Mohave County miner., 1911-08-05

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 Monday next to audit the bills against the county. They will also do a large amount of other necessary business,
 Howard W. Squires will leave to- morrow by automobile for Los An geles. He will journey by way of Bill Williams Fork and Parker, thence over the desert to the Angel City.
 Miss Bernice Smith returned last Monday morning from Las Vegas, Ne vada, where she visited with her aunt, Mrs. J. w. Tuck. Tuesday morning she went up to Crozier, where she will visit this week with Mrs. Ida Walter.
 Harvey Hubbs, wife and daughters, the Misses Alta and Nadine, departed to San Francisco last Wednesday even- ing, where they will spend few weeks returning to the old home at Tulare to visit with relatives and friends. They will be gone a month.
 A report is now cure nt that the Santa Fe railroad between Goffs and Topock is to be double tracked, the work to begin not later than the first of October. At the same time work of double tracking will be commenced through this section, the railroad comp any prefering to wait until cooler weather for any extensive work on the desert.
 Seven cars of local freight was re- ceived at Kingman station from the west last Monday and four cars were switched out from the west bond local the following day, while large tonnage was unloaded from the through trains | While every day was not as good as the first days of the week Kingman | freight receipts compare favorably with those of any town of three times | its population in the territory.
 Monaghan & Murphy, one of the old est mercantile houses in Needles, is soon to pass into otber hands, the old | finn retiring on a well earned com potency. When Frank Monaghan and | Dan Murphy went 10 Needles it was composed of few shacks on the ex- treme of the desert. Now the town has | over 5000 inhabitants and is one of the most prosperous towns in San Bernar- dino county.
 Quite a number of Mohave county | people will remember J. w. Stephen son, District Attorney of this county in 1880. MT. Stephenson is now practicing his profession in San Bernardino. where he has married and settled down to the staid ways of a happy benedict Last week Thursday he celebrated the birth of a son, this being the seventh child in the family, five sons and two daughters, and the Sun, of that city is congratulating him on getting into the Roosevelt class. All the old boys here are pleased to learn that our old friend Stephenson is still among the live ones.
 By the breaking of the feed pipe on the big auto truck of the Arizona Southwestern Copper Company, be tween Yucca and Blue Mary Spring. last Tuesday evening, the gas tank was set on fire from the exhaust pipes and the machine destroyed. The driver, s. w. Alger, and Robert Jacobson were bowling along toward Yucca when the accident occurred. They barely had time to save their ef- fleets before the fire reached the tank and the explosion occurred. The loss is estimated at about 3,0O0S. The truck was in use only about two months between the railroad station of Yucca and the road grading camp near Blue Mary Spring.
 Dr. J. R. Whiteside. County Super intendent of Health, accompanied by J. c. Potts, chairman of the Board of Health, and Assistant District Attor- ney c. G. Krook, secretary of the board, visited many places in and around Kingman yesterday and are now preparing notices to the property owners requiring them to clean up their places. The gentlemen have been quite thorough in their investiga- tions and will prosecute those that fail to comply with the requirements of the board. Kingman should be the healthiest place in the territory, hay ing good drainage and good water, but the people make mistake when they allow their back yards to become so foul that deep wells may become con- taminated.