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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1892
Page
2
After January 1 1852 the PROSPECTOR will publish sheriff notices advertisements and other notices at a fixed rate per insertion and per subsequent insertions under Act 83. Sheriffs clerks and administrators must collect these charges from the parties served and remit to the paper.
A periodically quoted motto urges care without fear during cholera, arguing fear aids pestilence and deaths. The text notes an unresolved Republican convention expected in Prescott, with no signs of convocation or action, and wires from Tucson and Phoenix failing to clarify the situation.
Ex Pacifico reports widespread misery across the Mazatlan region with inhabitants fleeing to larger towns for bread. It notes rising hunger and uncertainty about how bad it may become. In South Africa Rand gold fields five years of mining yield 2,429,094 ounces valued at 12,090,000 with ore grade about 12.10 per ton.
A reader recalls fifteen years of biliousness and constipation finally relieved after trying August Flower on a friend’s recommendation. The testimonial mentions various names and places like Jesse Barker Humboldt Kansas but focuses on the product’s perceived benefits.
An advertisement from Euro Waren Co New York offers a gold filled watch for agents joining a one dollar per week club. Each watch includes a twenty year warranty on the karat gold filled case and a fine Elgin or Waltham movement. Heirloom grade yet priced to attract new agents with express shipping and home examination.
A garbled trade note describes the Anglo American Brokerage and Investment Company handling ecod mining properties and large timber, coal, and other resources. It mentions office in St Louis and vague investment promises, followed by unrelated anecdotal dialogue about a railway accident and apocryphal quips from a Marseilles clip.
The Tombstone assessor certifies a delinquent tax list for 1862 covering properties in the city. It itemizes owners such as Ashman, Arnold, Bales, Couping, Frederick, Huber, Swetdl and others with lots, blocks, and due amounts including taxes and costs.
Tax listings show Intervenors and various property owners with large totals for taxes and costs. By order of the Republican Committee of Cochise County a primary election is set for September 25 1852 to elect delegates to a Republican convention and to select county and precinct representatives in Tombstone Arizona Territory.
At a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors the registration of voters of Cochise County is announced. The notice cites compliance with Chapter 5 Revised Statutes and assigns action to the board, dated a specified year. Signed W. D. Moxonxton.
A Territorial Democratic Central Committee calls a convention at Tucson on the last day of September 18ga to nominate a Democratic candidate for Congress. The event will select delegates from territorial counties under the county Democratic Central Committee direction. Delegation apportions to the territory are to be determined by the commissioners.
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