Browsing through simpler times in Arizona 1800's newspapers.
Lots of sawmill amputations, horse fall deaths, chinamen, colored people, etc headlines. http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/indexes/Sun/1887_framed.html
Looked mostly at Accidents and Crimes
Few random examples
teamster shoots at coyote and explodes some giant powder he was sniffing De/8 1888
desperate fight at Holbrook between four Mexicans and twenty-five cowboys Ap/16 1887
"Shorty" George Houghton has toes amputated after freezing them in drunken wanderings Ap/28 1888
Helm, Needles, steps on nail and dies two days later Ag/2 1894
"Madam" Wiles, owner of house of i11 repute known as "The House of Joy", arrested Ap/30 1894
fight between a Mexican and a Chinaman in Pinal County Fe/19 1897
two hard cases fined $20 and $125 for shooting up the town in Holbrook No/26 1887