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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1921
Page
1
Rosendo Tan, recently elected municipal judge of Naco Sonora, was killed by a bolt of lightning Thursday evening about 6 o'clock as heavy rain fell. The strike occurred as he checked belongings in the yard. death was instantaneous. His wife found the body. burial planned in Cananea. He leaves a wife and several children.
Sept 24 one night a man claiming to be a stranger in the city called Justice Nat T McKee and asked about duel laws. The justice said the state law likely forbids dueling and challenging to one, prompting the caller to seek another way to clear his honor. He hung up before details could be learned. The man may have decided to go to Mexico to settle the matter.
A telegram from State Engineer Thomas Maddock says Robert R. Bliss, Blaisdell state road camp bookkeeper, is not expected to survive injuries from a Saturday night automobile crash near Phoenix. Sidney Osborn was badly hurt. Bliss' two children were brought to Yuma and sent to Phoenix. Mrs. Bliss left upon news of the accident.
Phoenix readers learn that Mr and Mrs William E Kimsey recently returned from Petosky Michigan where they stayed with former Vice President Thomas R Marshall and his wife The Marshalls plan to spend the winter in Arizona with the Kimseys despite earlier notes of a November arrival
A report on the Nogales to Tombstone state highway shows rapid progress on the 72 mile route. Work from Cochise county line to Sonoita is nearly complete with drainage, bridges, and culverts planned for optimal flow. The project engineer is Al Jenkins and the log notes good material and steady advancement toward reducing mileage as construction continues.
Clerk J E James of the Superior Court announces the October jury draw for Tombstone. Jurors will report October 16 for the State v W P Walker trial, expected to last at least three weeks and possibly into November. Judge Lockwood notes cases will keep juries busy through Christmas with hearings from early October to late November. law and motion day occurred in Division 1 and the Mills case neared a verdict in Division 2.
Wiley Hill also known as Parker or Wild Horse Hill was arrested at the Yuma Indian reservation on a charge of returning after removal. He was arraigned before U S Commissioner Henke, brought to Phoenix by Deputy Marshal Wease, with a preliminary hearing set for Monday. Bond set at $1000.
Bisbee Arizona September 24 Judge Craig issued a summons in Miles Mer rill Justice Court against Border Feature Film Corporation officers Miles Merri ff, Grant Merrill, and Rex Thorpe to answer a wage dispute claim by J. E. Wallace. The complaint alleges services rendered for local pictures were paid under false representation. Merrill was served. others are in California.
Governor Thomas E. Campbell will recommend a university type training center at Prescott to federal vocational training officials. Assistant Director Milligan of the veterans bureau and Louis T. Grand of the San Francisco regional office confer with the governor and local officials on the plan during a luncheon.
In a Rotary address in Phoenix on Sept 27 Governor Campbell alleges inadequate street car service, blaming school locations for impacts on boys and girls and citing Glendale high school as central to a district advantage, as complaints rise against the traction company to the corporation commission.
Sept 23 Tucson reports the cattlemen's outlook brightens with possible War Finance Corporation aid. Tucson bankers Webster H Land W F Waiters and F N Thorpe met Judge W R Ramsay of the Federal Reserve in El Paso. A joint meeting of national and state banks in the Eleventh Federal Reserve district will be held in Tucson within three weeks to discuss War Finance Corporation financing for stock growers.
Douglas reports the quartermaster department at Camp Harry J. Jones will slash civilian staff by about 60 percent after October 1. The reduction affects civilian workforces while the pack train, largely civilians, will be handled by soldiers beginning early next month.
Miss Katheryn Mackay of Tucson issues appeal urging all Arizona nurses to attend the third annual Arizona State Nurses association convention in Tucson on October 20 and 21. The notice outlines rapid state organization since December 1926, with four district associations and two alumni groups joining, and invites reservations via Mrs. Jover, 548 East Eighth Street.
Prescott reports an unknown person gave William Andrew Hudson a flask of liquor while he convalesced from pleurisy in a Prescott hospital. The six ounce bottle allegedly counteracted a heart depressant, leading to Hudson's death despite visitors and medical care. Jerome Kos, 20, is named in accounts as involved in the incident.
Phoenix report lists eleven arrests before noon on the Salt River south of Phoenix for shooting ducks and quail out of season. Off ice of State Game Warden Joe Prochaska announced the actions taken between the South Central avenue bridge and Hirst's Slough. names of violators were not released.
In Phoenix on September 24, a continuation was ordered in the suit by William E. Rowlands against the state loan board and State Auditor Fairfield. The case seeks to block interest payments from the general fund for loans tied to the Lyman dam project. Warrants are postponed until after October, with the suit challenging a 1923 legislature act authorizing loan-fee remittance as unconstitutional.
Phelps Dodge Corp plans to acquire Arizona Copper Co in Arizona by stock exchange. Arizona stockholders vote in Edinburgh on October 3. Terms include selling the business except Edinburgh office and some British tax rights.
Articles of incorporation filed today with the state corporation commission by Vasey Rubber company of Tucson Arizona. Incorporators are Vasey and C A Aherne of Tucson. Capitalization set at 100000 dollars in 109 shares each. Also announced was T J Prescott of Phoenix named agent for Jaques National Realty service.
George C. Taub and wife Ruby Taub were sentenced to 24 to 25 years in Florence State Penitentiary for first degree robbery. Judge R. C. Stanford called it the longest sentence ever in the session of the superior court.
Sept 24. Arthur sstro, 10 year old, child of North Fourth avenue residents, lies at the Arizona Hospital and Sanitorium with a base of skull fracture from being struck and run over by an automobile yesterday.
Record of appeal from the superior court of Maricopa county in the case of H. Kjer schow and Birger Lie against Hugh Jesse was filed in the supreme court today.
At Camp Perry the National Rifle Association match concluded with the United States Marine Corps winning 3219 points. The Indiana National Guard placed tenth in class A with 2050, while the next ten teams in class B included Minnesota National Guard 3046 and Arizona civilian 3046 among others.
Tucson March 23 A volume of forest records at the Coronado forestry office shows 19 years of data being cleaned. Miss Kellogg oversees the effort to discard worthless papers while preserving reports on Arizona forests and related caves and rocks in government reserves. The piece traces the evolution of ranges into reserves from 1906 onward, noting consolidations into Garces and Coronado reserves, then eventual merger in 1911 and later expansions including Chiricahua in 1917.
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