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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1902
Page
8
The ad proclaims carpet cleaning by machine with cold blast dust removal, followed by steam and disinfection. It touts moth and germ elimination, a 250 yard per hour capacity, and an updated collar and cuff shaper in the steam laundry. Telephone 1631. R. E. Stephens, proprietor.
Tucson Ice and Cold Storage Company informs families that ice will not be delivered to residences on Sundays during the winter season starting after Sunday November 9.
Sioux John Threefingers of Oklahoma claims to have eaten part of Gen. Custer's heart after Little Big Horn. He files a damages suit against the Choctaw railroad over drained land and water rights while noted for his tribal influence and past battlefield boasts.
Long a resident of Lynn Mass died in Lewiston prison this morning from tongue obstruction caused by wedged false teeth. He had been found intoxicated on Sunday and while under care he drank water then bent his head back and died before a doctor arrived. The coroner ruled strangulation by teeth as the cause.
A humorous note asserts washing as essential with a Troy Laundry Co. contact. The Eagles bring a Bostock wild animal show led by Lorenzo the trainer featuring lions tigers leopards panthers bears wolves hyenas and hybrids with acts including Wallace the famed man eater and a troupe of educated bears and leopards led by Mile. Dorine and Mme. Salva with Ricardo and Mile. Flora also highlighted.
Dopseytown resident D H Turner declares the medicine a grand cure after two weeks of use. The ad promotes a 25 cent bottle for constipation, stomach and liver troubles. The text also notes Miss Louise Brink opening a ladies tailoring shop at No 46 North Stone.
Chicago report says two women assert rights to Alexis C Burdick estate after his death on October 8. Rose Lang Burdick and Annie Stafford Burdick contest administration, while Isabelle D Alessandro DAlvini, an adopted daughter, is also named among possible claimants. Estate valued at about $100000.
Edward H. Harriman leading the Union Pacific syndicate has acquired $12,000,000 of Southern Pacific stock and gained actual control of the system. The deal caps a yearslong effort that began with February 1901 purchases and leaves the Southern Pacific pool dissolved or limited to transient market moves. James R. Keene reportedly sold most holdings amid a broker dispute, while the syndicate partners include Rockefeller Gould Mills Kuhn Loeb Speyer & Co.
In Pensacola on November 18 Charles Sheffield the bigamist and kidnapper escaped from deputies while en route to Florala Alabama. A well dressed woman claiming to be his sister talked to him aboard the train. He then drew revolvers and forced deputies to open the bonds and flee. A large posse hunted him after the train was stopped. Shots were fired and one deputy was slightly wounded. A bloodstain marked where Sheffield stood before he vanished into a swamp. The woman was later identified as Sheffield's wife.
Former Kansas governor elect Willis J Bailey remains unmarried after a university romance with a Champaign woman ended when she married another man in Florida. The tale from class of 82 notes letters pleading for his return and his subsequent life in Kansas. Separately Altman townsmen find dump rock from a former waste site yielding assays of over $20 per ton, turning paving material into potential gold as miners plan to ship streets to mills.
Cripple Creek Colo Nov 18 Altman a mountain mining camp is said to be the highest incorporated city in the world and surrounded by large gold mines. The paying material aged on its streets is described as comparatively rich in gold.
Elmina New York dispatch reports John Donahue in Chicago and his sister Nora dying within minutes of each other while far apart. Each uttered farewell as telegraph messages carried the news. Both deaths are attributed to consumption, and they will be buried together in the family plot.
CHICAGO November 18 A live eleven inch lizard crawled from the mouth of Casimir Palzer who has suffered stomach trouble since 1898. He grew nauseated that morning and workers helped him as the creature wriggled out and was placed in a bottle for Prof. Baker at Lincoln Park Academy of Science.
New York financial notes show lead prices unchanged as dull activity persists. The market quotes at 11.60 to 11.70 for lead, with Mexican pesos at 39 and silver at 49 per ounce.
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