Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-03
TOMBSTONE ID EXTEND ITS
 LIMITS
New Corporate Confines Will
 Take in Historic Graveyard.
 Immoral Pest Houses Wiped From View.
Especial to Review.J

TOMBSTONE. Feb. 2.-The United States land office at Phoenix has had published the intention of Mayor Wentworth of Tombstone to add to the city limits what is known as the Bowman Addition, which lies to the north and west of the present line of the city from the corner of First and Stafford streets. The final proof of the intentions of the mayor is to be heard before Commissioner Gilmore, ] United States commissioner for this district. at his office on Saturday, March g. The legal notice states that 1 the mayor has made his pre-emption ldeclatory statement on January 14, 1907. as trustee for the use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof, on lots 5, 1 6, 8 and g. in section 2, and lot 1 in section II, township 20 south range. i 22 east.
 | This addition to the city includes most of the ground that was covered ! by the grave yards used in the early ! days of the ely, and in which grounds were buried any number of persons, who died h the city with their boots on" so to speak, who were killed in i the old historic days of Tombstone when the Earps and Clantons. Doc Holiday and the gangs were engaged in almost daily combats in which more i than one was generally killed when ] the two factions met Besides these | the old graves contain the remains of
 number of victims of Geronimo and i the renegrade Apaches who for years
 picked of many of the prospectors
 and ranchers in the hills and noun. tains around Tombstone.
 | During the past few years a number of citizens ef Tombstone have taken up pieces of land in that locality and a number of dwellings have been erected. The addition of this resi-. dence portion to the city will add con.
 siderably to the value of the assess. ment of the city.
 Cribs Closed Up.
 For the first time in the history of
 Tombstone the row of buildings on
 Allen street. between Sixth and Sey ~enth, that have been used as houses
 for immoral purposes, have been closed up and no more will they be rented for that purpose. For the past twenty-five years the city has licensed that business in that locality. but nc
 more will the blonds and brunetts be inhabitants of that vicinity. For the past few wears the matter or FemoV i ing them has been discussed pro and con. The strongest argument In favor of their removal was the fact that it was necessary for the young school chilireu from the lower end of town ! to pass by these houses on their way to and from school. and the sights lthaf presented themselves was not al ways the best On several occasions during the Dast few years the owners
 of inc huildinEs have boen arrested
 on charges brought against then
 under the provisions of the territorial
 statutes which provided that 1t wal
 Illegal to maintain or rent houses fol
 immoral purposes within 100 yards o any public building. In every instance Ithe case has resulted in the jury dis agreeing or the defendant being ionni not guilty At the last trial n Few months ago the jury disagreed. bat a . that limo the owners made the yolnh tary offer that on February the would sec that the places were closed r All of Inc hGuHaa pf this class are hn' D located outside pf ihu city limits