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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1918
Page
1
Flagstaff reports the September sugar allotment for Arizona at 67 000 pounds, up from August’s 750 000 pounds, based on a wire from the Washington food administration to the Arizona federal food administration.
Mohave County Growers Association president Gaddis appeals to the federal Food Administration for Arizona to assist in marketing several head of cattle. He says the cows are aging out and should be disposed of while in good condition, with old bulls also to be turned off for younger bulls in spring. Range conditions have been excellent, with ample rains and forecast fine feed through October, creating a favorable market outlook for early October. Jose Lazano, formerly Mexican consul ateo, was examined by Judge Lockwood and ordered to the asylum in Phoenix after being deemed paranoid and claiming vast wealth and automobiles for hire. Byron McWhorter and son Ivan of Bisbee visited Tombstone yesterday.
The Superior Court clerk reports a surge in marriage licenses issued this week across territories including Bisbee Nogales Douglas and Chihuahua. Names listed include Geo Foster Bisoe wed Tea Gould and Antonio Villalope to wed Maria Corailas among many others as septembers registrations trend higher than last month.
RLS are being used as cowboys in northern Arizona as five damers ride astride and swing ropes in a fall roundup. The Ladies Red Cross have cut and finished twenty two men's shirts with ten more partly done, while local visitors from Frank Dian of Douglas S H Kyle Rod McDonald Alex Murry and S K Williams of Bisbee consult in Tombstone before the Superior Court.
The record shows multiple cases set for the September term including transporting charges against Cleve Irby, Wiley Helden, Rob Paize, William Borle, Frank Massingill, and Ignacio Cordova among others. Other entries note rape, receiving stolen property, grand larceny, assault, adultery, jailbreak, and a variety of appeal cases from police and Justices courts.
Dr. O A Tur professor of philosophy and in charge of the Phoenix public library and Dr. F H Rodewill of the medical association began organizing a state medical library. It will be housed in the Phoenix public library with over a thousand medical books and a thousand magazines donated by local doctors. A dedicated room will index and store the volumes and volumes of medical magazines bound and filed.
Federal labor agency confusion sparked a guard of 145 Bisbee and Douglas workers awaiting transport to Portind and Astoria Oregon. A night telegram ordered postponement and no shipment until the U S Shipping Board clears the matter as officers push war work assignments. Continued on Page Four.
The Prospector reports Bisbee resident Mike Cassidy is appointed captain adjutant general in the regular Army with immediate assignment to Camp Cody. A decorated veteran with service in Spain and the State Guards, Cassidy is praised for his fitness and fighting Irish lineage. Fellow townsman AH Gardner remarks on Cassidy’s regard in Tombstone as a capable fighting politician who backs friends.
Evan Treasurer and candidate for state treasurer returned home after a tour across northern Arizona counties. He forecasts carrying Maricopa Yavapai Yuma Coconino and smaller northern counties with Santa Cruz solid. He expects a substantial majority in the nomination count.
Boston wins at Comiskey Park 2 to 1 over Chicago in game three. Johnson May and Schang held the Cubs to one run as Vaughn and Gil worked for Chicago. The score by innings shows Boston struck in the fourth, Chicago managed a single run.
Phoenix September report by G M Willard state game warden detailing an inspection trip lasting 33 days. He traveled through northern and eastern parts of the state visiting 21 towns and covered over 1200 miles with deputy D E Pettis, encountering rough roads but finding game plentiful everywhere.
Vernon McCutcheon of Bisbee traveled through Tombstone today while en route to Patagonia, arriving as a visiting Bisbee resident.
Douglas 7 R S Perrin visited the Whitewater settlement last Sunday and praised the valley's Thurral crop growth. He noted corn cane cabbage heats sweet potatoes and other truck on his farm with twenty acres of beans and two and a half acres of potatoes promising high yields.
Two men were arrested in Nogales as they were seen heading toward the Mexican border. Police say the suspects, linked to a string of house break-ins, came from Montreal and were traced to El Paso. Statements vary, but authorities have evidence of their movement and intentions.
The machine gun troop of the Itch United States cavalry at Camp Harry J. Jones in Douglas seeks an ostrich as mascot. They wrote to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce requesting a bird be sent, joking that ostrich transport might be cheaper and they could hatch it themselves.
Curtis Pinkerton a switchman for the El Paso Southwestern company was killed yesterday morning near the Brigga shaft after riding on a car and being thrown to the track. The wheels cut his body in two.
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