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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1915
Page
4
Newlystems of Arizona reports filing with the corporation commission for permission to issue bonds and notes to fund a Fossil Creek power plant estimated at 340000. Also notes a Jerome death by apoplexy and local road and mining developments in Clifton Duncan Tyrone and the Grand Canyon area.
Texas livestock Sanitary Board allows Arizona hay shipments to Texas and New Mexico alfalfa to enter if fumigated per federal rules. Farmers in the Gila River valley celebrate the embargo lifting as they rely on the Texas market. enforcement will be by state or federal inspectors using fumigation with formaldehyde.
Attorney General Wiley Jones weighs a tax foreclosure on liquor as property. The Yavapai Assessors asked if booze is taxable and subject to valuation. The tax commission deferred the sale question to the attorney general, awaiting ruling on whether booze can be seized for taxes. Prices for whiskey reportedly rose since January 1.
Phoenix March 22. Attorney General Wiley E Jones replies to Gov. Hunt approving continued traveling and related expenses for the state land commission members and chief clerk despite exhausted salary appropriations. Warrants for clerical and maintenance expenses, books, and records may also be drawn according to the opinion.
The piece urges immediate road work funding in Yuma County including five hundred thousand dollars for the order land route from Yuma to Phoenix and improvements from Lordsburg to the Arizona line. It calls on the Good Roads Association in Douglas Bisbee and Tombstone to make the Borderland from the New Mexico line to Douglas first class and to attract tourists by showcasing the best route.
Fragmented OCR text shows scattered phrases about a cataract cure and a claimed remedy. Mentions J Cheney and a sworn statement dated December by A W Gleason. Content is unclear and partially incomprehensible.
The jury returned a first degree murder verdict for Merwin Withers and Dingle over the fatal shooting of Mernanitez near Dondas. Judge Lockwood to pronounce the death penalty tomorrow in court, with implications for a potential reprieve from Governor Hunt. Prosecutor Ross and Stevenson led the case, deeming the evidence strong and the act cold-blooded. The outcome mirrors a prior death sentence in a similar year.
Phoenix March 22 funds needed to pay depositors at Bowie Bank are ready and will be issued this week. The Bt Pas Tem transfer line has received the full amount from Joseph Armstrong the former cashier. Armstrong fled after closing the bank and was arrested last month in Omaha but released to raise funds to cover the bank run losses.
The San Diego Union reports that tunnel No 5 and Mexico finished 200 feet of tunnel No 3 of the United States and Mexico finished tunnel project, with less than 20 feet remaining. Rail laying near the western edge of the valley is complete and about thirty days remain to finish tunnel No 4 where the road crosses the boundary line. The tunnel starts in the United States and ends in Mexico.
Word has reached Tombstone of the death of John Critchley in Santa Monica California where he had lived six years He was a former Tomb stoner and early pioneer with many friends remaining in Tombstone His death is believed due to old age and burial is expected in Santa Monica His son John Critchley Jr resides in Bisbee the rest of the family moved with him to California
Norman Abell, son of Mrs Francis Auell of Tombstone, earned top marks at the Championstty Shoot in Pueblo on the Wilmot Range. Competing with twenty five nationally known shooters, he won an Expert Kiflman's Medal and placed high in multiple events, with the University of Arizona team also securing cups and honors.
The Douglas school district will discuss testing for school bands at a special meeting tomorrow. Clerk Karger and County Engineer JC Ryan will travel to Willcox for a conference with local citizens about the road linking Willcox and Cosie for first class construction.
Business leaders in Bisbee vow to set an example for neighboring towns along the Borderland route by volunteering publicity and manpower. The effort aims to improve roads and attract national attention, with Tombstone not lagging in supporting Borderland promotion.
Tucson won a city fair described as the most successful yet, with rapid progress evident in streets, huts, and improvements. The piece portrays Tucson emerging from a dormant period to join progressive American cities, highlighting redeveloped depot grounds and attractive structures benefiting visitors and residents.
Phoenix March 24. Governor Hunt has not signed the parimutuel racing bill by 3 PM and remains undecided. He has vetoed the rapid vote counting act and Senator Stapley’s Senate Will 20 aimed at regulating public expenditures, the two measures considered among the last from the late legislature.
In a lengthy Florence superior court session, two black defendants found guilty of first degree murder on Saturday were sentenced by Judge Lockwood to hang at the Florence penitentiary on June 4. The men accepted the sentence. one other man, Harry McCool, was given 9 to 10 years for manslaughter with a possible murder attempt charge to follow. The Kermeen case appeal was affirmed, ensuring resentence to death in Tombstone after governor intervention.
A group of Tombstone youths returning from Bisbee were in a serious car accident on Divide road. Allen Larrison, driving the Ford, sustained a fractured skull and internal injuries, with others including Allyn Wheeler and Cole Noll hurt. the party was taken to hospital while Larsson regained consciousness later.
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