Mohave County miner., 1884-03-09


 Wednesday.
 W.O O'Neal has assumed editorial charge
 of the Prescott Miner.
 Chas. l.. Roe has gone to San Francisco
 for a short business trip. The value of horned cattle in Arizona is
 estir ated at S7,20O 0l0.
 Lamson S. Welton came over from King
 manlast Friday night.
 A. E. DavIs and wm. Jackson have gone
 down to the Sandy for few days.
 James Dougherty has just finished of splendid cabinet for Capt. Hardy. - Flagstaff is to have brewery and the
 people are happy over the prospect.
 The great Wallapai and Sacramento val leys are perfect mud holes at present.
 SEE. Fuller has returned from hIs trip to San Francisco snd is now in Blackberry.
 We hear that James Smith. the butcher, IS confined to his bed with rheumatism.
 We notice that our friend Hardy don't have much to say about the weather now.
 The Board of School Trustees held meet last Monday, allowed some bills and ad journed.
 Who says Arizon1 is dry country? The question now is when is it going to quit raining?
 More washouts on the railroads both east and west. and not much chance of getting any outside news for few days.
 Samuel Hamils ton Esq has been appointed a member of the School Board of Examin- CTS vice J. W. Stephenson, resigned.
 Reeds teams came in from Bingman on Friday afternoon with load of lumber for the MoHAvE COUNTY MINER's new office.
 It is the fellow who never sabscribes for his home journal who has most to say about the way It should be run.-Jour. nal.
 4 colored barber has drawn the color line: he refuses tI shave Indians. He differs from the average post tra Ter fn this respect. Boston Courier.
 A good crop of wheat or barloy could have been raised anywhere in Mnhave county this i year. Why didn't somebody tell us that it was going tO be so moist.
 The fellow who takes of his hat to you, and has become more thas usually friendly | understands this to be the year of elections look out for him.-Star
 w. M. Krider has got tired of patching up his roof and has had it covered with tin. It will be in order for him to build cistern now so as to utilize his tin roof. The Board of Examiners were in session at the bec'niGg of the week. Miss Jessie Tolman received a first grade and Miss Julia McCarthy a second grade certificate.
 The Board Of School Trustees held a meeting laGt "Wednesday afternoon and unanimously voted for vacation in the public school until the first of April next.
 If delegate OurY would try and get an appropriation to put down some artesian wells in this territory he might come back to his constituents and say he had done or tried to do something Chief.
 Charley Lawson IS somewhat mad because we did not make any mention of his law suit last week. He wants the whole world l to know that he sued l.. s. Melton for five !; dollars and that thelatter settled the case !; before the summons was served. Mir. w. c. Bashford intends to immediate ly enlarge the Williams House by adding wing of twenty-fo rooms, whi 3h will make it the finest hotel in Arizona. A din- ing room will als9 be added, so that guests can be accommodated with meals in the , building. The above addition will just double the present capacity of the building. Journal. Plenty of the kind! "What do you do : here to keep this town up?" asked a railroad . passenger of a resident in Yuma, in Arizo- na, while the train was waiting for supper "Do?" was the reply; lets seo-we had fort here once-that gave our town a start; 7 now we hays the territorial penitentiarv \ here and that increases our population amazingly, such as it is.-Chicago Jour- nal.
 There is an active demand in Calico for young ladies, old ladies, colored ladies, or f ev en MOhave maidens from the Needles The reason is stated to be that our young f men are tired of attending balls without a ., person competent to comprise couple and . be required to pay the same amount for one Q as for couple. Come all ye hungry and c forlorn elderly maidens from near and afar & and we will guarantee an honest welcome l. and plenty to eat.-Calico Print. f During the heavy rain storm of last We'd T lesday night, a cloud burst over Sherum's Peak at about 9 p. m. and few minutes Afterwards the m in wash below town was turned into river. From four to six feet ,f water came down the Lone Star wash, i Keystone wash and many other smaller a ,nes running down from the mountain. A r few Indian wickiups and dogs were washed t away and several Indians narrowly escaped t browning. It is fortunate for the residents a 1f Mineral Park that the cloud burst struok t he mountain side instead of breaking over il