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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1910
Page
4
The piece quips at female critics of parenting and a public push for male virtues. It lampoons moralizing by describing a flamboyant speaker’s self styled regimen, sexualizing humor, and a satirical list of rules aimed at men to improve character and finances.
The Tombstone fly is described as the most mannerly bird like insect with refined tastes and a keen sense of propriety. It travels widely, avoids profanity, and avoids golf on bald heads while preferring blanc mange orange sherbet and occasional melon. Several colonies recently moved to Bisbee where fever fears arose as they acclimated to new surroundings.
The engineering corps of the reclamation service operates near Tempe to determine the underground water level as a preliminary step before installing pumping plants for irrigation by the service.
A special dispatch from Paris to the Chicago Tribune reports Prof Percival Lowell of Lowell Observatory Flagstaff Arizona will lecture on Mars in Paris next Tuesday. He returns after visits to London and Berlin and delays his return to America to answer critics who cite larger telescopes abroad as proving Martian canals. Lowell argues European atmospheric refraction misleads observations while Arizona offers clearer skies.
A deposit of real tavfar near Nogales, Santa Cruz County, is reported by The Times as promising. The stone occurs in four “blow-out” pockets, with a sizable surface deposit not yet explored. Assayers deem the topaz genuine, of fine hardness and free from fracture, and color ranges include white, smoky, and golden yellow.
Two thirds of the capital stock will be held by Arizona people as the Arizona Fire Insurance Company prepares to issue policies soon. Promoters note last year Arizona sent large fire premium losses abroad and seek to keep funds in territory. Directors include George H. Halm Epes Randolph Lloyd B. Christy and others with investors such as Judge Fletcher M. Doan of Tombstone.
Secretary Reynold of the Bisbee board of trade seeks an extensive July trip from Arizona to San Francisco for the Jeffries Johnson fight then to Detroit for the Elks convention and back. He is negotiating with chambers of commerce across the territory and New Mexico and with Elks leaders and railroads El Paso & Southwestern Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. The Frisco fight on July 4 and the Detroit Elks convention beginning July 11 set the timeline. route and details await final announcement.
Men in Yavapai county Humbug district seek to rename the area Monte Carlo district stating the current name misleads and harms the region in light of recent valuable finds and developments.
Austin Brown returns from Akron with her parents President ET jams of the Tombstone Telephone Co. head to Tucson for Cinco de Mayo. Fudge Dean represents Tombstone at the Tucson celebration. Buxton and his wives visit Tombstone, traveling overland in his new car. Col HL Pickett visits Tucson for the festival before returning home. Uncle Ben Goodrich back from Nogales on legal business. Stocktothers of the EL Pano & Southwestern Railroad to meet in Bisbee June 1 to discuss capitalization and charter amendments. Knights of Columbus speakers named for territorial council in Pacton May 1 and 2. Arizona School of Music drama dept plans Merelda comedy. Yavapai county orders large fountain for pool opposite the Rough Rider monument in Prescott. Santa Fe cut to Parker opening June 15 to Bengal.
Sheriff Jack White returned from Balorefield to arrest Joe Walker recently indicted by the grand jury for grand larceny of a horse from a Douglas Mey stable. A requisition papers trip from Governor Sloan, approved at Sacramento, led to Walker's custody at Bai field and transport to Tombstone. He will be arraigned Monday to enter a plea.
The E P S W line has completed a preliminary survey toward Tucson and begun a second, first survey skirting Huachuca mountains and crossing the Baboquivari area. The party moved from Hereford to Benson, then to Land station and aims to pass Cannon ranch and Mescal Station before reaching Tucson, paralleling the Southern Pacific.
A million more barrels of beer were drank by the people of the United States in March 1910 than in March 1909, as indicated by interval revenue receipts. The extra ratio of consumption was noted in Tombatone.
Friday's Mes reports Jane Coles and her companion arriving from Bisbee and staying two weeks. Cochise county houses 59 prisoners with a grand jury session planned next week, likely reducing the number as defendants change addresses to Florence. Arsemor Chas Ro Howe sold a Ford auto and two buggy assets, while May weddings are expected across Cochise. Mia JK Ward of Alvin Texas visits Tombstone, praising local history and a marble deposit near Comfork Will thought to be large enough for active development by Mr Mills, offering pink tinted, polished stone suitable for decor and building.
The court adjourned yesterday afternoon with recess until Monday. Tales of cases include Toni Hoffman v A Buchterg with execution allowed for ten days and Flores v Flores granting an injunction upon filing. Many matters continued for further evidence and hearings, including estates, guardianships, sales of land, divorce action, and bond for grand larceny.
Charles H Ferry a New York financier and owner of a producing mine in Arena died suddenly at the Adams hotel in Phoenix Arizona. He took over the Billy Mack property perch of Parker last September and his body will be shipped to Hartford Connecticut for interment.
The Tempe board of trade will host a new banquet on May 14. Organizers invite members and local business leaders to attend the event at a downtown venue to celebrate achievements and discuss upcoming initiatives.
Enrique Torres of the Turces family of Sonora is a Tom' stone visitor seeking broad cattle ranges in northern Mexico. He notes drought in Sonora could trigger heavy cattle losses without rain and may meet with Hatfield to discuss Rain King efforts already proposed for Sulphur Spring Valley under a $2000 no rain no pay contract.
Cochise County reports the heaviest cattle movement on the line as 2500 head have been shipped east. A shortage of crews slows stock trains and regular traffic on the western end of the line near Tuckon. Railroad officials seek new hires to handle the surge, estimating further car needs are likely while no end to the congestion is in sight.
The Department of Commerce and Labor, with special agent Jones I. Kitch, collects development and production data from mines and quarries and manufacturing establishments including bakeries printing shops bottlers brick works brick or concrete lock makers slaughterhouses and others.
Graham County supervisors refuse to levy five cents on the hundred dollars for highway building. They say the county would not be specially benefited by the proposed program and thus will not charge taxpayers.
Col W C Greene has purchased a palatial Los Angeles home for 165000. Mrs Greene and the five children will move to the city shortly where the children will enter school.
Cochise County has 49 school districts employing 186 teachers with total yearly salaries of 13,307 20. Tucson’s colored community plans a large Emancipation Day celebration in the old pueblo on June 19, signaling a landmark event in Arizona.
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