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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1902
Page
2
A fragmented heritage of local notes reports on fort erent developments, contracts, and appointments. It mentions water storage for the poet, a $8.80 beef bill, a deputy US marshal, and a new electric mine plant in progress with wiring and lighting upgrades. The piece also notes fragile health, social moves to Canada, and a science project linked to geological surveys amid regional concerns.
Frow Monday's Daisy' W. F. Lind of Los Angeles attended Tombstone to discuss printers supply interests as the northern Arizona wool market stayed active. About 200000 dollars paid to local wool growers this month. District court set to convene in Tombstone on the second Monday with a large calendar to clear. General Funston to visit Arizona forts while mining news and local observations fill the page.
The Tombstone Engine Company reorganized with 42 members and a new slate of officers. Chief Ben Cook announced the plan at the meeting, electing Chas Heath as foreman and Thos York as assistant, Henry Dunker as secretary, with monthly tre morting date set. Tombstone’s volunteer fire department has three companies and active members.
A man from Fi bank was brought up Saturday on charges of insanity after a railroad function incident. He admitted to heavy drinking across the hut and at Farbank arrival, triggering authorities to restrain him. Authorities expect treatment will lead to recovery and a return to temperance.
A fragmentary Northern Arizona feature reports a mountain slide, drought rumors linked to alleged witchcraft, a missionary death, and rain gods. It mentions Ashton Nebecker’s report, a Gadling gun inventor turning to a rainmaking plow, Labor disputes at Clifton life, a South African war cost estimate, and a Woodmen of the World goat lawsuit in South Carolina.
The Dragoon Copper Mining and Smelting company incorporation is published locally to develop claims adjoining the Black Diamond in the Dragoon mountains. Copper showings on surface samples indicate high values, with development planned in a systematic manner. Movers Geo Henry Murdoch Fraser and others, respected mining men, are original owners and backers of the venture.
The county recorder lists instruments recorded during the past week highlighting property deeds releases refinances and other official filings. This summary notes the volume of records processed by the office and reflects ongoing property activity and legal confirmations across the county.
A garbled 19th century notice compilation lists transfers and incorporations in mining and realty. Items include transfers like McCullar to NK Meestoger and Shiluem to Jolling, incorporation of Dragoon Copper Mining, and various certificates, writs, and proof of labor references with entities such as Copper Belle, Arizona Gold Mining, and Title Guarantee firms.
The New York health department uncovered a fraud involving a cheap baking powder sold in department stores. Samples tested labeled it an unsafe slum powder mostly composed of pulverized rock. Several thousand pounds were seized and destroyed at the dock.
A Las Angeles company with capital of one million dollars plans to operate Colorado River power plants at canyon sites, using overflow domes or river current. Denver mining engineer Geo J Bancroft visits the city on Copper Queen business. Also notices a celebration in Kingman and several testimonials for Ely's Cream Balm with addresses in New York and Arizona.
Railroads stand as a cornerstone of national strength with vast capitalization and a large workforce, while manufacturing the famous family medicine Hoster’s Stomach Bitters emerges as a leading spring remedy. The ad touts its fifty years of cures for headaches digestion and malaria, presenting it as a blood purifier and tonic for a run down system.
A brief item reports on a tribal rite in Arizona where a ritual is described as a sacrifice to a rain god. The piece notes the community's belief in rain spirits and the traditional practice observed by the tribe.
A strange sight at Rowe's Point last Friday showed a great cloud of smoke from a mountain. Witnesses feared a volcanic eruption, but the cloud cleared to reveal a section of the mountain broke away and slid down the canyon. Separately, Southern Pacific announces May wages will be paid by check, a system already used on many lines and spreading.
A mixed local digest reports residents arriving from Pressett and Chicago doctors joining Copper Queen operations in E Paso, with thefts and robberies on K Street and a late night stabbing near the Brewery. The new South Birbee venture, water franchise talks, and Hadley suspect rumors surface, while mining payrolls, stage trips to Naco, and Fourth of July planning occupy civic chatter. Local officials, a Rapid water pipe project near Nacozari, and community events at Copper Queen Hotel, Opera House, and Don Luis J. reflect a busy regional week.
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