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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1899
Page
4
Bisbee news on third page reports railroad time tables for Arizona and the Southeast. Classified notes mention several frame houses for sale through F. B. Austin. Small ads promote two for fifty cents and a tobacco cure product from a druggist network.
St Patrick celebrations in Tombstone featured the Terpid Club dance at Mining Hall with harp and chamrick emblems, elaborate decorations, and stylish costumes. About 250 attendees, including visitors, filled the floor as the Fe Husehuce band played, and dancing continued into the supper hour and beyond until dawn.
The text reports a new counterfeiting ring exposed by the Secret Service and warns of deceptive imitators of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It notes a poll tax rule for Arizona registration, visits by Col Wem Land and others to Tombstone, and various local happenings. It covers a death in the Copper Glance mine and funeral plans, with community sympathy extended.
Fragmented state legislative notes from Phoenix include passage and veto actions on appropriation, library maintenance, railroads, history authentication, and other bills. It also reports a governor veto, local tax and university maintenance mentions, plus multiple notices and advertisements from Tombstone Drug Store and other period items. The text mixes political items with commercial notices and a brief obituary-like note about Doylestown editor Fluent.
The Fifty-fifth Congress closes as three territorial delegates, Marcus A Smith of Arizona, Alison H. B. Ferguson of Albuquerque, and James Yancey Callahan of Oklahoma, leave public life. Smith, a longtime Arizona advocate, played a key role for his state, while Ferguson and Callahan also served two years. Delegates lose the right to vote in the house but retain other privileges.
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