at arms in Arizona's lower house, edited a Gila Beach paper, and claims prophecies from Revelations predicting 1921 millennium and global upheaval. He ties prophecies to his Arizona legislative contacts.
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Tombstone
Cincinnati
Mason
Y.M.C. A
Cuddy
Carr
Cuday
Arizona
Gila Beach
Mr. Cuddy
Europe
Cananea Military Force Increased Reported
A Douglas source says 250 soldiers arrived at Cananea on Tuesday marching from Hermosillo to the copper camp. Reports say unrest in Cananea linked to Mexicana wage demands and anticipated July 4th trouble. Naco authorities reportedly intercepted two wagon loads.
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Naco
Cananea
Hermosillo
By Mexicana
River channel cut drains Cameron Lake leaving deep gulley
A correspondent notes the New River channel cut through Cameron Lake. The lake is drained, leaving a gulley 40 to 60 feet deep. Waters rush through the new gorge at high speed as the river flows onward.
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New River
Cameron Lake
Hus chuca shooting misread as bloodless affair
Thursday's Daily notes a reported shooting scrape at Hus chuca yesterday that was later described as bloodless. The item hints at local anxiety but provides no injuries or details beyond the mischaracterization.
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Huschuca
Yaqui River Tobacco shipment crosses Nogales line
Yaqui Indians produce high quality tobacco grown along the Yaqui river and tributaries. Seven cars of leaf tobacco crossed the Nogales line in bonded, carefully boxed shipment. Experts compare Yaqui tobacco favorably with Virginia and Carolinas and Tuxtlan leaf, with potential values cited up to nearly $28,000 in net income. Reports note Yaqui and Mexican workers have not yet begun full harvest.
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Nogales
Virginia
Carolinas
The Most Appropriate Place For Him
An exchange decries a town figure as too useful up to a point and then useless, urging burial in the woods as a final, poetic solution. The speaker claims he is too good for the town yet impractical and stingy, arguing he should be moved out to make room for a younger man.
Phoenix passes harsher saloon license law than Tucson
Friday's Daily notes Phoenix banned saloon licenses more aggressively, raising the Commin Council's license from twenty dollars to one thousand. It also cites the Columbian Standard, new at Asumption, Louis, as the party organ aiming to halt foreign immigration and deport Negress. Reports include Supervisors Riggs and Taylor visiting from Douglas, Mrs Harrison and daughter in town, and a busy Fourth of July scene with Douglas Dispatch praise and Bisbee visitors. The territorial auditor collected 4128.60 dollars in June filing articles of incorporation.
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Columbian Party
Asumption
Liliois
Phoenix Republican
Territorial
Foreigners in the Arizona Asylum
Dr. Ray Ferguson, superintendent of the Territorial Insane Asylum at Phoenix, reported 262 patients on record with 60 of foreign origin from Sonora or other Mexican states. A movement seeks to admit foreigners who become insane to Mexico and urge probate judges to refrain from taking Mexican cases, a plan also seen as aiding the territorial penitentiary by removing non citizens connected to criminal clues.
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Territorial Insane Asylum
Phoenix
Nogales
Sonora
Mexico
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Protate
Ferguson
Department of Commerce
Geo. Wench
Territorial Penitentiary
United States
Woman kills herself on train near Lordsburg
A Portuguese woman on a route from Portugal to Clifton leaped under a westbound train at Lordsburg after being put off by the conductor. Her daughter clung to her as bystanders contributed $200 to aid the orphaned child, and the Chicago Tribune notes a nationwide Fourth of July death and injury tally.
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Clifton
Lordsburg
Lewick
Tae
Chicago Tribune
Unites State
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