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The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
NEWS OF INTEREST GATHERED
 HERE AND THERE IN THE STATE
KILLING MOUNTAIN LIONS
 FAVORITE COCONINO SPORT

Last Thursday, H. J. McCauley and Bill Gray bagged nine foot lion and a good sized bob-cat on the upper Sycamore. They were hunting with a couple of dogs. Strange to say, the cat, which was bagged first, put up the biggest fight.
 The men got the cat nea, the Harry Gray ranch. The dogs caught him be- fore he could reach tree. There was no chance for the use of guns. The cat put up a wonderful fight but the two dogs were too much for him and finally killed him, unaided.
 The men came upon the tracks of 8 large lion down in the L. O. Pocket below the Gray ranch. The cat had killed jack-rabbit in this locality.
 After trailing the animal for about three miles the dogs put him up a tree. On coming up the men shot the cat from the tree, but apparently did not injure him. He bounded away to the cliffs on the rim of the canyon with the dogs in hot pursuit. The chase led to the top of big rock with sheer drop of twenty feet on the canyon side. Catching an opening, one of the men fired at the cat and sent him over the side of the rock. As he went over he set his claws in one of the dogs and pulled him over with him. Landing with a thud, cat and dog renewed the fight neither of them appearing to have been injured by the fall. The second dog joined in whereupon the cat away, but not far. The dogs were too swift for him. One siezed him by the neck and the other by a hind leg and held on until Gray ended pussy's career with a ball from six shooter.
 The lion measured nine feet from tip to tip. Williams News.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
CROSS OF WAR
 AWARDED FRANK LUKE, JR.

The Italian Croce di Guerra with a certificate came from the war depart ment last week to Col. H. A. Hanigan to be posthumously awarded to Frank Luke, Jr., famous American ace, with instructions that the medal and cer- tificate be presented to the late off, cer's father of Phoenix.
 The certificate was signed by Diaz.
 This will be the first foreign dec oration to be received by the family of lieutenant Luke although this gov ernment recognized his extraordinary heroism in action by conferring the congressional medal of honor, the dis , tinguished service cross with oak leaf cluster, while the Aero club of Ameri- ca medal and the Margaret Fisher medal are in the collection.
 It is understood that the presenta- tion of the Croce di Guerra will not be made for week pending the re- turn of state tax commissioner Luke, who is in the southern part of the state on official business.
 The congressional medal was award ed the young aviator for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action with the enemy near Murvaux on Sep tember 29, 1918.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
oarbara Caetletou and
 Dick HeadriCl< fg . sJhe Child Thou 0aveet Me

Mary Forbes, who has a prominent role in John M. Stahls "The Child Thou Gavest Me-" First National attraction, which will be shown at the Orpheum theatre on Washington's Birthday, matinee and night, is one of England's stage stars who gave up fame and a career to enter the world war as nurse. Her services of three years covered work at the front and in the hospitals of Paris and London.
 While at the front she was made captive in one of the German raids but was fortunate in getting on an early exchange list. Upon her dis charge she was decorated for loyal and valiant service.
 Prior to entering the war, Miss Forbes had her own company at the Ambassador theatre in London, where she combined the role of star with the duties of producer and stage manager. She makes her American film debut in "The Child Thou Gavest Me-"
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
NO MORE FARM LOANS WILL
 BE MADE BY THE STATE

Farm loans by the state will be dis continued until $580,000 enormously lent has been repaid to various funds, it was announced by the state loan board, comprised of the governor, the secretary of state and the state treas urer. It may require several years to repay the amount, it was explained as only the proceeds from the sale of state lands can be used for this pur- pose.
 The states plight, it was declared, is due to the action of the old state land department in crediting interest money to the permanent fund in- stead of to the institutions as speci- fled in the enabling act. This will necessitate transfer of funds as soon as there are sufficient on hand to make a change in the accounts.
 Through the enabling act, the fed eral government made several grants of land to the state for its institu- tions, the proceeds from the sale of lands alone to become permanent fund and the interest earned, together with the rentals on unsold lands, to be used for the maintenance of the institutions for which the grants were made. The land department, how ever, prior to January 1, 1921, it was said, in making remittances included the interest collected by it on deferred payments of lands that were unsold, with the principal payments. It is pointed out that the interest payments should have been remitted separately and credited to the institutions for which the land grants were made.
 The state board asserts that in or der to comply with provisions of the enabling act the reimbursement of this interest money will have to be made as soon as sufficient funds can be accumulated.
 Discovery that the funds had not been properly credited was made by Kuchler, state land commits sioner, shortly after he assumed charge of the land department.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
BIG WHISTLE BLOWS

Once more the big whistle counts of the days at the United Verde Ex- tension company's big plant here, and the engineers whistle, in shriller and lower tones, marks off the change of shifts. Once more men are being hired to serve on the newly begun three-shift program and it will not be long until real copper will pour again and sulphus smoke will scent the air. After almost a year of shut down, with numerous speculations all the way from opening in month or two to never again, the big plant is really going to reopen activities. There will evidently be no rush or full ca pacity resumption for some time to come. But it is very gratifying in- deed that it will begin on a small scale in the near future. The district has preserved wonderfully in the shut down and a minimum of suffering on the part of some has been endured.-- Verde Copper News.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
DISPUTE OVER USE OF CAVES

Curious caves in the Matsuyama hills, in the province of Saitama, near Tokyo, Japan. are believed by some to have been the homes of an ancient race called the Tuschiguma, or Earth Spiders. who lived long before the ancient Amos. Others think them to be tombs, while many are convinced that they are merely shelters used by the primitive tribe when pursued by enemies.
 The caves are all on the southern slope of the hills. and command an extended view of fertile valley. This strategic position argues for those who believe the caves to have been habitations and not tombs. About POO of them have been unearthed. Seen from 6 distance they resemble huge swallow bank. They are 50 close to- gether that the inner walls almost touch, and are entered through a mar. row, long, low passageway--so low in fact that man cannot stand upright in the largest one. Each room is about six by nine feet in size: the ceiling Is domed. and along the side is a ledge raised about nine inches from the ground. This was doubtless GOV cred with leaves, and used as 6 bed
 No tools. weapons or household ar- ticles have been unearthed and there are no drawings on the walls, nor any sign of pathway outside. The only light comes from the passageway. The caves are practically unknown and un- visited. except by few scholars.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
FOUR PROMINENT
 MOHAvE MEN DIE

Del Sherer died of pneumonia few days after returning from Illinois, where he had attended the funeral of his father. He was born in 1860 and at the time of his death was one of the county supervisors. He was not married.
 J. w. Morgan, a native of San Francisco, but an old timer in Mohave county, died on February 1. For two terms he was recorder and clerk of the board of supervisors. He leaves . son and several relatives. He was born in 1854.
 Peter Caffery, one of the Arizona pioneers and mining men, was buried in Kingman last week.
 R. J. Ferguson, for years heavily interested in Mohave county mining, died in Phoenix. He has a son and daughter in Kingman, leaving, be- sides, widow and several other chill dren.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
FILE SUIT AGAINST CATTLE
 LOAN co. AND CORPORATION

Suit was filed in the superior court at Tucson by the Willcox Bank and Trust company and the Consolidated National bank of Tucson against the San Francisco Cattle Loan company and the McKittrick corporation. The suit attacks the validity as against the plaintiffs liens of $1,143, 900 worth of cattle mortgages and a real ty mortgage of $180,000.
 The ground for the attack on the mortgages is given as the fact that the San Francisco Cattle Loan com pany, in whose favor the paper was executed by the McKittrick company is not qualified to do business in Ari- zona, and especially in Cochise, Gra- ham and Pinal counties, not having appointed resident agent in any of these counties, in which the mortga- ges were received.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
MAYOS ARE INVITED
 TO SPRING VALLEY

Having successfully competed with California as the probable location of the western factory for the T. A. Snider Preserve company, Spring Val ley, the new town to be built 35 miles north of Prescott, announced that it had made a bid for the establishment of the new climate sanitorium to be constructed by the Mayo Brothers, world-famous surgeons of Rochester, Minn. The offer which was tele- graphed to Mayo Brothers by w. J. O'Brien, representing the townsite, in wolves the following:
 1. A donated site anywhere on the project for the sanatorium and all it's 
 2. A cash fund of S50,000 toward the construction of the building.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
TRANSFERS Is,522 ACRES

Legal title to 19,522 and fraction acres of range land between Selig- man and Kingman has passed into the hands of the Hudspeth Sheep company, conditions of transfer in three deals made in 1917 and 1918 having been completed.
 From Rosina Lamoureux Dubois of Fresno, Calif., the Hudspeth company has received title to forty acres, at $11, ,000; from the Miller Livestock company of Flagstaff, title to tract of 19,202.75 acres at $50,000, and to another tract of 280 acres at $11 900. From the Miller Livestock company, the Hudspeth interests also received title to eight damsites for impounding foodwaters, at $11, ,00O.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
THE START IS MADE
 ON YAVAPAI ROAD WORK

Work on sections of Yavapai coun- tvs new highways under the million and half dollar improvement fund is now going ahead in different parts of the county.
 In the Verde district, Tanner Bros. who recently were awarded the con- tract to build the Cottonwood to Black Canyon section, are now at work on that piece of construction, seven and a half miles long.
 Richards, Turley and Frost, of St. Joseph, have moved their outfit to Mayer, and are working from that point to Cordes, over a nine-mile stretch of the Black Canyon highway.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
FORMER CIGAR MAN
 PRONOUNCED INSANE

Matt Maloney, for many years the proprietor of a cigar store in Prescott, was committed to the state hospital for the insane Friday by the super for court MT. Maloney had been iv- ing alone on his claims located about two miles east of Walker, for some time. One of his neighbors wrote the sheriff's office saying the man was acting strangely and seemed to imag- inc that people were conspiring to kill him.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
PARDON BOARD WILL
 EXAMINE 200 CASES

Two hundred applications will be considered by the board of pardons at it's meeting in Florence Friday and Saturday of this week. It will require fully two days, including night ses- sions, to pass on the number of cases that will come up for consideration.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
TELEPHONE ACROSS
 THE GRAND CANYON

The first telephone line across the Canyon was completed by the park service on January 15, and has been working perfectly from Grand Can won to Roosevelt camp, 11h miles. There are stations at Indian Gardens and Pipe Creek.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
ARIZONAN NAMED GENERAL

Secretary of war Weeks has sell ected for nomination as generals in the officers reserve corps the follow ing: Brigadier General V. B. Metts, Raleigh, N. O.; Col. John H. Rice, re- tired, Washington, D. C.; Col. John Greenway of Warren, Arizona, and seven others.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
CONSPIRACY CHARGE AGAINST
 LEWIS MAY NOT BE TRIED

The charges of conspiracy against Phil K. Lewis, former president of the Central Bank of Wickenburg, will be dropped as result of the verdict of the jury in the case of Harry s. Ross, former state treasurer, who was found not guilty.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17
CATTLE COMPANY

The Three Cattle company filed it's articles of incorporation with the cor poration commission, the ineorpora- tors being James Dunseath and Ru- dolph Zepeda, prominent residents of Tucson. The capitalization of the company is $75,000, divided into 750 shares at $100 par.
The Coconino sun., 1922-02-17

"Did you miss your first husband very much?"
 "Not until I had married my sec ond."
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Population and Progress

benefits conferred by 1t have ceased, and
our recent increased capacity for produc-
ton has meant only increased competitive
waste.
Mr.. G. K. Chesterton informs US in a
preface that Mr.. Penty is one of the two
or three truly original minds of the modern
world" His essay is suggestive, though
it hardly bears out Mr.. Chesterton's claims
as to his originality. He has stated the
case against machinery with force Per-
haps. if Mr.. Chesterton is right, he may
later specify more definitely the principle
on which machine production ought TO be
eurbed- Agree as one does with much OF
what he says as to the social consequences
OF machine industry, the precise way out
is after all Of some Importance. And Mr.
Penty here does not get TO a consideration
OF 1t.
Prof. Ross's book is a collection of not
wholly connected essays treating OF the
present tendencies in a society that is
largely the product of machine industry
and the rapid movement OF population that
followed its introduction
Prof Ross is apprehensive of the migra-
ton of people from lands of excessive
fecundity and sees the possibility of the
most terrific of wars being fought over
this issue. The danger lies not in race,
suicide, so-ealled. but in the too high birth
rate of the less educated One reason he
gives for restricting immigration is that
for more than two decades the frontier in
America has virtually not existed The
result of the growth OF cities and the lack
of new resources to draw upon has been
rising prices. In the eighteen years fol-
lowing 1896 the retail cost OF the fifteen
principal articles of food rose 20 per cent
Despite the increase in the productivity of
labor. there was an actual fan in real
wages-wages measured in goods. The
chief cause was the exhaustion of arabic
land and the immense immigration. Since
the frontier called the discontented and
oppressed in the past. now that it is gone
these restless spirits VIII stay in the cities
and become leaders of an insurgent work
ing class.
Among the suggestions put forth by
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

Prof. Ross is one that he advanced several
years ago, dismissal wage" He would
have employers compelled to pay en-
ployees on dismissal the equivalent Of a
fortnight's wages He would apply the
rule only to those who had been working
six months or more and would safeguard
it against abuse. He believes such a plan
would stabilize employment, reduce the
labor turnover and bring about economy
in production.
Mr.. Sturt who is lecturer in the Univer-
sity of Wales, does not take Mr.. Penty's
view Of the effects OF machine industry
He looks forward to a day, under socialism,
when the machine may go on and do all
it can toward overproduction. Not being
dependent upon markets. the more we pro-
duced the greater would be the wealth of
The nation and the leisure of the worker
He holds the common opinion that, prop
erly managed, machine industry should
prove Hberating institution.
The book is a somewhat vague and
abstract exposition of socialism as he sees
it. He does not differentiate between the
various types of socialist thought, guild
state, &c. Though the old saying about
the unchangeability of human nature is, OF
course, disproved by even the little that
science now knows Of the past, one won-
ders how many centuries it would require
for human nature to become SO thoroughly
benign and unselfish as he pictures it
under socialism.
Mr.. Sturt seems a bit naive Discussing
the population question, he merely ex-
presses his faith that the socialist state
will properly regulate the birth rate, that
'it win be the business of English statis-
tieians to say what number of children
are wanted each year to renew the popula-
ton in each class of workers" Then the
State will limit the births to that number
or presumably raise them if necessary
apparently by moral suasion. After plea
for freedom of thought and liberalism in
education he observes: 1T is doubtful
whether any educational establishments
ought to be tolerated which are under
sectarian control" So you see freedom of
thought Is not simple even under socialism
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
My Adventures in Politics
Continued from. Page -Four.

Continued from Page Four.
news column of THE SUN.
And what have you done with this
ruiuous blast?" asked Mr.. Riggs.
"Wen, he answered, 7 am conventional
Mr.. Dana. you know. feeds to the office cat
letters which do not interest him Ne? I
dropped Uncle Joe's secretary's letter into
the waste basket"
This is a good place TO relate, out Of
sequence, how Mr. Cannon, unknowingiy
revenged himself on me. Unknowingly
and unwittingly. too. for, because OF one
of those mysterious human impulses, the
One day in the House the chairman OF the
Foreign Affairs Committee of which / was
member sent word to me to come at
once to the COMMITTEES rooms which were
in the House wing of the Capitol AS /
rose to respond to the message a page
brought the cards Of some people in the
gallery who wanted me to join them there.
Ordering the page to tell the people that
was then engaged but would see them
later. started TO cross the well" as the
open space in front OF the Speakers ros-
trum Is called: but Uncle Joe, crossing
in the opposite direction. threw one arm
over my shoulder and began thus: Did it
ever occur to you in looking over these
men. these Members. sitting there. how
infinitely smaller than an atom is man
in the universal scheme of things?"
assured the philosopher that no such
naughty thought had ever rippled the sur
face OF my mind and I wriggled little
BY way OF intimating that II he would
drop his arm would be on my way But
his thin, wiry arm coiled the more closely
as he continued: THE universe, my boyl
Read Poe's thesis on the First Cause.
Irresistible power performing unimaginable
acts OF wonder and grandeur; creating
systems after countless systems Of worlds
beyond the ken OF mightiest telescopes;
unnumbered clusters OF immeasurable sys-
TENS each vaster In extent and glory than
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

the unbridled imagining OF astronomers
In the presence OF the thought OF systems
OF stars and suns away beyond the black
ness unsearched unsearchable by mans
magnified view. in the presence of such
thoughts. I say. what in the devil does
that excited little mite speaking up there
by the middle aisle think ne is accom-
plishing7"
I knew what my friends in the gallery
were thinking Of me. as they watched me
lettering. as they supposed, for a gossip
with a friend. I'd have a job trying to
explain TO them. Hal Flood has sent for
me to go to the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee" I gasped to Uncle joe
Foreign Affairs, you say?" Uncle Joe
sneered. Foreign to what, to whom?
There is a thought to ponder Little as we
are. inconsequential below any measurable
degree, we are of the leaven, not foreign.
Of all created things: all the works of the
First Cause. Aye, even that mortal talk
ing by the middle aisle belongs He be-
longs! Presumptuous man, We scheme.
contrive, seek ambitious ends vet we are
but notes whirIing aimlessly, invisible in
aught but giaring light: incapable Of com
pretending even our own littleness, our
futiIfty"
Thus he held me- and held me even when
he released his arm-he had to, to gesture
he still held me. for in burst of absolute
poetry, to which my recollection does but
little justice, he pictured. as he visioned
It, the magnitude of the universe. / knew
that I was by that time but a poor thing
In the opinion of my gallery friends-whose
minds were probably on dinner-so 1 lis
tened in the content Of despair But what
a time had explaining to them,
Can 1t be possible-it comes 10 me with a
shock-that Uncle Joe, wise as he was in
such incidents. had chanced TO observe the
two messengers. caught the whole situation,
and purposely played that trick upon me7
This is the thirteenth of series Of
articles by MIR. Townsend The next will
appear IN an early ISSUE.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-07-07
Thrilling Battle Be-
tween Sword Fish
And Whale at Sea

San Francisco, July 7.An
unusual demonstration in the
ocean off Point Surf, below
Monterey, Calf, q battle be-
tween a whale and d sword
fish--was reported today by
Frank Mcdonald, custodian OF
the customs house here.
The first l saw of the bat
tie. said Mcdonald, was
when the ,leviathan Of the
deep churned up a field Of
foam that looked like q white
island in the seas. Then the
big fellow spouted and leaped.
I knew he was fighting a foe
unforeseen. Suddenly as though
he had been coming straight
up for a solar-plexus blow, a
sword fish pierced the air.
After a battle lasting more
than half an hour, the sword
fish was victorious, McDon-
aid said.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-07-07
THE WAY THE
RED TAPE WORKS

When the ". s. land office at Har-
Ir'son, Arkansas, was abolished by an
act OF congress. Virginia Hunter
Lewis, clerk In that office was trans
ferred to the Guthrie office, the books
OF the office shipped tc the general
office. the big safe sold and the
rooms vacated. Miss Hunter served
two days In the land office here when
she was ordered by the department
rat Washington to again report fol
duty at Harrison. Senators and Con-
gressmcn from Arkansas had beer
successful in having the office at
Harrison re-establIshed. That's one
way Uncle Sam has Of spending your
money.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-07-07
Story of Discovery OF Helu Gas Reads Like Fairy Tale

Washington. July 7.-Helium, the
wonder gas, which, because Of its
property Of non-inflammabiIity, is so
eagerly sought for the operation Of
monster military dirigible, exists in
the atmosphere which we breathe in
the proportion Of one part by volume
in $4,000, according to DR.. X. II.
Moore, chief chemist Of the United
States Bureau Of Mines. Helium Is
also found in very minute quantities
in sea and river water; undoubtedly
it exists in some OF the fixed stars,
as well as in the sun. and its presence
has been spectroscopically determined
in many nebulae. Hclium is found in
the gases evolved from any mineral
springs. Helinm is found also in some
volcanic gases, and in many rocks and
minerals being almost always associ-