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The Washington times., 1923-04-08
WORK READY To WAR
ON INDIAN GRAF TIERS
Secretary of interior Primes
Himself to Combat Ex-
pIoitation Scheme.
CAMPAIGN IS NOW ACTIVE
Propaganda Circulated Propos-
ing to Put Rich Properties
in Private Hands.

by Universal Service.
When Secretary of the interior
Work returns next week from
Oklahoma, he is expected to be
well supplied with facts to com
bat propaganda tending to take
out Of the hands of the Govern
ment the administration of $1,000,
000,0 Of Indian property and put
it In private hands.
This campaign has become more
active since the Indians started
plucling fat pluns from the "oil
trees"
According to the Indian Office
there has always been a crowd
OF grafters who have waved fat
on Indian claims and made the
Indian poor. These men are not
to be allowed to obtain control
of Indian affairs IL the office and
the Interior Department can pre-.
vent it.
A recent report from the office
called the hand of the "adventur.
ers." and said:
There is considerable propa.
ganda going on against the Indian
Bureau for the purpose of re,
leasing all Indians from Govern
ment supervision. This propa,
ganda Is fostered by selfish inter
ests.
THE billion dollar Indian estate
looks mighty tempting to the
Indian land grafters. They seem
to be we'll organized, and have
deceived some good people by their
propaganda.
They are using the services oil
some shrewd mixed-blood Indians
who are willing to sacrifice the
less fortunate Of their own race
for personal gain and an oppor
tunity to rob them of their patri
mony.
"A Western magazine carried q
story recently that the Blackfee
| Indians of Montana had been fol
years in a starving condition. OF
ficial records show that the Black
feet Indians have increased in popu
! lation since 1912 from 2,S16 to 3.06t
in 1922. That does not look mucl
like starvation.
Major James II. Mclaughlin, FOL
| fifty years a worker among TIT
| lTuIdHBt anu dukHOi VI lHC DOOh VII
| titled MY Friend. the Indian say'
that out of his long experience
| among the Indians he has never
known of a single case OF ac*ua
starvation of an American Indian.
Even some of the churches have
been imposed upon in this organ
lied propaganda by travelling fake
Indian chiefs. Recently an ALLEGED
| Indian organization in Chicago
passed resolution TO the effecl
| that the Indian was without a fiae
and country.
"As a matter of fact. two-third'
of the Indians are citizens. More
than 100, 900 have been released
absolutely from any supervision by
the Government.
Furthermore, 10000 served in thu
army and 1000 in the navy during
the world war They were thu
first Americans, and our flag. ii
their flag"
The statement ended with tn
| declaration that the Indian hal
taken his proper place in Congress
in the person of Senator Robert l.
Owen, a member of the Cherokee
nation. and others.
Charles D. Carter, a Chickasaw
and W. w. Hastings, a Cherokee
are members Of Congress. r. A
Chandler, Cherokee, served in thC
Sixty seventh Congress and wai
defeated for the Sixty-eighth. Sena
tor Charles Curtis Of Kansas. Re
publican whip, is a member Of thu
KaWS
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
Policeman is Slugged
Arresting Dope PeddIer

Attacked by a mob of negroes
when he was attempting to arrest
a dope peddler at Navy Place
southeast late yesterday afternoon,
Policeman ". P. Kew, Fifth pre-
cinct, was severely beaten with a
lead pipe. After he had been
dubbed into insensibility the ne.
groes fled.
Under protest of giving infor-
nation one of the negroes in the
court called the officer to one
side. This appeared to be the sig
nal for the attack. Search is be-
ing made for the drug peddler and
his brother, who Is alleged to have
welded the instrument.
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
NewsbOy, Hurt on Street,
Asks $4,000 Damages

Bernard A. Hawkins, eleven,
newsboy, filed suit yesterday in the
District Supreme Court against the
: District government and Arthur J.
Tholl for $4,000 damages for al
legged personal injuries.
The suit. filed by Andrew J.
Hawkins, father of the boy, blames
the District government for allow
ing Tholl to leave a pile of radia-
tors on the sidewalk at Fourth and
y streets northwest. where they
might fall on passersby.
( 1t is claimed that the newsboy
sustained a broken leg on May 81
last when the radiators fell on him.
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
Discharged JanitOr
Gives $500 Peace Bond

Malachi Jackson, janitor of the
Suffolk apartments, 1857 irving
street northwest, convicted OF
making threats to his employer,
Mrs. Hattie Farhood, when she dis
charged him, was ordered to put up
5000 peace bond yesterday by
Judge Hardison in Police Court
or go TO Jail.
Mrs Farhood alleges that the
jaintor made threats after she with.
held his pay because of a disagree
ment over the manner in which he
disposed of three stoves belonging
| to her.
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
Citizens Head
Praises Herald
Fight on PepcO

66CUCCESS to yOu," said w.
~ /. SwantOn, secretary Of
the Columbia Heights Citizens
Association, in writing The
Washington Herald yesterday
that his association contributed
500 toward tho $1,000 fund
District citizens are raising to
employ Conrad SyEne to con.
tlnue to fight the Supreme
Court case Of the Public Utili-
ties Commission against the
Potomac Electric Power Com
pany.
"YOu will be interested to
know that several enthusiastic
members, including several Of
the women members, wanted TO
make the amount 500, but tile
smaller amount was agreed
upOn," further wrote SwantOn.
eve, IN Columbia Heights,
are heartily supporting The
Herald in it, fight for the
rights Of the electric current
users Of Washington"
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
Wood Pulp Car Corpse
Found Victim of Mishap

HAMILTON. Ohio. April r.
Coroner Edward Cook tonight re-
fused to accept a murder theory
in the death Of George B. McAllis-
ter, twenty, of Woodbury., N. j.,
whose body. with the skull trac-
tured, was found in a frei car
here yesterday.
Coroner Cook voiced the belief
that the man had gone to sleep
in the car and fallen to the floor.
sustaining a fracture from which
he died. Cook said McAllister had
been dead about ten days.
The body was found in car OF
irnnorted wood pulp consigned to
the Champion Coated Paper Com
pany from Norfolk. Va, March 16.
DIR. Cook learned from Berwynn,
Pa, authorities that McAllister was
there two weeks ago. and DID
friends he was going to Chicago.
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
|CALLS MAHATINA
| GREATEST Of men
Dr.. Stokes Nephew, Living
With Lepers, Describes
Life of Gandhi.
B0UNDLESS IN HIS CHARITY
Fearless Among Enemies,
Above Temptations Offer
ed by Friends.
BOUNDLESS IN HIS CHARITY

"Mahatma Gandhi is the great
est man have ever met, and I
think he is the greatest man I have
read of in the modern world"
This unusual tribute of the lead.
er Of the movement to free India
and who has been imprisoned by
the British. was made by s. u.
Stokes. nephew Of DIR. Henry N.
Stokes OF Washington, in letter
to the Rev. w. g. Branch. of St.
David's Vicarage, Conduit road.
''Mr. Stokes" said DIR. Branch,
is well qualified to speak on
things Indian. For about ten
years he lived the life of q Chris
tian Sadhu, nursing the lepers. the
plague-stricken and the victims Of
cholera. Indians love him as one
Of themselves. And they have good
reason to love him, for he was In.
strumental In removing the tyranny
of the forced.labor system. His
love for his Indian brothers re.
suited in his being imprisoned for
six months by the government.
During the war he alone was able
to procure recruits for the Indian
army from among the Hill Rajputs
Simla.
LIVED WITH GANDHI.
Mr.. Stokes has lived with Gandhi
day and night for weeks at time,
studying him, watching how he re-
acted to constantly varying situa-
lions. seeing how he stood the test
of WEAKNESS, sleeplessness. blind
ness and misunderstanding upon the
part of his friends, malice and scorn
upon the part of his enemies. He
also observed the temptations which
come from being almost worshiped,
the temptations which come with
power, and in all of them Mr..
ing nothing which In the slightest
degree Jared.
"He was always humble wrote
Mr.. Stokes, always gentle, what
ever the provocation. He was
boundless in his charity to those
who least deserved it, inflexible IN
his condemnation of untruth. in
Justice. or hypocrisy, yet without
haired for any man.
'xSternly ascetic in his own life.
yet full Of the keenest sense OF hui
NOR. is Gandhi Yet, am con.
WINGED the Government did the only
thing they could under the circt1In-
stances. It would have been Inn
possible for them to carry on upOil
the present lines, and yet leave q
man OF HIS utter sincerity and fear
lessness at large. The Government
does not dare have him out Of
prison. -
CASE MISREPRESENTED.
do not imagine think him in
capable Of mistakes of judgment.
From the first have not agreed
with him on number of points. II
he were out OF Jail at this moment
I should oppose certain Of the poll.
cies am sure he would feel called
upon to follow.
"Of course, you can have little
chance to hear the truth OF the
movement started by Ghandi out
here. Unfortunately he discouraged
foreign propaganda and Indians in
America have not always under
stood the full meaning of his mes
sage. On the other hand, the mis-
representations of the activities OF
the Nationalist has been carefully
carried on by their non-Indian ops
ponents, and, regret to say, by
certain Indian Christians.
.~Dvyvnvnmrc,xrnwr rNYrr
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
BOY, 4, HIT BY AUTO.

Astride a tricycle. yesterday after.
noon William Lipphard. four
years old, 1910 Union street south
west, sustained injuries to his right
leg when he was struck by an au.
tomobile near his home. The auto
mobile was driven by Moses Fulton,
429 Second street southwest, police
saw
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
4es DRY ARRESTS MADE.

During the brief regime of E. C.
Yellowley, chief of general prohi.
bition agents, acting director last
month OF New York State and the
Fifth district of New Jersey, 498
arrests were made, Yellowley re.
ported yesterday to Prohibition
Commissioner r. A. Haynes OF the
498 cases, 469 were permit cases.
four were brewery cases, and TWEEN
ty-five miscellaneous.
The Washington times., 1923-04-08
MAINE SOCIETY MEETING.

Motion pictures Of New England
scenery will be shown at a meeting
Of the Maine State Society at the
Ebbitt Hotel Saturday night at $50
o'clock. Dinner will be served at
the meeting. Dancing will follow
the regular program.
The Washington times., 1923-04-08

GONE ATTRACTIVE
- Washington today Confederate Reunion
Miss Josephine HOston right Miss
Virginia Hereford: Mrs Walter E. Hutton
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
SALE OF BOX SEATS FOR
FAIR MONDAY, OCTOBER q

The allotment of box seats for the
1923 state fair, scheduled for Noven-
Der 1917, viii be made on Monday,
October %.
The distribution of box seats as in
the past viii be made by lot, the draw
ing for the boxes being held in the
chamber of commerce at Phoenix. This
method is followed to give residents
of the state an equal opportunity to
get preferred places in the grand STAN
and to make the drawing as fair to
all as possible. The price of box,
containing six seats, is $25.
This allotment of boxes will be for
the use of the state fair only and has
nothing to do with the three weeks OF
racing which follow.
Remittances for boxes should be
mailed Immediately to j. 2. Dillon,
secretary, Arizona state fair COM
mission, box 1916, Phoenix, Arizona.
Upon receipt OF these reservations
they will be listed and Immediately
after the drawing on Monday those
who have made reservations will be
notified Of the selection Of their box
and the tickets will be mailed to them.
Those intending to purchase boxes
are urged by the state fair commits
sion to make their reservations with
out delay as all indications point to a
record attendance at the November
fair and already the box list Is filling
rapidly.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
ARIZONA COPPER HELMETS
MAKE BIG HIT AT FRISCO

Arizona invaded California Monday
and throngs on Market street saw the
copper states copper helmeted vet
erans marching in parade, led by
bands from the American Legion post
at Phoenix.
The Arizona delegation reached San
Francisco where the American Le-
gion convention is to be held late Mon
day morning. At 1890 O'clock the
Arizona contingent, with colors
streaming and band playing march
ed through the town from the station
to state headquarters on Geary st.
The copper helmets of the Arizona
delegation attracted attention from
ali sides. The Arizona boys, after es-
corting the official delegates to con-
vention headquarters are renewing old
acquaintances.
4 huge parade was held Tuesday in
which the Arizona boys marched, each
wearing a copper helmet. The Ari-
zona band is attracting unusual atten-
ton everywhere. 1t has announced
that it is the old 158th infantry band,
formerly President Wilson's special
band in Paris during the peace con-
ference.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
TOUGH TOURISTS ATTEMPT
HOLDUP OF SANDERS STORE

Three tourists, a Mr.. Nelson and
his wife, bride of two weeks, and
John L. Young, touring the "wild and
woolly west" got ''in bad" at Sanders
last Sunday when the two attempted
to hold up the. store there. 1t seems
that the party had run out of funds
just after leaving Gallup, but man
aged to get to Sanders where they
run out Of gas. Instead of telling the
clerk of their being out of money,
they got their gas tank filled ano
some supplies put in the car. Young
asked for some cigarettes. When the
clerk turned to get them, Young COW
cred him with revolver, while Nell
son proceeded to help himself to the
contents of the cash register. As
soon as the holdups ran for their car
the clerk ran into an adjoining room,
got a revolver and ran out, told the
thieves to. throw up their hands. They
refused to do so and several shots
were fired. Both the thieves were
slightly wounded. They were taken
to Holbrook Sunday and Monday they
were brought to st. Johns and lodged
in the county Jail. They were given
a preliminary hearing Wednesday
and their bond was fixed at $500
each. Neither Of the prisoners is
scarcely past his teens, in fact Young
is minor.-St. Johns Herald.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
Los ANGELES AS DRY As
THE OCEAN SAYS YUMA MAN

Henry Levy, chief of police in Yu-
ma and deputy =. S. marshal, is con-
vinced after what he said he saw in
Los Angeles last week on his way
home from Portland, Oregon, whence
he escorted a federal prisoner, that
Arizona deserves the leather medal
for being a dry state compared with
some places in the U. S. A.
He stopped at a noted hostelry one
night. Next morning while adniring
the architecture Of the structure his
attention was directed to a five-ton
truck that had backed up to one Of
the side doors.
The truck was being loaded with
empty bottles, bearing the labels of
such well known liquors as Sunny
brook, Old Taylor, Canadian Club and
so forth.
ARIZONA is the driest state in the
west," declared the chief. There was
a far away look in his eye when he
said it.-Yuma Sun.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
NOGALES, SONORA AGAIN
SWEPT BY SERIOUS FIRE

One square block Of residences and
business buildings have been destroy
ed by fire which broke out Tuesday
at the edge of the main business dis
trict Of Nogales, Sonora, just across
the international boundary. No lives
have been lost, according to reports.
Flames swept across the street
from the Hidalgo theatre, where the
fire is believed to have originated and
destroyed the Lujan hotel. About ten
residences in the block in which the
Hidalgo theatre is situated were de-
stroyed. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
Fire fighters from the American
side of the border were rushed to aid
the Mexican fire department IN ex-
tinguishing the flames and the fire
was believed to be under control at
$50 D. m. The damage is estimated
at about $4,000.
The fire was the third serious one
reported in Nogales in the last go
days. The buildings destroyed by the
flames were built closely together and
were in a sheet Of flame soon after
the fire broke out.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
MAY PATTERN OUR MINE
TAX LAW AFTER MINNESOTA

A bill based on the Minnesota occu-
pational tax law will be prepared and
presented at the next session of the
legislature unless decision favorable
to the state is reached in the Yavapai
mine tax suits now pending in tho
federal court, it was stated by Chas
les r. Howe, chairman of the Arizona
stats tax commission.
Mr.. Howe has just returned from a
trip east during which he attended
the annual convention of the Ameri-
can Mining congress at Milwaukee.
After studying the tax methods of
other states, he is convinced he says
that the mine tax of Arizona is bet
ter than that of Minnesota. Never
theless the latter has been upheld BY
the u. S. supreme court and has the
further element of safety in that the
tax is levied on all ore produced, the
tax being levied at the collar of the
shaft.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
PARENT TEACHER ASSN.
AT GRAND CANYON

The October meeting of the Parent
Teacher association of Grand Canyon
was held Friday evening, October 5.
This was Fathers night" and the
success of the meeting was largely
due to the fine response made by the
fathers to the special invitation to at
tend. The president, Mrs. Elmer Nell
son, expressed the feeling of the en-
tire association in the following greet
ing: Fathers, it is with great pleas
ure we mothers greet you tonight. l
feel sure every mother here is happy
to see such a splendid attendance of
fathers. | sincerely hope that we can
make this gathering together inter-
estng for you and convey to you the
good our association can do If we go
about it in the right spirit, and that
spirit is cooperation with but one
thought at heart, the child. With
such a feeling existing we no doubt
will have an Al Parent Teacher as
sociation, an association we will all be
proud of and one the community can
not get along without. So, Fathers,
attend our meetings regularly and
helps us go forward in our good
work"
The spirit of the event was further
carried out by Mrs. Spencer, the pro-
gram chairman, who gave an excellent
talk on the father and child question.
A poem written by Ida Flood Dodge
of Tucson, entitled "Dao,~ was read
by S. G. Stephens. This was followed
by violin solo, ''The Rosary" which
was beautifully rendered by v. /.
Keen, accompanied by Mrs. Cotton.
Mrs. E. M. Ennis then gave very
good paper, using as her subject, "To
the Father of a Child" We then
had the great privilege of hearing
Mrs. Flower of London, England, give
a most interesting and instructive talk
on Egypt Mrs. Flower spent two
winters in and around the places of
interest there, and her account of her
experiences was very thrilling and
descriptions of the pyramids, sphinx,
and the different Egyptian customs
were enjoyed by all:
A short intermission was held while
light refreshments were served. After
this the business part Of the program
was taken up and we were glad to
note that all seemed interested enough
to remain. The presence of the faith
ers helped the meeting so much that
we feel we should follow up our first
attempt and have more evening meet
ings so that they may attend and help
us. The meeting adjourned at 1920,
and was voted a success by all pres
ent.-Contributed.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
BEN RICE STILL HAS
TO ANSWER FOR HIS
FINANCIAL FIASCOS

The federal court is taking up
afresh the case of Ben Rice, who for
several years, beginning in 1918, OPP
Grated women's wear shops in Ell Paso,
albuquerque, Flagstaff, Prescott and
Phoenix, sometimes under the name of
the French Shop, Inc.
Heretofore he had failed in busi--
ness in Tulsa, Okla, and Joplin, Mo-,
at the latter point operating a jewelry
store. In Arizona and Ell Paso, fol-
lowing an alleged cleanup, he failed.
Thereafter, especially on evidence
from a wholesale house in Dallas,
Texas, Rice was indicted by federal
grand jury for defrauding creditors.
A special master found that he had
bought bonds with the proceeds of the
sales and had sent moneys to a rela-
tive in Canada, where he now is un-
derstood to be. Here he had been
drawing salary of $17, 500 year and
his wife $500. Just before his clos
ing he had ordered, by telegraph.
more than 100000 worth of goods,
but the wholesalers generally refused
to ship. The master found short
age of $83,456.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
HALF HUNDRED CAUGHT
IN RAID AT PRESCOTT

Nearly half hundred alleged boot
Ieggers in Prescott, Jerome and other
Verde valley towns, landed in the
nets set by federal prohibition agents,
some being caught for the first time,
while others still have the marks Of
the last catch fresh upon them.
In Jerome and down the valley, the
officers served II bench warrants,
bringing a small handful of the men
in to Prescott, those who could not
raise bail, but most of them appear
ed before Senator Rutherford at Jer-
ONE and put up the necessary bond.
About Is arrests were made in one
day, the net closing around number
Of Prescott residents.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
CHINESE COOK AT DOUGLAS
SHOOTS VISITOR BY MISTAKE

Tuco Gee, a Chinese cook employed
in jim Joe's in Aqua Prieta, shot and
fatally wounded Maxine Muro,
Mexican, Saturday morning when the
latter, in delivering some ducks to
the kitchen at Jim Joe's, awoke Gee,
who, under the impression that Muro
was a robber, pulled d revolver from
under his pillow and fired at the
Mexican.
When Gee realized what he had
done he called an automobile and took
Muro to DR.. Caldreon's hospital and
then went to the Aqua Prieta jail and
surrendered himself. Muro is wound
ed in the intestines and will probably
die.
Jim Joe said that night that Gee
had ordered that wages due him,
amounting to more than $100, be turn
ed over to the man he shot to pay
his hospital and doctor bill.
The Coconino sun., 1923-10-19
DIAMONDS FOUND IN
COCONINO COUNTY

At some unknown time in the past
the largest meteor that ever was
known to strike the earth fell in Co
conino county, Arizona, in the bed of
what is known as Canyon Diablo, so
experts say. According to these sci
entists, the Canyon Diablo meteor
weighs million tons and is at least
300 feet in diameter. Some have ev-
en- multiplied these figures by four.
If this huge meteor is similar to
others which have been found, it is
nine-tenths pure iron. But the lure
that has induced many people and
parties at different times to endeayor
to unearth this meteor is the belief
that it contains huge diamonds. Dia-
monds have been found in that locality
by Indians and prospectors, it is de-
cIared, and this has strengthened the
insistence that that spot in the bed
Of Canyon Diablo is the location OF
enormous treasure house.
Word now comes that syndicate
has been formed to make an exhaus-
tive search for this meteor. 1t has
sufficient capital, it is stated, to drill
to great depth in an effort to reach
tUlS IISbEOIIC SNLokdilSCt Cs1h IL ~
takes months. How far down IN the
earth the meteor rests, if it is there
at all, is mere conjecture. Experts
say it penetrated the earth for at least
1000 feet and may be down 5000 feet.
Romance and mystery are mixed up
with this meteor, and old-timers re-
call that a company was formed and
stock sold at a time when the story
was on everyone's tongue. But little
apparently came Of the project. IN
terest died out ard the matter was
characterized as q diamond nine"
swindle.
But with the report of this new
syndicate formed to dig for the IA
nous meteor, the story has again been
made Of nationwide interest. II they
dig long enough and deep enough they
may come in contact with this great
shooting star and convert Arizona into
a diamond field to rival the Kimber-
ley Of South Africa. Canyon Diablo
may be the worlds treasure house
Phoenix Republican.