Ben Daniels Resigns as U S Marshal Plans Return to Arizona
A Milwaukee Journal dispatch reports former United States marshal Ben Daniels intends to return to Arizona within months. Daniels cites dissatisfaction with Taft era appointments and a broken contract, resigning as special agent of the Menomonie Indian reservation in Wisconsin and taking a position with a $3 per diem, planning to relocate after thirty-six years in Arizona.
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Local items and notes from Tombstone area
Postmaster Frank Crawle returns from Tucson after Arizona commencement. Clyde Lams, son of the Tombstone Telephone company president, also comes from Tucson noted for rapid school progress. A two year old boy survived a seven mile flume ride with minor scratches. County supervisors’ clerk reports 1583 dollars in school fund leases since January, April worst month with 644 dollars. Ice cream social by Methodist Juniors raises funds for the Junior League. Miss Kra Collinge to Portland for summer. Rev Needham returns from Benton. Joe Moot and wife visiting Tombstone from the Hoot ranch Sulphur Spring Valley.
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Pioneer Tombstone Prospector Dies in Los Angeles
Richard Gird a pioneer miner linked to Tombstone history died at his Los Angeles home. He helped assay the first ore from Ed Schieffelin and later owned the Chino ranch, pioneering beet sugar production and earning title father of Southern California's beet sugar industry.
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Texas Canyon Picnic Day Set for June 10
Texas Canyon people plan a basket picnic and athletic events on June 10, honoring "Grandma" Adare. The program includes Sunday school exercises, a sermon by Rev Benedict, tea, a baseball game, and other sports. organizers promise a big day.
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The Wandering Bill Of Our Statehood
A lyric lament on the elusive Statehood Bill, asking where it has gone and whether it was delayed or lost. The verse ponders Beveridge and Cameron and wonders if the bill that would grant statehood has been pigeonholed or vanished. Purportedly a satirical tune reflecting political frustration.
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Last Sunday in Tombstone Churches
Sunday evening at the Congregational Church the Methodists and Congregationalists and others enjoyed a treat by Rev Needham pastor for the Methodist Church. The feature was a duet by Mesdames Austin Brown and Lee Woolery.
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Tombstone Teachers Take Summer Vacation Trips
Tombstone public school staff wrap a year of teaching with planned summer travels. Most head to the Pacific coast for rest with several flying to Los Angeles Portland and Oklahoma while a few stay in Tombstone briefly. Principal Eva Wolcott departs for Los Angeles and others chart destinations in media Pennsylvania Bridgeton New Jersey and Tennessee.
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Pacific Coast
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Tombstone
Aha
Permanent Survey Orders Advance From Benson to Winkelman
Advices report that the 1 Pate and Southwestern surveyors have ordered a permanent location survey from Benson to Winkelman. They are camped at Reddington midway and pressing northwest toward the destination as soon as the prel iminary survey ends. The order follows a recent visit by Phelps-Dodes officials to Winkelman district.
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Cattle Shipments Peak in Cochise County Spring
Cochise county reports record cattle shipments this spring with totals from Four Bar ranch 5000 head and Douglas, Hereford, Wilcox, Benson, San Simon contributing to a county total exceeding 50,000 head. At about 18 dollars per head the value tops six figures.
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Seismograph Station Planned Near Red Rock New York
The United States Magnetic Observatory will install a pelamograph in a small building eight miles from Tucano, to record earthquakes in Red Rock and nearby areas. Director Wallace procured construction bids and confirms government authorization for the seismograph station to be highly equipped.
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Peculiar Murder Case Dug Up in Arizona
In Phoenix Wm Sisson who had served years in the territorial penitentiary for murder was freed on a habeas corpus writ. He killed a man in Graham County over a dispute about fencing a ditch and was sentenced to life by Judge Tucker. Governor Sloxy commuted his term to ten years, but new evidence shows Sisson never pleaded guilty or not guilty, making the trial irregular and void.
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Arrest in Arizona for Jumping Bond
Washington dispatch reports Deputy Marshal Fletcher transported from CMton Arizona with prisoner Mise Josephine Dennis a 64 year old hair gear woman. Dennis was arrested March 19 for running a secret saloon and gambling operation linked to a dressmaking shop. Fletcher posted 1500 bond as bondsman then pursued Dennis to Arizona where he arrested her as a bond jumper.
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Tucson Census Figures Stir City Rumors Of Population
The piece reports a semi official Tucson census claiming a city population around 17 thousand, with rumors of higher counts to about 20.40 thousand after additional districts were included. It notes enumerators are legally barred from releasing fraught data.
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Chinks Seek Free Rides From Uncle Sam in Immigration Tale
A historical clipping alleges Chinese laborers dodge U S border enforcement by living in Mexico and claiming deportation costs. A Nogales incident is recounted where a celestial sought a free ride back to China and complained of police tactics, while implying reliance on free meals and lodging during hearings.
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Dr Percival Lowell Discusses Comet A Flagetei
Dr Percival Lowell of Lowell Observatory announced last night that a study by his team on Halley's comet provides conclusive evidence against prior ideas about the tail's makeup. He states cyanogen in the tail is very weak and stretches only a short distance. No hydrocarbon emission is visible. The tail’s body appears formed from unidentified constituents that reflect light.
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Colonel Greene Files on 41000 Acres in Casa Grand Valley
Script filed by Colonel W C Greene through Howell Jones and W F Taliferro, land commissioner and assistant, claims 41000 acres in the Casa Grands valley. Greene plans irrigation from a reservoir near Tortes under construction. the MoKi Indian coup purchase via Santa Fe links Jones and Taliferro to Topeka HQ. They will soon file 50000 acres in Little Colorado valley for their own company, irrigated from the Little Colorado reservoir. J F Church filed on the reservoir rate April 9, 1909. project backed by W K Stokes and other Denver capitalists.
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Leander LeChance Ends Long Phoenix Grocer Era
Leander LeChance longtime manager of Watkin Grocery Co. a major Phoenix retail and jobbing grocer firm, died Saturday evening after an illness culminating from heart disease following a bronchial pneumonia attack.
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Watkin Grocery Co
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