Mohave County miner., 1908-06-27

are visiting With thelr parents II Kingman.
 Mrs. x Mr. A. E. Ware went tC Needles last Wednesday evening tC visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. k. Willsie.
 P. McCardell returned last Thurs day morning from Los Angeles, where he has been looking after business matters the past month.
 J. A. Nieset and wife, who have been at the Gold Eagle the past year, departed to their home in Ohio last Sunday. They regarded their stay in this county as one long picnic.
 o. D. M. Gaddis was laid up the first of the week with neuralgia and ulcerated teeth, but trip to the den- tist at Needles put him in shape for work again.
 Henry Lovin has gone to Phenix and Kelvin, where he has commercial in- terests. While in PheniX he will pur- chase carload of watermelons to place on sale during the Fourth of July festivities.
 Mrs. w. l.. Masters and daughter Miss Queen arrived from San Bernar- dino this morning and were met by MT. Masters, who took them out to the Treasure Hill mines where they will remain some time.
 Mrs.. o. D. M. Gadds returned We'd nesday night from San Francisco, where she had been visiting for month past. She has about recovered from injuries sustained in street car wreck.
 George Davis, who has been ill the past three weeks, was taken to Los Angeles last Sunday, where he will be placed under the care of specialist. It is understood that he is suffering from malarial fever.
 Mrs. B. Quinn, of Chloride, was in Kingman several days this week, the guest of Mrs. L. Hoffman, leaving for Los Angeles Thursday evening. Mrs. Quinn has taught the Chloride school the past several terms and has been engaged for another year.
 H. H. Watkins returned from Santa Monica last Tuesday night. During his absence in California c. O. Rob- ertson, of Flagstaff, presided as cash fer of the bank at this place. Mr. Robertson is one of the most popular men in the service of the Arizona Central Bank.
 The ranch house of Henry Bacon. near Fort Rock, Tn this county, was totally destroyed by fire one day last week, the family saving only trunk and few articles of clothing. Mr. Bacon has removed his family tc Blackberry until another building is erected. The loss is quite heavy, as "C lllcIc W dS llO lDSuIduCe.
 John McCKesson had a narrow es- cape from death few days ago by the blowing out of an ejector of a mauser rife. The shells were apparently quite old and when the gun was fired the explosion blew back into the stock splitting it and blowing the ejector pin through the young mans hat. He was also struck in the forehead bl some of the fragments, but not serious ly injured.
 The Coconino county papers say that Arthur Mcguire, chief engineer of the Clark road, has party of surveyors in the field locating a line to Lees Ferry, whence it will connect with the Clark road somewhere in Utah. It is more than probable that any line to the Clark road near Jerome will come through this county, by way of the Muddy Valley, as there is natural roadway the entire distance.
 G. N. Foss and H. N. Bliss, of Bos- ton, arrived in an automobile Thurs day morning last and attempted to run to Needles by way of Goldroad, but were compelled to return on account of miles of road having high centers, over which their machine could not pass. The young men have been tour- ing the country by easy stages, having left Boston early last fall and have covered 5000 miles on their devious cOurse across the continent They ev