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ST. JOHNS HERALD AND APACHE NEWS VOLUME XXXII ST. JOHNS, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA, AUGUST 17, 1916 NO. 51 LOCAL NEWS D. K Udall left Monday for El Paso, Texas. Gustav Becker of Springerville was in town Monday and Tuesday looking after some road matters. M. P. Peterson is contempla ting building a new house on his ranch west of town . Mr. Greig is the contractor. Booze! Booze!! Booze!!! Place your order and plenty will come if you have the price. Personal use, you know. Marion Gibbons, son of A. V. Gibbons came up from Woodruff to spend a few days with his parents. Minerva Gillispie of Concho spent several days in the city. She is visiting with her brother, Wm. Harris. W. M. Tenney, Jr., of Alpine, announces that he is a candidate for treasurer of Apache county, subject to the approval of the democratic voters. R. E. Connolly came in from Whiting's saw mill last Sunday, and remained for a few days at tending to some business matters. Grandma Wilson has returned from Magdalena where she has been for ihe past five or six weeks .visiting with herson and other relatives. Mrs. Jennie Palmer returned Sunday from Flagstaff. Mrs. Palmer has been attending sum mer school at the Sky-Hi city. She will teach school in district No. 11 this winter. J. W. Waite and family have returned from Hunt, where Mr. Waite has been busily engaged for the past month building bridges. John Coleman was in the city one day this week shaking hands with friends and trying to make new ones. John is out for County Assessor on the democratic ticket. Jerry Gonzales of Salt Lakes, N. M. is in the city for brief stay visiting old friends and relatives. Jerry is suffering with rheuma tism. In this issue of the Herald News you will find the announce ment of Wm. Harris for sheriff, subject to the approval of the re publican party. A. E. Johnson and Allie Mineer are doing and having done consid siderable work on the Overson hall, which is now the property of Mr. Mineer, and we are in formed that they will soon move their moving picture show there. Mr. Guillermo Smith and Miss Isidora Garcia were married at the Catholic Church in Concho last Monday. Father Deriehe mont performed the ceremony. Mr. Smith is one of San Antonio's popular young men and Miss Gar cia is a charming young lady of Concho. 5 Elisha Averette and sons were in the city Monday from Spring erville. Elisha .has announced that he is a candidate forthe nomination for, the office of .Su. pervisor, and the many friends of Mr. Averette think that his chances are good. PIGS FOR. SALE. BIG BARGAINS.- Grown hogs S10.00 and $12.00 a head. Three months old pigs $2.00 to $3.00. Write or Phone, Grover C. Udall. On account of saloon license being raised from $300 to $1500 seven saloons in Gallup, N. M. have quit the business, but it seems as though there are enough still in business in that, town to supply the needs of Gallup and St. Johns. FOR GARDEN TRUCK Call on J. S. Gibbons. The Ion j looked for Relief Fund money arrived in the city last Tuesday. S. B. Booth, the telephone man has a crew of men busily engaged this week installing a cable tele phone system through the main streets of St. Johns. This will do away with so' many wires and insures better service than we have had before. The many wire systems has given considerable trouble on account of the trees and wind whipping the wires into a tangle. WANTED : YOUNG; MEN WITH NERVE. Good pay, short hours, opportunity for travel, advance ment; normal physique, good re ferences required. Aviation De partment. THE O'CONNOR CORPORATION, 6309 S. Eggle- ston, CHICAGO, ILL. The regular annual meeting of the Apache County Sheep Associ ation will be held on the 28th day of August, 1916. Your pi-esence is urgently requested, as there will come up for discussion some important matters pertaining to the welfare of the Sheep Industry which will be to your interest and benefit. Respectfully, , C. SCHEELE, Sec. Apache Co. Sheep Ass'n. The Board of Supervisors met last Monday for the purpose of hearing any objections to the pro posed budget of expenditures of Apache County for the year end ing June 30th, 1917, but as no one appeared to make any complaint the board proceeded to let the budget stand as outlined before. Board of Supervisors. Minutes of the Board of Supervisors Apache County St. Johns, Ariz. August 7, 1916. The Board of Supervisors convened at 10 A. M. there were pre sent Chairman L. R. Gibbons, Member John C. Hall, Clerk Levi SJLJdallajd Sheriff Jacob Hamblin. Absent, "E. P. Howell member. ' Minutes of the July "meeting of the Board of Supervisors and Board of Equalization were read and approved as read. Reports of the various County and precinct Officers were report ed as having been checked by the Clerk and the same were O K. by the Board. The Report of Joe Burgess Treasurer and Tax Collector shows: Total Receipts for July $821.73 Total Disbursements for Month of July $17,013 61 Balance on hand in the County Treasury August 1st. $78,906.95 The Treasurer was ordered to transfer the sum of $5000.00 from the General County Fund to the Salary Fund. The following demands were then considered, allowed and or dered paid from the Expense Fund: C. S. Love, expenses atttending Tax Conference $ 61 15 John C. Hall, expenses attending Tax Conference 47 95 Levi S. Udall, Exp. to Tax Conference, deputy hire, Tel bill 70 07 St. Johns Water Works Co., water for July 3 00 M. C. Parks, 7 phones for July 14 00 A. C. M. I., canvas ' 1 55 J R Overson, rent Co. Atty. office for July 10 00 Joe Burgess, telephone bill 91c J S Gibbons " " - 1 52 Joe Burgess, out door relief cash orders ' 139 00 George E Waite, regular contract . 84 95 A & B Schuster Co, supplies ; 20c Observer, contract and supplies .'- 105.15 G E Greer, expensess and telephone bill " 36 10 Lawyers Coop Pub Co. law books - .15 00 Jacob Hamblin, estimated expenses sheriff 125 00 A C M I Spr. indigent allowance Mrs. Newman " 20 00 McNeil Co., supplies " $ 12 62 Sidney- Sapn. called Judge expense 15 50 telephone bill " ' 1 84 - supplies 28c P. expense & coroners exp -- 8 90 , St. Johns Drug Co. , supplies 2 25 Wm Harris, bailiff 3 00 ' Greg Garcia, . expenses on Sheek murder case 23 20 , Connor Trammell, Sheriffs expense 10 93 ! Judge A. G. McAllister, "called Jndge expense" 83 65 County Recorder Ethel Greer appeared before the board and allowed the following claims of Supervisors: John C Hall, expenses attendiug Tax conference $47 95 John C. Hall, expenses attending July and Aug. meetings 16 00 ROAD FUND J Smith Gibbons labor on street 18 25 Pay Roll demand for the salaries of County Officers for the first half mouth of July was allowed and ordered" paid from the Salary Fund in the sum of $752.87, warrant numbers 271 to 287 in clusive. Pay Roll demand for the salaries of county officers for tjie lagt half month of July and for the salaries of precinct officers fbrthe'lnbniH.of July was allowed and ordered paid from the Salary Fund, warrant numbers 288 to 314. inclusive, in the sum of $991.94. -" : ' - John H Udall, Crane & Co., F A Woods, J. Recess until 1:30 p. m. ROAD VIEWERS APPOINTED: This being the day as set by the Board of Supervisors of Apache county for the filing of a petition requesting that the road from Carnero to Vernon be de clared a county highway and a petition having been filed signed by E. W. Wiltbank and others requesting that this Road be es tablished along the following lines: "Branching from the Eagar-Apache Road in Section 11 T. 8 N. Range 28 East, thence in a Northwesterly direction through Sections 10, 9, 8. 5, & 6 of Township 8"N. Range 28 East and into Township 9 North Range 27 East and through Sections 36, 35, 26, 27, 21, to an intersection with the east boundry of Apaphe Na tional Forest Reserve on the east line of Sec. 20 T. 9 N., R. 27 E. Said Road to be Sixty feet wide. And it appearing to the Board that the said petition was sign ed by at least ten persons, residents of the County and paying taxes therein, and it further appearing that Notice had been duly posted as required by law, stating the beginning and terminus of said road, its general course and direction and further stating that application would be made to the Board of Supervisors on. August 7th, 1916 for action on said petition and for establishment of said road. Satisfactory pi-oof of posting of such notices having been made to the satisfaction of the Board. NOW THEREFORE it is ordered that Wm. D. Rencher Coun ty Engineer, Gustav Becker and J. H. Greer, be and they are here by appointed as a Board of Viewers to view out and locate such roads and to appraise and report all damages that may be caused by said location. "Puerco River Road from Navajo County Line to New Mex ico State Line." A petition having been filed with this Board by Orville Martin and others, praying the Board to declare and establish a public road from Navajo County Line, near Adamana, up the Puerco River to the New Mexico State Line along the following lines: Beginning at a point on the New Mexico-Arizona boundry in Sec. 27, T. 23 N., R. 31 E , thence in a southwesterly direction fol lowing the Santa Fe railroad on the north side through Sees. 34-35 in T. 23 N., R 31 E. and into T. 22 N., R. 31 E., passing through Sees. 4, 5, 8, 7 and 18 of said township continuing southwesterly into T. 22 N., R. 30 E., passing through Sees. 13, 24, 23, 22, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of said township, continuing westerly and southwester ly through T. 22 N., R. 29 E. passing through Sees. 25, 26, 27, 28 33 and 32 of said last mentioned township, continuing southwest ly through T. 21 N., R. 29 E., passing through sections 4, 5, 6, 8 and 7 of said township, continuing southwesterly through town ship 21 north range 28 east, passiug through sections 12, 13,: 14. 23, 22, 21, 20, 19 and 30 of said township, continuing southwester ly through township 21 north range 27 east, passing through sec tions 25, 26, 35 and 34 of said township, continuing southwesterly through township 20 north range 27 east, through sections 3, 4, 9, 8, 7 and 17 and 18 of said township, continuing southwesterly through township 20 north range 26 east, passing through sections 13, 24, 23, 22 and westerly on the section line between sections 22 and 27 and between 21 and 28, and between 20 and 29 to the cor ner between section 19, 20, 29 and 30, thence southerly along the section line between sections 29 and 30, 31 and 32 to a point on the section line between sections 31 and 32, thence southwesterly through section 31, all in township 20 north range 26 east, contin uing southwesterly through section 36 township 20 north range 25 east and into section 1, township 19 north range 25 east, - continu ing southwesterly through said township passing through sections 1, 2, 11, 10, 15. 16, 21, 20, 19, 29 and 30 in said township 19, north range 25 east, continuing westerly through sections 36, 35 and 34 in township 19 north range 24 east, thence southerly along the sec tion line between 33 and 34 in said township and into township 18 north i-ange 24 east following the section line in a southerly direc tion between sections 3 and 4 to a point on the section line between sections 3 and 4, thence southwesterly through sections 4, 9, 5, 8 and 7 in said township 18 north range 24 east, to a point on the county line between Apache and Navajo counties. Said roadway to ba sixty feet wide. (Continued ne xt week) 3 43 f Sal T.alro 4 Stock Salt in bulk a " " in sack J General Merchandise "1 Salt Lake, New Mexico. J Will furnish salt in any quantities J fir 50c. cwt. GPc.cwt. WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS