Mohave County miner., 1888-08-25

they may have only strayed.
i Vim. Larkin returned Monday from hi,
trip TO San Francisco. He reports poll
tics as lively in the city and says that
California will go Democratic this fall.
| w. Y. Austin came up from Fort
Mojave Thursday and will go TO California
next week and from there to his old home
in Galesburg, Mich, for q six weeks
visit.
i The Weekly Globe-Democrat from the
first Of September 10 December lst for
fifteen cents. The subscription for one
year, 81. The MINER Office will forward
subscriptions.
II. A. Owens is developing the property
recently located by him on the Santa
Maria, with very satisfactory results.
The ore is very high grade gold.-Prescott
Journai-Miner.
/ Private w. J. Parker, stationed at Fort
Mojave, had his hand blown off by the
premature discharge OF a gun while firing
a salute in honor Of General Sheridan, on
the 18th instant.
NJ. ID, Howell, Of the G.. o. ID. mine, Is
in town this week awaiting the working
OF several tons Of ore, and In the mean
time is talking politics, subject on
which he is well posted.
the big cistern in the rear OF the Luthy
block has been completed. II will hold
about fifty thousand gallons, and the oc-
cnpants Of the block are wishing for a
rainfall sufficient to ill il.
| A. s. Coon was down from Peach
Springs Tuesday. He has been spending
a week at Trout Creek fishing, and con-
seauently had full supply Of first-class
fish stories to tell his friends
Water was struck at the depth OF 230
feet by the o. X. Mining Company in the
Wallapai Valley. The boring will be con-
tinued, with the hope of finding artesian
water within thousand feet.
Jas. Rosborough and G.. w. Beecher
went out to the Antler mine in Cedar
Valley District Wednesday. The Antler
is copper property and is considered by
good judges to be a valuable one.
| AT. Simonds has been this week put.
ting in q new floor and papering and
painting his residence at BeaIe Springs,
and it has set his friends to wondering
what a bachelor wants with so fine a
house.
| The Board of Supervisors will meet on
Monday next as Board OF Equalization
at which time all parties whose assess
ments have been raised and who have
not already been before the Board will
be heard.
Mr.. Lawler, OF New York City, is visit.
ing his sister, Mrs. r. J. Christie, al
Mineral Park. Mr.. Lawler was here last
year for a few weeks and liked the country
so well that he will probably conclude to
remain here.
states that John Kennedy, who fell down
the Queen Bee shaft, is more seriously
injured than at first supposed. DIR. Sher-
man went to the Park to-day friday 10
attend TO his injuries.
If you want anything in the way Of
hardware, carpenters tools or wood work
ing machinery, write to Osborn 4 Alex
ander, San Francisco, and get their prices.
They will promptly answer your inquiries
and satisfactorily gil your orders.
Major Charles Long, the Manager oi
the o. X. Mining Company, received a
telegram from Kansas City Sunday last
which conveyed the sad news Of the seri-
GUS and perhaps fatal illness Of his son.
Mr.. Long left for Kansas City Monday.
The Wallapai Indians went to the
river on Monday last and had a two days
cry with the Mojaves. The two tribes
are now holding two days pow-wow at
blackberry. What the pow-wow is about
is not known to the Hiko, and the Indian
che no sabe."
The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Com
pany has purchased 1000 coal, 200 stock,
200 box and 200 fiat cars, besides fifteen
first-class and twenty-five emigrant cars.
OF this order the company has already
received 447 coal and fiat cars. The
balance of the order is arriving daily.
Owing to delay in getting the precinct
registers printed in San Francisco, County
Recorder Goldman cannot send out the
registration blanks to the Justices OF the
Peace OF the various precincts. The pre-
cinct registers are expected daily, and the
delay in getting them is very annoying TO
the Recorder.
A correspondent OF the Mohave Miner,
writing from the Needles and signing
himself Salamander, brags that 113 de-
grees Is the highest temperature recorded
there this summer. Probably that isn't
very hot for the Needles, and a sala-
mander might think it just pleasant, but
it strikes MS as being p. d. h.--Globe
Silver Belt.
John Kennedy on Tuesday fell down
the shaft of the Queen Bee mine at
Mineral Park. The shaft IL about forty
feet deep, but Mr.. Kennedy reached the
bottom without breaking any bones or
receiving any serious injuries. Mohaye
county miners are lucky. Since the first
of the year a number OF such falls have