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The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
George Young Wins
VIM. WrigLey Prize

George Young, 17-year-old crawl
stroke artist of Toronto, Canada, who
made his way to California on a
motorcycle to participate in the Will
liam Wrigley marathon swim across
the San Pedro channel, offset the
chilling waters of the passage with a
flashing stroke speed that averaged
81 to the minute to win the deep sea
derby in Is hours and 45 minutes.
He was the only swimmer to finish
in the field of 1O2 official contestants
in the race which started at 11:21 a.
m. Saturday on the isthmus on the
northeastern edge of Santa Catalina
island. Sunday morning at 3:O6
O'Clock he gained the rock strewn
shores of Point Vicente, short dis
tance north of Wilmington.
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
NelD Bill Asks For
Libraries for Counties

A county library law which will
make possible the serving of every
person in Arizona with books will be
introduced as bill in the present leg 4
islature.
The bill has been drafted by Con p
Cronin, state librarian, and has been
read and approved by the Arizona
State Library association.
The bill provides for county IL
brary law, making possible the estab-
lishment of such a library in every
county in Arizona. It is not manda-
tory, and leaves the amounts to be
appropriated from each county to the
supervisors. In the past, some coun<
ties have refused support to already
established libraries so that persons
in the county might receive books on
the ground that no law permitted such
an appropriation. The present law
would remove such hindrance.
The bill also provides that in coun-
ties where there are Libraries already
established in cities, but which are
not giving book service to the county,
no new library need be established if
the supervisors wish to enter into a
contract with the library and appoint
q member to the board of directors.
According to the American Library
association. which has been cooper
ating with the state group in prepar-
ing the bill, county library laws
throughout the country are doing
more to establish libraries on the
same basis as the public school sys-
tenn than any other means. All rural
schools would be benefited, as well as
people living in remote districts.
The Arizona Library association is
asking all persons in the state to
write or speak to their representatives
at the legislature about the bill SO
that they may be informed of the
opinion of the public on the issue.
Flagstaff citizens interested should
write to Senator Walter Runke, Fred
w. Perkins and Earl Slipher.
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
SWIM WINNER PICKS UP
RIDE NEAR PHOENIX

George Young, the swimming
worlds hero, winner of the Wrigley
$4,000 ocean marathon, told the As
sociated Press that he had staked on
the race his most priced possession,
his amateur standing, for his moth
er's sake. Other than her, he said, he
has no relative, and she is dependent
upon him.
The Canadian boy is emphatically
a mothers boy; and he is proud of it.
He said:
81 put everything / had into this
race for my mother. 1t was not
much, perhaps, but it was my all, my
amateur standing as Canadian cham
pion. / wanted to bring her to Cali
fornia.
81 got as far as Arizona on my
motorcycle and then it broke down.
was nearly broke, too. A honeymoon
couple picked me up and brought me
on to California, but / do not know
their names.
"As for the swim itself, my man
ager, Henry 0'Byrne, and planned
the strategy that won"
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
Court Holds Indian
Lands Not Taxable

Federal income taxes cannot be lew
led against lands of the American
Indian, or on the income, or profit
from their development, the United
States circuit court of appeals held
at Philadelphia.
The decision, by Judge Burlington,
upheld Federal District Judge Thorn
son, of Pittsburgh, in ordering the
collector of internal revenue for the
Pittsburgh district to refund to the
estate of Glenn T. Braden taxes
amounting to $411,127. The de-
cision was based on the principle
that federal laws affecting the white
man do not apply to the Indian un-
less he is included in the provisions
in "unmistakable" terms.
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
Indian Chief Bites Canyon Dust.

lndlan Chlef Bites Canyon Dust.
Tombstone-W Woof!' went the In
dian-and bit the canyon-dust.
No, the above sentence is not
taken from Nick Carter story.
1t forms the climax of an account
of an Indian fight in the snappy sew
enties, given recently by William
FOUR, Dragon cattleman, to Mrs,
George f. Kit, secretary of the Ari-
zona Pioneers Historical Society.
after I had been married about a
year, left my young wife with her
mother, and I went on an Indian
fight" writes Fourr, who is an 49,
year-old Arizona pioneer.
1.-THE Indians had run off about 200
head of my cattle few at time.
For instance, the herder had left the
animals one morning to get breakfast.
We always had to keep man or boy
with the herd in the daytime and put
the stock in the corral at night
'Pretty soon we heard the cowbells
going fast. The boy said, Boss, them
are the Indians that got your cattle.
'By the time we got our horses and
guns, they were gone. An Indian on
foot can travel as fast as any man on
horseback. We struck the trail, and
it was headed south. The Mexican
line was about eight miles away, so
we thought that the bandits were
Mexicans.
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
Wants Standing
Army Of 100000

WASHINGTON.-The house was
asked by its appropriations commit
tee to provide for a standing army of
118,750 men and to override the bud
get proposal of 115,000.
Presenting bill to appropriate
1856, 100000 for war department ac-
tivities during the next fiscal year,
the committee declared congress had
rather definitely indicated" its ap-
proval Of the larger figure, and sug-
gested a congressional survey de-
signed to produce a balanced army
not to warrant larger outlays on our
military army"
Although the bills total is $736,024
below the budget estimate, it exceeds
the budget actually by $2,763,976 by
re-appropriating $3,500,000 made
available last year.
The measure, which would give the
war department 81, ,655,000 more
than it has for this year, provides
S279,112,000 for military activities
and the remainder for non-military
activities including Muscle Shoals,
river and harbors projects and the
Panama canal.
The committee added items net IN
cluded in the budget estimates, aggre-
eating $685. 900, but struck out es-
Inmates for new housing projects to-
taling $5,080,000 on the ground that
they had not been authorized by con-
gress.
The committee report pointed out
that if an additional 1,248 men should
be needed for the air corps, the army
could manage on pay and subsistence
appropriations recommended by the
committee to expand its total enlisted
strength to 1898 by the end of the
year.
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
Says Booths Body
Is In Phoenix

Stripped Of even the dignity of a
shroud, strapped in a pine board box,
and relegated for the time to place
among collection of other curios in
storage for the winter, what is claimed
to be the body of John Wilkes Booth,
murderer of Abraham Lincoln, is in
Phoenix and for three months has
been secreted in a rear room at go
West Buchanan street, Phoenix.
The body is the property Of w. B.
Evans, who purchased it from the
widow of Finis L. Bates, former at
torney general of Tennessee, accord
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21

name meaning Sometimes Water. J
So we had to go on to Harqua Hala
(Always Water'). The soldiers were
open in their abuse of the officers.
ITO get water we had to go up a
narrow canyon, about two blocks wide
with steep, rock sides. Here we
pulled the packs off our animals at
dinner and then thought we would
have little rest. Woolsey and were
asleep under the HILL
Before anyone realized 1t, we were
surrounded by at least go Indians,
hollering and making fun of us, say
ing, Americans mucho malo.'
''Soon the bullets began to fly. The
Indians in those days were not very
good with the gun, because they had
mostly the old fashioned muzzle-load-
ers, and they had to be mighty care
full of the amount of powder they
used. They could not always get
powder.
Il said to Woolsey, Lie still and
shoot But he answered, Gosh, man,
don't you know we are in the open !?
Let's get out
Zone soldier was shot and the In
dians were trying to get his gun. But
Colonel McCabe, with two six-shooters
in his hands, walked right toward the
rock where the Indian was hidia- and
picked up the gun.
1.-TWO soldiers declared they had
the collie and could not fight, so lay
down behind some rocks.
We'll, | guess we were whipped
that night, as we had to pack up as
fast as we could and get out of the
canyon. McCabe told US to throw
our horses into the center and to walk
behind. He said, I'll kill any soldier
who starts to rum We fought In
dians all the way and it was dark
when we got out of the canyon. Only
one soldier was killed.
"The next morning they asked
Woolsey how far it was to water and
he said he did not know. The nearest
water anyone seemed to know about
was so miles out of the canyon, at
Harqua Hala. | found out afterward
that Woolsey did know where there
was water, about IA miles away, but
he did not tell because he was afraid
the soldiers would not fight
when we got to the hill above the
water, we could see the Indians
cdmpeu DIT Jne sprung. 1ney kept
shouting to US to come down, that
there was lots of water. Colonel Nc
Cabe left us civilians on top of the
hill to guard the packs and to get the
Indians as they scrambled up the 9TH
er side of the canyon. Then he and
his men marched down, firing as they
went
Several soldiers We're killed but we
got at least 27 Indians that / can
swear to. The papers all said that /
killed big, chief, but | did not. Wool
sey killed him. He was behind rock
on the other side of the canyon from
us and was doing considerable dam
age.
Il kept shooting at him, but was
aiming too high. | thought it was
about 1000 yards away, but Woolsey
said that it was only 500. | lowered
my gun to change the sights.
"Just then, Mr. Indian showed him.
self pretty well, and Woolsey fired.
The Indian just went Wool We
could hear him clear across the can.
yon. ."-Tombston Epitaph
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
WHY the Call was Short

The minister's wife was busy doing
some mending when a neighbor called.
The visitor, inspecting the handy but
ton basket, remarked: "You seem TO
be unusually we'll supplied with but
tons of all kinds. Why, there's one
like those my husband had on his last
winters suits"
Indeed" said the minister's wife
with smile. "Well, all these but
tons were found in the collection
plates and | thought might as well
make use of them"
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
Arizona Gets A
New Dry Chief

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Jan. IL
A shake-up of the prohibition enforce
ment organization in the southern
California and Arizona district was
one of the first official acts of Frank
R. McReynolds, new administrator, to-
day. Although he took charge Of the
office of administrator last week, Nc
Reynolds was not sworn in until to-
day.
Four changes were made by the
new administrator in the assignment
of his chief heutenants. One of
these, the appointment of Roy G. Can
nedy as assistant administrator in
charge of the permissive division, was
announced previously. Today Jesse
L. Thompson, recently transferred to
California from New Jersey ard
whom Cannedy succeeded, was as
signed to Phoenix and placed in charge
of the State of Arizona as deputy adj
ministrator.
Daniel ]. O'Leary was made chief
field agent in the enforcement div;-
sion, succeeding Robert D. Sterling,
who will be inspector in the permit
division.
Policies outlined by the new adj
ministrator included the placement of
'1full trust in municipal and county au-
thorities to arrest hip pocket carriers
and small distillers," and improve
ment of the field district of the divi-
sion by careful selection and higher
salaries"
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21

ing to the present owners statement.
Evans said Bates spent $4,000 in
proving that Booth was not slain on
the Garrett farm near Bowling Green,
Va, after he assassinated President
Lincoln and in obtaining positive
proof that the assassin lived under
various aliases until December 13,
1903, when he died of self-adminis-
tered poison in Enid, Okla.
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21

Il got Shanghai on my one tube set
last night"
"Can you beat it! / found five
tubes of tooth paste in mine and / only
got Pyorrhea."
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21
IdalI Not Advised

John H. UdalI, who since August
has been deputy administrator for
Arizona with offices at Phoenix, has
not as yet been notified Of his re-
moval from office or Of the appoint
ment of Thompson. Udall is the third
man to hold the office within six
months, succeeding S. E. Kent, who
was preceded by Frank M. Pool
The Coconino sun., 1927-01-21

The Sun does all kinds of COM
mercial and society printing at rea-
sonable prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
A Flat Failure.

Donyer's courtesy go-to church
traffic campaign does not seem to be
working very we'll In fact, IT. is not
working well at all. The campaign,
designed 10 bring order out Of chaos
on Denver's busy streets, was begun
five days ago. Traffic violators, in
stead Of being arrested, were to be
told to 'go 10 church" Serious in
fractions. however, were to be treated
in a different way Motorists of this
type were to be sent to the safety
director from whom they would re-
ceive a lecture on courtesy.
More than a score of persons have
been injured in the five day try-out
of the new system and hundreds of
violators are appearing before the
director to listen to words of wis
dom, but not to heed them. A typi-
cal case has been cited to demon
strate how badly the campaign Is
going. A youthful motorist skinned
his knuckles in cranking his car.
He removed the front license plate so
that II would not happen again and
started off to the repair shop.
Stopped by a policeman. he told his
story, but inasmuch as the officer
was not feeling very churchly he
ordered the offending motorist to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06

director. THANK you, kind sir" said
the youth. Hey. how do you get
that way?" bawled the cop. Take
this here ticket with disturbance
charge on it," Thank you, very
much" answered the motorist.
Thank you, my eye" shouted the
policeman; "come on to Jail with
me-" And to Jail he took him, to- be
mulcted, in violation of all ethics in
the churchly plan, by fourteen
dollar fine,
1t was predicted some days ago IN
these columns that the Denver plan
would fail This prediction is now
reiterated The sooner the city
fathers of the Rocky Mountain
metropolis come to their senses the
sooner traffic will be controlled ana
the longer will residents find them
selves able to enjoy life and health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
A New Flying Record.

One of the first worlds flying rec
ords to be established in the present
era Of record-breaking aviation devel-
opment has been bettered by a team
of German aViators. When Johann
Risticz and Cornelius Edzard brought
their Junkers machine to earth yester-
day at Dessau, Germany. they had
been continuously in the air for fifty.
two hours and twenty-five minutes,
and had by substantial margin
broken the record Of Clarence Cham
berlin and Bert Acosta for the endur-
ance flight.
There are four ma jor records which
are coveted in the world Of aviation.
They are speed, endurance, distance
and altitude. America now holds the
distance record and half of the alti-
tude marks. France is supreme for
land plane speed, Italy for seaplane
speed, Germany for endurance and
France again for land plane altitude.
Chamberlin's flight from New York to
Germany established the distance rec
ord, and Lieut.. Carlton c. Champion,
jr, last month near this city, made the
seaplane altitude record.
SO it behooves America to get busy
on program that will result In a re-
turn of these major records. Lieut..
Champion. IA few days ago, was eiated
because he believed that he had broken
| the land plane altitude mark. His
| altimeter registered forty.seven thou.
sand feet, seven thousand feet higher
than man had ever flown before, but
his instruments were so damaged In
the landing that the record was not
established and he will have 10 try
again. Lieut.. AL Williams is flying a
ship backed by private capital which
was expected easily to. regain the
| speed records, but recent acciden,
threatens to delay the trials and
keep him out Of the Schneider Cur
races, the blue-ribbon speed event OF
! aviation. The endurance record. which
has just passed into German hands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
Choose" and "Cal'late."

President COolidge's peculiar method
of stating that he will not he a candi
date next year has started quite n re-
search into New England vernacu'ar
There is great overhauling of the
dictionaries of dialect, but it requires
little thought to bring to mind another
word that is peculiar to the soil Down
East" quite as much so. indeed, as
choose" has been shown to be. That
is the word "calculate." 1t is usually
pronounced "cal'late." 1t is Indigenous
in ats specific meaning of assured
KNOWLEDGE Elsewheres to Calculate"
means to estimate, to measure, to
weigh or balance. But in New Eng
land to "cal'late" signifies an assured
fact. l. is just the same as the word
reckon" in more southerlN parts of
the United States. Below the Mason
and Dixon line when a person "reck-
onS" he is convinced. He is not study
ing or cropping for facts. lie is set in
his mind" He knows. There is pc
cular likeness between the general
meanings of both words, in view of
the degree of postiveness in which
they are used in The vernacular of
their respective regions. To reckon
and to calculate, in the ordinary sense.
is to compute, to figure out. AS local
idioms they both mean to have arrived
at a perhaps intuitive conclusion. not
through any process of ratiocination
or computation, but by instructive
knowledge.
Had the President said last Tuesday
Il calcula;e--or cai'late-that | will
not run for President in 1925" every
New Englander and every person ia
miliar with the New England idiom
would have known that that put him
definitely out of the reckoning. Just
so. if Mr.. Hef1in or some other son of
the South who has been honored by
presidential mention had said Il
reckon l will not he candidate in
1928" he would have spoken. not
generality. but a positive statement of
fact. The Presidents choice of
choose carried the matter into
somewhat more remote field of spec
ulation, for the country is not as IA
miiar with that form of negation as it
is with "cal'late," which has been Gel
ebrated by local colorists in fiction UNI
til it has acquired in its indigenous use
a specific significance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

American hospitals are doing splen-
did work on section of British front.
Total capacity of 10000 beds is under
a single command. Ruling from
the War Department opens ranks or
United States Army TO friendly aliens
as volunteers. Only 4.54S men
now needed to bring Regular Army to
war strength. Navy needs l2.204 ana
Marine Corps but $40. Ameri-
can women living in France organize
war relief organizations. VIII
son embargo enrages the Germans.
and the President is denounced as a
violator of international law and rights
of neutrals. They claim the embargo
forces small nations into ''combatant
measures President, in con-
ference with War Industries Board.
outlines his policy and maintains that
allied countries must be treated fairly
and get low prices along with thus
country and it's consumers.
Peace talk futile at this time, says
President Wilson, indicating That the
time is not ripe for negotiations. DIS
trusts Germany's motives,
New organization formed, under war
pressure, to interchange patents. ends
trouble between aircraft manufactur-
ers. Committee on Public In
formation discards the practice or
news elaboration, and henceforth will
give out only bald official statements.
Creel seeks 70 control all govern
mental news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06

@. How many automobile dealers
are there in the United States?-
p. A. w.
A. There are 1882 motor vehicle
dealers. Pennsylvania has the great
est number, 4.130: New York is sec
ond with 1856. Illinois third with
3,423.
O. Is Joseph Hergesheimer
Jew IL. Il.
A He is not. The Hergesheimer
family is Pennsylvania Dutch. The
authors mother was the daughter of
a Scotsman, Thomas Mackellar.
Hergesheimer was born and brought
UP a Presbyterian.
@. How fast is the population of
New York growing?-M. s. n.
A. During the last six years the
population has increased only per
cent as against 17.9 per cent in the
preceding decade.
@. What was the attitude of the
prince consort of England toward
America at the time OF the Civil
War?-T. y. ..
A. He was against permitting
England to take sides in the struggle.
His last work was the alteration Of
a draft of letter submitted to
Queen Victoria, which in its original
form might have resulted in war.
O. Did Porto Rico have a good
sugar crop last year?-N. G.. K.
A. 1t was the largest in the his
tory of the island. but the price of
sugar was the lowest since 1914.
@. How many signers of the
Declaration of Independence were
Masons?-D. n. d.
A. OF the Sc sighers were
Masons: Benjamin Franklin. John
Hancock. Joseph Hughes. William
Hooper, Francis Lewis. Thomas Nell
son. .ir.: Robert Treat Paine. Mat
thew Thornton and William Whipple.
0. At what place was the Bible
opened at Washington's Inaugural
toms. NJ. G.
A. At the last chapter of Genesis.
Chancellor Livingston turned down
the leaf.
O. How does snake dispose OF the
homes and hair of animals that it
swallows?-A. r.
A. The Biological Survey says that
the gastric juices of the snake are
very powerful and active. These
Juices are capable of dissolving bones
and hair of prey it swallows whole.
O. Just where is Hell's Kitchen in
New York City?-J. b. Nee.
A. The New York Historical So
ciety saws that there were no exact
boundaries of Hell's Kitchen. That
name was given to the section west
of Tenth avenue between Thirty
eighth and Forty-second streets; also
sometimes applied to blocks a little
farther north.