The Coconino sun., 1927-07-08

giant sahuaro cactus and mounted
/ Giia monster gave the Arizona Shrin-
ers who attended the imperial council
at Atlantic City enough "col6rD to
take the national convention by storm.
The Irish navy was recently sold for
800. A submarine constructed by
John Holland 40 years ago for the
Fenian supporters who hoped to use it
against the British. fleet was knocked
down to junkman.
Moving pictures that show depth as
well as height and breadth have APP
peared in Germany The invention by
two Germans does away with cellu-
loid film, copper band taking its
place.
The u. S. attorney general rules
that automobiles equipped with living
quarters are passenger cars and not
trucks, but some of them might be
assessed as real estate and improve
ments.
Approximately $4,000 in back
taxes have been collected in Cochise
county during the past so days
| through the efforts of the county at
torney's and the county treasurer's
offices.
Sergeant John Walsh, 75-year-old
! veteran of Indian wars and said to
hold the worlds record for long dis
tance hiking, left San Jose, Calf, last
week to walk to New York. and re-
turn. In 1911 Walsh is said to have
made hike Of 1000 miles in 176
days.
Definite steps toward another pro-
| duction of the Casa Grande ruins
| pageant which depicts the history of
early Indians and Spaniards have been
| made by the directors of the Arizona
Pageant association.
Water from the Horse Mesa dam is
covering parts of the Apache Trail,
making it unsafe for travel. Phoenix
| and Salt River Valley business men
| say the closing of the road is costing
them thousands of dollars daily.
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A row of frame buildings on the
grounds of the Southern Methodist
hospital in Tucson were burned last
Thursday. The monetary loss was
small, partly covered by insurance.
Russell T. Scott thrice sentenced to
hang for Staying Chicago drug clerk
during a holdup, was granted new
lease of life last week when the Iili-
nois supreme court remanded his case
| for d new trial.
The Volstead law against the manu-
| faeture of Intoxicating beverages had
kRg terrors for certain inmates of the
Pinai county jail, whose efforts at
wftle-making within the walls Of the
jail were frustrated last week with
the finding of an old coffee pot filled
with fermenting fruit juice.
A roadside weed known as the
puncture vine, which penetrates au-
tornobile tires, is one of the pests
against which the motorist in CAlifor-
mia has to contend. Each burr of this
| peculiar weed has two sharp pointed
spines which always point upward
when the burr Is lying on the ground.
Arizona Legionnaires will erect a
lasting memorial to the memory OF
Mathew B. Juan, Pima Indian of
Sacaton, who was the first Arizona
soldier to lose his life in action in
France, according to a resolution
passed at the Springerville convention
of the American Legion.
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Forty members are named in the
new Phoenix chapter of the National
Aeronautic association, recently or
ganized. Efforts will be made by the
chapter to place Phoenix on the
southern flying route between the
Pacific and Ell Paso. For this end
the municipal airport will be mod
ernly equipped.
Laws should be enacted to prohibit
marriage before men and women
reach the age of 25, according to a
pastor in Houston, Tex. Young peo-
pie are not grown until they are 25,
he said in a sermon at his church. AS
long as marriage is as insecure as it
is, he asserted, morals will gradually
degenerate. X SEa -
The AZ Arizona Legionnaires who
are to represent Arizona at the gath
ering in Paris this summer and early
fan will be equipped with cactus
icahes made, in Arizona and specially
embroidered handkerchiefs. The lat
ter will be copper colored with green
band. The word Arizona will be en-
broidered on the handkerchief, as well
as a representation of the Sahuaro
cactus. They will be worn about the
,,ocke ef tho Arizonans