The Coconino sun., 1924-06-27
GRAND CANYON PLANS BIG
TINE ON JULY THIRD

tainn1ent committee Of the John Ivenls
Post No. 2, American Legion at Grand
Canyon, the Ladies Auxiliary unit and
the Parent Teachers association, plans
were drawn up and arrangements
made for the rodeo, supper and dance
to be held July 8. This is just another
instance of Grand Canyon being
ahead of the times and of it's suburbs,
Williams and Flagstaff, in celebrating
the Fourth of July.
The guests of honor ait the afore-
said event will be the members of the
Brooklyn Eagle tour who will arrive
in the park the morning of the third,
H0n their way to the dedication Of the
new Navahopi road
Events will be started off at 2
o'clock in the afternoon by the child
rem Of the community, where future
Paddocks and Helen Wills are due to
perform and "do their stuff Child
ren's games will be started off with a
bang. Bueking horses, wild steers and
balldogging will furnish the thrills
for a time. Then viii come the sery-
ing Of a supper to all those who attend
free of cost.
After supper, will come the relay
races, the flat races, goat-roping,
mounted tug of war, chicken pulling
contests and rope spinning. This is
the second annual rodeo held at the
Grand Canyon, and it bids fair to be-
come rival Of the Pendleton, Oregon,
Round Up" the Cheyenne, Wyoming,
Frontier Days" and other famous
rodeos.
The bucking horses and wild steers
are now on the ground and being
groomed for the rodeo, by being fed or
daily diet of dynamite, carbolic acid
lin a strong solution of hot mustard), !,
thistles and barbed wire. One of the
boys assigned to the task of feeding
these gentle animals daily, reports
that while trying to stop one of the
horses from eating it's own shoe, it
took a kick at him (the horse, not the
shoe) but missed, but that the winl
produced by the flying hoofs caused
his shirt to roll up his back like a
window shade. This is q horse we are
talking about, and not the cows
gentleman friend.
After all the field events have been
disposed of, the extra special event
will be a badger fight, between two
ferocious, man-killing, head-hunting,
death dealing, savage manmal-maul-
ing badgers. These two badgers were
captured on top of SILVA Temple in
the Canyon. They were the first
spotted by party of twelve hunters,
who had heard of their ferocity some
few years ago, chasing mountain
lffsvai ffto a. nor. .<sl~
fir. Each badger hamstrung a lion,
bringing it to the ground. Dropping
from limb to limb in their descent of
the tree, the badgers then slit the
threats of the lions, drank all the
blood and then feasted on the warm
carcass, hide and all.
After watching the badgers for a
spell, the hunters made rush at
them, but the badgers were too quick.
With flirt of their tails, they dis
charged barbed, porcupine-like quills
at their attackers, and then they took
wing and flew to their nesting place
-an ancient cliff dwelling in the side
of the hill-a scant hundred yards
from theint kill. BY effective use of
the barbed quills, they were able to
keep the hunters at distance, but a
few well directed tear gas bombs, end
ed the fight of the badgers. When
the hunters entered the cliff dwelling,
they found the badgers in two feet
of water, till alive, but unconscious.
1t is supposed that these two badger
we're a bit old, because in cave under
the cliff dwelling "a sort of root cellar
as it were-was found the dried meat
of dinosaurs and other animals that
existed few years back of the time
the governor of North Carolina made
his famous remark to the governor Of
South Carolina.
The badgers are now confined in q
foolproof cage, and fed twice daily
on diet of chill and tobasco sauce
1t is expected that the men pulling
the ropes to turn these ferocious ami
mails loose and at each other, will rep
resent our suburbs, Flagstaff and
Williams-at least, we hope SO.
At 8 p. m. there will be a wonderful
display of pyrotechnics from Grandeur
Point, which, when viewed from in
front of the hotel, will be something
worth seeing. From all records, this
is the first time that such an event
has been seen at the Canyon.
At 9:30 p. m. the new Community
building, built by the National Park
service, viii be dedicated by dance
given under the auspices of the three
organizations above mentioned. The
Canyon cliff dwellers viii do the toot-
ing.
It is hoped that number of the
residents Of Flagstaff and Williams
will attend the more the merrier
and we would like to see as many as
possible in our midst on that day.
July Fourth will then be day of
rest for those who celebrated it, the