Daily C a 8 column notes and Tombstone updates
Monday's Daily C reports Fly and N N Miller bagging 13 ducks on the river, Delong arrives from Dos Caberna, and Republicans plan rallies at St David and Benson. The piece covers local mining claims, court actions, survey work at Rucker canyon, sales of Fort Cummings, and various travel notices, with notes on quarantine, voters, and bank donations related to Coffeyville. It also mentions cavalry detachments, possible Apache activity, and local births.
Railroads and politics mix in far west era plans
The piece outlines Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe rail line ambitions from Deming toward Benson and beyond, predicting a wintry start and spring or summer completion. It also covers a Bisbee Republican meeting with speeches by W. H. Stilwell and others, noting campaign rhetoric and local office hints.
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Deming Meadtig
Noone
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
Deming
Benson
Guaymas
Tine
Pacific Coast
Fairbank
Sonora
Nogale
Sulphur Spring Valley
Arizona
New Mexico
San Pedro
Gila
Acroea
Globe
Atlantic & Pacific
Phenix
Silver City
Santa Fe
Hotel am Palace and All Names in Brief List
W K Perkins and others frequent the Hotel am Palace. W K Meade, returning from Chicago, reports a proposal to share exhibit quarters among Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma with each territory contributing 2000 dollars. A Virginia ground exchange is proposed. Meade foresees Cleveland’s election with New York abandoned by Republicans and likely gains in West Virginia.
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Chicago
W.K. Meade
Arizona
New York
National
Grover Cleveland
West List Street
Cleveland
Times-Demo
Grand jury urges reward for Kid the Apache renegade
The Gila county grand jury recommends offering five hundred dollars for Kid the Apache renegade and asks nearby counties to consider similar rewards. The note cites depredations against prospectors and the danger he poses, urging swift capture by proper officers of the court. It mentions a Berlin company forming to compete with Standard Oil.
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Gila County
Judge Stilwell’s claim on Scribner receipt dispute
An 1889 tax dispute is recounted with McAllister confirming Scribner did not request a full receipt for the S. P. Co. tax payment. Wells Fargo agents delivered funds and provided standard receipts with no full receipt requested. The Proctor notes the judge’s tale as unfounded and states no such conditions existed.
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Bisbee
W.H. Stilwell
Wm. Place
GW. Cheyney
Cheyney
Stilwell
Scribner
John Montgom
John
Allen English
Fairbank
John Montgomery
Bishe
Judge Stilwell
M. D. Scribner
San Francisco
Aon
5. P.co
McAllister
8. P. Co
Supreme Court
S. P. Co
Wells, Fargo & Co
California
Mr. McAllister
C. D. Gage
Voting Instructions From An Old Ballot Process
A historical ballot guide describes crowd procedures for entering a polling place signing in name and residence, obtaining a ballot, marking a candidate with an X in the voting column, folding the ticket to conceal its contents, and returning it to the inspector without showing or revealing choices. It warns that spoiling ballots requires obtaining a replacement.
Physician retires after offering plant remedy claims
An old physician, long retired, is described as presenting a simple vegetable remedy given by a Kant India missionary to Don Broachitie.rh Rath. The text notes widespread belief in its curative powers after treating thousands, urging further inquiry at Foxe 80 Blosk Rochester.
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Brussels
United States
Allison
Andrews
McCreary
Cannon
Jones
Kant India
Addeenet Foxe
Rochester
Calamity prompts cross country sympathy and action
Milwaukee property insurance totals 3.25 million across about 175 companies after a large blaze. Chicago mayor to Milwaukee mayor offers aid. New York Republicans rally at Cooper Union with Butterworth as keynote. Wyoming cattlemen face ongoing violence and fear. Chino sugar factory reports 1120000 beets processed and near 150000 government bounty. Henry Ryder convicted of fraud. Indian agency clashes and Apache hostilities near San Carlos. Dynamite wrecks W S Eberhard saloon in Tacoma. Bourke Cochran denounces tariff effects in Denver. Deming border pillar project advances. Manley claims Republicans hold 216 electoral votes. New York uncertain. Cleveland disputes residency voting challenge. Mexican flood damages report with thousands of acres submerged and 50 deaths.
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Bar Crry
Wyoming
Johnson County
Ostaxio
Cal
Chino
Henry Ryder
United States
Language shifts and techs in a lively era prompt new terms
A quirky survey notes slang like push cards for advertisements and Welsh river mouth place names. It cites a $103,000 Hebrew Bible as the world’s priciest book, mentions automated food watching devices, and a bill posting machine that affixes notices up to fifty feet, pleasing Parisian theater crowds.
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Abendovey
Vatican
Rome
Paris
Canal Survey Team Reviews Crossings Near Yuma
The engineer in charge of the Sonora canal survey reached Hanlon's six miles below Yuma late last week. Surveyed lands lie east of the Colorado River while the canal runs on the west side. Engineers will study all available river crossings near Yuma.
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Sonora Canal
Hanlon’s
Yuma
Company
Colorado River
Cnal
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Herbert Gage
Tomtmmson—West
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Mra
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W K Perkins
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