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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1891
Page
3
Friday’s Daily reports the Mohave Miner’s strong support for wiatehead, temporary railroad physician at Turse, and notes the U.S. grand jury will not adjourn before Oct 20. It mentions taxes paid in Cochise County, a Newlineree Chinese wash house ban, and various names across Arizona towns.
Public notice lists various mine claims in the Huachuca mountains and Bisbee area including Anchor mine Silver Glance Bile Pass and Dred properties. Named individuals and firms appear with payments and transfers in the 1888 context, seeking red agents to sell merchandise with propose of commissions and salaries.
A collection of jokey exchanges on marriage and domestic life from period papers. Snippets show couples teasing about fidelity furniture divorce and long marriage with light sarcasm and social humor. Notable quips include onion fondness and misheard wedding vows.
The fragmentary text combines proverbs about conduct with stray quotations and advertisements. It includes an odd mix from Munsey's Weekly and a Chicago catalogue offer, with garbled lines about religion and fashion and scattered financial notices.
C M Brace in town notes plans to ship 3000 steers to Bakersfield California for fattening. He claims Southern Pacific has set a rate lower than any cattle shipment basis. He also mentions 5 P Co Express seeking to handle Arizona cattle and low water routes. Shipping starts October 1st with letters from Kansas offering pasture at $2 per head per year and strong grass, plus high interest to cover freight and pasturage costs until market.
Francisco Leon was jailed last week in Youba for car ring and concealed weapons. The Times notes years earlier he fired at Whittaker in Tombstone and resisted arrest, Hatch and Osborne forced shots. Leon received a three year penitentiary sentence. Vickers returned from San Diego with his daughter Lillian, reporting progress on the North and South Road construction and a contract for twenty miles of rail line.
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