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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1922
Page
6
Tombstone residents plan Fourth of July gatherings with relatives in Willcox and Bisbee. City council postpones its meeting to Wednesday night due to a local holiday. many local figures travel, attend church and handle civic duties.
Thursday saw W A Fowler assume control of the Tombstone post office after a routine check with retiring official Paul A Smith. Miss Marlon Lockwood is appointed assistant. Smith to remain briefly to finalize reports. Local activity includes road and transportation notes, visits by officials from Phoenix and Denver, and several routine business engagements in Tombstone and Bisbee area.
A series of brief items from Tombstone and surrounding areas recounts Undersheriff Blyth in Douglas, cattlemen Barrow and Rishworth from St. David visiting the county seat, and locals from Gleeson and Tucson stopping by Tombstone. It notes a flood damaging a San Pedro dam, a bootlegging arrest, and movements of residents Nellie Lemons family and coal-bright local transport workers.
Notable movements include Vaughn heading to Phoenix for a few days, Sheriff Harry Hafferty traveling to Los Angeles on business, Katheryn McClelland's trip to Los Angeles for several weeks, and Mrs A E Bush joining her husband in Tombstone. Registration updates show Dems leading in Cochise County, with 3158 Democrats and 146 miscellaneous, total 3304. Douglas residents Gladys Blyth and daughter Helen return from California. Geo I Kee and F M Down visit, A H Lowe arrives as assistant station clerk. Hutchison travels to Bisbee to verify registrations. Nogales ex-residents Rafferty and Larrieu seen locally. Wayne and Mrs Hankins depart for San Antonio Texas.
Weather observers report heavy showers in southern Arizona easing range livestock conditions that have persisted months. In Thatcher and Douglas areas rains improve ranges while Prescott sees rain and Flagstaff little. overall stock and water supplies rise. Cotton irrigated heavily under sun shows rapid denting with large nuts, fruit ripening as grapes fill. citrus scarce and cantaloupes ripening slowly amid weak eastern markets.
Court reporter H. D. Palmer is noted as home from the hospital in a brief local notice. The item confirms Palmer’s return to normal activities after a recent medical absence.
The Arizona Industrial Congress unanimously urged the Federal Power Commission to grant final papers to J B Girand for power rights at Diamond Creek on the Colorado River. The measure contends that Diamond Creek will not interfere with federal plans and would supply cheap power to Arizona industries. It notes Girand has complied with state and federal regulations and could start immediately, delivering power within three years without hindering Boulder Canyon or Lews Ferry dam plans. The resolution was wire sent to President Harding, the Power Commission, and Washington officials.
The week brings favorable conditions overall in Yumissetion despite hot weather harming grape vines. Colorado i consolidates favorable trends as water recedes leaving dry patches and affecting alfalfa and tomatoes.
Arizona motor and bicycle owners must install white left side lights after July 25. The state secretary Bracket Tall proposes the amendment to require a white light visible 100 feet for vehicles and bicycles, with penalties up to a fine of at least two dollars for noncompliance.
Tucson July 6 At a board meeting of Erupcion Mining Co best at Paso this morning Dr J F Ricketts was elected president John Way View president bandered secretary treasurer Stock of Erupcion is largely a Tucson and 11 other Arizona towns The offices may move to Warren Ariz if approved Cent ors Wy Dy King and Jesse Yoakum realigned with plans to complete rail connections to mine and set stock measures as treasury actions are discussed
Ramon Ivas testified as alibi for Placido Silvas in the murder case of Mrs J Frank Pearson and her husband during a bandit raid last August in Arivaca. He said he saw Placido in Arivaca three times on the murder day, corroborated by Alejandro Sauseta who saw Placido at an Arivaca pool hall. Trial to close soon. Silvas already sentenced to life for complicity.
Douglas deputies arrested Morgan on a charge of stealing four cows from Roger's brothers, cattlemen of the Sulphur Springs valley. The animals were taken about a year ago, and evidence linking Morgan to the crime was only uncovered recently.
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