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The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
HOUSE. PASSES ANTI
KU KLUX KHAN BILL

The house of the Arizona legisla-
ture Monday passed a bill declaring
it a misdemeanor for masked or dis
guised persons to assemble except in
regular indoor meeting places. The
bill now goes to the senate.
The bill would also provide that
acts ordinarily classed as misdemean-
ors shall become felonies if commit
ted by masked or disguised persons.
The measure, substituting house bill
No 81, went through with only four
dissenting votes and one member abb
sent.
Those voting against the bill were
Flock of Maricopa; Mayes of Pima,
Watkins of Cochise, and Wisener of
Yuma. Finch Of Maricopa was abb
sent.
The house approved the masked
band bill in committee of the whole
Saturday, after lengthy debate.
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COURT NEWS
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Ida Wheeler has filed suit for div.
orce against Leith j. Wheeler, alleg-
ing non-support. Frank Harrison is
her attorney.
The First National bank has filed
suit on notes against Henry S. Perry
and wife and Edward D. Spellmire,
the latter trustee in bankruptcy for
Henry S. Perry Frank Harrison IS
plaintiffs attorney.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATION

Examination for teachers will be
held in my office at the courthouse,
on Monday and Tuesday,
March 5 and 6, beginning at $3.50 81.
M, each day.
CHARLOTTE ACKER,
County Superintendent Of Schools.
2-23-2t
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AND TO THE POINT

"Did any one comment on the way
you drive your new car ?"
"Yes, one man made brief remark.
He said: Twenty dollars and COSTS !"
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Christian Church
No. 12 South Beaver st.
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Sunday, February rs, 1923.

Sunday, February 25, 1923.
Communion and preaching, 10:45 a.
m. Subject: Witnesses to the Div
unity of Jesus" Services at night,
7:45. Subject: "The Power of the
Gospel" Prayer meeting Thursday
at 1880. Everyone is welcome to these
services. j. w. SAUNDERS.
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of Coconino and Mohave counties ly-
ing north of Grand Canyon was turn
ed down by the Arizona Legislature.
The strip contains about 5000 square
miles.
Daniel r. Prime died following a
stroke of paalysis. Was an Arizona
pioneer. Leaves a widow and three
daughters, Mrs. D. A. Raudebaugh of
Flagstaff, Mrs Dolph Willard of YER
de, and Mrs. H. H. Hoxworth of Aqua
Caliente.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Gregg have a
new small son.
A. t. Cobb and family home from
three months visit in Ottawa, Kans.
Ransom w. Gibson adjudged insane
and taken to asylum.
David Babbitt leaves for 3O-day
trip to Chicago, st. Louis and New
York.
Paul Verkamp here from Cincinnati
visiting relatives.
S. T. Elliott leaves for Chicago and
New York to buy goods for Rabbits.
Mrs. j. G. Schultz dies at her home
two miles north of Flagstaff,
Probate Judge A. E. Douglas home
from a California trip.
Six saloons, one restaurant and
several small shacks burned in Will
liams. Losers were: john r. Loosely,
building, $1,000; Joe Burke, saloon;
Jim Kennedy, building, $1,000; Samora
Bros, saloon; Andrew. Johnson, whole
sale liquor, $1200; Jim Taber, build
ing, $1,000; NJ. Bryant, saloon; 7. A.
Fleming, building, $1,000; Alex CHS
holm, saloon; Ed Potter, saloon; A.
Tetzlaff, building, $1,000; New York
Kitchen restaurant.
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LIBRARY NOTES
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Brownies wash their hands quite clean,
dirty book they've never seen.
Brownies do not show their greed
BY eating candy when they read.
Brownies do not mark their books,
For this they know would spoil their
looks.
Brownies put their books away;
They find them on the shelf next day.
New books are being received at the
library and are put on the shelf as
soon as possible, a few each day.
These are not only adult books, there
are a. number of children's, and sone-
thing of interest for tiny folks as
we'll as the older boys and girls.
One Of real interest to the elder
folks is Coue's book on self-mastery
through conscious auto-sugges 1t
tells you how to use his now we'll
known saying "Day by day, in every
way, | am getting better and bet
ter"
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Episcopal Church
Corner Elm and Beaver SITS.
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Geo. Vernon Harris, minister. Sum
day, February 25th. Church school
at 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer at IL
a. m. Musical service at p. m.
Week day services on Wednesday at
4:30 p. m. and Friday nights at 8
o'clock. ''The Little Church With the
Big Welcome"
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The suspicious man is always sus-
pected.
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COUNTY CHRONOLOGY
j. Compiled from the Files Of The :
i Coconino Sun, Twenty Years :
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The proposition Of the Utah legis-
lature to get possession Of the strip
of Coconino and Mohave counties ly-
ing north of Grand Canyon was turn
ed down by the Arizona legislature.
The strip contains about 5000 square
miles.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

WILL PAY 15c EACH FOR ALL
squirrel skins killed before May Is.
Chas. L. Evans, Taxidermist and
Furrier, 1910 E. Van Buren,, Phoe-
nix, Arizona. 2-9-6t-pd
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FURNISHED HOUSE,
modern, bath, garage. See Burke
at Brooks store. 1222-tf
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

FOR RENT - / HAVE SEVERAL
good ranches for rent. There are
good buildings on these ranches
and you can move right in and get
ready for next years crop. 7. E.
Pulliam, real estate and insurance,
G. B. Wilson building. 10-6-tf
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| CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Direct and Economical Medium for Buyer
and Seller Use This Column - 1t Pays

FINE, COSY, WELL-FURNISHED
rooms to rent. Furnace heated.
Conveniently located, near the court
house. 116 e. Cherry. Phone 214-W
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ALL KINDS OF PHONOGRAPHS
and sewing machines repaired.
Flagstaff Furniture company.
2-16-23
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

SIX PER CENT MONEY = UNDER
Bankers Reserve System 6 per cent
money may be secured on city or
farm property, to buy, build, inn
prove or pay Indebtedness. Bank
ers Reserve Deposit Company, 1648
California Street, Denver, Colo
rado. 1-26-St
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3-RoOM FURNISHED HOUSE TO
rent. Phone 266-M. 2-2-tf
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Probate Judge A. E. Douglas home
from California trip.
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Mrs. J. G. Schultz dies at her home
two miles north of Flagstaff,
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HOUSE TO RENT-FOUR ROOMS,
water, not furnished. SIS. Apply
Sun office.
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Brownies put their books away;
They find them on the shelf next day.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

S. T. Elliott leaves for Chicago and
New York to buy goods for Rabbits.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

Brownies do not mark their books,
For this they know would spoil their
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Sun Office.
LOST = BETWEEN HOME AND
down town, one silver Eversharp
pencil and clild's black coat. Mrs.
Harlow Yaeger. Phone 104-M. 1t
WANTED-PRINTER ON A SMALL
weekly newspaper. Must be man
who can help with news. Married
man preferred. Address letters to
The Snowflake Herald, Snowflake,
Arizona. 1tf
Evening star., 1923-07-03
Ambitions Of Boyhood.

Every boy in the United States
knows precisely how Warren G.
Harding felt years ago when he as.
pired to run a locomotive. For every
American boy has probably felt just
that way, envying the man in the
cab who, with hand on throttle, con.
trolls the power that pulls the train.
Yesterday Warren G.. Hardings boy
hood ambition was realized. He drove
a locomotive for twelve miles in the
Rockies. True, it was not one of the
old-style steam engines" putting and
snorting and Sizing. 1t was an elec.
trio locomotive. But it pulled the
train, and that is, after all, the big
thing.
Warren G.. Harding, now President
of the United States, was as a boy
about like every other American boy
in his ambitions and tastes and ideals.
Probably when he was boy he
thought that possibly he might some
day sit in the White House. That is a
fundamental notion that every youth
in this land some time entertains. That
and the thought Of driving locomo.
tive. Now Warren G. Harding has
had both hopes realized. He has be.
come President and he has pulled a
train
Evening star., 1923-07-03
Summer Schools Crowded.

The public schools of the regular
term have suffered from congestion for
years, and now the crowd pressure
upon the summer schools proves
greater than the money available can
provide against. The report is that
the summer schools were filled to
capacity on the opening day, and that
many children may be turned away
because 1.-The limited summer school
appropriation will prevent the ap-
pointment of additional teachers" In
adequacy of public school facilities in
the District is an old story, and the
situation calls for a remedy. There
are promises that a better day is COM
ing in course of time, and hopeful
persons believe that the promises will
be fulfilled.
The outturn Of children for enroll
ment in the summer schools for a six
week intensive course is remarkable.
II children are eager and willing to
give up six weeks of their normal
playtime in an effort to make good
In studies in which they fell behind
during the regular term, or to cut a
semester from their school life by
keeping at their books in summer,
facilities by which they may do these
things should be furnished.
1t was forecast by the director Of
special schools and his assistants that
enrolment in the vacation schools
would be greater this summer than in
any other year, and provision was
made for 5000. That estimate was ex-
ceeded on the opening day of the
schools, and the registration is prob
ably above $500. Next year it will be
larger. More children are turning
year by year to the vacation schools
for help.
Evening star., 1923-07-03
Personal Taxes.

This is the month in which the Dis.
trict citizen should make out and file
his personal tax return. BY perform.
ing this necessary function in good
time confusion will be avoided and a
penalty Of 20 per cent will be saved.
Each of these considerations ought to
urge to promptness in filling out the
blank form and sending it to the
proper authorities as provided by law.
If the return Is not filed before August
1 a penalty of 20 per cent will be added
to the tax. Though the filing of the
tax statement should be made this
month the tax is not to be paid till
later. One-half Of the tax is payable in
November and the remainder is pay.
able next May.
There is always a rush Of taxpayers
toward the close Of the periods in
which tax statements must be filed
and taxes paid. Wise persons avoid
the rush. 1t saves time. trouble and
money to be forehanded or at least
punctual in the payment of taxes. In
most cases taxes are hard to pay, and
this Is especially the case with per.
sonal taxes, but the law must be
obeyed. It IL enforceable and will be
Evening star., 1923-07-03

enforced. The assessor says that
| S5 900 personal tax returns were flied
i last year, that 1t is believed that
! is 900 will be filed this year, and that
last year hundreds Of persons had a
penalty Of 20 per cent added to their
assessments for failing to get their
returns in during July,
Whether the increase in the number
of personal tax returns over last year
will be as great as the assessor be-
lieves remains to be seen. Tax COL
lectors are always hoping for an in
crease in taxpayers and in collections.
1t may be that the local tax gatherers
are getting a line on persons who
should have paid a tax last year, but
who did not Perhaps the increase in
the number of returns which the as
SCISSOR looks for may come about be-
cause Of the increase in the number
of automobile owners, and perhaps Tho
large number Of persons who have
taken up housekeeping in new homes
will help to swell the list.
A personal tax Is collectable on
household furnishings in. excess Of a
value Of $1,000, on automobiles owned
outright or being purchased on time
payments on July /, on bank balances
subject to check, on all jewelry ex-
cepting watches and on stocks and
bonds with certain exemptions which
most holders Of these forms of securi-
ties understand or on which they can
easily inform themselves.
Evening star., 1923-07-03
Co. Operation and Street Safety.

A new slogan has been blaZoned
upon the streets of Washington in the
campaign for safety. 1t reads: Co
operate with the police! When cross
ing a street obey the semaphore, listen
to the whistle.'
Every pedestrian should obey this
injunction. 1t is backed by new rule
of procedure at the crowded crossings
where the traffic is controlled by po-
licemen. Under this rule a traffic Of
ficer will give a whistle signal few
seconds before he turns the semaphore
or otherwise gives the sign for the
traffic to move. This will give an op-
portunity for all who are between the
curbs on foot to reach the objective
side of the street before the blocked
traffic begins to advance.
Under the old practice it has been
necessary for pedestrians at regulated
street crossings to keep one eye on the
semaphore or the policeman's hand
and the other on the waiting motors
banked up against the white lines.
They might be caught in the middle
of the street by the change of the
signal and the advance Of the traffic.
Now a whistle will give them warning
sufficient to enable them to get to the
curb, and will at the same time warn
those still on the sidewalk that there
will be no chance to cross before the
traffic starts.
Another phase Of the new rules
just been put in practice for trial dur
ing the month of July will check the
practice of right.hand turns through
the pedestrian lines without special
warning and signal from the traffic
officer. This corner cutting has been
one of the most difficult factors in the
traffic control system.
If pedestrians will cooperate by
watching the visual signals and heed
ing the whistles there will be much
less difficulty at the crossings. No
one should start to cross a street in
which the traffic has been checked
essary, therefore, to listen for this
signal. Possibly the whistles now in
use are not quite distinctive enough.
Others may be adopted so that there
can be no reason why every pedestrian
does not get ample warning at the
change of traffic impulse.
Cooperation is the keynote Of street
safety-co-operation between pedes-
trians and the motorist and between
all street users and the police.
Evening star., 1923-07-03

| by Gen. O. o. Howard and others.
About 1866 they bought part of the
| tract Of st. Elizabeth's, and which
part was best known as Barry farm.
Lots were sbld to freemen on terms
| they could meet, and they were aided
/ in putting up small houses. That set
tlement was called Hillsdale. 1t occu-
! pied the heights above and the slopes
of the valley Of Stickfoot branch,
which was then picturesque creek.
1t was, and is. a region Of fine scenery.
East of and adjoining Hillsdale.
Howardtown and Stantontown grew
up, but only local geographer could
define the boundaries between the VIII
lagos. In the early sos part of the
tract Chichester, between Fort Stan
ton and Hamilton road, was opened as
subdivision for colored people. 1t
was called GARFIELD.
In the news concerning the polluted
wells it was said: "The health of a
large section of Anacostia is menaced
by Inadequate water and sewer serv-
ice" That Is a geographical error
which has persisted for nearly half a
century. When the first Navy Yard
bridge was built in 1920 the usual
bridge.end settlement grew UP at the
south end. In the COS the Van Hook
subdivision of Uniontown was opened.
Pretty homes and gardens OF people.
for the most part employed in Wash.
ingtQn, spread beyond the limits of
Uniontown, and the people living with
in and without the bounds OF the old
subdivision began to call their town
Alacostia, after the wide and beautiful
river near which they lived. The
name Of the first horse-car line to run
from Washington to any Of its sub.
urbs was the Anacostia and Potomac
River railway. That was about 1875.
The post Office name was changed
from Uniontown to Anacostia. and
"Uniontown" sticks only in the
memory Of old inhabitants. A few
years ago a considerable stretch Of
country interviewed between Anacostia
and Hillsdale, and there is still wide
expanse of country between Anacostia
and Garfield.
Evening star., 1923-07-03
Polluted Wells.

1t is a surprise to q large part of
the people of Washington that there
are still thickly settled sections Of the
District without sewer facilities and
with no other water supply than OBJ
tained from wells and springs. This
has recently been brought out by the
health department in cases arising in
Hillsdale and Garfield, old and large
villages Of colored people beyond the
Eastern branch. In much Of the Hills
dale section 1t is said that the nearest
city water main Is half a mile away.
and that in the Garfield section the
nearest water main or sewer is more
than a mile away.
What is true of these sections is
probably true Of other sections of the
District. There must soon be an ex.
tension Of water and sewer facilities
ment plan financial hardship will be
imposed on many hundreds Of poor
people, but the question Of their health
and the public health must come first
Hillsdale goes back to civil war days.
When forts for the defense Of Wash.
ington were built refugee slaves began
to camp near them. They built rude
shelters and often had difficulty in
obtaining food. After emancipation
there was a great influx Of those who
had been slaves. Thousands came to
Washington, and thousands settled in
and about the old refugee camps.
Much hunger and disease were known
in these settlements, and various
projects for the betterment of the
people were undertaken.
One measure Of relief for those who
had settled on private land near the
Eastern branch forts was undertaken
Evening star., 1923-07-03
No Reduced Taxation.

Senator Smoot Of Utah, who is to be
chairman Of the Senate committee on
finance in the next Congress, will
leave behind him feeling Of distinct
disappointment in the public's mind
as he departs for Europe tomorrow to
study financial and economic condi.
tions abroad. In an interview he pre-.
diets the unlikelihood of Congress
enacting any legislation looking to
reduced taxation at the session which
will begin in December. He admits
that there Is public demand for lower
taxes, and recognizes the political as.
pect of the question, but says the gov
ernment has not gone far enough in
reducing its debt to undertake to cut
down its income.
This is discouraging news, indeed,
coming as it does from the man who
ought to know by virtue of his ia
miliarity with the finances and legis-
lation of the country. Senator Smoot
asserts that the expenses Of the gov
ernment are likely to increase, rather
than be reduced, foreclosing hope Of
curtailing its income by lowering
taxes. He looks for demand for the
passage of an omnibus public building
bill in the next session, and is con.
fident that a soldiers bonus bill will
be enacted, even if it must be done by
passing it over President Harding's
veto.
About the only cheerful suggestion
he has for the public is the possible
lowering Of freight rates to help the
farmers. He thinks the roads are pros
porous enough to lessen their carrying
charges, for which there is insistent
d. nand, especially in the west.
The politicians will foresee impor-
tant political consequences IL Senator
Sr..oots forecast of noreduction of taxes
is fulfilled. The democrats are certain
tC emphasize the demand for reduction
which they can safely do because they
have no responsibility In the prem
ises. They know that 1t will be prac-
tically impossible for the republicans
in the face of clamor for a soldiers
bonus, to do anything in the way OF
reduction. and they may be counted
uron to assail the party in power
with all their might for not accom-
plishing reduction.
Evening star., 1923-07-03
When Is the American Language"
Not Really Anything of the Sort2

To DR.. Henry Van Dyke the pro-
posal of an American language" Is
'Seither specimen of American
humor or a serious enormity,' and
he seems inclined to regard 1t as
the latter, to judge by his remarks
to the recent conference of British
and American professors OF English.
A number Of editors agree with DR..
Van Dyke and. like him, decry the
"sloyenly manner In which the
mother tongue Is used in the United
States. At the same time Henry L.
Menken, whom the Princeton pro-
fessor was Indirectly attacking and
who might be called the founder and
discoverer of the American language.
is not left altogether without the
support of his journalistic brethren.
"Anglophobia has had no more fu-
! tile manifestation than the proposal
for a distinctive American language"
declares the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal. a movement which the paper
SAYS has the backing of "the literati
who have been bitten by the anti
British bug. or literary fanatics who
favor any fad that has the appear
ance of being new or intellectual"
The political slant which the Courier
Journal suggests is not, however,
considered by other commentators,
most of whom point out that the de-
as true of British writer's and British
people generally as 1t Is of us. Slow
enliness and "the besetting sin of
| laziness" are responsible for the
threatened growth Of an American
Language" as the Philadelphia Rec
these faults" it believes. "conspfre
| to make the enormity of free verse
that passes for poetry, the claptrap
| that usurps the honorable place of
the essay and the siangy ana 1rotny
tales of trivialities which are now
served up as fiction"
But "Dr. Van Dyke would admit"
or at least, the Paterson Press Guar
dian thinks, Ought to admit, that
! some slight variation from the parent
that both here and in England the
language will be gradually broad
ened, IL not enriched, by words or
phrases Of colloquial origin" Ger
tainly "the new-made slang Of Amer
lea now and then supplies the Eng
lish .speaking world with a word or
an expression that conveys meaning
never precisely expressed before"
adds the Detroit Free Press.
But to other writer's this line OF
burgh Sun puts 1t, Mr.. Menken's
prophecy of a distinctively Amer.
lean tongue Stands little chance OF
fulfillment," because "the pendulum
is swinging the other way. The drift
today is toward conformity. not va
riety, in speech" The. New York
Herald fails to see wherein "the
boosters for an American language"
basinr il on the theory that "the
differences between our own speech
and that of the English will increase
with time.s As matter OF fact, the
Herald maintains that increasingly
closer communication between the
two countries is certainly not going
to make for greater differences in
their speech, and Americans and
Britons are becoming better ac-
er's use Of the language" in Illus
| tration Of which the paper points out
J that "Englishmen no longer wrinkle