Mohave County miner., 1889-07-06
LOCAL BREvITlES.

Rain Is badly wanted.
House to rent-Apply to ]. II. Halsey.
Lots OF strangers in Kingman this
week.
House to rent-Apply to Harvey
Hubbs.
Joseph Prisk and wife OF Mineral Park
spent a couple Of days here this week.
The display Of flags made by our citi-
zens on the Fourth was creditable to any
city.
The Mohaves were the eictors in the
shinney game with the Wallapais on
Friday. ......
E. Briggs brought in from the Sandy
Wednesday the first load Of watermelons
OF the season.
B. Moses was in town Wednesday lay
ing in supplies for his clearinghouse at
the Flores mine.
Hon. Thomas Halleck il attending the
meeting OF the Territorial prison CON-
missioners at Yuma.
There are about hundred Mohave In
dams in town this week. They came mp
10 play shinney with the Waliapais.
Presley Brown opened the Mineral
Park Hotel Monday morning, and the
prospects are that it will be proftably
run.
Miss Julia Stilwell returned Wednes-
day with Mr.. and Mrs. q. Cornell from
she Sandy, where she has been teaching
school.
J. C. Potts was elected one Of the mem
hs.rs Of the school board of Kingman dis
srict ct the election last Saturday. A
good Aelection.
Mercuvy, Mars, Venus and Neptune
are morn ing stars, and Jupiter, Uranus
and Saturn ere evening stars during the
month Of july.
Or. Henders %, the dentist from San
Bernardino, CAL, left Friday for Peach
Springs. He will return here in ten
days or two weeks.
The weather has been extremely warm
this week, the thermometer M 'rking lo4
degrees i'm the shade, a height seldom
reached in this section.
TO. Hurst, agent Of the A. & p. ct
Peach Springs spent the Fourth in King
man, and anxiously awaited the result Of
the races and baseball game.
A. s. Coon was in kingman Tuesday,
the first time in four months. He is now
conductor Of freight train between
Peach Springs and Williams.
A couple Of drunken squaws made
night hideous with their cries Thursday
night. They were landed in Jail and
will keep quiet for few days.
Special Constable Frank l.. Smith sold
the Union Pass ranch at Public sale on
Tuesdsy. Thomas knight was the pur-
chaser, the price paid being s26.
Tobe Wilkinson on Wednesday while
firing bombs had one explode in his
hands. His eyes and face were seriou ely
burned but no serious injuries resulted.
Thomas B. Shipp and wife and James
Rosborough and wife were in Kingman
Sunday and Monday attending the we'd
ding Of J. D. Shipp to Miss Dora Good
mon.
Major J. w. Donnelly has been ap
pointed acting commissioner of the land
department Of the A. & P. Major Don
nelly is worthy successor to General
Williamson.
At Mineral Park the Fourth was cele-
brated by horse race between . horse
owned by J. r. Gilliland and one owned
by Mexican. At night dance was
given at the hotel.
County Treasurer L. J. Lassell left
Friday for ten days trip to Los An
geles. Daniel Smith will carry the com
blnation to the county treasurer's safe
during his absence.
w. L. Haskell, Fort Rock cattIeman,
WAS thrown from his horse on the Fourth
and had his left shoulder broken. He
came to Kingman Friday morning and
had his injuries attended to.
Mr.. and Mrs q. Cornell came mp from
their ranch on the Sandy on Wednesday.
They will spend several weeks here visit
ing their daughter, Mrs. Richard Tag
gart, at Beale Springs, and friends at this
place.
Frank Jackson came up from the
ranch Of Frank Lambert, on the river,
last Saturday. He reports that there is
a crazy man, a stranger, roaming up and
down the river between the Fort and the
Moss mine 4 aaa
A Washington press report says
sThe President has commuted the SEN
tence Of DR.. Warren E. Day, sentenced
to two years imprisonment for polyg-
amy, and whose sentence was reduced
from one year to six months"
W.. $. Hancock, master mechanic oi
the California division OF the A. Il r..
j. Clark, chief train dispatcher, I. IL.
Harberd, agent Of Wells Fargo's Express
and Judge J. II. West Of the Needles
on