Mohave County miner., 1911-08-19

Angeles, where she VIII vlslt with friends for a month or two.
 Jesse Tarr and wife are home again after a months outing at Southern California watering places.
 Mrs. George Warren returned home last Sunday from Los Angeles and other Southern California points.
 John Hamilton has gone to Murietta Springs to take the baths to rid him. self of an attack of rheumatism.
 c. NJ. Stowe, of the Gaddis & Perry Company, was called to Boston this week by the death of his father.
 Mrs. Edna Steen and sister, Miss Flora Lewis, have gone to Santa Bar bara, where they will visit for month or more.
 The new villa of Dr. A. L. Hilton is fast assuming shape and will be one of the most commodious residences in the town.
 Lee Hamilton, who went into San Francisco few weeks ago suffering with blood poison, is home again al- most as well as ever.
 E. F. Thompson and son Arthur de- plrted to Los Angeles few days ago, where they will join the family for a few weeks at the seaside.
 Miss Louise Farley, who has been visiting with friends and relatives in San Francisco the past month, is home again and resumed her position with Lovin & Withers company.
 Tom Sickels and others have located a water right on the old Wheeler Wash and are developing the water and preparing to take it out on a nice piece of land, which will be prepared and planted to trees and alfalfa
 Miss Sylvia Whitman departed to Los Angeles last Thursday evening and will remain a week or two at the seaside. During her absence she does not want to be forgotten in the ballot ing for the Elks Theater diamond ring.
 The postofice department is now calling for bids for the construction of postoffice in Kingman. The de- partment recognizes the urgent nec- cessity of posoffice building in the town and will now make an effort to give the people a postoffice building commensurate with the growing im- portance of the town.
 Dr. Whiteside has gone to Los An geles, where he will attend the session of the members of the Territorial Good Roads association, that is to meet with representatives of California good roads in au effort to get combined action for the national highway. Dr. Whitrside will use his influence for the highway through this part of the territory.
 Mir. and Mrs. O. D. NJ. Gaddis and NJ. G. Wagner went up to Flagstaff, this week, where they expected to re- ceive their new E. NJ. F. cars. MT. Wagner had a carload of E. NJ. Els billed to Flagstaff and from that point they will be distributed to the owners. He and Mir. Gaddis will drive their cars to Kingman and are expected to arrive here today.
 The work of extending the big Colo rado river dike from a point opposite Needles to Topock will be under way by the 18th of September. The Cottan Land company Is getting things in shape for the resumption of work and expect to have several hundred teams employed. By the building of the dam to Topock the company will be able to bring under cultivation many thousand acres of the richest lands in the world.
 Some time ago the county dads were put in a quandry over the claims of the Indian department that all school lands in the Mohave valley were withdrawn when the Interior Department with drew the public lands of the Mohave valley from settlement. It would ap- pear from the qgder from Washington that this view was an erroneous one, as the territory is now empowered to make lieu selections for school lands in this withdrawn strip. It also appears that all school lands in the valley are still open to disposition by the super Yisors.