Cowboy Discovers Hidden Padres Cache in Bisbee Area
A cowboy named Joe Walvey found an iron treasure box buried near a dead tree among four large boulders after tracking stray cattle. Locals say the cache contains old padres worth about 6400,000 in $1 bills and other valuables from Mexican miners dating back 75 years. Items reportedly include mining claims, mortgages, and various property transfers recorded in Bisbee and nearby Douglas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joel Walvey
Walsey
Mexico
Health Seeker Deaths and Arizona Legal Resignations
Health seeker commits death by own action while Kramer's resignation as assistant attorney general of Arizona is tendered to Attorney General Wiley E. Jones. The report covers court appeals, property transfers, mortgage assignments, and probate items linked to Cochise County and state officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kramer
Phoenix
Arizona
Jenteccey
Wiley E. Jones
AJO
Harry
Ross
Armstrong
Lewis Cochise County
J. P
A. E. Soderman
Lielie Hardy
Ray Bo Krebs
George Cochine
J.P. Purdy Bullard
Alfred C. Lockwood
Jones
Cochse County
W. P
L. Barnum
Elsie Toles
Heighis County
Lewkowitz
Corporation Commission
United States
Flynn
Hunters prepare for deer and turkey seasons this fall
The deer and turkey seasons open October 1 and close November 1 with a bag limit of one horned deer and no turkeys. Voters last fall shortened the season from December 15 to November 1, while keeping the deer limit at one. Quail season begins October 15 and wardens intensify enforcement. sportsmen urge reporting any quailearliers.
Gardner Tello of Much Prosperity in Tombstone
Gardner Tello, in Douglas, reports Tombstone’s social plans for a Red Cross dance with seven auto caravans bringing the Seventeenth Cavalry Band to the county seat. He cites booming ore shipments by Bunker Hill and growing manganese potential, and notes a Bisbee to Tombstone road project by bootleggers that will aid court-bound travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Internationall Hou
Gardner
Tombstone
Seventeenth Cavalry Band
Red Cross
Mr. Gardner
Douglas Boys
Cochise County
Bunker Hill Company
Bisbee
Suicide at Cardigan camp near Ajo ends life of 41 year old
The note by AE Soderman describes the death by self-inflicted gunshot near Cardigan camp three miles south of Ajo Monday at about 3 PM. The 12 gauge blast destroyed the forehead. Deceased from San Diego was in poor health with advanced tuberculosis. He was unmarried, 41, and brother to H G Soderman of Ajo who is involved in Cardigan group claims. Funeral by Rev W R Winans at Clarkston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae' Soderman
Cardigan
Ajo
San Diego
Cal
H. G. Soderman
Thos, Childs
$1,000,000 Bonds Planned for Apache Railroad Project
The Arizona plan calls for $1,000,000 in bonds approved by the state corporation commission to finance the Apache railroad from Holbrook into Black Mesa and toward coal deposits with total project cost around $2,000,000 at $45,000 per mile. Construction to start October 1, expected to take about a year, with Santa Fe possibly joining and considering a tie plant at Holbrook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
State Corporation Commission
Apache Railroad Company
Holbrook
Black Mesa Forest
The
Santa Fe
Weather and Crop Report for the Week in Arizona
Weekly weather and crop summary from Phoenix bureau notes cattle ranges fair but deteriorating and in need of rain. Dry farming crops require rain though light showers aid some locals. Irrigated areas report favorable cotton picking haying and threshing alfalfa seed. plowing for winter grain has begun. Also a $100 reward offered for theft of barbed wire and fence posts from Barbacomari Grant and other watered wire property. contact EB Perrin Williams Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Phoenix
Weather Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Perrin
EB. Perrin
Wil Hams
Cattle Inspectors Cleared in Arizona Game Case
Tucson Sept 17 Charges of violation of game laws against 8 A Thompson chief cattle inspector and W Mc Knight Nogales cattle inspector were filed by Lee Parker for minbranding calves but dismissed. State game warden Prochaska reported the charges were spiteful and inspectors acted according to law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
A. Thompson
Arizona
W. McKnight
Nogales
Lee Parker
Joe V. Prochaska
Santa Cruz County
DEFENSE COUNCIL PLANS FOR WINTER CROPS IN ARIZONA
Sept 17 report from Phoenix states Arizona Council of Defense expands activities. George H. Smalley, secretary, leads crop survey and coordinates with T A Riordat, food administrator, ahead of winter plans. Four Minute Men head to theaters with four minute talks to inform patrons on war work. Numerous local items follow on arrests, visits, and personnel movements around Tombstone and Cochise County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Arthur
Manardana
David
SW. Keeling
Charles W. Bush
Graham County
Bisbee Naco Water Co
KH. Whitman
Solomonville
Martmanland
John Cronpan
Wu Chandler
Arizona Council of Defense
George H. Smalley
T. A. Riordat
E. J. Cooper
George J. Stoneman
Four Minute Men
Arizona
How to Appeal Draft Cases to the President
Sept 18 instructions for drafted men outline how to appeal to the president. Appeals must originate with district boards and go directly to the president, not to provost marshal, Congress members, or others. Denials on industrial exemption are the president's domain. railroad exemption appeals also go straight to the president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Breen
Arizona
Congress
All
Davita
Compers push Bisbee inquiry on labor in Arizona
Washington September 18 President Wilson was urged to appoint a commission to probe labor conditions in Arizona copper mines. Samuel Gompers of the AFL presented charges that copper interests encouraged W W agitators to discredit the labor movement as miners recently left Bisbee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arizons
American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Compers
Labor Federation
W. W
Bisbee
Married Groom Goes to War Before Honeymoon
Chas T. Barrett and Miss Elia Aston, both of Tombstone, were married yesterday afternoon by Judge W. A. Fowler. They left for Bisbee for a one day honeymoon before Barrett reports for duty in France. Barrett works for Bunker Hill. Aston is a stenographer. She will remain in Tombstone during his service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Engle
Tombstone
Bisbee
11Th Field Artillery
Douglas
10Th Field Artillery
1Th
France
11Th
Pt. Great
Wiliam Boyles
Ivan Phillips
Riley
Chas T. Barrett
Elia Aston
W. A. Fowler
Sam
Barrett
Pioneer woman of Cochise county remembered in letter
Mrs. Mary Walker of Bisbee received a letter from the daughter of Mrs. James Kearney in Los Angeles stating that her mother died in that city last week. Mrs. Kearney was a pioneer resident of Cochise county, living in Bisbee and Tombstone. Her husband was once Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Walker
Bisbee
James Kearney
Los Angeles
Kearney
Pioncer
Cochise County
Tombstone
Weils
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Arizona Bisbee Copper Co
Wim. Fabey
Thomas Jennings
Thomas Pizgerald
Patrick M. Kelley
Arizona-Bisbee Copper Co
W A. Swarts CW. Ramba
Sam Frankenburg
LG. Bransh
Elmer Johnson
Charles Clayson
Emil Marks
Preston Pletcher
Lee Ivanovich
Jacobson
Harry A. Clark
John W. Neeman
Thomas Greely
H.W Clarkston, Claims
A. E. Mortgage Curtie
Crette
DC O'Neil, Sro
Wo M Harkin
McArthur Bros. Merc. Co
Juses Cito
McArthur Bros Merc. Co
Wo A. Morris
McArthur Bros. Merc Co
J.B Davis
Hoxo
Hatholomew Co
Superior Court
T. F. Forrester
J. W. Rowe
James H. R. Mills
LL OF Sale
Bank of Bisbee
Alexander
Cochise Building & Loan Asen
John E. Critchley
Cochise Building & Loan Assn
Emil E. Stoser
John True
E T. Nance
C. Wolf
C. A. McDonald
True Nance Cattle Co
Laura Purdy
Charles L. Purdy
Virginia H. Shurliff
Wm. J. Shutliff
Harry C. Wheeler
J. P. Court
Rowin A. Hughes
Cochine County
Charles Percival Fox
Hunters
Gardner Tello
W. R Winans
Wed- Barr SmMh Undertaking Co
Clarkston
Norristown
Defense Council
Stoneman
Doane Merrill
Fort Grant
Thin City
J. T. Scott
Thomas Baker
Aman
Andy
Mra
Scott
Baker
Revi
Mex
Mark P. Johns
Lowell
Winters
W. G. Gilmore
Willcox BG
B Holland
Liz Han
Miss Holland
Machomich Mercantile Company
Gladys Huddy
Pearce
University At
B. Wilson
C. B. Wilson
Nw York Life Insurance Company
Long Beach
Calif
Tom Fulghum
Wilbor iv
Fulghum
Blanche Street
John W. Walker
Hereford
Tudsor
Mike Brophy
Copper Queen
P. A. Larrien
Judge Dee Robinson
Turner
Deming
New York Life Insurance Company
Wm. Chancey
Uncle Sam
Sevial
Walter Thomas
Chancey
Mare Island
Morris Bieumenthal
J. F. Ross
Bleumenthal
Norman Walker
Associated Press
el Paso
Walker
Warren
I W. W
Golden State Limited
Foreman Shafer
City bin
Charleston Bridge
Foreman Scafer
Schafer
Lyman H. Hays
Supreme Court
Willcox
Paul F. Kerr
Mra E. Kerr
Occidental College
C. L. Blackburn
Mike Davis
Bud Holland
Rhineberger
Jaude Parris
W. P. Miller
F. N. Wolcott
Eva Wallace
Bruce Stephenson
City
Sitel
Embree and Son
Embree
Sherif Bowden
Kirby
Ranch
Jas, Lawry
Oregon
D. Price
Atlantic
Butch Hartman
Earl
U.S. Navy
New York
Mr Hartman
Europe
Judge O'Connor
W. A. O'Connor
Lockwood
ST. David
Dave Moore
Ompers
Bisbee Inquiry
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