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The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
SANTA FE JUST GETS BY
WITH DAMAGE CASE JURY

Jury in the damage case Of Teo-
flo Gonzales against the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad company,
heard in superior court here the last
of last week and first of this, had
a hard time agreeing, being out for
almost "a hours, but finally rendered
a verdict late Tuesday afternoon in
favor of the defendant.
Complainant is administrator of
the estate of his brother, Augustin
Garcia, killed last August by being
struck in the head with an iron bar
with which he was helping unload
railroad rails from a flat car. Suit
was for $4,000 damages. C. B. Viii
son of Flagstaff and Robert o. Bren-
nan of Los Angeles represented the
railroad company, Gregg Garcia and
Judge w. L. Barnum Of Phoenix the
plaintiff.
The defence was that deceased had,
without authority from his foreman,
picked up a bar and begun turning
rails when one Of them slipped,
throwing the bar against his head,
killing him, and that he should not
have been handling the bar at all.
The jurors were: VIM. H. Rind-
fleisch, George Hochderffer, T. F.
Patton, F. W. Jones, T. V. Long, Den
mis- O'Brien, E. B. Weems, Jim Gregg,
Eugene Phelan, Irwin Francis, Lee
Allsup, w. Amann. The verdict was
signed by nine jurors; Allsup, Amann
and O'Brien not signing.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
ROTARIANS HEAR OF
BANKING METHODS
AND TREE PLANTING

How bankers survive during hard
times was partly revealed at the Ro-
tary luncheon Tuesday by Joe P. Will
son, vice president of the Arizona
Central bank of Flagstaff, and how
trees may survive dry times was part
ly divulged by G. A. Pearson, chief of
the Fort Valley government forestry
experiment station. George I. Her.
rington was chairman for the day,
and guests were numerous.
Joe became banker 16 years ago
last Friday because in the forest SER
vice office where he had been working
he had to labor from to 4, and he
didn't find out until after he had
swapped jobs that the banking hours
of 8 to 3 didn't mean nothing a-tall
to the men who worked in the banks
except that they had to work longer
than that.
There are about $4,000 banks in the
United States, one-fourth to one-third
of which are national banks, the rest
state banks. There are few private
banks left. There are fewer banks in
other countries. For instance in Can
ada, there are only II banks-though
those seventeen have $500 branches.
In Great Britain there are only 38
banks, but there are $500 branches.
In this country, except in California,
the branch system is not greatly de-
veloped.
Last available figures show Arizona
having % national banks, with re-
sources of $30,026,000, and 81 state
banks, with resources of $54, 100000.
The state banks have 20 branches.
National banks cannot establish
branches, though under new national
regulation a national bank may have
branch offices in the city in which
it is located.
Mr.. Wilson reviewed recent state
legislation and attempted legislation
and concluded by saying:
Were talking here in Flagstaff
about water and reservoirs. The banks
of a community are the reservoirs
into which flow the savings of the
people of the community to be used
by the banker in helping to develop
the industry and life of the comnun-
ity. A bank helps the people to sue
ceed and the community to progress.
The community needs the bank. Use
the bank and give the saving habit
and the banking habit places of real
prominence in your lives"
Mr.. Pearson said the main reason
we do not have better success in max
ing ornamental trees grow in Flag
staff is that too often the trees are
dead before they are planted. Once
planted, until the roots grow and can
supply the stem with moisture, the
tree must live on its own sap. Often
the trees are not planted until this
sap is mostly or entirely gone.
Another reason of failure is lack
of shade, resulting in sun-scald of the
bark and death of the tree. They
should have shade for the first cou-
pie of years.
Still another reason is too much
clay. Trees do not grow well in clay.
The young trees should be set in al
hole about three feet deep by about
four feet wide, which should be filled
with sand. Trees like sand. No fer
tilizer or very little, is needed.
Continued on Page Five.)
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
SAMSKY- KELLY CASE NOW
UP In SUPERIOR COURT:
PERHAPS LAST OF TERM

What may be the last case to be
heard during this term of court is
that of the state VS.. Joe Samsky and
Burr Kelly, on the charge of trans
porting liquor. The jury was chos-
en- yesterday morning and taking of
testimony began just before noon yes
terday. Frank M. Gold is conducting
the defense, County Attorney Frank
Harrison and his assistant, George R.
Lewis, appearing for the state
The jurors are T. F. Patton, J. C.
Boyett, T. v. Long, r. j. Prochnow,
VIM. H. Rindfleisch, Lee Allsup, E.
w. Francis, Jack Langford, Frank
Conrard, James Lane, George w. Hull
sey, Stanley E. Watkins.
Tomorrow Judge Jones will sentence
Georgery H. Spring, convicted of
rape. c.. B. Beeson, who was recently
brought back from California, charged
with misappropriating pay checks of
the Oak Greek road crew, will appear
before the judge tomorrow. 1t is be-
lieved he will plead guilty, and if he
does he likely will be sentenced at
once. James f. Johnson, arrested on
the charge of stealing $40 from the
till at the Flagstaff flour mill, says
he'll fight the felony charge, but in
Inmates that if the charge is changed
to misdemeanor he will plead guilty.
1t is likely it will be done.
There are two already sentenced
during this term, besides the two In
dians recaptured after their escape
from the state penitentiary now in
county Jail waiting until Sheriff
Campbell gets his full allotment for
the trip to Florence. 1t is likely
there will be at least two more to go
as result of tomorrow's sentencing,
one of whom will be Spring.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
FLAGSTAFF BIGGEST TOWN
NEXT TO DALLAS, TEX, ON
TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE

The 1923 Harvey Auto Tourist
Guide has just been issued.
It's well-gotten up pamphlet OF
so pages, with sectional maps show
ing the National Old Trails highway
in detail, with hotels, garages, dis
tances, and wealth Of other infor-
nation every tourist needs.
But the handsomest thing about the
book is the fact that for once Flag
staff gets a showing commensurate
with Flagstaff's importance. 1t is
shown up as it really ought to be
shown--the largest city on the route
between Los Angeles and the east.
Albuquerque, Shreveport, Amarillo,
Sherman, Texarkana, Marshall, Vicks-
burg, Baton Route, New Orleans, BIZ
loxi and the various other towns each
occupy from half to whole inch
along the right of way. But Flag
staff gets nearly four inches all to
itself, showing all the streets from
Elden to Toltec and the principal
avenues as we'll. The only other
town along the whole route that oc-
cupies as much space is Dallas, Tex.
The reason for this is that Ed Bah
bitt, manager of the Babbitt garage
of Flagstaff, told the publishers he
wanted this city to be given fair
shake and he found them reasonable
and just when once he had convinced
them that Flagstaff really is the most
town along the transcontin-
entail route. With Eds wideawakeness
and the Harvey spirit of cooperation,
we got something.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
"A. L. & 7. OFFICE BUILDING
BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE.
EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING

Fire that broke out in the roof of
the Arizona Lumber & Timber Co. Of
flee building shortly after 7 o'clock
Wednesday morning burned away the
roof, making the building untenable
until it can be repaired. The entire
force is now occupying the rear part
of the company's store building, di-
rectly across the street from the Of
flee building.
The fire is believed to have been
set by the company's switch engine,
which had just been operating along
the track directly beside the office
building. A spark from the smoke
stack undoubtedly caught in the roof.
The flames burned through into the
second story and had obtained good
start before they were discovered by
Salvador Peris, who was cleaning in
the offices. About 20 minutes of eight
he opened the door to the stairway
leading to the upper story and was
confronted by mass of flames.
The company's fire crew got water
playing on the house in short order.
The city company, who said they were
directed to Flagstaff lumber mill by
telephone operator, were turned
back by Hugh Wheat, and though
some time was lost by the mistake, did
fine work once they got to the scene
of the blaze.
The fire broke through the ceiling
into the lower story in only one place
in the office of T. A. Riordan, pres
ident of the company. Little damage
was actually done in that room by
the fire, but all of the rooms on the
lower floor suffered greatly from the
water and will have to be refinished.
Many records and lot of stationary
stock on the second floor were burn
ed and some on the first floor were
damaged by water. All of the latest
records in the fire-proof vault, were
undamaged.
M. j. Riordan, secretary, was the
only official of the company at home,
his brother, T. A. Riordan, president,
being in Los Angeles, and I. B. Koch,
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
AMONG THE WIELDERS OF
THE SENSITIVE CUE

Local pool and billiard experts have
just wound up another pair of tour
naments. Late on the night of St
Patrick's day the tournament that had
been running for several weeks at
Frank Fairchild's pool emporium came
to an end with the following winners:
High run call pool, Dan Mathis, 81.
High run baseball pool, Carl Ferrell,
219. High run billiards, Dick Jones,
II.
At Harry Wiltse's Weatherford ho-
tel pool hall the contest wound up on
Monday night. Matt Ellis got away
with the high score and prize in bill
liards, with score of 13. Ernest Yost
captured honors in call shot pool,
With 43.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23

vice-president and manager, having
left the night before to attend the
district Rotary conference in Tucson.
Mr.. Koch always gets to his office at
Z o'clock, and had he been at home it
is barely possible, though not at all
certain, that the fire would have been
discovered any earlier.
The high wind blowing might have
resulted in general conflagration in
that section but for the fact that the
office building is mostly OF rock con-
struction. Sparks flew literally, but
neither Mercy hospital, which is one
of the nearest structures, nor any of
the other buildings were seriously
threatened.
Practically all of the desks, cabinets
and other office paraphernalia were
removed without serious damage, and
within an hour or so the office work
was moving along in the new location
as smoothly as though there had been
no interruption, under the capable di-
rection of George H. Myers, office
manager.
1t was exactly five years ago the
31st of this month that the last fire
occurred in the same building. 1t
was on Easter Sunday, and that time
much more serious damage resulted,
most of the ceiling going down.
It will be two or three weeks at
least before the building can be re-
paired enough to admit moving back
to it.
The next time fire breaks out in
Flagstaff, it is sincerely to be hoped
there will be less freedom in the at
mosphere. The whistling wind was
bad enough, but when the switch en-
gine blowed steadily for several min
utes and other whistles took up the
refrain, everybody took on a creepy
feeling and began to conjecture
whether the blaze could be kept under
control.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
RAY LAMPORT NOW IS
ASST. COUNTY ENGINEER

Ray Lamport, nephew of County
Engineer James Lamport, arrived last
week from North Dakota and has ia
ken charge of the office work under
his uncle. His wife and child came
with him. Flagstaff people will be
glad to welcome this fine young man
back here after his several years abb
sence and extend the welcome also to
his family, which "a acquired since
he left. Ray is high-class civil en-
gineer and is a valuable ACQUISITION
to the county road department.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
GADDERs AND sTICKERS

Flagstaff Rotarians who had to stay
at home are lonesome and Grabbed.
The Rotarians who didn't have to stay
at home but who left to take in the en-
tertainment and inspiration at the
Tucson 9Th district Rotary conference
yesterday and today, and who will
have good time either side of the In
ternational boundary line as guests of
the NogaIes club tomorrow are: Pres
ident |. B. Koch, Joe C. Dolan, M. 1.
Powers, w. H. Switzer, w. r. Mc-
Clurken, DR.. M. G. Fronske, j. C.
Brown and Fred S. Breen. Mesdames
Fronske, Switzer and Breen made up
the Rotary-Ann part of the Flagstaff
contingent.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23

The above represents how the said
board of county supervisors feel just
now.
It'll take at least a sooth-sayer to
bring them down out of the air.
It's all about the forest service
road funds and what is going to be
done with them.
First, they are advised by State En-
gineer Frank Goodman that if they
are not to lose the $4,000 the forest
service are to spend on the National
Old Trails between Flagstaff and An
CELL they must at once dig up $25, 900
county funds to match it.
The supervisors held meeting at
once, and dug up the $4,000 with the
cooperation of the county highway
commission. Then they breathed easy.
But, right away, as scon as the
news of their action had reached the
district forestry office at Albuquer-
que, District Engineer C. A. Long
wrote to Forest Supervisor Ed G..
Miller of Flagstaff:
81 would suggest that you inform
the county authorities that we would
not be influenced by their offer. l
feel that this road is purely a forest
highway and one that should be built
with forest highway funds entirely
without any cooperation from the
county, since we appreciate the fact
that the forest holdings in Coconino
county are so large that they have a
legitimate claim on us for an expendi-
ture of an appreciable amount of the
forest highway fund" He concludes
the letter by intimating that the ap-
preparation of the 5000 by the
county might act like the well-known
monkey-wrench in the machine.
Fine and dandy. We get all set to
get the work Oa-the road without hay-
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
MISS VERA GREENLAW AT
MARYLAND NORMAL

President L. B. McMullen of the
Normal school, recently attending the
convention of the National Education
association at Cleveland, Ohio, had an
interesting visit with Miss Vera
Greenlaw of Flagstaff, who was also
at the convention.
Miss Greenlaw is a member of the
1910 class of our Normal school. She
now is a member of the faculty of
the state normal at Towson, Md. She
will be at the N. E. A. convention in
San Francisco in June, and will spend
most of her summer vacation here in
Flagstaff with her mother, Mrs. c.. A
Greenlaw; her sisters, Mrs. w. D.
Draine and Miss Eleanor Greenlaw,
and her brother, Aliin Greenlaw.
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The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
SCOTTISH RITE
MASONIC CEREMONY

The regular Maunday Thursday
service will be held at Masonic Tenn
pie Thursday evening, March 29 Ger
emony will start at 6:30 and will be
followed by the usual banquet. All
Scottish Rite Masons are requested
to attend and bring their families.
Please notify DR.. E. S. Miller as soon
as possible if you will be present and
how many of you.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
TWO BURGLARS TO PEN

Judge ]. E. Jones in superior court
the last of last week sentenced two
men who plead guilty to criminal act
ions in Flagstaff each to serve from
8 to 5 years in the state penitentiary.
They are Clarence Edward Holden,
who attempted to break into George
Becker's hardware store, and Allen w.
("Texas') Hughey, who burglariEed
Harry Wiltse's Weatherford pool
hall.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23

Governor Hunt didn't sign the bill
against the operation of masked bands
which by his not signing automatical-
ly has become a law.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23
u. S. BUREAU PUBLIC ROADS
AGAINST SPENDING FOREST
ROAD MONEY IN COCONINO

Wanted-A good, reliable for
tune teller. Apply any day soon
between the hours of 9 a. m., and
5 p. m. at office board of SUI
pervisors, courthouse, Flagstaff.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23

Judge J. E. Jones in superior court
granted Cora L. Johnston divorce
from Richard M. Johnston.
The Coconino sun., 1923-03-23

Additional Local News on Page Nine
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-30
QUIZ

O. Can enough timber be imported into the
United States to meet this countrys require
ments when our own forests are no longer
able to supply the demand? j. T. e.
a The United States forest service states
that anv hope of augmenting our own supply
of timber by importatiOns must be abandoned
in so far as soft woods are concerned. The TIM
Der needs of the United States are so enor-
nous, amounting they do to nearly half OF
the world S consumption, that it is 1nconcelY-
able they can be met by imports except in
very limited way and at excessive prices
The situation is also serious in the case Of
hardwoods as the hardwood forests for the
most part are situated in tropical countries
where transportation is exceedingly difficult
and where the forests will probably remain
undeveloped on any large scale for a number
of decades.
@. Did Queen Victoria have another name?
G. w. w.
A. Her name was AleXandrine Victoria, and
it was under this name that she was first men
toned as queen. The next day the shortened
name was decided upon and the documents
issued were written and signed again.
O. Do city jewellers or country people have
better teeth? G.. II.
A. A dental journal says that, on the whole,
defective teeth are less common in rural than
in urban districts.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-30
NEW FRIENDS
By DR.. Frank Crane

There is a vast deal of sentiment that has
been expended upon the subject of old friends,
and somebody ought to say something about
new friends.
Of course an old friend is a treasure and
brings a peculiar warmth to the heart. Old
friends tried and true cannot be too Loyalty
cherished.
But one by one the old friends drop away
from us, some by death, some by removal and
some by the sheer separation of growth.
We become different persons ourselves as
we grow older and we canot expoct others to
remain always the same. And then our ideals
and our tastes change.
If life is to be continually enriched, we
must be constantly making new friends.
Life, after all, is an adventure, and new
friend has untried possibilities. When new
personality comes within our orbit we have
something like the thrill we feel when we
take up a new book The volume may turn
out to be stupid enough, but we are interested
in seeing what may happen.
One common mistake in the practice of
friendship is the notion that friends must be
ideal and such as shall meet our approval in
every particular. We never find people like
that. Everyone has his limitations as we have
ourselves, and unless we can take people as
they and like them they are including
all the ways in which they differ from us. our
life will be barren of friendships.
And friends depend good deal upon fate,
the course of events, or destiny, or some
thing mot of ourselves.
The friend which shall mean much to our
life may have drifted into your company at
some social gathering, or upon a railroad
train, or in the course of busin,s S. 1t is not
TOO fatalistic to believe that destiny has it's
own plan about your friendships and brings
into contact with you those whom you really
need and not those whom you think you
need.
And friends reveal ourselves to us. Every
new person we meet sets up a new reaction in
us. The development of our life may be from
within, but its course largely depends upon
the stimulations it receives from without.
All of us are not only what we have willed
ourselves to be, but also 10 a great extent
what our friends have made US.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-30
The Legislature Task

A TLANTA cordially welcomes the mem
~ bers of the General Assembly that con-
vened Wednesday, and wishes them
wisdom for the best of service in this peculiar
ly important session.
Never was the commonW ealth in more ur-
gent need of legislative thought that will
grapple boldly with real issues and press
them to a constructive end. The problems
now uppermost are not of a nature to inspire
oratory or feed sensation; but whoever helps
to solve them Alright will be adding beyond
measure to Georgias prosperity and upbuild-
ing. They are not of the sort that the mere
politician .,,;cs to deal ,.-n, for they demand
hard thinking, firm convictions and a sacri-
flee of expediency to principle; but the legis-
lator that bears patriots part in settling
them wisely and welI~will deserve the graft
tude of all thinking citizens, now and in
years to come. They are work-a-day prob
lens, business problems, and, in the main,
problems of taxation.
They have haunted the state government
for decades, waxing ever more insistent, but
receiving no satisfaction. They involve every
institution and every interest of the puHlc,
from the roadside school to the university,
from the rights of the lowiest son Of the soil
to the highest of social and humanitarian OBJ
legations. All that the state hopes to be edu-
cationally, all that it ought to be in every
realm of service depends upon a just, effec-
tive settlement of this basic question of taxa
ton
If executive urging could have sufficed
the matter by now would be we'll on the Wa
to haHny adjustm--t. The retiring Governor
has appealed cogently, bravely, constructive
ly for action; and the incoming Governor, we
take it, will be equally earnest. But Cover
nors, howsoeyer sapient and forcefu cannot
make laws; only the legislative body can do
that. On the Georgia Legislature rests the
responsibility of providing state tax system
that will produce .dequate revenues for eff
ficent and progressive government
| That the rank and file both of the House
and of the Senate recognize this RESPONSE
biity is evident and is highly encouraging
The task is net easy. 1t is extremely hard.
But how blest, when it is done, will be the
commonwealth And how honored the men
and women who speed the doing