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ond story in pine, bath floor of tile.
Kitchen floor pine, for linoleum, with
pine trim finished natural.
The interior is very roomy, the
rooms all we'll lighted with plenty of
wall space. The recess entrance, shell
tered by projected hood, is very eff
fective. The fireplace is of tile, giving
very attractive appearance from the
wall on entering. The kitchen cup
boards are ample, and very conven-
lent, with clothes chute, table leaves
and broom cupboard. as well as dust
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mon act. Having too many wives for
one man without being divorced from
some of them, bigamy.
He has wife everywhere he goes
and he never stops. He was born and
raised in Lee county and he was born
er runnin'. He has been to a great
many counties since, however; he is in
some other county now.
Always wears fairly good clothes
and always looks clean and is clean
except in his crimes, which are little
dirty.
Walks erect and runs correct. This
woman-wife he had about six weeks
ago was named Gussie. No telling
what she is named by this time. Ar
rest him if you can get ahead of him
and wire me collect.
P. S.-Be sure you have him in the
lookup before you wire me.
John L. Moon, Sheriff
Lee County, Alabama.
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The design here illustrated is one
now nearing completion in Minneap-
oils, and already has caused much ia
vorable comment.
Size SO feet by % feet Basement
Z feet, first story, 8 feet 9 inches;
second story feet; lowest fall, height
5 feet.
The interior is finished in pine,
ivory enameled, with stair treads, rail,
window stool, shoe and door panels
stained dark mahogany. The floors
on the first floor are of oak, the Sec
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drawer in the Dashboard.
The chambers are all fair size, each
with ample closet room, and good wall
space. Note the large linen closet Oft
the hall, as we'll as the towel cupboard
in the bath.
The exterior walls are stucco STAIN
ed tan over metal lath, while the
woodwork is rich chocolate brown,
sash white, roof shingles deep green,
chimney brick and soldier course a
rough wire cut brick vareigated
shades.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

One thing about us, we always rush
to the aid of our friends and their
friends. So, having got this in the
mail the other day, we're now rush
ing:
Friend Del:
The attached ad from my home
town paper is self-explanatory VIII
you kindly aid my old democrat friend
in Alabam in rounding up this niger?
Put the sun spots on him as it were.
Sincerely, Bob Rhinehart.
The local United States marshal's
office has received circulars describ-
ing two negroes wanted in Lees coun-
ty, Alabama, which they claim will re-
suit in any officer seeing the wanted
men recognizing them at once AS an
officer, the deputies claim Sheriff.
Moon is great wit.
Poster No. One reads as follows:
want him still but he won't keep
still.
| want him 500 worth.
have just cleaned out the Jail.
Business is dull and / got room for
one more.
An unbleached American colored
negro, he is black, in fact they have
quit making them as black as he is.
He is as black as the hinges. of pur-
gatory that hang on the gates Of
eternity. A piece of charcoal would
make snow white mark on his coun-
tenance.
His age is given from 40 to 81
years. His weight is from 1856 to ITO
pounds. That allows for good deal
of margin. He has a long appear
ance because he is slender build. Lit
tie mustache, sharp narrow face, high
cheek bone, long chin, large fairy
eyes. Walks erect.
Throat cut several years ago from
right ear to a little past the goozle.
Evidently cut by left hand man or
cut from behind. He is illiterate, has
limited mental capacity, ignorant fool
kind of damn negro. But he has
sense enough so far to evade arrest.
Somewhere in America.
He is somewhere in America. He
must be there. He is not here. If he
is dead, can tell you where to find
him. | wouldn't want to go there my
self.
Lock him up, arrest him, and wire
IflG anu IOIO Il1lll Qilt1l 4 Se1lA 6CO CA1CA
with the $1OO. I'll pay the freight
on him back. You needn't be afraid
of him, a man who would murder a
woman like that wouldn't hurt moth
ing that wears breeches.
/ got his knife.
Moon Wants Coon
Not a raccoon, but runnin' coon.
Coon Doe, his ma was Doe and
his pa wasn't.
He has a very appropriate name.
(Coon), and he is sly coon, he is
just like flea. You go to put your
finger on him and he amt there.
When you got him you amt.
He will get away from you and
be block away before you miss him.
He just disappears in the mist.
Ask Chief Of Police Geo. s. Robin
son, of Opelika, or Chief of Police w.
S. (Buck) Jones, of Auburn, (They
both know
81 I have a case against him for steal
ing casings; indictment grand lar
ceny. Also one for doing the Nor
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(By "DEL."

in ball.
Al says there are still good many
rattlers out that way.
Al remembered when one OF his
herders, a Mexican, was sitting on
stone, swinging his leg back and forth.
He didn't have any stocking on. A
rattler set his fangs in the calf OF
the mans leg. 1t was three miles
from camp. The Mexican made the
entire distance on one foot, packing
the injured leg in front of him and
never once touching that foot to the
ground. Sort of single-footing, as it
were. When he got there they had no
medicine, but ground up some brown
beans and packed on the wound. The
man gotwell.
All said rattlesnakes do not lay eggs.
The snake in the process of forma-
tion gets his buttons first, then the
rest of the tail, and then the body and
head grow on.
Uncle Tom said that you throw
horse hairs into a ditch and they
grow sort of head and wiggle
around.
AL recalled one time up in Idaho
where he used to live and where one
of his brothers lives now, big stock
man wanted to locate the corner-stones
set some time before on his range by
the surveyors. The stones were at the
section corners. One day he told a
fellow up there he'd give five dollars
him. Three weeks later the man drove
up to ranch hearquarters with four
horse team and wagon full of the
stones. He not only had found, but
delivered them.
Al then told one about Tom Press
ley Duff Brown (Uncle Toms SOM !,
ard Mexican cook. The cook had
favored the chuck very freely with
chill. Presley didn't like chill any
too we'll and asked Duff to tell the
cook TO put in less next time. The
cook couldn't understand English, nor
Presley Spanish. Duff told the cook
Presley wanted more chill next time.
11lGI6 Was L ICSolCy dShCQ 0uA1
to give the Mexican hell. Duff told
him Presley wanted still more chill
next time. So at the next meal the
Mexican had emptied all he had in
the chuck. PRESLEY took one mouth
full and began to cuss. The Mexican
asked Duff what he said. oh" said
Duff, "he says you didn't put enough
chill in" The Mexican apologized be-
cause his chill was all gone.
To revert to hail, Harry said once
back in Ohio they had an awful hail
and every one of the hail-stones was
flat and wafer-shaped. Each one was
an inch or more across and each had
hole in the middle like doughtnut.
Harry said he doesn't tell that very
often because he's afraid people will
think he's not telling the truth. Al
says most of his hail-stones are shap-
ed like lemon-drops. Uncle Tom finds
that most of his are three-cornered,
and one of the corners breaks off when
the stone hits you on top of the head,
especially if you haven't your hat on
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and are bald.

Uncle Tom, though how he happen
ed to think of it just then he didn't
say, remembered about Grant and
Bob Tenant, who used to have lot
of cattle in this state, south of here.
Grant hired Mexican foreman. Bob
didn't think much of the fellow One
night it came up a Storm Grant was
sick. Bob got out on his horse to
help hold the cattle.
A few days before Bob had bought
a dozen of those little old kerosene
bulls-eye lanterns. He picked cou-
pie up, one for himself, and one for
the foreman lighted them and held
them in his left hand, closed. Out
with the cattle he heard noise in
front Thinking it might be COW,
he flashed both lanterns. There was
the Mexican foreman on his blaze
faced horse. The lights struck the
horse square in the eyes and he toss
ed the Mexican off and bolted in
among the cattle, stampeding them.
Bob, cussing some, finally got them
quiet and caught the blaze-face. He
didn't see the Mexican again that
night. Next morning, when he rode
back to camp, in sort of peevish
mood, he said to his brother, Grant:
where in hell is that pet foreman of
yours
"He's there in bed,' said Grant. "He
was struck by lightning, his horse
was killed and he was burned some
thing terrible about the body"
Bob went over, puller the blankets
off the Mexican and booted him out
of there.
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SWEETHEART TOO EXPENSIVE.
SO FIJI BRAVES EAT HER

HONOLULU-Two FIJI braves de-
cided their mutual sweetie was too
expensive. So they ate her.
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Now they await trial at Suva. d. A.
Curl, Pasadena, CAL, reports. Her
head is the evidence. One of the
youths talked in his sleep.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

He recalled the time they built Rat
tlesnake Tanks, out toward Grand
Canyon. With every load the scraper
brought up one to three rattlers. Ev-
cry stone hid one or more. They
found huge balls with score or more
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

It was sort of cloudy the Sunday
afternoon before the opening of the
Joint convention of the State Cattle
Growers association and the State
Wool Growers association, held here in
Flagstaff last week, and some of the
old-timers were sitting in the lobby of
the Weatherford hotel, swapping rem
miseences.
There was Uncle Tom Brown, Tom
Hudspeth, AL Smith, Harry Hibben,
Dan Francis, Colin Campbell, DR.. r.
M. Francis and Harlow Yaeger.
Colin and Dan and Harlow drifted
away somewhere. Doc didn't join the
crowd until late and by that time the
fest was going so he, not being wound
up, so to speak, couldn't have got
chance to say much even If he wanted
to-
They started talking about the
weather and where the new-come sum-
ner rains had hit and hadn't hit.
Then, from these vital statistics they
recalled celebrated hail storms of the
past.
Harry told about an engine on the
Grand Canyon railroad going down
where a bridge had been washed out.
The fireman was killed. The storm
had been mostly hail. They laid the
fireman beside the track and covered
him with hail, keeping the body froz-
en- until next day. The hail was eight
inches deep on the level. In some
places in the canyon where it washed
in drifts it wasn't all melted until six
weeks later.
Uncle Tom said he was in hail
storm once that wore out new Stet-
son hat for him in ten minutes.
Then, some way or other-just why,
Doe Francis couldn't get any explana-
ton ef-they started talking about
snakes. The afternoon before, while
AL was scouting out some land cor
ners where his Ash Greek cattle out
fit grazes, he was standing on pile
of rocks. He heard snake sing close
by, but couldn't locate it. Then it
sang again. Al says he measured the
Jump he made, and it was exactly 40
feet, and that IS the gospel truth. He
wouldn't have believed it himself if
he hadn't measured it. The rattler
had been right under him.
Harry remembered sitting one time
writing and looking down to see a
huge rattler coiled between his feet,
head up and tongue flying. Harry
went right over backward.
Another time he killed big one
beside his cot, in camp. The shack
he was in was tin and hot. He decided
to move out doors. So he put the cot
outside. When he got ready to go to
bed, there were two big rattlers, one
on either side of the cot. He moved
back inside.
He recalled the time they built Rat
tlesnake Tanks, out toward Grand
Canyon. With every load the scraper
brought up one to three rattlers. Ev-
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Come to- The Sun office for first
class job printing.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

mother-in-Iaw was dead. "Shall we
embalm, cremate or bury?" the un-
dertaker wanted to know. The man
wired back: "Embalm, cremate and
bury; take no chances"
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

Give The Sun your Job Printing.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

All said rattlesnakes do not lay eggs.
The snake in the process of forma-
ton gets his buttons first, then the
rest of the tail, and then the body and
head grow on.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

They started talking about the
weather and where the new-come sum-
Tler rains had hit and hadn't hit.
Then, from these vital statistics they
recalled celebrated hail storms of the
past.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

Of course the famous experience of
Ed v. Randolph, now living few
miles east of Flagstaff, came up.
1t will be remembered that Ed and
lot of other cow owners threw in
together and druv bout 5000 head
from Oklahoma. over into Texas. They
were four days without water. They
came to the bank of a river. They
all jumped off and ran and drank.
The other fellers, mostly niggers and
Injuns, jes' drank and drank, and
drank, film their fool hides fuller'n
a tick without waitin' ter breathe. Ed,
who had more sense, would drink lit
tie, then walk around a little, then
drink little more, then walk around
little more, and so on. Tell it that
way as, long as you want to.
Wall, every one of them other fell
lers died in few minutes, in awful
misery. Ed, he was all right, an he
had to drive them 5000 head of cattle
several hundred miles further all by
hisself.
Fred Bixby, president of the Amer
lean National Live Stock association,
told one about when he was boy on
his dads cattle range. The dad used to
pack up a lot of supplies every Satur
day and the foreman, O'Keefe, later
collector of ports at Nogales, would
take the stuff to camp. One Saturday
O'Keefe said: Shorty wants some
rope; says he wants to hang himself"
"Cut off about twenty feet Of that
rope and take it to him." said Bixby's
dad. The rope was cut off and put
on the wagon.
The incident made a profound i'm
preston on the youngster, and two or
three days later he mounted his pony
and rode out to see if Shorty had
hung himself. He opened the door
of the shanty, where Shorty lived. He
had hung himself, all right. He was
still hanging.
Paul Burk, attorney for the Santa
Fe railroad, told of man who got
wire from an undertaken saying his
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Another time he killed a big one
beside his cot, in camp. The shack
he was in was tin and hot. He decided
to move out doors. So he put the cot
outside. When he got ready to go to
bed, there were two big rattlers, one
on either side of the cot. He moved
back inside.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

in a ball.
AL says there are still good man.
rattlers out that way.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

Uncle Tom said that you throw
horse hairs into ditch and they
grow a sort of head and wiggle
around.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

Uncle Tom said he was in a hail
storm once that wore out new Stet-
son hat for him in ten minutes.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-20

Harry remembered sitting one time
writing and looking down to see a
huge rattler coiled between his feet,
head up and tongue flying. Harry
went right over backward.
Evening star., 1923-11-27
CALLS ON DAWSON LODGE.
Grand Master of Masons Continues
His Annual Visitations.

Continuing his annual visitations to
the constituent lodges. DR.. Mark +.
Finley, grand master Of Masons Of
the District of Columbia. accompa-
MED by the officers of the Grand
Lodge, last evening paid his official
call on Dawson Lodge, No. 16, in Ma
sonic Temple. 18th street and New
York avenue. The grand master
commented in eulogistic vein on the
reports of the secretary and treasurer
of the lodge, as summarized by the
grand master and the grand treasurer.
The lodgeroom was decorated for
cordially welcomed by Allen L. COL
ton, master. Following the vista
ton proper an entertainment was
provided, including an address on Ma
sonic topics by Reynold L. Blight Of
the Scottish Rite.
The grand visitations for 1928 will
be concluded tomorrow evening with
a call on Harmony Lodge, No. IT,
Evening star., 1923-11-27
PLAYGROUND NEEDS
SHOWN BY SURVEY.
School Association Reports
on Conditions Revealed
at .SchooIhouses.

n comprehensive program of play
ground extension, covering a period
OF ten years, will be framed by the
committee on recreation of the Dis
trlct Public School Association, it was
announced at meeting of the COM
mittee yesterday afternoon. The pro-
gram will be based on survey of the
present and future needs. All organi-
cations in the city will be asked to
assist.
Mrs. Carrie Golden Smith. chairman,
IN announcing the action of the COM
mittee, said: I'VE are going to find
out where the available land is for
those schools now without play
ground facilities and the price of the
land. We will also survey rapidly
growing sections and find out what
their needs are. In outlying districts
we will have the land plotted and re-
quest purchase of sites TO care for
future population.
when we have made our program
= land-purchase bill will be presented
70 congress and appropriations over
a period of ten years will be asked
when the project is approved"
Work Already Started.
Work on the survey has already
begun. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter,
president OF the Congress of Mothers
ard Teacher Associations has
already called a meeting of her or
sanitation heads and will appoint one
person to make the study for each
school III the city.
'Chiidren are subjected to uncon-
sctonable conditions on school play
grounds Mrs. Rafter said Not a
ground that | know of is properly
surfaced"
Reports of conditions at ten schools
were made at today's meeting 1t
showed ali grounds muddy and unfit
Tor play. At the Peabody School
land acquired through the efforts of
cltlzens and parent-teacher as
soclatlons for playground purposes
mas been converted into a site for a
portab Bile school Mrs. Smith said. At
the Maury School, 11th ana streets
an unused brick building juts out
third of the play space.
ground
The Wheatley has ground but
neither supervision nor equipmnet.
The Hays. at 5th and K streets
northeast. has no suitable equip
ment.
Play space at the Blair, 9th and l
streets IS taken up by portable
Children at the Gales School, 1st
street and Massachusetts avenue, are
partlcularly unfortunate. Mrs Rafter
t,. fodu the committee. They are mostly
and they are sent to school at s.20
am. when their parents so out, ana
must play on the school lot or. street
Until School starts and after it closes
until D, when their parents come home
again, she said. They have moth
lhg out concrete pavement to play
on and not enough Of that"
Lack of Supervision.
The committee was told that prac-
tlcal!y all school grounds lack SUPER
h..
ground department is able to stretch
It's appropriation in a few instances;
AT the Petworth School all the play
space Is taken UP by portable build
lhss. AT Brightwood play equipment
which was delivered two months ago
IS stiil lying about not installed, Mrs.
Smith said.
Tne association will get squarely
behind the needs of the Children
Capt. julius !. Peyser, association
president. said.
Evening star., 1923-11-27
FORD RAIL OFFICIAL |
AGREES TO TESTIFY
Head of Ironton Road Will
Appear Before Commission
Here Tuesday Next.

e. G. Leibold. vice president Of the
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, Henry
Ford's railroad, notified the Inter-
state Commerce Commission today
that he was willing to appear before
it next Tuesday to present his COM
pany's views on railroad consolida-
tion. a hearing was set for that day.
The United States marshal at De-
troit had returned to the commission
a subpoena for Mr.. Leibold. marked
not found" The Ironton official in
formed the commission that he had
not known of its desire to procure his
attendance and had given the notih-
cation Immediately upon reading
newspaper accounts of the search in
stituted for him.
The Detroit, Toledo and 1ronton is
the only road which failed to put
evidence asked for into the commits
sion's record on consolidation.
Evening star., 1923-11-27
D. A. R. OFFICIAL DIES.
Mrs. c. A. Slaughter, Chaplain O.
Sarah Franklin Chapter.

Mrs. Charles A. Slaughter, resident
of this city for the past eighteen
wears. died yesterday after a linger-
ing illness at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Carlton II. Willett,
2316 1st street northwest.
Mrs. Slaughter was born in Peters
burg. Va, coming to this city in 1905.
She was chaplain OF the Sarah Frank
lin Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and member of
the Robert E Lee Chapter. United
Daughters Of the Confederacy.
Surviving her are her husband.
Charles y. Slaughter: her daughter,
Mrs. Willett; granddaughter, Mrs.
H. c. Byrd of College Park, Md, and
three Observation-Disclosures.
Evening star., 1923-11-27
FLAN SUPPER-DANCE.
caravan Club to Honor Illustrious
Potentate Steuart

Arrangements have been completed
by the Caravan. Club of Almas Tenn
pie of the Mystic Shrine for a supper
dance and reception to be rendered
illustrlous Potentate and Mrs. Leon
ard +. Steuart at the City Club to-
morrow from pm. to am.
The affair is to be in the nature OF
d bon voyage" to Mr.. and Mrs. Steu-
art on the eve of an extended trip
through the United States. Henry &
Stein Is president and II. S. Shepard
IS secretary treasurer of the Cara
van Club.
Evening star., 1923-11-27
WAR CAM0UFLAGE, TOPIC.

Maj. Howard S. Bennison, L. S. A..
presented a review of the camoufia ee
work done by American troops dur
ing the world war to members of the
Washington Post, Society of American n
Military Engineers, in the Graham
building. 14th and Z streets north
west
Reserve officers of the 306th Cavalry,
62d Division. held their meeting last
night in the same headquarte
Horse Training, Recruit Training,
Care of Animals in Garrison and
Field" was the subject under dis
cusSion
Evening star., 1923-11-27
STORAGE STRIKE ENDS.

MELBOURNE, Australia, November
27-The workers in the cold storage
plants who recently went on strike.
seriously affecting the expectation of
meats, have returned to their duties
under their old working conditions.
Their clans against the owners Of
the plants will be arbitrated.
Evening star., 1923-11-27
FRENCH WAR HERO sUCCUMBS

PARIS, November 27.-Gen. j. NJ. G.
Malleterre. military governor of the
Invaldes Museum of Paris, is dead
He distinguished himself at the first
battle of the Marne and lost a leg
at the battle of the Aisne
Evening star., 1923-11-27

La fatal pierta (The Fatal
Stone). No. 8o028, Cad
ski and Caruso ... .$1.75
o Terra Addio Farewell,
Oh EARTH, No. 5000,
Gadski and Caruso. :. .SI.75
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
52e5 INSPECTIONS PER CAR

The faithfulness of performance so universally remarked in Dodge Brothers Motor Cars, is due, in no small part, to the thoroughness with which each unit is inspected during the process of manufacture and assembly. A trained staff of HOO experts Is employed in this work alone, and approximately 5,285 inspections are made on each car. So exacting and rigid arc the standards applied to these inspections that the slightest variation, either in workmanship or material, is sufficient cause for immediate rejection.
 Dodge dgeBrothersarealmostover-scrupulou in their constant aim to make each car as sound and perfect as is humanity possible.
 The price of the Type A" Sedan
 Is 3i,sss.oo delivered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14

a garage mechanic who had grease on his hands and failed to wipe them on somebody's automobile cushion Baltimore Sun.
 Mechanical Horse
 Fable: Once upon time we had minute mon who rode horseback, 1, now we have mile-R-mlnute men who ride in high powered automobiles "Aesops Film Fables"
 WAyward Dos
 Fable; Once upon a time we red an automobile bug what made him limp when he walked and he dld not reply that one of his cylinders wasn't firing. - Arkansas Thomas Cat.
 Monkey and Cat
 Fable: Once upon a time there was an auto driver who looked up at the sky when he saw pretty girl with short skirt crossing the street.-"Aesop's Film Fables"
 Man Who Laughs
 Fable: Once upon a time man left his car in repair shop for a week and the gasoline didn't evapo- rate from his tank.-Flint Motorist.
 Mysterious Hat
 Fable: Once upon time there was a woman outo driver who never stopped now or then to powder her nose and adjust her hat to a new angle.-eAesop's Film Fables"