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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1910
Page
4
A massive fire at Pearce leveled the recently completed Siltee process plant for extracting gold and silver from low grade ore. The loss exceeds $150,000 with minimal insurance. The mill and machinery were total losses, delaying shipments and affecting nearby mining districts.
The so called tea baron James Addison Reavis asserts a live claim to vast parts of Arizona and New Mexico. He believes he could take the case to the U S Supreme Court to prove his rule over an empire. The Phoenix Gazette cites a land grant tribunal calling his claim the most monumental fraud in U S history. Reavis, released from New Mexico penitentiary, remains confident and linked to an alleged compromise with Uncle Sam. His case hinges on the reclamation act, with counsel including Robert G. Tagercoll and Collis P. Huntington financings for his prosecution.
Oscar K. Goll received word today of his father’s death in Brooklyn at 61. The deceased was a prominent drug businessman and merchant, well regarded and respected, leaving a wife two sons and a daughter. The Prospecron extends condolences to the family.
The Tucson musical club has pulled off an Easter concert, delivering a performance planned to celebrate the holiday with music and community participation. Local audiences enjoyed a program featuring varied selections and archival pieces.
W F Staunton and Victor L Mason lead a party from Imperial Copper Mines Tombstone Consolidated Mines and Development Company of America to inspect a proposed railroad linking Tucson to tidewater at Port Lobos on the Gulf Coast of California. The Development Company of America owns major concessions for the Port Lobos line. Frank M Murphy of the Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix and Arizona Southern endorses the project, with a two year discussion history and current plans to build from Red Rock to Silver Bell. The group will depart Saturday for field inspection of the proposed route.
A Washington dispatch reports the Indian affairs committee has received a large number of protests against passage of the senate bill prohibiting liquor sales within 25 miles of Lodino reservations in the territories. The committee is reviewing the matter and action at this session is uncertain.
Mexican federal authorities arrested Tiburcio Ruiz a longtime border area barber painter and repairer of gas and bicycles for contraband arms and ammunition found in his shops on the Mexican side of the international line. His shops were closed and seized and he is jailed. Ruiz is a well known border businessman whose friends hope for his exculpation.
U. S. Marshal Chas. Overlock and Deputy Pacheco traveled to Tombstone to escort three Chinamen to Tucson. The prisoners, lacking proper papers, faced deportation to the Flowery Kingdom. One prisoner allegedly threatened trouble, becoming insane while under arrest, complicating transport as steamship lines refuse asylum for an insane passenger and no territorial law covers U S prisoners in an asylum. The men remain jailed amid a legal bind.
Regular June construction underway on the Indian school extension from Phoenix. The Phoenix National Bank has secured a store room beside its current banking house and will double its storage capacity.
A Mexican woman Mrs En riquez and her two children were killed by a returning helper engine near Tevst. The engineer and fireman did not see the incident until discovering the mangled bodies on the track. A coroner's inquest was held at Bowie to investigate the tragedy.
Grant Bros railroad construction unit received about 400 head of mules at Nogales. Six carloads totaling 119 American mules were taxed $11,900 after inspection. The remaining nine carloads, roughly 300 Mexican mules, crossed under bond to Mexicala Lower California. Overall about 18 trainloads of camp equipment and gear will arrive from the south daily.
Principal officers of the Development Company of America toured Tucson and its Sasco Silverbell area to study a tidewater connection and a possible Santa Fe transcontinental line. They planned a route from Sasco to Tucson and from Ret Rock to Ray or Phoenix, seeking Gulf outlet access and Santa Fe entry into the region. The party included Victor Mason and W F Staunton among others, with trips to inspect Imperial Copper properties and a return to Tucson for an extended railroad survey toward Port Lobos on the Gulf.
A dispatch from Ocean Park California reports JA West and Miss Martha Hunt of Snowflake Arizona were saved from drowning by lifeguard Harvey White and JS Wilson of Los Angeles after being swept out by a rip current while bathing. The two struggled but were rescued just off the shore, ending a near tragedy. A 360 acre tract of orange brush land near Glendale Maricopa County sold for 90 dollars per acre.
Thursday’s Daily Now reports stray forecasts and local events in Tombstone and nearby towns. It mentions rain probabilities before April, mining plans at Mascot and Biebee extensions, an exhibition hog at the depot grounds, upcoming Elks activity to Bisbee, and a Phoenix dispatch on M. O. Bickoell resigning as Arizona Railway Commission chair to head a San Francisco bureau.
Col A L Grow returned from Tucson on Masonic lodge business. John Rock left for Phoenix on a brief busi ness trip. Judge Page and Constable Bud Snow of Wilcox were Tombstone winners today, reporting the region badly in need of rain. Col H Julian a San Diego pioneer resident visits Tombstone as guest of Attorney GW Swain. Col Julian is father of Tucson’s Julian brothers and brother-in law to Attorney Swain.
A fourth teen patient was committed to the insane asylum today, the fourteenth from Cochise county in three months. E. G. Wilekioe, brought from Douglas, was the last person committed by Probate Judge Goodboay and the Lunacy Commission. His examination revealed a hallucination of a malign presence and imagined footprints. he said a God given message urged Douglas citizens to reform. Deputy Sheriff Howe escorted him to the asylum.
Phoenix dispatch reports incorporation of the Intermountain St. George and Grand Canyon railroad with 24 million capital to build 400 miles of main and branch lines from Therme on the Salt Lake road to Kingman on the Santa Fe. A branch would run Kanarra Crater Canyon and to Moapa. Directors include M T Burgees JR Walker A E Rykert H Woodmanser Chas Read A Hanauer and E F Kimball.
The Prospecton stuff expert offers rules for novices in the popular game. Tips cover honest dealing, avoiding sharp play, understanding the kitty and counts, leading with best judgment, and avoiding deception. Also advises trumpet or distraction tactics only when fully armed, and to explain outcomes to the group after each hand.
Bill Chillis a noted painter and house decorator now living in luck says he sold his mining property in Sonora to Pittsburgh capitalists for 59000. The claim covers land between Cananea and Nogales about fourteen miles from Santa Cruz where a large copper show has been developed and ore runs very rich.
Foreclosure suit 5902 and divorce action 5953 noted in Various Courts of Records. Probate hearings set for John Rehwaldt estate and will matters. Final accounts in Adela Lopez estate and Klein Norton case. Bank judgments against Castenada and Lewandowski. Receiver levy on city lots in Warren area.
The new Gleeson opera house opened last week measuring 24 by 56 feet with seating for 300. The article notes regional mining activity and local events from Winslow to Tucson, including mine work progress, a fatal shooting near Concho, and civic projects such as the Center Street bridge in Phoenix set for completion.
A San Francisco dispatch alleges that 110 large companies formed an insurance trust reaching into Idaho. Louis Witz, a broker, filed suit to compel payment against the fire underwriters of the Pacific coast. The alleged operations extend across Nevada Arizona and Alaska.
Seismograph records three distinct shocks in Cleveland as vibrations emanate from a central point. The temblors are traced to a location in northern Mexico near the Arizona line.
Records detail multiple property transfers in Cochise County including EA Von Arnim to Julia Ames in Douglas Provident Mutual Building and Loan to Sophia and Sidney M Harris in the Brophy Anguis addition to Bisher Jeremiah Lucy to Frank A Rasols and mines in Cochise County. Also transfers from Win A Storbeck to Guadalupe Gonzales and George W Henry to Wa R Henry in the Elizabeth J Henry estate. A water appropriation notice by WH Hammond seeks 10 000 miner inches from White Water creek. A land claim by Elizabeth M Stephens covers the southwest quarter of section in township 24 south range 30 east.
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