Mohave County miner., 1908-08-22

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 Supervisor w. B. Stephens and wife, of the Big Sandy, were in Kingman several days this week.
 G. w. Beecher and daughters Gladys and Ruth are in San Francisco, where the young ladies will remain at school the next few years.
 O. B. Amsden, superintendent of the Gold Bug mining company, was called to Colorado Springs yesterday by the serious illness of his wife.
 Miss Leona Hoffman, accompanied by Kansas Thursday night, where the young lady will enter school Many friends of the young lady bid her good by and good luck at the train.
 The board of supervisors has made rate of g. 75$ on the l00S for all county and territorial purposes, five cents below that of last year. So far this year the board has paid off more than l7,OOOS of floating indebtedness, very good showing.
 James R. Boner came in fir m his h me Bakersfield, Cal, and will probably remain here m- time. He is suff firing fir m the eff cts of malarial fever, and will try our dry climate in a If Tt tn rid himself of the germs with which h. b came innoculated in tn low lauds Kern riv.r.
 Perlman F. Zimmerman, an engi- neer of the Santa Fe, who was badly injured at Peach Springs last January by being struck by spout that was hanging loose from the water tank, has brought suit against the railroad company for 25,0OOS damages. Zim- merman was badly injured and it is thought that he may never recover sufficiently from his injuries to again earn livelihood.
 J. A. Carrow came up from his Big Sandy ranch yesterday and brought with him big load of his famous peaches. He reports that his trees are now bearing a second crop of fruit, which he expects to be ripe late in the fall. The second crop is usually smaller than the first, but the fruit is much richer in flavor. Peaches have been known to ripen just before Christmas on some of the trees in his orchard.
 Last Sunday about forty Kingman gent enen and ladies went out to Chloride in special train to witness the ball game between rival hines of the two cities. The report comes to this office that the game was one of the best played in this county in many years, the score at the end of the ninth inning being eight to two in favor of Kingman nine. Good feeling prevailed during the game and ar engagements were made to have a re- turn game played in Kingman to- morrow. The Kingman visitors re port having had a most delightful time.
 This week the board of supervisors purchased the Bowers place, adjoining Kingman townsite on the west, and will fit it for use as poor farm. The place contains l25 acres of land, great deal of which is arabe. There is fine well of water, gasoline en- zine, house and outbuildings, water tanks and everything necessary for immediate occupation. The board paid Mir. Bowers 2,OOOS for the place, which considering the improvements and location, is an extremely low fig ure. Whether the board uses the place for poor farm or not the coun- ty has acquired valuable piece of property.
 The old St. Louis and San Francisco railroad company has applied to the local land office at Phenix for the sur vey of ten townships of land in this county. The land lies north of Yucca, west to Vivian and close to the west line of Kingman township. How the railroad company became possessed of this land is not known, but last winter a representative of the company was in Kingman looking into the matter. He stated that the company owned lands in all the northern Arizona counties, and also along the line of the Santa Fe in New Mexico and Indian Territory. The lands near Yucca are ppacapt tho Scana pf oil