Mohave County miner., 1913-06-14

out of the hospital and getting along nicely.
 D. D. Whitney. who taught manual training in the kingman public school a certificate to teach that branch of the public school curriculum. Mr. Whitney is the father of 1. J. Whitney, the genial deputy Recorder of this county.
 The State Public Examiner has been in Kingman several days this week making an examination of county offices He expects to have many improvements in the matter of records of the counties as soon as the new laws have become operative. He has made quite all impression on the county officers as a man thoroughly alive to the duties of his position.
 $. T. Elliott usually has the finest dressed windows in Kingman, but his latest creation is one that takes the eye of all passers. It represents Mutt and Jeff outside the ball grounds dis cussng the chances of the game. Jeff asks Mutt what teams are playing and Mutt says it is Needles and Kingman and Kingman has V'alkover. The window shows a big display of Walk, over shoes, the other window being taken up with exhibit of ladies' fur nishings.
 Last Saturday afternoon E. A. Shaw, C. w. Davis and M. G. Wagner went down the Big Sandy to the ranch of Polk Fancher, where they saw some fat cattle and on the way took in the beauties of the Sandy ranches. Mr.. Wagner reports that the wheat is fully three feet high and headed out fine, while some of the oats are nearly five feet in night. The farms along the Sandy show every evidence of prosperity and it is his opinion that should railroad be built through that section it would become one of the richest agricultural region in the state.
 Quite a party of kingman gentle men went to Brownsville, last Sunday by automobile. They report that the Copper Giant is showing up fine and that the work now being done is open, ing up a great body of good grade smelling ore. The management of the property is well pleased with the manner in which the mine is develop ing, while the impression prevails among the mine owners of that sec tion that further exploitation will open one of the big copper mines of the state.
 Cowboys are coming in from the range after the big roundup and are ! telling some good stories. One of these relates to George w. Davis and E. M. Carrow. They had been out in the Rock Creek country with pack animals and were meeting with good success in the gathering In of long horns when one day the animal on which was all their eatabes wander ed away, but strange to stay they dld not miss it for four days, in the ex- citement of the chase after the long horns having forgotten entirely about eats. Another story relates to the adaptiblity of those long automobile gauntlets to cowboy uses, but the story is best told by Ed. Carrow and is too long to pass muster in this issue
 Last Wednesday the trustees of Kingman public school met at the of fee of Kean St. Charles and selected teachers for the ensuing term. The principal will be w. T. Linville, a graduate of West Virginia college. and who comes to Kingman well 1 recommended. Miss Alta Hubbs is retained as assistant principals: Miss Bernice Smith succeeds Miss Gertie Potts, Miss Veda Watkins retains her position, as does Mss Rowena Deming. It is also probable that teacher of Sloyd will be engaged, the class dur ing the past term having made great progress. Miss Potts has accepted a school at Santa Ana, California, and will be missed by the little ones of