The Coconino sun., 1927-04-08
KAYENTA NEWS

\ passed through Kaye1lta Sunday night
on their way to Flagstaff They ex-
4 pect to have work with the Famous
Players -Lasky motion picture cprpor-
alton in filming Drums Of the Des-
ert' at the Gap.
When Wesley Mangum returned to
Tuba Sunday after visit of several
days here he was accompanied by his
brother, S. N. Mangum, who had BUSH
ness at that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Hughes and
daughter spent Tuesday night in
/ Kayerta. They are on their way to
Phoenix. Mr.. Hughes had beefl enl-
ployed by the Utah Petroleum. cor
poration at their camp forty miles
from here, where they are drilling
\ J. H. Irvine, of Phoenix, travel
ing salesman, was here Tuesday on
one of his regular selling trips.
DR.. S. T. Campbell came over from
Tuba Tuesday to look over the Iindian
pupils
Dave Miller Of Bluff and Frank
! Young of Mexican Hat were through
here Wednesday night, going into
Flagstaff.
Acting as If reaching Kayenta was
the dream Of her young life Gypsy
4 Queen trotted into the village limits
! Sunday and liked the place SO well
/ she stayed over for three days. Her
rider, Frank M, Heath. of Silver
Spring, Md, suburb Of Washington,
! d. G., is man fifty-eight years old
! and served for ten months overseas
during the World war, his title Icing
mule sergeant. His health has not
] been the best so-he hit upon this plan
Of trying to regain it and at the same
4 quired in no other way than tr.lvel-
/ ing. Since he was sixteen he has
, worked with horses and wants to dis
prove theories that have been SO oft
en- advanced that horse cannot
make a complete circuit of the United
States as it would not be able to en-
dure the many changes Of climate, al
titude, feed, water, road, etc, aside
from the very many miles needed to
be traversed. There is no wager at
tached to his long journey but based
upon his knowledge of the animal he
| is making a test to prove that the
horse is a more capable creature than
he is credited with being. Gypsy
Queen is a beautiful dark bay mare,
Of the Kentucky Morgan breed, eleven
years old, and tips the scales at 1000
pounds When she started on this
trip her weight was $50 pounds, show
! ing that she has had the best of care
and is enjoying her long jaunt. She
was not raised by Mr.. Heath but he
knew the exact type, build, disposi-
ton and characteristics he needed and
he purchased her in Virginia on sight,
and she has proved a good sport all
the way through. The starting point
was Washington, D. c., April i, 1925,
and the idea is to nit some point IN
every state in the Union in little
over two years, or July /, 1927, but
the date has been put forward to Dc
tober [. Mr.. Heath is travelling three
months behind his printed schedule as
he was laid up two months and ten
DAYS from a fractured knee, received
in Yellowstone Park, Mammoth, Wyo.,
in the summer Of 1926 when horse
! he had bought FOR pack animal
kicked him. There We're at least six
or seven kinds of flies to contend
with in the park and ne was Of The
opinion that all the varieties in The
whole United States that are trouble
some to horses had gathered for a
convention there 1t was while trying
to rid the strange horse of one Of
these pests that it displayed its I'M
grateful disposition by kicking him.
At the veterans hospital at Fort Har-
rison, Helena, Mont, he was cared
for by DR.. Frazier, known through
this section as he was formerly in the
government Indian service at Ship
rock. Leaving Washington, ID. c.,
Mr.. Heath visited all the Atlantic
states north Of that place, then all
the New England states, and through
| the Adirondacks into Ohio, visiting
| the thirteen principal eastern cities.
He does not attempt to hit the capI-
tails Of each state as many Of them are
much out of his route, which was
carefully planned before the start.
The rider and his horse have been
from sea level to thousands Of feet
altitude, the highest point struck SO
! far being 1855 feet, near Flagstaff.
| They have crossed seven mountain
rargcs and wallowed for miles
! through swamps Mr.. Heath desires
to be exactly accurate in his state
ments but several times has been
nisquoted, probably due to typograpla-
ical errors. Once he was quoted ;as
saying he had come through 10 to 10
feet Of snow when the fact vas It
was 10 to Is inches. He has Travelled
where the thermometer registered IL
/ degrees below zero at night and again
through country with the heat above
the 100 mark He has tried to follow
| the seasons but in such a long dis
tance that is not always possible and
| in one place he remained four
months and twenty-five days rather
than cross the mountains in winter.
( Arizona is the thirty-fifth state he
has visited and ten of them he has
struck twice in winding about. So
far they have put behind them 7,7O7
miles and Gypsy Queen is lively as q
colt and as full of pep as if she were
only starting. She has worn out ~
pairs of shoes. AtsSpokane Mr.. Heath
spent ten days with his parents, Nh
and Mrs. NJ. r. Heath, who are quite
aged, and he made q side trip to Port
| land to visit two sons. He aims 70
spend not more than seven or eight
| hours day in the saddle but on q
few occasions he has had to ride till
| 900 o'clock in order to reach a stop
ping place. He is carrying so pounds
/ of lightweight In provisions, bed roll