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The Coconino sun., 1925-05-29
COMMENCEMENT EVENTS
FLAGSTAFF HIGH SCHOOL

Flagstaff city schools will close this
years work on Friday, June 5. The
week commencing May 81 to June 5
is commencement week, and the fol-
lowing events will be held:
On Sunday night, May 81 at s the
baccalaureate services will be held at
the high school auditorium. Rev. Ed
ward L. Freeland of the Episcopal
church will deliver the address. Since
this is community event the city
churches have agreed to dispense with
the services on Sunday evening ana
join with us on this occasion in honor
ing the graduates of the high school,
The music will be under the direction
of Tom Bellwood and Miss Elsa
Myers. The community is welcome
to these services.
On the following Monday night the
seniors will present their class play,
"Charley's Aunt" at the auditorium.
The curtain will rise. at S:15. Since
there are many incidental expenses
connected with graduation, which the
senior class should not be asked to
bear, there will be an admission price
of so cents for adults and 20 cents
for children.
Then on June 2, at o'clock the
eighth grade graduation exercises will
be held in high school auditorium.
On June at p. m. the final event
will be held commencement exercises
for high school seniors. DR.. F. A.
Cotton, president Flagstaff Teachers
college, will deliver the address. The
graduates will receive their diplomas
as an indication that they have COM
pleted the work offered in Flagstaff
high school.
The Flagstaff city schools have al
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Cairo, Egypt, March 26
One should visit Cairo and Egypt
if for no other reason than to get
over the erroneous notion that Ameri-
ca is bad place in which to live.
l have no desire to knock the town,
for l understand there were number
of good people here among the old
timers. In fact, | was surprised to
learn that Moses, who gained much
fame and is frequently spoken of in
ecclesiastical circles, was found here
in the bullrushes along the Nile. I
saw the place where he was discov-
ered The river was still there but
some one must have stolen the bull
rushes. Moses may have lived here
for short time, though undoubtedly
he moved away before his reputation
was ruined. If he left any descend
ants a wonderful change has come
over them or they have been chased
out.
My first Impressions of the place
which lasted until | left-coming In
chronological order as named, were
Dragomen, beggars, street peddlers,
fleas, beggars, flies, dragomen, and
street peddlers. The most persistent,
insistent, interchangeable, insulting,
with an Unsuitable greed for bak-
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Egypt, Cairo and the Pyramids

sheesh gang of panhandlers ever con-
gregated in such large numbers in
any one spot in the whole world. They
can't be beaten Undoubtedly they
have been learning the game since
5000 BIC. None could become so pro-
ficient merely during the AID. period
If you happen to look at a drago-
man who says Good morning" to
you, you are a gone dago. He's at
tached to you as guide and philoso-
pher You can hire one for from 81
to SO per day, but if you think that is
all, count over your cash at night. He
won't garrote you and take it away
from you, but he knows more friends
and relatives where you can buy junk
scarabs and jewelry and points of in
terest where he can get a commission
on bringing in sucker than any
other citizen of the great desert coun-
try.
When | first hit the place | was un-
der the impression we had struck an
international convention of Shriners
Nearly all the male population were
wearing red fezes with black tassel,
consequently l thought / was among
friends. 1t didn't take much time to
discover my mistake. 1t was merely
a mess Of men who wore their night
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PETE ESPIL HELD IN
U.S.. COURT ON CHARGE
OF FALSE CITIZENSHIP

Pedro S. Espil, a prominent sheep
man Of Flagstaff, was held to answer
to the federal court at Phoenix by
United States Commissioner Robert
Kirk Wednesday morning on charge
of falsely representing himself as a
citizen of the United States. Proceed
ings seeking to remove Espil to Cali
fornia to face the charge will be held
before Federal Judge Fred G. Jacobs.
The complaint against Espil was
signed by Assistant United States At
torney George T. Wilson and was
supported by certified indictment
returned against Espil by the grand
jurors Of the southern division Of the
northern district Of California.
Espil was represented by Attorneys
j. Henderson Stockton, Thomas A..
Flynn and j. Early Craig, who filed
opposition to the removal Of Espil to
California.
Espil came to the United States
from France in 1891. According to
his claims he was naturalized in San
Francisco in 1899. All records Of
naturalization were destroyed in the
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FLAGSTAFF TOPPLED OFF
TOP PERCENTAGE TABLE
SUNDAY BY CLARKDALE

After netting enough runs in the
first and third innings to sew up any
ordinarily well-played baseball game
the score at the end of the third
being 5 to 0 in Flagstaff's favor
Clarkdale's sluggers got to work and
aided by errors and at least one bone
head play by Flagstaff at third, lost
the game, 10 to s.
The game was played at Clarkdale.
About so Flagstaff fans, most of them
bewhiskered Elks, drove down to see
our team tumbled from its proud and
perfect position at the top of the per-
centage table The tired feeling in
duced by the loss of game after it
was seemingly safely won makes it a
physical impossibility to catalogue the
Flagstaff pilgrims.
Manager Jake Bracker had several
new men in the lineup. Benny Toll
son of Tucson. who had accumulated
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MIDDAY HOLDUP ARIZONA CENTRAL, WILLIAMS
Dragonen and Beggars Add Sordidness and Fzeas
I1ckHshness to Life IN Cairo


gowns in the daytime. | presume
they wore them in the daytime in or
der to be on the job the next morn
ing before any sucker tourist could
get away. Buzzards at Bombay?
Why a vulture over here hasn't a
look in The "bones" of the tourist
here are polished so clean that a CEN
tipede would slip up and bust his
neck trying to crawl over one.
While strolling along down the
street, twirling my cane and looking
wise, street rug merchant got a
slant at my benevolent face and
spread a rug over his shoulder to
show me. Beautiful, silk, cheap,
twenty-five dollar, you no can buy
in store for fiftee dollar" | had ac-
cidentally looked around when he
flopped it up. tried to wander away,
saying: mo, no, no want rug"
"How much Meester? How much
you gif? Twenty dollar?"
"No, hell! I don't want it."
"Meester, how much? Fifteen dol
lar?"
mo, nix, not-no rug. Take it
away"
For some three blocks this conver-
sation continued with that rug hound
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Paul Seros, Greek, was on Tuesday
bound over by Justice of the Peace
Tom Pulliam under $500 bond for
trial in superior court on the charge
of attempt to bribe Sheriff John Par
sons.
Seros is one Of several Greeks who
have been under suspicion for some
time and whose premises here in
town were several times searched for
booze during the winter. They now
live at the L. e. Johnson farm, east Of
Flagstaff, for which, it is said, they
pay $100 month, their chief farming.
on the surface, being the conduct of a
small restaurant which must serve
wonderfully good sandwiches, judging
from the number of men and women
who patronize the place.
Last Thursday night Sheriff Par
sons, so he testified in the preliminary
hearing Tuesday, visited the Greeks.
He asked Seros to stop selling booze.
The latter, he testified, replied that he
wanted to keep the business going un-
til after the Fourth of July and then
would move away. The sheriff said
one of the other Greeks was there at
the time.
During the conversation, the sheriff
testified, Seros showed a roll of bills
across the table to him. Upon re-
fusing them, Mr.. Parsons said, Seros
ambled around and stuck them into
his, Parsons, pants pocket.
Seros told Justice PulIiam that Mr..
Parsons was mistaken. The other
Greek supposed to be present testified
that he was in Clarkdale that night
Mr.. Parsons, while agreeing that
there seems to be a great deal of
business going on between the Greeks
of goods in Clarkdale, says he's sure
both men were there that night.
County Attorney Frank Harrison
says that one of the Greeks came to
him several weeks ago and asked him
to intercede with the sheriff to keep
him from troubling him. He told Mr..
Harrison that his intercession with
the sheriff would be profitable to him.
Mr.. Harrison says he's sorry he did
not lay lines right then to trap the fell
low but didn't want to indulge in any
grand stand play, figuring that before
long the men would be in the net
anyway.
A few days ago Sheriff Parsons
Deupties Art Vandevier and Harry
Green and City Marshal j. r. Cooper
went to the Greeks farm home to look
for lot of beer they figured was
there. They failed to find any or
the premises. But they did find "a
cases, each containing "a bottles OF
good beer, on some land near the
farm. 1t had evidently been placet
there in a hurry, as it was not Gov
cred 1t is now in the Jail basement
Should Seros be convicted of at.
tempt to bribe an officer, the punish
ment may be much greater than il
convicted of bootlegging.
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BASEBALL TOMORROW AND
SUNDAY WITH PRESCOTT

Flagstaff will have two ball games
in a row. Prescott vows, who gave
Jerome a lacing Sunday to the tune
of 10 to /, will face the locals here on
Saturday and Sunday.
Bennie Tolson, who twirled for the
locals against Clarkdale, has been
signed for the season and will report
June 3.
Bennie will receive his diploma from
the Globe high school He is right
handler and has world of control.
Cecil Mccormick will probably
start Saturdays game. Jake Laufler,
who has been playing short, will get
away on the mound Sunday.
Flagstaff fans will be treated to
two good games.
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This announcement to Secretary
Embach followed sessions between
Colonel Greeley and other national
forest men and representative mem
bers of the wool growers association
that lasted all day and until nearly
midnight Saturday. The announce
ment and an explanation of the pres
ent plans of the forestry department
in regard to sheep in the local for
ests were covered in letter Colonel
Greeley on Monday wrote Secretary
Embach. This letter is reprinted in
full in this article
The general tax-paying public in
this state, and especially in this coun-
ty, is so vitally affected in this mat
ter that the following figures in con-
nection with the proposed and now
for the present abandoned reduction
of sheep in the forests should be of
general interest:
There are 100000 sheep on the tax
rolls of Arizona. (This does not in
clude the non-taxable sheep, some
100000. owned by the Indians).
Of the above number of taxable
sheep, 298,114 Craze in national for
ests.
Of this latter number, 69,769 Craze
in our Coconino forest, 1887 in
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cupied by Woo. The only door to
HON Chee's room opened into Woo's
room.
Woo, lying on his back, took .38-
calibre Colts revolver in both hands,
the right hand on the gun and the
left hand over the right, pressed the
muzzle against his right temple and
fired the shot. His hands, still tightly
grasping the gun, fell on his breast,
so that the tip of the muzzle rested
against his lips.
HON Chez said he did not hear the
shot. He got up at $50 Saturday
morning, while it still was fairly dark
in the small bedrooms, dressed and
went into the restaurant, passing OF
necessity through Woo's room.
The two mattresses, Vivian Aguila1
and Antonio Martinez, asked after a
while why Woo wasn't around. HON
Chez said maybe he was sick. Finally
one of the girls raped on the glass
of the door to his room. Getting nc
reply, she finally, after much hesita-
ton, turned the key in the Yale lock
and entered the room, where she soor
discovered the. gruesome truth. The
door swung shut behind her, anc
locked. She screamed frantically sew
eral times before the door was opened
for her from the other side.
This was about 1:30 Saturday af,
ternoon, at least IL hours after Woo
had killed himself. Vivian ran out
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Tusayan, 53,754 in the Sitgreaves; the
balance being more or less evenly dis
tributed between the Apache, Pres
colt and Tonto forests.
The cut proposed, third of which
was to be made each of the next three
falls, was: "A per cent in Coconino
sheep; SO per cent in the Tusayan;
varying in different sections of the
Sitgreaves, 33 per cent being the low
est and 55 per cent the highest; 10
per cent in the Apache, and about 20
per cent in the Prescott and Tonto.
The number of sheep to be excluded,
according to the above percentages:
Coconino, 28,116, Prescott 5340, Sit
greaves, 14,003, Tonto 6125, Tusayan
q ,321-a total of 74,904.
AS sheep are valued for taxation
purposes at $5 head, this reduction
of sheep would have meant reduc-
tion in our tax valuation of 1914, 500.
To offset this, the tax rate would
have had to be raised on other classes
of property. Practically all of the
loss would have been borne by the
northern counties of this state, for
most of the forests and most of the
sheep are in these counties. Coconino
county, containing the Coconino and
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ADJUSTMENTS BUT NO
THRILLS In FIGHT CARD

The fight card at the Orpheum
theater Tuesday night was more
amusing than thrilling. The fans were
good-natured.
The main event, between the pro-
moter, St. Louis Tommy Danforth,
and Tony Costello of Winslow ended
in the first round, when Tony tapped
Tommy on the tummy and the latter
sat down and contorted his face, tell
ing Referee Cummings that he could
not go on.
The two prelims were better, the
first especially. In this, Robbins and
Monterey, 115-pounders, fought four
rounds to a draw.
The second prelim, between Kid
Underwood, cook at the Flagstaff
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Smart was in the bank alone. Wal
ter Lindblom, manager, was at the
Rotary club meeting and arrived at
the bank about five minutes after the
stunt was pulled. There were no GUS
toners in the bank
The bandit stepped up to the win
dow with a blank counter check.
'Does a fellow by the name of An
derson work here 2" he asked.
Smart looked up at the question and
saw the muzzle of the gun directed at
him.
,"Give me the cash that's in that
draw" the fellow demanded, referring
to the cash draw, near Smart, which
was partly open.
Smart handed over the money in
sight-$1042, all in bills of from ST
to $50 denomination. There were sew
eral hundred dollars farther back in
the drawer that the man didn't see
and Smart didn't think it worth while
to call his attention to it.
( The bandit hurried out and, accord
ing to some people on the street,
walked to the Ford auto camp ground
two or three doors west of the bank.
Then he put on his cap, which until
then had been stuck in his belt, and
ran, jumping into small touring car,
believed to be Ford, that was stand
ing on the back street. He drove
west
7. T. Muzzy, manager of the Bah
bitt store at Williams, who is a spe-
cial officer started out in a powerful
car with Smart not more than 1C
minutes after the fellow left the bank
They drove all the way to Ashfork
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SPECIAL MEMORIAL DAY
PROGRAM AT ORPHEUM

Memorial Day, tomorrow, will be
observed with appropriate services at
the Orpheum, at 10 in the morning
the program of which is in this is
sue. Following will be a short serv-
ice at the cemetery. Early in the
morning a committee will place flags
on the graves of men and women who
have served in war.
All business houses are expected to
close from 10 in the morning until one
that afternoon.
Everyone cordially invited to the
exercises. Special guests will be the
veterans of all wars, members of the
Howitzer company and of the Ameri-
can Legion auxiliary. 1t is requested
that ex-service men wear their uni
forms.
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GREEK LONG UNDER EYE WORK ON WATER SYSTEM
OF OFFICER ACCUSED OF GOING AHEAD IN FINE
TRYING TO BRIBE HIM SHAPE ROTARIANS TOLD

Flagstaff Rotary Club ON Tuesday
was under chairmanship of Joe F.
Wilson, who was generally recognized
in spite of his beard by all except
some of the visitors.
Lieut.-Col. Harry B. Embach, sec
retary Arizona Wool Growers asso-
citation, told about the concessions re-
ceived from National Forester w. B.
Greeley following the conference he
held here Saturday with the sheepmen
of the state. The conference and lis
results are told about elsewhere in
this issue. Secretary Embach said
the sheepmen are entirely satisfied
with the outcome and are convinced Of
the fairness and ability Of Colonel
Greeley.
Mr.. Henderson, engineer in charge
of the local water works improve
ments, told of the progress Of the
work to date.
He said that Sam Killen, engineer
for the contractors making the inn
provements in the town distributing
system, started a gang at work that
morning digging the ditch to lay the
two-mile 14-inch line from the reser-
voirs to the north. end of Humphrey
street, where it will connect with the
smaller mains. The new and inch
mains in town will be cast iron, with
lead joints. The life of this pipe is
anywhere from rs to 200 years.
The excavation for the new reser-
voir, under charge of Dick Bates is
about third done. A total of 10000
cubic yards is to be dug. The dirt
embankment will be lined with 10
foot layer of clay, itself a good water
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parallel in the history of community
gala occasions, the Days of 40 was
an outstanding success due to the able
direction of Clyde S. Zerby, member
of the Globe lodge and originator and
generalissimo of the big event. He
has promoted scores of expositions,
carnivals and varied attractions.
Seven years ago in Globe he originat-
ed the thrift stamp carnival for the
Globe lodge of Elks. 1t was a tre-
mendous success. More recently he
directed the two big style shows in
Kinney park which drew crowds from
the entire district as well as many
neighboring towns. Three years ago
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without catching sight Of him, then
concluded he must have slipped into
a by-road or else doubled back and
gone in another direction.
All available men from the sheriff's
office in Flagstaff were in Williams
as quickly as possible and net has
been spread in every direction.
Smart says the fellow was medium
sized, very light compleXioned, had
blue eyes, was good looking, wore
khaki shirt and blue overalls. He
was very cool, leading to the belief
that he may be used to the game
Smart never saw him before.
Of course, as always following an
affair of that kind, there were con
flicting stories about persons any one
of whom might have been the bandit
and who were seen going in various
directions about that time. But Wal
ter Lindbloom, manager of the bank,
with whom a representative of The
Sun talked over the phone yesterday
afternoon, said he believed the man
seen going through the auto camp
ground and driving away in the
small car was the man wanted.
The Arizona Central bank at Will
liams is one of the several branches
in northern Arizona of the Arizona
Central bank of Flagstaff.
This is the first bank hold-up in
great many years in northern AlT-
zona. The few roads and the great
distance between towns has been fig
ured to be pretty much of a preven-
tive of stunts of that kind. Those
handicaps may lead to the early arrest
of the bandit who held up the VIII
Eams hank
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AMERICAN LEGION FUND

DIR. E. S. Miller, chairman of the
county committee in charge of raising
Flagstaff's quota Of the American
Legion Endowment Fund for the care
of orphans of ex-service men, advises
that those who have not been called
upon personally but wish to add their
mite to the good cause may leave
their subscription at the Arizona Cen
trail bank. He has opened an espe-
cial account there for that purpose.
The Coconino sun., 1925-05-29

True to the precepts of CONTIGUOUS,
that all debts and contracts must be
scrupulously met and to the ages-old
custom among Chinese that he who
cannot pay must make the blood sac
rifice, the supreme gift, his own life,
it became evident during the investi-
cation following the discovery of
Woo's lifeless body that at least for
several weeks he had been reconciled
to paying in the only way left and
had made his preparations with care.
The Chinese code of honor leaves
no alternative. 1t is pay, or die.
True, now and then-though very
rarely-one of that nationality does
default on his debts and then hasn't
the moral courage to go through with
the blood payment But it is doubtful
if there is any other nation that has
as clear a record for honesty as the
Chinese.
Woo was his own Judge and jury.
1t was known among his associates,
other Cinnamon, that he was finan-
cially worried. 1t may be they anti
cipated the climax. Certain peculiar
incidents connected with the suicide
and the long delay before it became
known seem to indicate that.
Woo retired to his little room about
nine o'clock Friday night. An hour
or so later his partner, HON Chez, re-
tired. The latter could reach his own
room only by going through that oc-
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ZERBY WILL SOON BE HERE
TO RUN DAYS OF '49'

'Zerby is Carnival Genius" was
the headline of big story last sum-
mer in the Miami Bulletin.
Clyde S. Zerby is the man who viii
be in charge of all preparations for
the Elks' "Days of 40" celebration.
to be held in Flagstaff, July 2, and
A. He and Mrs. Zerby will be here
in a few days.
Zerby handled a similar celebration
in Globe last year the fame of which
spread far and wide. 1t was in every
way a success.
OF his work during that celebration
the Bulletin said in part: Without
The Coconino sun., 1925-05-29
CHIEF FORESTER GREELEY
AFTER CONFERENCE HERE
WITH SHEEPMEN RESCINDS
ORDER TO REDUCE SHEEP

Sheepmen of the state are elated the abandon
ment by COL w. B. Greeley of Washington, D. c.. chief
forester of the United States of the plan to begin this fall
big in the number of sheep to be permitted to Craze
nouncement that the cut will not be made came Sunday
morning in conference he held here with It. Col Harry
B. Ebach secretary of the Arizona Wool Growers asso
ciation
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STATE WOOL GROWERS
MEET HERE In JULY

The 39th annual convention of the
Arizona Wool Growers association
will be held in Flagstaff in July, the
exact date to be announced later. 1t
will be somewhere between the first
and fifteenth of the month. Officers
for the ensueing year will be elected
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UNABLE TO PAY DEBTS
POPULAR FLAGSTAFF
CHINAMAN KILLS SELF

Despondent debts that he could see no way of
paying, "Woo Chung"-whose real name Woo We
Kim late Friday night early Saturday morning commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in the right temple while
lying in his bed in the of the Coconino Chop House.
of which he was Of the under the firm name
of Woo CHING
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he originated and directed the Trade
on Travis" carnival in Houston,
Texas. 1t was the biggest sales
event ever held in the Texas city. So
great were the crowds that police re-
serves were called out to clear the
streets time after time. As COM
pliment to his genius it may be added
that his long string of success is not
marred by single 'bloomer.
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DARING BANDIT FORCED
BOOKKEEPER TOHAND OUT
SlO42 YESTERDAY NOON;
MIGHT HAVE TAKEN MORE

At the point of revolver, John Smart bookkeeper
in the Arizona Central bank at Williams compelled to
hand $1042 to young bandit at minutes after o'clock
yesterday afternoon Every officer in the county is on
the hunt for the robber of whom they have fairly good
description.
The Coconino sun., 1925-05-29

George H. Reeves Of Grand Canyon
spent Wednesday and Thursday in
town.