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VOLUME XXXV
TOMBSTONE. COCHISE COUNTY. ARIZONA-SUNDAY. DECEMBER 291912
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American Settlers
Have as Much
Federals
MUSt RUN GAUNTLET
"We have it much trouble with tbe
federal soldiers as we ever did ith
tbe rebels,-atide from the killing nl
people in battle," said 1. B Huish, of
Colonia Morelcs, who with F 0 Hayne
pent Christmas in Douglas. "Tbe
federal are continually making life
.. Larden In more ways than one
tfhey appropriate about whatever is
loose to their own uses and we have
to gnard our property the tame as
we used to have to do when there
were rebels about. Fact is, the sol
diers o' both wings of the revolution
re bent on obtaining whatever they
can and appropriating it to to their
own use. Of course the federa'e do'eo
under a different pretext, and while
they are in the colony we are unafraid
Government to Build Bridge Across
Colorado and Will Settle Vexed
Highway Route in Arizona
Ad important development has
arisen in the controversy regarding
the route of the ocean to ocean high
way. . At Ibe direction of Congre-s,
the secretary of tbe interior has .had
prepared ac estimate of the cost of
building a bridge across the Colorado
river at Yuma. This estimate hae
been presented to both homes, or
dered printed and referred to com
mittees. II tbe bridge is built it ss-.s that
the national highway will be built
through Arizona along the central
route, chosen by the Anuria .'elega
tion at the meeting which organized
tne Ocean-to-Ocean Highway asso
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but the community is hindered and
injure! all the time and will le ro
Ions a it is uecesary to keep (eleral
soldiers in Morelu'."
These statements, made to an In
ternational man, on! confirm re
ports which are common all orer bo-
oora wherever federal soldiers are on
guard And under sucb a state pf
affair', as Mr lluieli elate? progress
and 'prosperity are practically im
posjitle Dr. H. R. Hitchins, dentist, will be
n Tombs'cne by fanuary 1st to at
tend dental wants o! Tonibstooites.
Wait for him. tf
ciation.
With a eabstantial bridge across
I tbe Colorado at Yuma, there will no
longer be any controversy regarding
which way tbe highway (hall be
built.
We desire to increase tbe circula
tion of our magazine, and have eevef
all good offers in connection there,
witn. If yi u wish to increase jour
inc. nieauu have any spare time to
devnte to thi work, write us We
piy a very Iilrkl commission aud
would be ghd to give you 'all partic
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Winner of Popu
larity Contest
The following is the fioal count of
Rock' popularity content made by
0car K Goll, ofScikl ctunter.
Mry Pistonetti 52.690
Mttj-Tbifl 27.633
Dorothy Reed 14.720
Edna Xevins ,12. 9 SO
Florence Baundercoct 11,8(0
JMsry Slurry lO.fiOO
Ella Sanders 9.545
Georgia Dravin 8,075
Mary Uiragi .' 6.893
Marguerite Gusrra 4'iX)
Total numberol votes cast was 17.?, 568.
winner of contest being Miss Mary
Pieton tti, who was awarded tbe
piano aLd is tbe recipient ol hearty
congratulations of a best of friends
Sunday- In
Tombstone Churches
C4T1I0XJC
First Mas Sunday morning a 8:00
a m for Mexicans, second Mass at
'Jr 0; sermon in English,
Denediction of the Blessed Sacra
ment immediately alter second Mass
on Sundsy
Sunday School at lUa in.
Mass at 7:30 a. m. on week days.
All are cordially invited to attend
Kkv. Father Genckviek, Pastor.
METHODIST
Sunday School 10:00 a. m.
Epwortb League 7 p. in.
All are invited.
Tklvob Ortos, Pastor.
COSOKEGITIOKAL
Sunday School 10 a. ra., EH
Reeves, Supt.
Preaching 11 a in. Topic: "Our
Guide."
Preaching 7:30 p m. Topic: '"A
New Year's Motto-"
Christian Endeavor at 7:00 p. rnT
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend these services.
Rev. C. W. Dc.cas, Pastor.
ADVERTISED LETTERS
uncalled at the Tombstone Postoffice
For.the Past Week
The following u a list ot letters rt
maiaing- in the genera deliveiy at the
Timhstone postoffice for the week
ending December 14, 1912.
Galoabo,RS Sanchis, Antonio
Vasqnea, Antonio
i When callintor above letters, say
advertised,' giving date of adver
ti wmenl. A fee of'lc will be collect
ed on each letter that is delivered.
V. A. Haswood, Jr.
Postmaster.
Tjcsoo advices are that tbe Arizona
National bank, one ot the rcajor
banking institutions of sontbern Ari
zona, was sold to the Polomon-Wick-eriham
interests, bankers and mer
chants at GIob, .Safford and Bowie,
according to announcement bad
Ibe president and directors are uo
cbosen. New
Cases
Filed
BUFEBIOB COURT
Suit S51. Golden State Shoe Co vs
Joe Kline;debt, 1288.95,
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Tombstone Town
Topics Tersely' Told
Visitors to City; Local and
Personal Hems of Interest
J'idce-0 PugB of Willcjx is h
county aeat visitor today on court
business.
Tbe state higbwav is Cochise is i!s !
tined to bean early reality. The con
crete bridge across the San Pedro at
FairbaoK is a good idvioce step.
FOUND A handsome gold Elks
charm. 0iier can have t".rre tj
calling at I'ooj Saloon, proving prop
erty, and pay for this no'ice.
J CGresr of Willcox was a coun
ty seat visitor yesterday en court bus
iness. The board of supervisors will meet
on Thursday next in regular monthly
session.
And permit ui again to direct your
attention to tbe Tombstone brand of
ideal weather.
Tbe holiday rates on tie South
western will temsin effective return
ing January 3. The rates will apply i
on all parts of the system and will to
at tbe rate of one and one third fare
for the round trip.
A dressed turkey was given to each
employed the Wells Fargo Express
company Christmas eve, io accord
ance with tbe tims-hontred custom
of the company.
Another car of lumber for the lum
ber department of the Wolcott Mer
cantile store arrived today.
ARIZONA NEWS
OF INTEREST
Newsy Notes From All Over Arizona
Carefully Condensed for The
Prospector Readers
II Peterson, city msrshal of Mesa
was shot and seriously wounded last
Thursday when an automatic revolver
which he was loading, waa accidental
ly discharged. His wound will cot
prove fatal.
E W Craig of Tempo died at his
borne Thursday. He was well known
in Phoenix and the Salt River valley.
owning a large ranch in tbe Hermosa
tract.
The mem'-ers of the board of su
pervisor awarded contracts for fur
nishing county supplies Saturday
morning at tbeir office in Phoenix.
Bids for tbe care of the indigent sick
for furnishing meals to prisoners, for
furnishing county stationery, for
printing, for furnishing beef and for
advertising.
If the old Vulture mill tailing', in
in the Hassayampa river above Wick
enburg, prove suitable for converter
linings, tbe entire dump of 80,000
tons will be snipped to the Swansea
smelter. A 93 days' option on tbe
dump has been taken by the Swansea
Consolidated Gold and Copper com.
pany and test shipments are now be
ing mads. Tbe gold content of tbe
tailings is small, as they have been
worked several times by tbe cyanide
process
Tbe Kelvin-Sultana Mining coma
pany has a force of about 30 men now
employed in its mines near Kelvin
and reports are in circnlation that
within a month the force will be in
ereased to 75 men or more.
T A 72, the Indian "who beat his
wi.'e Sunday, after which the attempt
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To-nbstonites are familiarizing
tbemehes with tbe new parcel post
syte'n which will become effective on
Xew Year.
A carload of corn for E H Reeves
was rsrt nf the incoming freight ship
ments today.
Miguel Castenads left this morn
ing for f'eison after a brief Visit here
on court business
Mi's 0 Cantrell, formerly of Tomb
stone but noir of Tucson, has accepted
a position as stenographer with tbe
new law firm of Richardson & Pattee
at Dougks. She will assume her
duties on January 2nd.
Mnrguerko Martinez, the Mexican
who on the mo ning of December 15
shot and killed Louis Ortiz, csnnot
ba found and th? Gila county sheriff's
office has sent out circulars in Cochise
county offering J150 reward for bis
capture.
Tne law library belonging to Harry
E. Pickett, is being shipped today to
Memphis, Tenn, wbere he has opened
law offices and doing well. This is
part of tbe extensive law library of tbe
firm of Pickett & Pickett, which will
continue to maintain offices here and
under the able guidance of Colonel
Pickett, direct tbe increasing Arizona
I ractice of tbe firm.
Sirzhum Sed for sale at EH
Kecvcs' Fed Store. tf
ed suicide, was given 23 days
by Judge Hinson Thomas of
in jail
Globe.
Mrs 1 A 72 is at tbe hospital suffering
fromaielf inflicted wound in tbe
throat from which she will recover.
roe school trustees of Uisbee are
pointing out tbe desirability for pro
viding a newbigh'scbool.
Tbe management of the Poultry
and Pet Stock show in Bisbee hat
wired to M Bacon, of Phoenix, con
cerning tbe ducovery of a strange
water fowl near hit home in Paradise.
Nothing has been heard in reply and
tbe management has about come to
tbo conclusion that the strange bird
wa tho work ol t re imagination of a
reporter, who needed something for
copy.
Within tbe next three weeks an
other ruh to shipping cattle will be
made. Several t&ousand bead ot
steers ill be crca-cd into the states
through variou: ports along the bor
der several ca-loadscl rattle were
received in Douglas Wednesday and
dipped and shipped to market. A
tbonsand or more cattle will be
crossed at N'aco by the Csnanea Cat
tie company.
A Mexican whose time bad expired
at the prison in Tempe, after two
years' imprisonment, went to Phoe
nix and got uproariously drunk. He
ws soon landed in tbe city jail and
when ca'led upon by a companion
eobbingly begged to be taken back to
Tempe, which he called home. He
stated that he liked to live in prison
J rather than io Jail
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BRIEFS FILED
IN LOCAL CASE
Rehearing Sought on Question of Bond
Issue in Tombstone Bankruptcy
Proceedings
MATTERS BEFORE U. S. COURT AT PHOENIX
Attorney F A Mclod of New York
Satnrday filed a orief io tbe United
States court at Phoenix in ore phase
of the bankrnptcy proceedings of the
Tombstone Consolidated Mines and
Milling company. 8ome time ago
the special contract bondholders filed
a motion before Daniel McFarland.ol
Tombstone, referee in Bankruptcy,
asking that tbeir bonds be declared
liabilities of thecompany and that they
be given the same standing as other
bonds. Tbe referee denied the mo-
Heirs Sue Themselves to Quiet
Title to Large Cattle Range in
Cochise
Notice of suit was filed in the clerk's
office of the superior court bj tbe Em
pire Land &. Cattle Co. Tbe company
is tbe plaintiff and the .heirs of Walter
L Vail, deceased, are the defendants.
Tbe peculiar thing about this suit is
that tbs heirs are aning themselves on
a:count of some land. Tbe heirs ot
School Lands in Cochise are in
Demand Many Filings for
Homestead
About two weeks apent in the Gila
and San Simon valleys. Chairman
Mulford Winsor and Secretary B.
Byrne of tbe itate land commission
have returned to Phoenix,
A thorough inspection otall school
lands in the Gila valley was made.
Chairman Winsor says tbat a num
ber of wells bave been sunk in tbe
I San Simon valley jbetween Solomon-
ville'and tbe Graham countv line.
So far no attempt has been made to
secure artesian water, but it is only a
question of time till someone puts
Tombstone Chinese to Celebrate
Christian New Year Instead Un
der Old Manchu Calendar
Tombstone Chinamen like tbe Chi
cago Chinese are to celebrate the
dawn ol the new year for the first time
on January 1. The old sights which
usually attended the celebration in
February passed away with the down
Arizona Pioneer Home Crowded
, and More Room Needed -Three
New Entries
Three old residents of Arizona were
admitted to tbe Pioneers' borne, at
Preacott , by the board of control Mon
day. The home is now filled to its
fall capacity of fifty.
Tbe new inmate are George Lalsnd
and James Msrk of Yavapai county,
and William Debus ol Maricopa coun
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'io'i enii Tiotion for rehearing was
filed in United stte court.
Tho brief of Mr McLced is in op
position to the motion and it con
tains citations from numerous cases
showing that the claims of the special
contract bondholders are not provable.
A supplementary brief taking tbe
eame ground was filed by Dlinwood
ut Ross of I3ibee, representing other
creditors. The applicants for tbe
motion for a rehearing have ten days
in which to file reply briefs,
the deceased are owners of the stoci
in thecorporation, and this is tbe
legal proceedure to get the land
transferred from ttcm as individual
to thecompany as a corporation.
ChaniOtfiain's uougn Hemetfr
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down a deep well nd there is every
reason io believe that a great artesian
11 iw underlies that portion of tbe
valley it does down in Cochise, It
f only recently that any attempt at
all has teen made to farm the San
Simon valley.
Down around Bowie it has been
demonstrated that dry farming is
profitable and a number of persons
are engaging in tbat industry. Ex
pert farmers are rapidly settlingort
tbeavallable land.
fall of tbe Mancbu dynasty. A barred
ard single starred Bag of the new re
public will take tbe place ot tbe drag
on used in former ears.
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ty They were considered to be the
most deeTiing on tbe waiting list
There ia still a long waiting list,
but the other applicanta will bave to
wait for more vacancies to occur at
the borne.
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