Mohave County miner., 1899-07-08
Kingnan Celebrates.
The Last 4th of july of
the Century goes out in
a Blaze of Glory.

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The last birthday of our Uncl,
Samuel in the century was most elab
orately celebrated by the people o
hingman. Great crowds had com,
from the surrounding country to par
ticipate in the festivities that marked
the passing of the 123d birthday of oul
great republic. Every business house
in town was blaze of glory. Alone
the streets the tri-color festooned the
trees, giving to them most striking
appearance. AS old Sol was convert.
ing the grey mists of morning into
radiant light the booming of cannon
shook the earth and awoke from sleep
the slumbering town, while old glory
was thrown proudly to the breeze from
every flagpole.
From daylight the streets we're
crowded with people and Lo, the poor
Indian, was everywhere in evidence.
At 1000 o'clock special train of
five coaches filled with visitors from
Needles and Chloride arrived and ad
ded to the unusually large crowd that
had gathered from every conceivable
quarter of the county
The Needles and Fort Mohave bands
had arrived the night before and the
visitors were received with the well
come strains of "The Stars and Stripes
Forever"
At 1870 o'clock Lake Hall was
crowded to overflowing with citizens,
come to listen to music and oratory.
Hon. Foster 8. Dennis presided and
Rev. W. G. Blakely invoked the divine
blessing. The Glee Club sang the
"Star SpaDgled Banner" after which
Mrs. Sadie Bowman Metcalfe read the
Declaration of Independence. The
Glee Club sang "The Stars and Stripes
Forever" and then came the oration.
j. Nj. Brown, the orator of the day,
spoke eloquently of the glories of our
grand old republic, its brave men and
handsome women, ITS patriotism and
progress. The Grafton was punctuated
with applause throughout. The sing
ing of ''Old Glory" ended the exercises.
The music was the best ever heard in
kingman and the singing would be
credit to any city in the world. Every
part of the musical and literary exer-
else was arranged in harmonious sue
cession. The Needles band added
greatly to the effect of the singing.
At Il o'clock the parade of the Wall
apais took place Owing to the Wall
apai fear of the "hoodoo," Queen de
Cacti was allowed to sit on her throne
in the wigwam at home and indulge
in the feast of watermelon. The saw
ages came in from the east and rode
in stately order down 4th street to
Front, west on Front to 2dsstreet, east
to 9th and then the whole cavaIcade
came flying through Main street. the
dust under foot rolling up in a great
cloud, almost hiding the red band from
view. The flying column crossed down
Second street to South Front and then
with wild yells and the firing of guns
and pistols they tore through the
street like C yclone, passing out upon
the open plain to the east and soon
disappeared from view. The band was
lead by the famous old chiefs Levy
Levy, Charley and Coara regal In paint
and eagle feathers.
At two o'clock the baseball game be-
tween Chloride and kingman was wit /
messed by two thousand people. The
game was long one owing to the soft
condition + the grounds. Kingman
won by the score of to Is. No bril-
liant plays marked the game, but our
boys played ball with far more vim
than usual.
In the evening a grand display of
fireworks was witnessed at the ball
grounds. 1t was one of the finest of
the kind ever seen in the county.
A dance at Lake Hall wound up the
days festivities.
The morning of the 5th opened cool
but windy and dusty. Everybody felt
as though they had a battery connec-
ton, owing to the large amount of
electricity in the atmosphere.
At ii o'clock a. m. the series of horse