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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1914
Page
2
Construction begins on the new Pearce schoolhouse with gravel delivery and Sparks as contractor. Pearce baseball plans a Sunday game against Tombstone or Light. Local residents travel to Patagonia Tombstone Pisbee and the county seat for visits and business as families move into new homes and field crops are planted.
Constable Lafe Gibson returned from Johnson with three Gleeson Mexicans who had stolen goods. One woman fought and was noted for scrap. A man from Courtland boasted he would not be arrested. he was later jailed in Gleeson. Rivers family visited Tombstone. meat shipments from Tombstone to Gleeson will increase to two trips weekly. Election officers named for Gleeson precinct. locals traveled to Gleeson for social visits.
Tucson laborer Fidel Torres is wounded by a flying object at a tar tank near Rillito and hospitalized. Nogales enforces strict arms embargo and war dept plans abolition of permit system. Troops relocate to Fort Huachuca, border patrol duties shift to 12th Infantry. Infant David Garne, a refugee from Lower California, dies in Tucson after months in the area. State Board accepts WM Whipple’s resignation as superintendent of the state industrial school effective June 30. Prevett clerk J H Robinson seeks initiative tax payment petition with 1850 signatures. A new laboratory at Carnegie Desert Laboratory in Tucson will study chemical effects of sunlight on vegetation costing $6000. Stolzoff bound over for burglary in Tucson. faces Florence prison sentence. Death of Dr Henry H Pilling reported from Los Angeles. Tucson man Joe Degan dies in a well accident. A Tucson driver, Lino Flores, arrested after injuring a two-year-old child with a hit and run. Arizona delegates head to Chicago for the Sunday School convention June 23–30. Vigilantes capture robbers near Mammoth after a gun battle. one robber killed, partner captured. Over 5,000 cattle shipped from area to Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Velie racer Nagin tunes up for Prescott Fourth of July race. Borderland route meeting set for June 20 at Bisbee. optimism high over past success. Murder case: Luther McKinney arrested for stabbing William Allison. Allison dies.
Tombstone is named as the pivotal point of a proposed Interstate Postal Highway linking three major systems. The route from Oklahoma City toward El Paso and Amarillo will parallel the Rock Island line, passing El Reno Geary Bridgeport and Weatherford with a clay roadbed designed for year round usability.
Lyman C Woods and family left for Glbe to inspect a devert claim near Webb WR Benedict plans to return to Parral in Chihuahua Mexico. Three year old Juanita Barchfield died from burns after falling into hot water while playing near a tub. Robt Jordan A D Revd and others traveled to Courtland for local business. lease transfers on the Mary and Mame were noted with several names involved.
In federal court the Graham and Gila Counties Traffic Association challenges freight rates charged by Arizona Eastern and Southern Pacific to Globe. Intervenor Edgar A Brown joins as the case examines rates on commodities including refrigerating chargers and sugar from California, with arguments about higher Globe charges than El Paso. Attorney Wood represents Tuco SCC as proceedings unfold before Examiner Arbor Vagh of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Grim death in Cochise County marks the passing of Mre Jennis Heckley of Douglas in the Clawson addition on Eleventh Street and Bonite Avenue. She owned valuable real estate and mining interests in the Lachuus mountains, survived by a 10-year-old son and a St Louis resident brother. Her husband RR Hockley died two years ago, leaving her comfortable in later years.
DY Smith of Rhode Island and HG Jones of Connecticut tour potential locations for a wool mill. They are visiting Prescott and Phoenix then Cochineward to study capital, sheep resources, and wool shipments to the East to gauge where production should occur.
In regard to Hall's Catarrh Cure a testimonial note from J J Cheney is presented by Watkme Kinwax and Manyix wholesale druggists of Toledo Ohio. The advertisement claims internal action through the blood and mucous surfaces with a price of 75 cents per bottle and offers testimonials free.
E W Wolfe, a restaurant cashier at Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Bisbee, traveled to the county on important business today.
A Miller and Lillie Miller seek a divorce. 768 Mary Hathaway vs L Hercher asks for divorce. J Dolen and J Watson debt. 772 Mary Harrico vs W Harrie son. 773 Ethel Webb vs L Webb divorce. Antonia Adame and Jake Adame divorce case. Bank of Douglas involved in several actions. Decrees of divorce requested for Phyllie Wyatt. Probate proceedings include sale of personal property for the estate of Sarah H Sorin and notices to creditors. References to mining claims, accounting, and property leases. Appraisers named T Cowan Bravin Watt Melgren.
John W Walker of Tucson named to take testimony in water rights case for Cara Grande valley settlers by Judge A C Lockwood. Hearing held in Florence with judges and counsel including Jobo H Campbell, 8 L King, Ruke T Moore, Kibbey, Kent, Haye, Laney, Baughn, Forrees, Shannon, Doso, Coumy. Walker to begin August 17.
Arizona counties will construct road systems along the Borderland route from the Midwest to the Pacific coast to aid travel to Panama Pacific and San Diego expositions. Northern counties will improve through traffic while southern Avzens county plans automobile coach routes to draw motorists. The supreme court allowed bond issuance after a law defect delay. Pima County will issue up to $500,000 for road work with work to begin soon.
An advertisement promotes Dr Bakers Nerve and Stomach Remedy claiming to perfect health of the stomach and nerves. It offers bottles at $1.00 postpaid, with payment by cash or money order to Department E Western Agency, City Spokane Washington for delivery.
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