Mohave County miner., 1913-02-22

| NOrJD6fn ArlZOnd bOOu Ieoduo HSoooi ation, as well as holding the same official position with the Santa Fe- Grand Canyon and Needles National Highway Association, IS a Kingmar visitor, coming down from sFlagstatf to look after his banking interests here.
 Don't overlook the good roads dance at Elks hall tonight. The dance is to be one of the most memorable in the history of the county and everybody should be there. The boosters will all be out and the way they will do things will make everybody feel like tripping the light fantastic.
 Sheriff Gideon returned from Flor ence few days ago, where he left Jimmie Joe Brown at the penitentiary on an indeterminate sentence of from one to fourteen years for attempting to pass worthless checks. Brown con- fessed to the crime and got the lowest sentence possible.
 The last number of the Arizona Magazine contains something good in the way of reading and excellent pictorial illustrations. Sharlott Hall has an article on "Our Northern Strip." ana number of other read able articles give life to that meri- torious publication.
 Miss Nina Carpenter, the seventeen year old daughter of c. E. Carpenter, died at the home of her father in Kingman last Wednesday morning. The young woman had been a sufferer from tuberculosis many years and her death was not unexpected. The re- mains were taken to Los Angeles for cremation.
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Purcell, who have been residing in Los Angeles the past year, arrived in Kingman last week and are considering making thelr home here. Mir. Purcell is in- terested in big band of sheep that are being pastured in this county, having been brought here for the lam ping season.
 Several of the directors of the King man Copper company are in Kingman and have been looking after their interests at Mineral Park. It is under stood that hereafter the work oe de veloping the mines under option will be driven with rush, the manage ment believing that they have found something worth while. r'
 Several thousand sheep were shear ed at the shearing pens east of town this week and it is probcble that many of them will be lost in the great storm that is now raging over this section. More than 10 '.Oo0 sheep are expected here this month to feed upon the early weeds and grasses that the great storms assure.
 T. A. Stephens, who was shot last week by Joe Prisk while attempting to burglarize the store of the Chloride Store company, had a hearing this week and entered a plea of guilty. He stated to the court that he got all that was coming to him. He appears to be suffering but slightly from the wound inflicted by the heavy charge of bird shot.
 The log book and valuable infor. nation of Arizona roads is being pre-. pared for publication in Los Angeles. The work is under the charge of Hamilton and Locke, who logged the roads throughout Arizona and into California and New Mexico. When issued it will be one of the most valu- able reference works ever issued on the roads of the southwest.
 A Mexican goat herder was so badly injured by freight train at Kingman station, Wednesday evening, that he died on the operating table short time after the accident. The fellow had come in from the camp and spent the evening in convivlal company and then tried to cross the track when a freight train was being cut at the Fourth street crossing. He was crawling under the cars when the train pulled up and he was caught be.