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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1913
Page
2
The Tombstone Epitaph lists weekly publication with subscription prices from one year to single copies. Rates shown include options and amounts likely in dollars, reflecting publisher Giragi Brothers.
Mrs Harper has disposed of her boarding house to new parties. Miss Viola Hack arrives from Bisbee visiting Mrs D Huddy. Deputy Sheriff Howe visits city en route to Bowie on official business. Pearce draws tourists and mining folk predicting bright times. Ernest and Charles Renaud head to Tucson for University of Arizona studies. Virginia Emmons suffers severe burns from a tub accident but is improving under Dr Nichol Nicholson. Building boom grows as Pearce prepares for better days. Walter Melgren and father Chas visit seeking promising claims. Knights of the Grip interview local merchants. Stewart duo travels from Courtland. barber shop changes hands. Road signage planned by A C Karger and McMeish to aid tourists. Mexican Independence Day celebrated September 16. James Garrett dies. funeral in Gleeson Cemetery with Rev W L Moore delivering a memorial. John Gleeson visits county seat on mining business. R T Stone and wife travel to Tombstone. Mrs William Cummings ill in Gleeson. Leonard Copper Co under Martin Costello estate. ore shipped to Clifton smelter. CM Renaud stores report solid business. seven-year-old Win Foster barely escaped a burro incident. Ed Hussen visits Tombstone via Pioneer Stables.
A long digest reports on Lamar Cobb’s expected return from a leg injury, artesian water drilling planned in Sulphur Spring valley with 7500 dollars authorized, and a Safety Fire rally in Douglas. It covers a murder trial in Globe, postmaster thefts, golf pole vandalism in Prescott, and local government paving specs. It notes fair week plans, tourism boosts, and troop details for the state fair with horsemen and cavalry drills. It includes railroad surveys near Cebabi, copper mining notes, and a fatal shooting in Phoenix following a pistol arrest.
Governor G WP Hoot and State Engineer Thomas F Nichols visit San Carlos with C H Akers and Frank W Thackeray to study a new Sacaton bridge. The 500 foot span will connect Pima and Maricopa on both riverbanks, anchored sixteen feet in bedrock, modeled after the Macd P railroad bridge design.
Doings In the Superior Court Today was naturalization day to the Superior court and abet of applicants from Bisvee Douglas epseered before Judge Lockwood scoured their Bret papers. The following are those who sccured papers Lasar Mertinovich resident of Bice bes Gerald Windsor resident of Doog las Nick Verbaboe resident of Bisbee Bozo Botkovich resident of Biebee ee Kelagjevovich re-ideos a MGnergs Gregori bscaiien aa
Reported shift in base of operations for the constitutionalist forces as General Jesus Correnas announces a probable move from Piedras Negras to Hermosillo. Governor Carranza remains in Sonora as tensions rise after actions against Felix Díaz and General Moodragon complicate the outlook.
Barney Oldfield will be in Phoenix for the fair to drive his car in the 50 mile race and give two speed exhibitions on the track. Attorney General George Purdy Ballard gave positive assurance, and Oldfield asked Ballard for race information before deciding to participate. The news comes after official A A A sanctions for the Los Angeles Phoenix and El Paso Phoenix races at the fair grounds.
The Arizona Corporation Commission authorized the Navajo Southern Railway to issue 1.25 million dollars in six percent bonds for right of way acquisition, line construction south of Holbrook to the Tonto Basin rim, and operating costs during construction. Bonds valued at 1000 dollars each must not sell below 85 percent. The company must report disbursements and purchasers, and provide a certified post sale report. The line will serve Navajo county’s agricultural and timber districts and leverages existing franchise and federal land rights.
Clarence Mackey was found dead in an outbuilding on Canal Street, MI, early Sunday morning. Officers noted hours had passed since death and an initial examination led Judge Nash to empanel a jury to inspect the body. Further indications suggested the deceased.
Mr and Mrs Jobo Shook welcome a 9 pound baby boy born Friday at their home mother and child doing well. Reeder and Coaffee visit J H Stafford’s mountain ranch for winter fruit. Ed Dillard reports planting third time with 45 acres of beans potato maize fodder plentiful. Grandpa Foust 85 erects windmill and adds improvements north east of Pearo. C G Hadeon to 80 acres in Courtland area expanding abovocho business. T B Matthews reports 24 townships to re survey and one township for original survey. E H Metcey harvests 100 fruit trees and 20 acres maize and kaffir corn for good crop. 812 pound boy born to Mr and Mrs H Sacer on the 6th. School at Rooker House with Norton Siggins teaching. J Hudson notes grasshoppers eating young frijoles while 40 secre Geld of maize and corn thrives. Arisones.
Me Skaggs, a Kentucky native and carpenter, was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning at about 6 p.m. inside a dairy house in Lower Miami, as the electrical charge passed through the doorway. Two other men at the scene were unharmed. a small hole appeared above the door and the body bore slight marks. The victim’s mother and brothers live in Thatcher, Graham County, where his body will be taken today.
Kid Lee Exon discharged by Judge Maclay after a preliminary hearing in Douglas on the killing of Walter Johnson in Mondey. Coronor’s jury cleared him at night in Pirtleville but the judge ordered hold for further inquiry. Assistant County Attorney Murray travels to Douglas to oversee continued investigation as seventeen witnesses testified.
Deputy Sheriff Howe returned home from Willcox and surrounding points after subposing jurors. Bill Vesch drove a load of passengers to Glesson last night and remarked lights were unnecessary under bright moonlight.
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