Mohave County miner., 1913-04-05

AuOlhCl hOti oNiotS 'hS "pi N'i'S
 Court of Arizona in the Peachy case,
 arising from the attempt of that
 gentleman to jump the Frisco mines,
 is now on at PheniX. The courts hereto
 fore have refused to let the case come up for hearing, each time having been dismissed on demurrer of the defend
 ant company. It is probable that the
 later hearing is for the purpose of
 taking the matter to the supreme court
 of the United States.
 Last night the local lodge of Elks
 installed the following officers: EX-
 alted ruler, F. A. Shaw; leading
 knight, Sumner H Beocher: loyal
 knight, c. w. Lynch: featuring knight, Carl G. Krook; secretary, J. s. With CTS; treasurer, | M. George. The
 lodge is in an excellent condition, hay. ing more than forty-tive candidates in
 waiting to be initiated into the order It is expected that about sixty new
 members will be taken in during April and May.
 The local branch of Santa Fe. Grand Canyon Needles National Highway has received the handsome buttons that are to be worn by the boosters of the route. The price for which the but tons are being sold is one dollar, that sum to go into the treasury to main tain the advertising and other neces sary expense. Every body should wear one and at the same time boost the route wherever possible. In doing this you are also boosting the good roads of this section.
 A. w. Markshetfel and a mechani, elan, of Colorado Springs, passed through Kingman Wednesday last. on their way to Los Angeles, ina Cadillac automobile, having negotiated the distance in five days running time. The men reported that they found only one bad place between Kingman and Colorado Springs, that being on the San Francisco mountains, between Flagstaff and Williams, where they had to be pulled out of the mud with team. They believe this route to be the one that will hereafter be fol- lowed by motorists.
 o. K. Parker, who recently went east to lecture on the Grand Canyon route across the country, reports that owing to the floods he was unable to give his lecture in Indianapolis. but that he was to give an illustrated lecture in Kansas City before the Old Trails association. The lecturer will display his many pictures of the Grand Canyon in Coconino and Mohave counties, as well as the petritied for est, painted desert and other scenic points to the east of us. His work is sure to tell largely in favor of the Santa Fe.Grand Canyon Needles Ma tional Highway.
 California is wondering what it's legislature will do next and Arizona is wondering when It's non-existant legis. lature will cease to exist. Arizonas legislature ceased to exist by virtue of the constitution of the state on the first Monday in January, 1913, but here it is in full bloom, making or try ing to make laws for the regulation of everything, and creating new offices and commissions for the people to pay maintenance tax for. It's new com missions not only seek to regulate the size of the eggs that the hen must lay, but the quantity and quality of the honey the bee must deposit in the comb. The bee commissioner must see that no ordinary bee shall invade the habitat of the queenly beehive and inoculate her brood with the germ of the humble bee, and for which service he is to have salary of three thou. sand plunkets each and every year and all travelling expenses And there are other such in the way of ornithologsts, entomologists, sheep. ologists, cowolonists, and so many other ologlsts that the people will hardly care to keep track of even and unto the doXologist. When this legls- latiVe body paSSes into the innOcnouS