The Daily Tombstone., 1886-12-06
The e Knights of labor met.l..t eve-


 The Knights of labor 'metalast eve- ming.
 Why does not our baseball players organize and challenge the female base bal club that will pass through Benson very shortly.
 The churches were unusually we'll, attended yesterday, and our city presented a veritable Sunday appear ance.
 \ A Deming justice holds court out of doors, because the laws of the ter ritory, he says, do not, provide for justice office and and the fees will not permit the justice to pay rent and have anything left. Our justices might take . pointer from this and save rent.
 The examination sof "school marms," male and female, for county certificates, was commenced to-day 'fl the office of the board of, Supervis- ors 10 day, and is in progress as we go to press. There are five appli- cants undergoing the terrible ordeal of an examination, -
 Our citizens are nearly all acquaint ed with Col. Wetherill, at one time superintendent of the Rattlesnake mine, and the Watervale mill at this place, will regret to learn that he las crossed the river Styx. His funeral took place in Chicago on the 10th of November.
 The lame, the deaf, the blind, the rheumatic, paralized, consumptives, asthmatic, Or suffering on dipntheria, dvsentary, dyspepsia, catarrh, head: aches, piles, or nervous, bilious, liver, Kidney, or disorders peculiar to sexes. HASTEN TO THE FRENCH DOCTOR while here DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE; IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. The only chance you may have to save your life without money and without price. !s c. S. Fly, Tombstone's boss photo grapher has scored a success with his Geronimo-Natchess exhibition. Re gave his first entcrtainment at Lords- burg last Friday evening. and tic Advance of that place gives him fine send off. He;took his departure east from there, and will visit the diff ferent towns along tlle railroad into the interior of of Texas, ..-. .
 One of the largtstranch and cattle transactions that has taken place in Southern. Ariz3 z3iia this year is the sale of the Reloj Cattle confpany's stock and range on Che Upper S..n Pedro river to Chi ;aSd firm, consisting of Messrs H. and F. M Whitbeck and Joins's. Robbins. The trade was. completed on October .25th, the cen-. sidera,ion being $1loo0o, The new hr:n wifi be styled the II: Whitbeck Land and Cattle Go. The company has also purchased the McManus tract.ot land ia. Sonora, which will make their range one of the. best and largest in the southwest. They are men of means, and will at once stock their range to its fullest capacity We welcome these gentlemen to the sun kissed Iand.'-Stockman. '.a'-7. .'s;
 For the past month our citizens have been wondering to themselves whether our worthy townsman Joe. Hoeffler. was not preparing to become benedict, but as he is known to look stern, and never crack smile when he was in the presence of ladies, and as no person has caught him study ing astronomy on a moonlight night with female companion, or swing ing on the gate in front of n residence .wheriasresided q marriageable lady, we were inclined to believe that Joe did not intend to surrender his heart and liberty, and be fettered with the silken bands Of matrimony, notwith- standing the fact that he had furnish ed house at the corner of Fremont anG Eighth streets in an elegant man. ner, but still we very suspicious that ali was not right, and when this morning he was seen getting into the carriage of Graf and start in the di-. rection of Benson, are suspicious became Il certainty, and by little in quiry and cunning interviewing we learned that Mir. Hoefer had departed