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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919. Page Eleven THE COCONINO SUN 1) ' SUN MAN GETS AN' "EAR FULL" ON THE COURT HOUSE GREEN Out on the courthouse green Fri day night, a crowd sat ajjound until 1 well on toward midnight in the vain belief that they would hear tfie ver dict on the jury in the HubbelJ mur der caso before going to roost. Naturally, there was some gassing. The account of the hardships some of the men went through to get to tho trial brought out a lot of good natured raillery. Lorenzo Hubbell, Jr., J. F. Anderson, principal of the Indian school at Hotevilla, and E. A. Maiks, principal of tho Indian school at Oraibi, with two Indians, started in a car Saturday morning, driving night and day, and not reaching hore until Monday night. They fought mud and water for miles, were forced into a long detour during 'which the Indian guide they had picked up con fessed himself lost, and they were a mighty tough-looking lot of fellows when thoy got here. Mr. Anderson related some very in teresting things about conditions at his school, which draws its pupils from two Hopi villages Hotevilla and Bacabi, tho former said to be the most primitive Indian village in tho United States today. It was the chief of this village, Yukeyoma, who was only a short time ago released by the government from an imprison ment inflicted because of his unswerv ing opposition to agency and school regulations. Hotevilla is chiefly populated by people who have been expelled for their meanness from other villages. When a white man even Mr. Ander son, whom tHey all know goes into thfc village, tho children run, scream ing, and hide, and the women cover their faces with their blankets. They want nothing of the white man nothing to do with "him and, though of laid to forcibly resent his presence, are unrelenting in their hostility. There are over a hundred pupils en rolled in the school, which was built to caro for eighty-five. The pupils from Hotevilla arc brighter than those from Bacabi, thought the latter arc more civilized. Attendance of the Hotevilla chil dren has, to be forced. Mr. Anderson has an inflexible rule that thoy must attend school, and when one is absent he' puts a gun in his pocket, goes to the village, stalks into the home and, without a word to tho elders, seizes the child and drags him, struggling and screaming, away to school. He carries the gun to shoot ,dogs. The village isifull of them, and the In dians, instead of calling them off, fre quently hiss them on. Sometimes Mr. Anderson goes out with a rifle and snoots dogs in Hotevilla until his magazine is emptied. It takes some nerve, he modestly J.........H. ........ I You May Have LOST or SUNK Considerable money in Oil Stocks, nci er realizing your hopes of winning. $100,000 Has been made in a few months' time by many a person who leftJJil Stocks alone and invested exclusively in Oil Leases, in Texas. , The Trans-Pccos Oil Field is on the same formation as Burk burnctt, Ranger and West Columbia. Many noted geologists hae made a careful survey of the field and pronounced it un usually aluable. Read what others have done who had a poorer chance ofTered them than we now offer you. , Oil Discovered in Laura Well at Pecos, Texas This announcement was made by Alfred Tinnally, president of the Sunshine Oil Corporation at Pecos, following the striking of oil in the Laura Well at a depth of between 800 and 850 feet. The message stated that the oil is forty feet deep in the casing, and in this first sand it can be developed to from fifty to one - hundred barrels per day. ' i According to Mr. Biggs, another drill with an eight-inch deep bit will be started within a few yards from the Laura Well to tap the oil of the first sand. Then the sand will be cased in ' at the 800 foot depth, and a 12 'i -inch drill used to complete the hole to the next sand, which is expected at 1,500 to 1,800 feet. This sand is expected to produce from 1,000 to 5(000 barrels a day; but it is not the object of the company's quest. Mr, Biggs says it is planned to drill to the third sand, which ' Geologist Tucker estimates to be from 3,000 to 3,500 feet deep, and where a gusher of from 10,000 to 25,000 barrels is expected. i Millions Are Being Spent by the Big Companies of Pecos Follow Their Example BUY PECOS OIL LEASES Albertrergain I P.O. Box 1223 Flagstaff , Arizona admits, to shoot down an Indian's dog at his door and then push in and grab his youngione and lug him to school. When school opens, the boys' hair is cut short, and in some cases that of the girls. Follows spraying of the heads with kerosene and diligent use of fine-tooth combs. This delousing process is repeated every morning, the pupils accumulating new supplies of vermin every night. No matter how tame a child may become 'in school, a week at home makes him as wild again as ever. A child that insisted on sitting in Mrs. Anderson's lap at every opportunity during the, last term, two weeks later, when she visited the village, ran from her, screaming. One of the greatest problems the service h.as is to find employment and homes for the grad uates where they will be entirely away from tribal influences. ""You take the clean, well-behaved servant girls you have right here in Flagstaff," Mr. Anderson said, "and let them go back to their villages for a week and you couldn't recognize them. They will not only be dirty, but will hide from their present employers as though they never knew them." The little fellows are crazy over baseball, and when they play, the old bucks will como forth from their vil lages, discarding their natural re serve, wave their blankets and howl ke dervishes. The kids have no native woids ap plicable to baseball. They can't talk it in their own dialect. So, when they are playing, they keep up an incessant howling of every English word they know, quite regardless of whether it fits the occasion or not. If they want a batter to line it out, they -are as likely to shout, "Can the cat' see the mouso?" as" anything else. Mr. Mark recently sent a challenge in behalf of his smallest nlavers to Mr. Anderson, who asked his boys if they wanted to go over to Oraibi and play. Some of them in fact, many of their parents had never been to Oraibi, only 6 miles away. They, an swered never, a word, but looked at each other and finally began to grin. That was answer enough. Then he asked them if. their parents would let them go. No response, not even a grin this time. But they carried away all their playing paraphernalia that night. Next morning, Mr. Anderson told his wife: "Those boys arc going to Oraibi to day if I have to take a gun and j?o over there and gather them up." But they were all at hand, bright and early. The boys were so nervous when they went in to warm up at Oraibi that ttyey couldn't stop anything. Mr. Anderson pretty nearly gave up hope of carry inga way the bacon. But when the game was "called, they grit ted their teeth, stood on .their toes, and went io it They won all the way on sheer nerve. Yukeyoma, shortly after his release by the government, was caught cross ing the campus one day, and induced to come into the school building, where he was shown through the com missary, the kitchen, where the girls were being taught to cook, tho sew ing room, and, in fact, was given a "once over" of every phase of -the manual training and domestic science work, the children even being lined up to sing for him. He had little to say, but was vis ibly impressed. "I would like to have given him the best outfit of clothes and shoes I had in the commissary," Mr. Ander son said, "but I knew very well he would Jiot have accepted them. He wants nothing from the whites or tho government, and is unalterably op posed to his people associating with or accepting anything from us." "Tempest and Sunshine,'? as Loren zo S. Hubbell, Sr., and "Cyclone Bill" Beck classify themselves when to gether, vastly helped to entertain the attendants at court. These two pio-J neers, holding diverse opinions politi cally, are fast friends. Both arc so well read and so full of reminiscences and fluent in expression, that it is a never-cloying joy to "set an' lissen.1' Mr. Beck made the legal profession the target for several good stories, among them about a criminal case that was tried in New Mexico. The prosecuting attorney, in his plea, was especially vituperative, referring to a woman witness as "that remarkable Texas woman who could remember nothing adverse to the defendant, but showed a remarkable memory for al most every detail that was favorable to him." He also referred to a male witness as "that bad man from Texas with a gun a foot and a half long, who showed such remarkable facility in forgetting any fact that might in jure the defense, but had no trouble at all in remembering everything that favored it." When he had finished, the defend ant's attorney arose and said: "May it please the court, I am an old man, from Texas, ignorant, and in my old age and ignorance I failed to ask tho members of the jury a question I had every right to ask them. I beg you to grant me that privilege now." The court permitted him to ask the question, whereupon he asked each of the jurymen, in turn: "Where are you from?" In each caso the reply was "Texas." "Gentlemen," ho said, "I rest our case with you." And he won. ' KAYENTA NEWS Frank Jones, who works for Mr. Hubbell and is a friend of Cartoonist Swinnerton, told about a protracted meeting he once attended, It was the last night, and all the converts had lined up on the front seats. An old man, all crippled up, came in late, and not realizing-who he was getting in with, crowded on to tho end of the front seat. Presently, the testimony of the converts began. The preacher, seeing this decrepit and somewhat tough-looking old man, thought that there was & fine chance to show how far the redemption process could go, and said: "My ojd friend, will you tell U3 what the Lord has done for you?" "Who? Me?" the old man asked. "Yes, you tell us what the Lord has done.for you." The old man struggled to his feet, (By Albert B. Reagan.) . July 1, John Wetheril, accompanied by Ventrcss Wade, started with 20 horses to meet Prof. B. Cummings and a party of 1? students from the State University at Kaibito. The party was out on an exploring and archaeological trip, accompanied by an entomologist and a conchologist. Arriving at Kaibito, Mr. Wetheril had to wait until July 7 on account of an unexpected delay' in the arrival of the party. They then proceeded to the Navajo Mountain and the Rain bow Natural Bridge. Returning to the mountain the party went to ex cavating Red House ruin in that re gion, at which work they will be oc cupied till August 5, when they ex pect to come on to Kayenta and from here make several side trips. One trip is to be to Bctatakan and Kcet seel, and another to the Monuments. The party will then return via Moqui about August 1C, where they will take in the snake dance. Leaving tlje party, Mr. Wetheril returned July 18 preparatory to another try. July 3, W Reed and E. M. Butter worth returned from the oil inspect ing trip in the San Juan 'region. For the next few days Mr.Butterworth occupied his time examining the re gion abbut Kayenta, but failed to re port the finding of oil springs in tho vicinity. On July 9 in company with Mr. 'Reid and" Mrs. J. Wetheril, and -Yazzhc and Indian helpers, he set out for the Navajo Mountain country to get a general geological survey of that region; while Mrs. Wetheril was interested in the finding of new ruins that the Indians had rep6rted to her. The party went by Betatakep and Kectseel ruins in Segi Canyon, on the way, and a few days later they joined Prof. Cummings' party at Navajo Mountain. The ruins were found as expected and are said to be a grand find. .After a thorough exploring of the region Jhc party returned with Mr. Wetheril on the 18th, as previ ously stated. j July 1 to 4, Walter Dickerson, in company with his helper, C. H. Haw ver, of Dolores, Colo., were here with 41 fine horses, which they wished to sell. While-breaking one of them, Indian Natannie killed one of them, and Clyde Caldville purchased 31 of the others. July 5 and 6 they visited the Pass and left here for home with their remaining horses on July 7. On July 7, W. E. Oliver, of Bland ing, Utah, arrived here looking for lost stock, leaving without finding same. July 10. July 8, George C. Fraser and Geo. Bird Grinnell, of New York City, ar rived, via Keams Canyon, Blue Can von and Marsh Pass, in company with iuto driver Glen B. Howard, of Hok brook, Ariz. While here they visited the noted ruins ot K.eetseei ana uew taken in Segi Canyon, Church Rock and El Capitan. They were much pleased with the region, leaving lor Chin Lee Julv 12. Mr. Fraser is a New York lawyer who .spends his va cation in geological excursions. He thought this a wonderful country. Mr. Grinnell is a noted Indian writer, hav ing something like 20 books to his credit. Though in his 7Cth year he isout getting material for another book. E. Spencer and Hugh Hyde, of Bluff, Utah, were here July 7 and 8 in a stock exchange deal horses for sheep or cattle but left without ac complishing anything. J.. Strause and wife started for Tuba, on a business trip with the gov ernment mules. Mrs. Strause, who expects to be joined by Mrs. O. Rea gan later, expects to remain at Tuba to can apricots and pears for winter use while Mr. Strause will leturn with a load oft government supplies. July 4, Julian Buckbee and daugh ter, Harriett, Mrs. Segar and Mrs. O. Reagan started with auto for Flag staff, but miring about 7 v miles west of Kayenta, they were compelled to return. They tried it again on July 17, being accompanied as far as Cedar Ridge south of the Pass by Mr. Segar and A. Reagan and the former's team. It is lucky they got the day they did, as a big rain Thursday night and Fri day has made the pass impassable. Indians report -that Mr. Strause is now stuck in thcypass on his return trip, the road being completely gone in some places. But only an inch of rain fell at Kayenta Friday, and the previous rainy days of the week, alto gether. One July 20 John Wetheril and Geologist E. M. 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