Mohave County miner., 1907-02-16
John E. 6IakeIy Takes His Life.

The people of Kingman were shocked yesterday to learn that John E. Blake ly had shot and killed himself near the camp of Ernest Solomon, six miles south of Kingman. The young man had been drinking heavily the past week and was suffering accutely from it's effects. For several days during the week he was quite ill and was confined to his room attended by a nurse, but Thursday it was thought that he had recovered sufficiently to admit of his going out of town. He went to the Solomon camp and after remaining there short dime picked | up shotgun and stated that he was going out to kill some quail and walked away. Not returning by nightfall the men at the camp became uneasy and made search and in the morning re- ported the fact to Kingman. Ross H.. Blakely, A. F. Harris and some h. dians went to the camp and took up the trail. After a short search the body of the unfortunate man was found about three-quarters of mile from camp. He had removed one shoe and had formed loop of bear grass through which he had placed his foot, tying the other end to the trigger of the gun. Then seating himself on a rock and cooking the gun he placed it against his head and pulled the trigger with his foot. The charge of shot shattered the head into shapeless mass. Before shooting himself he carefully placed photograph of him. self on his hat and placed stone on it to prevent it's being blown away.
 Mir. Harris brought the remains to town, where an inquest is being held today. Judge Blakely, who is in Phe- nix attending the legislative session as a member of the Council from this county, was wired to and will come up on this evenings train.
 John E. Blakely was born in the state of Nevada thirty-six years ago. but lived the greater part of his life in this county. He was an energetic young fellow, but allowed the curse of liquor to sap his manhood and bring him to suicides grave.
 He leaves behind him to mourn his unhappy death two small boys, one brother and an aged father.
 The funeral will take place sometime tomorrow.
 J. M. Little came down from Peach Springs last Sunday evening bringing with him 3O3O$, which he found buried in the floor of the cabin, at Wright Creek, in which the late Wm. Crowell died. The money was in bills of large denomination and were inclosed in a screw top can. Rats had scratched the dirt away from the can, leaving it partly exposed. MT. Little had been an old friend of Crowell, but the old gentleman died so suddenly that he was unable to reveal the location of his money. Mir. Little believed that there was money in the cabin in which Mr. Crowell died and made syste- matic search for it. As soon as he found the cache MT. Little came to town and turned the money over to the bank to the credit of the estate. Deceased was also possessed of one hundred and sixty acres of timber land in Siskiyou county, Cal, and mining property in the Wright Creek section. It is understood that the es- tate is worth something like five or six thousand dollars.
 w. H. Davis, an old timer of this county. but now of Rosamond, Califor- nia, arrived in Kingman Sunday last. After mysterious visit into the hills north of Kingman he returned to town Wednesday and departed Friday night to his home. Mr. Davis mined in diff ferent parts of the county twenty-five years ago and still has many old friends that remember him.
 c. F. Schrader, of the U. s. geolo- gical survey, came in from the Union Pass section last week, after two weeks inspection of that and the Gold road section. He reports that section one of the mineral wonders of the southwest, the veins being large, we'll dafipaH carrvinu va1uaS hiUh enOuuh