Mohave County miner., 1908-08-01

hean St. CnarleS, G. A. BOnelll and Minnie A. Sawyer departed last Satur- day to Los Angeles.
 Harry Underwood has gone to Goldroad, where he is employed in the store of Lovin & Withers.
 Hon. Foster s. Dennis, who has been confined to his home the past two weeks by illness, is fast recover ing his health.
 Mir. and Mrs. O. F. Kuencer and children are visiting in Kingman. Mr. Kuencer is general manager of the Golden Star mining company, operating the Golden Gem mine, at Cerbat.
 There was born to the wife of M. Hoffman, in Kingman, last Monday morning, baby boy. Mother and child are getting along nicely. Mir. Hoffman is foreman of the Arizona Southwestern Copper company.
 Harry Hubbs, wife and family came down from Wallapai mountains Wednesday evening, accompanied by Miss Berpice Smith. Alfred Vermehr and family returned from the moun- tans Wednesday evening.
 Lovin & Walker have had number of men at their ranch in Wallapai valley and forty-five tons of fine grain hay has been bailed and loaded on the cars at Berry for shipment to Kingman.
 An effort is being made to boom the placer grounds along the Colorado river between Searchlight and Eldor ado Canyon. There are many bars along the river that might be made to pay we'll if the proper dredging ma chinery was put in.
 The west bound Santa Fe flyer that should have passed through Kingman this morning was ditched in Western Kai sa' Thursday afternoon and will not reach this place until sometime to- night. Two people were killed and many others injured in the wreck.
 Last Sunday one of the heaviest rain storms of the year struck Kingman and inside of an hour water was run ming in torrents down the streets fill ing the gutters and depressions to overhowing. At one time it appear ed that the railroad tracks south of town would be carried out, but only slight damage was done the grade.
 Henry Strawbell, one of the oldest miners of this section, is ill at his home in Kingman. While loading wagon at Yucca last week he ruptured blood vessel in the region of the stomach, from which numerous hemor- rhages have since occurred. It is thought that an aneurism or partial rupture of one of the large blood vessels is the cause of the illness and that his chances of recovery are slight.
 Violent rain storms are reported from all parts of the county this week, many of the roads leading to mining camps having suffered greatly from washouts. Harvey Hubbs, who came in from Wallapai mountains last We'd nesday, reports that four inches of rain fell there last Monday in one hour. Chris Vogt, who is in from the Red Tanks, reports that two inches of rain fell at that place in less than one hour, one day last week, and that numerous otherstorms gave many inches of rain. The grasses drought that region are knee deep and the cattlemen ranging their stock there have broad smiles.
 The Misses Alta Hubbs and Bernice Smith this week made the ascent of Wheeler's Peak, the highest point of the Wallapai mountains, being the first ladies to accomplish this feat. The peak is 9300 feet above sea level and one of the most rugged and diff cult of the Wallapai peaks to sur mount. From its summit one of the most magnificent views in the terri tory can be obtained, all the ranges as far west as the coast being readily seen, as well as fairly good view of