Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-03
Bisbee Pioneer Goes to Liber- ty, Me- to Make That Place
 His Home.
HIS DEAL WITH ODD
 FELLOWS IS OFF.
Norton Says They Were Too
 Slow for Him, and They Say He Refused to Lift S5,OOO Mortgage Before Signing Up

Learning that the property was covered by a mortgage for $5000. thS | Odd Fellows of Bisbee have called of their deal with E. G. Norton for the purchase of the Norton building anC ground on which it stands next to the Johnson block on Upper Main Street Negotiations Were practically tsrni hated Thursday, when Norton refused to clear the mort gage until after the ' Odd Fellows had signed the papers for the purchase of the property foI Sl6,G00, that being the price agreed uron by Norton and the committee l representing the Odd Fellows. Norton's explanation yesterday of wEy the deal was called of did not in ciude any mention of the s5OOO morr gage, he stating that the Odd Fellows committee acted with too much tardi ness, and that he had decided that the property was good enough invest ment for him to keep.
 P. J. Mccullough, who represented the Odd Fellows in the negotiations states that the statement regarding the mortgage is a correct one, and that the purchase was not made be | cause the lodge members could not agree with Norton as to when this mortgage should be lifted, they insist ed that it should be done before they entered into an agreemnt to pur- chase
 Taking the remains of his wife, who died here eight years ago, with him Norton left Bisbee yesterday for Lib, erty. Maine, where he will make his future home. He may occasionally visit Bisbee to look after property in, , Ierests.
 Coming to Bisbee in 1881, after spending a year in Tombstone. Norton found this camp still in swaddling clothes. With John Ambrose, who was foreman, he went to work on the smelter of the Silver Bear Company remaining on the job but half a day He bought burrO team and packed wood into the city until the memOra ble hold-up in BiSbee on November S 1883, when he purchased a lumber yard. He made the four coffins ir which Johnny Tafner, Mrs. Bob Rob erts, Deputy Sheriff Smith and J. 4 Malay, all victims of the hold-up, were buried.
 
 Der yard 10 the L.. W. Blinn Lumber Company for Sl200, the same property being worth probably forty times as much today. He branched out as Q contractor and at one time had six teen houses under construction in Bis. bee. For time he was foreman 6 ihe Copper Queen carpenters, and Eelped move the Copper Queen smel ter to where the cOEpany store now stands. As a deputy sheriff he served the papers ill the famous suit of the Copper Price Company versus the Copper Queen Company, in which the former got S1i5,001 damages. Later the hGCt0m fell out of the old Atlantic shaft. for which Norton had furnished the timbsra, this leading to the con, SoidatiOL that is now the Copper Queen Company.
 During his residence here Norton was engaged in various mining enter, Dr.ses. and being an old soldier he was q well-fluOWn figure in the c. A. R. celebrations that took place here during he past twenty years.
 Just befOIe his departure yesterday Norton stood at the depot and gaZei over as much of Bisbee as he could sCc. He made feeling remark about the first day he landed in the camp. got aboard the train, and is now on his way to make his home Cn the other side of the continent.