Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-06
LOOKING sAckpARp
 TWENTV-FoUR YEARS

The Prescott Courier of Monday says: E. B. Gage supc' ..tendent of the Grand Central Mine. Tombstone. arrived on the Black Canyon stage yesterday.
 If hens had any sense at all they would move from Kansas to Arizona. where they could get cents a day for their labor instead of 1 cent.
 The booths for the use Of voters st the ensuing election have been order ed and will be here in time for voters to practice with before the final bout. They are made of canvass and fold up like a cot.
 MT. G. A. Murphy. the horse back traveller for the Fresno Business Col lege is in Tombstone. He has made 4o2 miles so far He will go to Bisncc tomorrow.
 Col Herring and wife will go from Prescott to California. spending a few days at Redondo before returning to Tombstone.
 There was pretty well used up in dividual on the street last night He had one side of his head skinned and one arm in a sling. He had come from Wilcox on a mule through South Pass. The mule stumbled and fell with him three times, and the last tumble landed both of them al the bot tom of a steep hill. He remarked as he quietly stroked his injured limb, that if he ever went to Hell he wanted to go over that road, as he would be glad when he got there.
 Since they have cut down the salar- ies of county officers in Yuma county, white folks declare they will have nothing to do with politics. The only candidate for sheriff talked of is a Yuma buck, while there is a scramble among the squaws for the minor of fees.
 The latest objection made to the admission of Arizona into the union is that the recsn. rioting in IoshC shows that territories should never be made states until they are old enough to be law abiding. How about Penn sylvania?
 The presidential campaign was opened in the Senate yesterday which lasted five hours-and then 1t wasn't finished.
 Joe Bignon's theatre in AlbuQuerque will open tonight Programmes an- nounce the following to be composed Of talented artists. many of whom had a large number of admirers in the early days of Tombstone.
 J. J. McClelland who is at present in Louisville. Kentucky, is forming a substantial company to work the claims owned by him and A. r. Young near the lime kilns. about two miles northeast of town.
 A Mexican was found dead about 15 miles from Dos Cobezas last Mon- day. Everything went to show that he had been fouly murdered.
 The indication showing that the de- ceased had first been shot in the back after which his skull was crushed with an axe, or shovel. the instru- ments being found blood-stained when they were clumsily hidden by the per. petrator of the bloody act.
 The dollar in circulation today has just 67 cents worth of silver in it.
 The name of the new settlement at Soldiers Holes has been changed for the more musical sounding one of Delcano. which means a haven of rest. 
 A pole cat deliberately jumped into tub of water in front of Kieke's Sat urday evening and after taking a bath jumped out just as A. L. Brooks fired at it with shot gun. He missed the odoriferous animal, but John Hanley didn't. The latter struck out with his cane and killed it, that is, he kill ed part of it. The other part still fingers in the vicinity. It must have been this little quadruped that Tom Moore had in mind when he wrote:
 You may break. you may shatter
 the vase if you VIII.
 But the scent of the roses will hapo