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The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
WINSLOW MAN
ACQUITTED ON
FELONY CHARGE

After fourteen hours deliberation,
the jury of the superior court at
Holzrook, yesterday returned a YER
dict of mot guilty." in the case
of Mike Marchello, local contractor,
who was tried on charge of re-
ceiving stolen property.
Navajo rugs lent color to the
testimony, being named as the
specific goods alleged to have been
illegally purchased by Marchello.
The testimony further tended to
show that the men who traded the
rugs to the man who sold the rugs
to Marchello, (if we know what we
mean) received as their pittance
a few gallons of corn juice, com
plicating the proceedings extreme
ly.
The case of state VS. A. B. Ed
wards, who is charged with the
killing of B. Woodmansee last Sep
tember, comes to trial today or to-
morrow.
Il will be remembered that Ed
wards, who is a brakeman, shot
Woodmansee during an epidemic
of "Peeping Tom" scares in Wins
low, when it is alleged, Wood
mansee was peering in a window
at the Edwards home.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
ROTARY MUST
BACK SCOUTS
OR MOVEMENT.
WILL DIE HERE

Rotary must back the Boy Scouts
of Winslow, else the organization
will go out of existence, was the
message delivered by Rotarian
Homer Vaughn in an address be-
fore the Rotary club as a part of
the Boys work program enjoyed
by that body Wednesday,
Following the address of Rotar-
ian "Hamp" Madden, superintend-
ent of the Winslow schools, in
which he stressed the need of edu-
cation among boys, especially of
high school age, also touching on
the Scout movement, Mr.. Vaughn,
who is chairman of the Winslow
committee of the Grand Canyon
council gave the Rotarians some
interesting facts and fifures rela-
tive to the local situation. Need
of financial as we'll as moral as
sistance was stressed by the local
chairman, in which he appealed to
Rotary club as an organization and
as individuals to lend their sup
port, else the Boy Scouts as far
as WinSlow is concerned go into
the discard.
Following Mr.. Vaughn's discourse
Rev. Hessell of the Methodist
church, who was a guest of the
club, made short address on
Boys work, suggesting a choral
and physical culture club as a So
luton of Winslow's boy problem.
should the Scout movement fail,
although primarily he said he is
in favor of Scout work.
Due to the fact that the problem
of the Boy Scouts for Winslow, is
of such relative Importance and
that Wednesdays meeting did not
offer sufficient time to complete the
program to the point Of taking ac-
| ton, President Claude Quebedeaux
adjourned the meeting to next week
when the subject will be continu-
ed for further discussion and some
action will be taken.
Mr.. Madden, whose discourse
centered more about the schools
and school work, gave some inter
esting data relative to boys attend
ance in the schools. He said that
the average boys attendance in
high school, after graduation from
the grammer grades, was very
small, and appealed to Rotary to
lend their assistance in moral sup
port and advice to the coming men
of tomorrow to take advantage of
educational facilities offered in this
! city.
Wednesdays Boys Work pro-
gram at the Rotary was in charge
of DR.. P. D. Sprankle, as chair
man.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
SUE ON FIFTY
NOTES OF OLD
DEFUNCT BANK
TOTAL $4,000

Suit on more than fifty notes due
to the old defunct Bank of Wins
low, is being brought this week by
Sapp & Mclaughlin, attorneys for
the receiver, according to an
nouncement of S. B. Smith, repre-
senting A. T. Hammons, receiver OF
the bank, who was in Winslow on
business in connection with settl-
ing of the affairs of the defunct
institution.
According to Mr.. Smith, the notes
being sued on will aggregate in the
neighborhood of 5000, and there
yet remains notes totaling about
100000 which will be collected by
suit also as soon as the present
ones are started, which will be
within the next few weeks.
due to the fact that debtors
of the defunct bank, have not
shown willingness to pay up, the
suits were instituted as a last re-
sort, Mr.. Smith said, while here
Wednesday, in discussing the legal
action, land unless many more
against whom we hold notes will
make an effort to pay up by the
time these suits are disposed of,
we will of necessity be forced to
bring similar action against them, :"
he added
The present suits will be filed
in Holbrook during the latter part
OF this week or the first part of
the next, by attorneys Sapp & Nc
Laughlin.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
MUSICAL PROGRAM
FEATURES MEET OF
PIT. ASSOCIATION

A musical program featured the
Parent-Teacher meeting on Tues
day evening at Washington audi
torium, with Mr. r. NJ. Bruchman
in charge.
Vocal solos by VIM. Walcott and
Adelaide Martin were much enjoy
ed. Prof. Lee played several selec-
tions on the viola, and also on the
violin. Rev Mr.. Hessell gave a
talk on boy training, and stressed
the need of a place in WinsloW
where the boys can congregate for
amusement.
Mr.. Bruchman talked on religious
training in the home, pointing out
that by example the children learn
from the parents the principles Of
right living, and acquire a whole
some attitude toward life.
During the business session, Prof
Madden explained the supervised
study project, which is under ad-
viSement at the high school,
The president announced that the
next meeting will be held on Feb
ruary 16, jointly with Mothers club,
and will be celebration of Found
ers' Day.
Refreshments of coffee and sand
wiches were served.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
TOMBSTONE, In "fWILD AND WOOLLY"
DAYS WAS FIRST ARIZONA TOWN TO
SUPPORT A GAS PLANT, SAYS VETERAN

gineer and manager-in fact he
was practically the whole works"
1t was not uncommon to go into
a saloon at night,-much of the
collecting was done at night in
spare hOurs-and find it so difficult
to get to the bartender with his
bill, that Beals would have to
reach through crowd about four
or five deep standing at the bar,
shove his bill at the bartender
who knew less about the number
Of feet used, more than he cared
The totals were all that counted
The amount due would be showed
back at the gas bill collector in
the form of bills and in many in
stances, a collection was reckoned
in hundreds, Beals says.
But things have changed since
then the veteran gas plant erector
sighs. Since 1 first gave Tomb
stone her first gas plant-the first
one to be built in Arizona, | have
built forty-seven plants in the
west, including two in Panama, one
at Colon and the other at Panama.
From Tombstone | went to Phoe-
nix built plant there and ran it
for four years, then went to Los
Angeles, and have made that my
headquarters ever since"
His company is now the second
largest gas plant erecting concern
in the west and his company fea-
lures Beals' Gas System, design
of his own.
Mr.. Beals says Winslow has a
plant to be proud of and it will
render a service to this communi-
ty for many years to come and is
a credit to the administration that
has built it. and the people are
lucky to have a man like Manager
Steinert in charge.
He has just perfected a new sys-
tenn for generation of commercial
gas known as Beals' Improved
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
STATE SUPREME COURT ORDERS NAVAJO
COUNTY SUPERIOR JUDGE TO APPEAR
JANUARY 30 IN WTNSLOW BANK CASES

PHOENIX-J. E. Crosby super
ior judge of Navajo county, was
ordered Saturday, to appear before
the state supreme court on Janu
airy 80, at 10 o'clock a. m. to show
cause why he should not be pro-
hibited from sitting in several legal
matters which have grown out of
the closing by the state bank ex-
aminer of the Bank of Winslow and
its branches at Holbrook and st.
Johns.
The order of Judge Crosby was
issued on the petition of A. t.
Hammons, state superintendent of
banks and ex-officio receiver for
the Bank of Winslow.
Mr.. Hammons sets out in his
petition, filed yesterday, that he
acted in his official capacity as
state superintendent Of banks in
taking over the assets of the Wins
low bank on October 4, 1924. Lat
er, he alleges, suits were filed on
behalf of depositors against Will
liam H. Dagg, ct al, and R. B. Wal
ton, ct al, to enforce their stock
holders liability.
The suits were filed in the court
of Judge Crosby, but on last De-
cember 16, Mr.. Hammons sets out,
an application was filed asking that
Judge Crosby called upon another
Judge to preside Judge Crosby, ac-
cording to last Saturdays petition.
overruled the application for the
appointment of another Judge, re-
sulting in the action being carried
to the supreme court, and the
granting of that body of the order
to show cause.
In addition TO asking that Judge
Crosby be prohibited from sitting
as magistrate in the litigation, Mr..
Hammons asks that all rulings
made by Judge Crosby in matters
relating to the closing of the bank
be vacated.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
REPORT find
Of LOG PARTLY
PFTR|F|FD AND
PORT|ONWOOD

A strange work of nature that
may tend to disprove the theory
of learned scientists was reported
in Winslow this week by Jas. S.
Shreeve, of st. Johns, who brought
word that near Springerville, in
the White mountain country there
has been found log, part of which
is petrified, while the remaining
portion is still in the original pine
log state.
:. According to the report brought
4ere by the st. Johns resident, his
brother-in-law, w. H. Hamblin, of
Eager, was on December 23rd, last
on wood-gathering expedition
about II miles east of Springer
vile, near Coyote River, and in
gathering up old logs and fallen
tree trunks, was surprised to run
onto a pine log that apparently had
been petrified.
Examination proved that one end
of the log was thoroughly petrified,
Mr.. Shreeve reports, while the 9TH
er portion was still in it's original
state as wood fibre. In fact, he
reported, when samples of the log
had been broken off, the portion
still "alive", which is rich in pitch,
burned freely as any logwood does,
while the petrified portion, of
course, remained intact.
Colorings in the petrified por-
tion of the log are beautiful, the
st. Johns man reports, and so far
many people who have seen the
samples have been unable to ac-
count for the queer freak of nature,
if such is possible An effort is
being made to get a scientific opin-
ion of the phenomena and it is pos
sible a sample will be sent to the
University of Arizona or possibly
to the government bureau to as
certain the queer work of nature.
A sample is being prepared for
The Mail and when it arrives it
will be placed on exhibition in the
display window of this newspaper.
Whether the find may tend to
disprove the theories of petrifica-
ton, or the cause of Northern Ari-
zona's Petrified Forest, no one so
far has been able to figure aud the
opinions of scientists regarding the
find are being awaited with inter-
est
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
OF.
HOSPITAL FOR
WINSLOW SEEK
FINANCIAL HELP

Further steps toward concrete
plan for hospital for Winslow
were taken Wednesday night at a
meeting of the American Legion
and local business and professional
men in the office of Postmaster
Kleindienst, when committee was
appointed to enlist the aid of all
organizations in the city for the
drive.
Every club, or organization in
Winslow will be urged to appoint
a committee of one to a general
committee, which will meet in the
City Hall February 5th. A COM
mittee to ascertain facts concern
ing such a hospital was also ap-
pointed, so that the general COM
mittee will have definite facts with
which to work.
Two salient features were devel-
oped at Wednesday nights meet
ing, the fact that the greatest step
will be financing the hospital, and
the utmost necessity for co-opera-
tion from every Winslowite.
1t is impossible for the Legion
to handle single-handed the f1nanc-
ing, but the Legion promises to
supply men to augment any force
banded for that purpose. There is
no doubt but at the concensus of
opinion cries for a hospital here,
and if everyone works for it, it
will become a reality instead of
possibility, it was agreed.
1t is believed that enough people
are sent to Gallup and Los Angeles
hospitals every year to assure a
comfortably-filled list at a Wins
low hospital, and an almost equal
ly large number are confined to
their homes who should be in a
medical sanctuary. For these rea-
sons. it is certain that modern
hospital. so conveniently near
would be assured of enough pat
rons to make it self-supporting
The possibility of county hos
pital was mentioned, but only as
a possibility; however, it is thought
that the county may donate site
for the purpose.
The lack of definite material with
which to work was noticeable last
night, but the two committees ap-
pointed promise to furnish gath
ering large enough for a real
start at the general meeting, and
real facts for them to work on.
The committee appointed to
gather representation from every
social. welfare, religious, fraternal
and civic body consists of A. R..
Hipkoe, A. r. Kleindienst and c..
l.. Giragi; the committee on data
concerning hospital cases exported
is headed by G. T. Stevens, whose
aids will be H. Payne and George
Laws.
The hospital being such vital
necessity, and a matter of import
ance to every citizen, a full at
tendance is expected, and commit
teemen are promising a definite
start toward the goal by February
5th.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Plans For Local Legion
Big Vaudeville Show Is
Progressing Rapidly

In an interview with Mill Bras
sill this week, he stated that plans
for the big Legion vaudeville show
are progressing very nicely. He
states that a seven act show with
the best talent obtainable, is his
objective
B. D. Clark, recently of Flagstaff,
who has had considerable expert
ence in staging affairs of this ma
ture, will take an active part. Many
people here will no doubt remem-
ber other shows in which Mr.. Clark
has starred, and will be glad of
the opportunity to see his work
again.
Complete details of the big show
will be given at a later date.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

IN NEW
YORK AFTER
BRIEF ILLNESS

General John Cleveland Green
way. of Warren. prominent in min
ing and political circles in Arizona
and former manager of the Calu-
met ard Arizona mining company,
of Bisbee, died at 1:1O o'clock Mon
day afternoon in the Roosevelt hos
pital in New York City.
Death followed an operation per-
formed earlier in the day Mrs.
Greenway was with her husband at
the time of his death, having ac-
cOmpanied him to New York to be
with him during the ordeal.
The body of General Greenway
will be brought to Ajo for burial
and will arrive there next Monday.
The widow will accompany the re-
mains from New York to Ajo where
the funeral services will be held.
The death of General Greenway,
all the more startling in it's sud
denness because of the robust ply
sique of the general, comes as a
distinct shock to his many friends
in the state.
General Greenway is survived by
his widow, one son, and one step
daughter.
General Greenway was So years
old at the time of his death. He
was born in Huntsville, Alabama,
July 6, 1872 He had been a resi-
dent of Arizona since 1910 when he
came to Bisbee as general manager
of the Calumet and Arizona prop
critics.
Although ranking as one of the
worlds greatest mining engineers,
General Greenway also held a
prominent place in the political his
tory of Arizona.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

Few people in Arizona are aware
of the fact that Tombstone, the
historic county seat of Cochise
county, was the first city in Ari-
ZOna to sustain a gas plant, and
successfully maintain it until the
later 90's, but according to John
F. BealS, veteran gas plant erector,
who has been in Winslow the past
month assisting in the building of
Winsiow's new $4,000 municipal
plant, he was the first man to build
a gas manufacturing plant in Ari-
Zona and it was built in Tombstone
a little over 40 years ago, while
that famous mining camp was en-
joying it's early days as the wild
est and wooliest" mining camp in
, the west.
According to Mr. Beals, who is
now nearing the sunset of his life.
but is still active in gas plant con-
struction, he and associates, among
them r. w. Wood, of the Bank of
Tombstone, conceived the idea of
building a plant in the camp when
coal oil lamps were the only means
of illumination, and illumination
was what the saloon. dance and
gambling hall proprietors craved
most in those days.
So plant was erected and most
successfully operated for a num-
Der of years by Beals and partners,
until the boom period waned and
the plant was sold to others, who
continued it's operation until about
Is years ago, when it was dismantl-
ed and shipped to Nogales, Sonora,
where part of the old original plant
is still in operation
According to Beals, he has the
record of having secured the high
est rate ever paid for gas, $4,000
a thousand.
Beals remembers we'll his ex-
periences in collecting the gas bills,
for he was collector as we'll as en-
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
RECORD CROWD TO
ENJOY SHOP 4MAN
BANQUET AND BALL
By CHARLES ERICKSON


Judging from the number of
tickets sold by the snappy "go get
ter" salesman committee and the
good job of advertising handled by
w. .Fertig, a record crowd will
be at the new Arcadia hall this
evening to Swing their partners"
at the First Annual Ball put on
by the Shop Supervisors. Every
detail has carefully been planned
by General Foreman Jim Kiely and
his assisting committeeman and
the affair promises to be real
blowout"
Many surprises are in store for
the guests, one of which is the
moonlight" waltz, effects never be-
fore seen in the Meteor City.
Just so "all concerned" will feel
right to start in with, the Baptist
ladies have prepared a "sure
enough" dinner for the First An
nual Banquet to be served by them
in the Baptist church hall at 2
p. m. this evening. Lets eat and
then if you can't dance get on and
ride
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
10,2O1 More Autos In
Use In 1925 Than In 1924

PHOENIX-A total of 10,201
more automobiles were in use in
Arizona during 1925 than in 1924
and receipts from automobile Ii
censes were $65,07S.25 greater than
during the preceding year accord
ing to the report of Secretary of
State James H. Kerby on 1925 mo-
tor car registrations issued this
week
In the IA counties of Arizona a
total of 68,029 cars were registered
during 1925 as against 57,S28 dur
ing 1924 while the total receipts
from licenses last year were $402,-
404.25 compared with $337 1926 in
1924
Of the total number of cars reg
istered in 1925 there were 58,94S
passenger cars listed and 9,081
commercial cars The list shows
that 359 motorcycles were licensed
during the year and that there
were $50 automobile dealers in the
state.
Maricopa county registration
shows a total of 24,889 cars with
license revenues of. $15O,87275. The
registration and fees collected in
other counties of the state are as
follows:
Cochise 7.4O2, $44,547.5O; Pima
5000, $47757; Gila 5,S03, $32 $50:
Yavapai 5,702, $33,1SS; Yuma 1896
$21, 1,588.50 Pinal 1888, $17225.5O;
Graham 1880, $3.50; Santa Cruz
1868, $7.997.50; Mohave LILY, Sc
69150; Coconino 1916. $11,441;
Navajo 1857, $1O,623 so; Apache 62O
81 216 80. Greenlae qq1 s. 414.50
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Salaries Of The Livestock
Inspectors Cut By Board

PHOENIX-Salaries of livestock
inspectors working for the state
were slashed by the new state live
stock sanitary board which is meet
ing this week to organize it's pro
gram for 1925.
In line with a general cut of all
expenses in the department the in
spectors suffered slices in their in
comes. The amounts of the reduc-
tions were not mentioned.
The board will soon make an in
spection of the dipped and undipp-
ed regions in the cattle scabies
zone.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
HOlbrOOk- Phoenix
Highway Is Planned

PHOENIX-The old highway
between Holbrook and Young,
through the Sierra Anchas, may
be improved by the United
States forest service.
Forest service officials discus
sed the financing of the highway
at a meeting held in Phoenix
last week, and decided the road
can be built if the bureau of
public roads and Gila county
divide the cost. The highway
would shorten the distance be-
tween Phoenix and HOlbroOk
100 miles, forest officials say.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Local Relics Sent To
The Golden Gate Park
San Francisco Museum

Two Indian battle-aXes, of pre-
historic manufacture, recently dis
played in the Mail window, have
been sent to the Michael D. Young
museum, in Golden Gate park, San
Francisco. One of the implements
was found by Jack O'Brien on his
ranch in Spring Valley, north and
west of San Francisco mountain
The other was picked up by Cliff
Steele near the edge of the Painted
Desert north of Winslow. Both
were perfect specimens of ancient
handicraft.
The weapons were given by the
finders to Chas. P Mason, formerly
of The Mail, and now secretary of
the Inter- Tribal Indian Ceremonial
association of Gallup. Appropriate
labels were placed on the two axes
giving the names of the finders and
locations of their discovery.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Files Petition To
Establish Electric
Plant In AshfOrk

PHOENIX L. NJ. Pritchard
filed petition with the Arizona
Corporation Commission, seek
ing authority to establish a plant
to supply electric power to users
of Ashfork. The application was
set for hearing by the commits
sion on February Is, at 10 a. m.
in Phoenix and Mr.. Pritchard
has been requested to supply
more information concerning
his enterprise.
In the original application re-
ceived, Mr. Pritchard proposed
to make a charge of 25 cents
per kilowatt hour for residence
users and 20 cents per killowatt
for business establishments
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
New Paige-Jewett
Automobile Salesman

Hugh Tillman perennial purvey-
or of automobiles, is now in the
service of the Swastika Service
Station, selling Paige, Jewett and
Locomobile motor cars
Mr.. Tillman has been with the
Bazell Motor company for over
year, and is an able salesman.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Local Radio Man Is
Awarded The r. C.. A.
Franchise For WinslOW

Following their new policy of
selected leadership, the Radio Cor
poration of America has awarded
L. J. Bennett, local radio and cleo
trio man, their franchise for Wins
low. Under this plan, only these
dealers so chosen will handle the
newest Radiola and equipment.
The award is given on a basis
of service and commercial rating,
assuring present and prospective
"Radiola" owners of a uniformly
good service.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
AuthOress Of State Song
Dies After Brief Illness

PHOENIX-Mrs. Margaret Rowe
Clifford, aged pioneer of the state
and authoress of the anthem, "Ari-
zona," died Wednesday morning at
the Pioneers Home at Prescott
Mrs. Clifford had been i'll for the
past two months and death was
not unexpected.
Mrs. Clifford was about 92 years
old and had resided in Arizona for
nearly so years.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Scarcity Of Fines
Brings Cut In Dry
Forces In Arizona

LOS ANGELES-A reduction of
20 per cent in the federal prohibi-
ton forces of southern California
and Arizona, is to be made imme
diately because not enough fines
are being levied in the district to
pay for enforcement of the prohi-
bitiOn law.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Wealthy Oil Officials Here
Erroute to Grand Canyon

A special car bearing oil officials
of the Philips Oil company of
Oklahoma, stopped in WinsIow a
short while last Saturday. The
party were enroute to the Grand
Canyon to spend a couple of days
at FL Tovar. before proceeding to
Los Angeles.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Conference May Be Held
In Phoenix January 25-30

LOS ANGELES = Another tri-
state conference between Califor-
MIA, Nevada and Arizona may be
held in Phoenix between January
25 and 80, according to State Sena-
tor Ralph Swing, chairman of the
Legislative commission on the Colo
RADIO river problem. who stated that
he was now communicating with
the several members of the Cali
fornia and Nevada delegation to
learn if they could go to Phoenix
at that time.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

Water Gas Process which may
revolutionize the gas in future and
the first plant is to be installed in
a southern California city when he
leaves WinSloW
Mr.. Beals at one time made Wins
low his home, running the local
gas plant for six years before it
was taken over by the city.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

Tucson: Arizona Pioneer His
torical society to erect building in
rear of city hall.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

Phoenix: Paving extensions con-
templated, to cost $275 eco.