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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1910
Page
3
A compact roundup of instruments recorded in Cochise County including deeds mortgage and lien actions. Listings include quitclaims warranty deeds and conveyances among individuals and entities such as Bisbee Tombstone Willcox Douglas Cortez and various trustees with values noted for several mortgages and releases.
The county shows growing assessments with annual figures for 1906 through 1909. The 1910 assessed valuation of mine production is 4,887,054.29 and total property value is 18,866,525.48. Exemptions total 609,109.96, yielding net assessed valuation of 15,258,414.96, up 200,637.05 from 1908.
Territorial Engineer JB Girand in the city with Cameron party reports progress on a Globe Roosevelt highway linking Globe to Roosevelt then to Mess through the government road Roosevelt. Fourteen miles of Globe Roosevelt road are graded and will be surfaced and completed after the last rain, which was ordered to be done.
A customer visited a city bar and was misled about tarenta. The proprietor displayed a tarantula in an alcohol jar and invited the customer to assist. The customer, after placing his bong on the bar, left abruptly as his horse was reported stolen, and he has not returned.
Readable fragments describe two Woodson brothers in Maricopa county jail awaiting trial on train robbery and grand larceny. The piece lampoons their crimes with sensational imagery, noting a prisoner pressured to reveal secrets and a scare about a pursuer. It also mentions Dr. Paul displaying a large potato exhibit to illustrate agricultural prospects near Nogales and Rillito trials.
A Tombstone Republican gathering at the Can Can Cafe marked a festive love feast for Delegate Ralph Cameron and accompanying officials. Cameron praised local hospitality and Arizona statehood, with remarks from Territorial Engineer J B Girard and other dignitaries before the party traveled to Benson and then to Tombstone for further celebrations.
The will of T Brown formerly of Prescott Arizona and long a Rochester Minnesota patient leaves 100000 for free dental parlors in Musselburgh Scotland and seven Prescott city lots proceeds for the poor. Brown valued at 125000 widow in Scotland. motive rooted in his dental suffering and search for relief. A separate item notes a jail theft case in Phoenix with a man swallowing a $10 gold piece after stealing it.
Sam Barrow arrives from St. David with W. W. Brooks visiting Tombstone from Phoenix for several days. Attorney George H. Neal from Bisbee attends district court matters while Frank Dyson discusses Inat ore in Merrill gold mine near Cochise. Time card changes affect Tombstone branch train schedule and Gladys Swain, granddaughter of Judge Swain, gives piano recital in Los Angeles.
Cochise County plans to send mineral exhibits to the Second Annual Paso fair and the Sixth Annual Phoenix fair. County Fair Commissioner Orear K. Goll aims to showcase local mineral resources with displays in Willcox and other districts, coordinating with Charlie A. Dinemore to secure exhibit space and gather specimens from throughout the county.
The past school year expenditures reached 130 254 dollars with about 8 000 dollars in outstanding vouchers for Bisbee and Douglas districts not included. Balance on hand July 1 1910 was 8 749.54 dollars and total receipts for the year including July 1 1909 balance reached 285 474.48 dollars. In Bisbee Maria Lorena, a young girl, has learned she inherited about 39 000 dollars from an uncle who died in Sinaloa, Mexico.
The Maccabees ladies host a social dance at Gage Hall tonight the first public event by the group. Music is planned for an enjoyable evening. Several visitors arrive in town for court business or commercial matters while a local marriage occurs with Judge Goodbody officiating in absence of the justice. Continuous updates note progress on a county board of equalization and a street railway incident in Phoenix.
A planned dynamite attack on the International rooming house on North Broad street was discovered by manager Mrs. Giacimmo. The device, a fat stick wrapped in a handbag with six percussion caps, could have killed many if stepped on. Deputy Swearengen transported the device to the sheriff's office for vault storage as investigators seek motive and suspect.
The Toccon Citizen reports Cochise County grand jury returned fifty five indictments. It notes Cochise leads in both territorial and federal court indictments with a total of 133. The article claims Cochise tops other Arizona counties in crime enforcement and emphasizes strong county oversight.
A promising feature for the territorial fair is under negotiation and likely to appear. The show would include Dan Patch on free exhibition alongside four renowned pacers Minor Heir Lady Maud C and Hadgawood Boy. All horses are owned by MV Savage of Minneapolis Minnesota.
Dr J W Fewkes of the Smithsonian returns to Flagstaff after a 200 mile trip to Mars shell Pass country in northern Arizona. He describes the ruins as among the largest and best preserved in the southwest, estimating about 400 years old. One cave opens 60 feet wide and extends 100 feet into the cliff with 75 to 100 adobe brick rooms.
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