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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1902
Page
3
Tombstone notes mining business, railway plans, and local arrivals in Cochise County. JW Hickey of Bisbee, Alfred, F Hogan, and Henry Pierson are mentioned as visitors or movers in Tombstone. Sante Fe oil sprinkling and university battalion bonds appear amid broader plans for observatory site, border dispatch, and local editor Bante.
Apportionment of retool funds as of January 31, 1901 shows per county Treasurer allocations: Apache 485.00 Cochise 1139.00 Coconino 345.00 Gila 48.50 Graham 201.50 Maricopa 2530.50 Mobile 172.50 Navajo 467.50 Pinal 1352.00 Pinal 418.50 Secta Cros 698.00 Yavapai 147.00 Yuma 512.00.
Our Fairbank correspondence reports a lively morning as a hobo clash near Me Gee’s yard ends with a warning from Detective Larrien. Railroad contractors arrive while workers plan routes toward Nogales and Bisbee, with barley carloads for Gleeson and Hokine and a late Canon Ball train due to a burnt bridge north of Patagonia. The big iron track for banking the main line to Tombstone arrives, set up by Contractor Herrick.
The Supreme Court of the Territory upheld the lower court and Downing lost his appeal in the WF Downing train robbery case near Cochise. Downing faces two years in the Territorial penitentiary at Tum, with no clear path to a US Supreme Court review. A patient at Bisbee hospital improved after treatment for melancholia. Information sought on Jobo Morphy of Boomshaw County, Waterford, Ireland, via Mre William O Connor Hancock, Michigan.
Kingman seekers Jef Lane and Tobe Willamaen report discovery of a gold bearing gravel spread across a hill above the Jerea placer area east of the Colorado. They washed out over $1,000 in gold before leaving for supplies and claim potential large pockets and ledges in the area. The event recalls the early fortunes of the Jerea placer, once yielding $19,000 to its finder before conflicts chased others away.
An Arizonan describes El Paso and Southwestern traffic plans with Santa Fe. El Paso Pato official says passenger equipment delays mean no regular service for sixty days. A light Deming to Benson freight focus and possible eventual passenger trains to Benson and El Paso depend on a pending traffic agreement with Santa Fe.
Advertisement from Govai Adaree and Wainwrights Tobacco Cure Company offering free tobacco habit cure with a mail order sample and a request for a letter or postal card. Claims to have cured hundreds and urges sending an ample sample by mail as a recipe.
In Toledo Lucas County J Cheney & Co. offers one hundred dollars for every case of starrh that cannot be cured. The notice, sworn by A W Gaifson notary, describes Hall's Catarrh Cure as internally taken and acting on the mucous surfaces.
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