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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1910
Page
3
Recorder John Moore to Standard Furniture Co house goods and furniture transfers plus deeds and mortgages across Bisbee properties. Entries include multiple quit claim deeds, satisfactions of mortgage, and articles of incorporation for local concerns with numerous named parties and dollar amounts.
Colonel H L Pickett, famed from Tombstone to Hassayampa, drifted from Grand Canyon to Gold Center and heads to Los Angeles to boost boosters and meet Ed Doheny. He may speak at a Booster banquet on Kingman mineral wealth. Secretary Reynolds notes space for Arizona mineral exhibits at Michigan State Fair and seeks mining interest.
In a budding municipal race, many names surface for mayor and police chief roles. Incumbent A Wentworth may seek another term. candidates include Dowglae Grey EJ James WF Kuebenbecker WK Kine John Rock and ET fiams. For Republicans F N Wolcott CL Cummings AL Grow and Judge Fletcher M Doab are floated. Ward contenders include H H Hughart in the first ward CB Tarbell in the third and Wen Cavanagh in the fourth. primary is Sept 6 with filings due 25 days prior. Separately a fatal accident endangers 11 year old Jessie Snow as her sister Mary’s shotgun discharge injures her leg during a rabbit hunt.
How's This word for any case of cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J. Cuxsay & Co., Toledo. We the undersigned have known E.J. Cheney for 15 years and find him honorable in all business. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials seat free. Price 75 cent per bottle, Sold by all druggists.
Monday reports from Tombstone describe Attorney Allen L Hoglish in Tucson on legal matters and Ben Goodrich planning a coast trip with wife. It notes arrivals, court matters, highway repairs after rains, and the Copper Queen district court notes with witnesses from Bisbee and Gleeson.
Tombstone notes seven noted physicians arriving amid fears of an epidemic. The group, welcomed amid comment and misgivings, is joined by experts from Douglas Gleeson Bisbee and Phoenix area professionals including Drs W. A. Greene A. R. Hickman J. Downs J. M. Leonard F. L. Shine G. A. Bridge l. They meet Copper Queen Co. officials to discuss medical terms and observations.
President Taft signed a proclamation adding 30 560 acres to the Chiricahua National Forest while removing 57 297 acres from it covering areas in Arizona and New Mexico. The changes follow a 1909 interior department review showing excluded lands not needed for protection. The Peloncillo area near the New Mexico border is removed, leaving Sanders Peak and adjacent lands outside forest lines. Nonforest lands are also reallocated within Chiricahua and Peloncillo divisions with some transfers to the Coronado. Unappropriated portions will be restored to settlement after local notice.
Mrs J F Walker hosted a late evening gathering on lower Fifth Street to honor Miss Ona Black of Bisbee spending the summer in our city. Music and storytelling filled the night with Miss Black at the piano and others performing piano pieces. Refreshments were served as guests, including Irene Englich and Mire Rose Walker, joined by Lizzie Critchley Olle Ballard and several others before midnight.
Thatcher Fred Borestien of M dome says he has perfected a process to turn skimmed milk into its weight in butter and will quit show business to manufacture it. He cites a pure food law press and notes a $10,000 offer to run a factory for three years. H. H. Byngton of Fort Huachuca arrives in town today for a brief visit.
Tuesday notices show Barhacumuant cattle van in town briefly from Tombstone. Mrs L B Trask visits from Benson. Attorney Don hat returns from Gila valley on legal matters. Mrs Porter McDonald leaves for the coast. F N Goodman arrives from St David for business. Schuvielin opera house plans an altered program with Venne's Orchestra and Tom Dowrick. Charles McKean travels from Courtland to Tombstone then Benton for business. Homer Mauding from St David also in town for a short mission.
Col H L Pickett of Tombstone visits Williams after returning from the Grand Canyon. A prominent Democrat and lawyer, he is touted as a possible U S senator candidate and favors county primaries to select delegates to the constitutional convention. He toured Washington on statehood matter and plans to push Arizona’s interests.
Papers filed in the inquest into Charles Wilkes found dead in Tombstone July 23. Coroner Daniel McFarland’s jury returned death by heart disease. Additional papers show Arthur R Bean died at Lowell July 12 from a gunshot wound to the neck with the weapon in the hands of W H Hart.
Two marriage licenses were issued by Clerk James of the probate court this morning. Iran Weidner, 25, and Josie Carpens, 23, both of Douglas, with the bride having formerly resided in Tombstone. C H Schwarzeman, 25, of Lon Angeles, to wed Annie Hayden, 18, of Nogales.
John Christopher died at Campas hospital after twenty hours of agony from injuries suffered at the Old Dominion mine in Glote. He plummeted over fifty feet down an ore shaft, sustaining internal and external wounds.
A cheap coffin in a common wagon carried a poor patient to the county hospital where an indigent elder died unseen. The departed’s name was unknown, and the Great Judge may reward the unknown man more than many famed pretenders. The story recalls a dignified end, contrasted with Rockefeller’s grand fame.
The Christian church of Phoenix adopted resolutions pledging members to vote for anti liquor candidates and urging an article in the constitutional convention to prevent sale of intoxicants in Arizona. The Phoenix Gazette notes the move aims to extend statewide with church cooperation signed by F M Avie and EN Phillipe.
Early the morning Judge Gond rody of the probate court issued a marriage license to Richard Morgan to wed Harrist Booker both residents of Benson. The Judge performed the ceremony after issuing the nuptial permit and offered words of advice as the couple began their new life together. A second license was issued to John H Eick to wed Emma McDonald, residents of Douglas, bringing the month’s total licenses to thirty three. Lytus Thompson a night call boy at the Southern Pacific yards at Tyccon nearly lost his life when he was caught between two moving train cars on a switch. a strip of flesh two inches long was torn from his side as the cars crushed together.
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