Mohave County miner., 1910-01-29


 Blackberry mining man, is visiting in Kingman.
 James Bone, the we'll known mining man, took in the flyers and their flying machines, at Los Angeles, last week.
 Rev. J. NJ. Ocheltree will hold serv- ices at the church tomorrow morning at Il a. m. and 7:3O p. m. All are cor dialiy invited.
 S. R. Davis is very ill at the resi- dence of MT. and Mrs. J. R. Russell with a complication of rheumatic and other disorders. His nephew is look ing after him.
 w. L. Kayser, Hackberry's mer chant, is ill at one of the hospitals in California. Report states that he is improving fast and will return home about the first of the week.
 Geo. NJ. Bowers, one of the best known mining men of the county, is very i'll at his rooms in the Bonelli building. The doctor reports that there is very little hope for his re- covery.
 c. R. Van Marter, H. M. Maus and w. H. Poulson have organized the Kingman Undertaking company, talk ing over the business of c. R. Van Marter. The corporation has capi- talization of l5,OOOS.
 The Mohave county jail building is now almost complete, only a small amount of work being necessary to make it habitable. The forms have been removed from the concrete work and the walls present a fine appear ance.
 Delegate Cameron has introduced bill in congress providing for bond issue of 60,000S to build a new court house in Kingman. The introduction of this bill was forced by the failure of the two bills recently passed by the Arizona legislature, neither one of which was available on account of not being cumulative.
 The Elks Minstrels are to give their initial performance at Elks Opera House on the evening of the Sth of February. The boys have been work ing hard getting things in shape for their debut and the public is anxiously awaiting the event. Some of the best singers in the territory are to take part in the performance, so that the people may expect the full worth of their money.
 Senator Scott, of Utah, has intro duced bill for the annexation to Utah of all that part of Arizona lying north of the Colorado river. This is the same old bill that has been bobbing up at every session of congress, the outcome of a hop dream of the Nor mons that Utah needs all the country north of the Colorado river and a right of way to the Grand Canyon over entirely Utah soil. Arizona has no lands to spare and it is not possible for the bill to become law.
 The work of grading for the double tracking of the Santa Fe is now in progress, the first work being done on the mountain division between Will jams and Ash Fork and Winslow. It is expected that the entire system will be double tracked within the year. This does not look as though the San ta Fe was to make this line a side issue to that of the cutoff by way of Parker. The company is also to cut out all the sharp curves and reduces grades wherever possible.
 Kingman has two motion picture shows and there appears to be con- siderable rivalry among the promoters of the enterprises. At the Happy Hour the price of admission has been reduced to five and ten cents, while at the Elks Opera House the prices have been raised to fifteen and twenty five cents. Few towns of the size of King man in the United States would be able to keep two shows running night ly, which is an evidence of the pros porous condition of the town.
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