This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary notes discuss a Pennsylvania preacher, a brewery fire, and damages suit. Arizona mining prospects are praised for copper and gold wealth, with reference to Butte, Montana. The Star comments that productive industries boost local wealth through farming, dairy, apiculture, and horticulture, noting mining and miners as wealth creators.
Monteama Flour Milling Co. submits plane and specifications for a four story mill at Solomonvide. Three Prescott youths about 18 are charged with burglarizing a Goose Flat house last Wednesday. Reports from Safford mention a battle at Edinburgh, described as the final settlement of the Colvin-Gibson scrip, with shootings and bloodshed. John Colvin was indicted but acquitted by the last grand jury.
In McClure's May issue Professor Newcomb describes the total solar eclipse of May 2 detailing where it will be visible and to what degree. He explains how astronomers hope to learn from the event and reviews lessons from prior eclipses.
An odd list of apocalyptic predictions outlines dwindling surface, north polar instability, annihilation by storm, warming causing roasting, water scarcity, and regressed humans by year 3000 concluding with shrinking Earth cold zones and humanity to near infancy.
Poet Joaquin Miller will lecture Monday evening at the Opera Hall in Bisbee under St John’s Guild auspices. Attendance expected to be large, with Miller discussing Our Arctic Empire as part of the event series.
Prof W P Blake describes Huarbuce village remains in Cochise County Arizona near Yorks Ranch on the San Pedro slope. He notes adobe construction, possible street lines, two to three mound rows, red pottery fragments, quarry elements, and an estimated forty to fifty families once lived there with wider occupation along eastern water canyons.
The thirteenth annual encampment of the Department of Arizona G A R met in Jerome on May 8. Visiting delegates enjoyed a peasant and profitable time. Department Commander R H Minty of Jerome was reelected for the year. Staff appointments included W F R Schandler as quartermaster general and BF Pascoe as adjutant, with headquarters at Phoenix.
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge in Arizona holds its Knights section election with Harry W Drachman as grand chancellor and other officers named from Tucson Tombstone Kingman Flagstaff Clifton and more. A meeting set for May in 1901 is noted amid local unrest and incidents including highwaymen at a town hall and a mine accident in Jerome.
Fragmentary item records a wedding or family event naming a wife and a daughter in a sparse notation. The legible portion indicates kinship details but lacks full identities, dates, or locations to confirm the exact event.
Monday's Tombstone items note a lecture by Hon FX Schoonmaker at Schleffelin Hall on China the Shadow of the World. News briefs cover mining activity Tomstone weather and local officials with references to Salt River figures and Topeka conference delegates.
The territorial capitol project progresses with exterior work nearly finished and interior tasks advancing. Officials expect completion soon as remaining items include dome top details and interior fittings, with material costs having surged since construction began over a year ago.
Notice to all persons working on or furnishing supplies for the Holmes group of mines that owners hold property free of any liens or debts. Mines called Mule and Turquoise Kens, located in the Torquoise mining district Cochise County Arizona, bonded to C. M. Roberts Wat Hoines Henry Ir kd W. A. StoxthorK. April 4, 1900.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.