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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1917
Page
5
The summary notes listing totals and registration details completed for Cochise County as part of the national draft program. Officials prepared documents for transmission to the War Department, with Arizona’s regional data to be used in the selective service process. The report references the broader wartime policy on aliens and alien enemies.
After registration work completed under Chief Deputy Sheriff Guy Welch, Cochise County records show it will surpass all others in Arizona for population coverage and economy. Registrars donated labor, supplies delivered in person, and Tombstone clerks copied duplicates without pay. County reports emphasize vast territory and hard to access precincts, yet costs stay under protectively low figures.
N Sellers statistician who has done notable work in California has been hired by the Arizona Council of Defense to produce a complete farm census map of Arizona. The map will relate to the state's crops in a survey, aiding immediate reference and showing valley conditions and needs at all times. The last project was in San Diego and he is highly recommended.
Private Carpenter of Seventeenth Cavalry at Douglas camp hospital is in serious condition after a comrade accidentally shot him at Naco days earlier. Surgeons work to restore vision as bullet entered before one ear and exited near the opposite eye, possibly shattering the optical nerve.
Deputies arrested two men named E. L. Adame and Tony Androvich while they were transporting a Ford laden with whiskey and beer from Rodeo New Mexico into Arizona toward Bisbee. They were taken to Douglas and jailed awaiting transfer to the superior court.
Reports from the San Carlos reservation warn that hundreds of cattle may die if rain does not come in the next weeks. Stock is decent now, but animals grow thin as water bores dry and range grass withers due to months without rain and overgrazing in lower ranges.
City Marshal Geo Hravin arrests Mexican Santiago Olivas suspected of joining a four man gang burglarizing Tombstone homes over the past week. A second Mexican is being sought. authorities aim to recover stolen loot from the Holland Duff and Crews residences and hold the pair in county jail by tonight.
June 12 report from Pima recounts Indian police and residents nearly all getting drunk after breaking into a room storing contraband whiskey. The uproar marks an unprecedented lapse among the force and Uncle Sam’s wards on the reservation.
A sect near Glendale in Maricopa County sent thirty seven men of draft age to jail after a religious ceremony at the county courthouse. The group stated they were enjoined by the Holy Ghost two years ago not to register for the selective draft and demanded to be released from registration obligations.
Thirty five Molokanas from a Russian refugee colony near Glendale are jailed in the county facility after refusing to register for military service. They claim persecution by a warlike patron opposed to Goll and await a hearing before U S Commissioner John B. Hink. Hearing postponed due to absent prosecutors Flynn and Longston. Flynn returned to Phoenix to pursue the case, with a likely recognizance release awaiting the commission hearing.
Arizona Eastern, Arizona and New Mexico, El Vado and Southwestern, Southern Pacific, and Tucson Cornelia and Gila Bend railroads filed a formal application with the Arizona Corporation Commission to raise freight rates by 15 percent. A hearing was scheduled for June 7 at the state house in Phoenix. The commission expressed reluctance, citing the need for in-state rate relief and readjustment before approving any hike.
Kingman Arizona June 11 1917 Levy Levy the aged Wallapai peace chieftain mourns the death of his faithful wife near one hundred years old. The old squaw saved white settlers at Beale Springs in 1876 from attack by Wallapai Charlie and his band and aided many during the uprising earning enduring praise from Mohave county settlers.
Governor Campbell announces Anderson of Clifton Greenlee county and Dr John Wells of Tucson named to top prison and insane asylum posts. Anderson succeeds Rob Sims as superintendent of the Arizona State Prison effective June 16. Wells to head the Arizona Hospital for the Insane. Redmond of Warren Cochise named secretary of the estate prison effective June 16. Also notes Judge Lockwood returning from Florence after forgery case. criminal term to begin in about two weeks. jury drawn Monday 18th to hear trials.
Joseph Cooley, an Apache, believed military registration doomed him to immediate service and killed rival P3 near Pt. Apache with a Winchester rifle. Another foe fled the area. Cooley appeared before a U.S. commissioner at Fort Apache on a murder charge, with federal court sessions set for Monday.
Attorney L. C. Woolery is reported doing as nicely as possible after yesterday’s operation at Bunker Hill hospital and is convalescing rapidly though to remain confined for several weeks. Tombstone friends wish for a speedy recovery.
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