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10 A THURSDAY. MARCH 7. 1963 MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDKORD, OHtUON Few Remember TurbiLaleirD'Q: By DENNIS LANDRY United Pre International Tombstone, Ariz. - (IIPI1 -Ask any young kid what this historic western town is known for and he'll say Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday and the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Ask any tourist who has visited here what else Tomb stone is known (or and he'll tell you boothill cemetery, the Tombstone Epitaph and the Crystal Palace saloon. But that's about as far as it goes. Only historians and some of the old-time Tomb stone residents can recall the real Tombstone as it was some 80 years ago - long before the movie screen and the tele vision set saturated its color ful past with trite and stereo types. Con trary to dozens of movies, the violent days of early Tombstone were not merely a dichotomy of good guys and bad guys. In essence, the goody guys weren't so good and the violence which prevailed was, at times, a combination of their per sonal revenge and glory-seeking. Tombstone had a fast, tur bulent beginning and a slow lapse into its serene character of today. It was founded in 1878, when a burly young prospector named Ed Shief- felin discovered vast amounts of silver ore in the adjacent Mule mountains. Overnight, Tombstone be. came a boom town. Miners and prospectors streamed into town by the hundreds. Mer chants, doctors, blacksmiths and the Wells Fargo line ar rived in 1880, and some of the more responsible citizens de- cided a town marshal should be brought in. In June 1881, m 4 1 'Tr): I-? - A V.' I at-. T k isse TOO TOUGH TO DIE-Tombstone is known, western character. The gentleman In the as the sign In the background says, as "The picture has Brown a beard In lend authtmt. 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Postmaster Marion Mosclcy and staff now have the pros pect of handling several hun dred thousand incoming re plies to a special offer con tained In the pen firm's letter. Buffalo, N. Y. - IUNI - Com mon Council members are slapped with a $1 fine for reporting late to meetings, but there is Utile grumbling. The money is used to finance an annual party for the members. HALIBUT STEAKS Thrifty Pak ii. 49 REX SOLE 59 SAND DABS . ib 59 - -V BASS . .. lb. 69 CAT-FISH lb. 69 imported CHEESES Choose From . iiimi 25 titl V J in - i t Virl Columbia River fif SMELT lb. ZV HALIBUT CHEEKS OR SWORDFISH STEAKS. . . lb, 89 LOBSTER TAILS M. 69c STEAM CLAMS 3, u 1.29 STEWING CHICKENS, tb 29c Fryer QA NECKS Giblets lb. 07 2 lb,. J9 FSTTS Mayor John P. Clum hired Virgil Earp, of Prescott, Ari zona. Virgil arrived in Tomb stone shortly after that with his brothers, Morgan, James and Wyatt, and a dentist turn ed gambler, John Henry "Doc" Holliday. Fight at OK Corral Although many flares of violence occurred in Tomb stone during the Earps' tenure of "duty," the culmination of differences occurred on the afternoon of October 26, 1881, when Virgil, . Morgan and Wyatt Earp, with Doc Holli day, fought the Clantons and the McLowerys at the OK Corral. Cause of the show-down was the McLowerys' refusal to obey a new city ordinance prohibiting the carrying of firearms In the city. But it is known that for some time there was bad blood-between the Earps, all Illinois Repub licans, and the two clans, which - like most other Tomb stone residents - were south ern Democrats. . As the two groups met near the Fremont strt mi.anM to- the OK Corral, about 30 snots were .heard within, a minute's time, and at th. -nH of it all Billy Clanton, Robert una 10m Mciowery were dead., Morgan . and Virgil EarD W l r A umnnrlnrt K,,t lived, and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were unhurt.. Tombstone Restortd In the late 1880's, when water began filling up the sil ver mines, Tombstone grad ually died as a minincr Inuin Today it Ls known . as "the town too tuogh to die," larirnlv hpranut nf tha Affnw. of the Tombstone restoration committee to preserve the town's Old West character. The oldest nf th Tnmlulniu old-timers can only recall the association of their parents and friends' with th Ram. John Escapule, who was born in -tombstone in 1894, recalls how -his father was one of the first men to follow Knhipf. felin into the hills In search of silver. "He knew the Earps but had little to do with them. Earp bunch was a tough crowd, escapule said. foimibstoinie of 8 Years Ago Fred Bennett, 88, saw the last . legal hanging in Tomb stone in 1900. He believes that Wyatt Earp may have master-minded some of Tomb stone's early crimes, particu larly a stage coach robbery in which the strong box was emptied before the stage left town. "But Wyatt Earp had nerve," Bennett says. "You've got to hand him that." One of the oldest residents of Tombstone is Ethal Macia, 82, who remembers meeting Wyatt Earp just once, in Colo rado, long after the Earps had left town. "Wyatt was a cour- historians call him a bum, a teous man, and my family al- bigamist and a vagrant. What- ways considered him a cour- ever his real nature, he and ageous law officer." his brothers helped create the Some say Wyatt Earp never drama of Tombstone's violent was a law officer. And some era. ' "" 1 iiiiiiriiir-ii'Wiii.iw.imiiiin- i i-i M.awn trifeM3 One Cadillac in a million ! With all its.models, colors, interiors and equipment choices, it is possible to specify a Cadillac that will never be duplicated. No other fine car even comes close to providing Cadillac's opportunity for self-expression. 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