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Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-19
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THE FIRST GOLD FLAKE

Settling ? long disputed question
the first flake of gold discovered
January 24 lS4S, by James Marshall,
Las been proved to be the one now
u Smithsonian Institute at Wash
irgton. D. c. Though there were
ther flakes and some gold dnst
found on the same dav. it is this
flake which Marshall beat with A
hammer to test its malleabilitv, and
which was given to Mrs WINNER,
the only woman in camp, to boil in
we. As 1t showed no discoloration.
Charles Bennett the blacksmith.
hen beat it again on the anvil.
-Four davs later Marshqll took the
flake to Sutter 5 Fort where he
end Sutter put II through further
tests. 1t WAS sent to the Naional
institute at WASHINGTON August 23rd
If that year, by Capt. J. L. Folsom,
assistant quattermaSter al San
Francisco who obtained it when
ACCOMPANYING Col. Mason on his
TIN of Investigation in July.
Who pre- the members of the Cal
ifornia Highway Commission
Ralph W Bull of Eureka, chair
nan; j. P. Baumgartner Santa Ana
md II. P. Harris. Fresno
What IS the annual value Of brick
and hollow tile manufactured in
California
Value IN 1925 was s7,5O3.o76.
1tout the same as the table grape
croD for that wear.
Who was the first governor from
Southern California?
Col. Henry H. Markham of Pasa-
lena. elected in 1900
QUESTIONS FOR TOMORROW
Who was William Keith?
Where is the original copy Of
Comm. Sloat s proclamation order
upon taking possession If Monterey.
July I. 1852
Which variety Of golden trout in
California is tie most beautifulT
(Send your California questions to
/ his Department3
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-19
At Brooklyn

(Second Came }
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

will return from 4 8 70 rs miles 70 che gal>
Ion of gasoline under normal conditions.
Put this car against any test you want.
Then you'll know why the Studebalxer Big
Six outsells every other car OF equal or
greater rated horsepower.
At its new low price of $15e5-this Gus
tom Brougham is the latest triumph Of Stu
debaker's One-Prc6t manufacture. Never
before has Big Six four~door enclosed car
Given 50 much and asked for SO little!
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
OUR STATE HIG HWAY DE-
PARTMENT HALL WE STAY,
PAY AND PRAY--OR SPRAY
(ContinueTi from Page One)

the departrfs MT, testified he had col
iected someI $3,227 in campaign corr
trlputlons fT ON department employees,
at the direc Jon of G. NJ Zander, and
turned 1t ov er to Zander.
q. M. ander testified he knew
nothing 9'6out any agreements to col
lect 5 Iie.r cent Of the department en-
ployes pay for campaign contribu-
tions.
Charles H. PAUL. testified Zander
employed him to collect campaign
funds from the men; that he told the
men he wanted 5 per cent and expect
ed to get it, and that Zander told him
to rsport all men who did not con-
tlibJ lte.
Patrick H. Mccullough testified he
was general foreman at the Superior
camp and that Governor Hunt and
Louis b. Whitney wrote him asking
campaign contributions. They want
Ifed per cent per month" Mccullough
testified Governor Hunt wanted to
know why he, Mccullough, refused to
accept bill for $1,150 for truck
motor sent him. Mccullough testified
| the whole truck had been sold to the
state by the federal government for
$3.50 Mccullough said Governor Hunt
Kicked" about that TO him. McCul-
Tough testified "they" sent him man
named Pap Wright, who worked
nine days Sitting under a mesquite
tree,' and turned in salary claim
for $3.50. Mccullough testified he re. !.
fused to O. X. it, and that Governor
Hunt asked him why and he told the
governor he never would sign it be-
cause the man was not worth that TO
the taxpayers and the governor said
| to McCullough: 81 don't see how in
hell you expect to get your money if
you don't sign the other fellows
checks"
{. C. Sowell, C. E. McCracker, j.
M. Pack and other witnesses testified
as to campaign levies from depart
ment employees.
Is Political Machine
In conclusion, the report declared
the evidence showed the department
devoid of business head and almost
entirely lacking in business manage
ment," that it had been converted
into political machine" and that
while the monthly payroll of the de-
partment in January, 1926, totalled
$88, $40, it increased in June, 1926, to
$92, ,675, in. July to SIO4, ,724, mount
ing monthly thereafter until in Octo-
Der, 1926, it totalled $116,667, drop
ping in December. however, to 1884,
039.
The report also declared that in
period of Is months ending Decem-
ber 81, 1922, there had been paid out
of department funds without author
ity or supporting claims," the sum Of
$3.50 to w. r. Inghram, $5,678 to ].
H. Allen, 81 ,252 to G.. L. Anderson,
1897 to unknown party" and 1886
for auto expense.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
Pythi0ns of State
Hare IS Lodges and
Membership of $500

The order of Knights of Pythias,
which has a membership of about g.
500 in its 25 Arizona bodies, was
founded on February 19, 1864, in Old
Temperance Hall, Washington, d. c.,
by Justus H. Rathbone and IL char
ter members.
The ceremony Of its anniversary is
in honor not only of this founding,
but commentaries one of the most
beautiful stories in all history that
of Damon, the senator, who was con-
demned to death for his defiance of
the tyrart Dionysius, and Pythiasy the
soldier knight, who on the eve OF his
wedding pledged his own life for that
of Damon, his friend, while the latter
went to bid farewell to his wife.
Upon the ideals of friendship ex-
emplified by these two citizens of the
ancient and cultured city of Syracuse
on the island of Sicily, the order of
Knights Of Pythias was founded 1000
years later BY little group Of Amer
lean men during the Civil war. 1T Is
recorded that during the 63 years Of
its existence fully 100000 initiates
have received Pythian instruction.
The Prescott lodge is the oldest in
the state, having been founded in
1878, with the Phoenix lodge coming
next in 1880, and the Tombstone body
was organized in 1884, with Fl. B.
Maxson, B. f. Fickas and W.. w.
Baldwin among its charter members.
The existence of these early lodges
in Arizona was often threatened by
the inconveniences and vicissitlldes
arising out Of the constant menace
of Indian warfare, according to G..
w. Cisney, past grand chancellor of
Arizona, who came into the order
shortly after it was chartered in this
state.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

Each baby born in London apart
nent house automatically boosts the
rent two shillings sixpence month,
according to plan worked out by the
landlord.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
Last Good-bye

Mother said Tommy, twill you
go to heaven when you die?D
Il fully expect to, Tommy" smil-
ed his mother.
"Well viii daddy go with you
when you do ~ asked the kid
II doubt it DEAR" sighed his mo-
ther, "he never wants to go any
where with me any more"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
Asking TOO Much

Manager of chinaware department
to new assistant: "One thing / in
sist on. If you break any dishes come
and tell me at once"
Assistant: "But + can't be runnin'
to you every minute of the dayi"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
/. Unusual News
. From Everywhere
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Boarding house owner in Austria,
seeking to onst tenant because of IL
parrot the latter owned, had them
both in. court. When the judge began
talking, the parrot screamed, ''Keel,
quiet, you idiot!o The Judge decided
such courageous bird deserved con-
sideration and gave a verdict for the
tenant.
A pure-bred Holstein-F FriesiarI COW
of Seward, Ill, produced 1916 pounds
Of milk in 80 days-two and a half
times her weight.
Boston isn't such-a-much eating.
beans, it develops, in fact of the fact.
that in Mexico the annual consump..
tion Of that legume is 10000 tons.
Each baby born in London apart.
ment house automatically boosts the
rent two shillings sixpence a month";
according to plan worked out by the
landlord.
At Elkhart Lake, Wis, VIM. Fremy,
80 years old, is at the skating rink
almost every day doing fancy stunts
for the edification of the younger peo-
pie.
At the annual dinner of the Califor-
MIA society in the national capital the
center piece was a pie five feet across
the top and six inches deep. 1T was
baked under the supervision OF the
wife of Walter Johnson, famous base
ball pitcher.
Kids viii be kids. It's proven by
the recent engagement to be married
of Ivan Catowsky and Olga Mariewa
Of Berlin, Germany. He is 145 andl
she is 131.
At Tucson, this state, when Jake
Enrich visited his brother to the state
university, it took some contriving to
sleep him. He is eight feet four
inches tall. He grew up in Ell Paso. |
G. H. Perry, ex-service man of Il
Elyria, Ohio, after selecting his pail
bearers, submitted to an operation in !
which his lungs were renovated, to do
which six ribs were removed from. the |
right side and two from the left. He
IS walking around again.
Vancouver, B. c., wholesale houses
have hard time reading orders from
one of their Russian trader customers. |
Among one of his recent orders, in /
which he wrote the words as they /
sound when he pronounces them,
were: COTE (coffee), shoun tobac
(chewing tobacco, lelak perafum
(lilac perfume), raj (roii) planlatcaten
(flannelette cotton), raj gengam
(gingham), / doz. NETS (mitts) abot |
(about) SO par shous (pairs of shoes) j, i
6 wendars pain (six windows, each /
with six panes), 2 A led stoves (four-
lid stOves.)
Pittsburgh, Pa, woman was granted |
a divorce when she told the judge her
husband threw the cards in her face
when she criticized his game.
Leviathan, worlds largest ocean
liner, will be equipped with phono-
graph with horn eight feet square. |
This to permit the engineers to hear
the music above the rumble of the |
machinery.
Not just proper to allude to the In
dian as the vanishing American" it'll
develops from the latest statistics.
Practically all of the tribes are grow
ing in number. Our own Navajos,
numbering less than 5000 in 1869,
now muster a roll of about $4,000.
Arizona has more population than
Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mex
leo, Wyoming or Vermont, and more
than six times as great as Nevada's.
1920 census gave Arizona 334, ,162. u
S. government estimate for July |,
1927, is $4,000.
Pythidns of State
Hn1an 05 T.nkIfr0o <rnd
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25
Shooting Skyward

my, but your little brother is
growing!"
eyes, ma'arn; he comes up to the
hem Of mama's skirt now"
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

EQUIPMENT-The Commander: Nickel
plated bumpers, front and rearj nc-draft
ventilatinG windshield Exclusively Studio
baker), fulLsize balloon tires; disc wheels
and positive acting four-wheel inechanicai
brakes; engine thermometer and hydfo<
static gasolirae gauge on dash; two-beam
acorn headlights controlled from steering
wheel; cowl lights and interior dome light;
rear traffic signal light; automatic wind
shield cleaner and rear-vision mirror; oil
fiber; Aiemite chassis lubrication; siiken
curtains, bufler.fnish hardware.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

UOU are captain Of the bouIeyards and
I master of the open road when you
sit at the wheel of this Studebaker Big Six
Broueham-command of thrilling power
that only seven American cars can equal,
and they cost from two to FIVE times more.
The Commander will idle smoothly or
fake the throttle for accelerafion at miles
per hour. 1t will sweep from TO 20 miles
Der hour in 1874 seconds. II will deliver 40
miles an hour carrying four passengers. Il
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

Arizona has more population than
Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mex
leo, Wyoming or Vermont, and more
than six times as great as Nevada IS.
1920 census gave Arizona 334,162- u.
S. government estimate for July /,
1927, is $4,000.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

At Elkhart Lake, Wis, VIM. Fremy,
80 years old, is at the skating rink
almost every day doing fancy stunts
for the edification of the younger peo-
nle.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

Boston isn't such-a-much eating
beans, it develops, in fact of the fact
that in Mexico the annual consump.
tion Of that legume is 10000 tons.
The Coconino sun., 1927-02-25

Not just proper to allude to the In
dian as the vanishing American" it
develops from the latest statistics.
Practically all of the tribes are grow
ing in number. Our own Navajos,
numbering less than 5000 in 1869,
now muster a roll of about $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
CHANGES ARE ORDERED
IN ARMY BAND UNIFORM
Alterations in Design Intended to
Give Members of Organization a
More Snappy Outfit:

Several slight changes in the cadet
gray uniform of the Army Band at
Washington Barracks have been or
dered by the War Department, de-
signed especially to give the members
of that famous musical organization
a snapper and more attractive APP
pearance at public functions in which
they take part. The present uniform
was adopted about two years ago and
has given general satisfaction. The
coat, trousers and cap are of blue
gray cloth and the overcoat of dark
blue, supplemented by white waist
bets and white cap covers.
At the War Department it is stated
that no change is to be made in the
color of the cloth, equipment or orna-
ments, except that the overcoat will
have a wider flare at the bottom and
that the cap ornament will be slightly
larger and more distinctive than the
one now in use To insure perfect
fitting uniforms, they are to be tai
lored to the individual measurements
of the bandsmen and made to order
at the quarternaster intermediate
depot in Philadelphia.
Owing TO the work to be done 1t
viii be several months at least before
the Army Band will be able to APP
pear In their new outfit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
MUST SUPPORT HUSBAND.
Wife Ordered to Provide for Dis
abled Man.
.ecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, June 4.-Judge
Bowren welded his pen and Preston
f. Maddox is one of the few men in
California with an order requiring his
wife to support him.
What Judge .Bowren wrote was an
order directing that Flora A. Maddox
pay over to her husband $40 a month
for his support and maintenance. He
gave down his decision after having
held the matter under submission for
several weeks.
In his complaint Maddox related
that he was Y and unable to work.
Mrs. Maddox, for some reason, did not
contest the suit. 1t was shown at the
trial that she is the owner of valuable
realty, returning a substantial income.
Because the real estate is subject to
levy for the execution of the support
order, Judge Bowren held up his deci-
sion for some time to give the wife
every opportunity to defend herself,
but she never male any appearance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

In the most spectacular exhibit
ton of motor car performance
a stock Chrysler Imperial $50"
Phaeton, owned and driven by
Mr.. L. B. Miller of Racine,
Wis.,, accompanied by Mr.. John
Weber of Portland, Ore, com.
pleted a record run from San
Francisco to New York in 70
hours and IS minutes. Miller's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Former Soldiers Soon Will Be Able
To Buy Uniforms FROM Government

For few dollars the veteran will
be able to assemble complete uni
form, with items ranging from dis
charge chevrons at 3 cents to wooden
hlouses at 1871 and overcoats at 1928.
The overseas cap, a product of the
World War. wiz be sold for $1.1S. the
campaign hat going at $2.S3. Non.
commissioned officers chevrons will
sell at 10 cents per pair.
The applications should be directed
according to residence either to the
Quartermaster supply. officer at New
York, Chicago, San Francisco or Fort
Sam Houston, Tex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Forced to Attend Funeral.
Dispatch TO. The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, June 4.-Heavy traffic in
Reading landed K. K. Bates of Whit
man in a cemetery. He was in long
string of cars, and because traffic in
the opposite direction was equally as
heavy. he was unable to make much
Roadway. So he followed the car
ahead, as careful driver should. and
before he knew it he was driving into
a graveyard. He had landed in the
midst of a. funeral procession and
there was no way to dodge it. Per.
force he attended the service in the
cemetery and was then able to get
back to the main road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Mosquitoes on Run.

special Dlspatch 10 Inc star
CHICAGO, June 4.--Seventeen kinds
of mosquitoes once fed on the cul.
tured folk who attended outdoor Sum.
mer opera at Ravinia Park on Chi
cago's north shore. Sixteen species
have been exterminated and now only
the migratory "skeeter" remains. His
breeding ground, health officials are
sure, is within a few miles of Ravinia
and a hunt is on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

Unable to buy high.priced cars on
the installment plan, people of Vene.
zuela are riding in low-priced ones for
which they paid cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
BY the Associated Press

Former soldiers who wish to treas
ure uniforms like those which they
wore In the service of their country
soon will be able to purchase them
from the War Department,
Some 100000 persons, Including
former Army nurses, are eligible to
purchase the uniforms under an act
of the last Congress and will be ad-
vised within the next two months by
the War Department about their dis
tribution. 1t is expected that the
largest number of applications will
come from veterans of the World War.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

It's rather odd that so many people
ire trying to get even.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

car left San Francisco at 10
am, Tuesday, May 31st, Coast
time, and arrived in New York
at 8:55 pm, Eastern Daylight
Saving time, Friday, June 3rd.
The run was checked by Lin
coin Highway and Western
Union officials.
This surpassed the former trans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

Mr.. L. B. Miller, Director of Sales Promo.
ton of the Slower Signal Engineering
Company, Of Racine, Wis, performed
this amazing transcontinent driving feat
In his Chrysler Imperial 1907 Phaeton,
TO demonstrate the safety and ease of
night driving behind pair of leo Ryan.
Gtes, with which this car was equipped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
RICHES IN HANDKERCHIEFS
Former stenographer Securing
Wealth from New Industry.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
Ell DORADO, Kans., June AIRS.
Florence E. Rochester, formerly
.stenographer at Topeka for Richard
j. Hopkins, then attorney general, is
now a manufacturer of fine handker.
chiefs at Enid Okla.
Mrs. Rochester sold her first hand
kerchief in 1921, when another EN-.
ploye at the statehouse offered her
81 for it.
This year she will make and sell
10000 of the exquisite little squares Of
lace, linen, georgette and voile. She
has 20 women in her employ. Her
gross income In 1927 will exceed
$4,000.
It's rather odd that so many people
are trying to pet avan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
25,527 of 4l,8O9
Applying Accepted
For Training Camps

So far 41,S09 applications to at
tend Citizens Military Training
Camps this Summer have been re-
ceived at all the Army posts in the
United States, it was announced at
the War Department yesterday. OF
that number 25,527 applications
have been approved and the appli-
cantS notified to attend the various
camps. The authorized quota of
attendance at all the camps this
year is $4,000, considerably low
the number of applications already
approved.
The largest number of applica-
tions in any single corps area was
in the I'd Area. with headquar-
ters in New York City. and the
smallest number in the 9th
Corps Area, headquarters in San
Francisco. In the Sd Corps
Area, headquarters at Camp Meade.
Nd, including the District of CO.
lumbia, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia, the total applications
numbered $3.50, and the number
of acceptances was 3,082. The
quota of attendance in this corps
area is limited to 1900.
-----------~---e et.
Unable to buy high.priced cars or
lon iYc 90 o1 it1aoy,f MI Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

continental mark u by 8
hours and IL minutes and is 7
hours and S minutes ahead of
the fastest train schedule be.
tween these points.
1885 miles over the historic
Lincoln Highway - through
city traffic, over m oun t a in
DIS, rutte d dirt roads,
through mud and gumbo, as
well as over concrete, brick and
gravel-in 3 days, 7 hours and
SIS minutes, is a worlds record
representing an achievement of
speed, endurance and depend.
ability which indisputably es.
tablishes Chrysler Imperial
"8O' as foremost in American
motor car performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
35.OoO,OO0 Sheep in Union.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LONDON, June Arthur Canham,
secretary of the South Afsican
Union, says there are 35,000,0 900 sheep
in the union, 100000 900 of them pure
merinos.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
Buda Goes to Jail for
Assault With Hatchet

John Buda of this city. who was
bound over 10 superior court by
Judge Hungerford in local police
court, was sentenced 70 Jail for nine
months in superior court today. The
charge was aggravated assault. Buda
having welded a Ratchet on his wife
and a young woman, cutting both.
Thomas Muzzoc'i OF this city sur
rendered today and took the respon-
sibillty for an accident in Berlin,
in which a GER he was driving struck
a car driven by Leo +. Hcnnessol
of this city. He was fined 500 and
costs for cvadinS responsibility Mir.
EoGdanski the owner of the car. was
fined in Berlin town court for the
offensc. and took an appeal.
Three men who were sentenced TO
Jail for three months by Judge Hun
Gertord in local court on the charge
of theft OF hardware from landurs,
Frary & Clark Of this city. were al
lowed six months probation the
three months sentence being sus-
pended. A fourth, John Hill VINO
was also sentenced to three months
by Judge flIunserford. is awaiting
trial. The four appealed from tho
decision Of the local court.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
ENGLAND, JAPAN
ARE INVITED
Continued from First Pare


Washington government to enpha-
size that il would have preferred a
five power discussion. and does not
regard the points made in The
French and Italian reflections az
warrant!ne a refusal to participate.
In any event. the Washington gov
eminent viii be anxious that the
continental powers are gully advised
as to all that transpires at the pro-
posed three-power conference.
There Is no intimation when re-
plies from London and Tokyo may
be expected. although officials here
are confident Of ultimate acceptance.
The japanese answer, In particular.
may be delayed several days as the
sessions of the Japanese Giet are ap-
preaching a close.
At the White House II was dis
closed tina. President Coolidge re-
CARDS the tentative advices thus far
received from abroad as promising
Tor success Of the three power plan.
The president believes the five
power plan would have been more
promising in practical results than
a three power project could be, but
he is anxious to do the neXs best
thing if tive-power meeting is I'M
possible.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
Discipline Committee
EXOnerateS Policeman

Policeman John G. Stadler was
given a hearing last night by the
discipline committee Of the board OF
police commissioners relative to his
action in firing . times at an auto
mobile, and also relative TO alleged
discrepancies in his testimony in the
Medley liquor case and the cases Of
Budnlck and Smulski. who were al
legged TO have been in the car al
which he fired.
A letter was addressed TO the of.
ficer notifying him that no further
action will be taken In the case cat
this time" Commissioner O. T.
Parker said today the intent OF the
committee was TO exonerate the Of
ticer there having been found Insult
tlCient evidence 10 warrant the pre-
terrinS of charges against him. Tho
words lat this time" have no sig
niticance, the commissioner said