Arizona republican., 1912-07-29
ST. JOHNS

ST. JOHNS. July 26.-Yester,lay marked the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in
 Utah. This is regularly celebrated by the Latter Day Saints as Pioneer Day and most successful celebration was pulled off in St Johns Between
 two and three thousand people gath cred here to witness and participate in the ceremony. A very interesting pro gram was arranged for the forenoon and in the afternoon sports of all
 kinds, including a ball game, horse races, etc, were held at the Stake Academy grounds
 One Of the most interesting and in structive features of the program in the forenoon was a series of vo word pictures, one of St Johns. 1SS2-1912': and the other St Johns, 1920. Hon.
 Owe E. Overson delivered the latter
 which presented a most alluring pros
 pect. and one which every loyal citi-
 zen believes will be realized
 The rainy season has begun in ear nest throughout Apache county 4
 little more than three inches of rain- fall have been recorded in the last ten days and the desert is putting on q
 beautiful mantle of green, and con-
 trary to some reports which have been gathered from an unknown source the coat of verdure does not consist of To CO.,. It recently was reported in one of
 the papers in the southern part of the state that fully thirty per cent of the cattle and horses of Apache and Nav ajo counties had suffered from the ef- fects of the loco weed during the past six months. careful investigation
 of this statement shows that this state ment is entirely false and that the amount Of damage is so small as to be absolutely unimportant. Prominent cattle men say that not more than one-half of one per cent of the cattle have suffered.
 The little Colorado has been on q rampage once or twice during the past few days and although the stream has been bank full, no damage has been dOEo All the desert streams and arroyos have been running full and the auto stage from Holbrook has been delayed on this account It has been propnesed that when the rainy season began that the autos would not be able to make the trip, but some un- usually Lard rains have fallen. and aside from the necessity of waiting | for the drroyos to recede they nave been running regularly and have not l been retarded by the muddy roads. The preliminary hearing of IgnaciC 1 Lopez, charged with the killing of San | ]. Saffel on the night of June 27, was | held a few days ago and Lopez was | held without bond to await action oi | the grand jury The deceased was . | prominent citizen of the county. hay 1 ing been in the saloon and hotel busi- ness at Springerville for many years | He was killed in an attempted hold | up here ;n St. Johns At the time the | only description that could be giver | of the two highwaymen was that they
 were masked and one of them wore | light coat. Another man, J. $. Schultz ] in whose room the killing occurred | fired nine shots from an automatic | Lopez was around town, mixing witt | the crowd for the next hour or so 1 when he was sent out in the suburb
 to reconnoiter and keep a lookout fo I 1 in the vicinity to which he had beer | sent, soon after he left, and he return
 ed in a very few minutes with a wouli' l through his arm and in the flesh! | part of lis back. A bullet was ex
 tracted from the wound in his bacl | which corresponded with those uset | by Schultz. A borrowed coat wih ! blood stains in the sleeve, which h. l had worr. in the interval between tn
 two shooting affairs is the only evi
 dence which points strongly to hi guilt but this. with other circumsta1t ces Justified the action o9 the commit ting magistrate.
 l Sylvester Peralta, sheriff of Apach l county, left today for Florence wit
 Sotero Peralta. who has been sen
 fenced to ten years in the states pris
 on for the murder of Antonio Pere
 last January.
 When County Assessor Duran's as sessment roll is completed for 1912