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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1891
Page
2
A mosaic of troubled reports touches Arizona politics and society. Governors, budgets, and court bills stir debate while Apache concerns loom as cross-border movement challenges persist. Federal and state actions crop up over lotteries, artesian wells, and public improvements amid a volatile regional outlook.
Governor Irwin and Attorney General Herring announce the incorporation of The Arizona Historical Society with Col. D. Paston guiding. The society seeks to compile an authentic regional history using pioneer biographies, county statistics, and illustrated material for a planned publication.
A wide ranging wire service recap covers ex Senator Baker sailing from San Francisco for the Flow ery Kingdon on May first, war and inspection news from Washington to Texas, bank troubles at Washington National Bank and Wackingum Bank, illegal gambling raids in Omaha, a giant Houston cane and saw manufacturing gamble, Italian immigration policy, a Chilean fighting report near Valparaiso, Emperor William I biography, Crow Indian grazing leases, pianist Charles Chickering’s death, and Puerto Cabello frontier talks between Venezuela and Britain. The dispatches include the Robert Edwards estate in New York and a major New York real estate value.
Readings on teaching methods and geography fill the day alongside local business updates. News includes medical, mining, and trade reports from Tombstone with references to Bisbee and El Paso, plus church services and council actions on city water works leases and reimbursements.
Max Marks provides guidance for settlers aiming at gold claims near Fronteras. Governor of Sonora, Ra mon Corral, and Ehilano Gabilonda announce terms allowing both natives and foreigners to file and work claims without formal recording or demurrage.
Afternoon session features discussion on education aims in public schools. Speakers include T E Dalton and Rev N L Guthrie with Rev C R Nugent giving an address. Topics cover daily reading encouragement and rhetoric. An item notes Apaches in Guadalupe canyon driven from Hall's ranch by troops.
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