Court Convenes On Monday Next In District Court
The April term adjourned session opens Monday led by Judge Dean with Court Reporter John W Walker returning from an eastern trip. Eight trials are set for the week with jury trials in all but three. panels from April resume duty for one week. Titles include mining property disputes near Courtland and Gleeson district, with plaintiffs French Stevenson Pickett Bowman and defendants Neale Sutter Ricaardson Dean among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Douglas
John W Walker
J H Jones
Thom
Maloney
French & Stevenson
Plainta
Pickett & Bowman
George M Land
Jesse Snyder Et al
Glee von
Hereford & Hartman
C H Wiles
Thomas Pidwell
Et A
Pertland
Thoreday
Pedro Banchi
Joe Bigoon
Wm Cowan
Fragmentary Notes on Salary, Costs, and Career Paths
A garbled excerpt discusses salary, teaching, capital costs, and barriers to work. It references wages, bonuses, and potential earnings, with mentions of a salary treatise and a company or group related to wage discussions. The text is incoherent and contains numerous misspellings and nonstandard phrases.
Harry Hooker Disappears Near Willcox Ranch
Advices report Harry Hooker son of ER Hooker manager of the Hooker ranch near Willcox has vanished for several weeks. He had been living in Los Angeles with his mother and went to Stanford to enter the university. No word since leaving Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Hooker
ER Hooker
Hooker Ranch
Willcox
Los Angeles
Stanford
METAL MARKET QUOTATIONS AND WANTED AD
New York quotations for bar silver copper lead and smelter prices. Also a Wanted ad from Success Magazine seeking a Tombstone agent to renew subscriptions and secure new business with preferred experience and strong qualifications. Address R C Peacock New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sar Lake
St. Louie Quo
el Paso Smelter
London
N. Y
Engineering & Mining Journal
N.Y
Douglas Smelter
Success Magszine
Tombstone
R. C. Peacock
Success Magazine Blig
New York
Notice for Pasturage at Tombetone
Good pasture may be had for horses or cows at reasonable rates by applying to James Lamb at Tombetone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lamb
Church Services Schedule For Tomorrows Townhouses
Local churches announce Sunday services across denominations including Congregational Amer. Methodist Catholic and Episcopal. Morning worship at 11, Sunday school at 10, evening worship at 7:30, prayer and Bible study on Thursdays. Pastors listed: W Mavens J A Coonen J Bins and Rev Bowr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor
W. Mavens
Cannonic
I J. Bins
Bomb scare becomes joke as pepper box misidentified
El Paso reported a dynamite bomb scare near the Diaz Taft meeting site, later revealed as a screw top pepper box filled with pepper and salt. The box was found on a fence six blocks away, likely placed by children or workers cleaning streets.
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el Paso
Diaz
Taft
Fester
Lars Is Fifteen Million Miles Nearer Mars Today
Astronomers note Mars is now fifteen million miles closer to Earth than in fifteen years and the observer at Fingatatt observatory suggests potential new scientific discoveries may be announced soon as the distance stands around 35,000,000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
Earth
Fingatatt
Advertised Letters at Tombstone Postoffice 1909 List
Weekly general delivery notice lists names of recipients with letters advertised for September 19 1909. Names include Burgas Antonio Owing J M Cistillo Loreto Townsend Mre B Donagan L D Trujillo Fernando Gra B Valensuels Jose R Hardy C B Weatherly JG Kitt Sherman C West Simon Loprz Mrs M Wheeler Mies M Whoo. Readers are advised to call for shore letters and state the date of advertisement.
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Tombstone
Burgas
Antonio Owing
J M Cistillo
Loreto Townsend
Mre B Donagan
L D
Trujillo
Fernando Gra
B Valensuels
Jose R Hardy
C B Weatherly
JG Kitt
Sherman C West
Simon Loprz
M = Wheeler
Mies M
Whoo
Cochise pardons granted for county prisoners
Governor Sloan issued executive clemency for Cochise county inmates whose terms end soon due to good behavior and work on the Florence penitentiary construction, reducing sentences for several men including Harry Lawrence Emilio Silvas and others. Also notes El McOrmand’s return from California and Tombstone prospects and local travels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloan
Cochise County
Florence
Uual
Harry Lawrence
Douglas
Territorial News Flashes From Prescott to Phoenix
Prescott contracts for Gamewell fire alarm installation totaling 5960. An Anti-Saloon League meeting in Phoenix directs offering Dr William Burke 2000 yearly to oversee Arizona. Mesa adds agriculture to high school curriculum. White Iran West, 76, robbed and beaten outdoors in Phoenix. Judge Doe opens first court session at Fingetaff. Red Rock desert land to be transformed into green barley fields this year.
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The
Anti-Saloon League of America
Phoenix
HA Hughes
League
Willam M Burke
California
Arizona
Red Rock
Arizona Posts To Remain In Southwest Defence Talks
General Franklin Bell urged the war department to keep all military reservations in New Mexico and Arizona, saying abandonment is unacceptable. In Albuquerque after inspecting southwestern ports, Bell spoke to the Morning Journal praising the region. Local activity includes a Tombstone visit, a Tucson auto incident dispute, and the annasass shooting event by the Arizona Sportmen’s Association. A new alalia preparation method may be tried at Yuma to reduce shipping space.
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New Mexico
Arizona
War Department
Franklin J Bell
USA
Washington
Sl Bell
Morning Journal
Albuquerque
Alvarado
Southwest Country
General Bell
Yuma
May Extend Line to the Pacific May Extend Line to the Pacific
Report that the El Paso and Southwestern Railway still considers extending its Arizona branch to the Pacific coast. Estimates show routes from Fairbank or Benson toward San Diego via Florence and through Santa Rita mining districts toward Tucson and Yuma counties. The EP SW system totals about 808 miles with 162 locomotives and 3660 passenger and other units. The Rock Island seeks a direct outlet to tidewater and daily interest in the coast extension grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso & Southwestern Railway Company
Serio
Arizona
System of Railway
Fairbank
Benson
la Phoenix
Henson
San Pedro Ad Gila
Florence
Tucson
EP &de SW
Pima
Yume County
San Diego
el Paso & Southwestern
Rock Island
Ep&sw
Tidewater
Prosperous Conditions in Courtland District
Courtland district shows robust activity in mining with four major companies expanding capacity. Calumet and Arizona adds new equipment, replaces boilers to fuel oil, and completes storage upgrades at April Fool shaft and Germania. Great Western ships ore daily to El Paso, finishes Mary shaft dump, and plans new ore mine construction. A large Leadville property deal is reportedly in negotiation by notable investors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtland, From & Mining
Calumet & Arizona
April Fool
Germania
Great Western
Humbolde
el Paso
Mary Shaft
Leadville
Tonbetone Reedente
Quail Season Opens On October 15th
The article notes confusion over a shortened quail season set by the last legislature with opening October 15 and closing February 1. Hunters are warned by the territorial game commissioner about enforcement and special game dens to deter illegal quail shooting.
Catarrh Cure Claims and Patent Medicine Endorsements
An advertisement-style fragment touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward offer. It includes endorsements from Watome, Kixwax & Manvig and mentions F J Cheney’s 15 years of reputation. Also promotes King’s Little Liver Pills and Pine-Save carbolized salve, listing generic “druggists” and a Frank Yaple source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J. Cuesey & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Watome
Kixwax & Manvig
Druegists
King’s Little
Frank Yaple
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Murphy
Ani
Tombstone Houses of Worship
Methodist
Yam
Epworth
J. A. Coonen
Rev. Bowr
Lars
Cochise
Gov. Sloan
Emilio Silvas
Jone Peralta
Momwerve Donald
Bisee
Nass
Francsixco Chaves
Juan Encinas
Bisbee
Richard Williams
Naco
EL McOrmand
Seattle
T.C. M. Go
Tucsson
Curley
A W Howe
Seiver
James Waker
Prospector
Prescott
Gamewell
Mesa High School
Iran
Doe
Fingetaff
Bell
Albert Thurman
Johnson Camp
Jack Cowan
Gleeson
Fallmer
Sagust
Annass
Oma
Southern Pacific
Chise
Coset
Mexico
Sante Crus
Frank Yaplef
Lawrence Woolery
Land Station
William Lowe Tine
Turner
JP Case
Sonora Champion Mining Company
Pioneer Lumber Co
Albreot & Anderson Et al
Block
Mary E Bean
Pacific
E. P
S. W
Courtland District
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