Mohave County miner., 1908-09-19
Mahare County Minrr, Published Every Saturday,
 By SMITH & SAWYER.
Miss Jettie Grounds, of Fresno, Cal, is visiting friends in Kingman.

n. w H6tlti, OWucI Ol SOht SOOu mines in the McCracken Hill section, is in Kingman looking after business affairs.
 Mir. and Mrs. k. F. Thompson and children returned last Wednesday from Los Angeles and other southern California points.
 J. de Salmard came in from Gold Road and departed to Needles Thurs day last on business connected with the Gold Road mine.
 Thomas H. Holmes, one of the best all around mining men in the county, went to Lbs Angeles Thursday, where he will rest up for week or two.
 Chris Hoffman returned home last Monday evening from Pueblo, Color ado, and his old home in Kansas. He departed the following day to Chloride
 Miss Bernice Smith leaves today for the Big Sandy, where she will teach the Stephens school the coming term. Miss Smith is a graduate of the King man public school.
 Senator J. E. Perry departed Tues day night to Denver, where he will at tend the session of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows as a representa- tive of the grand lodge of Arizona.
 All the candidates for political office are making great hustle these days. Next Saturday the primaries are to be held, which will settle the fate of many. The convention is to be held a week from next Friday.
 Last Tuesday the board of supervis- ors let the contract for hospital build- ings to J. N. Cohenour for the sum of 3,57S.95S, being the lowest bid receiv- ed. Mir. Cohenour will commence work on the buildings at once.
 Mrs. Foster s. Dennis returned to Kingman last Wednesday night, hay ing performed the sad mission of talk ing the body of her husband to Sono- ma, California, where it was inferred in the family burial plot.
 AS David T. Price was getting aboard the train that was to convey the remains of his departed wife to the old home in Indiana. he was handed a telegeam announcing the | death of his father, which occurred | last night in Tennessee.
 Charles Metcalfe this week reported | the precipitation in Kingman for the months of July, August and up to last Saturday in the month of September: July, 1.6S; August, 2.39; September l2, 2.5l. The precipitation last Saturday was .S2, this amount falling between the hours of three and six o'clock.
 K. R. Casper, one of the old time newspaper men of the coast, arrived | in Kingman few days ago from Salt Lake City, where he is employed as special representative of the Deseret News, the representative newspaper of the Mormon hierarchy. The News is getting up an edition devoted to Arizona, which will be one of the best | ever gotten up by any newspaper.
 Last Tuesday the passenger train on the Western Railway had narrow escape from going into a washed out bridge few miles south of Chloride. ! The engineer saw the danger in tim- to stop the train. The male passengers got out and cribbed up the bridges in short time, allowing the train to pass over and go on to Chloride. A rain storm Monday night had washed out the bridge and none of the railroad men were aware of a storm having passed over that section.
 Last Saturday afternoon one of the heaviest rains of the season fell here. During the progress of the storm a great deal of hail fell, some of the stones being of immense size. Every canyon in and around Kingman was raging torrent within few minutes. One of Carrow brothers teams was caught in the canyon below town and one of the horses drowned, the driver extricating the other three horses by cutting the harness and getting them out of the path of the torrent. The