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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1910
Page
2
The Tombstone Epitaph lists subscription options published every Sunday with editor and proprietor WM. Hattich. Yearly subscription appears as one dollar fifty and six months as one dollar.
W S Burke veteran editor of the Albuquerque Journal died last Sunday at age 73. For twenty nine years he led editorial management shaping territorial affairs and building New Mexico public opinion. The Prospector notes the loss of New Mexico's dean of journalism and its prosperity era.
Lee Benton owner of the Hot Springs on the Yaqui river near Tigre ford visited Bisbee after returning from the Sierra Madre and told Miner reporters he met renegade Apache Indians in the mountains. The remnant of the old hostile bands hid in Mexico for years refusing to surrender and staying in the Sierra Madre fastness.
Prescott reported Manuel C Contreras bitten by a skunk on March 31. He sought a Yaqui healer in Campos ril Isge near Chinobampo Mexico, learned the healer was dead, and was treated by the healer's daughter who claimed the method cured him. A scar remains as testament to the bite and dubious cure.
A long list of Arizona notes covers water prospects, a Prescott baby boy found dead, proposed joint electric plant for Salford Thatcher Pima and Solomonville, a Wickenburg election annulment suit, a cyanide suicide, Prescott baseball bets with printers, public health efforts against tuberculosis, notable deaths and murders, wool market, oil deliveries to Roosevelt, Tucson church construction, and various local developments from Mesa to Yuma with political and civic updates. It mentions court actions, road and boulevard petitions, railroad work, and forthcoming Cinco de Mayo events.
List of names awaiting pickup in general delivery at Tombstone post office for the week ending April 9 1910. Included: Alzares Torre Bol Martin Dominguez Josefa Heyne F Paso Lorece Ritchie Roger N Romero Juana Quin ers Juso Broshesrs Mise Willie. Callers should provide withheld details to collect letters.
An old time notice advertises Spanish delicacies for Tombstone including enchiladas tamales and frijoles. The listing mentions afternoons and evenings on Fifth Street near the rear post office under the management of MRA William Beck.
The U S and Territorial courts opened with a full docket. jurors and witnesses were summoned for U S trial and territorial grand juries. Wong Yen was sentenced for impersonation of a Chinaman. a large civil calendar awaits judge and attorneys. several trials, divorces, and indictments proceed.
Harry Claiborne is held in Maricopa county jail after masquerading in women’s clothing prompts arrest. Authorities fear he may be a fugitive from Los Angeles sought for Detective Brooks murder, with Inspector Crovin and Deputy Riley aiding the capture following a sighting near Phoenix. A small grip contained a full women's outfit.
Mrs J K Lapeley announces Sunnyside Lodging House is now open on Fifth Street between Allen and Tougho, welcoming daily, weekly, or monthly renters. Court attendees are invited and will find large airy rooms at reasonable rates. Public patronage is solicited.
Tombstone hosts a gathering of legal minds as a voluminous civil calendar unfolds with Blackstone and Kent readers from Arizona and across the United States. Local and visiting attorneys listed include Daniel McFarland HL Pickett Charles L Bowman H E Pickett T Kingebury O Gibson L C Woolery Dr Cunningham Ben Goodrich Allen K English Frank W Goodbody J Williams E J Flannigan W more Wm Beck and O’Connell Neale Miler array Hayden Fiora Cleary and others answering to their names.
A. Wentworth mayor of Tombstone Arizona Territory declares land entries made in the U S Land Office Phoenix for Lots 5 6 8 9 in Section 2 and Lot 1 in Section 11 Township 20 S Range 22 E Gila and Salt River Meridian Cochise County The notice requires claimants to file statements by July 1 1910 with grounds of claim possession status improvements and payment of fees including 5 per lot and $500 per deed plus 25 cents per 100 words First publication March 20 1910.
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