Mohave County miner., 1883-04-15


 Mo11tain last Wednesday and Thursday.
 Uncle John Hughes contemplates build ing residence adjoining his blacksmith shop.
 John A. Rush, of the law firm of Rush ] Wells of Prescott, left for home on We'd nesday last.
 We hear that Lou LasselI offered to work in the drugstore for nothing if Frank Wat kins would let him.
 If O'Brien and. MulIigan are as successful in mining as they are in courting they will do well in the country yet.
 Charley Beecher is making daily trips to Kingman with his blackboard and seems to have plenty of passengers.
 The good looking young men in this town are all trying to get on the good side of the editor of this paper. Cau you guess why?
 The first tourists excursion to the Grand Can 1n ;.nd other points of interest on the line of the A. & P. railroad arrived at Peach Spring few days ago.
 Krider Bros. are fitting up their store in fine style and propose to make it interest ing for the other merchants as soon as they get their new stock in.
 HI. Watkins left for San Jose, Cali fornia, last Tuesday morning, going by way of the Needles He will return in about three weeks or a month.
 Chas. B. Lawson will open another butcher shop in a few days. He will use the building known as Krider's blacksmith shop until he can procure more suitable quarters,
 ". G. Blakely our popular District At torney, IS making arrangements to move his family to Mineral Park. In the mean time he can be found at his office in the Court House.
 Ed Thompson, the new postmaster Ot Kingman, was in town on Wednesday. He tells US that business is lively there and that he has all he can attend to in looking after his store, etc.
 1Gdge French left us on Thursday morn ing for Prescott, where he has to hold court in May. The Judge is an indefatigable worker and does not lose much time in travelling around and sight seeing.
 SEQ. Prince and w. H, GiIlis left for their homes last Tuesday, Sam has been s regular attendant on the District Court for the past three terms and we should not won der if he does not apply for admission to the bar at the next term.
 James J. Hyde, Public Administrator, has taken charge of the estate of Jonathan Adams, deceased, and will administer on it. Parties who have borrowed tools and other property belonging to the estate will please notify the administrator at once.
 " J. Chamberlain, who recently left for Denver for medical treatment, telegraphs that he will bs at Kingman on the 17th and will then bave something to say about ore to the miners around here. He has nearly re- covered from his recent illness.
 Robert MesEs has quit mining for time and gone into the cattle business. He has taken up the old -H4sifaday spring about four miles northeast of Chloride and after three or four weeks work in cleaning it out, etc, he has quite nice stream of water.
 NJ. H. Hardy is running stage between the end of the track and, Fort Mohave di- rect. He tells us that there are a great many passengers travelling by this route to Providence Mountain, Calico, San Bernar- dip- and other places il Southern Califor mia.
 We hear that S. A. Fisher, while varying the monotony of jury duty, amused him. self by scraping the hair off ths rawhide with which the Court House chairs are bound, and sticking it on his upper lip. This accounts for the evident improvement in his moustache the past few days.
 The Colorado river steamer Mohave ar rived at Polhamus Landing last Wednesday with big lot of merchandise for Mineral Park, Blackberry and other camps about here. Some of this lot of freight has been lying at Yuma for six month, to the great disgust of the shippers in San Francisco and the merchants here.
 We hear that w. H. Hardy is disausted with the mail business because he has Aone little opposition and proposes to quit carving the mail between here and King man. We pgesume that the government will soon make arrangements for 8 daily mail from the railroad t0 Mineral Park as it afas now become almost an aosolRte neces- sity.
 The suit of James Matherson against Robert Steen for the recovery of d pair of horses. harness and blackboard held by the Sheriff under attachment, was tried in the Justico's Court last Wednesday before a jury. The plaintiff Eas represented by J, ". Stephenson, while the Sheriff was ably defended by Hon. Clark Churchill and 4. E. Davis. The plaintiff claimed his prop erty as being exempt from execution under the statute, but the jury thought otherwise and returned verdict for the Sheriff.
 W. H. Hardy's fine new three seated buck 7,oaro1 arrived in town last Friday. Mir Hardy lad this blackboard built to order at the Studeb aker factory, South Bend In diana. from designs of his own. The vehicle is just the thing for this country and is we'll adapted to the purpose which its owner intends it, and that is carrying passengers between the end or the A. & P. track and she Needles,