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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1890
Page
2
A long Tombstone page-article surveys irrigation law repeal hopes, Cheyney’s Congressional bid, and mining revival as silver prices rise. It critiques Phenix and local papers, notes Senatorial crosses, railroad fights, and party leadership changes, including Christ’s customs post and upcoming Republican convention in Cochise.
An ad promises Dr. Livingston's antidote will cure liquor abuse in 15 to 30 days, with dosing covert in coffee. Sold only by Livingston Chemical Co. of Portland Oregon. Also notes Captain Caldern returning from Harqua Hala boasting quartz ledges and a potential mining district growth. Phoenix Herald cites Tucsons 1886 approximate population with nearby additions and valley inhabitants.
The Republican Territorial Central Committee sets a convention at Phoenix on August 26 at 10:30 a.m. to nominate a Delegate to Congress a Superintendent of Public Instruction a Councilman-at-Large from the workers district and another from the southern district. delegates apportioned by county votes and proxies limited to same counties.
Readers learn of Wathe Walker returning from Es Paco with ore samples near Solomonville, showing 144 ounces of silver and 57 percent lead, and 138 ounces with 34 percent lead. Silver King and Bulk shaft progress at Florence, Harqua Hala development, antimony prospects, and shipments to Nevada. Local notices include cholera remedy endorsements and cattle shipping rates, plus editorial chatter about Prescott and Tombstone.
Ash Creek stockman A J Madson warns mountain lions are widespread, threatening young colts and business. Taxpayers back raising county bounty to 25 per scalp. locals would fund extra to drive a lion extermination effort, per the Prescott Journal Miner.
Prescott Courier notes plans by Mr Pedley and partners to impound water on Lyox Creek nine miles east of Prescott. Storage works would lie on Bigelow Flat near the old Mexican camp of 1864 where gulch gravels paid gold. The project aims to wash auriferous gravel and irrigate Lonesome and Agua Fria valleys, with a large reservoir to employ miners and develop farms.
A Scientific American note describes a Nordic prison treatment for habitual drinkers. Inmates endure bread soaked in wine for days, leading to rapid aversion to wine and often resulting in total abstinence after eight to ten days of confinement. The method aims to force a drastic change in palate via punitive, controlled exposure.
Scientific American reports Nagemura Sakusaburo of Hikone Japan has converted wild hemp into a silk-like substance. Trials at major silk works in Kito and other factories show excellent results. The plant grows on moors and hillsides, and its fibre is described as strong and glossy, rivaling silk when properly prepared, with scalable cultivation noted.
The Democratic Territorial convention will meet in Phenix on September 15, 1890. Seventy six members will be appointed by county with Apache six, Pima nine, Maricopa one Mo have two, Cochise eleven, Pinal seven, Gila three, Vivapar fourteen, Yuma twenty two, Graham seven. Apportionment based on last election votes for Mark Smith with one seat per one hundred votes and fraction over fifty.
A Tucson Land Office record lists public lands entered for the year ending June 30 1890 with totals for homestead desert and mineral entries and a combined acreage of 118 602 79.100 acres. A Mexican saloon keeper in Yucatan promotes El Amigo del Pais in his home paper appealing to American residents with a list of mixed drink names.
The Globe Silver Belt reports the death of General Clinton B. Fisk in New York on Wednesday. Fisk, known for mining and milling interests in the district, served in the Union Army rising from private to Brigadier General and Major General, later entering railroad and banking, run as Prohibition candidate for president in 1888, and holding roles with Indian Peace Commissioners and the Methodist Episcopal Church boards.
A carload of 2 800 five gallon honey cans arrived from St Louis for D H Burtis of the Beekeepers Association. They replace kerosene oil cans once used in packing honey and are tested by Wm Osborn of Maricopa County Beekeepers. If eastern sales succeed, a large Arizona beet valley honey trade could follow.
A medical note extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for preventing and easing rheumatic and neuralgic attacks. It claims the herbally derived remedy cleanses the blood of rheumatic virus, spares nerves from severe pain, and aids malaria kidney dyspepsia constipation and liver complaints.
A letter from Arizona census supervisor M A B to a Globe applicant notes failure to send 2.50 before consideration for an enumerator post in Gila county. The missive promotes Mabie Todd fountain pens, and includes a plea to order one via the supervisor. Also referenced are a tribal inmate’s pardon case and a century plant bloom in Tucson, with local notes from Prescott and Phoenix papers.
The city of Tomb Stone notifies taxpayers that city taxes will become delinquent on the 25th instant with a penalty added.
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