Mohave County miner., 1912-11-23

vidually filed bills against the initia- ton of the three cent fare law, setting up various reasons why it should not be put in effect. One of the cogent reasons is that the Secretary of State failed to publish the law or at least the text of the law in newspaper in each of the fourteen counties of the State at least sixty days prior to the election. This is one of the funda- mental requirements of the constitu- tion, which was reinforced by the law making body of the State by law re- quiring the Secretary to send out pamphlets to the voters giving each referendum measure, at least sixty days prior to the election. Of course, this part of the law is impossible of execution, there yet remaining forty days of registration open to voters and it would be impossible for the Secre. tary to place these laws in the hands of those voters whose names went upon the register after the sixty days. Many other reasons are given by the railroads why the law should not be put in effect, but the above is really the only one that has any merit. As the Corporation Commission is the arbiter of the law, after all, we can not see why the railroads do not make the attack on the promulgation of the law before that body.
 Last Saturday afternoon Tom Lee, a well known Chinlman, fell from an auto truck few miles west of Union Station, the wheels of the truck pas. sing over his body and causing injuries from which he died during the night. Lee was riding on the top of a load and the lurching of the car evidently threw him off, and the rebound caught hi "a under the hind wheel. His sui feriny was intense until death reliev- ed him. An inquest was held on the body Monday and the jury found that death was accidental and no one was to blame. Tom Lee had been a resi- dent of the United States II years. and had lived in this county long time. He was big hearted fellow and had many friends among the white men, who will regret to learn of his death.
 A large delegation of interested people have been before the Secretary of the Interior on hearing of the matter of conservating the flood waters of the Colorado river and the making of that stream navigable all the year round between the different dams on the lower river. The purpose of the meeting with the Secretary of the Interior was to place before him the necessity of congressional action in the matter, which predecates the building of large storage reservoirs along Green river and other tribu. taries of the Colorado. as well as on the main river in the Grand Canyon. By Building great dams in the canyons of the Green and Grand rivers in the Grand Canyon it is believed that fu- ture ravages by flood along the lower river would be either modified or en- tirely prevented. The conserved waters would be allowed to pass off at low stage of water during the summer and fall months thereby giving the farmers the benefit of a surplus of water during the months when the waters of the river are at low ebb. To do this work fully lOO.OOOS would be necessary, and it is probable that congress would take the matter up seriously without detailed reports by the engineers of the geological sur vey.
 Jack Maddux and c. R. Granger entered for the holiday marathon, having covered the distance between the Windmill and Bill Frost's ranch in record time, one day this week. They went to the Big Sandy in the Maddux truck and were unfortunat te in meeting with minor accidents to the machine that compelled them to make the hike to a place where the eats came regularly.
 
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