Mohave County Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 1918-09-21

MYRTLE HOORE ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF SELLING "BOOZrjO AN INDIAN Bound Over to United States Jury in Bond of $500 hich She Furnished Hearing Next Month Month-Arrest - Arrest Month-Arrest Made by U. S. Of Officer. - ficer. Officer. Myrtle Moore, who is said to be conducting a house in the southwest part of town, was taken into custody Thursday last by U. S. officer C. M. Goodnight, on a warrant charging her' with selling one pint of ardent spirits to Frost Querta, and to have received , $3.50 therefore. Her heading was be before - fore before Anson H. Smith, U. S. Commis Commissioner, - sioner, Commissioner, Thursday afternoon and she was bound over to the United States grand jury in bond of $500, which she gave. AH the evidence secured by the government was not disclosed at the hearing, but it is said. will be sen sensational - sational sensational when placed before the in inquisitorial - quisitorial inquisitorial body at Prescott next month. CAMP FIRE GIRLS HAVE RAISED $480 The Camp Fire Girls have tempor temporarily - arily temporarily disbanded with the beginning of the school term. The girls have done good work un under - der under the leadership of Mrs. George Shea. Since the frming of their or organization - ganization organization last May they have raised $480' for the Red Cross and other war work. TWO SMALL BLAZES KINGMAN THIS WEEK Last Tuesdav morninc ahnnt 10 o'clock the fire alarm called the non- pie td the residence of M. G. Wagner, on south t ront street, where a rubbish fire was found to be endamrprinc flio building. It was soon extinguished. At tne same time a lire was discov discovered - ered discovered in the residence of F. W. Sher Sherman - man Sherman on Beale street in Rcimp hpririino It was extinguished by Mrs. J. H. Hufc- cninson without the aid of fire fight fighters. - ers. fighters. BELGIANS NEED CAST , " OFF CLOTHING BADLY If you have an extra overcoat or woolen garment of any kind for man, woman or child, hanging in your closet after September 30. it will haunt you f orV what it might have done to clothe a needy Belgian this winter. Dig it up now, and be ready to send it to the Red Cross. In response to a call from Herbert Hoover, head of the Commission for relief in Belgium, who says that 10, 10,-000,000 - 000,000 10,-000,000 Belgians depend upon America for their winter's rlothing, the Amer American - ican American Red Cross has promised to collect 5,000 tons of used clothing. The col collection - lection collection will be done by the Red Cross chapters September 23 to 30. In addition to used clothing, piece goods, blankets and baby clothes are included in the call. Only garments of strong material can be accepted. Donors- are reminded that it will not be necessary to mend the garments as the repair work will give employ employment - ment employment to thousands of destitute women in the occupied regions Henry P. Davidson, chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross in his appeal for a hearty res response - ponse response from the American people says: "Every household in the land has some spare clothing, worn or outgrown of little value here, but desperately needed by the destitute there. They have been reduced to fashioning gar- i ments from flour sacks, old blankets, sheets, and tablecloths, which have now almost disappeared, and shoes from scraps of carpet and jute sacks. Today it costs eight dollars to have a pair of shoes resoled. For be'ding, sacks stuffed! with dry leaves or moss serve as mattresses. Everywhere the need for blankets is tremendous. Hos pitals and other institutions suffer for want of sheets. In some pkvs whole families sleep together to share a ir -gle blanket. We cannot purchase what is needed "but you can,give it." LEAVE FOR PRESCOTT Charles Thomas and wife came in from Oatman yesterday and took this morning's No. 8 to Prescott, Arizona, where Mr. Thomas will enter a sani sanitarium - tarium sanitarium at that place. He has been ill for some months past and it is to be hoped that his entry into this institu institution - tion institution will be beneficial.

WOMEN OF MOHAVE COUNTY WILL HELP MAKE LIBERTY LOAN SUCCESS Alice M. Birdsall, of Phoenix, state chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, was in Kingman on Monday and Tuesday of this week' for the purpose of interesting the wom women - en women of Kingman in the forthcoming drive. A meeting of the Kingman women was held in the parlors of the M. E. Church Tuesday afternoon, where Miss Birdsell explained the me methods - thods methods that are being pursued by the different committees throughout the State and the National Women's Lib Liberty - erty Liberty Loan Committee of which Mrs. W. G. McAdoo is chairman. The women of Mohave County wiJl be of great assistance to the general committee in the raising of the big loan as they are anxious to do their share of the work in helping to crush kaiserism. TODAY'S BATTLE LINE ON WESTERN FRONT LONDON A British monitor was sunk in the harbor' Monday by an in ternal explosion. 20 are known dead and 57 missing. OTTAWA The following Califro Califro-nians - nians Califro-nians and Arizonans are listed on the Canadian casualty list; killed in ac action, - tion, action, H. Robinson, Fresno; died of wounds, L. C. Hill, Morenci; wounded T. L. Kemp, San Diego, S. G. Wil Williams, - liams, Williams, Hayden, L. C. Cline, San Ber Ber-nardion. - nardion. Ber-nardion. BRITISH FRONT The British, in the midst of a terrific storm, smash smash-ingly - ingly smash-ingly attacked on a three mile front east of Lempire and Epehy, where the Germans are retaining outposts on the Hindenburg line. The region is stoutly defended the fighting pro ceeding fiercely til noon. To that hour the British had counted between 300 and 400 prisoners. The French cap tured Benay, five miles south of St. Quentin and repulsed a counter attack two and a half miles southwest of St. Quentin. WASHINGTON Crowder announ ced that the new draft regulations regarding the shipyard employes was designed to rid the yard of slackers. It requires a monthly report from shipyards) on essentially each employe holding a deferred classification. If specific claim for the continua continua-tiohof - tiohof continua-tiohof the exemption is not made by the fifth of each month the exemption si cancelld. This followd protsts from workmn claiming that pugilists, base ball plawers, actors and others there are holding soft shipyard jobs. WASHINGTON, Sept.21 .Chief of Staff March announced that one mil million, - lion, million, seven hundred and fifty thousand Americans have embarked overseas, indicating a hundred and fifty thous thousand - and thousand shipped since last announcement Characterized war situation is "con "continuously, - tinuously, "continuously, continually good." Said (Continued on page six) SUPERVISORS MEET MONDAY CANVASS ELECTION RETURNS The Board of Supervisors will meet at the courthouse Monday morning for the purpose of canvassing the returns of the recent primary election. Since our last issue returns have been received from two precincts north of the river, but these in no way ef-i feet the results as given in our last issue. Only one office is at issue, that of supervisor,' A. M. MacDuffee and Charles W. Lynch are running a neck and neck race, although the re results - sults results appear to favor Mr. MacDuffee. No polls! were held at Moccasin or Short Creek, the election paraphernal paraphernalia - ia paraphernalia having failed to arrive on time. It is also possible that no election was held at Keohan's, as that place is far out of the way and the mails only get getting - ting getting in by casual travelers, or when ranchers go to town for supplies. J.C. HOME FROM LOS ANGELES J. C. Wilson, who has been laid up in a Los Angeles hospital the past two months, returned home Thursday accompanied by his wife. Jack is said to be on the road to recovery, but is still too weak to walk. He is deputy mine inspector for the northern dis district - trict district and it was while attending to his duties that he was stricken with the illness that laid him up. His many friends here hope for his speedy and complete recovery.

OCTOBERTHE 28TH Ralley Will Be Held in King man, Saturday Morning at 10 o'clock People Are Urged to Make Saturday a Banner Day. Tho Fourth Liberty Loan, the big biggest - gest biggest that our country has yet called upon us for, starts next Saturday morning, September 28. The morning of the first day of the loan a Grand rally will be held at the Elk's hall. A good program is as assured - sured assured Charles B. fliVard, state di director, - rector, director, will come from Phoenix to ad dress the meeting and music will be, furnished by H. J. Dubin and the Girls Glee Club. The rally starts at 10:00 a. m. Everyone is urged to come out and participate In the rally. It is the desire of the committee to make the first day the banner day and all bond investors are requested to buy their bonds at once land wear their buttons. Do not wait for some to call on you but go to your bank on the maming.of the 28th and purchase your bonds. It is needles to say that all the people of Mohave County will will have to do their best in both buy buying - ing buying bonds and influencing others to do the same. The quota for Mohave County is not yefj known but whatever it is the men and women of Mohave County will meet it with the same spirit as they have shown heretofore. Most of the bonds will be bought on the installment plan rather than to be paid for in full at the time of pur purchase. - chase. purchase. This is just as acceptable to the Government. The installments will be made pay payable - able payable as follows: Initial payment with subscription 10 per cent, second in installment - stallment installment 20 percent payable Novem November - ber November 21, third installment 20 per cent payable December 19, fourth install installment - ment installment 20 per cent payable January 16, x fifth installment 30 per cent payable January 30. These installments are such that the subscriber can pay them out of his earnings. The "honor roll" giving the names of all bond buyers will be posted on the bulletin board in the same man manlier - lier manlier as for the last loan. Also the amounts subscribed by each communi community - ty community will be posted each day. Oatman will also have a rally on Saturday, Charles B. Ward going there to speak after the rally in King Kingman. - man. Kingman. The Fourth Liberty Loan in Amer America - ica America will be a ringing challenge to the country which has crushed neutral Belgium, murdered non-combatants and broken all rules of civilized war warfare - fare warfare and Mohave County, Arizona will do her share. EXAMINATION TOR CLERK IN KINGMAN OCT. 26TH The United States Civil Service Commission again announces an ex examination - amination examination for the position of clerk in the Kingman pstoffice in this city to be held October 26, 1918. There has been difficulty in secur securing - ing securing a sufficient number of applicants for this position and therefore all qualified persons are urged to enter the examination. Application blanks and further in information - formation information may be obtained from the Local Secretary of the Board of Civil Service Examiners at the postoffice in this city. STORM UPROOTS OLD LANDMARK The great storm of two weeks ago uprooted the big cottonwood; tree that has been a landmark since the early eighties at the Valley ranch, six miles north of Kingman. The tree was des destroyed, - troyed, destroyed, the wind tearing it to pieces. This tree was planted by the late J. H. Johnson from a twig that he was U"ii)g as a whip. The twig took root and developed into a large tree, al although - though although other cottonwood trees failed to make good. At the time of plant planting - ing planting the tree, Mr. Johnson was bring bringing - ing bringing the water from Pat spring through several miles of pipe line for use on his cattle range. GETS ARMY PROMOTION H. N. Spofford, who was engaged in mining in this county a few years ago, is now a captain of engineers in the army. Mr. Spofford is at Santa Rita, New Mexico, and expects to be soon sent overseas.

IT OCT. 2. We are running a partial list of those registered for the draft Septem September - ber September 12 with their registration num numbers.. - bers.. numbers.. The balance will be run in next week's issue of this paper. The date of the drawing in Washington when the serial numbers will be given reg registrants - istrants registrants has not been definitely set but it is thought it will be October 2. The serial numbers will determine the or order - der order in which the men between 19 and 36, will be called. The questionaires are now being mailed from the local exemption board, after which the men will be classified and called for ex amination. 1 Wagner, Merton George, Ktngman 2 Hennfessy, William John, Kingman 3 Thompson, Joseph Russell, King Kingman - man Kingman 4 Overton, George Washington, Big Big-springs, - springs, Big-springs, Texas E Chambers, John Charles, Kingman 6 Klrby, Louis Amme, Yucca 7 Atkinson, Clarence, Kingman 8 Nicholas, Jay William, Kingman 9 Van Marter, Frank Napoleon, King Kingman - man Kingman 10 George, Stanley Johnson, Kingman 11 Graham, ICrnest Isaac, Kingman 12 Fair, Walter Monroe, Kingman 13 Porter, John William, Kingman 14 Barefoot, Hubert Wood, Kingman ID Marlnez, Lawrence Jlonroe, King Kingman - man Kingman 1G Kling. Henry Richard, Kingman 17 Chappell, George, Kingman 15 Daley, Thomas Tiancis, Kingman 19 Wah, Yee Teng, Kingman 20 Chong, Jung Hing, Kingman " 21 Hong, Hue, Kingman 22 Hung, Wong Ling, Kingman 23 Jim, Lim Ah, Kingman 24 Meyer, Walter, Kingman 25 Ray, John Miller, Kingman 26 Mignon, Charles Frank, San Fran Francisco - cisco Francisco 27 Haynes, Emory Holloway, Hack Hack-berry - berry Hack-berry 28 Alexander, Herbert John, Kingman 29 Wallace, Louis Lamoron, Oatmar 30 Harris, Robert Wagner, Oatman 31 Braffet, Ben Herndon. Kingman 32 Hodges, David John.Klngan 33 Tarr, Jesse Austin, Kingman 34 Weiss, Paul, Venice, Cal. 35 Cummings, Finis Ewlng, Kingman 36 Clayton, George Louis, Ktngman 37 Altken, William Bryan, Kingman 38 Rhodes, Charley, Kingman 39 Teale, Lorren Minturn, Kingman (Continued On Page Eight) PUBLIC AND HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IS 245 School days have come and the small boy now wends his unwilling way schoolward. All the public schools of the county have opened with a full corps of teachers. Kingman schools are well equipped and the high school is getting accessions from all parts of the county. Principal W. L. Lin Lin-ville - ville Lin-ville reports the following registra registration. - tion. registration. High school 59 8th grade 19 7th grade 22 5th and 6th , 28 4th grade 15 3rd grade 27 2nd grade 31 1st grade 28 Kindergarten 16 Total 245 G. R, Franklin is instructor of mil military - itary military tactics and had a class of 38 cadets. The school starts out under the best of auspices and the teachers believe they will have one of the mos successful school years in its history. NOTICE The following articles in the list of Fair Food Prices were misquoted in the list appearing on page 3 of this issue, the mistake having been made in this office. Bacon 70c instead of 10c per pound. Ham 65c per pound instead of 15c. Hominy should be 10c per pound. Great Aviation Record Lieut. Frank Luke Lieut. Frank Luke, of Phoenix, son of Frank Luke, well known in this county, has raised the stock of Ari Ari-zonans - zonans Ari-zonans in the great fight by downing eleven baloons and two airplanes on the western front within the last month. Young Luke has won his title Ace by his bravery and the excellent maneuvering of his machine in a battle with two German planes. He suc succeeded - ceeded succeeded yesterday in bringing down two additional balloons and had a fight with the two planes. One of these he brought down over the Ger German - man German lines and the other was brought down within the French lines. He went to earth with the last plane and captured the aviator turning him ov over - er over to the French. We expect great things from the hundreds of young fellows who have gone into the air service from Arizona and especially from Mohave county.

The War Industries Board at Washington, D. C. has ruled that week weekly - ly weekly newspapers must discontinue sending papers to subscribers more than three months in arrears; If your subscription is more than three months in arrears we are forced to discontinue same unless it is paid at once. If you cannot pay cash can you give us a note for the amount due so that we can continue sending you the paper. We hate to put this government ruling into effect against our old friends and subscribers, many of whom have! taken this paper for a quar quarter - ter quarter of a century. We would like for our present custom to continue and allow our good friends several months after the date of the expiration of their subscriptions in which to renew them, thus in many cases, accom accommodating - modating accommodating our subscribers. We would like to make it as convenient as possible for them to send in their renewals when it suited them, but the government has absolutely prohibited this, this ruling is made to save and conserve the white paper upon which newspapers are printed. It is made to avoid all possible waste of this paper as there is a very marked shortage of it throughout the entire world, so we ask you there therefore, - fore, therefore, to help us live up to this government regulation. 4. We have asked the government to allow us until November 1st to get this rule into effect, and so we have no time to loose. MOHAVE COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. , Publishers of "Mohave County Miner" and "Our Mineral Wealth."

bu liberty Bonds 'DANCE GIVEN TO-NIGHT FOR BENEFIT OF BELGIANS The Kingman Members of the Com Commission - mission Commission ofr Relief in Belgium will give a dance tonight at the open air pavil pavilion - ion pavilion for the purpose of raising a work working - ing working fund for local needs. One of the urgent needs, it has developed lately by the disappearance of several of the milk bottles which have been taken from the many places, where they were placed to catch small change, is to attach a chain to these bottles so the pennies can be assured the little folks across the water, who so sorely need them at this time, The proceeds will be used to the best advantage to towards - wards towards starting the work on a larger scale in Mohave County. Everybody should go and have a good time and know that in so doing that they are aiding these down trodden allies, who stand in such need of our help. JOINS AVIATORS Mrs. Thomas Devine, who has been visiting in Los Angeles, returned home Thursday last. She reports that her son Thomas has been transferred from the navy to the aviation and that he expects to pass through Kingman in a few days on his way to an avia tion school in the east. The young fel low is sure to make good, being enthu enthusiastic - siastic enthusiastic over his new rating.

CLOUDBURST ON SANDY WONDER SPECTACLE People who have never seen a cloud burst can have no conception of the consequent rush of water that comes down the canyons throughout the wat watershed. - ershed. watershed. During the recent heavy rains a great wall of water flowed down Wheelen Wash, which has the head of its watershed in the Wallapai moun mountains, - tains, mountains, some miles above the Cane Springs ranch, on the Big Sandy. The wash was almost dry when the great crest of the first big wave reached the ranch. It was rolling over and over and its great force dug into the sandy bottom of the canyon and when it roll ed the sand balls to the crest again they broke open and the wind blew clouds of dust away. The sight was one of the marvels the onlookers had never seen before. I People who have seen the great sand waves in the Colorado river, during floodtime, may have the impression that they have seen one of the won wonders - ders wonders of the age, but these carry great masses of wet sand up with them, while these floods bring to the sur surface - face surface great masses of dry sand that dissipate with the winds. The Red Cross work rooms will be closed until thene w quota of work arrives. Notice will be' given in these columns when the work will be re sumed.

The climax of a recent thrilling story of a German who mas masqueraded - queraded masqueraded as a British officer is the exposure of the spy through his typically Teuton touch in kicking the face of a servant whom he had knocked down. "You might have knocked him down and been British," said the man who turned him over to the firing squad, "but not the rest it. Myriad undisputable instances of Hun bestiality unrestrained ihow him to have exhausted all imaginable possibilities of brutiah brutiah-ness - ness brutiah-ness in his treatment of his war victims. Oversubsci be your quota of Fourth Liberty Loan bonds and help throw the German army back across the' Rhine where its own people may have a .taste of its "will to power".