On May 25, 1882 a 2nd major fire ripped through Tombstone. The spark started in the back of Tivoli Saloon in a water closet. This article was published on May 26, 1882 in the Los Angeles Herald. It was sent to the Herald by the Western Union Telegraph.

For years people have mistaken this gentleman in the photo as Wyatt Earp’s friend, Doc Holliday. Though, this man in the photo did live in Tombstone at the same time as Holliday, it is not the infamous gambler. Recently, I heard an interview with a fourth generation Tombstone resident which happens to be a descendent of the man in the photo. It is no other than current Tombstone Mayor, Dusty Escapule. The man in the photo is his great-grandfather, John Escapule. He mentioned

Historians believe that the harmonica evolved over time from a Chinese instrument that date backs from the Yin Dynasty, 1100 BC, called the “Sheng.”  This was a curved pipe with bamboo tubes attached. The instrument contained a wooden reed and a flexible metal that would move up and down when someone one would blow through the pipe. Other historians believe that a German inventor by the name of Christian Friedrich Ledwig Buschmann created the harmonica. He had registered one