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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1921
Page
1
A brief notice deciphers the origin of a towing incident, outlining the involved parties and location, with emphasis on the sequence leading to the tow and the current status of the case in clear, non-graphic terms.
County road work in Cochise is reviewed by both state and county departments. Sid Smyth reports thirteen maintenance gangs across Willcox Bowie Fairbank Santa Cruz Mescal Gap Tombstone Charleston Tombstone Gleeson Hereford Don Luis Lowell Naco Warren Tombstone Benson Forrest Ranch Gleeson Douglas Slaughter’s ranch to Cave Creek with seventy one workers, plus a plan to rebuild Benson bridge using an old iron span.
Guadalupe Varelas, 14, missing since Thursday afternoon near Bisbee, prompts city and county officers to conduct a two day search. A possible sighting reported by Neal White described a girl matching Varelas with two Mexicans near Tintown. Principal Eva Philbrook confirms she left Franklin Mexican School at 2 pm with headaches.
Five marriage licenses were issued to Cochise county couples during the week from the office of J E James, clerk of the superior court. Ygnacio Acuna to wed Mariana Rodriguez of Douglas. Miguel Flores to wed Rita Carabajal of Bisbee. Charles S Pierce to wed Sadie G Dinsmore of Bisbee. Mariano de Luna to wed Romalda Kitanka of Bisbee. Louis Koller to wed Maria Lopez of Harshaw. Miss Snowden Appointed Phoenix Board of Nurse Examiners Chair by Governor Campbell.
Phoenix dispatch reports $2,500 offered for the recovery of John J. Knight's body and $2,500 for the arrest and conviction of his murderer. James A. McNab of Dallas, administrator of Knight's estate, seeks body recovery to settle the Wichita Falls businessman's estate, valued up to $200,000, after Knight disappeared July 9, 1921. Also from Arizona, the University announces a sulphur dioxide leaching process for low grade copper ore improving recovery rates and highlighting leached carbonates available for treatment.
Phoenix Ariz Oct 14 Internal warfare within Copper Mountain Mines surfaced in a petition to the Arizona corporation commission seeking authority to dispose of 194000 shares of treasury stock. The petition is opposed by William H Reynolds of New York, the largest individual stockholder in the company.
Phoenix October 15 Promises from Arizona lawmakers in Washington to press to secure a one cent a mile rate for delegates to the American Legion convention in Kansas City later this month were reported to the corporation commission Amos A Betts wired Senators Cameron and Ashurst and Congressman Hayden to push the rate for Arizona delegates who will be allowed eastern deb ates to the convention Betts also wired the Interstate Commerce Commission charging that the one and a third fare set by the Western Passenger Association is unjust and discriminatory and urged action before the I C C
Nogales Ariz Oct 14 F J Dyer American consul reports Gov Elias Sonora informed him the Mexico City military chief will not move troops from Camars 40 miles south of Nogales. Dyer had protested orders to shift all Sonora forces to Tehuantepec claiming American property protection would be jeopardized.
Patrick Brennan, with two navy enlisted men, confessed to aiding a December 22, 1920 theft from the Norfolk paymasters' office. He and accomplices allegedly took 72,000 of 100,000 dollars, traveled on a handcart, and split up at Petersburg. Brennan claimed a life of high living and later settled in Tucson, before being nabbed in Phoenix. federal officials were notified.
Phoenix October 15 After overruling a jurisdiction plea and a special demurrer Judge Stanford will hear manda mus proceedings again in the state treasurer and state auditor suit brought by Maricopa Coconino Yavapai and Pima counties to recover nearly two million dollars in bonds and accrued interest issued to promote a railroad from Seligman through Prescott and Phoenix to Tucson The suit centers on the failure to pay the counties from lands in the land grant sale proceeds and the road project’s collapse after the railroad company sold the bonds and did not build the road The Supreme Court validated only a portion of the bonds with the rest deemed invalid.
In Nogales Arizona October 14 a Mexican Western Union messenger boy was arrested by police this morning charged with firing 22 revolvers at Mexican customs inspectors of the international line.
Douglas October 15 Lee Foo a laundry proprietor was shot four times and killed by Pancho Wong a long time friend in front of a restaurant near the city hall in Agua Prieta Wong waited for the police without trying to escape Foo and Wong had talked amicably minutes before the shooting American residents suggest a Tong war since Foo and Wong reportedly belonged to different organizations Wong is held in the Agua Prieta jail without bond pending investigation
In Phoenix a report states Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co may clear tangled affairs after October 24 when Judge Sawtelle in Tucson hears a receiver petition for selling corporate property. The firm owns Humboldt smelter and Blue Bell and De Soto mines valued over 2 million, with reorganization nearing completion as debts shift to Southwest Metals.
Testimony in W P Walker trial centers on his alleged confession after arrest for embezzlement from the treasurer’s office. County treasurer Guy C Welch, deputy state examiner J C Darcy, and officer Hud Kelly described Walker’s denial and claim of knowledge of the real culprit. The Oct 1920 shortage of 234.43, paid by W H Morris, is discussed along with Walker’s offer to make shortages good if not prosecuted.
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