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Official Paper of Navajo County and the Holbrook Oil Field
SINGLE COPIES TEN CENTS VOL. 12, NO. 44.
HOLBROOK, NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921.
EARL T; LYON, Editor and Proprietor
RAYMOLD
The Goat of the System Arrives in Town
This Morning to Plead on First Count.
Is Again Arrested and is Now Rustling
for a Bond, in Default of Which He
will Go to Jail. Says he is Not Guilty
and-if he was he would Now be in Old
Mexico or Canada. He Will Enter a
Plea Monday Morning.
L. M. Raynolds appeared before the
superior court at 10:30 this morning
on the criminal charge of accepting
deposits when he knew the bank to
be insolvent. He was. given until
Monday morning to enter his plea.
Immediately after the hearing he
was re-arrested by Sheriff Newman
and detained at the county jail on a J
-second criminal complaint sworn to
by L. M. Carpenter which charges
"That the said L. M. Raynolds, being
then and there the President of the
Holbrook State Bank, a banking cor
poration doing business at Holbrook,
County of Navajo, State of Arizona,
did then and there, willfully, unlaw
fully, fraudulenty and feloniously ac
cept and receive, while he was pres
ident of said bank, on deposit, from
said L. M. Carpenter, the sum of One
Hundred and. Six Dollars, ($106),
good and lawful money of the United
States, and being then and there of
the value of one hundred six dollars,
($106) and being then and there the
property of said L. M. Carpenter;
that he, the said L. M. Raynolds, as
the president of said bank, at the
time he so received and accepted
said money on deopsit in said bank,
then and there did so well knowing
or having good reason to know, that
the. said Holbrook State Bank was
unsafe and insolvent."
. The complaint was issued out of
Justice R. L. Ison's court at Wood
ruff and the case "was called in that
court at 2 o'clock.
The prisoner plead "not guilty" and
was without counsel and on the testi
mony of L. M. Carpenter and Ed Ellis,
the defendant was bound over to the
superior court.
The court was inclined to make
SHERIFF NEWMAN CAPTURES
A MUCH WANTED FUGITIVE
Last December notices were sent
out from Farmington, New Mexico,
calling for the arrert of D. P.
Thomason, and offering a reward of
C. M. LAPRADE GIVES BOND ON
GRAND LARCENY CHARGE
C. M. LaPrade of Winslow, who was
recently acquitted of the charge of
grand, larceny in the Winslow court,
was re-arrested last week and the
WINSLOW MAN HELD FOR FAILURE
TO PROVIDE
Edgar C. Flaherty was brought
back from Prescott Friday on a war
rant charging him with failure to
provide for his minor child, Lucile,
thirteen years of age.
INFORMATION FILED IN TWO
CRIMINAL CASES BY CO. ATTY
E. R. Tenny, charged with grand
larceny, and R. G. Chambers charged
with selling mortgaged property were
THREE SALES BY THE SHERIFF
AT COURT HOUSE DOOR TODAY
Four lots and 'two houses belong
ing to P. J. Sobieskt were knocked
down for. a judgment, to W. H.
Burbage for $3500, and the Winslow
property of E. R. Chambers of Win
slow was also sold to satisfy a mort
gage of $1857, and the purchaser in
the bond $25,000 but on suggestion
of the county attorney the bail was
fixed at $8,000.
The court in its finding says:
"It appearing to me that the crime
of felony receiving and accepting a
deposit in the Holbrook State Bank,
knowing the said bank was insolvent,
by L. M. Raynolds, the president of
the said . Holbrook State Bank, at
Holbrook Precinct, Navajo County,
State of Arizona, on or about the
11th day of December, 1920, has
been committed, and that there is
sufficient cause to believe the de
fendant L. M. Raynolds guilty there
of, I order that he be held to answer
the same, and that he be admitted
to bail in the sum of Eight thousand
Dollars ($8000), and I have commit
ted him to the sheriff of the county
of Navajo until he give such bail or
be otherwise legally discharged."
The only statement wrung from
the prisoner was his protest of the
amount of bail.
He said if he had wanted to get
away he could easily have been in
Old Mexico or Canada before this,
and thought $5000 enough.
In view of the fact that he must
remain here even though he furn
ish the bond on account of the date
of his pleading on the first charge.
being set for, Monday .morning, the
court fixed his bail at $8000, and up
to this time has not been able to
furnish it.
He is in the custody of the sher
iff now and if someone with $8000
of good and lawful money does not
come to his rescue pretty pronto he
will get his first lodging in the
county jail tonight.
$25 for his' arrest. Sheriff Newman
picked him up at Adamana yesterday
and he is held awaiting the arrival
of the New Mexico authorities.
case tried again before Justice
Walton. This time he was held to
answer to the superior court in the
sum of $2,000.
FOR MINOR CHILD
He was tried before Justice Walton
yesterday and bound over to the su
perior court. He gave a cosh bond
for his appearance.
the defendants in the cases for which
the information was filed by County
Attorney Greer yesterday.
herited with the property a tax bill
for $1455.99.
Twenty-seven head of cattle be
longing to Wallace Larson were sold
to satisfy a judgment held by the
Putney Mercantile Co. The stock
brought $217.
MYTHOLOGY STUDENT
GETS A SETBACK
Once upon a time, Ala Baba was
watching his pigs industriously root
ing. Clifford. King came along and
asked: "Why do those pigs root so?"
Ala uaDa replied: "iitt.them pigs
root to prevent introspection. The
success of a pig in life hangs on his
ability to forget the fact that he is
a pig; so them pigs, being wise, are
losing themselves in useful effort."
And an overzealous editor, believ
ing that what he desires will come
true, might be excused on the same
grounds as Ala Baba's pigs. ;
A prospective oil magnate and get
rich-quick Texan came into the News
office last week with the fever, and
wanted to know where all the oi
wens were located that were now
drilling.
We gave him the location of the
Holbrook, Adamana, Zuni, Black Can
yon and Pinto, and he went up in the
air, and said:
"I been reading your paper and.
according to your own statements
you should have just 52 wells drilling
and about a score of outfits on the
way to drill and the town slopping
over with geologists, experts and in
vestors holding down the lid.
And on being informed that he was
in the right town but the wrong
pew, he went on his way rooting
for the fountain head of Arizona
oil information.
SIX CHEVROLETS IN
' HOCK FOR TAXES
When the Chevrolet slump struck
the Holbrook branch of the General
Motors Acceptance Company that ac
cepteo oroers ior tne unevroiet i.n
Holbrook and their business was
running in low gear, they accepted
a contract with the Santa Fe to tow
them back to- the home office all
the way and the unsold Lizzies, six
of them, were herded into a car on
the Santa Fe track iready to go
back, and everything looked lovely
for the elopement of the said Lizzies
from a stagnant and unappreciative
market.
But, in the multiplication of com
plications that arose in making their
getaway, they snubbed County Assoss
or Shumway, and in their haste to
fly never said good bye "What is
ouV bill for being stored up in Hol
brook?" or anything else that should
have been said, and just to' show the
said Lizzies' chaperons that he is on
the job, he tacked a notice on the
departing Lizzies' special car that
said "Yoa are hereby held for taxes
in the sum of $100.31," and if the
said chaperons do not come through
by the 17th of February he will hold
a bargain sale of Chevrolets on that
day and they came through.
A famous scientist claims to have
a -scheme to beat the grim reaper
out of his toll but none of the many
devices to beat the tax man have
ever been put over successfully.
This is the only "buzz wagon" out
fit in Holbrook. that never could see
the necessity of advertising and it
is the only one that we know of that
has "turned up its toes to3the cactus"
and had its corpse attached just for
living in the county.
WINSLOW JUDGE
JARRED LOOSE
The Winslow Justice of Peace scrap
is still holding the boards in the
superior court with no signs of abate
ment. J. L. Sweeney appeared before
Judge Crosby last Saturday to show
cause why he should not be punished
for contempt in not turning apperta
nances of the office as well as the
cognomen over to Walton.
Attorney O'Sullivan of Phoenix ap
peared for Sweeney and it was agreed
that a motion for a new trial would
be made before Judge Bollinger, who
put the skids under Sweeney, and if
he is still of the same opinion when
O'Sullivan gets through with him
the case will be appealed by defend
ants to the supreme court.
In the meantime Walton has start
ed in to try over again the cases de
cided by Sweeney, and when Sweeney
regains his equilibrium as a judge
he will probably touch up the Walton
cases in this way Walton will re
pudiate Sweeney and Sweeney will
repudiate Walton. And the litigants
in the Winslow court in the mean
time will be given rain checks for
the next umpire instead of judg
ments that will stick.
THINGS DOING IN THE
HOLBROOK OIL FIELD
THE ADAMANA
Work at the Aden. ana is progres
sing and every foot of new hole is
interesting to the drillers. The
formation is unchanged and there is
free oil showings in every bailing.
HOLBROOK OIL
Announced plans of the Holbrook
Oil Company have not yet been made
public, awaiting the arrival of Man
ager Jack Marden, who has lately
been in conference with company ge
ologists and backers, and for the past
few days has been transacting busi
ness in connection with the future
plans of the company.
It is a confident belief, as evi
denced by public opinion as well as
the attitude of the management of
this company, that the Holbrook will
more than justify the expecfations
induced by the showing that has been
made. We stated in a .former issue
that underreaming had been in pro
gress and wRether the well is shot at
the present depth to ascertain the
content of the strata, or whether it
is decided to continue deeper, this
preliminary work roust be accomp
lished as water was encountered af
ter the original placing of - the eight
inch casing.
GOSSIPY GOSSIP FROM
AROUND THE -TOWN
Enoch Williams, deputy sheriff of
Winslow, was in town Saturday.
W. B. Woods of the Postal Tele
graph Company was in Winslow Mon
day on business.
County Attorney Greer and W. E.
Ferguson were in St. Joseph Thurs
day on professional business.
P. W. O'Sullivan, rs of the prom
inent legal lights of the state, was
here last Saturday as counsel for
Sweeney in the J. P. of W. case.
W. J. Hennessey, formerly secre
tary of the Adamana is now located
in Granite, Oklahoma, where he is
identified with the oil industry.
Judge Sapp returned from Bisbee
Wednesday where he was in attend
ance at the Masonic Grand Lodge.
He was elected senior grand warden
of the grand lodge of Masons.
Ed. Greer, county attorney of Ap
ache county", was here this week on
legal business. He will be associated
with County Attorney Greer in the
Raynolds system trial.
Luke D. Smith, a former employee
of the L. B. Putney Co., Jias returned
to Holbrook and resumed his old po
sition as accountant for that com
pany. The Holbrook High School Dram
atic Club presented "The Merchant
of Venice" to a good sized audience
last night. The young actors acquit
ted themselves with credit.
Joe Prochaska, state game warden
and also a member of the advisory
council of Arizona for the Boy
Scouts, was in Holbrook Monday re
juvenating interest in that order.
Mayor Lee left Monday for Los
Angeles where he will recuperate
from the effects of a bad cold, un
der the care of the physicians of
the Santa Fe Hospital.
A newspaper reporter claims the
discovery of a sure way tj tell a
woman's age. In nipping cold weath-
j er, if she's under . twenty-five her
cheeks go red. If she's over twenty-
zve it's her nose.
Mrs. Virginia Goode, stenographer
for the Adamana Oil and Land com
pany, and Hugh Dl O. Hammond of
the Indian service at the Navajo res
ervation were married at Keams Can
yon last week.
A bill is in the legislature to pro
hibit the use of tobacco by school
teachers and principals. - As the bad
boy says: "They'll have something
to chew about anyway, and it might
as well be tobaccer."
Mrs. W. B. Woods and sons left last
week for Los Angeles, where they
will spend some time, and while
there the eldest son will take the
examination for entrance to West
Point.
Don't overlook the ad of the Hol
brook Traders on the eighth page.
They are spudding in a new price on
potatoes this week as well as many
other necessities.
Tax Collector Lore ha3 so far col
lected about $10,000 in back taxes
for the county and the "slow boys"
are gaining speed every day in the
direction of the court house. $1075
was collected from one Winslow mer
chant this week who had overlooked
the tax collector for many years.
SECOND
Just because a man happens to
run a newspaper is not sufficient
reason that he should foist on a
patient public all his greivances and
disappointments, and whine around
like a kindergarten kid with a sore
toe. If he wants to bawl and whine
and can't help it that's his busi
ness but the public soon weary of
crepe and tears that go down the
other fellows mug. Cheer up, cher
ries will soon be ripe.
One By one the Petals Fall
Deputy Airs, who conducted the
kitchenette for the Raynolds system
was given a farewell shower last
Saturday in honor of his getaway for
California, and the pathos of the
parting was intensified by the rude
ness of the tax collector who de
manded his pound f meat after the
grafanola and kitchen utensUswere
nailed up ready to go. This makes
three shocking interruptions, by of
ficious officials, of the plans of prom
inent society lions who were on their
way to new pastures, new conquests
and new accounts.
CITY COUNCIL HOLDS
IMPORTANT SESSION
The city council met in special
session Thursday, afternoon. Trust
ees Cooley, Chamberlain, Flannigan
and Scorse were present, and they
waded right into things and cleaned
up the calendar.
AH the bids that ere received
at the January meeting for the in
stallation of a water and sewer sys
tem were rejected, and the bonds
and certified checks accompanying
them were ordered returned to the
bidders.
New specifications will be pre
sented at the next regular meeting
in March specifications that will
specify something when the matter
will be taken up and disposed of in
a manner, judging from tho attitude
of those present, that wil be satis
factory to the majority of the cit
izens interested.
Councilman Chamberlin was of the
opinion that so long as the bonds
were voted and interest accruing,
that it was "time to go" on the con
struction of the system, and it was
the concensus of opinion that at the
March session definite action will be
taken on the matter and plans form
ulated for the actual flying of dirt
on the work.
A motion was made and carried
for the clerk to notify the engineer
to have the revised specifications
ready for the meeting of March 9th,
in compliance with the changes sug
gested. The bid of Frank Whitten was ac
cepted for the laying of the side
walk along Porter street and the
work ordered done.
The marshall was instructed to
serve Julius Wetzler with a forty
eight hour notice to fill up and re
move the hole in the sidewalk in
front of the Holbrook Mercantile
building near the telegraph office.
On motion of Chamberlain ten
loads of gravel were ordered to re
pair Santiego street.
The bill for the street lighting
and also for . the installation was
ordered held up until more light was
shed on them.
SERVICES IN THE 31. E. CHURCH
Frank R. Speck, Pastor
H.Perry Carter, Supt.Sunday Schcool
Miss Vera Off ill, Pres. EpworthLeague
Sunday School, 10:00i A. M.
Preaching service, 11:00 A. M. Ser
mon: "Fishers of Men." Anthem,
"Dear -Lord, With us Abide." Solo,
Miss Gard.
Epworth League, 7:00 P. M. Special
music. A short talk by the Pastor.
At a meeting of the Epworth
League Cabinet on last Sunday even
ing it was decided that the next
social event would be a covered dish
church supper. The committee is
working out the details. The date
and more complete notice will be
given in next week's paper.
Fifty copies of the new Easter
cantata have arrived and rehearsals
will begin at once.
If You Want to Buy an Oil and Gas Lease on Patented Land in the Holbrook
Oil Field, Lt Us Hear from You. We Have the Right
Locations at the Right Prices
Mall me your orders for
SHAMROCK OIL & DEV. CO STOCK
PINTO PETROLEUM & LAND CO. STOCK
Ve have No Agents, No Salesmen, No Solicitors. We are not responsible for any money paid
to anyone, that is not paid through the office and properly receipted.
REFERENCE
Merchants & Stock Growers Bonk
Holbrook, Arizona
W.L THORNTON SLASHES THROAT
OE J. R. CHAFFIN, NEAR LINDEN
A fight over settlement for labor
and a feud" of long standing resulted
in a serious affray at Linden Friday.
As a result J. R. Chaffin is in a hos
pital at Cooley with his throat cut,
and Thornton is in jail charged with
assault with intent to kill.
Chaffin worked for Thornton at cne
THIEF PULLS DOWN BLINDS
FOR CLERK M. R. TANNER
When M. R. Tanner, with a con
fiding confidence in all mankind,
placed a bundle of window blinds at
the west entrance to the court house,
his heart was in the right place and
so were the blinds but in exactly
The Ladies Aid had a vefy well at
tended meeting at the church Wed
nesday afternoon. Mrs. M. P. Cous
ins and Mrs. J. M. Lee were in
charge. All the ladies are very busy
getting ready for the bazaar which
will be held next month.
The four hundred have adopted a
fashionable new color called "Helen
Pink." Many of the society dolls
look that way in pink.
NOTICE OF AWARD OF CONTRACT
FOR SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION
Notice to 'Whom It may Concerní
Whereas, after due and legal notice
and Call for bids for the construction
of sidewalks along the East side of
Porter Street, from Central Avenue
to Washington Avenue, the town coun
cil of the town of Holbrook at a spec
ial meeting held,at Jtha. council-Chambers,
at Holbrook, Arizona, at the hour
of 2:00 P. M., bids and proposals there.
tofore submitted and filed with the
town clerk were duly opened and con
sidered. And Whereas, it appears that the
lowest and best bid for the construc
tion of sidewalks according to plans
and specifications on file with the
town clerk was submitted by Frank
W. Whitten, and
Whereas, it appears that the said
Frank W. Whitten proposed to con
struct sidewalks according to said
plans and specifications along the
East side of Porter Street, from
Central" Avenue to Washington
Avenue for the sum of 5694.00,
which said bid was accompanied by
good and sufficient bond for more
than ten per centum of the aggre
gate proposal. Said town council of
the town of Holbrook did in open
session, open and examine said bid
and after due consideration the said
town council of the town of Hol
brook awarded the contract for said
public improvements to the said
Frank W. Whitten, he being the low
est responsible bidder at the price of
$694.00 said sum being the lowest
sum bid and that said award was
made by a unanimous vote by the
3aid town council of the town oí
Holbrook, after motion duly made
and seconded and noted in the min
utes of the proceedings of said town
council.
This notice is made, given and pub
lished in pursuance cf paragraph 1960
of the revised statutes of the state of
Arizona, and all persons desiring to
object to the award of said contract
shall within fifteen days of the first
publication of this notice make and
file such objection in writing with
the town clerk of the town of Hol
brook, Arizona.
Witness our hands this 17th day
of February, A. D., 1921.
. CHARLES P. COOLEY,
Attest: Acting Mayor.
J. M. Patterson, Town Clerk.
L. F. McCIanahan, Superintendent
of Streets, Town of Holbrook, Ariz
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Special Bargains this Month
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Shamrock and Pinto Oil Stocks:
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H. W. ROSENTHAL!
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time, and bad blood over, the settle
ment is believed the cause of the
affray. Thornton alleges that Chaffin
came to his place with a pistol and
struck him over the head, and this
led to the cutting scrape that ended
so disastrously for Chaffin.
eight minutes, the blinds and Tan
ner's equilibrium were -.both out of
gear for fhe blinds, were gone, and
Tanner now has. doubts about this
"confidence stuff" in. mankind, and
the windows i,n his new house still
let in the sunshine.
HAZEL HEDGES AND
BACKSJNTO WOE
Hazel Feek, who swore to a com
plaint charging . investigator Sisk
with attacking her in' her room at
the Holbrook hotel while he- was in
vestigating a Mann act case, came
to the rescue of Sisk when- the case
was called last Saturday in Judge
Easley's court in fact the complain
ant was a good witness for' the de
fendant, and when she testified- that
she had perjured herself in the com
plaint it was easy money for the de
fendant and there was- nothing left
for the. court to do but to" -restore
the prisoner to his liberty.- ' -
One of the strongest points made
by the defendant's counsel '-was the
fact that he had not talked with
Huzel since she " filed ' the charge -against
him and that the confession
of perjury was. all voluntary on
Hazel's part and with the blowing
up of the charges against Sisk Hazel
was immediately arrested on a charge
of perjury.
Owing to the fact that she was re
quired as a witness before the Fed
eral court, and the promise of the
Federal agent to transfer her cash
hond from that court- to this when
through with her she was allowed
Lo return to Phoenix on the same
train with the exonerated investi
gator, and its a good bet that Hazel
will never meet the charge.
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