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The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
SHERIFF CAMPBELL RETURNS;
WILL GET HIS MAN LATER

Sheriff Billy Campbell returned yes
terday from SpringvilIe, La, with
out the man he went after. But Billy
has him fettered there by a $500
bond and expects to bring him back
this fall.
The man is ]. H. Hemeter, alleged
to have absconded with several hun
dred dollars with which he had been
intrusted by the Saginaw & Manistee
Lumber Co. at Williams for the pay
ment of some of his sub-logging con-
tractors.
Campbell had him in Jail in Spring
vile. Governor Parker and the dis
trict Judge, Campbell says, decided to
grant extradition as soon as they read
over the papers County Attorney
Frank Harrison had drawn, both de-
claring them to be the most complete
they had ever seen. Then Henleter's
counsel swore out a writ of habeas
corpus. The district judge denied it.
Appeal was taken to the state SUI
preme court.
In the meantime, Hemeter, out on
$500 bail, skipped for Mississippi.
Campbell tagged along behind and
got him, bringing him back to Spring
vile, where the bail was increased to
$500. Hemeter finally succeeded in
getting bail again, the amount repre-
senting about twice what he is alleged
to have stolen. The state supreme
court decided that it could not pass
on the habeas corpus appeal until Oc-
tober S. Campbell says there is no
doubt they will release Hemeter to
him.
Bill says the mosquitoes were awful
lovin' during the month he spent IN
Louisiana. They carried their own
pliers and cut their way through the
wire netting. Two of them stole a
big plug of eating tobacco he had.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22

The Great White Father at Wash
ington is displeased with his red-skin
children on the Arizona reservation.
He believes they play too much;
that they cling too closely to ancient,
time-honored rites and customs.
Which customs he believes in his all
enveloping wisdom to be wrong, OF
sacriligeous or something; undeterred
by the knowledge that we whites fol
low religious observances so diverse
that whichever one is right and prop
er all the rest must be wrong; and
in spite of the fact that some of our
beliefs and rites that must by that
test be wrong are of much later origin
than those the commissioner con-
denns.
And his long arm is reaching out
to curtail their pleasures; to demollsh
some of the strange, wierd and beau
tiful ceremonies they in their own su-
perstitiously-r way believe to
be marvelously potent influences in
their lives.
U. S. Commissioners of Indian At
fairs Burke not long ago wrote the
Arizona Indian tribes, asking them to
give up their tribal dances. He par
ticularly mentioned the famous Hopi
snake dance, saying he believed the
handling of poisonous reptiles is
wrong. He said that if his request
is not observed it will be followed by
an executive order.
Many believe the snake dance this
fall will be the last of these celebrated
ceremonials. Or, if they are held at
all, it will have to be in secret, where
no emissary of the Great White Faith
er may see.
This action, if such action is taken,
as it now seems certain it will be, will
be a surprise and disappointment not
only to the people of Arizona and the
southwest, but to thousands Of people
all over the world. The Hopi snake
dance, held in August each year, is
probably the most widely featured and
popular Indian ceremonial held any
where. Each year visitors come from
all over the world to view it. Many
come again and again.
Many of the snakes used in the
dance are poisonous, it is true. But
no fatalities has ever been reported
The members of the snake clan who
take part in the dance are specially
prepared by rigorous system OF
training against death or even serious
illness in the event one is bitten. Ere
duentIy they are bitten, but the prep
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22

Wearied of life on the ranch with
his dad out at Dead Mans Flat, north
east of Flagstaff, 12-year-old Aubrey
Simpson, says he listened to tales of
good fishing and free and easy life
In Oregon and entered into conspir-
acy with Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Hook
Of San Francisco to let them kidnap
him and his buckskin pony.
Hook and his wife are now in coun-
ty jail here. Following their prelin1-
mary hearing Wednesday and yester-
day forenoons before Justice oe the
Peace r. j. Kidd, the latter reserving
decision until today.
The Hooks and the boy were ar
rested last week at Daggett, Cal
ifornia, by Officer j. H. Lucas of San
Barnardino county. Don Chisholm
vent there after them and brought
them back. They waived etxradition,
though at first they were inclined to
fight against returning here.
Lewis Simpson moved onto a Dead
Mans Flat homestead about 19 months
ago. His wife lives in New Mexico,
Aubrey came out here to live with
his dad.
4 LS nOOkS Cd1uG HSIE III al E4SS<3A
car a few weeks ago, ostensibly on a
business deal. They visited at the
Lynch ranch, east Of Flagstaff, and
with Simpson.
According to the STRAIGHTFORWARD
testimony of the boy, Mrs. Hook told
Simpson she would steal the boy. He
told her Sheriff Campbell would soon
bring her back. Then, the boy said,
Hook told him how good the fishing
Is in Oregon, where he and his wife
were going, how nice it would be TO
go to school there, and so on. The
boy hankered to GO.
Hook then, according to the boy,
told him he couldn't leave in the car
with him and his wife because that
would get them into trouble, but pro-
poaed that the boy ride his horse
south from Cliffs, to throw his father
df the track, then double back into
Flagstaff and ride west. The Hooks
were to oyertake him and after they
got to California the horse and his
trappings were to be sold, $75 being
the price they thought they could get.
I, So the boy started. The first day,
the Hooks oyertaking him on the road
hetween Flagstaff and Williams, they
reached Massey's camp grounds be-
yond williams and camped near there
for the night. The next night and
day they camped near Seligman. From
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
INDIAN COMMISSIONER
BURKE, NTIMATES HOPIS
MUST QUIT SNAKE DANCE

aration and the decoction they drink
Immediately following the dance has
always proven more potent than the
virus.
Few people will understand what in
fluences are behind this plan to de-
stroy this and other sacred Indian
rites. Few will take kindly to the
plan which if carried out will do away
with some Of the most picturesque
rites of the Indians. Doing away with
these things will also lessen the con-
tact between Indians and whites,
which these ceremonials have increas-
ed, this contact bringing better un-
derstanding and closer sympathy be-
tween the two races.
Like practically all of the Indian
dances, especially those of the Hopis,
the Hopi snake dance is based on deep
tribal religious beliefs.
The snake god of the Hopi is not
a good spirit, but an evil spirit The
Hopis feel they do not need any ex-
traordinary ceremonies to propltiate
the good spirits, because they know
they will be good to them anyway.
But they want to keep on the right
side of the evil spirits because they
want them to leave them alone.
This, then, is why they use the
snakes. This and their tradition that
away back in the earliest Indian his
tory the great snake god sent two
Hopis out of the ground and that it
was these two Hopis who founded the
Indian village Of Oraibi, one of the
several Hopi villages that take irreg-
ular turns in staging the annual snake
dance.
The main purpose of the dance is to
make sure that ample rains will be
provided. While there are not many
in each village who belong to the
snake clan and take part in the dance,
vet all the people in the villages re-
gard the ceremony with deep venera-
ton and profoundly believe it essen
tial to their prosperity and insurance
against ruinous drought.
SO deeply are the Indians commit
ted to these beliefs that forbidding the
ceremonials will not stop them. 1t
will be a direct invitation to and cause
of disobedience and disloyalty and
snealing away to secret places for
going through the various rituals. The
indians, however, will suffer finan-
cially because they will be deprived
Of the thousands Of dollars spent
among them each year by visitors 20
the snake and other dances.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
FOREST FIRE RACES OVER
THE SUNSET BAD LANDS

Forest fire on Monday and since
has demonstrated it can get away and
burn where the initiated would swear
it never could burn.
More than 200 acres was burned
over on the cinder and lava land along
the last mile of the road leading to
the ice caves at the foot of Sunset
mountain. The fire jumped great dis
tances between trees. There was
practically no small vegetation there,
but the cinders and lava seemed to
intensity the heat and help carry II
as it shot through the air in its
spread.
The fire was serious in that it
killed off the growth of hundreds OF
years and it viii be hundreds of years
hence before that trail, much fire.
quented by sightseers, will show an
equal growth of new trees.
The fire was under control yester-
day, but forest service men we're still
watching it.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
CITY COUNCIL

City Council on Wednesday night
ordered in street lights at the inter
sections of Railroad avenue and
Spring street and Cherry avenue and
Verde street.
There was considerable discussion
about the cemetery. Council hopes
the owners of the various sections of
the cemetery will get together for i'm
provement of the grounds. Council
viii cooperate as far as possible.
K. j. Nackard asked that Cottage
avenue be improved and the city en-
gineer was instructed to fix grades
and estimate the approximate amount
of grading, cost, etc.
Mrs. Del Strong was appointed a
member of the city library board vice
Mrs. Ann Noble, who resigned few
days ago when she left for the east.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
w. H. ANDERSON BRINGS HIS
BROTHER HERE FOR RE-BURIAL

When w. H. Anderson returned TO
his home here from Los Angeles
week ago he brought with him the re
mains of his brother, James A. An
derson, who died in that city in 1919
and who was we'll known here. Mr..
Anderson was sick for several days
after he got home and the re-inter
ment in the Masonic cemetery was not
made until yesterday, when the re-
mains were taken to the grave from
the Flagstaff Undertaking parlors.
Rev. w. H. Zook offered prayer at
the grave.
Mrs. Anderson is still in Los An
geles with Mr.. Anderson's mother,
who it is hoped will soon be able to
come to Flagstaff for a visit. She
will be 101 years old the 18th of Au-
gust and only recently recovered from
an attack of pneumonia which left her
weak and unable to travel at this
time.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
M'MULLEN HAS NEW JOB

Forest fire burned over about so
acres southeast of Flagstaff on Sun
day. 1t was cut-over land but good
deal of damage was done to the pine
seedlings and larger reproduction
stock. About rs men were on the
job and had the blaze under control
about o'clock. NJ L. Nichols, in
charge of the fire-fighters for the
forest office, espied President L. B.
McMullen of the Normal school stand
ing near the fire line and thinking he
was one of his crew told him to camp
right where he was and not let the
fire get past that point. Mac ac-
cordingly camped and held the fire at
bay.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
MADE OSS OF HIMSELF
SAY THE LOCAL OFFICERS

VIM. Oss, until recently employed
on concrete work by Ed Raudebaugh,
was arrested at the Gap this week by
Deputies Sheriff John Garrett and
Don Chisholm and brought back to
county Jail, charged with passing
worthless checks.
1t is alleged Oss wrote numerous
checks on a Michigan bank and that
as they came back he and others for
him redeemed them. Two he wrote
for Dave Lay and j. H. Harper he did
not redeem.
The officers followed Oss to Grand
Canyon, then back to Flagstaff, then
out on the reservation. He had an
other man in his car and is supposed
to have been on his way out Of the
state. He came here a few months
ago from California
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
NICE LITTLE STILL

1t is alleged that Tranquilino Mores
had the mash and Antonio Soto the
still, the former living in the Dad
Power house south Of the tracks and
the latter in the Old Town section. It
was promising-looRing mash and an
extremely well-made little still, says
R. L. Neill, city marshal, who arrested
both and turned them in to the coun-
ty Jail for preliminary examination
on Wednesday before U. S. Commis-
sioner Tom L. Rees, who bound them
over in $500 bail each for the U. S.
district court.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
SENATOR ASHURST OFF FOR
EUROPEAN TRIP ON JUNE 20

Senator and Mrs. Henry F. Ashurst
sailed for Europe Wednesday on the
President Polk, according to word re-
ceived. They will visit London first
and their itinerary while in Europe
includes visits in England, Ireland,
Scotland Wales, Denmark, Germany
and France.
Senator Ashurst writes that he ex-
poets to return to Arizona early IN
October, as he wishes to make visit
to Lees Ferry and number of prof.
ects in the state requiring attention.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
RESTAURANTS INSPECTED

Mayor Tom Pullian and DR.. Felix
Manning, city health officer, made
tie rounds of the Flagstaff restau-
rants the first of the week, giving
each a thorough look-see, in line with
the new city ordinance requiring GER
tain sanitary regulations. They found
most Of them in good shape and little
to criticize in the others, those that
were not quite up to the mark being
advised what improvements must be
made.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22
U. S. DISTRICT COURT
FINES LOCAL MEN

Refugio Perez was fined $1Oo and
Sam Fugi, Jap, was fined 5000 by
Judge Jacobs in U. S. district court at
Prescott last week. Both were sent
down from Flagstaff on the charge
of manufacturing liquor, the arrests
having heen made by Chief of Police
r. L. Neill. Both paid their fines.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22

Kingman beat Williams at baseball
on Sunday at Williams, by a score of
ID to 10. Kingman got lead of five
runs in the first inning.
The Coconino sun., 1923-06-22

Mr.. and Mrs. D. K. Ward of the In
dian Wells mission, have moved into
the conference quarters east of Flag
staff for the summer.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Smell OF Pig Sites
There Must Not Be
lnHonorable Town

A late ucase has gone forth
commanding all four.legged hog 8
(two.legged on es at their per-
lily to get over the fence and out
Of the sacred limits before the
cock crows in the mo(u)rning
time twice-on the 10th in nstan-
ter. ~ the end that no more
stink go up unto the nostrils of
the city fathers and their ante-
cedents, heirs and assigns. when
they raise their windows to
pray. or to get q fresh smell of
air. or other invigoratlng In.
halements of ozpne, hence and
for which reason word rightly
and properly ought to be passed
along to an un suspecting public
to have compassion on city fa-
theirs and the towns pet parlor
porkine squealers, and take them
out of the temptations of city
lite and bring them up in the
way they ought to go, etc., etc.
N. B. P. s.: Information is
that in making some excavation 8
looking for Captain Kids treas
ures. a prehis toric blue-sky.anti-
hog ordination was dug up.
where by the authority to excom.
municate all Alleged hogs and
expell the m outside of the town
away-to give more room for
tine two legged, so the present
ministratlon is not resp on 81:
BILE. and never has been from
that time to this day. As it is,
all hogs will now take warning as
aforesaid, and prepare them-
selves for the crucial ordeal i'm
pending.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Dog and Pig Story
OF Two Springfielders

The following story as it came
to us we believe is worth telling:
A certain Spring fielder (A)
has seventeen hounds and bis
adjoining neighbor (B) has sew
cnteen hogs.
One day B neiehbor called On
A and complained that his dogs
were keeping him awake of
nights.
well" says neighbor A. my
dogs howl a good deal and your
hogs stink good deal, and so
we II just call it even"
And both laughed, and neigh
Dor B went home to give his
pigs more slop.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Can persons do any acts afte r
they are dead? If so. wha.2 !
ask to know, THIS Hmportant
question have aiitatad minds
like Sir Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver
Lodge and several other Sirs
that lecture. Also Sydney Kat.
su. Jr., Treasurer Japanese
Thinking Society. have got some
remarkabilious suspicious about
Hereafter and points beyond.
He say that a newspaper of
name Scientitck North Am erican
have offered $1,000 prize to prove
that knocking is caused by
ghosts and not by steam pipes.
lie think he has already Won his
cash.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Hard Luck
Following Man
Unto Ninth Life

You have heard of the cat
with the proverbial nine lives,
Down in Texas is man who
is having T. run on his. In the
world war he was gassed three
times and was seven times
wounded. Then coming home
he was run over with an auto
and leg broken. Next a girder
fell and broke his arm. Next he
fell from building and cracked
his crown. !!ien he took dive
into q pool and broke his neck.
His neck is now in plaster
cast. He is waiting for 1t to
heal UP. and is figuring conf
dentialIy OIL three more lives
ahead Of him.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Exhibs
AT Baca County Fair
lD Grand Pageant

In addition to the money
prizes mentioned last week,
there will be special prizes rum
ming in value no doubt up to
$25. 90 that it is believed will
give prizes to every float in the
great pageant. even up to fifty
or 100 or more.
In addition to the great agri-
culture floats in the pageant,
there'lI be at least one grand
historical and one grand school
float. each Of them under special
aud capable managers.
In judging these great pageant
displays the judges will take
into consideration
.--.s. +" g-I.-s'---
First the beautifulness of the
psgeauts.
Second the novelty and unique
ness.
Third the quality and variety
of the displays.
Make your arrangem ents now.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

q newspaper cotrespon de 1T
captive OF the Chinese briga NJ DIS,
managed tc send out the follow
ing: booking at things imper-
aorally, | favor armed .nterven-
tion. Ciyilize them with Krags.
IS my motto, and | don't believe
many will have to be 50 civilized
to make good little laurdry-m en-
of the rest.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
District Court
Now in Session

Started off on both feet We'd
nesday. Judge McCbesney in
attendance. Expected to Gnis h
docket this week. lawyers
present; Todd and Underwood,
Judges Doughty and HilIyer,
Dist. Attorney Hawley and
Deputy Cole. Judge Alberti,
Atty's. Chls. Doughty anG Rey.
Rclds. and Atty's. Clark, Terril
aas Maitby Of Elkhart. Full re-
port next week.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

By a system of electric wiring
and the use Of phosphoros and q
dictograph at a seance given by
invitation of the Scientific Amer
ican, it was proven that the
spirit doings was by the medium
himself. But then, pshaw! the
more exposin' the more q thing
grows,
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Smith Signs
And Empire State
Gets Flood Of Rum

The exciting scenes of the
opening of Oklahoma to settle
ment we're almost re-enacted in
New York the first of the week,
any more than instead of ono
grand plunge and then over
with. when New York Sunday
night was opened up to bootleg-
gers the Big drive started, with
the promise that the show VIII
be continual per Torrance.
All eyes will be focused on
New York state while the great
Empire is running red with rum.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Ex-Governor Allen of Kansas.
having just returned from the
Ruhr. says that in no district in
the United States has there
been such a revival Of building
as in the Ruhr since the war.
Ifthat is indicative of the who lie
country. probably it's just az
well to make them pay up"
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

The Jews are getting back a:
Henry Ford. IN a reeen, .tener-
al conclaye they ACCUSE him in q
resolution adopted d AZ bting the
financial backer of the ku Klux,
and cali his candidacy an insult
to the nation. BY tbs way.
what would the rest OF them do
with a Jew # they found him
riding in u Tin Lizzie7
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

A news item says that 80 per
cent of autos are owned by
Americans. That is to say that
in the rest of the world you will
find ten cars to where you will
find ninety in the United States.
Does that mean that our means
are in that proportion. or that
we are just that much worse
off?
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

News dispatches advise that
the princ ce regent OF japan will
get married IN November and
nuptials will last one week .
That what we'd call on durn-
ed long ceremony, and believe
we'd prefer the Spring field style
of - "Jine hands - Do Your
hearts beat as one?-Hitched-
rs cents
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Pueblo is not at all likely to
experince even high water. 70
say nothing of a f1ood. this sum-
mer, and so the Il ,oi plans are
lacking iu force. Pueblo Indica.
tor. It's this way: when the
flood is on you cant, and when
it's not on you don't need it.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Can you imagine any thing
quite so embarrassing as to have
ever body wanting you to come
out and get into a certain big
race, and the old woman stand
ing over you with q rolling pin
and telling you you are going to
stay at home and mind the
babies?
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

The department of agricultur e
estimates that 100000 farm
people settled in the cities DUR
ing the past year. but we rather
doubt its accuracy.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Harding plans parley to limit
nayal aircraft. How
ever. before calling this parley
it might be well to find out why
France and Japan haven't signed
the four-powar naval limitation
treaty of the last parley.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Honey in Water
Prevents Freezing
In Car Radiators
l'rcm Dearborn Independent.

fFCm Dearborn independent.
Farmers OF northern Wiscon-
sin are mixing honey and water
and using the preparation as an
antl-freeaing ageIe in the radia-
tors OF their automobiles. Ten
pounds of honey with an equal
amount Of water will last
through the winter and the solu-
Ton is effective even at q tem-
perature as low as 20 degrees
below zero.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Tears in the eyes Of two-eun
Bill Hart as be says be feels
only sS@pathy for blackmailer-
Headline. In line with the sup
posed hardened natu of a two
guu hero. those tears must have
been creckodile, else Hart not q
very bad two-gGn man.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

Boston girl who sued Bill Hart
to make him support her child
when she never had a child, says
she only wanted to give him
"fatherly emotions.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
The Construction
OF the Pit Silo
WithSideE Elev ator

Round or square pit. any
depth desired.
At on e side of the pit an ele-
vator way abou. Aka, the same
to be worked with rope and
compound pulleys, by which the
operator can lower and raise
the elevator by his own efforts.
In addition to ones own la.
Dor the silo oughtn't cost over
$4,000.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Public Ownership
OF Street railways
Proves Big Success
A Press Pispatch.

A Press Pispatch.
Detroit has owned her street.
car system for just one year.
During that time she has paid
81. 200. 600 on its purchase price.
met all all other expenses, set
aside 100000 for a sinking
fund, and shows million dollars
profit. And Detroit operates on
a five cent basis. Why don t we
hear more Of this wretched ex.
pertinent?
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

We'll put this issue of the
Democrat Herald up against any
$500 bill in Springfield. Do ycu
get that?
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08
Increased Acreage
General Row Crops
In Eastern Colo.
From Circular Letter.

From Circular Letter.
Partial reports of county as.
SCISSORS to the State Immigration
department indicate that the
acreage devoted to sorghums
and other forage crops in Colo
RADIO this year will be the larg,
est in the history Of the state.
Substantial increases over last
years acreage also are ipdicat-
ed for millet, beans. broomcorn
and probably corn,
The Democrat-herald., 1923-06-08

The tourist season is now in
full sway, with Colorado as the
great objective. Probably DUR
ing the next sixty days from a
million to two million tourists
will have pitched their tents in
the state,