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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-25

stacked high on flat-cars for rail
transportation.
Christmas trees range from three
foot shrubs to height of 35 feet and
sell at retail at prices from Is cents
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-25
a. Fu,LER-TN

Mistress (to cook who is leaving) -
We'll, Linda, I hope the man you're
marrying is worthy one.
Cook-He amt of the best, ma'am,
but I'll mike him do for bit-Lon-
don Answers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-25

"No Breakfast Complete Without
The Iispatch."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-25

eastern and Great Lakes states.
Mountain tops of North Carolina and
Tennessee supply the Fraser fir, red
cedar is used in localities to which it
is native, and pines are employed eX-
tensively in the south. White fir is
the most-used tree on the Pacific
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-25

Claus approach presented in the movement to
of
right Christ
in N. j. cimaXed QeD
D. Coch-
u. s..
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-25

coast and scrub pine in Maryland and
Virginia. Black and red spruce finds
market in Che east. Fir, although
abundant in Rocky mountain states,
is hard to reach f6f cutting and is
giving way to lodgepole pine, Douglas
fir and occasionally Engelmanp spruce.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
State Prisoners
FeIUer This Year

Arizona had 33 less prisoners in
state penal institutions January l,
1927, than on the same date in 1926,
according to the results of census
of institutions conducted by the de-
partment of commerce.
Despite the fact there was total
of 62,828 prisoners in state prisons
and reformatories January /, 1927, as
against 59,692 a year ago, Arizona
had only 444 prisoners in such instl-
tutions January /, 1927, as against
473. January 1, 1926, the report shows.
Arizona's number of prisoners per
100000 of general population is high
er than the figure per 100000 for the
entire nation, the report. shows. The
number per 100000 for the whole
country on January l, 1927, was BAL
while the Arizona figure was 98.2.
The countrywide figure for January /,
1923. was 66.6 and the Arizona figure
for the same date was 92.9.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
After Is Years Delay
Faltin Faces GalIOws

Shadows that engulfed William
Faltin for Is years after he murdered
Carl Peterson in a cabin just south of
Phoenix shifted Monday and left Fal-
tin staring, without hope, at the door
through which he must soon pass to
the gallows, there to pay the supreme
penalty for the crime in which atone
ment has been marked UNPAID" in
the Florence prison since 1912. Hope
fitted from Faltin's cell at the state
prison when the doomed man learned
that the United States supreme court
had denied his petition for release
from the prison on habeas corpus pro-
ceedings.
The highest court in the nation re-
fused to review and reverse the opin-
ion handed down by the supreme court
of Arizona, in which it was held that
Faltin remains under the sentence i'm
posed in 1912 in Phoenix, and that the
only step remaining for completion
of the case is for the executioner to
take Faltin's life on a date set either
by the governor or by the superior
court of Maricopa county. The United
States supreme court did not amplify
its brief statement that said the petit
tion was denied
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Mining Yield OF
Arizona Increased

Arizona's mine production of gold,
silver, copper, lead and zinc in 1926
amounted in value to $113, ,536,288 as
compared with $113, 3,138,198 in the
preceding year, according to figures
compiled by the bureau of mines, de-
partment of commerce. This mineral
output was produced by 383 producers
as against 1856 producers in 1925.
The mine production of gold totaled
in 1926 234,010.97 fine ounces, as
against production of pol, 1902 fine
ounces in 1925.
The mine output of silver in 1926
was 1881 OPT fine ounces, as COM
pared with an output of 7,257 1868 fine
ounces in 1925.
The mine output of copper in 1926
was 723, ,296,051 pounds as against an
output of 1885, ,129 pounds in 1925.
The mine output of lead in 1926 was
23,258,274 pounds, as compared with
23,876,017 in 1925.
The mine output of zinc in 1926 was
12,946,423 pounds, against 7,332,116
pounds in 1895.
The amount of ore treated by the
383 producers in 1926 was 22,382,6 ,685
tons, as compared with 20,927, 1882
tons in 1925.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Reverse Judgment
In Bank Failure

Judgement rendered by the superior
court of Yavapai county in the case
of George Jarvis, treasurer of Apache
county, against A IT. Hammons, state
superintendent of banks, was reversed
in an opinion of the state supreme
court released this week.
The suit was brought by Treasurer
Jarvis on behalf of Apache county to
establish preferred lien on funds in
the hands Of the receiver in its favor,
against Hammons, acting as receiver
for the Bank of Winslow, an insolvent
banking corporation.
The Bank of Winslow was desig-
mated as county depository for Apache
county and qualified to accept deposits
Of public funds up to the amount of
$4,000. The bank furnished surety
bonds for that amount. At the time
the insolvent banking corporation was
taken over by the receiver, it owed
Apache county $67,111.43. The supe-
rior court gave judgment in favor of
the receiver, which in the decision of
the supreme court is ordered reversed
and the case remanded with direc-
tions.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
How Gate Receipts
We're Divided Up

The gate receipts Of the world Sc
ries games will be divided as follows:
Fifteen per cent of the gross re-
ceipts of all games goes to the office
of Commissioner Kenesaw M. Lands.
In the first four games, forty per cent
of the balance goes to the owners of
the two contending clubs and the re-
naming sixty per cent is divided be-
tween the two world series contenders
and the teams which finished second,
third and fourth in each league.
The players share is divided as fol-
lows:
Seventy per cent of it goes to the
world series contenders, three-fifths
of it to the winner and two-fifths to
the loser, the remaining thirty per
cent of the players share goes to the
clubs finishing second, third and
fourth in the ratio of so per cent,
33 1-3 per cent and Is 2-3 per cent.
In all games after the first four,
the magnates of the two world series
clubs receive eighty-five per cent OF
the gross receipts.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
SpringerUiLLe To
Get Memorial To
Pioneer Mothers

Mrs. William F. Hammett Of Phoe-
nix, state regent of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, this week
announced Springerville had been Sc
lected as the site for Arizona's memo
rial to pioneer mothers. One monu-
ment is to be erected in each of the
II states through which the National
Old Trails highway passes.
A committee met in Albuquerque
recently to determine the sites for the
II monuments. Springerville was Sc
lected over Kingman and Williams,
each of which asked for the monu-
ment.
The committee which determined
the monument sites was composed of
seven members. Included among them
were Mrs. Hammet, Miss Nina I'm
capher, state chairman of Arizona, of
Kingman; and Mrs. John Trigg Moss
of st. Louis, a national official of the
d. A. R.
The monument will feature strik-
ing figure Of pioneer woman. sun
bonneted and carrying baby in her
arms while small child clings TO her
skirts. The figure will be approx
mately Is feet high.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
First Blood For
State Treasurer

Governor Hunt and C. M. Zander,
as a majority of the board of directors
of state institutions, lost the first
round Monday of their legal battle to
obtain judicial sanction for their APP
preparation last August Of $4,000 for
Colorado river surveys, under an ini-
tiative act adopted at the general cleo
tion Of November, 1914 Superior
Judge Joseph S. Jenckes at Phoenix
ruled against them, but it is under
stood an appeal is contemplated to the
supreme court.
The suit came before Judge Jenckes
in the form of an application sought
by c. c. Tillotson, civil engineer from
Yavapai county, Governor Hunt, State
Treasurer Callaghan and G. NJ. Zan-
der to compel Mrs. Ana Frohmiller,
state auditor, to issue warrant for
$50 in favor of Tillotson, payable out
Of the disputed appropriation.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
ChiLdTen'S Home
Asks for Funds

An urgent appeal for funds to meet
pressing Indebtedness at the Arizona
Children's Home in Tucson was
voiced in Phoenix by H. E. Middleton,
superintendent of the home. Mr.. Mid
dleton said that $1,000 is needed at
once to meet back maintenance ex-
penses, and that an additional $1,000
will be needed to meet bills Novem-
Der /.
No personal appeals are being
made, and Mr.. Middleton asked that
individuals and institutions mail their
contributions to the children's asso-
citation headquarters, Al North Church
street, Tucson.
He issued a special request for civic
organizations, women's groups and
other bodies interested in the welfare
of orphaned children to mail in dona-
tions
The Arizona Children's Home asso-
citation is non-sectarian, and operated
solely from public contributions. 1t
maintains a home for orphaned chill
dren subject to adoption, and never
has less than so children, Mr.. Middle
ton said.
Children frequently are adopted
from among the group at the home,
but some are less fortunate in find
ing foster parents and they must be
cared for by the institution, Mr.. Mid
dleton pointed out.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Bulletin Will Be
Issued on Grazing

Material for a government bulletin
on grazing problems is being secured
at Tucson by R. R. Hill, inspector of
grazing for the forest service, with
headquarters in Washington, who is
spending several weeks there. Mr..
Hill was for three years director of
the Santa Rita range reserve, going
from Tucson to California and later
to his present position in Washington.
The title of the bulletin to be pub
lished is Range and Live Stock Man
agement in the Southwest" Mr. Hill
will collaborate with Matt Gully, pres
ent director of the Santa Rita reserve,
in the preparation of this bulletin
Mr.. Hill has just completed a five
months trip in western states, study
ing grazing conditions.
tThe season as whole has been
better than the average" he said, "the
cattle industry shows a general i'm
provement over conditions which have
existed for the past five years The
sheep industry continues to be pros
porous in general.
"The southwest was the only sec
tion of the country in which the for
est service grazing fees were waived
during the drought period. That pc
riod of emergency has been passed
and now the southwestern permittees
as well as all others are paying the
regular fees"
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Road Hogs Great
Menace to Traffic

Nearly one-sixth of the nations en-
tire population has directly or indi-
rectly suffered from highway acci-
dents during the past five years, the
American Road Builders association
declared in statement appealing for
the practice of courtesy and caution
on the public thoroughfares. The
road hog, described as "the most con-
temptible figure on the highway to-
day." is the center Of a vigorous APP
peal for sane driving.
"About 3,5O0,0O0 people have been
killed or injured on the street and
highway during the past five years,
according to the association. "Assum-
ing every death or injury to affect
either directly or indirectly five per-
sons, between 100000 and 18,000,-
600 people have suffered from these
accidents. At this rate within the
present generation the entire popula-
ton of the country will have expert
enced the horrors Of highway acci-
dents.
"The road hog is the cause of in
Vulnerable accidents, many OF which
cannot be proven the fault Of this
dangerous driver. Physical conditions
often make it nearly impossible to
blame him after the damage has been
done.
''The road hog is the man who drives
casually along in the center of the
road and fails to give the right-of-
way to others who wish to pass at a
reasonable speed He is the man who
selfishly refuses to relinquish the
right-of-way when it is to the advan-
tage of many other motorists. He is
the driver who will hold up traffic in
order to receive a passenger in a con-
gested district. In general, he is the
man who regards the highway almost
as his personal property.
"Often persons who are extremely
courteous and cautious in their social
or business life will shake off all SEM
blance of these principles behind the
wheel of an automobile. 1t is these
persons who become the selfish and
dangerous hazards Of the highway
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Hunt Claims Gains
For Arizona At
Denver Meeting

Governor Hunt is pleased with the
results obtained at Denver and on his
return from there says:
"The recent session in Denver was
just two weeks of backing, turning
and stalling on the part Of California.
One real victory for Arizona was the
passing of the Pittman resolution by
six of the seven states California
used every artifice for ten days to
avoid the passage of this resolution
but finally wore out the patience of
the conference. Briefly the resolution
puts six Of the seven states on record
for state rights or ownership of their
waters and the beds of their streams.
1t proposes that the states alone can
control and use their waters for irri-
cation and power, while admitting
charge of the navigation of streams.
One year ago there was six state
compact against Arizona. Today the
Pittman resolution is a six state COM
pact against California. BY a fair
presentation Of Arizona's case to
fair group of men we have changed
matters completely. Nevada was in
complete agreement with Arizona that
we shoulG tax hydro-electric power
investments the same as other classes
of property and that when the federal
government is repaid on any govern
ment project the states should own it.
The one mill per kilowatt hour tax
suggested would produce a revenue
from dam and power house of APP
proximately $4,000 day This is
worth fighting for and the reduction
Of our state taxes will justify the long,
hard fight that has been made.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
OLIVER JAYNES RETIRES
FROM TUCSON CITIZEN

F. j. Rucker, former business man
ager of the Republican Herald, Wi
mona, Mimi, has been named business
manager of the Tucson Citizen, sue
ceeding Oliver B. Jaynes, who has held
the position since 1921.
Mr.. Rucker was for % years con-
nected with the Republican Herald
and moved to Tucson last November
to make his home after having spent
several winter seasons there.
Mr.. Jaynes, who is president of the
Arizona State Newspaper association,
plans to take brief vaaction and will
resume newspaper work in California.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
WILL START WORK ON
SANATORIUM SOON

While in st. Louis Mr.. ]. w. Becker
talked to former U. S. senator Ralph
H. Cameron over the long distance
telephone and was assured that the
committee from New York and Pitts
burgh would be here within a reason
able length Of time to begin the cam
paign towards the establishment Of
the White Mountain Children's sana-
torium in this section. Senator Cam
eron advised that Mr.. Wilkinson, one
Of the prominent men connected with
the raising Of funds throughout the
United States, had hurt one of his legs
badly and was in the hospital under
the doctors care This unfortunate
accident is responsible for the delay,
so Mr. Becker was advised.-Spring-
erville Tourzona.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Claim de la Huerta
Was Kidnapped By
Federal Officers

That Alfonso de la Huerta, dead
rebel leader against the Mexican fed
eral government, and brother of Adolf
fo de la Huerta, former provisional
president of Mexico, could not have
entered Mexico of his own volition and
reached a point 70 miles below the
international border, at the time he
was said to have been killed by fed
eral troops on Thursday afternoon of
last week, was stated by a Tucson
resident this week, who learned from
an authoritative source in Nogales
that de la Huerta had been seen as
late as o'clock on Thursday after
noon at the home of Beatrice, a wom-
an whose residence is located on the
American side of the line and alleged
to be a rendezvous for Mexican reb-
els.
At the time de la Huerta was seen,
but an hour or so before he was said
to have made a valiant stand with
eight companions, when surprised by
detachment of federal troops some
20 miles south of the border, he was
with francisco Ferris, who had previ-
ously been arrested in Tucson with
Louis Gayou, confidential secretary of
Adolfo de la Huerta. Both Gayou and
Ferris were subsequently released on
bond, and await trial before the
United States district court of San
Francisco on a charge of conspiracy
to violate the neutrality laws Of this
country.
The informant, who claims to have
seen Alfonso de la Huerta and Ferris
at the house of Beatrice, declared that
the house of the woman had been Wis
tied that afternoon by agents of the
Mexican government.
In view of the fact that the official
statement of de la Huerta's shooting
is placed on the same afternoon at
distant point in the hills of Sonora, it
is the theory of the informant that de
la Huerta must have been kidnapped
and taken across the border and either
assassinated in Nogales and his body
removed in an automobile to the place
where the last stand was reported to
have been made by him, or taken to
the place alive and summarily exc
cuted.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
G. O. p. COMMITTEE TO MEET
DEC. 6 TO DECIDE CONVENTION

The republican national committee
will be called together in Washington
December to select the 1928 eonven-
ton city, Chairman Butler announces.
The usual custom Of appointing Q
subcommittee to consider proposals
from bidding cities will be abandoned
this year. Instead, Secretary Roy Q.
West will receive all proposals in writ
ing and submit them for consideration
of the full committee.
Cities which already have been men
toned as possible convention places
include San Francisco, Cleveland, Chi
cago. Detroit, Minneapolis, Omaha
and Kansas City.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
ASHURST CONFIDENT
SWING BILL BLOCKED

Confidence that there would be no
action at the coming session of con-
gress on the Boulder Canyon dam leg
islation was expressed by Senator
Ashurst, democrat, of Arizona, one Of
the leaders in the filibuster against
the Swing ohnson bill in the closing
days of the last session.
Senator Ashurst based his predic-
ton on the belief that states in the
Colorado river basin would be unable
to reach an agreement on a program
and without this he declared no fed
eral legislation can be passed.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Arizona Nets OUer
3 Millions Gas Tax

Total collections of the three cents
a gallon gasoline tax in the state dur
ing the four years, two months and
two days it was collected, amounted
to $3,566, ,702,22, according to re
port issued by James H. Kerby, sec
retary of state, through whose office
the tax was collected.
The law went into effect June g,
1923, and went out on August II, 1927
when it gave way to the new four
cents code
Of the total tax collected under the
three cents a gallon law, one half or
81, 783, ,353.11 was paid direct to the
counties of the state in proportion
to the amount of tax they collected
The other half was divided equally
between the 25 per cent fund Of the
state and the rs per cent funds of the
counties.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Gen. Hines Agrees
To "Cured" Vets Pay

F. E. Doucette, Tucson legionnaire,
has received word from Colonel A. j.
Dougherty, department chairman of
the legion rehabilitation committee, to
the effect that Dougherty has secured
a statement from General Hines that
he would not further oppose the CIV
ing of $50 monthly compensation to
arrested cases among disabled veter-
ans.
Colonel Dougherty further reported
that DR.. Black, chief of the medical
service bureau, had offered to back
any effort the American Legion might
make to increase the capacity of the
new million dollar hospital at Tucson.
Following this conversation on the
last day Of the Paris convention, a
resolution was passed by the assembly
calling for an additional 100 beds for
the new hospital there, which will give
it a capacity of $50 beds instead of
ESQ as now planned.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Fossil Footprints Are
Numerous at Canyon

In recent publication of the Smith
sonian Institution entitled Fossil
Footprints of the Grand Canyon" DR..
C. w. Gilmore, curator Of vertebrate
paleontology of the U. S. national
museums, has greatly increased the
number of described tracks found in
the park. The described species from
this region now total thirty-three. Ad-
ditional tracks collected by Dr. Gill
more this year assures Grand Canyon
of enjoying the reputation of being
the best carboniferous fossil track
horizon in the world.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14

the road hogs. The practice Of the
same courtesy and caution on the
street and highway that is used in
the office or in the home will do much
to reduce the appalling number Of cas-
ualties each year.
"The practices of the road hog are
selfish practices, and are not in sym
pathy with modern methods Of trans
portation. Every individual should
resolve to remain out of this category
by the voluntary practice of courtesy
and caution.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
APPLICATION OF SANTA FE
DENIED IN CANYON CASE

The Arizona corporation commits
sion dismissed the application of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
road company seeking to be relieved
of the obligation of operating a pub
lie utility in the Grand Canyon ma
tional park, on the grounds that the
commission is without jurisdiction in
the park. In effect the commission
held that the railroad did not need q
certificate of necessity and conven-
ience to operate water utility in the
park.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
Stockholders Must
Pay, Says Judge

Sitting in place of Judge j. B.
Crosby of the Navajo county superior
court, who had been disqualified,
Judge J. E. Jones of Coconino county
Tuesday rendered judgment against
al defendant stockholders in the de-
funct Bank of Winslow, in the
amount of $8O,267 in favor Of A. 7.
Hammons, state superintendent OF
banks, deciding an important issue IN
the matter of the liquidation In the
case of the Bank of Winslow with
branches at Holbrook and st. Johns.
which failed in October, 1924.
The decision of Judge Jones fol
lowed a hearing of the stockholders
liability cases in Holbrook several
months ago and decides point in
which the defendant stockholders in
the defunct bank maintained non liza
bility under the state banking code
which provides that assessment Of
double the amount of stock shall be
levied in case of failure.
sPa, what becomes of a ball player
when his eyesight begins to fail?"
"Son, they make an umpire out of
him."
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
BIG TRUCKS SUPPLANT
TRAINS AT JEROME

Railroad trains have been shoul-
dered out of the United Verde open
ore pits at Jerome by ten-ton trucks,
of which an additional fleet recently
was purchased in Los Angeles. These
trucks, loaded by giant power shoy-
els, cross the great pit directly to
dump in chutes, through which the ore
is dropped to bins above the mine rail
haulage level, 700 feet below.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
ESCAPED LITER is
CAUGHT IN TEXAS

Joyce Sheppard, 25, who, advices
from Abilene, Texas, state, has been
arrested there under the name of Bill
Smith, escaped from the Arizona state
prison at Florence on Christmas eve,
1925. At the time he was under sem
tence of life Imprisonment for the
murder Of j. H. Hall. of Cashion, Ari-
Zona.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14
A. IA. Belts RECOMMENDED
FOR COMMERCE COMMISSION

Senator Ashurst, Arizona, called at
the White House to recommend the
appointment of Amos A. Belts, Of
Phoenix, to the democratic vacancy
on the interstate commerce commits
sion.
White House officials said after the
conference the president had not yet
decided upon an appointee.
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14

sDid you ever catch your husband
flirting?"
"Yes, that's Just how did catch
him"
The Coconino sun., 1927-10-14

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