The Coconino sun., 1922-04-14

| , "i'u uAio. fAHSpdCu OI CllIIS were Tn town Tuesday, motoring in from their ranch.
 Fine Arts Quartette lass num- tel of the Lyccum course, at Norma Friday night, Apri! i4.
 i w. w. Mccarthy who had been wis., iting here for some time, has returned to his home in the Imperial Valley. Mrs. Hayes Weidner went to Wins low Tuesday afternoon to see her brother, Charlie Marshall, who had been accidently shot.
 I. M. Jackson, the cattleman, was called to his old home in Texas the first of the week on account of the serious illness of his grandparents. Jimmie Metzger, Grand Canyon rancher, was here several days this week. Jim is going to wire-fence a lot of country out there this sum- mer.
 Uncle Jimmy Haley returned Sun- day from the Soldiers Home at Saw telle, where he had been for several months. He expects to stay for the summer.
 Cliff Kramer, who recently pur- chased the Marian property at 314 w. Birch for his family home has just completed the remodeling of the same. w. J. Stevenson did the work. Mrs. R. s. Marley of Winslow, who had been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Bean for the past week, has gone to Cottonwood for visit to her sisters, Mrs. l. M. Jackson and Mrs. Huntley.
 Mrs. Glenn w. Bright spent a day or so the first of this week in Pres colt. MT. Bright, who went to Wins low the last of last week, joined Mrs. Bright at Prescott to return home with her.
 The Oatman Amalgamated Gold Mining company have contracted for l, ,500 feet of diamond drilling and work has started at the mine. The stockholders can expect some very en- couraging news soon.
 w. J. Stephens will leave Saturday for Sidney, Ohio, on an extended visit. He is uncertain as to the length of his stay in the old home town so has dated himself for six months or year before his return.
 I. M. Jackson, an old-time cattle man of this section, is up from his ranch in Beaver Creek. He says everything is lovely in that section, the grass coming up nicely, stock in good condition, and he looks for a good year.
 c. A. White, who rented the Jess Dooley ranch at Doney Park last win ter with the intention of farming it this spring, sold his lease and seed to Louis Hobgood, bought himself a new car, and together with his family returned to Oregon. Hobgood will farm the place this year.
 Sims Ely of Phoenix, president of the Oatman Amalgamated Gold Min ing company, stopped off between trains Sunday. He was on his way to Phoenix from Washington. He re- ports things still on the quiet in the east but everybody looking for an inn provement in conditions very soon.
 City council Monday night, to cor rect the wetness that prevails a large part of the time in the alley running from Leroux to San Francisco streets between Aspen and Railroad avenues, decided to ask the property owners if they wouldn't have it paved. This is the alley the city hall presents one side to. ,
 J. J. McKillip came in Wednesday from his ranch east of here. John has been busy for several weeks tow ing cars through and out of Walnut Canyon where it crosses the Flagstaff Winslow highway. There is still a lot of water running through there, but drivers who watch the buoys can get through now without trouble.
 The wife of Balderino Resa has made complaint against her husband to the effect that he has run off with another woman to some point in New Mexico, leaving her and her three children in destitute circumstances. Resa is said to have left with wom- an by the name of Valentino Rivera, who left two children with her father.
 Other employees at Babbitts' are having a great time kidding Percy Kidder about that S20,000 damage suit he and his wife have brought against the city of Flagstaff. They tried to convince Kidder he would have to take the city fire engine for pay; but he says he has no place to keep the engine. He intimates that he'd rather have some of the stills City Marshal R. L. Neill is grabbing from amateur makers of the contra band.
 County Engineer J. B. Wright re- ceived telegram from his home in Amhurst, Va, stating that his father was very i'll and requesting him to come home. Mrs. R. L. Shier, a sis ter of MT. Wright's, will pass through Flagstaff on her way to the old home to see her father, and is expecting her brother to join her. MT. Wright is in a quandry as to just what to do. While he would like to go with his sister, his wife and eldest son are both i'll and he does not feel justified in leaving them while they are in