Mohave County miner., 1909-07-24

Dr. l.. D. Godshall came in from Lo
 Angeles this morning.
 w. B. Ridenour. of Blackberry i.
 visiting in Pasadena.
 Henry Lovin is building another
 cottage on his lots on East Beale
 street.
 l.. Janc, member of the Yucca
 Mercantile company, was Kingman
 visitor this week.
 Some of the Kingman firms are now
 using the new phone line to Goldroad. It is said to be working fine.
 Joe Prisk, of the Home Pastime mine, is in Los Angeles, where his mother is reported to be very ill.
 Immigration Commissioner J. H.. Rosenberg has gone into the country to look oyer some mining property.
 Mrs. Mary E. .Cohenour is building a handsome cottage on her Pleasant View tract, north of Kingman town site.
 Mrs. E. F. Thompson and children have gone to Los Angeles and beach resorts, where they will enjoy a few months outing.
 A bad wreck on the Santa Fe be- tween Holbrook and Gallup delayed west bound traffic about AS hours Tues day and Wednesday this week. A big freight engine went through bridge piling up many cars and putting the locomotive in condition for the scrap pile. The fireman and head brake man of the train were killed and the engineer badly injured.
 Sam Meyers, of Chloride, was brought over from that place a few days ago and lodged in jail on charge of selling liquor to Indians. He had hearing before U. S. Con- missioner Smith and held to the U. S. grand jury in bonds of 5OOs, which he has so far failed to give. Meyers is an old timer in the county and when sober is one of its good citizens, but when drinking will do anything for liquor.
 During the high water in the Colo rado river gang of railroad men were sent out to save ties and rails on one of the side tracks near Needles. | While at work breaking up the track more than one hundred feet of rails, | with the ties still in place were caved off into the river and hoated down the stream, the ties being bouyant enough to hold up the rails. Along with the track went picks and tools still stuck in the ties where the workmen had left them in a frantic dash for safe ground when the banks began caving in. The sight of railroad being car ried on the surface of the Colorado river was quite novel one.
 J. s. Withers, representative of Kingman lodge No. 46S, B. P. O. Elks, returned from Los Angeles last Tues day, where he attended the late ses- sion of the grand lodge. He is very enthusiastic over the treatment re- ceived by the visitors in the Angel City and the pomp and pageantry dis played in the floats and parades of the fraternal and civic bodies during the session. He is of the opinion that Grand Exalted Ruler Sammis will make the best Ruler the order has ever had. Judge L. M. Teale returned with MT. Withers, and is another of the enthusiasts from the Angel City.
 Some time ago the report was cur rent in Kingman that Indians had killed an old prospector, in the Wall apai mountains, first burying the body and later burning up everything of an discriminating nature. The man was to be J. J. Watt, who mined and prospected in the Music mountain range many years. William Grant, the Blackberry merchant, this week received letter from B. F. Watts, of Marshall, Oklahoma, conveying the information that J. J. Watts died at Lander, Wyoming, last winter. The man who was killed by the Indians is believed to be a stranger that came to Kinrman and was lnred tn the mnnn