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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1898
Page
3
Chronicle of Tombstone events includes visits by John Nible and Otto Geissler, business by F C Earle, open Indian School in Tucson, Mexican Independence Day celebrations, a fatal lightning strike, profiles of St Jean He'd and Growot Tombstone, medical and dental notices, and local literary sketches.
Reports quote F. Fe Braley boasting of a rich strike at a gold mine near South Pass in the Dragoons with assays claiming over 100 dollars per ton. The fund to determine extent advances and 1500 county taxpayers receive tax notices as Mayor Evnautiel and officials comment on local prospects and public work.
A satirical poem depicts a clash between a Dow jewelry figure and Uncle Sam, mentioning Havana bay, a jewel, and a Dutchman with kraut. The piece invokes Dewey and rough talk of Cuba and confrontation. It also notes a quarantine policy change raising cattle trading activity at a subport and the approaching November 15 date.
In Scofield Utah a boy suffered poor health with yellowing skin and non healing wounds. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla his appetite returned and health improved over three years. The notice promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as effective against impure blood.
Reporter notes a copper ore specimen from a newly found rich strike near Tarquois shown by rancher Chas Godzens. Godzens mentions plans to inspect the site next morning while a temperance observer declines a drink offered. The scene includes a tote and a medicine bottle described as the drink.
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