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crowds attending the fair last year.
The people seem to So spending
more money and more interest is
taken in the poultry exhibits than
here tofore.
Today is childrens day at the fair,
the country schools have declared a
Holiday and the city schools will let
cut few hours earlier than their
usual time.
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better results with McCoy's Cod
Liver Oil Tablets, which Nathan
Murray, Druggist, Howell's Phar-
may and druggists all over the coun-
try are having a tremendous demand
for.
It's a wonderful upbuilding medi-
cine for children, especially after
sickness, and sixty tablets only cost
go cents.
One woman gained 10 pounds in
% days and if any skinny man or
woman can't put on pounds in
30 days, your druggist will gladly
return the purchase price.
Get McCoy's, the original and
genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablets"
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MACON BABY DIES
FROM POISONING

MACON, Nov. edna Ear
Boyer, two years old, &woke from
nap Wednesday afternoon in con-
WILSON'S.
In one hand she clutched an
empty box that had contained sugar
coated pills. She was dead in 20
minutes.
A doctor reaching Ter too late
said that death was due to poison
ing. The mother said she did MT
know the child had the pills. The
body will be taken to Devercuy,
Ca, tomorrow. The l.ter, G. Y.
Boyer, is an insurance nan.
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Have you found permanent relief
from that terrible disease--constipa
tionR The woman whose letter follow.
discovered--as thousands have discov
ered-that Kellogg's Bran succeeds
when all else fails. This is because
Kellogg g Bran is ALI. bran. Nothing
but ALL bran can be so effective
This is what she wrote:
Gentlemen:
l am so wonderfully happy over
my discovery, | feel must tell the
world about it. For years | have
been i'll continually from constipa-
tion, always resorting to pills or
the like, never having any perma-
nent relief until l heard of your
Krumbled Bran.
Every morning take two table
spoonfuls before my breakfast--and
since the latter part of August l
must admit have not experienced
one sick spell which have had for
years. l have started my little girl
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friday AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER J, 1924

luton. The recent uprising of
the Mensheviks in the town of
Tchiatoruri, where the manganese
ore fields are located. was suppress
ed only with much difficulty and
bloodshed Several hundred Geor-
gians were executed in reprisal for
this uprising.
The Georgians, from remotest
times, have been a proud, defiant,
liberty-loving people, and they
would resent dictation from a Eu-
ropean state quite as much as from
the Bolsheviks. They struggled
CALAMITY for half a century against
conquest of the Cars of Russia
and capitulated only in the face of
overwhelming forces. They are
conscious Of the great national re
sources of their country. They
therefore, are opposed to all for
eign tutelage and show no tendency
to absorb Bolshevik doctrines.
In spite of their defeat by the
Bolsheviks, the Georgians retain all
their old national customs and ira
ditions. The men may be seen on
the streets armed with daggers and
! sabres and dressed in their pie
turesque close-ftting "cherkeskas'
with rows and rows of miniature
receptacles for cartridges on their
breasts and revolvers concealed in
their pockets. The princes have
retained their old social position,
and one sees pedestrians bowling
deferentially to them as they pass.
The manganese ore industry,
! fruit-growing and wine production
which are Georgia's chief sources
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of wealth, have suffered seriously
since the advent of the Communists
to power. The manganese mines
are now virtually idle. But if the
BolSheviks have failed to confer
any great economic or social bene-
fits upon the country, they certain
ly have acted beneficially as a sta
billing, mediating force among
the various tribes and political fac
tions of the Caucasian states, where
national feelings and racial differ
ences produce implacable hatreds.
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All i'm Days Job!
FAIR CONTINUES TO
ATTRACT BIG CROWDS

Again last night the fair was visss
ted by thousands. The officials
state that the crowds 50 far this
wear have run way ahead % the
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She Says; "a
Il Am Thin 81
Her Friends Say:
''She Is Skinny .

If she only knew that she could
put on at least 5 pounds of good,
healthy flesh in 30 days she
wouldn't be worrying abiut her
peaked face and rundown looks.
She has tried Cod Liver Oil, but
the ill-smelling, nasty tasting stuff
upset her stomach and made her
feel worse than before.
Doctors and good pharmacists
know that Cod Liver Oil is full Of
vitamines that make flesh, creates
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
WATER CONTINUES TO
SWELL CITY GOLFERS

City Clerk Pulliam accommodatingly
dug up lot of figures about the city's
sales of water and accretions to the
park, sewer and general funds.
The Santa Fe railroad used $685.
997 gallons of water. They get 200,-
900 gallons a day as part of their con-
tract with the city, paying only for
what they use over that minimum,
and the total they paid on the meter
charge was $1,494.19. But, in addi-
tion, they pay $75 a month as a sort
of blanket charge, making the total
revenue from the railroad S2,394.19.
Other consumers, domestic and manu-
featuring, used 98,470,780 gallons, for
which they paid 37,821.62. The gen
eral fund during the year received
from various sources $39, 9,966.49 and
the sewer ilnd $8,091.34, while the re-
ceipts in the tourist park from tour
lists amounted to $3,701.18. Balance
on deposit and on hand in all depart
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MAY HAVE COVETED jOE'S
CASH BUT DIDN'T GET IT

Joe Bender, the restaurant man
believes he was the prospective victim
of a hold-up man early Sunday morn
ing and that his stand with his six-gun
at ready prevented the man carrying
out his intentions.
Joe was coming from his home to
the restaurant a little after five thai
morning, before daylight, with nearly
500, his Saturdays receipts, in his
pocket. He had reached the middle OF
the block on Aspen avenue between
Leroux and San Francisco and was
on the north side of the street when he
heard steps on the frozen snow be
hind him. He saw a man coming
across the street, evidently from
the alley. Just as the man got up te
him, Joe swung around to face him
with his revolver in his hand. Neither
said word. Then the man ran uI
San Francisco street. He was a big
fellow, wearing leather shoes ant
wollen stockings leggin fashion and
blue overalls.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
INTERESTING FIGURES
COMPILED BY SHERIFF

Sheriff w. A. Campbell's report for
the year shows the operation Of his
busy office with net expense for
the past year of only $2,735.31. That
is, the office has come within that
figure of being self-supporting. There
were 156 arrests made, classified as
follows:
Resulted in jail sentences, 81; su-
perior court fines, 8; justice court
fines, 16; superior court suspended
sentence, IL; justice court suspended
sentence, 10; released by jury, 2; sent
to reform school, /; out on bond, s.;
turned over to federal officers, 81;
arrested for other states, 16; sent to
asylum, 3; to state prison, 6; dis
charged for lack of evidence, Q; pris-
oners now on hand, 8.
The superior court fines amounted
to $1,000, and the justice fines to
$515. Stolen property returned was
worth S10,085.
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THE BIRTH AND DEATH
STATISTICS FOR YEAR

DR.. Felix Manning, county health
officer, is the man to go to when you
want to delve into the county's NOR
tuary affairs. He keeps a record of
all the births and deaths.
These are the figures on the deaths,
by months, the first figure after each
being the number that month in the
Flagstaff district, the second the
number in the Grand Can
yon district and the third the number
in the Tuba City district: January, 5,
4, l; February, 2, 8, /; March, a, 1, / /;
April, 5, a, 0; May, 7, 6, /; June, IA,
A, 0; July 9, 2, 0; August, II, 7, 1;
September, IA, 5, l; October, 10, 3, o.;
November, Z, 9, 0; December, 8, 2, q;
totals, 96, A, 8; total in county, 148.
1t will be noted the death rate was
higher in summer This is at least
partly accounted for in the frequent
deaths of persons passing through
here on trains and by auto, people
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FINES PAID THE COST
POLICE DEPARTMENT

Police Marshal r. l.. Neill, in the
report prepared for the mayor and
city council, presented some interest
ing figures of his department and
shows also the fines imposed by Po-
lice Magistrate S. B. Gilliland.
There were seven arrested for bur-
glary during the year, five of whom
were sentenced to the state peniten-
tiary, one receiving Jail sentence.
The other was Juvenile case.
There were two arrests for grand
larceny, both being of juveniles.
Petit larceny scored 10 arrests. All
pleaded guilty. Some received Jail
sentences, while others were juvenile
cases.
There were two arrests for forgery,
both being of juveniles who were dis
charged after the money was recov-
cred.
Three arrests for bad checks, in
each case the money being paid and
cases settled out of court.
For violation of town ordinances
there were 1913 arrests. Most Of these
were prohibition cases, five of those
arrested being turned over to the fed
eral court.
Money recovered on bad checks and
cash value of stolen property recov-
cred, $5,622.35.
Total cost police department, $5,-
622.35; fines collected, $548400;
pound fees and other collections,
$385.25. Total $5,869.25. Surplus,
$246.90.
Mr.. Neill also cited the fact that
two dangerous fires were discovered
by Night Officer George Atterbury in
time to prevent heavy loss and men
toned the splendid assistance he had
received from Mn Atterbury and from
Deputy Marshal j. d. Jackson.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
COUNTY DADS APPOINT
EMPLOYEES FOR 1924

County board of supervisors on
Monday appointed county employees
for the year as follows: Charlie
Priest, custodian of the new county
garage at the east end of town. Char
lie is a mechanic of ability and will
make good on the job.
Miss Marion Wallace, assistant
county recorder, succeeding Fred
Metz, resigned. This young woman has
had a practical business training and
is in every way qualified to be an able
assistant to Mr.. Marine.
j. w. Byron, superintendent of the
county hospital, and Mrs. Byron, ma
tron. They had the jobs during 1928
and have made fine records.
G. D. Sanderson, state fair repre-
sentative. This is re-appointment,
well-deserved.
Captain j. B. Wright, county en-
gineer He's the man responsible for
most of. Mohave county's good roads
and for many of ours. Reappoint-
ment.
Bert Lauzon, custodian Bright An
gel trail. Bert has been there so long
and so faithfully that the mules would
eat the trail up and the trail slide
away with the mules if Bert quit.
O. r. Clarke, custodian Lees Ferry.
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MARRIAGES ARE WELL
AHEAD OF DIVORCES

County Clerk Tom L. Rees got un-
der the violet ray
"How many divorces filed in this
county in 1923, Tom?"
Fifty one," said Tom.
How many granted ?"
"Thirty-seven."
Were any denied ?"
"No. All that came up for final
hearing were granted. In one case,
however, it was the defendant who
was granted the divorce instead of
the plaintiff"
"How many civil suits in all were
filed in 1928? ?"
Zone hundred twenty-nine."
"Well, how in thunder are we go
ing to offset so many divorces How
are we going to keep up our popula-
tion ?"
"Oh," says Tom, "there were 155
marriages during the year"
''Do you think we will have as many
this year?"
dad blame it, yes. We should have
twice as many. You know this is
leap year."
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
POST OFFICE BUSINESS
SHOWS ABIG INCREASE

Got after Postmaster Dick Connor.
Dicks doing a thriving business. Got
the best postoffice in Flagstaff. Kinda
sorry those last Harding memorial
stamps he got in were so tough they
couldn't be pried apart along the per-
forations except with stone ham
mer and several chisels, but says his
ones and fives are fine.
Postoffice before Christmas looked
like warehouse of busy store. Dick
explained that they sent out 353 solid
sacks of parcel post between Decem-
Der 18th and the night of oath. Pack
ed each with just all it would hold.
Sent out 65 sacks on the 10Th. To
say nothing of the tons and tons Of
parcel post mail, Christmas and other
wise, that came in during the same
period.
Dick sold 83,340 stamps in Decem-
Der. Of these, 10000 were 2-cent
stamps, II 500 were Scent stamps. OF
20-cent, 3O-cent and 50-cent stamps
he sold 1900. Then the rest were 5,
6, 7, 6, 8, 10, II, II, 15-eent stamps.
In December just past and during
the last quarter business at the post
office showed heavy increase over
1922 and 1921. Here are the figures:
December, 1928 .....-................$2, ,968. 80
December, 1922 ....................... So, ,680.16
December, 1921 ............-.........-.$2,41972
Last quarter. 1928 .. .S8,831 .02
Last quarter, 1922 .-.-...-..----.-..$6, ,574.43
Last quarter, 1921 ...-..-.........-.S6, 1899
Looks like Flagstaff is growing.
The post office, as Mr.. Connor rightly
says, is an accurate pulse of both our
growth and our prosperity. The fig
ures obtained there may be taken as
a sure index that we have grown in
both those ways.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
MRS. CATHERINE COSTlCAN COUNTY ROAD FORCES TO
RESTS In DEATH AFTER A BE COMBINED ON SCEINEBIY
LONG AND USEFUL LIFE HILL AND HIGHWAY EAST

Road work on Schnebly hill, les
sening the grade and easing up curves,
is going on in good shape under the
supervision of Road Foreman Bill
Griffin. County Engineer Wright
spent the weekend down there and
decided to transfer Foreman Jesse
Purtyman and his gang from Oak
Creek hill to help Griffin for the
next month or two, then send Purity
man back to Oak Greek. The board of
supervisors endorsed this plan on
Monday.
Purtyman has the road in good
shape down in the canyon, but there
is a lot of widening to do in various
places on the hill, to afford frequent
places for cars to pass. Captain
Wright believes it will be better to
wait until after the heavy SHOWS are
gone before doing this part of the
work
Mike Corners and the Williams
Grand Canyon road crews will be COM
bined and put to work between Can
yon Padre and Canyon Diablo on the
Flagstaff Winslow road, to put that
into better shape.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
LOCAL RADIO BUGS TRY
TOLOCATE A TRESPASSER

Francis A. Chisholm is the latest
recruit to radio, having bought a big
new outfit through Arthur M. Riordan.
Frank will now be in a position to
give all the latest cinch and potato
bug news and the progress of spud
blight and grain rust.
DR.. r. O. Raymond not long ago
distinctly heard it raining in Los
Angeles. He was tuned in on the
Examiners airline and someone stuck
tin pan out of the window to let the
rain sound on it.
Incidentally, local radio fans are
having lot of trouble evenings which
they attribute to the activity of one of
the two local violet ray machines. It
sounds like the coils on spiteful
Ford and makes hearing real radio
stuff extremely difficult.
While it may not be violet ray
machine that is causing the mischief,
yet that seems to be the only solution.
These machines are very high voltage
and high frequency dinguses and
broadcast sputters and snaps. One of
the local violet ray machines is used
only in daytime, but the other, kept
for private treatment, is supposedly
used in the evenings.
1t is proposed to take radio with
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Many of the cars registered at city
park stayed several days. A large
part of those that stayed more than
one day stayed several weeks. Con-
sidering this, it is reasonable to as
sumo that the $4,000 tourists spent
considerably more than a hundred
days here.
What does this mean to Flagstaff? :?
The amount the average tourist car
leaves in cash here has been various
ly estimated. But last summer the
question was very carefully studied
over period of several weeks by two
men employed for that purpose by the
government. They watched the prop
osition from every angle and at the
conclusion of their studies announced
that the amount of money spent in
Flagstaff by automobile tourists in
the course of a year came near to
S500,000.
Flagstaff having received such a
big increase in tourist patronage last
year it is safe to assume it will in
crease this and in succeeding years.
Auto travel is increasing; the popu-
larity of the Santa Fe trail is increas-
ing; we are getting better known; we
are getting much more national adj
vertising from magazines and on the
films; the tourists themselves are adj
vertising our scenic wonders; the city
tourist park with its many advantages
Continued on Page Nine.)
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
JOE BENDER GOES TO LAW
FOR BUILDING HE BOUGHT

Joe Bender has got to fight to get
possession of the building on Railroad
avenue he recently bought from Mrs.
Fred Hensing, because the present oc-
cupant Of the place, Chinaman,
whose name is either Woo Lee or Wee
Tong, claims to have lease good un-
til 1928 and refuses to get out until
then.
Yesterday Attorney George r. Le-
wis, for Bender, filed suit to eject
the Oriental, whose attorneys are
Frank M. Gold and C. B. Wilson.
Bender bought the building few
months ago, paying $7,75O cash. He
wants possession to renovate and re-
model preparatory to moving his res
taurant there from San Francisco
street. The Chinaman, who is paying
only $65 a month rent, won't move
unless compelled to by law.
The case, it is said, will involve
some nice points at law. 1t is alleged
by the plaintiff that the lease is made
out in the name of Woo Lee. The
man running it is generally known as
Wee Tong. 1t is understood the de-
fendant's attorneys will claim Woo Lee
and Wee Tong are one and the same
person.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
HARRY WADE TAKEN TO
PHOENIX FOR AN X-RAY

Dink Smith, who on Christmas day
shot Harry Wade of Williams, was re-
leased on $4,000 bond last Friday, To-
cal men putting up the bond, and re-
turned to his ranch and cattle business
near Williams. Preliminary hearing
will be held as soon as it is known to
a certainty that Wade will recover,
which now seems to be sure thing.
The bullet that went through his body
and perforated his liver and right lung
apparently did not do near the dam
age that was made by the one that
split his left knee-cap and shattered
the main bone in his lower leg. This
wound, it is feared, will leave Wade
a cripple for life. He was taken to
Phoenix the first of the week by his
brother, Charlie Wade, whom he was
defending from Smith when he was
shot. DR.. C. D. Jeffries, Wade's phys
ician, followed them to Phoenix. He
had ordered Wade taken there for
X-ray examination. Wade is suffer-
ing a great deal. Part of the leg
bone pierced the flesh and altogether
it is a bad and difficult wound to
handle.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
EVERYBODY'LL BE THERE
TO SEE CASABA ARTISTS

Double header basketball game at
Normal auditorium tonight between
the boys and girls teams of the Viii
liams high school and the boys and
girls teams of the Flagstaff high
school. There win be lot of excite
ment and big crowd.
Rotarians and their ladies, Elks,
members of the Woman's club, Ameri-
can Legion and Knights OF Columbus
and other local organizations are ex-
pected to be out in force to watch
these games and root.
But the main idea in going to the
auditorium is to show the youngsters
that the grown-ups are interested in
them and for them. It's a sort of get
together meeting. You'll be there,
won't you? Sure!
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
THE IMMENSE INCREASE IN
TOURISTS HERE LAST YEAR
SHOULD ENCOURAGE US TO.
EXTEND WARMER WELCOME

That Flagstaff's automobile tourist business more
than doubled last year concusvey proven by figures
obtained this week from City Clerk Clarence T. Pulam
In 1922 there 1898 tourist registered at the city
tourist camp grounds In 1923 the number took phe-
nomenal jump and went to $685. Figuring four people
to car Street Superintendent Frank B. Richmond, who
also is superintendent of the city park says that not
in three stopped at city park This makes 10000
tourist here during the last year. They averaged
little better than four persons to car making $4,000
transient visitors
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11

got stuck with his car $3.50 for pull
ing him out
If that is fact, and there is no rea-
son to doubt it, it is graft of the
dirtiest kind and someone should be
made to pay.
The road work has been a botch
since it began. The road was cut up
here and there all along for culverts,
forcing detours that had to be used
even after the culverts were in place,
because of the slip-shod manner in
which the tops of the culverts were
surfaced. Then the bridge at
Young's Canyon, which should have
been open to travel long ago, is not
planked yet, though it is said it will
be soon. There is where the worst
detour occurs. Perhaps it has been
found too profitable to compel detour
there to permit the bridge to be fin
ished when it should be.
The worst of the whole mess is that
tourists disgusted with the road and
angry over being fleeeed by the man
pulling them across Young's Canyon,
believe the county responsible for
conditions. Three prosperous tourists
here the other day declared they would
advertise their experience the entire
length Of the Santa Fe trail.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
TOO MANY FRIDAYS
IJNLUCKY FOR GANG
Dang the luck!

= Dang the luck!
+ Just as everything gets to go
+ ing good in 1924, we discover the
+ trick the blasted calendar has
: played on US.
+ It's a blooming outrage, this
+ leap year stuff, but, being safe
Z ly married, we were paying no
+ attention to it except to bestow
+ little casual sympathy on some
+ Of the poor boobs who can't say
+ no to drink, or a smoke, or
4 other vicious habits like that, so
j. how could they when some girl
+ pops the ticklish question at
+ them. But we wasn't worryin'
+ none over them things. They
= was their troubles.
+ Then we got peek at the sec
4 ond sheet in the 1924 calendar,
+ and, blooey!
+ Friday comes on the first Of
+ February. And it comes again
i four times that month, the last
i time on the 10Th. That means US
4 diggin' out stuff for five issues
+ Of The Sun an only four pay
! days!
i We complained to the boss
+ about it, but all he did was to
J. laugh. Cold-blooded! If it
: wasn't that in March we get five
+ paydays and only have to get out
= four Suns, there'd have been a
4 ruction right then.
+ Funny things, calendars! Look
+ ed it up, and found the leap year
+ Februaries in which five Fridays
+ occur don't happen very often.
+ There was one in 1850, another
i in 1888, and in 1928 and 1856
i they had 'em. Then again in
i 1888. We wasn't here none of
+ them times. Therell be another
4 in 1852. We won't be here then.
.
The Coconino sun., 1924-01-11
MCCORMICK, HARVESTER
OF BOYS FOR SCOUT WORK,
is NOW HERE ON THE JOB

There's going to be something lively
doing in Boy Scout circles in Flag
staff and the rest of the Grand Can
yon council towns just as soon as c
S. Mccormick, the personable new
Scout executive, gets his breath.
And it doesn't take that young mai
long to do anything; so he'll have his
breath in short order.
He arrived here Tuesday from his
home in San Fernando, Calf. Regional
Scout Executive Miller told him las
Friday he was to report here. He
packed his trunk and grips, sold his
Maxwell car and his house and caugh'
the train Sunday. That's the way he
moves.
He's tall blond fellow, "a years
old, sincere, enthusiastic chap, quiet
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