Mohave County miner., 1915-05-01

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 MT. and Mrs. J. A. Nieset came in from Mineral Park last Wednesday.
 Mrs. l.. V. Root, of Needles, is visit ing with her daughter Mrs. Harry Jones, in Kingman.
 N. w. Tarr, of Tarr & McComb, is here from Los Angeles looking after business affairs.
 Last Wednesday evening thls country was treated to an old-fashioned hail storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. East of Kingman a great downpour of rain fell.
 T. E. Pollock, the Flagstaff banker, came down to Kingman Wednesday evening last to look after his banking and other interests in this county. He reports great falls of rain in the moun- tain country the past month.
 z o1 Nf have county shows an increase of ninety-three white children and de- crease of ten in Indians. There are now close to 900 children of school age in the county, large increase in the past two years. The census report would indicate a population of nearly 5000 in the county, an increase of 1000 since the 1910 census.
 MT. and Mrs. T. G. Norris, MT. and Mrs. o. A. Hesla and MT. and Mrs. G. E. Meany, all of Prescott, passed Kingman last Monday on their way to the coast by way of Oatman. The party occupied three cars and will camp along the way to Los Angeles. Later they will visit San Diego and San Francisco, returning home late in the summer. So far they report having had most delightful time, finding the roads good.
 Woo Wo, the Chinaman who was arrested for being unlawfully in the United States and who was ordered de- ported to China by Commissioner Smith, and who appealed from the order of the Commissioner, gave bail this week and will soon be at liberty again, pending the appeal of his case. c. w. Herndon is counsel for Wo. It is alleged that Wo came into the United States num- Der of years ago as the minor son of a merchant. After attaining his majority he failed to follow merchandising, and it is alleged, in consequence lost his original status.
 One of the most peculiar storms of the year broke over Kingman last Thursday evening. A high wind pre- vailed all day and after night rain, hail and sleet fell, which turned to snow early yesterday morning. About five o'clock the whole country was covered by mantle of the beautiful, but the sun soon dispelled it. Low down on the mountains the snow remained the greater part of the day, while in the high attitudes there appeared to have been very heavy fall. The wind was cold and biting as at any time during the winter.
 The big well that is being drilled ir the valley, near Red Lake is said to have encountered a nest of boulders and an effort to break them up by shooting resulted in the buckling of the casing. In the old days, when the MINER editor lived in the Pennsylvania oil fields, boulders were broken by what is commonly known as "bull-nosed' bit and heavier sinker, Few wells were lost on account of the encounterine of boulders. Some years ago Kansas City people drilled well in the Colo Basin country to depth of over SO( feet and encountered a great bed o1