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The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
FLAGSTAFF TEACHERS
WON THREE in FOUR,
NEW MEXICO GAMES

The Flagstaff Teachers college
first basketball team returned yester-
day from the New Mexico trip with
three victories and one defeat The
victories were gained at the expense
of New Mexico Normal university and
Montezuma college at Las Vegas,
while the defeat was administered by
the University of New Mexico.
One game in particular was very
interesting-the first with Monte
yuma At the end of the regular
playing time the score stood tie. At
the end of the first overtime both
teams had made four points, but at
the end Of the second overtime per-
iod, Flagstaff had two points, Mon-
tezuma none. Flagstaff won the Sec
ond game with Montezuma in easy
fashion.
Many Flagstaff people will remem-
Der Les Mcclure, who played half
back on the local high school football
team for three years. Les is a mem
Der of the Montezuma team.
The scores: Flagstaff q, Normal
university %; Flagstaff 81, Monte
yuma 20; Flagstaff 36, Montezuma
%; Flagstaff II, University of New
Mexico 40.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
FLAG TRAPSHOOTERS
SUFFER FIRST DEFEAT

Flagstaff Gun club lost to Alamosa
in Sundays Uncle Dud intermountain
telegraphic clay pigeon shoot, 240-233,
now standing four events won and
one lost. The other clubs came out
Sunday as follows:
Phoenix 235 La Junta 217.
Trinidad 235, Colorado Springs 293.
Fort Collins 233, Louisville 216.
Prescott 229, Fort Morgan 215.
Denver 242, Scottsbluff, no report.
Sterling, open date.
The three clubs SO far undefeated
are Denver, Phoenix and Alamosa.
The five high gun men here Sun
day: W. B. Raudebaugh, 40; L. w.
Cress, AZ; f. NJ. Gold, AZ; E. 3. Rau-
debaugh, As; Pat Morgan, as.
Other scores here Sunday: Frank
Goodman A, John Boyd (Williams)
40, Harry Fish 40, Paul Morton AZ,
j. E. Nichols 38, Ed Babbitt 38,
Lefty Lewis 43, Jack Fuss 35, B. Rau-
debaugh SO, Joe Schmidt 40, Levi
Montgomery (Williams) So, f. Floyd
(Williams) 80, Pete Solberg Al, Paul
Babbitt AZ, W. f. Cobb {professional)
AZ, E. C. Slipher 38, Claude Melick
(Williams) 80, Jules Bonal Is Gin 25).
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
FAY JUS SPEAKER BROUGHT
HYRE BY ROTARY CLUB FOR
THREE ADDRESSES FEB. IL

fence and holds it, straight through
talk of an hour.
For several years following his at
tendance upon President Taft, DR..
Barker engaged in lecturing TO the
general public on health and other
subjects. In 1919 he so attracted
the attention of the Rotary clubs at
their annual convention with his great
address on "A Fathers Responsibility
to His Son" that requests came to
him from all quarters of Rotary to
speak. Since then the doctor has
been devoting more and more Of his
time to the Rotary clubs until now all
Of it is devoted to them.
DR.. Barker has delivered a total of
more than fifty-five hundred address
es before audiences aggregating more
than 3,500,000 persons. His justly
famous address on "How to Make the
Most Out of Life" especially de-
signed to help high school boys and
girls meet and solve their problems,
has been delivered before more than
100000 boys and girls in the high
schools of the United States and
Canada, probably more high school
students by far than have been ad-
dressed by any other speakSS.
DIR. Barker will also lecture to the
women. That, is during his stay here
he will speak three times:
At II am. at high school auditor
ium the address will be on "How to
Make the Most Out of Life" the aud
ience seventh and eighth grade, high
school and college students and teach
ers and any others who care to attend.
At $3.50 p. M, at the Woman's club,
the address will be "a Mothers Re.
sponsibility to Her Daughter" and
this will be attended by women and
girls over IA. including the eighth
grade, high school and college female
students.
At 7:45 p. M, at college auditorium
men and boys over ii will make up
the audience and the subject will be
"a Fathers Responsibility to His
Son." ~
The entire expense of DR.. Barker's
visit to Flagstaff is being borne by
the Flagstaff Rotary club as con-
tribution to the welfare Of the city.
There will be no admission fee and
no collection at any of the meetings.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
FIRST AUTO BUS OF
K. c. TO |. A. LINE
WAS HERE WEDNESDAY,

The "Yellow" auto bus line Kansas
City to Los Angeles, via Denver and
sent its first regular bus
through here on Wednesday of this
week, with IL passengers, part of
them Kansas City to Los Angeles and
the others Denver to Los Angeles.
The service is deluxe, with parlor
car chairs, electric heat, and all mod
ern travel conveniences. The new
company has sent several touring cars
through here with passengers, but
this is the first bus, of which there
are five on the regular schedule from
Denver to Los Angeles, which is
timed to take five days each way. Not
all of the schedule details have been
worked out. When they are, likely
Jos. j. Waldhaus will have them, as
the cars are Studebakers and his ga
rage is headquarters when they stop
here. The fare Denver to Los Angeles
is $25, which does not include lodging
or meals. The bus left here just after
noon Wednesday, to reach Needles
that night. Each bus will comfort
ably carry up to 20 passengers.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05

Harrison, David Slipher, Allan Cree,
Leighton Cress, Junior Wilson, Ber-
nard Wright, Arthur Pearson and
Leslie Wyatt.
The banquet in the evening at the
Woman's club was attended by about
a hundred men and women. DR.. NJ.
G. Fronske, past president, presided
in the absence of C. B. Wilson, the
new president Grand Canyon council;
then in the after part of the evening
turned the gavel over to Charlie
Cooley of Holbrook, the new vice.
president of the council.
The evening program was mostly
business, it being primarily the an
nual meeting Of Grand Canyon coun-
ell. Rev. E. L. Freeland gave the
invocation. Dr. Fronske called on all
scoutmasters present to rise and cor
daily thanked them for the splendid
work they are doing. They were H.
Norton Cope, Chester F. Deaver and
H. W. Preston, and Assistant Scout
masters Lockart. Bushby and Hartz.
Executive C.. S. Mccormick gave his
report of the work accomplished in
the councils three counties-Coco-
nino, Navajo and Apache-during
1925. Some of the statistics follow:
January, 1, 1924, 10 troops with 157
scouts; January l, 1925, II troops
with 333 scouts; January L, 1926, 26
troops with 398 scouts. This is net
growth of over $50 per cent in two
years.
Court of Honor: Ten sessions dur
ing the year. Court presented 50 sec
ond-class, IA first-class, 289 merit
badges, Al star badges, II life badges
and three eagle scout badges. We
now have 1872 tenderfoot, 124 second
class, 16 first-class, rs merit badge
scouts. Of the 76 merit badge scouts
SO are star scouts, IL life scouts and
10 eagle scouts.
Reports of district committee chair
men were read, as follows:
Charles p. Cooley, Holbrook; Al
bert Anderson, st. Johns; Jesse M.
Smith, Snowflake (read by j. Q.
Thomas); Oscar ]. Rainey, McNary
(read by Sam w. Proctor); Walter
Lindblom, Williams Tread by Glib
Hunter); Homer Vaughn, Winslow;
Del Strong, Flagstaff.
DR.. Fronske introduced the newly
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05

Men interested in scouting
and scout executives from all
over Arizona held the annual
Boy Scout state conference in
Flagstaff on Tuesday. The day
was prOfitably spent, especially
as the delegates heard addresses
by visiting executives - DIR.
George ]. Fisher of the national
office, Stewart w. French of
Pasadena, chairman western
states committee, and Charles
N. Miller, Los Angeles, western
states executive.
That the conference, was a
gratifying success was testified
to by all who attended. DR.. M.
&c. Fr0nske and the local COM
mittee are highly pleased and
grateful for the cooperation so
generously given by Flagstaff
people.
lIe program was pTlHteu III IHc
Sun last week and with but few
changes was followed in the four
sessions-moming, noon, afternoon
and evening.
Mr.. French called the morning ses-
sion to order at the Federated church.
Rev Fl. r. Softley delivered the invo-
cation. Tom L. Rees welcomed the
delegates and the response was by
Mr.. French. Addresses were made by
DIR. Fisher, ]. 0. Mullen, superintend-
ent Jerome schools, Julian w. Riehl
of Tucson, F. L. Maitland of Phoenix,
Charlie Cooley of Holbrook, and
others.
The noon meeting, with the Rotary
club, is described in another column.
At the afternoon meeting, among
those speaking were. J. @. Thomas of
Flagstaff, E. J. Helsinger of Tucson,
Walter Miller of Jerome and DR..
Fisher. A feature was the "Investi-
ture Ceremony" in charge of Scout
master C. F. Deaver. The chairs were
occupied by Grady Gammage, ]. P.
McVey and H. w. Preston and the
following scouts took part: Jimmie
Johnston, James Shirley, Jimmie
Beard, John Jake, Ned Britt, Bill
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
H. [. RUSSELL OPENS
LAW OFFICES HERE

Flagstaff gained versatile citizen
when Hugh L. Russell with his family
recently moved here from Leupp,
where he had been government con-
struction engineer for the past six
months. The closing down of work
on the project gave him opportunity
to move his family to town and enter
his oldest girl in high school. They
are living at S06 West Birch avenue.
Mr.. Russell has established law Of
flee in the Babbitt building. He has
had several years experience In law.
While he was assistant county attor-
ney of Yuma county he was inStru-
mental in the capture and conviction
of A. E. Smith of the defunct Parker
Valley bank.
Having written stories and articles
which were published by some of the
better magazines, and having in mind
others to be written, he expects to
use unoccupied moments in writing.
He has had more or less experiences
in the Indian service, which has given
him material for popular western fic-
tion and serious articles.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
ROOSEVELT DIRECTOR
saw TROUGH RIDERS"
TUESDAY FOR LASKY

Herman Hagedorn Of New York
city, director of the Roosevelt Me-
mortal association and Roosevelt BIZ
ographer, was in Flagstaff Tuesday
visiting some Of the local men who
were Rough Riders with Roosevelt,
among them Dan Hogan, Bill Wallace
and Howard Marine.
Mr.. Hagedorn recently came west
to interview former Rough Riders and
collect data for the forthcoming
Paramount Players-Lasky production,
which is to picture the various phases
in the vivid career of that interesting
organization, making spectacle Of it
that it is promised will equal the
Covered Wagon. Mr.. Hagedorn was
at the Rotary luncheon Tuesday,
leaving that afternoon for Hollywood
for conference with the moving pic
ture people.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
NOT BIG FIRE BUT BABY
WAS IN MIDST OF IT ALL

"Not real fire, just a little
blaze, put out right away with chemi-
calls" Thus reported those returning
down town Friday afternoon, after
rushing in the wake of the fire en-
CINE to the scene of excitement.
But this hardly represents the i'm
pressions of Mrs. J. C. Adams, who
found her baby asleep in room
whose walls were patterned with
tongues of flames. She was busy in
the kitchen of her apartment on the
ground floor of the old Heller house
on North Verde when a premonition
caused her to glance toward her baby
boy, asleep in his buggy in the front
room. Cropping through the smoke
she seized the child and stumbled out
of the house across to Mrs. Mamie T..
Griffin's, where she turned in the
alarm.
After the firemen had put out the
fire, Mrs. Adams remembered her
other little son, whom she had left
playing out in the yard, and was re-
lieved to find him safe and sound.
The wall paper was licked from the
walls and hole was chopped in the
wall by the firemen in search of any
lingering spark, otherwise no ma
terial damage was done. 1t is sup
posed that spark caught the wall
paper behind the heater.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
AND ITS MOTHER HOWLS
INCREASINGLY, BRING
BACK MY KITTY TO Me-

DR.. A. j. Mackey and Willis Brown
thought that it would be fun to go out
into the wilds and catch a lion. Har-
low Yaegar invited them to help
themselves to two from his range.
Asking OFT Logan and his dogs, who
had captured two the previous Sun
day, to go along they drove in Docs
car to about twenty miles southeast
of Winona-as far as the road goes.
They started off into the thick cedars,
where they saw plenty of wild coun-
try infested with much scenery. From
one promontory they saw wonderful
panorama of desert buttes and paint
ed plains.
This interlude covers many weary
miles of trudging up hill and down
dale, the dogs all this time securing
the woods on numerous futile scents.
Late in the afternoon, many weary
miles from the car, they came up
with the baying hounds, which had
treed lion. The capturing, tying
and muzzling of the beast. with Docs
coat over his head, occupied no time
at all. 1t was considerable of dis
appointment to these big game hunt
ers, for this was the thrilling pastlme
that they had so looked forward to-.
But as it was just a round, soft, baby
mountain kitten, more qualified to
cuddle than scrap, they philosophi-
cally began the long, long trail home,
taking turns carrying pussy, cleaning
what glory they could from their feat
and planning how they will get a
great big one next time. OFT has the
kitty on a string over at his house
and expects to dispose of it to some
mann Carin
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
COUNTY TAKES OPTION TO
PURCHASE BUFFALO BULLS

An option was taken on Monday by
the county supervisors on the herd of
buffalo owned by Uncle Jimmie
Owens of Fredonia.
Alfred Skeels Of the board recently
had an option drawn up and sent to
Uncle Jimmie, who signed and return
ed it. 1t allows the county until De-
cember z this year to buy the buffalo
and the price set is $125 head.
The board voted Monday instruct
ing Chairman Joe Kellam to sign the
option. Mr.. Kellam voted against it.
Mr.. Skeels, who originated the idea,
believes that unless some action is
taken for perpetuating the herd, it
soon will be killed off or scattered,
especially as Uncle Jimmie Owens is
a pretty old man. Mr.. Skeels believes
the money to take up the option can
be raised easily-that various towns
will want to buy a buffalo each and
that the various game protective as
sociations will take hand. He be-
lieves that taking chance on the
herd being killed off or driven else
where would be grave mistake and
that should we lose the herd we would
be losing a tremendous asset in its
appeal to the tourists; especially so
as undoubtedly before long the bridge
at Lees Ferry will be built and there
will be a great deal of new north
and south travel.
There are estimated to be so buff
falo in the herd. They are assessed
now for tax purposes at SIT head.
That is the rate assessed against
cattle, and as buffalo are not men,
toned in the statutes, cattle being
next nearest in size and general con-
our. were taken as a basis.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05

1T had taken over entire ownership of
the Apache railroad and all the other
physical properties formerly owned
by the w. NJ. Cady company of Ari-
zona, including its controlling interest
in the Flagstaff Lumber Co.; also
that the new company has acquired
practically all of the remaining in
terests of the Flagstaff Lumber Co.,
and the Flagstaff plant will in the
future be operated by the Cady Lum-
Der corporation, of which w. M. Cady
is president.
"The engineers of the company are
making survey of all the company's
properties and plants" Mr.. McQuat-
ters said, with the view of making
certain important improvements. Con-
tracts aggregating 100000 have all
ready been let for extensions to the
McNary plant and considerable inn
provementS are to be made at the
Flagstaff unit. Pending the compile
ton of these contemplated improve
ments, the logging operations at both
the plants will be suspended, but
they will continue to operate all of
the departments of the business to
reduce excessive inventories at both
plants"
1t is understood that lumber dry
ing kilns will be installed at both Nc
Nary and Flagstaff. In fact, orders
have been issued for the erection of
II dry-kiln units at McNary and a
suitable number will be built here
In future it is expected to run all
lumber from the mills into the kilns
and from the latter to freight cars
Continued on Page Nine)
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
KOCH WRITES OF LUMBER
INDUSTRY OF ARIZONA

Los Angeles Sunday Times devoted
a half page to an article on our lum-
ber resources by /. B. Koch, vice
president and manager of the Arizona
Lumber & Timber Co. Illustrations
showed an Arizona forest scene, a
trainload Of logs arriving at the mill
and the big mill plant itself.
In the preface to the article:
"The lumber industry is probably
the least known of Arizona's major
industries. The transcontinental rail-
roads and highways scarcely touch
the timbered sections of the state.
The desert and barren mountain
scenes usually portrayed in books and
motion pictures have left forests out
of the general conception of Arizona.
Surprise is always the first express
sion registered" by visitors when
they are informed that Arizona pos
sesses the largest single body of
white pine timber in the world--not
the great amount of white pine, but
the largest single forest"
Interesting facts CLEANED from the
article:
ARIZONA possesses stand of 49,
000,000,000 feet of timber. OF this
10000, 100000 feet is controlled by
the forest service and approximately
5,000,000,000 feet by the Indian de-
partment
"About 35O,0O0,O0O feet is in pri-
vate holdings and the state with 49,
900 acres Of timber lands, owns ap-
proximately 320,000,00O feet. There
are thirty-one lumber mills in the
state, producing about 160,000,0O0
feet of lumber a year, but around 95
per cent Of this comes from the four
Continued on Page Three)
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
A. G. MURPHEY, FATHER
MRS. CADY, DROWNED

A. G. Murphey, father of Mrs. VIM.
M. Cady Jr. of Flagstaff, was drown
ed Saturday in Louisiana while hunt
ing ducks. His wife, who had been
here few days visiting Mrs. Cady,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Cady left Sunday
morning for Alexandria, La, the Muir
phey home, having received the sad
news the evening before by long dis
tance telephone.
The Alexandria Daily Town Talk
said of the accident, in part:
''The citizens of Alexandria were
shocked Saturday night when they
learned that Arthur G. Murphey Sr,
well known and popular citizen, had
been drowned while on duck hunt
ing expedition in LaSalle parish. The
unfortunate accident occurred in Kit
terlin's bay, six miles from Fishville,
when the small boat in which the dead
man and ]. v. Leggett of Fishville
were riding capsized in 10 or II feet
of water"
The men were with several others
who remained on shore while Mr.
Murphey and Leggett went in the
boat to place decoys. Out in the
stream they noticed the boat filling.
Leggett jumped out and swan to
some elm trees. Murphey stayed with
the boat until it capsized, then hung
on until numbed by the freezing
water, he let go and sank. He was
weighted down with rubber boots and
heavy hunting clothes, the pockets of
which were filled with cartridges. In
a recent accident an arm was injured
and he had no use of it.
Mr.. Murphey did not come up
again. The other men built a raft
and rescued Leggett, then recovered
the body of the drowned man.
Mr.. Murphey was born at Chilli
cothe, ILL.,, nearly SO years ago. There
he was in the candy business. After
going to Alexandria he became head
of an orchestra. The family have re-
sided at Alexandria since 1910 except
few months during which they
lived here and Mr.. Murphey managed
the commissary of the Flagstaff Lum-
Der Co.
Deceased is survived by his widow
and two daughters and two sons
Mrs. w. M. Cady Jr. of Flagstaff,
Mrs Paul A. Gilham of Alexandria,
Frank c. Murphey, merchant of
Alexandria and Arthur G. Murphey
Jr. of Navasota, Texas. Mr.. Muir
phey was a member of the Masonic
lodges of Peoria, ILL.,, and Alexandria.
The funeral was held the first of
this week from the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul A. Gilham of Alexan-
dria and the remains were inferred in
that city.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05

IN oCner words, the full 3O-milliOn
feet annual allotment made by the u.
S. forest service will be cut this wear.
The planning mill and box factory
are running full blast and will con-
tinue until the rough saw lumber now
in the yard is finished.
The w. NJ. Cady Lumber company
mill of McNary also closed last week,
for sixty days, during which big inn
pr0vementS are to be made. There
also the planning mill is operating.
The temporary shutdown is main
ly to permit physical Nvements
at both plants.
These physical changes are conse-
quent upon the recent reorganization
of the w. NJ Cady lumber interests
and the merging of the Flagstaff and
McNary companies into one-the
Cady Lumber corporation of Della
ware.
A. J. McQuatters of New York city,
chairman eff the board of directors of
the new corporation, arrived here last
week and remained until yesterday,
then went to McNary for several
weeks and at both places is getting a
complete inventory. On Tuesday Mr..
McQuatters. in absence of and for Mr..
Cady, granted representative of
The Sun an interview with reference
to the present and future operations
of the company, especially of the
Flagstaff unit.
Mr.. McQuatters stated that for the
purpose of consolidating the lumber
businesses in which Mr. Cady is in
terested in Arizona, that he had
caused the Cady Lumber corporation
of Delaware to be organized and that
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
BET DAVID WAS MOST
SURPRISED At PROOF

1t is all very we'll to be proud Of
your native heath, also to sing, its
praises; though one must expect skep-
tic ears and be prepared to prove. at
least some of his statements. Not
everyone is as lucky as David Sill
pher was last Sunday during a FAM
lily drive into the woods, to show
Uncle and Aunt Blake from New
York what fine forests we grow here
and how in them live wild turkeys and
deer. For flock of at least fifty
beautiful birds appeared beside the
highway south of town and five deer
two bucks and three does--were
spied down valley not far away.
Now Mr.. and Mrs. Blake fully expect
to hear coyotes howl at request.
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
ATTEMPT TO RESTORE ]. D.
JACKSON'S SALARY LOST

County board of supervisors failed
on Monday to clear up the tangle con-
cerning the employment Of J. D. Jack
son as Flagstaff district probation
and school attendance officer.
1t will be remembered that last
month the board reduced the salary
to dollar month. Then arose the
question whether the board had juris-
diction in the matter, considering
power of appointment of probation
officer rests with Judge J. E. Jones
of superior court and power of ap-
pointment as attendance officer rests
with Mrs. Charlotte Acker, county su-
perintendent Of schools.
At Mondays meeting Of the board
County Attorney Frank Harrison said
it is not his duty to advise the board
as to matters of policy, but that as
the law does not vest the appointing
power in the board of supervisors it
might hold the board has no right to
reduce the salary.
Accordingly Chairman j. A. Kellam
moved that the salary be restored to
its former rate-$150 a month, of
which $50 was for probation work
and $85 for school work. Member
Alfred SkeelS refused to second the
motion as he believed the matter
should be settled by the Flagstaff
members of the board, and Member
Bob Taylor refused to second it be-
cause he won't consent to Mr.. Jack
sons having the job at the old salary
unless court orders it after legal
proceedings are duly brought.
Some day a gang of superstitious
folks will rally around and lynch one
The Coconino sun., 1926-02-05
MR.. AND MRS. CROSS
HOME AND GLAD OF 1T

L. A. Cross, accompanied by his
wife, drove into town early Tuesday
afternoon, after spending a few weeks
lin the Salt River valley towns. They
spent few days with the Sam Fin
leys and other former Flagstaff folks.
They were charmed with the lovely
valley farms and had a fine time
while away, but as they reached the
edge of the desert and whiff of
good old mountain air entered their
carburetor, their speed increased un-
til the ca.c ramping home like the
wind. And they have lived too long
on the slope of the peaks to be salts
fled anywhere else.