Mohave County miner., 1914-02-21

ID hlHguldD lnurSudf l ldSJ Ou CuulCu business. While here he talked over the matter of the present bill now be. fore congress, which contemplates the appropriation of 25.0)0, ,000s yearly for good roads, the various states to par. ticipate in the expenditure of this great sum, and under the direction of the governments of the various coun- ties. He is very much opposed to the building of roads by the states, be- lieving that the general government will get better results in the building of system of national highways under the direction of the Interior Depart uent than would be had by parceling out a great appropriation to the thou sands of counties government piece meal roadwOrk. The Old Trails move- ment was for the building of national highways by the general government and we believe this would bring bet ter results than the little mess of road work that would come to us by the few thousand dollars we would get through this appropriation. Father Vabre be. lieves that it is up to the people to petition congress to make a depart ment for national road work in the De- partment of the Interior or War and build these great national arteries. the states building the connecting links to tie them up with every section of the United States. It is possible that meeting of the Good Roads As- sociation of Mohave County will be called soon to take some action in this matter.
 About year ago a man, who repre- scented himself as the agent of the own CT, gathered in about eighteen miles of the high tension power lines be- tween Needles and the Victor mill in the Gold Road country. The wire was taken to Needles and shipped to Los Angeles, where large amount of it was sold to a junk dealer named Sene- gram. Dan s. Richards, who repre- sented the owning company in this county, followed the wire to Los An geles and found where it had been disposed of. Fred w. Morrison was the wire and the junk dealer was ar rested on a charge of receiving stolen goods. In the trial of the cause Sene gram, the owner of the junk shop, swore that the wire had been purchas. ed by his secretary without his knowledge. Witnesses were brought who testified that they had heard Sensgram instruct his secretary to make the purchase, and this week Senegram was convicted of perjury The greater part of the stolen wire was recovered and Senegram settled for the wire he had purchased from the thief The stealing of the big of this county, and was on a par with the stealing of a twenty stamp quartz mill in Nevada, some years ago.
 John B. Young, one of the old time miners of this county, died at the Co. hospital last Wednesday evening. He had been aiing for some months past and hls death was not unexpected. Deceased had come to this county about thirty years ago and had fol- lowed mining until failing health com pelled him to qult. He was the owner of desirable mining property in Wea- yer district, on which he had done considerable work. He was a genial good fellow, without an enemy on earth. His funeral took pla ce today
 On the 26th of this month another of the delightful Reading Room Enter tainments of the Santa Fe will be given In Elks Opera House, this time the Harmony Four Concert Company, of Arkansas City, Kansas, being the performers. There are nine people in the company and Supt. Busser says that they are all that is good in har- mony. They will be met ln Kingman by record crowd.