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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1921
Page
1
All details for Tombstone Labor Day children's celebration are arranged. Prizes are funded and ready for payout, ice cream and fresh milk ordered, parade participants expected, and organizers report every child and visitor will enjoy a joyous event after a long preparation.
Rufus E. Von KleinSmid, president of the University of Arizona, was offered the presidency of the University of Denver. If he accepts, he will succeed Dr. Henry A. Buchtel who retired for health reasons last December. Von KleinSmid, a noted educator and war worker, is a DePauw University graduate and has long been in educational work in Indiana.
Phoenix Sept 3 jury in East Phoenix precinct Justice Court found Eugene J Hughes not guilty in a case over a motor light law alleged by state. Hughes, a local sign painter, was among over 500 motorists arrested in a sheriff crusade last Saturday night. The misdemeanor trial followed a Monday arraignment with county officers testifying before six jurors after brief defense.
Reese H. Davidson, a rent car driver, was beaten and robbed by four men described as soldiers in civilian uniforms in Agua Prieta. After driving the men from a saloon, they influenced him to the red light district, argued and attacked him when he tried to exit, taking his watch and $12 as they fled.
Phoenix reports funeral services for Justice Albert C Baker of the Arizona Supreme Court following his death in a Los Angeles hospital. The service will be Monday at 9 30 am at St Marys Catholic Church with burial in the Catholic cemetery. Family members travel to Phoenix. Mrs Baker had been visiting in Colorado and rushed to Los Angeles after learning of the illness.
Phoenix reports abundant doves as opening season draws crowds to Webb celebration. Hunters anticipate mud roads east of the city while a baseball game between Elfrida and Bisbee Colts ends 7 to 4. A disappearance case of John Moran looms amid cowboy sports and a schoolhouse dance.
A. H. Gardner recounts a county trip with U S immigration Inspector Jett Milton into the San Rafael valley. He notes the region’s green landscape, poor roads, and isolation from Cochise county governance, advocating a new road from Garden Canyon to the divide to shorten travel, boost farming and mining, and aid military and forest service efforts. The plan could cut 35 miles of travel and unlock further settlement opportunities once conditions improve.
In Tombstone today Gordon and daughter report that oil drifter Klankenship arrived in Nogales to haul a 4,000 foot rig for a test well on land leased from Harkey Bros. The test well location is disputed, with Nogales misreporting Santa Cruz county instead of Cochise. Drilling to begin in 30 or 40 days under a contract of 0 days. exact location not public. Midkiff resigns as federal prohibition enforcement agent in Bisbee, date Sept 3. Cassidy named to Arizona position.
United States soldiers were ordered to depart Camp Stephen D Little to protect Ruby and vicinity after postmaster Frank J Pearson and Mrs Pearson were killed there. The unit will patrol the international boundary near Ruby with twenty infantrymen, six mounted, under Lieutenant Watts, for ten days with plans for rotating detachments. Warrants for the slayers of the Pearsons were issued by District Judge Arsenio Espinosa of Nogales Sonora.
Dr LD Ricketts of Warren Arizona, consulting engineer for Inspiration Consolidated Copper and others, predicts Altona and New Mexico mines may reopen near year start. He says the bottom of the depression is past and copper markets must improve before operations resume, with most mines likely to restart together.
The State case against Manuel Garcia and Jose Perez for the May 4 killing of Jess Fisher at Slaughter ranch continued with defense testimony. Garcia and Perez testified they were bound by five bandits during the night raid and were not involved in Fisher’s death. The trial, halted by holiday Monday, resumes Tuesday morning as fingerprint expert J F McDonald returns to lay out evidence and discrepancies.
The August report by local weather observer George Wales notes mean maximum temperatures of 75 degrees and mean minimum of 64, with a peak 93 on the 13th and a low 69 on the 25th. Rain totaled 4.56 inches, with a 24 hour high of 1.50 inches on the 3rd and 18 clear days, 13 partly cloudy. Three prior months show June 0.21, July 6.91, August 1.46 inches, totaling 11.74 inches.
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