The Coconino sun., 1926-07-23
KAYENTA NEWS

Joe Hatch of Dene Hotso was a
business visitor here Wednesday.
Earl Pierce has returned to his
home at Snowflake. He had acted as
helper with a party who came up
from La Osa several weeks ago. In
| a race put on by the visitors at Kay
enta Mr.. Pierce suffered broken
] collar bone by being pitched from a
horse he was attempting to ride bare
| back. The fracture is mending nice
| ly.
/ Ben Wetherill made trip to Chin
lee Sunday.
| Athe1ton Bean and son, Atherton
Bean Jr. arrived from Minneapolis,
MINI. Wednesday. On Thursday Jack
King and Bob Hooper took the gentle
men for a sightseeing trip to Rain
bow Bridge
Hu O'Neill and John Taylor were
over from Oljato Wednesday
This vicinity was visited by cou-
Pile of showers this week, on Sunday
and Monday. Everyone is hopefully
waiting for the summer rains to start
as the thermometer has been flirting
around the "a mark all week. Short
Sdistances from here heavy rainfalls
were reported Seven miles out on
the Flagstaff road the precipitation
was SO great that much of the road
was washed out and S. N. Mangum
had a crew of Indians at work sew
eral days rebuilding it.
Miss Mildred Smith of California
and her guest, Mrs. Jennie Stout Of
Scottsdale, Ariz, arrived Tuesday for
q few days visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wetherill. Mrs. Stout had been
to Long Beach for a vacation. Miss
Smith is literary assistant to Zane
Grey, the noted novelist, and they
have just returned from six months
trip to New Zealand. This fall Mr..
Grey will spend some time at his
lodge in the Tonto basin in the south
ern part of this state. In December
the writer and party will sail for New
Zealand, going by liner to that point,
where they will board Mr.. Grey's
Yacht, the Fisherman, which will be
waiting for them, for a cruise to the
South sea islands. Oscar Lundahl
brought the ladies out from Flagstaff
and on the return to town they. visit
ed the Grand Canyon. Miss Smith
viii go from Flagstaff to Avalon,
Catalina island, the home of Mr.. Grey,
to resume her secretarial duties.
John Peasants Of Tuba had busl-
ness in Kayenta Saturday.
George Townsend Cole of Los An
geles and Robert Anderson of Silver
City, N. NJ, reached Kayenta Friday.
Mr.. Anderson, who has been working
in movies at Hollywood, accompan-
led Mr.. Cole just for the trip. He IS
a poet of no mean ability and a cous-
in of Ethel Barrymore. The gentle
men will spend ten days here and
then travel on to Glenwood Springs,
Colo, from which place Mr. Anderson
will return to his home at Silver City.
Mr.. Cole is an artist and has an en-
gagenlent to meet Tom Mix, the IA
NOUS screen actor, in Colorado to
paint his portrait. He will be on To-
cation with Mr.. Mix, who is working
on pictures in the Royal Gorge until
August a, at which time he VIII Jour-
ney to Santa Fe, N. NJ, to attend the
annual fiesta. At the close of the
ceremonies there Mr.. Cole expects to
return to Kayenta to join the parties
going from here to the snake dance
at Walpi
Dick Dunaway of Chinlee was here
the first of the week inspecting the
government windmills.
1t begins to look as if work on the
Kayenta school would begin IN earnest
soon. Truck loads of lumber and 9TH
er materials have been hauled the
past few days. Tom Lynch, the fore
man carpenter of construction, ar
rived from Tuba Saturday with SIX
assistants, and they will be all ready
to start on the last lap of the remod-
cling the first of the coming week.