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VOLUME 38
ST. JOHNS, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922
NO. 38
Celebrate July 4th
at St. Johns
The auto racing part of the
celebration to be held in St. Johns
Julv 4th and 5th. is well under
way. The trac'k is beingput into
shape and will be much better
than at any previous race and
this is laying a good deal as it
was declared equal to any in the
state by race experts.
We have --assurances from the
towns of Albuquerque. Gallup
and Holbrook to date and contest
ants are showing keen interest.
The committee think that at
fleast&O cars will enter the big
free 'for all race.
St. Johns has guaranteed $1000
for this race and the committee
hopes to double this amount.
At a booster meeting held last j
night the following persons were
chosen as the general Fourth of
July committee: E. I. Whiting,
H. TV. Furlong, Maurice Barth,
M J. Norton, T. J. Bouldin, A
F. Anderson, Abel Ortega, A. E.
Thurber, Edward Schuster.
"Watch for further deelopments.
Emmett Waite and familv ac
companied by Miss Lillian Jolley
returned from a 10 days visit at
Raman and Gallup, N. M.
Jacob Barth and his father who
have been in San Francisco for
the past few weeks are expected
home within the next few days.
FOR "RENT A good pasture for
cows. "Will come and get your
cows and bring them home. See
Julius Cropas.
Men's.' Stronghold Overalls,
"Khaki Trousers and Riding
Trousers, also a full line of the
well known Henden Shirts at the
"St. Johns Store.
We note in the Navajo county
-paper the announcement of T. R.
Greer, district attorney of that
county for Judge of the Superior
Court.
Oscar Schultz an escaped con
vict from the state penitentiary
at Florence and a young lad
named Nicoll. held up and rob
bed the bank at Cooley last Mon
day. Nicoll's has been captured
but Schultz has not yet been tak
en although a posse is on his trail.
Schultz, it will be remembered,
in '.company with a young boy
held up a tourist between St.
Johns and Springerville some two
years ago for which crime he was
sent to the state pen and later es
caped. It is said only a small
amount of money was obtained
in the bank robbery, probably
not over $200.
LATER Word has just been re
ceived that the posse on the trail
of Schultz, surrounded him at or
n-ear Beaver creek and after a
skirmish he was killed,
Attention Ladies
There will be a social at the
Academy Saturday evening in
honor of the retiring presidency
, of the Relief Society. You and
your husband are cordially ex
tended an invitation. Come early
and bring your picnic.
q ,
- Attention Gardners
All ladies, boys and girls who
have joined, or who wish to join
the Home Garden Contest; please
call at the office of the Northern
Arizona Land Company for jour
score cards.
W. P. DAVENPORT.
BITS OF NEWS FROM
HERE AND THERE
The sadest tragedy Flagstaff
has had in years occurred early
Tuesday morning when Mrs.
j Van Zee and , he twenty
nine months old babv boy were
burned to death in a fire that to
tally destroyed their home, and
another son, aged 14. was so se
verely burned that he died at
Mercy hospital next morning.
Four other children of the family
had very narrow escapes from
death anc one. a little girl, was
painfully burned. The fire, it is
thought, originated in a defective
flue.
Alejandro Marquez of Williams,
after a quarrel with his wife over
an intoxhating herb, which she
destroyed, stabbed himself six
times in the breast at his home,
last Saturday night.
Maricopa county is minus over
36,000 gophers as the result of
the boys' contest which closed
this week. The contest was con
ducted by the United States bio
logical survey and the University
of Arizona.
According to press reports the
smallpox is raging in Tucson.
More than 1000 people were vac
cinated on the first days of the
free vaccination station under
the direction of the city and coun
ty health departments.
Imports and exports through
ports of the Arizona customs dis
trict for the month of April were
valued at $1,092,003, more than
$100,000 higher than the March
figures, according to the monthly
report of Collector of Customs
Charles T. Fowler, made public
here today. Exports through the
port of Nogales totaled $510,881
and imports S325.330; Douglas
exports totaled $87,150 and im
ports $9,988.
Gov. Thos. E. Campbell left
last Friday for New York City for
the purpose of delivering $1,500,
000 worth of tax anticipation
bonds to the Bankers Trust Co..
thereby closing the deal whereby
the state will be supplied with
funds to meetits current expenses
until tax funds are received.
Juan Pistola, chief of all Yaqui
tribes in Arizona, died at his
his home in the village of Barria
Antita three miles northwest of
Tucson, last Saturday.
Eric Ericson, 36 years old, and
who has lived near Flagstaff for
some time, was found in his room
a few days ago, unconscious, as
the result of self -inflicted knife
wounds. He was taken to Mercy
hospital pending examination as
to his sanity. After a hearing
by Judge J. E. Jones and Drs.
Felix Manning and M. G. Fron
ske, he was committed to the
state asylum.
Lorenzo Chavez stabbed En
rique Trujillo with a dagger Tues
day afternoon at Winslow. The
cause of the trouble is said to be
a woman both men are enamored
of. Chavez is in jail. Trujillo,
it is thought will recover.
FOR SALE 160 acres good
land, mostly farming land, with
house, barn, corrals, two wells of
good water. See or write Eugene
Gillispie. Concho, Arizona.
UNSEEN POWER OF
VISION IS POSSESS
ED BY VISITOR
B. F. Pearson of Salt Lake,
Utah, who accompanied Supervis
or C. E. Owens to Holbrook from
that city last week, has returned
from southern Apache county.
Mr. Pearson appears to have a
strange power in which he pos
sesses the faculty of seeing things
not possible for the rest of us.
From what the gentleman says,
visions come to him during his
sleeping hours, many of them
from scenes far away, and at
places he has never visited.
Many strange things have hap
pened in his life. He is the one
who, while at his home in Salt
Lake Citv not lone: ago. had a
vis ion of the man who murdered
Schawb, the Salt Lai? e salesman,
whose home was also in Salt
Lake. Mr. Pearson immediately
wrote a letter to the authorities
at Flagstaff in which he showed
how the automobile had left Win-
slow; the road taken from there
to Flagstaff, and the route taken
to an old well out from that city,
where the murder had been com
mitted, the body being deposited
in the well. The officers went to
the place, according to directions,
and found the conditions just as
Mr. Pesrsori had stated and dis
covered the body as directed.
The queer part of the whole
proceeding was that Mr. Pearson
had never visited. Flagstaff, nor
was he acquainted with Schwab.
Probobly due to the fact that the
salesman resided in Salt Lake is
the reason he gives for getting
the vision.
At other times Mr. Pearsan re
ceives insight into many things
through his sleeping hours. He
does not understand why he
should get them any more than
anyone else, neither does he real
ize why certain things are brought
to his mind while others are not.
One remarkable instance that he
told the editor of the Holbrook
Tribune was in relation to a large
amount of money which had been
buried in a trunk in the southern
part of the state. The facts ap
peared to him one night in his
sleep, and the next day he set
about to get funds to go after the
treasure. He was positive he
could go directly to the spot,
though he had never been, there
before Try as he would, he
could not interest any of his
friends. They said that they
doubted his sanity and felt that it
was simply a wild dream. He
then gave it up. Not long after,
he saw in the newspaper dis
patchee where a cowboy, whom
he said in his vision would get
the money, had found it. Then,
of course, tne friends whom he
had asked for the money to go
after the cache were all up in the
air, stating that they had made
the mistake of their lives.
Mr. Pearson says that these
visions come to him right along,
and while he gives the facts to
those who would be benefited, he
never does it for money. He
says that from the experience of
the treasure box incident he feels
that it was not intended he should
get the money, but eyidently it
was to go to the cowboy.
During the past week Mr.
Pearson has been up in the see-
tion of the country about 50 miles
southeast of St. John.'?, where he
' wen investigate some valuable
mineral aeposics znaz snowea
up
to him in one of his nightly vis
ions. Before he leaves HolbrooB
it is said to be his intention to do
some investigating about the Hol
brook oil field, he having received
some visions relating to some hid
den wealth in the matter of pe
troleum pools which he says are
existent in this part of the coun
try.. Mr. Pearson is an unassuming
gentlemen, pleasant and enter
taining to talk to, and in every
way shows his great confidence
in the things that appear to him
nightly. One cannot talk to him
without discerning his extreme
honesty and at the same time ob
serve his desire to keep to the
truth. He is a member of the
Latter Day Saints church, Salt
Lake City, Holbrook Tribune.
A PROCLAMATION
OF MEMORIAL DAY
On one day each year we turn aside
from the ordinary activities of life to
gratefully recall the sacrafices of those
who died and those who suffered in or
der that these United States might be
and might endure, and to deck with
springtime's fairest flowers the spots
where they lie sleeping. This is a
beautiful custom and one of great value
if in our heasts we truly observe it. On
the other hand perfunctory acknowledg
ment of the day, or perversion of its
high purpose into that of an ordinary
holiday for aports and merry-making is
worse than' no observance at all, tend
ing as it does dull the sense of patriot
ism and diminish appreciation of real
American institutions.
The day belongs to those who have
sacrificed their all for this, our country.
On this day they live again, and we
honor them with Nature's brightest
blossoms. On this day they once more
become real, and through the memory
of their devotion to America we are in
spired to live as they would have us live,
and be what they would have us be
real American citizens. Unless it brings
this meaning into our lives, Memorial
Day is an empty ceremonial, devoid of
force or life.
In our solemn acknowledgment of the
incalculable debt we owe our hero dead
let us also not forget to alleviate the
sufferings of the living. It has been
most appropriately suggested by the
various organizations of ex-service men
that Memorial Day be marked by the
general wearing of the Flanders Poppy,
the inter-allied memorial flower. These
little symbols of remembrance of those
who made the supreme sacrifice during
the World War are made by the women
and orphans of France, and the pro
ceeds derived from their sale will be
used not only for their assistance, but
also to provide a relief fund to meet the
distress occasioned by unemployment
Bmong our ex-service men.
Now, Therefore, I, Ernest R. Hall,
Acting Govepnor of the State of Ari
zona, do urge a statewide observance,
by fitting ceremonies, of Tuesday, May
thirtieth, 1922, designated by our laws
as Memorial Day, and do especially call
upon all ex-service men to take part in
the memorial services and the decora
tion of the graves of our fallen com
rades, in the realization that simultane
ously the graves of those who sleep in
foreign soil are being covered with the
fairest flowers of France. And I do
further recommend that in connection
with the observance of Memorial Day,
the emblem of the silk poppy be gener
ally worn.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Great Seal
of the State of Arizona to be affixed.
Done at Phoenix, the Capital, this 12th
day of May, 1922.
ERNEST R. HALL,
Acting Gouernor.
Attest: John McK. Redmond,
Assistant Secretary of State.
Commencement Exercises
at St. Johns High School
This year will mark the first
annual commencement of the St.
Johns High School, and a very
good program is being planned
for the friends and patrons of the
school. The graduating class this
year numbers four ann are as fol
lows: Tressye Napier, President of
the class.
Charlotte Naegle, Sec.-Treas.
Alma Naegle.
Jack Tenney.
The change frcm a church
school to a state high school and
its attending change in courses of
study worked a severe hardship
on the students in readjusting
themselves to new conditions.
However, they responded nobly
and have worked hard to catch
up. The student body together
with the Faculty and the people
of the community have co-operated
this year in getting the best
results out of our school.
Commencement Exercises will
begin with the Senior play "Mr.
Bob" which will be giyen next
Tuesday night, the 23d of May.
This is a rollicking comedy and is
guaranteed to send you away with
a smile. So ever one who wishes
to enjoy a first rate comedy.
Come out. The show begins at
8:15. The cast is as follows:
Philip Rnyson (Juvenile) Art. Whiting
Robert Brown Wiley Peterson
Jenkins (dignified butler, Romeo,)
Alma Naegle
Rebecca Luke (Old maid(
Marjorie Barrett
Katherine Rogers )her niece..
Lottie Naegle
Marion Bryant ) Mr. Bob J. -
Velma Thompson
Patty (maid Juliet ( Tressye Napier.
Wednesday night, the 24th. the
St Johns High School Band will
give a big free concert under the
direction of Mr. J. Alfred Ander
son, our talented music teacher.
This night will be absolntely free
and the public is cordially invited
and urged to come out and enjoy
the music. This will be a treat
to music lovers as there will be
brass quartettes, quintettes, sax
aphone quartettes and many oth
er worthwhile numbers to numer
ous to mention. Mr. Anderson
has won unstinted praise by the
manner in which he has develop
ed the High School Band this
year. Many of the members at
the first of the year barely knew
one note from another, but under
his direction they have improved
steadily until it will be a hard jbb
to find a band in a high school of
this size or even larger that is
superior to it.
Thursday night, the 25th. there
will be given a Dramatic Sketch
and Concert. The Dramatic
Sketch, "Drifted Apart" will be
given by Mrs, Pauline Anderson
and Frank M. Whiting, while the
Concert will be under the direc
tion of Mr. J. Alfred Anderson.
A nominal admission fee will be
charged, the proceeds of which
will go to the Band fund.
Friday morning at 10 a. m. will
be held at the High School Senior
Class Day exercises. The pro
gram will be announced later.
Friday night at the High School
the first Annual Commencement
exercises will be held. The pro
gram is as follows:
Coronation March (from the
Prophet) .Mayerbeer. H. S. Orchestra
Invocation.
Vocal Solo. "Sailing Through" Penn
Jack Tenney
Clarionet Solo, "Millenial Reverie"
Barnhouse, Joe Christensen, and
Harvy Piatt
Address, Judge A. S. Gibbons.
Magnetta Overture Huff
High School Band
Presentation of Class Principal John
fl. Napier
Presentation of Diplomas
Recessional DeKoven
High School Band.