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Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
OLD-TIME OFFICER DEFENDS NAME
OF TOMBSTONE in CRABTREE CASE

BOSTON, Mass. Dec 9, (AP)--
IONA, was defended in a deposition
read in Suffolk Probate court today,
by the man who arrested pretty
nearly every man that done any
killing there.
The deponent was Wyatt carp of
Los Angeles, deputy sheriff and
United States Marshal at Tomb
stone during the eighties and his
testimony was introduced in sup
port of the contention of Mrs Car
lotta Cockburn Of San Gabriel, CAL
ifornia, that she was niece of the
late Lolita Crabtree and entitled to
share in the former actresses
$4,000,000 estate
Looking back on the days when
he enforced law on the frontier,
carp declared that witnesses who
have described Tombstone as a
rough town, where all wrong, and
then in it's wildness not half as
bad as Los Angeles. In fact, he
retorted, he could count all the
killings on his fingers.
"The first man killed was Mike
Killeen," he began, then city mar
shall White, he was killed by Cur
ley Bill | arrested him and took
him to Tucson and put him in Jail.
Then the next man was killed by a
man named Bradshaw. He kill
ed his partner, Mcintyre. Brad
shaw had bought kind of funny
looking shirt, red striped shirt,
and he went out in the street and
everybody was making fun of it
and saying, where did you get
that shirt? and he got hot over
it and he says, the next man that
kids me about this shirt l am go
ing to kill
"The next man was his partner,
and of course he said to Brad
shaw, where did you get that
shirt?' and Bradshaw jerked out
his gun and killed him.. That
makes three. The next man killed
was Storms, and he was killed by
Rufe Short That is four, and that's
all except the Clanton-McLowry
affair"
carp said he remembered Jack
Crabtree, but did not know that he
was related to Lotta, the actress.
He knew that Crabtree had a child
but was not sure whether it was
a boy or girl
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
REPORT METEOR
FELL 40 MILES
FROM WINSL0W

MeteOrs seem to have peculiar
affinity for Winslow. With the
greatest Meteor crater known to
man within 16 miles of Winslow,
and with others reported in a ra-
dius of a few miles in the near
past, this region hardly needed the
new one which fell last night
some miles southwest of here.
Night Marshal r. l.. Neill re-
ported last night that he and two
companions say a large meteor
burst from the sky, and apparently
fall near Hay Lake.
The phenomenon, which occur
red at S:25 last night, lit up the
country for miles around, and
made the submits of the noun
tains at Sunset Pass plainly yisi-
BILE from here.
Mr.. Neill said that the meteor,
even from great distance, ap-
peared to be several feet in dia-
meter.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10

Selection Of grand Jurors. and
preliminaries will probably be
completed early in the morning
of the 18th of December, according
to Lloyd G. Henning, clerk of the
superior court, and the jury should
ne hard at it's work of returning
true bills that same day.
Speculation as to the rea-
SONS for calling grand jury
panel are rife both here and i'm
H0lbr00k, but the actual causes
will remain IL secret at least
until after the 18th. County
Attorney z. A. Sawyer left for
Phoenix early in the week, and
officially at least, he is the only
man who knows the exact real
son for impanelling a grand
jury.
According to court records, only
two grand juTie5 have been called
in Navajo county in the past sever
years
The last grand jury, called in
1921, Investigated reputed dishon-
esty in the case of the failure oi
the Holbrook State Bank, accord
ing to court house attaches, anC
indictments were returned against
several New Mexico business men
The petit jury preliminaries, OF
part of them, were held Monday
at the court house, when all cases
on the docket were scheduled, and
attorneys for defense stated wheth-
er or not they wished jury trials
for their clients. Drawing OF
names from the jury box will be
made between now and January
4th, and On that date the jury will
be selected.
These twelve jurors will try all
cases in which jury demand has
been made
Reviewing the calendar Monday
it was estimated that the petit
jury session would consume about
three weeks.
In the same year, 1921, another
grand jury was called by the
county attorney to investigate cir
cumstances surrounding the mys-
terious shooting of R. l.. McLen-
non, Santa Fe railroad man, who
was found unconscious in his home
early in May of that year, suffer
ing from several bullet wounds.
McLennon tailed to give any in
formation that would disclose the
identity Of his assailant. Al
though seriously wounded, Nc
Lennon lived six weeks, dying on
June 18th, 1921. in the Los Angeles
Santa F'e hospital.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
Still
Trying To Settle
Their Troubles

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec 9 (AP)
Charles Spencer Chaplin would
be satisfied to take one of his two
sons and let his estranged wife,
the former Lita Grey OF the
screen, keep the other, if that
would be an acceptable compromise
in the difference of the comedian
and his wife, Edward Manson.
special representative of Mrs.
Chaplin said today. Mrs. Chap
lin, however denounced the plan as
absurd
Il will never agree to this" she
said
George Beebe, attorney for Mrs.
Chaplin said every effort would be
made to settle the differences be-
tween the Chaplins out of court.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
MINEEXPLO LOSIONTAKES2OLTVES
Heavy California Storm Damages Cyobs Parulyzes Traffic
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! lowing his forging of the name !
= of his brother, P. Phil Dale, of !
! Eaton, Colo, to checks total J
+ ing nearly $1,50000, caused !
i John E. Dale, 5S, Fort Nor !
: gan hotel man, to commit sui !
: eide here Monday, while Sher- !
= iff of Morgan county watched, !
j it is believed here. Dale had !
\ forged checks in payment of !
i the Bijou Hotel here. Forged !
= checks for the lease payment !
= and deposited another forged !
= check in a local bank for !
! $13700. All of the checks, !
j written on a Greeley, Colo, /
= bank, were refused payment J
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= had been discovered, came to ]
= his decision and shot himself j
: through the head before the ]
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Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
RAIN AND SNOW THROUGHOUT
ARIZONA CHEERS Up FARMERS
But BLOCKS TOURIST TRAFFIC

General rainfall which has been
prominent part of the entire Ar
iona scene for the past week, in
some places blocked traffic and
closed roads, and in Winslow
chiefly manifested itself in an in
termittent drizZle that alternated
with snow for the whole week,
leaving streets swimming in mud
of pea-soup consistency. Agricul-
turalists and stockmen take the
rain as a god-send, and there is no
question but that the statewide
precipitation has been worth thou
sands of dollars to Arizona as a
whole.
Among others the Winslow Daily
Mail takes its place as storm
sufferer. Expecting an operator
from the Associated Press, plus a
desk man to edit the wire news,
the owners of The Mail received a
call yesterday afternoon from
Prescott, advising that both men
had been delayed on account of
the storm The report said that
they were delayed by wreck
their car overturning near Black
Canyon, and that the two men
would arrive as soon as possible
Heavy SHOWS fell in the higher
attitudes of Northern Arizona, and
We're reported as far south as Date
Creek, Prescott, Flagstaff, Ash
fork and other points reported
snow III quantities.
Continued on Page D
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
ILL HEALTH
SENDS TWO
TO THE GRAVE

NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (AP)-Ill
health sent two women to their
death, one jumped through win
dow, the other swallowed poison.
Suffering from anervous disor-
der Mrs. Lewis Vanderbilt Hewitt,
descendant of John Way, opened a
window of her sixth floor apart
ment and leaped out She died a
few hours later in d hospital
Miss Dorothy Smoller, motion
picture actress, swallowed poison
in her room in the Shelton Hotel.
Letters in her room revealed she
had tuberculosis, one letter to her
mother. Mrs. Rose Smoller, of
Long Beach, Cal, telling of pains
all the time
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
DE LA HUERTA
BRANDS REPORTS
"PURE INVENTION''

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. 8
(AP)-Adolfo De La Huerta today
characterized a report that he had
been repudiated' by Mexican Revo-
lutionists as a pure invention"
Elias Palominas reports to have
brought message to Ell Paso pro-
badly is a government agent he said.
De La Huerta said he received a
telegram today from representa-
tive of General Nicholas Fernan-
dez, rebel leader, saying he was on
his way to renew pledges of al
legiance Of Gen. Fernandez to De
La Huerta.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
Prohibition Storm
Breaks In House
Over Enforcement

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 8,
(AP)-A prohibition storm broke
in the house today. the flood OF
wet and dry oratory unloosed al
most submerging the measure that
caused it, the treasury apprOpria-
ton bill carrying approximately
$19,OO0,000 for enforcement by the
prohibition unit.
Vets outnumbered the drys, 4
to : before the speakers dais and
between them they invoked virtu-
ally all popular arguments for and
against the enforcement act.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
COUNCIL AROUSES CURIOSITY
OF SPECTATORS, But FAILS
TOSH0W EXPECTED FIREWORKS

After a mysterious conference
held behind closed doors, which
seemed from the attitude of the
council to presage dire happenings,
breathless spectators who fingered
until midnight Tuesday in the hope
of hearing and seeing a display Of
exciting fireworks, were sent away
disappointed. The conference fol-
lowed a recess which was original
" planned for ten minutes, but
the recess stretched out over the
hour and well over and almost
through a second hour before the
city fathers reappeared to take up
their official duties.
Marshal C. w Harp and night
marshal Neill, as well as the mum
icipal court docket, figured in the
closed conference, and speculation
took as many different forms as
die recent weather. The curious
spectators are still curious, though,
and will likely remain so officially
One official act that followed
the long recess wasa decision made
By the council to bear down on
card players who seek their amusc-
ment in public places. Members
OF the local clergy appeared to be
behind the move, but whoever was
behind it, it passed, and from now
on the red, white and blue chips
will no longer flaunt their patrio-
tic colors on tables in Winslow
poolrooms.
Continued en- Page 81
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
FATE OF FOURTEEN MORE STILL
UNDETERMINED AS RESCUE WORK
STARTS; LITTLE HOPE is HELD

PRINCETON, Ind, Dec. (AP)-An explosion
IN the francisco Mine number near here today took
known toll of 20 lives. Fourteen miners still
were IN the mine tonight, their fate unknown and as
OF 81 others rescued, many were SO seriously burned
they may die. Seventyone men were in the mine when
the blast occurred, apparently from dust. Thirteen
were uninjured.
The mine, one of the largest in the state employ
ed 800 miners.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
ASK DENIAL OF
COURT REVIEW IN
TEAPOT DOME CASE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (AP)-
Government attorneys in the oil
cases asked the Supreme Court to-
day to refuse to review the civil
case in which the Harry F. Sin
clair Companies seek to set aside
the cancellation of the Teapot
dome naval oil lease. They con-
tended that the issue was the same
as presented in the appeal of the
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
CALL NAVAJO COUNTY GRAND
JURY TO MEET DECEMBER IS

With the calling of grand jury to be selected
and go into session December 10TH and with the petit
jury calendar made up this week and scheduled to-
start trials January 4th court house business seems
Ito be picking up in Navao county, and all the legal
talent in the county is preparing for busy and pros
porous season. Subpoenas were issued last week and
were Served on Winslow men for grand jury service
Saturday and Monday. A 5
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
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i DOUGLAS ELECTION j
! EXPENSES $3,117.O0 !

+ WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-(By !
= Associated Press)-Mrs. John ]
i W. Langley, Of Kentucky, re- !
+ ported to the house yesterday !
!. that she spent only 500 to !
+ gain the seat in congress held j
: by her husband before he was !
! convicted of prohibition law !
j. violations.
j. Today was the last for the !
i filing of reports and it brought !
: in all but a few of the ex T!
j pense statements. Outlays re- !
! ported by house candidates =
! included: Douglas, Arizona, :
! $3,117. :
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Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
INVITED no CONFERENCE

GENEVA, Dec. (AP)-The U.
S. government will soon be invit-
ed to colloborate in two League OF
Nations activities in an -interna-
tional conference for the super
vision of the private manufacture
eef arms.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
Brewers Contribute
To Defeat Dry Law

VANCOUVER, B. c., Dec 8, ,(AP)
Henry Reifel, president of Van
couver Brewers Association, in
formed the Royal Commission in
vestigating customs law in the
Province that the Brewing Cor
poration had made large expen-
ditures in the defeat of prohibi-
tiOO
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
KIND WORDS FROM THE
TOMBSTONE COMMERCIAL
CLUB
Tombstone, Arizona,
Doc & 1926

Tombstone, Arizona, (
Dec. 8, 1926.
Giragi Brothers, Publishers,
Winslow Daily Mail,
Winslow, Arizona.
Congratulations from the
Tombstone Commercial Club on
your advent into the daily
field.
Knowing you from the time
you were each knee high to a
grasshopper, we know you will
put over your new venture as
you did the Tombstone Daily
Prospector" here, and that great
Cochise county family guide,
"The Tombstone Epitaph."
A. H. GARDNER, Secretary.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
TO OPEN POL0 SEASON

TUCSON, Ariz,, Deco. 9-The
University Polo season will offici-
ally open Wednesday afternoon
when the polo squad will play the
officers team at Fort Huachuca
Captain P R Upton is coachine
The team
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
BUILD NEW CORRAL

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. "a new
stock corral of five car capacity
has been nuilt al Mariana for the
use of stockmen If that locality.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
COMPLETE PLANS

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec 9. - Plans
and specifications for the new vet
eran bureau hospital VIII be COM
pleted by the first Of next month.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10

Doheny side to set aside the case
at Elkhills, a decision in the Elk
hills case should be controlling.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10


PRINCETON, Ind, Dec. 3.
(AP)-Fire in the south en-
try OF the Francisco Coal Com.
pany's number mine in which
II men were killed today and
five are still entOmbed, tonight
drove rescue crews from the
shaft.
Seven men were rescued
alive from a heretofore unex-
plOred entry tonight. but one
OF them, Ollie ROhl, of Evans
vile, died before he reached
the hospital.
II was in an entry adjoining
the part where seven men
were released that the fire
broke out, augmenting the dis
aster which occurred at 6:30
this morning when an eXplO-
sion, OF undetermined origin
entOmbed seyenty-One men in
the 500 foot Shaft as they, the
first contingent OF the 100
men which tOiled in the mine.
Went down Mt the beginning OF
the day shift.
The explosion occurred in the
coIit thao Form ,NaYt ~ H. 81, =. 81
shortly after cage-loads of min
ers had been lowered for the days
work An emergency hospital was
established at the mine and physi-
clans and nurses summoned from
Princeton.
After first aid treatment was
given the more seriously injured
were rushed in ambulances to the
Methodist Hospital here
Most Of those rescued suffered
severe burns about the face and
chest. In their care of the injured
the resuers did not stop to record
the dead, and it was several hours
before the toll was known.
Word of the accident spread rap
idly and roads leading to the minf
were jammed with relatives Of the
workmen. 1t was necessary 70;
officials and miners to organize
traffic squads as well as rescue
squads.
Veteran workmen stood at thC
top of the shaft warning the trap
ped men to cover their faces to es-
cape pneumonia through exposure
Rescue workers experienced
considerable difficulty in getting
Continued on Page g.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-10
THE WEATHER J

ARIZONA, Friday partly
cloudy; Saturday fair, lit
tie change in temperature.
COLORADO and NEW MEA-
ICO; Friday and Saturday
fair, little change in temper
ature.
Evening star., 1926-04-22
MILLS BILL STUDY
DECIDED BY C. 0. P.
Representative Garner Plans
Fight on Alien Property
Steal"

House Republican leaders decided
yesterday to have the ways and means
committee hold further hearings on
the Mills alien property bill which has
been characterized by Representative
Garner, Democrat, Texas, as a stu
pendous steal"
This decision was reached at a CON
ference at the Capitol attended by
Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary
Winston of the Treasury. The bill is
designed to carry out awards of the
Evening star., 1926-04-22

German-American Mixed Claims Com
mission, members Of which will be
heard by the committee Monday.
Acting Chairman Hawley said the
committee had made no effort to in
vestigate awards of the commission
and that Mr.. Garner, ranking Demo
crat on the committee, would be given
an opportunity at the forthcoming
meeting to prove his charges.
Mr. Garner said his charges referred
to the proposed method of issuing
bonds for payment of awards and not
to the equity or validity of the claims.
"It is legalized highway robbery of
taxpayers to ask $3.50, 900 Of them
for the benefit of a special class" he
said. II do not agree that the Amer
lean people. should bear the burden for
the benefit of few"
He assailed President Coolidge for
his reported commendation of Repre-.
sentative Mills, Republican, New
York, for withdrawing his support of
the bill which he introduced with the
Endorsement of the administration and
of Secretary Mellon for supporting the
measure.
The only difference between the
connection of Mills and Mellon with
the bill" he asserted. "is that Mills
Interests would receive $250,000 under
Evening star., 1926-04-22
NAVY COURT MARTIAL
VERDICT IS WITHHELD
Action Believed Adverse to Orion
Officer, Charged With Caus-
ing Accident.
By the Associated Press.

NORFOLK. Va, April 22.--The
naval court-martial trying Lieut.. Viii
liam NICK. Reifel, navigating officer of
the collier Orion when she was badly
damaged in a storm off the Virginia
Capes December 2. adjourned yester-
day without announcing its decision.
This was done in the case of COmdr.
Louis j. CULVER, commander of the
ship, who was tried on similar charges.
The action of the court, according to
naval officers, indicates The charges of
ineffciency and negligence were sus-
tanned in part or wholly. as had the
officer been deemed not guilty he
would have been so notified immedi-
ately upon conclusion Of the trial. The
court simply announced it would send
its findings to the Navy Department
at Washington and then adjourned.
Adjournment Of the court.martial is
expected to end the series of investi-
cations. boards OF inquiry and courts
martial. Of which there have been
probably half dozen since the Orion
limped back to port on the night of
December nearly broken in half
amidship, her bottom at the bow dent
ed and railing and decks badly buc.
kled.
Evening star., 1926-04-22
MAN DIES IN HOME
FIRED BY OFFICERS
Barricaded Farmer, Sought
as Slayer, Refused to
Be Driven Out.
By the Associated Press.


FAYETTEVILLE. Ga. April o.
Barricaded in his home to resist ar
rest on charges of murder, Clint
Brown. 60. farmer, was burned to
death last night when officers set
fire to the dwelling in an effort to
drive him out.
Brown was wanted in connection
with the recent Staying of Rich
Neely, negro. When officers went
TO the house, miles from here, the
farmer opened fire, wounded one of
the officers, then shut himself in the
house.
The arresting. party retired and
brought reinfOrcementS. OfflcerS
from two adjoining counties had
augmented the forces about the
house when it was decided TO set
fire to the structure.
A warrant for Brown was issued
after George Thomas. a cousin and
neighbor, is said to have confessed
to officers that he and Brown killed
Neely, whose body, riddled with bull
let's, was found last Tuesday on
another farm.
Sheriff b. W. Adams and two
county policemen went TO Browns
house to serve the warrant. Brown
then opened fire and barricaded him
self, armed with a shotgun and
pistol officers said. Several shots
struck county Policeman Ed Dick
son. but he was not seriously
wounded.
Evening star., 1926-04-22
DRY OFFICER ACQUITTED.
Accused of Murder, U. S. Agent
Pleaded Self-Defense.

STATESVILLE, n. c.. April % Up.
}. r. Pearson. Federal prohibition
officer, was acquitted of murder in
Federal Court here yesterday after
State authorities had prosecuted and
United States officers defended him on
a charge of numbering Fred Mauney
of Caldwell County on May II. Pear
son said that he shot Mauney in self
defense near Lenoir after he had ar
rested his brother on a charge of
selling whisky.
The jury was out five minutes.
Evening star., 1926-04-22
Vienna Wars on Beer Price.

VIENNA. April % R.-Austrian
saloonkeepers and their customers
are brewing trouble for the brewers
trust. They are angered by the de-
cision of 40 of the 43 breweries in
the country to raise the price of beer.
Big mass meetings gave the brewers
until next Monday to call off the pro-
posed increase, otherwise beer will be
boycOtted
Evening star., 1926-04-22
WILL MAKE SHIP BID.
Puget Sound Oriental Line to Seek
Five United States Vessels.

SEATTLE. Wash. April % P),-
The Puget Sound Oriental Line, com
posed of Portland and Seattle inter
ests, announces it will bid for pur-
chase of five Shipping Board vessels
operated between Seattle and the Far
East if the ships are not sold to r.
Stanley Dollar of San Francisco.
After the Shipping Board had &C.
cepted a Dollar bid of $4,000 900 sign
ing of the contract was withheld when
a Senate resolution protesting the sale
was passed.
The Puget Sound Oriental Line
comprises virtually the same interests
which bid against Dollar in the first
call for bids
Evening star., 1926-04-22
SHRINE FUND SOUGHT.
81 $4,000 Needed to Restore STRAIT
ford-on-Avon Theater.

NEW YORK, April 22 P).-Shake-
speare's birthday. believed to be April
%, will coincide this year with an or
ganized drive in all English speaking
countries to replace the memorial
theater at Stratford-on-Avon. de
stroyed last year by fire. The amount
needed is $1.250,000, according to the
American committee. headed by Elihu
Root.
OF the sum to be raised. 100000 is
necessary for building the new theatei
and $750. 900 for endowment.
Evening star., 1926-04-22
Il Fabric that Stole the SIkver of the Moon

Have you the new Kuppenheimer Svertone fabrics
for Spring? Those wooen and worsted scons of Silver
King? Remarkable greys, borrowing their delicate and
exquisite shades from the silver of the moonlight See
these wonder shades in the new Kuppenheimer Mayfair
Sack shown here. That genteel two-buton, snughip,
young mans model-for all young thinking men from
sixteen to sixty.
Evening star., 1926-04-22
SHIP CAPTAIN SENTENCED.
Canadian Rum Eoat Head Gets Two
Years in Cell.

PORTLAND, Greg, April % OP.--
Capt. Robert Pamphlet, master of the
Canadian schooner Pescawha, which
was seized as rum runner off the
Washington coast in February, 1924,
was sentenced in Federal Court
yesterday to two years in the peni-
tentiary and fined $1,000. Jacob
Woitte. who was convicted with Capt.
Pamphlet, was sentenced to two years
ant fined $4,000.
Evening star., 1926-04-22

ChemtseS and Step
ins, Sn shades Of nile,
flesh, blue, maize, peach
and orchid, many lacy
affairs. Special.
Evening star., 1926-04-22

1t, while Mellon interests would re-
ceive 81 ,000, 900"
Mr.. Garner described the decision
for q meeting Monday as IAN oppor-
tunity for the Republicans to raise a
little dust and slide out of the situa-
tiOn as gracefully as possible"