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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1893
Page
3
Thursday's Daily notes Sam Webb will relocate to Nogales next week. Bob Paul conducted a swing trip to Tombstone today. Mia, Chas, and Granville Johnston show health improvement and Miss Kitty Rafferty also improves and was downtown yesterday.
The prison board lists new officers and their home counties. Supt. W. K. Meade leads, with Asst. Supt. MP. Shaw from Cochise, Secretary E. 4. Trippel from Gila, Physician F. G. Cotter from Yuma, Yuma Evans, Yavapai, Mxrivops Yume, BF. Hartlee, Robt. Templeton, Chas. E. Finch, Cochine J. D. Thomas.
The act sets quarterly license taxes affecting merchants selling large goods, liquor dealers, saloon keepers, physicians, apothecaries, clothing drummers, peddlers, traveling shows, billiard and pool tables, breweries, pawnbrokers, and tax collection by sheriffs. It also records remarks from Emma Miller at a Denver session and Pioneer Home Missionary Society notes on Sunday schools in California and Arizona.
At court the McKee Rainey calf killing case for Joe Hoefler occupied the day and, at 3 o clock, the case was given to the jury. The Conspiracy case remains with jurors out over 24 hours. The two other juries were discharged for the term and will head home.
Messrs vouney and Ww George propose a Phoenix to Yuma railroad grade with pay in stock, cash to employees. Profiles and plats due by June 28 for writing. The New York Investment Co bids for rails, rolling stock and other essentials. Gazette. Le
Tourists commercial travellers mariners and emigrants testify to Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a sovereign safeguard against sea sickness nausea and stomach liver and bowel disorders. It is touted as preventing climate related illness from malaria to broken bone fever and aiding weakened health during travel.
The Cochise County grand jury for the May term 1893 submits a detailed report on county offices. It notes 27 cases, 17 indictments, 9 ignored, 1 dismissed, and scrutinizes treasurer clerk jail recorder assessor justice offices and the sheriff and probate hospital. It finds bookkeeping neat in many offices but urges improvements in jail conditions, reporting, and fee records. It also discusses a vacancy in the board of supervisors due to James P. McAllister’s alleged resignation, and critiques county bonds and sureties, recommending bonds be tightened and officers properly vetted.
Denver mining expert N G Hock returns from the Altar district to Sonora via Tombstone. He says a single New York syndicate operates 60 deg washers using 120 Indians paid divots per day with weekly returns around 1500. Diggings extend about west miles, with water 20 miles away, gold coarse and mixed with quartz. One piece weighed six ounces after quartz cleaned, sold to merchants. a night shift cleans the machines. the place has one American. Mr Hock departs tomorrow.
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