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The Holbrook news., 1915-08-20

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 Herbert Day of Springerville transacted business Tn Holbrook Monda'
 D. c. Penrod of Pinetop trans acted business in Holbrook last Saturday.
 Mir. and Mrs. G. M. Nyce, of Whiteriver. were visitors to Hol- brook Monday.
 Loy Turbeville. the well known stockman of Pinto. visited friends in Holbrook last Sunday.
 Miss Eleanor J. Henderson of Winslow will teach the Adamana school during the coming year.
 W. F. Duke, prominent stockman from Silver Creek. spent last Sunday in Holbrook.
 James Haley and family were in town a few days this week from their summer home near Heber.
 w. D. Bradley returned Mon day night from an automobile trip to the Grand Canyon and  Flagstaff. He had a very plea sant trip.
 G. M. Purcell, sheep buyer for Cudahv Co.,, of Los Angeles, was in this vicinity several days this week and contracted for considerable stock.
 Attorney and Mrs. J. E. Cros- by returned Tuesday from an automobile trip through Apache county. They visited St. Johns. Edgar and other localities.
 L. F. Mechanism IS rushing the work on his new residence in the west part of town. When finished this will be one of the most comfortable homes in Hol- brook.
 L Caldwell received a postcard Monday from Floyd Manor. The car was sent from Denver and MT. Caldwell thinks that Mir. Mainor is enroute to his former home in Portland. Oregon.
 Ed. Hennessey has let a con- tract to the Carbon City Lum- Der Co.,. for the construction of a cottage on one of the lots pur- chased last week in the Buck ad- 1ition. The work in now well under way.
 Ira Wakefield, of the Tomp- x1ns Cattle Co.,, at Taylor. spent | Saturday and Sunday in Hol- brook. MT. Tompkins reports range conditions fine in his local ty and prospects good for high | prices for cattle this fall.
 J. R. Armijo and wife. of St. Johns, were in Holbrook few
  lays this week, guests at the Central hotel. Mir. Armijo was 1 formerly assessor of his county, | md is now engaged in the mer- .antile business Tn St. Johns.
 Wallace Newman shipped 3 ,ar loads of spring lambs from 4olbrook Wednesday to Kansas ;ity, accompanying the ship nent in person. Mir. Newman expects to receive a good price for his lambs as they are in prime condition.
 Wm. Lee was Tn town several | lays this week from his Indian | store. 30 miles northwest | ,f Keams Canyon. He brought | n a large quantity of blankets and other Indian products. MT. 1 Lee has only been running his store for a few weeks. but has built up nice business.
 c. H. Brown brought from his sheep ranch near Walnut Spring ] few days ago the pelts of two pears killed recently by his herd srs. Both pelts are in good con- lition and when mounted will make valuable floor coverings.
The Holbrook news., 1915-08-20
W. B. Woods, proprietor oi


 the building occupied by th'
 Toggery Shop and the telephone
 exchange, has decided to have {
 30-foot addition built to the real
 of the building. A contract fo
 the work will be let in a shor
 time. This addition will enlarg,
 by about one-third the room oc
 cupied by the Toggery shop, and
 will enable this growing estab
 lishment to expand. The space
 occupied by the telephone ex-
 change will be practically the
 same as a present, but It will be
 confined to the new building, The addition will be built ot
 brick as IS the main building.
 Leo. M. Frank, Georgia's noted life term convict, was taken from the state prison farm at Mllledgeville early Tuesday morning by amob, and was rush ed in an automobile to Marietta, the home of Mary Phagan, the girl he had been convicted of murdering. Here he was hanged to a tree and his body left dang llng in the air for several hours. The mob encountered no opposi- tion at the prison and there is but little doubt that the prison authorities knew of the mob's plans beforehand.
 H. D. Steele. the electrician, has wired a large number of buildings in Holbrook since the supervisors granted a franchise for a light plant. and he esti- mates that practically every building in town will be ready for lights by the time the com- pany is ready to start service. MT. Steele will have charge of the outside work for the light company when it begins opera. tions.
 The annual snake dance of the Hopi (Moqui) Indians this year will occur August 9. This dance is the close of the annual prayer for rain of the Indians, which lasts for nine days. The dance will be given this year at Palacca. an Indian village west of the Keams Canyon agency. It is probable that several auto mobile parties will attend the dance from Holbrook.
 James Scott, c. Hess IT,, Geo. Wilber, and John Nelson. well known and wealthy wool growers of this county, returned Satur- day morning from Kansas City. where that had taken large ship ments of lambs. The gentle men were fortunate in striking a good market and received sat prices for their stock.
 County Superintendent Peter son conducted examlnations for teachers at his office in Holbrook Monday and Tuesday. Those who took the examinations were: Music, Mrs. Lila Cassiday; gene ral subject, Miss Charlotte Ma lone of Showlow, Miss AestelIe Webb of Woodruff, Miss Ruby Potter of Snowflake, and J. Alvin Decker of Taylor
 E. A. Sawyer, of Winslow. of the Navajo Apache Bank, was Tn Holbrook last Monday on business. MT. Sawyer has resided in Navajo l county since 1885; he has been extensively in the live stock and other lines of industry, and has greatly prospered.
 Geo. c. Morse, the well known wool grower, left here Tuesday i with 1900 head of spring lambs for the Kansas City market. MT. Morse's stock is large and fat | and will no doubt bring good price.
 Miss Nettie Hey. sister of Mrs. w. c. Clemens, arrived in Hol- |
The Holbrook news., 1915-08-20

- } a visitor to Bolbrook this week. , Mrs. Henry Scorse and son ! Gilbert are visiting in Winslow ' today.
 How about a new rug? See Wetzler's.
 c. G. Wallace and family, of Manila, visited Holbrook We'd nesday.
 Pratt Greer and sister Ellen visited friends in St. Joseph last Sunday.
 I Ladies' house dresses, regular price S2. 25. now S1.5O each, at i H. H. Scorse. If. Attorney J. E. Jones of Flag staff was a business visitor to HoIbrook yesterday.
 c. I. Houck. proprietor of the NavaJo hotel in Winslow. was in Holbrook Thursday.
 Buy your saddle or harness now. Leather advancing. See Wetzler's.
 Mrs. and Mrs. Wallace New man are entertaining Mrs. New mans father from Redlands, Cal.
 Mr. M. l.. Kelly, of Los Ang- eles, is a guest at the home of her son, c. R. Kelly. in Holbrook.
 Mrs. Sanford Hunt, of Hunt, is guest at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. R. D. Greer.
 Only the choicest fruit carried at Wetzler's.
 The Bee Hive Girls met with Mrs. Emma Osborne last Tues day and spent a pleasant after noon with crochet work.
 Judge Sidney Sapp accompan- lied his daughter Helen to Flag Tstaf last Monday and assisted her in matriculating at the state normal.
 w. B. Cross. the barber, has been spending the week at his home nursing a fat carbunkle on his left forearm. He expects to be back in his shop next week.
 L. H. Mickey, live stock in- spector for this county. returned Tuesday from Winslow where he had spent week inspecting large shipment of cattle from that place.
 The St. Johns Oserver states that new L. D. s. church will be erected at Edgar. The struc- ture will be built of brick and will cost $2O.OOO Work will be started soon.
 Mrs. B. Schuster and son Ar thur spent several days in Hol- brook this week, driving down from Heber, where they have been visiting the home of Mrs. Schuster's mother, Mrs. Baca.
 Dr. w. E. Osborne, a dentist from Chicago. has opened an of flee in the City Hotel. Wetzler building. and will remain here for a short time. He will locate permanently either in Holbrook or Winslow.
 Paul Dindinger. the well drill CT, has struck a good vein of water on the Prime T. Coleman ranch, 10 miles south of Hol- brook. The well will be equip ped with a gasoline engine and the water used for stock pur- poses.
 Holbrook has enjoyed an ex- ceptionaI number of amusements this week. In addition to the regular nightly shows at the Pastime theater, a merry-go- round has been operating every evening for a week. A freak COW has also been on exhibition at two bits an exhibit. The COW outfit left town yesterday noornino h,lt the nronriaiors of
The Holbrook news., 1915-08-20


 suit against the Lyman Irriga- ton Go, tried last week in the superior court of Apache county at St. Johns, judgment in the sum of $66. 527 15 was given in favor of the plaintiffs, according to the St. Johns Observer. Of this amount $18.0O0 was given Udall Reservoir Co. and SIT, GOO the Woodruff Irrigation Co, the balance being divided among in- dividual claimants in sums rang ing down to $25. The damage suit was tried by Judge Geo. H. Crosby.
 Victor Wizer, suspected of being implicated in the double murder at AlIantown several weeks ago, was arrested in Fl Paso early this week by Sheriff Bob Roberts of Gallup. Sheriff Newman of Holbrook was in Gallup Tuesday night when the Gallup sheriff arrived with his prisoner. MT. Newman informed the editor of the News that Wizer made a confession. and Tn this confession implicated three other men in the crime.
 Judge D. J. Thomas and fam fly returned to Holbrook this morning on No. 1 from Midland, Texas. Mrs. Thomas, who is conyalesclng from a surgical operation, experienced no ill effect from the fatigue of the railroad journey. Jundge Thomas expresses himself as being glad | to get back to his desk in the Merchants & Stockgrowers bank | from which he has been absent | for three weeks.
 You need a fence or a gate? See Wetzler's.
 A disastrous storm prevailed along the gulf coast of Texas for several days early in the week. causing an enormous loss of property and many lives. Prob ably 200 people were drowned and the damage to property in different cities will total thirty million dollars. Galveston suf- fered most, the property loss there being about fifteen mill lions.
 Mrs. Ellen c. Greer and grand Mss Ellen Greer, have from months visit in California. They visited the ex- positions in San Francisco and San Diego. and spent some time in Los Angeles and the nearby beach resorts. They were ac- companied home by Mrs. R. c. Bassingame. of Zortman. Mon tana. a daughter of Mrs. Greer.
 Buy a saddle for your boy at Wetzler's.
 The U. S. Theater. the new moving picture theater, will not open this week as the proprietors had intended. Delay in making and changes in the build ing has caused the postponement of the opening date. w. R. Black, the manager, states that he hopes to be ready for his opening some time next week.
 The work of drilling well for J. Frank Matthews south of the river was delayed this week by the breaking of a steel cable. The damage was repaired yester- day and drilling has been resum- ed.
 Morrell's Iowa hams and ba- cons at Wetzler's are the finest.
 Miss Marbra Henning of Pinto { stopped in Holbrook last Satur- i day evening. and visited rela- tives here for a day. She was to Flagstaff where she f will became a student Tn the f state normal school.
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The Holbrook news., 1915-08-20

Fresh Bread. baked by Mrs. A. Lopez, on sale at H. H. Scorse store and at the Lopez home.
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Evening star., 1915-01-11
ELECTS ROVER PRESIDENT.
Columbus Country Club Meets in
Arlington Home.

Leo A. Rover was elected president
or the Columbus Country Club at the
hrst meeting, held yesterday after
noon, in the new home on the thirtv-
one-acre tract of land at Arlington.
Other officers elected include ]. Rozier
Biggs, first vice president: Capt. C.
Eugene Edwards, second vice presi-
Ienf; George \. Daddy, secretary. and
VI j. Mcnamara. treasurer
Directors elected include Henry /.
ZillioN, Samuel A. Gaskins, Walter +.
rant, William \. Shreeve and Judge
NJ NJ. Doyle.
In less than a year. it is stated, the
new club, formed from members of the
knights of Columbus, has grown to a
membership of 300.
The clubhouse is built of tapestrv
brick, and is of colonial design. with
French windows opening on wide piaz-
zas on front and rear The dance hail
10 which the first dance will be given
January %, is two stories high. the
"oooWork oeing white and the ceiling
Ind walls blue tinted. Card and hill
iafd rooms are on the top floor.
Evening star., 1915-01-11
REPUTED "OPIUM QUEEN"
TAKEN AT STEAMER DOCK
Mrs. Sophia Ghee Held at New York
as the Guiding Genius Of a
Band of Smugglers.

NEW YORK, January 11.-Mrs.
Sophia Ghee, known to the police as
The Opium Queen" was taken from
her stateroom on the steamer Phila-
delphia when the vessel docked here
today and placed under arrest as the
guiding genius of a band Of alleged
opium smugglers, Of whom eleven men
had previously been locked up in New
York, Chicago and San Francisco. The
warrant under which she was arrested
charges conspiracy to smuggle opium
into the United States.
Mrs. Ghee is of English birth and
Chow Ghee, Chinese living in Liver
pool. She sailed from New York De-
-cember % for Liverpool. A day later
evidence was found upon which the
warrant. was issued.
Brought Back on Technical Charge.
The federal authorities notified Scot
land Yard, and when Mrs. Ghee reach
ed Liverpool she was sent back to this
city on the technical grounds that she
was an undesirable alien.
States district attorney, who arrested
her, said that she was charged with
being the American agent of group
of opium smugglers, with its head
quarters in Liverpool, and that the
government was prepared to prove she
was responsible for the distribution
of twenty ty-five-thousand-doll worth
of opium throughout the United
States.
Evening star., 1915-01-11
NO WARRANT ISSUED
FOR SECRETARY BRYAN
Game Warden Cockren of Fairfax
County, Va, Comes to Wash
ington Today.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

special SOtIespOnOeHce OF Inc StAt
VIENNA, Va, January 11-H. c.
Cockrell, game warden of Providence
district, this county, who hurdled into
the spotlight last week by declaring
that he purposed to prosecute William
Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State. for
alleged violation of the Virginia game
laws. has not applied as yet for war
rant for Secretary Bryan's arrest. Mr..
Cockren went to Washington today,
but declined to say whether or not he
would call at the State Department to
make an effort to induce Secretary
Bryan to journey across the Potomac
to be fined.
John S. Barbour. attorney, Of this
place. at whose country home the al
legged violation Of the law is said to
have occurred on Christmas day, said
today that he and his distinguished
guest violated no law unless 1t was
that portion of the state law which
prohibits hunting when the ground is
covered with snow sufficient to make it
possible to track game. While he would
not go SO far as to say that the action
of the board Of supervisors of Fairfax
county in declaring it Illegal for non
residents to hunt in the county was in
excess of the boards authority, he
gave the plain intimation that such
was his belief
Evening star., 1915-01-11
Alaska CONFERENCE AT
White HOUSE TONIGHT
President Will Discuss Railroad
Surveys and Reports With Engi-
neering Commission.

Problems involved in the construc-
tion of the government railroad to the
Alaskan coal fields will be up for con-
sideration at conference tonight at
the White House between President
Wilson and the Alaskan engineering
commission, the members of which
have been investigating the merits of
various proposed routes for the rail-
road. The commission virtually has
finished its preliminary reports on the
surveys of possible routes.
The proposed railroad was authorized
by act of Congress last year. The law
expenditure of not more than $35.000.-
900 of not more than 1000 miles of
railroad to connect Alaska's coal fields
with the coast, the route to be selected
by the President, to whom were also
left many other important details. He
is to decide whether or not railroad
lines already constructed in the terri
tory shall be purchased as a part Of
the government system.
President Wilson is expected to settle
all questions which must be decided
before the actual work of construction
is begun.
]. Pierpont Morgan has proposed to
sell or lease the Copper River and
Northwestern railroad, line 1856 miles
long. connecting Cordova with Kenni-
cott, for use as a part of the new rail-
road.
Evening star., 1915-01-11
BRYAN is NOT ALARMED
OVER PROSPECTIVE ARREST
Secretary of State Smilingly Re-
fuses to Discuss Threat of Vir-
ginia Game Warden.

The question OF whether Secretary
Bryan was hunting" with his little
grandson Christmas day in Fairfax
county. Va, and the further question
as to whether a person can be said to
have violated the game laws who does
not even shoot at anything, much less
kill anything, for the Secretary said he
never laid eyes on a rabbit or a rabbit
track that day, probably will not call
for a judicial decision very soon. un-
less the Secretary voluntarily returns
to Fairfax county. as the offense is not
one for which extradition might be de-
manded.
When his attention was directed to a
statement made by the game warden
of Fairfax county that he would ask
for a warrant for the Secretary's ar
rest, if witnesses could be, found to
testify that he had violated the law"
the Secretary smilingly remarked that
he must decline to say anything on the
subject until he had conferred with
counsel.
Evening star., 1915-01-11
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Official accounts of the fighting
in the west from Berlin and Paris
today show that comparative calm
prevails except at few points.
Even in upper Alsace and in the
Argonne, where there have been
violent encounters recently, activ-
ity has slackened. Near scissors
and in the vicinity of Perthes,
however, spirited engagements
are in progress.
The German war Office admits
that the French have captured
trenches north of Scissors toward
the western end of the battle line,
but states that further onslaughts
were repulsed. The French an
nouncement says two more lines
of trenches, covering 500 yards OF
the front, have been occupied.
There is a similar disparity of
statement concerning the progress
of the fighting near Perthes,
which abs assumed importance
because the prize at stake is con-
troll of railroads of high strategic
value. The French communica-
ton states that 200 yards of Ger
man trenches were seized, while
the German authorities say that
positions won by their opponents
were retaken.
Although further progress is
being made in the advance to-
ward Warsaw from the west, ac-
cording to the German announce
ment, the movement is slow on
account of bad weather.
London suggests that the mac
tivity of the allies in both the east
and west is due to the fact that
they are awaiting the entrance OF
new members into the combina-
ton against the Teutonic nations.
It is said that Roumania, with
600, 900 soldiers, is virtually ready
to enter the war on the side of the
allies.
An importance advance has
been made by the British army if,
as reported in London, it has vir-
tual possession of Lille. This city
lies Just south of the Belgian bor-
der. to the east of the battle line
held for several months. and its
occupation by the British would
mean that a sharp bend had been
made in the German front.
Neither the French nor German
war Office statement. however.
has given official confirmation of
the London dispatch.