Tombstone epitaph., 1914-02-01
Cook returned today from his Csli torpia vineyard"

Cook returned today from his Csli- iosnia vineyard"
 Bert Aivord was . very busy deputy she if ip l888-chasing horse thieves.
 The editor of the PRosPEcroR in 1888 sse very deep thicker as she following will sbov: "A book agent vss around ys.terdsy and left us volume entitled "The Controvefsy Between Christ and Sstso." This is the first iotimation we ever he'd that his Satanic Majesty wss sllosed 10 travel outside his district, 10 hold . controversy with sny ons." Twenty six years ego, according to shs PROTECTOR, Tombstone, wa ch had been running on some seven or | eight d ffersnt kinds oi time. sdoLted . stsndaId-thstr rf one hour fsster than San FrsnciscU.
 ! A little paragraph appearing that year in the PROTECTOR holds good now e it did then "Ths people who are oppos, d to sewers. railroads. eelec'. tric lights. water works, good roads, gas works and sdvertisior, are the
 barnscles that sink chs ship" 1 Tsenty"six yesrs ago Charley
 Thomss was Mayor oi Tombstone.
 and J L Mellgien, treasurer, G W
 Oaks was chief of police and James
 Reilly was city attorney. end some of those iu the conrt house were John Slaughter, sheriff. and Allen R
 English, district attorney.
 One of the old time "bad men" wss
 killed during 1888 when Charles Zim- , merman known as "Bisck Jsck" wss
 xilled by . man named Sherman. There was evidently some "bu,sing ID" going on in Tombssors twenty six years ego as the following item indicates: "The attention of the City Pound Msster is called to d!eagree- able nuisance in the shape of c roam. . ing band oi goats owned by some ono on Eighth street near Stafford. They destroy everything green within thei' e reach and their work is pretty strong d at beet end they should be rounded up. =. In 1888 they had . rsise oi railroad
 rates and today twenty-six years later
 there is . movement to grant our
 railroads five per cent increase in
 rates, however, in that year the thing I that sgitstsd the people wac pot . . general raise but it evidently meant |
 trimming of the schooners that paced
 over the bsr-the "ad" iollows; " "Anthouy Kubu's St Louis beer ha.
 been advanced fifty cent. . barrel
 owing to the advance in freight rates.
 In 1888 the PROTECTOR was the
 only daily paper published in Cochis<
 county.
 William Braunch owner of tn. Fulton Street Nursery in the spring o ioSS wss iuss:oS .: .d.e.si.emsns it
 she PRosP. cToR offering variouI }. flowers for sale and the heading Of thu ,- "sd" was "Only for Ladies" which ]. leads one 26 years afterwards to thinl ,t that "Sissy boys" were not known ir ;. rombstone At that time. Y To 1888 George W Cheney was Fl P !, end c D Reppy was secretary of the J Tombstone Royal Arch Masons. and lI of the Blue Lodge Mssons, Mir Cheney
 was slso W NJ and W c Real, secre- tsry.
 While "How old ;s Anc" had not
 struck the camp in 1888 yet twenty. ' SIX yesrs ego, Tombstone wss wrestling ~i,h this oonundrum: elf . " hen and half lay an egg and half in day end half. how many eggs
 will six hen. lay in seven dsyss" . That there were poets in Tombstone
 twenty six years ago is evident from Q the following outbursG a "She is % very fair.
 ,. Fair Arizona,
 Only the Evening Star
 Doth seem to own her."