Mohave County miner., 1910-11-05

have gone to the Big Sandy to hunt ducks, SO they say.
 Leonard Hamilton, of San Francisco, brother of John and Martin Hamil- ton, arrived in Kingman early this week and may conclude to remain.
 The new bakery building on Oak street is almost completed, the masons are putting in the ovens and the pub lie will soon be treated to the real bakers products. Kingman has long felt the need of a real white bakery and the new institution is sure of a large patronage.
 A license was granted this week by the board of supervisors for the sale of liquor at the station of Topock, which would indicate that that place is to have some importance during the work on the pier and reconstruction of the big bridge. The board evident ly overlooked the law which prohibits the granting of such license and makes it unlawful to run such place within the territory of Arizona.
 Charles Burkman, a we'll known miner of this county, died at the Mercy hospital at Prescott, last week Thursday. He went to the hospital week prior to his death and under went an operation for abscess of the liver, from which he never recovered. MT. Burkman worked at the Golconda mine last winter, afterward going out to the Expansion camp, at Union Pass. He was we'll liked by his fellow work men and had many friends in. this county.
 William Cope, one of the contractors on the Silver Legion mine, at Stockton Hill, was severely injured by being struck on the head by a descending bucket, while at work in the bottom of the shaft in that mine, yesterday. It was the custom to hang the bucket in the shaft when the water was all bail ed out, but the engineer misunderstood the orders and let it run to the bottom, Cope receiving the full force of the falling bucket. He was brought to Kingman and patched up by Dr. Whiteside and will soon be able to re- turn to work.
 
 The report of the terrltori&l board of health shows that Mohave county is the second healthiest county in the territory, Apache coming first, with death rate of 5.4, while Mohave has a rate of 6.1 in 1000. The highest death rate per 1000 is Pima, with 23.1. Mo have county shows the death rate that all the counties would ordinarily show were it not for the high death rate Of consumptive tourists in the larger counties of the territory, afflicted peo- pie going to Pima and Maricopa coun- ties on account of the milder winter climate and better accommodations.
 A big camp is being established at Topock and work is soon to be started on the pier in the Center of the Colo rado river, which is to carry the weight of the big steel bridge. It is under stood that the bridge across the Col orado rlver is showing the strain of the big engines and that fears are en- tertained for Its safety. The bridge is to be so strengthened that it will with stand the weight of still larger loco motives than those now in use, and will also be widened to carry double track. The work on the new pier will consume about six months.
 Last Sunday night Deputy Sheriff Gideon and J. W. Quinn departed to the penitentiary at Florence with four prisoners, sentenced to various terms in that institution at the last term of court. The men gave the names of James Morrow, convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to eighteen months; John Daily, robbery, sentenced to i8 months; Louis Harron, robbery, IS months; Bert Williams, breaking jail, three years. Thursday night Sheriff Walter Brown departed to Benson, having in charge Tommy Fer guson, who plead guilty to burglary and was sentenced to the territorial reform school until be attained his