The Coconino sun., 1919-07-11
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KAYENTA NEWS

w. Reed returned from purchasing horses June 16 for use of the summer tourists.
 !. Wetheril started for Bluff June 17 with team and jack outfit to meet the Gleesen tourist party from Bos- ton, Mass. He returned with the party on June "A, having visited the Monuments en route. The party con- sisted of MT. and Mrs. Herbert w. Gleesen, MT. and Mrs. G. D. Emerson, and Mir. and Mrs. E. w. Hornden and daughter Monica. MT. Gleesen is national park inspector under Sec retary Lane. Besides inspecting the national parks he is looking up the good roads movement, especially with reference to the Monumental High way. MT. Emerson is civil engineer, having been employed in constructing of subways in Boston for some years. The party, with the exception of Mrs. Gleeson, started on for Navajo Noun tain from here June 25; but MT. Glee- sen became violently i'll on account of the heat and had to turn back. The rest of the party, including w. M. Day, of Gallup, continued up Segi Canyon to the ancient cliff ruins of Betatakin and KeetSeel, when they too abandoned the trip, returning to Kay enta the 28th, with the intention of coming back when the cooler weather comes. The party went on to Chin Lee on June 20. All think this a grand country; and lady of the party who had visited the Alps said the scenery here was grander than in the Old World. Probably they will return and take up apartments in the community apartment house at the ancient city of Keetseel.
 George F. Thompson and Wm. A. Day arrived from Gallup with autos June 25, taking the Gleesen party back with them on their return June %. Mir. Thompson halls from Los Angeles. having just been mustered out of the army from overseas. He did not look like the Huns got much the best of him.
 From June IS to 30. Josiah Bridge and E. M. Butterworth. of Berkeley, Cal, in company with W. M. Reed as guide have been doing oil prospecting work in the Goodrich formation, areas cropping out along the San Juan river, making their headquarters here. On completing their work Mir. Reed start ed for Bluff. Utah. with Mir. Bridge the first of the week, MT. Bridge ex- pecting to do research work in the vicinity of Durango, Colo, as his next assignment.
 Venress Wade is spending the sum- mer at the home of his aunt, Mrs. John Wetheril.
 John Straus is wrapping the gov ernment thermometer in ice these days. it has bad case of "tempera- ture," registering as high as 103.
 The Indians are working over time trying to clear land to use the water from the Marsh Pass project.
 The Marsh Pass school has just | completed fencing an additional twen- ty acres of land; also a quota of | BOO posts has just been purchased | of the Indians at 25 cents per post.
 On June F Winfield S. Beard and wife and children of Flagstaff, Ariz., brought Mrs. A. B. Reagan and Mrs. J. Buckbee and daughter Harriett home from Tuba City in the mail truck, leaving June IS after taking a view of the "Top of the World" which they enjoyed immensely.
 June N1s Sister wetheA started overland with mack horse for Mancos on visiting trip among relatives.
 On June 20 MT. Straus with his wife and Billie and the white mules returned from Tuba City.
 Mir. Middleton passed through here on June 20, on his way to Farming ton via John Wade's trading post, on the San Juan. He had accumulated a huge quantity of tan and cons1d- erable flesh while in these parts,