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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1892
Page
6
Monday's items report political posters ahead of Wednesday elections, visitors in Tombstone, marriages in Bisbee, arrivals from Mexico, and religious group reminders. Cattle shipping rates and railroad progress are noted along with juror movements, a warrant filing, deed recording, and a humorous bent on local speeches and travel anecdotes.
The Cochise county card outlines a proposed program for the Territorial Council including establishing a U.S. court at Tombstone, opposing county dis union, retrenchment in territorial and county costs, and transferring duties from the board of equalization to county boards. It also notes a Tombstone concert by S. P. Creasinger, ore shipments by the steamer Gila, a billing dispute with the Louisiana ice works, and taxidermist Frank Holzner joining U.S. boundary survey work amid winter plans. The Arizona Republican illustrated edition is available for 25 cents with Cochise county profiles and local figures.
The Stuttz Company performed at Schieffelin hall on Saturday night drawing a large fashionably dressed audience. Mrs Stutts played Little Nell and earned hearty applause while The Widow and other acts drew strong laughter. The Pearl of Love and Roped to Death were advertised for tonight. In Ash Fork a girl on horseback was abducted by an Indian after a stray animal incident. She escaped thrice, and the assailant was hanged amid a hostile crowd with gunfire and telegraph poles after his capture.
J Vickers of the Li Stock Sanitary Commission returned from Tempe where a meeting investigated Texas fever in southern Arizona. The commission found cattle affected by bad water in some pastures with a few deaths, but after fresh water was introduced conditions improved. Dr Chandler reported no Texas fever symptoms, saying the disease is spread by diseased cattle and noting no recent outside cattle entering the valley. Cattle deaths in Pima and Cochise counties were attributed to starvation rather than disease.
The Prospector profiles Democratic nominee M. Bruce a 39 year old Virginia native who came to Arizona in 1881 to oversee the Washington Pool mines near Washington Camp in the Patagonia mountains. He later managed the Babacomari Cattle Co and has long been a leading taxpayer and cattle interests figure in Cochise County. He chaired the Live Stock Sanitary Commission and helped press federal cattle health inspections from Mexico. He was nominated by acclamation by the late Democratic convention. If elected, he has prior public duty experience.
Wire service notes that the partial solar eclipse on the 20th will be visible across most of North America if skies are clear, with about three fifths of the sun obscured and no total eclipse expected due to the moon's shadow not reaching Earth.
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