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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1895
Page
2
The Tombstone Epitaph discusses approaching 1896 and interest in silver questions, Chinese conversion myths, and foreign marriages. It surveys education in Tombstone, Mexican independence celebrations, and a United States Army “compressed food” march, noting public curiosity and national debates.
In this Bisbee Sunbeams note from September 26, 1895, local arrivals include Mr Leg reach Benson and Professor’s engaging lectures delighting residents. Household updates cover Allie Sowle’s Clarentier Heights project, a successful roaster, and humor about Jack Mathing’s bar traps. The column notes plans, jokes, and a local libel quip, with Tom St. John and Abrams visiting, and mentions a Phoenix marriage trip and ongoing town chatter.
A Tombstone era dispatch details Link Dalton, brother of the Dalton gang, seen on a Southern Pacific train visiting a sister and sister in law in Fresno. The report recalls the Dalton notoriety from Coffeyville to recent events while noting Dalton’s humble farming life and the family’s volatile past.
A suit for damages was filed in district court by D. J. Comminge against Wm. Peck and A. Peck seeking $000 for alleged fake arrest and false imprisonment. The case arose during a dispute over enforcing a license ordinance on Oro Blanco road, with the Chinaman target of coercive demands. Cummings faced arrest on extortion charges but the matter was dropped after district attorney guidance.
J Y Vickers travels to Kansas on business while Assistant Supt Harey departs for Bisbye after a county visit. A Mexican man is jailed for drunken disorderly conduct after alarming a residence. Probate grants adoption permission to Geo H Clark and Care A Clark of Huuchuca. Harold W Moll, noted newspaper man and migrant official for Cochise, dies in St Louis. Mary Moore and Lucy R K Riggs plan to enter the University from Cochise. Santa Fe train fire scare ends as track crew causes small blaze with powder kegs. Chas Meuley is discharged for insufficient evidence in a shooting case. Jerome camp reports a peculiar daily spring flow of one hour, then stops exactly one hour later each day.
The piece touts Cochise County as vast and fertile on the Pacific Coast margin between San Francisco and New Orleans with mild winters, ample rainfall, and abundant water. It highlights railroads, minerals, timber, diverse valleys, artesian wells, and a booming workforce ready for settlement, urging readers to move and cultivate the land. There are calls to colonize, farm, stockraise, and expand infrastructure as early opportunities loom with forthcoming railroad expansion.
The readable text lists various laundry and hardware items including white laundry, muslin, reinforced valves, wire buckles, bras, suspenders, and related prices. Mentions postage and Sacraments in unclear context, with several garbled terms.
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