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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1891
Page
5
A miscellany blends ocean wonders with notes from the Chicago Tribune. It covers ocean depth effects, waves, evaporation, and salt layers, then shifts to local Arizona items and Tucson teachers, miners’ losses, court adjournments, and a mining fire cost estimate.
Chicago businessman Phil Armour, famed beet king, once hid $100 in a coffee pot while seeking fortune on the Pacific coast. A partner burned the pot in a campfire, but Armour rescued the money, kept it safe in a belt, and used that 100 dollars to found immense wealth.
A selection of quirky student replies from South Africa reveals humorous misunderstandings about geography, seasons, and everyday science. The notes mention summer expansion, river courses, solar positions, and a misguided study of the house fly, highlighting the playful gaps in elementary education.
The report covers board meetings in Tully with school trustee actions, teacher appointments and salaries cut to 80 dollars monthly, and remarks on tarantula venom misperceptions. It lists rancher views on corn growth, death of Mrs. Kitt Hart near Osmore, and local business movements in Tombstone, San Francisco and Turquois. A Marsden-like set of county tallies on coyotes, wasps, and crop yields closes.
The Board of Supervisors will offer for sale at the court house Tombstone starting September 10 1890 at 10 o clock. Parcels include lots and improvements in Tombstone and neighboring mines and ranches with unpaid 1885 taxes. Sale continues as buyers appear. by order of Chairman Coffman.
The notice lists monthly stated meetings at Mason Hall and notes a special meeting to be conducted. It mentions invited officers or committees including F. L. Moon as secretary and references the accounting or commission offices.
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