Weekly journal-miner., 1919-04-02
''YAVAPAI JIM HAS TOMAHAWK
 WHETTED UP
PALE FACED PRESCOTT INDIAN SUB-CHIEF LAW YER HAS ANOTHER BIG CRIMINAL CASE TO SCALP.
(From Sundays Dajly)

| Prescott yesterday from Yuma brought news which is of lively local interest and may broaden out into national sensation. Attorney James Loy of this city is to figure in what will probably be one of the most novel criminal cases ever tried ill the southwest.
 Lawyer Loy," said the visitor, "is to appear in federal court to defend the Great Chief of the Cocopah In- dians, and he was in that city during the week to consult with his client in jail, and to hold pow-wow with the 500 tribcsmen scattered along the Colorado river far into Mexico | Preceding the arrival of Loy the chieftain in custody sent runners to his warriors, urging a peaceful dem onstration, but said, racial explosions were unnecessary
 Signal smoke was seen to curl above the peaks of many localities, and the primitive s. o. s. wireless call rounded up scores of the faith ful.
 Army officers unacquainted with such a demonstration became alarm ed, and viewed the incident as a coup to bottle up the few khaki men on duty. Loy was called to the quarters of the commanding officer, to explain but he sidestepped military orders and peremptorily informed the courier Ee was not ''swamping" much less toading to the dictation of any be ing, whether in or out of the army
 Give my compliments to the cap tain, and tell him that Attorney Loy will not deign to bow his civilian knee 10 anything that wears a double ba, on his shoulder; in other words tell him to chase himself" was the final blow of the Prescott lawyer.
 Loy Strips for Action.
 Returning to his room [oy got ill action to hold the big pow-wow with the 800 or more Cocohahs assembled on the third day a few miles south of town. Stripping himself nude he donned the orthodox G-string garb of his brethren tribesmen along the Verde River in Yavapai Jumping into an auto in waiting he was whiz- zed to the conference where he pre- sented his fourteen points for ratifi- cation. All were accepted different modes of approval and laborious grunts, n tone from bass to high C. Each buck Indian left the circle with his head hanging low, to begin rust ling for the $20O indemnity ordained, and which was ordered by the Big Chief in the hoosgow So Loy went back to town and again donned his pale faced garb with acclamations oi joy following him to his wickiup.
 Alawys Prepared.
 This legal friend of the poor red ! man defended Moss Eye" when his Apache client was acquitted of the . serious crime, Loy's popularity as sumed that wild elation among the . 1000 of this race that he was called to the council and decorated with . the three feather rank of chieftain. On this occasion he was also given . his breechclout, moccasins, red head scarf of flannel. and the eagle feathers . which were to be worn only on oc- casions of state ceremony, that his . rank might be respected by the com mon herd of the tribe. So Loy's fame has filtered from the frozen banks of the Hassayampa way down to the ripple warm of the Colorado and he will now endeavor to form a league of injun nations, by taking in the remnants of Geronimo, Natchez, Cochise and Mana. l.
 I've got the uniform and the credentials, and you ought to see me stripped clean and in action, he says. Closing the interview Loy whisper ed, Now they want me down in Son ora to patch up the trouble between. the Yaqui and the Mex, and it's me for AIanana land.