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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1913
Page
2
The Tombstone Epitaph announces weekly Sunday publication by Giragi Brothers with pricing notes for one year and single-copy sales. The ad highlights ongoing print availability and publisher details in a concise commercial notice.
Jubilant about crops after heavy rains. cattle thriving. Chase Renand’s mercantile firm expanding with daily consignments. Commonwealth mill test run planned to process ore and spotlight Pearce as a future state producer. Mining interest grows in Middlemarch. new claims locating. irrigation demo draws wide turnout and large auto group. Death of Leroy Scheerer. local funerary plans in progress.
Work has advanced rapidly at the Tejon mine on the 200 foot level with a cross cut being driven. The recent section faced hard stock but was cut through, and large scale operations are expected to resume soon under Superintendent LI Thiers who oversees the site.
News from Tucson reports the city will open its first dedicated school for African American pupils next Monday on Sixth Street at Sixth Avenue. Professor Cicero Bimmons of Phoenix has arrived to teach. The move marks a historic segregation milestone for the town’s education system.
A Washington dispatch reports the house judiciary committee favorably amended the Senate bill fixing Arizona court session sites. Tombstone is excluded and Tucson Phoenix Prescott and another city will host two terms. The bill allows transfer of cases between sites by court need and convenience.
Dr C F Shackelford, an American cuisen, arrived from Santo Rosalie to visit Pantho Villa, the rebel leader who gave him twenty four hours to leave Chibuabos or be killed. Shackelford had been living in Beate Rovalia for six years and said Willer was tired of American Guvurters in Mexico and would shoot them.
The superior court will spend the next two weeks or more on trial of crim inal cases, about twenty to thirty in total, including five murder cases. Trials include two Ninth Cavalry members Lewie Nelson and Alfred Thompson, and others such as Encinas from Douglas and cases involving killings at Silver Creek and Apache. A large venire was read, jurors listed, with deliberations and verdicts ongoing for burglary, assault with deadly weapon, and other charges. Proceedings note juror selection, appointments, and suspensions in related matters, with hearings on railroad and flour rate disputes and coal rate cases pending decision.
A El Paso inventor unveils an ore reduction method tied to a state corporation plan to lower flour freight charges from the Midwest to Arizona. The Interstate Commerce Commission has suspended the proposed wheat rate increase until March 19, signaling a potential shift in transit costs and regional commerce.
An El Paso dispatch reports fifty four thousand rounds of rifle ammunition said to belong to the Mexican government were seized on San Francisco street by EM Blandford special agent and Patrolman Thompson as a wagon marked for Morehouse carried them. Carriers Joe Ravel and Ignacio Lopez were arrested on conspiracy to violate neutrality law and will face United States Commissioner Oliver for a hearing the next morning.
Heavy enrollment at Seventh Street and Pirtleville schools prompts the Douglas school board to authorize two portable buildings at each site to relieve crowding. The additions will add capacity for about 200 children as total district enrollment rises, with 1981 figures up by 100 from the prior year and projected total between 2100 and...
Four boys confined at the state reform school escaped for parts unknown on Gatardey. One reported escapee is Robert Gray, sent from Douglas. He previously fled after a severe beating by the former superintendent and returned to Douglas, helping expose conditions that led to the superintendent's removal and a new appointee. Gray's behavior suggests no improvement under the new leadership.
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