Mohave County miner., 1910-08-13

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 Phyllis Smith, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Anson H. Smith, departed yes terday to Flagstaff, where she will enter the Northern Normal school.
 Rev. W. G. Blakely will deliver a sermon at the M. E. church tomorrow evening on the subject of Character Building" Services at 8 o'clock. Everybody invited.
 It is reported in Kingman that Mrs. w. D. Grannis died at her home in Pasadena a few days ago. Mrs. Gran his lived with her husband in King man about a year and while not gener- ally known to the people of Kingman was considered a most estimable woman. She had been i'll several years and her husband brought her to Kingman in the hope that the bright and healthful atmosphere in this coun- try would bring her back 10 health. She leaves husband and little son to mourn her loss.
 Wm. Kelly, of Mohave Tribe l24 Improved Order of Red Men is in Kingman contemplating the installing of local lodge here. MT. Kelly re- ceived his credentials of appointment from CT at Sach m H. E. B rnar of Tombstone today and will begin at once to interview the Kingman people. The Improved Order of Red Men ranks among the first as a fraternal order and we feel sure Mr. Kelly will meet with success in his undertaking. Mir. Kelly will be among us about three weeks and while here we predict that he will have the cooperation of the Kingman people.
 The Santa Fe is bringing in an im- mense quantity of railroad ties and piling them in the local yards. It is understood that these ties will be used in the double tracking of the road be- tween Needles and Seligman. The company also is having a cargo of 75,- 900 ties shipped to San Pedro from Japan. Along the whole line of track age in this territory the railroad com pany is making improvements so that within the next few years millions of dollars will be laid out in the new work. Kingman property owners are very much exercised over the possibil- ity of the company running it's line through Oak streek, in which event it would depreciate property values in that part of the town many thousands of dollars. A double track through the street would take in the lots on each side, as the company would need the ground for station purposes.
 Next Monday the political parties of this county will hold their primaries, to be followed by conventions on Au- gust 19 to nominate candidates for delegate to the constitutional conven- tion. It is to be hoped that the parties will select their best men and that no matter who wins before the people Mo have county will have an able repre- sentative in this important body. It appears to be settled that the conven- tion will adopt an initiative and refer endum clause for the constitution and at the same time refer the matter of woman suffrage to the people as a sep arate consideration. These proposi- tions are the most important factors in the making of constitution for our new state and we hope that the dele gate sent from this county will be in line with them. All the new states of the west and many of the old ones are just now engaged in a resubmission of these amendments to the constitution and it will be noted that Senator Jona- than Bourne, one of the best of the new senators, is proposing the direct election of senators and the referen- dun to the people of Oregon. Bourne is a mining man, republican, and one of the brainiest men of the day. All advanced political thinkers believe that the people ought to have some say directly in the making of impor- tant laws and the referendum will give it to them.