Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-06-04
LOOKING BACKWARD
TWENTY-FoUR YEARS

Frank Buckles. who is in town, re-
ports that on Saturday last, while
coming across the Sulphur Spring
valley he found scattered around
near the Svisshslm mountains foot
hills saddle. bride. blanket, scab-
bard and a canteen. There was also
stock of a government gun. The
saddle and the canteen were covered
with blood. In connection with this
mystery another singular incident
happened at about the same time
\ mule packed with prospectors
outfit came into Turquois and no
one has yet claimed it. neither is
there any way to identify its owner
by the contents Of the pack.
Vim. Garland. well known rail
road builder and contractor, is now
examining a route for railroad from
Globe 10 Wilcox or Bowie station.
on the Southern Pacific railroad.
The public schools of this district
will close on Friday of the present
week.
There is a potato famine in Tomb
stone.
There is a crazy man wandering
around The hills At Tucson His name
is McGoldrick.
The Mining Exchange building is
being oyerhauled. replastered and
otherwise made more attractive.
The present term of court will be
the least expensive one ever uelG in
the county, and the docket will be
cleaner than ever before.
The desert along the southern shore
Of the Salton Sea is said 10 be COW
cred with rank vegetation where moth
ing ever grew before the water broke
onto it.
Thirty million dollars is conserva-
tive estimate of the damage done by
the floods in the Mississippi valley.
If We could have had it distributed
over Arizona it would have done that
amount OF good.
The man who has the contract FOR
prospecting for dead soldiers at Crit
tenden has thus far found between
~ and 30 bodies He has dug Is
holes without finding remains. There
are no headstoues 10 mark the loca-
ton Of the bodies and it is all done by
guess work.
Phoenix is 10 have hundred dol.
lar hotel and there is no doubt but
that it viii be filled SIX months in
the year
H. G. Howe has gone up the river
to do some extensive surveying.
The y. c. \. viii make a good
showing on Decoration Day.
Governor Murphy came in today on
the stage and left by private con
veyance TO catch the back tram at
O'Clock.
The closing exercises at school yes
Jgrday afternoon were OF very in
teresting nature. consisting OF es-
says by the graduating class Miss
Rose Haltich, Miss Maggie McCor-
mich and Master Frank McAllister
are members Of the graduating class.
Col. Mike Gray has two of his
bloodhounds in town with him. He
brought them in for a vacation. The
Colonel says that he has made q num-
Der of remarkable runs with them
and in no instance did they fail to
trail the object of their search. The
Colonel believes that if the sheriff of
the county should keep a couple of
these dogs on hand he would not
have any difficulty in trailing Grim
mails
From the Solomonville Bulletin it
is learned that Kid is still lurking
around San Carlos. 1t says that Jim
ME Stevens brought the news from
the reservation that Kid killed a
squaw on Black river one day last
week and captured little girl. The
girl was sent back to her people, how.
ever. Kid sent word that he saw the
scouts and soldiers several times
when they were after him two weeks
ago.
The streets of Bisbee presented