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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1890
Page
2
A fragmented page from Cochise County Arizona discusses European title seekers, American girls, and a Vienna bureau promoting marriages. It also covers Arkansas election intrigue, Arizona governance, lead trusts, Apache relocations, and Republican politics amid territorial debates on statehood and law.
An eccentric traveler leaves Philadelphia on a continental tour and meets scientists seeking to freeze a man for millennia. After a wandering journey through Berlin and New York Bay, he longs for home as his era changes and a tragic end befalls him in the Philadelphia landscape.
Chief Engineer Robert B. Stanton leads twelve men surveying a Colorado River corridor for the Denver Colorado and Pacific Railway Co. They report rapid, dangerous waters with tall rocks and lava walls, near Diamond Creek north of Peach Springs. One boat abandoned after rock collision. Nimmes injured. Kanab Wash deserter MacDonald.
A Washington dispatch outlines Senator Stewart’s irrigation bill creating federally recognized irrigating districts. The Sec retary surveys districts including arable lands pasture timber sites and reservoir locations with divides into forty eighty and 120 acre tracts subject to homestead entry. Timber and pasture lands pass to the district upon completion of works and resident ownership, with liens for irrigation costs and patents issued after irrigation is accomplished. Several notes mention California and San Diego road crossings by groups of Chinese laborers.
A Los Angeles Express Washington correspondence recounts Marcus Aurelius Smith of Arizona guiding a friend through a House gallery misidentification with a Mrs. Kilgore moment. The incident spurs a playful retelling and a later political reconciliation. Also notes Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy claims and a Sonora border clash killing an Apache and wounding another.
An Arizona note describes a vast cave on the Tucson to Tres Alamos road near Mountain Springs. Locals and Fort Lowell soldiers have explored up to a mile, with end unknown. Scientists are urged to thoroughly explore for potential discoveries.
Territorial court summons issued in the First Judicial District of Arizona to Belle McLeod, defendant, ordering appearance within ten days of service or twenty days if served outside Cochise, for divorce proceedings filed by S. McLeod. Clerk A. H. Emanuel notes March 6, 1890, as filing date.
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