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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1912
Page
3
A fragmented list of county records including assignments and deeds across Cochise County. Entries cover warranty deeds, chattel mortgages, mortgage assignments, quit claim deeds, realty montages, and notices of possessory rights, naming numerous individuals and properties in Douglas Willcox and surrounding areas.
Filed suits and court orders detail guardianship actions for minors, contracts with attorneys, and settlements of accounts. Also recorded are judgments in Bernheim Distilling Co cases, injunctions, probate proceedings, and hearings including orders for appraisers, guardians, and administrators with dates in 1902 1912 and related items in Bisbee area courts. Abstracted items list estates debts and claims and notices to creditors and public.
Governor Hunt and party return to Phoenix from Prescott after meeting with the Good Roads association. He vows to push state highway work to completion and to employ convicts on the roads without guards. He would resign if convicts desert. proposes abolishing stripes for inmates and dressing them in gray with unruly ones in red shirts.
Eugene D Deane, resembling Roosevelt in appearance, visits the city with a party to inspect the Royal Guard district company and discuss resolving its general difficulties. Provisions are reported to be made to liquidate those issues and resume work soon.
The Tombstone dressmakers are sewing fashionable gowns for Friday night’s leap year ball. The event is advertised as the county seat’s premier social gathering of the season.
A contested effort to split Cochise County into three new counties nears before the legislature session. Maps circulated show potential seats at Tombstone Bison or Warren and Dough. Willcox leaders push a county line that includes the San Pedro river area, while Benson residents largely oppose division. Various towns and officials assess valuations and support while Cochise lawmakers weigh whether to back or oppose the plan.
Tuesday reports from Daily MRB note Tom’s stone visitors at the camp near Everglade after Bisbee. Floyd Smith named company agent for Lost Hill Land Holders Association. Sheriff White arrives from Phoenix for brief business. Smallpox concerns ease in Douglas as a patient escapes the pesthouse and mails fumigation continues. VL Melgren returns from Low Hill inspection. drifters work steady and prospects improve. Social events include Mrs. McSparrow hosting a card party and a Congregational choir practice at 7:30. School trustees call for election March 30 to fill one three year seat. Arizona Oil director Hess visits Tombstone. drill at Lost Hills nears 600 feet. gas detected. 3000 feet target. Deputy and county officials travel to Willcox for preliminary mayhem case.
The Imperial Copper Co of Tucson paid its back taxes for 1919 and 1901 through the fee of M P Freeman. The suit had targeted 1910 taxes. total due including penalties and costs reached 24806.02 dollars. The firm, tied to Lombstone Consolidated Co, is linked to a broader plan to reorganize distressed Arizona companies under Development Co amid bankruptcy proceedings and delays from eastern creditors.
An Austrian named Jacob Butorac was brought from Benton to be examined in superior court on insanity grounds. He wandered the South Pacific track east of Benson near Sybil for days, claiming everything talks to him and he is compelled to do wrong. He narrowly escaped being struck by trains and refused to stay with his life.
Miss Anos Wood and D French of Bisbee were pronounced husband and wife Saturday evening by Judge Daniel McFarland in Bisbee. The bride is a popular Bisbee girl, the groom well known at the Copper Camp. They will make their home in Bisbee, having left yesterday afternoon.
At a Pinal County board of supervisors meeting last week salaries for county and precinct officers were fixed. Sheriff 360, undersheriff 1670, deputy sheriff and right guard 1200, clerk superior court 1800, deputy clerk superior court 1200, deputy recorder 1080, constable at Ray 600, county treasurer 2500, superintendent county hospital 60 per month, J P Ceas Grande 300, J P Florence 400, J P Ray 1200, constable at Florence 300. Other salaries to be fixed at the next meeting.
Wednesday events list a 7:30 PM service at the Congregational church. The town hosts a flurry of visitors and meetings with figures from Los Angeles, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Champaign, and Tucson arriving or departing. Local officials attend university and bar meetings in Arizona, while the Cattle Growers Association plans a Willcox meeting with many members expected.
Florence prison convicts praised Governor Hunt for reforms that freed many from inside doors, with trusties allowed outside meals and lodging. Fred Porshon, formerly jailed for assault, visited with flowers and money, waving to Warden Sims. Convicts express gratitude for the improved conditions and confidence in officials.
J Mullen of Charopsigne Illinois, a principal stockholder of Royal Guild Mining, arrived in Tombstone for a property inspection and said work will resume with a larger force. A tea stamp plan will ship from CS1 and be installed, with operations likely ready between May 15 and June 1. Mullen praised the climate and district’s future, noting Roosevelt ahead in Illinois politics. The party stays in town until Friday as northern state roads progress toward a western mountain highway.
Commander Bliss of Agua Prieta reported engaging a rebel band after encountering a party of twenty two federals facing seventy five rebels. The firefight lasted afternoon into evening with rebels using dynamite bombs. two federals and several rebels were killed or injured, then federals retreated to a ranch.
Local officials expect Juan Montero an alleged Mexican bandit will be turned to immigration authorities for examination and possible deportation after arrest by Sheriff Wheeler on a ranch robbery complaint filed on the U S side of the line. Authorities foresee removal to Juarez and potential immediate execution, with no acknowledged legal infraction by Arizona or the United States.
Reports of Major Herrera's arrest at Agua Frida and disloyalty charges stirred Mexican military circles. The letter from the former Tombatoner, Jose Maria Herrera, recounts joining the revolution, aid to Madero, and claims he sought only a fair trial or release after five days’ detention, noting health and home pressures.
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