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Mohave County miner., 1897-09-04

KINGMAN Judge and Mrs. J, E Perry are visit ing in White Hills.
 Samuel Crozier came to Kiugman from Truxton Thursday evening.
 Don't forget the dance at Mineral Park next Saturday evening.
 Supervisor Frost was in from his ranch at WaIlapai Springs yesterday.
 Chris Wilkinson returned last Tuesday night from a trip through many Of the states of the northwest.
 New cooks at the Palace Chop House. It is the best place in town to get meal without that "Chinee taste" to it.
 First class Chinese cook desires situ- ation in hotel or boarding house. In- qulre at Laundry of Lee Wah, King man. N'4
 Hartley Thompson came in from Coara Springs Wednesday evening to meet his brother on his arrival from San Diego.
 Mrs John Harris is visiting with her mother at Mineral Park. Her husband is rounding up the Gross cattle for Mel. Greenleaf, of Yuma.
 James Uncapher returned to Camp bell last Wednesday morning and will continue development work on the Col umbus gold mine.
 J. W. Thompson returned from San Diego Thur sday morning. He exhibits, as trophy, the head of a basking shark, but gives no intimation of the cost oi sharks heads in the San Diego market
 Lester Jackson, of Prescott, who is we'll known to all old residents of North ern Arizona, is looking after MohaYe county mines He has visited nearly all the important mines of Wallapai mining district and is satisfied that we have many rich properties.
 Last week El Dorado Canyon exper fenced another cloudburst similar to tha of several years ayo. The water came down the canyon with terrific force car rying everything before It. A quantity of lumber and wagon gearing was carried into the river. but no further amaze was done.
 Cohenour and Lovin are drilling ou sixty feet of tin cans and rubbish from the we'll of w. H. Taggart, in the rear of the Commercial Hotel. It is though that some mischievous boys dumped al the old tin cans and other rubbish tha they could find into the hole.
 George H. Sanford arrived in King man from Ell Dorado Canyon Thursda! evening. Mir. Sanford is having severa tons of very rich ore hauled in from thu Canyon. MT. Sanford has splendiC property at the Canyon, which he is de veloping in a systematic manner.
 William McFarlane, Frederick Thoma and Supt McComb of the Whit Hills Company, arrived from Denve Wednesday evening and departed fo White Hills the same evening MT McFarlane IS erecting the forty stamI mill and will remain in the Hills until is turned over to the company.
 Several croakers have started the re port that the White Hills Company i about to discontinue work on it's property Owing to the completion of many con tracts a few men have been let out. an, this IS the only grounds for the rumor The mines are all looking we'll and a sui 6cient supply of water for the big mil is now practically assured.
 Captain 1 c. Donkey will give fare we'll dance in the old courthouse at Min eral Park, on Saturday evening, Ser tember II, 1897. Everybody is invite to attend. Good music will be furnishe, and no expense will be spared to mak the occasion one of enjoyment. Do no
Mohave County miner., 1897-09-04

Miss Carrie Gross, who spent her va. cation in Jackson, Michigan, passed through Kingman Monday evening on her way to Fort Mohave.
 Mrs. Nathan Tarr returned from Cali fornia last Sunday ID rning g. She was met in Kingman by Mir. Tarr and the couple left for White Hills Sunday after noon.
 John and Lew BlakeIy departed for their mines Tn Cedar yesterday with a four horse load of supplies. They will put several men to work on their claims right away.
 Judge Logan last Sunday joined in wedlock Arthur Howell and Annie Chlener, of Needles The couple took the westbound train in the evening for their home.
 The leasers on the Man mine, Todd Basin, owned by Russell & Ziemer, ot Kingman, have opened up nice streak of gold ore in the tunnel now being driven in on the ledge.
 The Cerbat country will soon be the biggest producer of gold in Arizona. The lodges are all big and rich and the pros pect work now being done shows richer ore at depth than on the surface.
 John Penberthy, jr., son of "Monte" Penberthy, is very i'll with fever at the family residence on South Front street and doubts are entertained of his recov- cry. The young man has been ill one month.
 Victor Richards, ot Colchester, Hi nois, is visiting in Kingman with hic uncle, William M. Richards. MT. Rich ards is we'll known newspaper publisher of Illinois and is taking his first outing in the west.
 Inuulry IS being made for a miner by the name of Ed Burke. Mir. Burke il described as a tall, slim, quite dark com plexioned, good looking man and, whe1 he left Brigham Canyon, Utah, six ol eight months ago. wore brown veltet cen coat. If he will com mmunicate witf E. F Thompson, Kingman, Arizona, h. 1 will hear something to his advantage.
 The Kingman Merca ntile Company | making important changes in the inter for of it's handsome store on Front street The postoffice and Postal telegraph offic will occupy the room in the rear, front ing on Fourth street while the window on Front street will be used to disp)a goods. The change will give the store heater appearance and greater room 10 display.
 M J Hart has resigned his position in the w. H Taggart Mercantile Com pany store, and entered into a partner ship with the Clack brothers in thei lease on the Gro Plata mine. Mavnar Hart is a bright and gentlemanly youn man and the customers of the Faggar Mercantile Company will miss hin greatly We hope he will make poodle of money from his venture.
 J. C. Phelan
 The Kingman Market
 Beginning Monday, the 18th of Ser tember, we will run a meat wagon twic a week Monday and Thursday-to Ger bat, Todd Basin, Mineral Park an Chloride. Send in your orders for bee mutton, pork, veal, sausage, bologna, o anything in the line of poultry and will insure prompt delivery. 4t2
 Here is sort oi a perpetual motlo affair. A firm of moneyed men in NeN York have bought a piece of land an will stock it with 1000 black cats an ,, ,OOO rats. It is estimated that the cat will increase to 15.000 in year or two and black cat skins are worth 1$ Tn rats will multiply five times as fast a
Mohave County miner., 1897-09-04

Eocol and Peronsal. We carry the largest and best assorted stock of general merchandise in the county, and are the closest buyers and sellers in the county. Get our prices before purchasing elsewhere.
 GADDIs & PERRY. Thomas Stinson is in from the Black. foot mine.
 J. M. Barrett, of the Big Sandy, is visiting Kingman.
 J.P. Finegan, the Chloride merchant, was in Kingman Tuesday.
 HI. BeasIey, of Flagstaff, was in Kingman fast Wednesday.
 F. w. Phillips, of Blackberry, visited in Kingman several days this week. The Indian school at Blackberry will com mmence the fall term next Monday. By Collins came in from the Blackfoot mine the first of the week after supplies. Mrs. w. H. Cooper is home again from delightful outing at Santa Monica. 
 c. M. Funston, formerly of the Co., conino Sun. Flagstaff, is visiting King. man.
 James Stanton and John Jamison sold four tons of rich Nlghthawk ore to the sampler thIs week.
 R c. Brown, the rustling solicitor of the Phenix Herald, is in Kingman in the interest of that journal
 The Indian farm at Blackberry pro- duced more watermelons this year than tho aborigines could consume.
 Camp Sublime, Wallapai mountaIn's s sylvan retreat, is deserted, all the camp CTS returning to Kingman Tuesday even ing.
 Capt. John w Young, we'll known mining man of San Francisco district, was in Kingman last Wednesday and Thursday.
 School will begin on Monday, Sept. 2Oth, with Mr A. E. Joscelyn of Jerome, as principal, and Miss Grace Overman, assistant
 John Brady, an old time miner in this section and for the past three years a resident of White Hills, is visiting in Kingman
 An accident to the tender of an engine pulling No 2, westbound passenger, de- layed that train over five hours last Thursday.
 Owing to washout on the Santa Fe Pacific near Ludlow, the east bound pas senger train was delayed nine hours Thursday night
 Mrs. James Rosborough arrived from Los Angeles Thursday morning. MT and Mrs. Rosborough have taken the Lake cottage and will occgpy It during the fall months.
 William Imus and John linus have sold all their cattle on the river anc Walnut Creek ranges to Henry Roberts and Steve Haskins.
 Mrs. T B Shipp has gone to hel ranch on the Big Sandy after weeks visit in Kingman with her daughter Mrs. NJ. H. Hart.
 Samuel Crozer is building handsome eight room residence on hls Truxtor ranch. His family will soon return tC Mohave county to reside.
 The rain "Wednesday night and Thurs day did the country a wonderful amour of good. Grass is springing up all ove the country as if by magic.
 There was born to the wife of c. l. Wilson, last Thursday evening, son Mother and child are getting along nice ly and Cal will undoubtedly survive.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
Prohibition Legislation.

Representative Thomas of Ware coun-
ty, In an interview in the Morning News
Yesterday, expressed the opinion that an
attempt at either prohibition or dispen-
sary legislation would be made at the ses-
sion of the legislature which meets this
week. We have no doubt that Mr.. Thorn
as is right, but 1t is more than probable
that it will be found that the sentiment
against such legislation, both in the legis-
lature and among the people, is stronger
than it has been for years. And why
shouldn't it be?
Prohibition has been a failure in every
state in which it has been tried, and in
every community in which it didn't have
the support of public sentiment. All the
newspaper comments on Neal Dow, whose
death occurred a few weeks ago. and who
was the father of the Maine prohibition
law, contained references to the utter fail
ure of prohibition in Maine. For years
the Bangor idea" has prevailed in that
state. That idea Is that the law against
liquor selling is a dead letter, except for a
brief period once a year. At that period
the barkeepers come forward and are
fined by the court an amount equal to a
reasonable license tax. The saloons are
run wide open, and the authorities take
no notice of them. Public sentiment is
against the prohibition law. 1t is mis-
take to prohibit the sale of liquor in a
community in which the sentiment is not
in favor of prohibition. Local option is
the only sure way to put a stop to the
liquor traffic, because that means educat-
ing the people against the traffic.
AS for the dispensary system, South
Carollna's experience with it should deter
any man of good common sense from ad-
vocating 1t. In that state it is practically
a failure, and besides, it has cost many
lives and caused an immense amount of
strife. No we don't want in this state
either the dispensary system or a general
prohibition law. Let us stand by local
option. Ultimately that will close the state
to the liquor traffic. and.it will close it in
way that it will stay closed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24

peared to be good reasons for il. The
mails, and all kinds of business would not
be brought TO an abrupt standstill when
ever a rumor of yellow fever or cholera
got abroad We shall never have an eff
fective quarantine or harmonious and SEN
sible action in quarantine matters as long
as quarantine power is lodged in state.
county and municipal boards of health.
1t Is doubtless true that prior to 1873,
when the whole Lower Mississippi valley
was visited by the yellow fever, there was
much greater Judgment exercised in es-
tabllshing inland quarantine, but that cpl
demic so alarmed the people that upon the
appearance of the fever anywhere in this
country we shall have repetition of the
disastrous quarantine follies of the pres
ent year II the authority to establish quar-
antlne is left with state, county and NUM-
cipal authorities. So many sources of au-
thority, acting independently of each 9TH
er in times of threatened danger, increase
the alarm and add to the confusion Of
the situation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
Quarantine ms Enforced.

In a communication which we publish
this morning, Health officer LeHardy ex-
presses surprise that we should have ad-
mltted the necessity for transferring all
quarantine authority in the national gov
eminent. AS far as we are able to dis
cover, however, there is nothing in the
communication to lead to the conclusion
that our position is a wrong one. DR.. Le-
Hardy writes about. something quite diff
ferent from the point at issue. We agree
with him in what he says about the bene-
fits arising from cleanliness and good
drainage and we feel confident that in
proportion as we have these things our
need for quarantine will decrease.
What we discussed in the article to
which DR.. LeHardy refers is a condition.
This condition. is that whenever a case, or
suspected case. of yellow fever is reported
in any town that town is at once shut off
from all communication with other parts
of the country. Its business is paralyzed
and its people are prevented from seeking
places of refuge. This may be an unrea-
sonable and even a barbarous condition of
affairs, but 1t is q condition that is going
to exist whenever yellow fever or cholera
is reported in any part of the country.
As long as every cross roads board of
health has the right to stop railway trains
from entering the territory over which il
has jurisdiction we are going to have the
disgraceful and disastrous state of affairs
which we have had in portions of the south
this year.
What is the remedy? The only remedy
we see is to transfer to the national gov
ernment sole authority in quarantine mat
tiers. If that should be done we should
have at least uniform quarantine which
would be established only when there APP
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
PER SONAL.

The Kentucky state horse-swappers'
convention met in Covington recently to
the number of 1000 or more. One man
brought twenty-five horses and announced
his intention to swap every horse three
times before the conventions three days
session was over.
The Victor Hugo museum in Paris con-
tains sixty busts and medallions of the
poet and numerous portraits. while the
theater in connection with it has some 400
exhibits, which include the portraits of the
creators of the principal roles of his plays.
In addition there are a number of man
uscripts of great literary interest and some
pen-and-ink drawings executed by the
poet himself.
"A monument to the late Eugene Field
is to be erected on the campus of the
Missouri State University by the teachers
and school children of the state. "A part
of the necessary fund has been raised,
and an effort to complete It will be made
on Nov. 4, next by commemorative exer-
cises, to be known as "F'ield Day." in the
public schools of Missouri. Mr.. Field YVES
a native of Missouri
-Rt. Rev. George Hell bert Kinsolvirg,
assistant Episcopal bishop of Texas, is a
giant of 6 feet inches and walks along
with an easy stride that always excites
attention One morning he was hurryins
along the street in a strange city, wearing
a big SLOUGH hat, when newsboy who
had been following him, with great Gu
riosity, at length called cut: Say, mister,
be YOU Buffalo BilI?' mo, my son." re-
pled the bishop. as his eyes twinkled with
merriment, II am Texas George"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
She was Not His wife.

A laughable, but rather embarrassing
case of mistaken identity occurred the
other day in a large Diapers shop, SAYS
Tit-Bits. A man, who is little too fond
of Joking, entered the shop for the pur-
pose of meeting his wife at certain coun-
ter. Sure enough, there stood a woman
dressed to his eye, at least, just like the
woman he was after
Her back was turned and no one was
near her; so he quietly approached took
her by the arm, and said in a voice of
stimulated severity: well here you are,
spending my money as usual. eh?"
The face turned quickly toward him was
not his wife's; it was that of an acrid,
angry, keen-eyed woman of about so years,
who attracted the attention of everybody
in that part of the shop by saying in a
loud, shrill voice:
mo, 1 amt spending your money or no
other mans money, and I'll"
Il beg your pardon, madam" cried the
confused man. II supposed you were my
wife, and"
well, 1 just amt your wife, nor no
other mans wife, thank fortune to be
jawed at every time I buy a yard of rib
bon! 1 pity your wife if you go about
shaking her like you did me. If 1 was her
I'd"
The chagrined joker waited to hear no
more, but made his way out of the shop,
amid the filters and sly chuckles of those
who had witnessed his confusion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
BRIGHT BITS.

The Corn-fed Philosopher Though it
may not be true" said the Corn-fed Philo-
sopher, that every man has his price,
vet, when he does have his price, it is al
ways heap bigger than his intrinsic val
ue. ''-Indarap polls Joutal: 81
in the Kitchen-First Burglar-''I' m
sorry for desc folks" Second Burglar
"Oh, guess dey can stand de damager'
First Burgar-"'T amt dat. But I'm
sorry for people wild a cook dat makes SIGH
plum puddin's as dis. Puck.
Thomas, Thomas, when you tell lie
do you ever stop to think of the dozen
other lies you may have to tell to get out
of it?'' Course I does, sir an 1 takes
care to tell lie in the first place ASH do
for the whole dozen ."-Harper's Bazaar.
There Are Worse Ones-'I never saw
anything write so badly as this fountain
pen of yours exclaimed Mrs. Dukane,
who was trying to write a letter. MOP
replied the patient man. "Then you ought
to try one of the pens at the public desks
In the postoff1ce. ''-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
Mrs. Everby-"But what's all this talk
about woman's rights?" The Professor
Its an effort to place woman and man on
an equality" Mrs. Everby-"But what S
woman done that she should be brought
down after that fashion? No, sir; l DON
want nothing to do with your woman's
rights. boston Transcript.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24

The croakers, who are always insisting,
whenever they can find anybody who viii
listen to them. that the parties who own
the Central railroad obtained control OF it
for the purpose Of building up the South
ern, ought to take a look at the Central
railroad wharves. What they would see
there would be good medicine for the pes
simism with which they are afflicted 1t is
doubtful il the Central railroad ever made
SO great an effort TO bring business to Sa-
vannah when almost all of its stock was
owned in Georgia as it is making now. Its
wharves and the approaches leading to
them are literally covered with cotton, and
all through the day and night long train
loads Of cotton are arriving. Not only is
the amount Of cotton which the road is
bringing 10 this port very large, but the
amount OF other freights which it is car
rying is steadily increasing. This does not
look as If the road were being used to build
up the Southern.
But some of the croakers may say that
the effort that is being made this year to
bring commerce to Savannah is simply to
silence the talk that the Central is to be
robbed of its traffic for the benefit of the
Southern and that Savannah is 10 be neg
lected in order to build up Norfolk, but
that next year or the year after. when
the suspicious of the people of Savannah
have been allayed, it will become apparent
that they were wiser and saw further into
the purposes of those who control the
Central than the majority of their fellow
man.
But If there is any purpose to rob the
Central Of its business in order TO make
the Southern more valuable, why is it that
vast sums of money are being spent on the
CentraTs wharves2 1t would look as if the
hundreds of thousands of dollars which
these wharf improvements are costing are
being recklessly wasted if what the croak-
ers say is true. In little while the Cen
trails wharves will be ready to accommo-
date an immense fleet of steamers. They
accommodate a great many now, but not
near SO many as they will in the near flu
ture. Besides the wharf Improvements,
the physical condition of the road is being
steadily bettered. The roads increasing
traffic makes this necessary. And all the
traffic that can be controlled is being
brought to Savannah.
JAS far as the shrewdest observers can
see there isn't the least ground for the
talk which the croakers have been indulg-
ing in for many months, namely, that the
Southern is to be built up at the expense
of the Central, On the contrary, there is
every reason to believe that the Central Is
doing. and will continue to do, all it can
to enable Savannah to maintain her posi-
ton as the leading South Atlantic sea-
DOrt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24

A certain school teacher, whose sense
of humor is developed to a remarkable
degree, goes to the trouble occasionally
of writing down for her own use some of
the funniest answers which she finds in
her examination papers, says the SYRIA
cuse Post By especial favor 1 have been
allowed to use a few Here they are:
The stomach is the most diluted por-
ton of the elementary CANAL
Hygiene Is all that you can tell about
that which is asked"
The doctrine of evolution began with
the beginning of life, and grew higher and
higher, until it regenerated into monkey.
This process was slow, so slow that Meth
er the monkeys nor the man knew any
thing about it,
"a germ is a name applied to particu-
lar particle tiny subbacterial organism,
which, when demonstrated causes dis
ease
"A germ is tiny insect or bug some
times found in diseases or organs, that is
why diseases are contagious. 1t is so
small that it can be seen only with a
telescope. Then it appears like the head
of pin. but 1t goes floating around into
the atmosphere
'Habeas corpus means you may have
the head. and / will take the body"
Queen Elizabeths reign was the reign
of posterity."
''The germ theory of diseases Is con
tinually floating around in the air, and is
very dangerous, especially when the at
mosphere is unwholesome."
William Pitt, the second son of the
Earl of Chatham, premier of England, en-
tered life at very early age, which office
ne held at very early period in life, the
time when most men are just completins
a professional educati ton.
"a dowager is a widow without joints -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
She Made No Exceptions.

Lady Jersey was one evening the patron
ess of a ball at Almack's in London, says
the San Francisco Argonaut. A rule had
been announced by the patronesses that no
one would be received later than II O'clock
but persons of indisputable position were
not always obedient. On the night in ques-
ton the Duke of Wellington called upon
an old friend, ARE you going to AL
mack's?" she asked. YES" he said,
carelessly, Il think shall look in by and
by" Presently his hostess rose to make
her preparations for going, and his moth
er, who was present, said to him: "Ah,
Arthur, you'd better be there in season,
for you know Lady Jersey will make no
allowance for you" But Arthur was
in no hurry, and stayed on A short time
after his friends had entered the ballroom
they heard one of the attendants say:
Lady Jersey, the Duke of Wellington is
az the door and wishes to be admitted"
What o'clock is it?" she asked. Seven
minutes after H. your ladyship." She
paused moment in thought. Then she
said, with emphasis: "Give my compli-
ments-give Lady jerseys compliments
to the Duke of Wellington, and say she is
very glad that the first enforcement of
the rule of exclusion is such that hereaft-
er no one can complain of its application.
He cannot be admitted"