Mohave County miner., 1908-02-01

click, arrived in Kingman last night to attend to some important business connected with the deal.
 The Ladies Aid Society is working hard to try and build fence around the church so that trees can be plant ed. At the social Thursday evening thirty-eight dollars was realized and every one seemed to have good time.
 Dorothy, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cole, of Blake, Cal, died at the home of it's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ealy, in Kingman, last Sunday night. The little one was aged about one year and was an un- usually bright and lovable child. The funeral was held from the home of the grandparent Monday afternoon, many friends of the family attending the funeral.
 A Thoroughbred Tramp, Elmer Walters Johnny on the spot show, will be the attraction at the Opera House tonight. The piece furnishes much amusement throughout the four acts of the play. The story has strength and the western atmosphere helps to make the piece as popular as any of the western plays now before the public. It is understood the piece has an excellent scenic equipment and satisfactory company including Jno. J. Swartwood, the original tramp.
 The board of supervisors is to be called upon at the next meeting to have them take action in the matter of the enlargement of the graveyard in Kingman. More than one-half of the present fenced in burial ground is occupied by indigent dead and there is practically no more space for burial left. Another contiguous piece of ground should be secured at once and laid out into plots and have all graves hereafter conform to the plot. In this way the ground could be fixed up neatly and kept in good order. The cemetery committee of Kingman has about two hundred dollars on hand, which could be used for the purpose of fencing in additional land and be- ginning the work of beautifying the place.
 Melodrama of the good old thrilling type. the kind that satisfies all classes, will hold the boards at the Opera House this evening. The play is "A Thoroughbred Tramp" which depicts with theatrical atmosphere, the pres ent popular stage mining camp, with its road agents, bold bad men who have been forced to take up their abode in the mountains in order to be out of harms way. Many interesting situations are worked out in the pres entation of an exciting story, but de- spite the thrills there are many anus ing situations which relieve the ten sion, while the specialties promised give evidence of being of excellent character. Special attention is said to have been given the staging of the play this season and pains taken to bring out the detail so frequently lack ing in this character of melo-drama.
 The Cow Puncher is advertised at the Opera House Friday evening, February ', 1908. Hal Reid, the au- thor, has laid his plot in the pictur. esque state of Arizona. He has taken his heroine from the East and his hero from the west, brought them together on the vast plains that nature claims as her own and united them with a love as pure as the air they breathe and circles it with band of gold. He has made his people natural and true to life. His Black Hank and Spokane
 Ike are gems in character sketching Tacoma Tim and Ann Slattery are full
 of genuine humor. Lutchia Cordovs and Carlos Mendoza have all the sub tlety of the Mexican. Billy Lawton the hero's brother, is an example of ; boy raised we'll but weak. Tom Law
 tons character is best expressed ii the simple words, "A Man." w. F Mann has staged the play in mos sumptuous manner, and several spec ialties are introduced to add life ant
 color to the drama.