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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1908
Page
1
The program on Sunday June 14, 1908 includes a dramatic feature of 1960 feet and a descriptive film about smuggling. Tubstone’s favorite baritone WR Oscar K Goll will perform a ballad era titled Just Because You Are Sold Sweethears of Minuar Parley S Breckenridge, a popular tenor, will sing a song about beard and lines.
The notice advertises ongoing shows with admission 25 cents on the main floor and 15 cents in the gallery with children charged 15 cents. Cox Office opens at 7:30 and curtain rises at 8:15.
An appeal urges residents to keep premiums local and invest in Territory banks. It cites $2,000,000 yearly leaving the Territories in life insurance and notes $110,000 available for loans on improved real estate, with potential annual increases as business grows.
The notice outlines selling life insurance at low rates with safety, running affairs economically to pay large dividends, and writing standard old line policies on a legal reserve basis with modern liberal features. It mentions lending money on policies and on other securities.
Court docket shows jurors excited for Monday as Territory vs Boniter heads to trial. Abell vs Swain on quiet title scope, continued to Monday. Land et al vs Cowan Leare granted amendment. Fisher vs Young jury trial waived. District attorney reports strong conviction record for the season.
New York quotations list bar silver copper and lead prices with London and engineering references. The ad notes three unfurnished and furnished houses for rent at Cantrell Street, P. B. Wernik Sth and Allee at.
The Board of Health for Tombstone urges all residents to clean corrals and outhouses to maintain sanitary conditions before the rains. First publication June 10th. Signed by H Hovseros Huenant, M D, Chairman.
Sunday services listed for Congregational and Methodist churches with Sunday school at 10 am and sermons at 1 pm and 7 30 pm. Notices announce Rev. M F Ault arriving from Oklahoma to replace Rev. Addis Albro due to health. Rev. AH Gannett to preach June 1 at Tombstone. Catholic schedule noted with masses, rosary, and benediction. Rev. J S Bouse named pastor.
Manuel Rameris, jailed in Mexico for wheat importation frauds, has been turned over to Mexican officials after four months in jail in Turron and Phoenix and his extradition was ordered. In Phoenix the school census shows 2410 children. Two women, Tindale and Truman, left Phoenix amid debt claims of 270 dollars. A two year old daughter of George F Millett of Moss was injured in a runaway when a bogey derailment threw mother and child. nearby, a train frightened the horse. A Prescott dog found with a human foot in its mouth led to fear of desecration, but sources gave no trail. Kitty Knight, famed Arizona cyclist, is said to be joining the Albany club of the New York State League as a pitching star. No typhoid cases reported in Mess. Frank Arebalo, convicted in Phoenix for murder intent, received two years.
The report lists payments made in 1907 by Arizona life insurance companies. It name drops: Birbee-Arthur Russell at $10,000 and Concho-Santos Ortega at $14,000, with totals and locations like Tempe Thatcher Taccon Winslow. The excerpt details payments of $10,000 or more reported to the Insurance department.
Hermosillo dispatch reports four thousand Mexican soldiers under General Lorenzo Torres in Yaqui country pursuing Yaqui Indians. Negotiations toward a peace treaty collapsed after a conference over Yaqui arms surrender.
Willim T. Morgan, a retired U S A Commissary Sergeant from Concord NH, recalls two years in Cuba and two in the Philippines and credits Dr King s New Discovery for keeping him in perfect health. He calls it the best medicine for coughs colds bronchial troubles and consumption and guarantees to druggists with trial bottles offered.
The Paratian Record reports Miss Kate Nolen and her brother Frank of Buckalow ranch trapped a large mountain lion last week on Cochise's Heat west side near Brushy canyon, about thirteen miles northwest of Paradise. The lion measured 5 feet 6 inches from tip to tip and 6 feet between front feet, weighing 150 pounds.
George Melkey was shot near Johnson by John Nes and possibly fatally wounded. Mulkey, a Johnson merchant, remains alive but critically ill as Neal is under arrest at Wilcox. Reports conflict and details are scarce amid long standing bad feeling between the men.
Chicago June 13 The Arizona content of the Republican delegates was decided last evening with the Powell delegation favored by the national committee over Smith. Hon Joseph B. Cotton represented Powell and Attorney General Clarke represented Smith. The credential issue will be carried to the credentials committee when the convention meets.
A claimed report in the El Paso Herald says twelve Chinamen were dead in New York after a shipment from El Paso. The claim is unconfirmed but was touched on by a state inquiry board. A Juarez Chinaman offered $600 Mexican to place a person in a fruit barrel.
Perforations to admit air and consign to New York described a ruse with a barrel marked fruit. The plan required opening at Peoria Illinois, freeing the Chinaman, resealing the barrel, and sending onward. The man tried to wade the river last Tuesday night but was captured and held for deportation.
In a chaotic wire summary, Taft leads on the first ballot with 704 votes while New York’s federal court convicts Standard Oil on forty counts, exposing potential fines over 20 dollars. Governors and other figures face varied political and personal upheavals including Hughes’s stance on nomination and a Denver homicide-suicide.
The forecast reports fair conditions across Arizona for June 13. Collect sunshine with light winds and warm daytime temperatures expectations across major cities. No precipitation is anticipated and overnight lows will drop modestly under clear skies.
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