While the Red Cross didn't allow its members to carry weapons, a local organizer for nurses felt they should be able to ride and shoot.
From the Arizona Daily Star, June 30, 1916:
Nurses Who Can Shoot Is Miss Farrar’s Idea
Carrying Arms Bars Home Defense Auxiliary From the Red Cross
All young ladies who have volunteered to join the corps of nurses being organized by Miss Katherine Farrar, violiniste at the Tucson opera house roof garden, are requested to meet this morning at 10:30 o’clock at her home, 741 East First street.
Whether the newly organized nurses’ corps will affiliate with the local Red Cross is a problem. The latter organization does not allow its members to carry “arms” and Miss Farrar’s idea is to have young women who can both ride and shoot. She declares that rather than give up these two ideas she would rather not affiliate with the Red Cross.
More than twenty-five young women have volunteered already and Miss Farrar is quite enthusiastic over the prospects for an effective organization.
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The Star began a fund to provide for soldiers from Tucson who were at the front.
The Star Starts Mess Fund for Tucson Guardsmen at Front
In order that local national guards organizations at the border, Companies K and E and the Tucson hospital corps, may not longer feel that they are not being treated as well by the “home folks” as are the other companies in the state, The Daily Star is announcing a plan by which a fund will be raised for the guardsmen for which to buy such small comforts as ice and fruit. The plan received the enthusiastic endorsement of Acting Mayor Bernard yesterday evening.
The Star will start the fund with a contribution of $5.00 and will acknowledge all contributions sent to it, in the columns of the paper, or any contributions for the purpose turned in the the chamber of commerce. In this way it is believed that a large fund can be raised.
Soldier lads at the front from Tucson say that they are given none of the favors that companies from other parts of the state enjoy. Yuma and Phoenix companies have sent melons and other dainties, while the tucson boys are forgotten. It is believed that this neglect is the result of oversight rather than anything else, and the movement started by The Star should remedy the whole matter.
Send your contribution into The Star or else leave it at the chamber of commerce, and it will be acknowledged in The Star. The fund will be turned over to the proper authorities for the use of the troops.
Bootlegging was a constant problem during Prohibition.
MANY HELD FOR BOOTLEGGING AFTER BIG RAID
Warrants Issued by Superior Court for 25, Most of Whom, Are in Custody; a Large Quantity of Booze Is Seized
Wholesale arrests of persons about Tucson hotels, restaurants and soft drink places, on charges of violating the prohibitory law, followed raids yesterday by county officers armed with search warrants which yielded returns of bottled goods, including both beer and whiskey. Warrants were sworn out for about twenty-five persons, most of whom were taken into custody.
The warrants were obtained in the superior court by County Attorney George Hilzinger, and the cases will not go through the justice court as usual. The warrants were placed in the hands of Sheriff Forbes by County Attorney Hilzinger in the morning and the force of deputies did fast work in serving them. A quantity of bottled goods obtained in the raids was placed in the custody of Justice Comstock. It is understood that the warrants were issued as the result of complaints made after investigation by private parties in co-operation with authorities.
Of course, part of the problem with bootlegging, was public drunkenness.
COMPLAINANT WOULD NOT MAKE AFFIDAVIT
So City Attorney Disregards Charge Against a Cop
Charges that Patrolman Stewart, who arrested him on a charge of drunkenness, has sold him the liquor on which to get drunk, were made yesterday to City Attorney Dunseath by William Walsh, a local plumber, who was arrested Wednesday evening on a charge of being drunk and down.
“Will you swear to that statement?” Mr. Dunseath asked him.
“No, I won’t,” Walsh replied.
“Then I won’t have anything more to do with it,” Dunseath replied. Later Walsh state that he was willing to make an affidavit to that effect. Mr. Dunseath state that he would report the charge of Walsh to the police committee.
Stewart laughed about the charges.
“It is quite likely that I would arrest him after selling him the booze to get drunk on, isn’t it?” he said. “Walsh was mad because I took him to the police station instead of home.”
The trial of Walsh will take place today before Recorder Cowan in police court.
