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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1902
Page
2
A cryptic market note references Pourstone Evitash and a Sunday mining stock listing. It mentions fees and a time frame of one year and one month, with unclear details about the entities involved. The readable elements include the names Pourstone Evitash and Porlis, tied to a stock context.
A compact historical sketch traces a long arc from frugal beginnings to wealth, citing patient toil and persistence. It notes key milestones, early ventures, and gradual accumulation of resources, highlighting named individuals and places that framed the rise. It underscores steady effort, delayed gratification, and eventual success across decades.
A Denver broker has offered Ada Bittenbender 625000 for her silver mine stock near Cripple Creek after years of derision. Arizona dredging booms extend along the Colorado River and Bill Williams fork. Massive placer plans include dam construction to concentrate water for washing miles of riverbeds, with decades of mining potential anticipated across the region.
Local items report several visitors including Miss Lillian Batchelder and Mee Joan Marre in Tombstone, railroad plans and tickets for seaside trips, and a May Transit to Los Angeles with machinists. A petition by thirty voters faced Board of Supervisors scrutiny. notes mention freight and mining activity near Florence and Tombstone. A 10 000 appropriation request to aid Pima Indians is recorded, plus a decorative Masonic fair gift from Arizona Ironwood.
The report covers sermons and services in Tombstone with emphasis on creed, duty, and religious education. It notes leaders praising Jesus creed, reflections on historical beliefs, and parishioners attending services at Paul’s Episcopal church with discussants on youth religious education and time management for spiritual practice.
A remarkable desert find astonishes observers as a whale like creature is spotted near Yume. Local scientists inspect the site noting the rarity and invoking cautious curiosity about possible explanations.
A large fossil skeleton has been placed in the University of Aroos museum in Tucson. The remains include a massive skull and jaws, with elephants’ tusks indicating a larger animal than present elephants. The fossil, found in the Yume desert, sparked debate over the creature’s origin and how it reached higher land possibly via Gulf of California floods.
At Dallas Confederate veterans reunion Rigas of Willcox Arizona told of a comrade he carried from Cedar Creek and of two brothers who, after decades apart, reunited. A doctor in Portales New Mexico and a judge in Georgia met again, their tearful reunion moving all who watched.
A note extols railroads as a major national industry alongside the manufacture of a famed remedy. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is praised for fifty years of cures and as a spring tonic benefiting digestion, liver and kidney issues, fever, and general vitality, with emphasis on its trusted private stamp.
In a Washington dispatch Delegate Mark Smith of Arizona attacks the Presbyterian Missionary Society of New York over territorial admission. Letters show sharp exchanges and push back against claims Arizonans are ignorant. The statehood bill gains momentum, with votes seen as enough to pass in the House and favorable signals for the Senate.
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