Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Yuma County Arizona
Miscellaneous newspaper
articles about Yuma County Arizona
December 23, 1905
Bismarck Daily Tribune, Bismarck North Dakota
Colorado Land Frauds
Clerk of Court at Yuma Found Guilty by Jury
Denver, Dec. 23-A.A. McKean, clerk of the district
court at Yuma, has been found guilty by a jury in the United States
district court on sixteen counts contained in the indictment
returned by the federal grand jury in October charging him with forgery
in connection with timber culture claims in the Akron land district.
The passing of sentence was postponed until next week.
January 5, 1918
Arcadia Tribune, Arcadia California
No Jitney Working Now
J.T. Brisendine Takes Position in Arizona and Transportation here Is
Curtailed
Arcadia's "jitney" has quit. J.T. Brisendine, who
has provided transportation to parious[sic] parts of the city, has
retired his car and has gone to Arizona eo[sic] become manager of
a large cotton gin near Yuma.
This leaves no jitney working.
Nov. 16, 1900
HANGED AT YUMA. Ariz.,
Santiago
Ortez was hanged at Yuma today. On August 11th, at Harrisburg,
Ortez murdered W. S. Moffat,
an old store keeper and robbed him of all his money.
The Weekly Phoenix Herald April 16 1896 Yuma
A number of ladies in Yuma are anxious to gain information on " How and
Where we Shall Vote." A league was formed recently with Mrs. S. M.
Hale, president; Mrs. Anna Powell, secretary, and Mrs. McKean, chairman
of a committee on reading, as the League is to take up a regular form
of reading on the subject. Meetings will be held weekly. At the first
meeting, April 1, only four ladies were in
attendance. It may have been because of the weather,
or it may have been because it was April Fool's day, but it would seem
to us that after the interest evinced be the ladies in the recent
school election Woman's Suffrage would be a leading question
Superintendent Shaw of the Territorial prison is trying the experiment
of growing basket willow and bamboo, in hopes of being able to utilize
prison labor to a profit. Mr. Willis appeared before the Board of
Supervisors at their last meeting and resigned the office of Justice of
the Peace. A petition with many signers was out yesterday in favor of
Mr. W. W. Woodman for the vacant office.
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