Mohave County miner., 1909-07-17

Miss Lena Casteel departed last Thursday evening to Los Angeles where she will remain few weeks.
 Mrs. Caroline Hutchinson and daugh. ter Miss Nellie, departed last Thurs. day night to Seattle, where they will spend the summer with relatives.
 Contracts have been let to sink the shaft on the Horseshoe mine to greater depth, besides considerable other work on the property.
 Lew Bechtel, who has been ill with catarrhal and other troubles, departed Thursday last to Catalena Island, where he expects to be benefited by the salt breezes and the damp climate.
 Quite number of Kingman people are rusticating in Wallapai mountains. At this season of the year the high mountains have many ideal camping places where the desert heat may be forgotten.
 The Santa Fe is strengthening all of it's bridges through Arizona to safe- guard them against the heavier loco motives that are soon to be used on the heavy grades. All the bridges through Kingman canyon are being reinforced and made fireproof.
 Grounds and Crozier have purchased the Needles Meat Market from George Nay. We did not learn the price paid, but it is said to have been large one. The boys are hustlers and we bespeak for them the entire pat ronage of the good people of Needles.
 Walter Fellows has gone to Alaska, where he will remain some months. Mir. Fellows has been with the Victor Gold Mines company the past three years, but has concluded to strike out for himself in an effort to find some- thing in Alaska that has been over- looked by the other fellows.
 Miss Maude Graham, native daughter of this county, was united in marriage, at the home of her mother, in Colton, California, one day last week, to a business man of that city, whose name we are unable to learn. The young lady is we'll known to many of our people and they are wishing her joy.
 All the jurors and witnesses that were called to Prescott last week, to attend the session of the U. S. court, are home again. Owing to the session being called at the beginning of the fiscal year the marshall found himself without funds to meet the expense of the session, consequently many of the jurors and witnesses were hard pressed for funds wherewith to meet hotel and travelling bills.
 w. c. Bishop, owner of valuable mining property in San Francisco dis trict, came in from the mines few days ago. While at the mines he was taken ill and w. D. Grannis, his part ner, went out to look him up. While at the mines the men suffered greatly from lack of water, but managed to get to the Union Pass mines, where they were cared for by Robert Bran- mock.
 The Desert Power and Water Con- pany this week set line of poles from the power station to Fourth street, from which point power for light and power will be carried to all parts of town. The company has also con- nected the transmission line up with Goldroad and juice will soon be sent out to that big gold camp. The boil CTS have been tried out the past week and everything works to perfection.
 Sheriff Walter Brown this week re- moved Beecher, the Wallapai Indian murderer, to the Prescott jail, where he will be held until the next term of the District Court. Beecher will plead | the unwritten law. This is not the first time an Indian plead this law in defense of murder one of the King man Indians having set up that plea in defense of the killing of gambler known as Peter Rock, who the Indian shot while asleep in a lot west of Bo- nelIi's store. Rock was shot through him, death being instantaneous. The