MOHAVE COUNTY , ARIZONA
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS OF EVENTS

Wm. Armstrong, of the firm of Clark & Armstrong, was married about the 12th ult.  to Mrs. Mary Catherine Mounce, by Esq, Samuel Todd, at Mohave. The happy couple were spending the honeymoon under the unbrageous arms of a cottonwood, when the boys vistied them for musical purposes; but Bill "came out like a man" and the band adjourned to the saloon of Silverthorn & Mathews.- - for luck. ----Arizona Miner, December 14, 1864, 3:2 ( note: Listed, Territorial Census.  1864, Second Judicial District, at La Paz No. 5, W. C. Armstrong, age 50, single, born  in N.Y., resident at this place one year, occupation, Blacksmith  No assets listed) . Date: 1867-03-09; Paper: Weekly Journal Miner Hardyville Feb 24, 1867 Again is our town thrown into excitement by the murder of one of our follow townsmen and bother Pioneers. On Friday morning last, as the workmen on the Toll Road at Union Pass, sixteen miles from here, were going to work,  they discovered, the tracks of an Indian, who had evidently but just crossed the road. Mr Thomas Mc-Call, who was in charge of tlie work, alone, and with nothing but a pistol, started over the hills to follow the Indian, He was gone for some time, and the party started out to look for him, thinking something had befallen him, or he would have returned. On travelling about two miles they came upon a body, pierced with arrows and stripped of clothing. It would seem that the Indians purposely made the tracks across the road to draw their enemies into ambush, as there was evidence of a large party of them. The night before, they had made a raid into San Francisco District and killed two in mules, and captured one horse,  which they had with them, and which was found dead near McCall's body, it having been shot probably by McCall in his defense. Mr. McCall was one of the oldest settlers here, having come here in the spring of 1861; was an honest, upright and fearless man, universally esteemed by all who knew him, and his untimely fate is to be deeply mourned. The arrows prove the Indians to have been Pah-Utes. We had been fearing trouble, as the red devils last week held a barbecue at Cottonwood Island over a couple of horses they killed there, and their trucks were discovered a few miles above here, along the river. These Pah-Utes must be exterminated, and to do that the war must be carried to their homes. Their head quarters are on the Muddy. They come down to Callville and El Dorado Canon, and are there " good Indians,"—dash across the river, massacre a few of our citizens, then back with their blood and booty, to be  "good Indian" again. Now it seems to me to be a wrong policy for any one to treat any of them as good Indians. I am told that Pah-Utes are, and have been of late, hanging around the troops at the Canon, receiving bread, instead of lead, as they should. They no doubt are very friendly there, and it is possible they may (those who go boldly about) be innocent of the commission of the depredations, but they are Pah-Utes, and of course have intercouse with the tribe, and gather items for otherso act upon. And they cloak tho real offenders. The only true way is to abolish this system, every where practiced too much, of recognizing any friendly Pah-Utes, Wallapais, or Apaches.   It may seem harsh to some, but it is mercy to struggling civilisation, to put to the death all and every of the red dogs, at all  times and under any circumstances, until the last one is colonised in the happy hunting ground . A party is now out to bury McCall, and to find the body of a stranger, who left here, solitary and alone, for Prescott, from the fact that his horse was found near Union pass by McCall the day before he was killed. The man was subsequently heard of at the Toll Gate, all right, but his horse it here. The stage arrived yesterday morning with B.H. Coit, passenger, who has arrived with the purpose of working his mine, the Pride of the Pines, in Waba Yuma District, By the stage we have news that a company of cavalry will arrive at Mohave next week, whose business it will be to look to these fiends the Pah-Utes and Wallapais, and it is fair to presume that our troubles with them on the road will soon end. The stage will soon run through to Prescott, so say the mall contractors, who appear to be earnest and active men. Weekly Arizona Miner 1874-09-11 FROM MOHAVE COUNTY.ANOTHER MURDER.THE REMAINS OF CONSTANCIA BRICE FOUND HORSES AND CATTLE COMING. Andrew Stein, who drives the mail wagon on the Hardyville route, arrived in Prescott about noon to-day. Among our letters is the following from Wm. B. Hardy, Esq., giving the news — good and bad — from Mohave County: Again we are called upon to chronicle one of those terrible homicides that have become so prevalent in our county of late. Last Saturday morning, A. J. Mathews (alias Shorty the mule skinner), was shot and instantly killed near Cerbat, at what is known as the milk ranch. No evidence was brought out at the inquest that would convict or Implicate any one.    James Smith, the keeper of the station, is suspected and will be examined to-day. One McKinney, who has run away, is also suspected. When it is all summed up and sifted over, it will be disclosed that there was a big drunk and two or three parties, including Mathews, took a hand in a shooting scrape, with the fatal result above mentioned. A drove of about one hundred horses, principally tine brood mares, passed this place hunting a location. They came from Idaho, via St. Thomas and Stone's Ferry, and will probably stop in this county. Still another drove of about one hundred head of horses has just crossed the Colorado river at Hardyville and are bound for the Prescott country. These horses are represented as being very fine stock. A herd of five hundred head of cattle will soon cross the river and locate on the Cottonwood, in this county. Several large flocks of sheep are expected to arrive during the fall.   Let them come. The Keystone mine looks well. About three months since one Constantia Brice was missing and fears were entertained of his safety, and a notice, was sent to the MINER. Until last week nothing further was heard from him, when parties coming in from the Cedar district found his saddle-bags and papers; this led to further search, which was made on last Saturday. His remains were found in a cave, about six miles north of Coyote station. The remains of his horse were also found near by, in a decomposed state. The saddle had not been taken off the horse.The conclusion arrived at was, that the horse was sick and Mr. Rice, tried to get him in until he became exhausted, and died for want of water. Col. Hodge at Mineral Park, June, 8th 1876 Editor Miner :Since my arrival here, on my way from Yuma to Prescott, I have gathered a few items which maybe of interest to your readers. Emigrants and stock have been coining into the Territory from California, crowding the Colorado at Hardyville quite freely and much In excess of last year. W. H. Hardy, Esq., Informs mo that there have already been crossed some 30.000 sheep, 5,000 horses and 3,000 cattle, and that from all accounts there will be at the lowest estimate 150,000 sheep, 12,000 cattle and 8,000 horses brought In on this route during the year. The emigration he estimates at 1,500 at least, in place of 700 last year. The sum total will make quite an addition to the population and to the personal property of the Territory. The Colorado river is front 8 to 10 foot above low water mark, and is now rising from 4 to 6 inches in 24 hours. It is Court week, but Judge Tweed had not arrived on the 6th instead, but is expected every day. There are some important cases on the calendar, which attract much interest and which will be closely contested.     A. K. Davis and family have returned from California, as well as several others well known in this county, among which are Messes. McCrackin and Owen, large owners in and  discoverers of the McCrackin Mine.     Judge Pitzer, from Pioche, Nevada, is at Cerbat  and several eminent Attorneys are dully expected from California, who are engaged on some of the cases before this term of Court.     The Probate Court, Judge Weber, has been in session a portion of the week  and much important business transacted. Many of the mines are producing well, but at present them is a serious hitch between the mines of the Keystone and the superintendent or the owners, but it is to be hoped that matters will soon be amicably arranged,     Messrs. Breon &  Spear, I am informed, have leased the Mineral Park mill and the Keystone mine. The mill is now running on custom ore, and doing veil. Quite a number of small lots of ore have been crushed from different mines the past two months with gratifying results. I have not been able to obtain full statistics, but give a few obtained  from  parties In interest     Five tons from the Index, gave an average yield of $236 per ton.This mine is owned by Haas & Co, and is one mile  East of town.  Eight tons from the Mocking Bird situated three miles northeast of Cerbat, gave an average of $700 per ton.This ore belonged to Messrs. Miley, Riley and Upton. Nineteen tons of ore from the Cupel near Stockton,  belonging to  Messrs., Cory & Potts and others, gave an average of $330 per ton. Fifteen tons of second class ore, from the Metalle Accident, owned, by J. C. Christie, gave an average of $400  per  ton and his first class ore shipped to San Francisco, netted him over $1,000 per ton.  Mr., Christie has gone to the Centennial, and takes some fine specimens and some bullion with him.  A small lot from the Laporte, close by town and owned by Davison & Co., gave $534 per ton.  Seven and a half tons of  Empire, at Chloride, gave an average of $310 per ton. This mine is owned by W. H.  Raymond. One ton from the Sunday School, close by Empire, gave $191 per ton also owned  by Mr. Raymond.       Twenty  tons from the Shoulter mine, in the Hualpai mountains, gave $350 per ton. Several other lots have been worked which I have no returns from. A large amount of Keystone and Hackberry South has been worked, giving an  average of $200 per ton.     The Hackberry mill is running successfully and turning out much beautiful, bullion .985 fine. The mine is, as I am informed by a gentlemen just in from them, looking exceedingly well. Mr. Hardy has let another contract on his big tunnel running to the Fairfield, the first claim West of the Keystone, and which is progressing finely. Some  40 tons of splendid ore are now on the dump of the Lone Star which will go away up.     Mr. Patterson is just in from the Salt Mountains, north of Stone's ferrys and has on this trip, over seven tons of salt. He reports a large number of emigrants and stock coming in by the way of Stone's ferry from Nevada and California, Hoping to meet Prescott friends soon I am yours, etc. H.G. Hodge Date: 1872-11-30; Paper: Weekly Journal Miner Hardyville Destroyed by Fire A letter from Ehrenberg, of date November 22d, informs us that the steamer Cocopah had just arrived there, with news of the burning of Hardyville. The village was one of the oldest in Northern Arizona, and the seat of justice for Mohave county. It consisted of a series  of adobe buildings, several of which were roofed with shingles. The loss will not fall far short of $150,000, Wm. H. Hardy and Samuel Todd are, undoubtedly, the heaviest loosers. Date: 1873-04-26; Paper: Weekly Journal Miner From Hardyville and Wallapai. Shooting of Capt. Charles Atchison Mining News, &C The mail wagon from Hardyville and way points, arrived here Thursday evening, in charge of Mr. Calvin White. By it we  received letters from which the following is taken: Mohave city is not behind our mining towns. On Saturday night, the 19th inst. a man by the name of Joseph Spearing shot Capt. Charles Atchison. It appears that Spearing and the Captain had some words about a bottle of whiskey, and that the Capt. then closed his store and afterward opened it to let a man out. At the time he opened Spearing and others were near the house, and they again had some words, Spearing talking pretty rough. Spearing drew his shooter and pointed it at the Capt., who advanced toward him and wanted to know what he meant by drawing a pistol on him. Spearing replied that he could not run him, and the Capt. replied that he did not want to run him, but he wanted to run his own house. The Capt. then went back into the house, got his pistol and started for the door, cocking it as he went, while Spearing remained in the same position with cocked pistol in his hand. As the Captain rearched the door, Spearing shot and hit him the ball catching a little above the right nipple and lodging in the back part of his shoulder, where it still remains. He still lives and there is some hope of his recovery; the ball will be cut out tomorrow. Spearing was arrested, waived an eximation and was committed and taken to Cerbat. The affair has cast quite a gloom over the community, as the Capt. was universally liked and looked upon as one of our very best citizens. He never would have harmed anybody. Mining matters here are looking better than ever. the mill is running nicely on "Keystone" ore and the venture has proved a success. Yesterday the 21st the assistant engineer, Lindsay caught his arm in some portion of the machinery and broke it. May 18, 1877     Court opened up on the 7th instant, Judge Tweed presiding, with fifty two cases on the  docket. Representatives from every part of county were present, having either been summoned to attend as jurors, or else being interested in some of the numerous mining suits. The Sandy sent the largest delegation, among which were quite a number who came for the purpose of making an honest penny by some of the many sinful games in which ye festive miner is wont to indulge.     The school building was extemporized as Court House, and several times before the opening of the court, the venerable Judge could have been seen in front of the entrance hammering on the triangle, to remind the boys that it was time to cash their chips and come to "court" Many sorrowful tales were told, such as having sprained ankles, being sick, etc., in order to get excused from serving on the jury. One robust individual asserted that he was afflicted with heart disease and could not stand the confinement in the jury room.     In the case of the Territory against W. A. Mix, for assault with intent to commit murder, the Grand Jury ignored the bill. The same vs. James W. Hass, same charge, a true bill was found, and on trial a verdict of guilty of assault only was rendered.      The five stamp mill is running on a limited supply of ore from the Keystone and Star Mines, These mines are working a very small force of men, and as a consequence things will look very lonely after the adjournment of Court on Saturday evening.     Some of the Yavapai lawyers left on Friday, and Judge Tweed expected to be finish up the business so as to adjourn Court, The Grand Jury occupied the Judge's apartment during their deliberations, and at me of their sittings some cuss, without fear of the majesty of the law, "froozo" on to the Judge's meerschaum pipe.   All inquiries after the missing article failed to discover its whereabouts. During the afternoon of the next day a Petit Jury was quartered in the same rooms, and in order to get even with the Grand Jury some one of the immaculate twelve had to prance off with his Honor's blankets.     The roadway through the Juniper mountains is filled with loose rocks, which makes it very annoying to travelers. The county authorities would confer a benefit on the traveling public if they would employ some one to put it in repair.     Game of all kinds, such as deer, antelope, etc., is very plentiful on the plains between Cross Mountain and the Juniper Range.     The farmers in Williamson Valley are busily engaged in planting corn.   A much larger quantity will be put in this season than has ever before been planted in that section. All through Walnut Valley evidence of increased activity is visible, and the farmers expect to reap a large harvest this year. It will not be long now until all these fertile mountain valleys will be teaming with a large population.   Here are large tracts of land only waiting for the husbandman to tickle them with the plow when they will reward him with an abundant harvest. Parties going to Mineral Park or vicinity will do well to provide themselves with grain for their animals, sufficient for one night, before they get to the Willows, as the crops at the station were almost an entire failure last year, and as a consequence no grain can be obtained until they get to another station at the mouth of the canyon, four miles east of' the Park.     There is also no water at the Tanks, and canteens will have to be filled at the Cottonwoods. The parties who started to dig a well at the Tanks sunk it about twenty five feet, when they found the rock so hard , that they abandoned the place in disgust, after having placed a broken whisky bottle in the bottom of the well, evidently as a sign that the thirsty traveler need not for anything to drink in that locality.     All along the route the Miner is highly spoken of as a live and interesting local paper, fully up to the requirements of the times, and generally commended for the course it has taken relative to all matters effecting the interests of the Territory and each particular section.    X-CENTRICK. Mineral Park  July 12,1877, Editor Miner:     It now seems that it matters not how much we complain, or what ! grounds we have for complaint, we are not to have any better mail facilities; that matters are bound to go from bad to worse. Now it seems that a gentleman unacquainted with, the country has contracted to carry the mail from Aubrey to Mineral Park for $1,750 per year. This is quite enough to know about the whole matter; we will have a mail as this contract could not sub let for less than $5,000 per year. As for the mails up the river we hear that the steamers have refused to carry any more and the contractor refuses to carry mails for this place, so we are without mails and if we cannot get all that is due we had better have none. The fact that a postmaster has a right to sort and throw out, or a contractor refuse to carry only a part is in itself quite enough to call for an investigation by the department. But months pass away and no notice is taken of our complaints. We say if men will put in low bids, compel them to fill to the letter, show lenity and soon we will have a new deal.     Immigration continues to move along the dusty roads, with jaded and worn out stock. I certainly pity these immigrants to be caught on the desert in the late hot weather. Only think of trying to haul a wagon with a wore out team through the sands of Soda Lake, when the mercury indicates 125° in the shade and never drop below 110 ° at night, and  when the thermometer is exposed to the sun it crawls up to 145 degrees. Then to think that several large bands of sheep are being driven or attempted to be brought Across. The loss 35 is great not one out of five reaches the Territory alive, yet they are now at the Colorado river crossing, but the owners have a sorry tale to tell. Sheep are of but little value in California, and not too high in Arizona; I hear of good flocks being offered at one dollar to two dollars per head.     We have already had a fine shower of rain and expect more. We hope for a spell of moist weather. Arizona Weekly Journal Miner Date: 1889-03-20; Paper: Weekly Journal Miner A young man named Larkin of Kingman, while going to Mineral Park, last Saturday evening, with three companions, to  attend a dance, met with a serious and dangerous accident. One of the party had a six-shooter in his pocket, which fell out and was discharged, the bullet entering Larkin's hip, ranging upwards and lodging against his spine. He was sent to San Francisco yesterday for treatment 1894-02-14 The Kingman Miner reports the birth of a son to Mrs. O.D. M. Gaddis, nee Miss Ella Baker Kingman, Arizona, Feb. 9 1897 The Indian trailers and deputy sheriffs started before daylight on the trail of tbe train robber who escaped after holding up a train at Nelson last night. It is Supposed that the trailers will have no trouble running down the robber The idenity of the robber killed by Messenger A. O. Sumners is stlll unknown He was a cowboy. The mail olerh insists that there several robbers, but the engineer and flreman saw only one after the shooting by the messenger. The robber secured nothing but a few registered  packages and letters from the mail car the through pouches being unmolested. Nov 23 1889 The White Hills Road Work Has Just Begun At Kingman With Great  Activity.     Yesterday the first work on the Sacramento valley railroad was begun at Kingman in Mohave with Dr. Thoodore B. Comstock of Los Angeles in charge as chief engineer. Mr. Comstock is also vice president of the company which is building the  road. The new road will run from Kingman to White Hill, both in Mohave county, a distrance of about 54 miles. Construction will actually begin at McConnico Junction, four miles west of Kingman, but under arrangments with the Santa Fe Pacific company, the southern terminus of the road will be Kingman. The heaviest grade on the road not exceed 1.85 per cent. The road will pass through one of the richest mining sectopns pf Arizona. Out from Kingman it will strike first theUnion Pass Road, near to which are the Ewing mining properties, and some other ten or a dozen mines, then the Cerbet mines, Todd Basin and  Mineral Park properties, all of which will be tributary to the road. It will then traverse the Chloide district, in which there are a large number of valuable minos, all more or less developed, many of them already on a paying basis. Leaving the Chloride district the road will take in the mining properties on the west side of the Sacramento valley, now called the Klondike region otherwise known as Gracey's camp. Beyond that is El Dorado Canyon and then White Hills, the northern terminus of the road. It is possible that following the completion of the road, it may be extended as far west as the Colorado river, passing near the Senator mines, Gold Basin and Temple Bar properties. The future will, however, determine that. The contracts, which have been let, call for the completion of the road as far as Chloride by June 1,1899, and to White Hills by October 1,1899. Prescott Morning Courier 1902-04-14 Matt Samsky, a miner, died at Gold Road last Thursday and was brought to Kingman the following day, or interment. His death was caused by pneumonia. Deceased was a Slav by birth, 36 years of age and was a newcomer in Mohave County. His family, consisting of a wife and eight children, joined him a short time ago from New Mexico. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. and like the prudent man he carried a $2,500 insurance policy in that organization, in consequence of which he leaves the family a little money with which to continue the battle of life. Tuscon Daily Citizen 1902-01-23 Indians Dying Of Civilization. KINGMAN, Az,, Jan. 23.—Unless the Government adopts at once stringent preventive measures the once great Mojave tribe of Indians will be wiped from the face of the earth by the scourge of consumption. The Mojaves, to the number of about 3000, dwell along the Colorado River north of The Needles, most of them on the reservation, although they scatter through the country on both the Arizona and California sides. When the Mojave Indians adopted the white man's mode of living and his wearing apparel their retrogression began, and from a race that was physically perfect the Mojaves degenerated to a tribe of Indians, who are dying by wholesale from the ravages of tuberculosis and its attendant evils. The Mojaves are by birth and mode of living very susceptible to this disease. they have a very small chest development and in their lungs the terms find an inviting habitat. During the winter months who families. come of whom may have consumption sleep in small single-room mud houses, with no ventilation other than the fireplace. They are unclean in their habits of cooking, eating and drinking. During the winter they never bathe while In summer they bathe too much remaining In the Colorado river nearly all day. They are not regular with their meals, and nearly always eat and drink too much. This causes derangements of the stomach, preventing the proper assimilation of food, producing emaciation and anemia, which are followed by consumption among those predisposed to It. The Mojaves are  a peaceful agricultural people, and almost entirely self-supporting, the Government rarely being called upon to aid them. At the reservation agency steps are being taken to gradually get the Mojaves back to their former mode of living. It Is believed that once they readopt their dwellings of brush, which the attendant better ventilation, a long step will be taken toward the stoppage of the plague, which Is exterminating them. Then, too, It Is Intended to persuade the Indians to do away with the use of heavy clothing, a habit which they never knew until the white settler taught them to clothe their nakedness. Athletic sports will he taught them and In every way possible will the doctrine of fresh air be Impressed upon the tribe, in the hope of preventing the further spread of the disease and what now seems to be Inevitable extinction April 6 1903 Killings In Arizona     Cowboy Pianoist and Young Miner were Killed by Man who is Wanted In California, Kingman, Ariz....April 5.-News .has just reached Kinsman of the killing of Charles Blakey, Known as the "Cowboy Pianist." and Roy Winchester, a young- miner, on the trail forty miles north of Kingman, by James McKenney. Nothing Is definitely known of the murder, but It is thought that McKenney, who Is wanted for the killing of Wm L. Wynn at Porterville, Cal-, last July, mistook the men for officers and laid in wait for them on the trail Blakey was shot In the breast and Winchester in the back with buckshot. After the shootjng McKennev went to a ranch and compeiled the rancher to shoe two horses for him, and then rode away.     The rancher failed io report the killing until three days after the occurrence  A sheriff's posse is now in pursuit of; McKenney. Gov. Brodie has been asked to send out rangers In pursuit, as It is thought McKenney has gone south into the "Bad Man's Land" of Yuma County, where it is almost impossible for a -posse to go without safety. Prescott Morning Courier 1904-09-13 John Granfield, who had resided in Mohave county for thirty years, died in Kingman a few days ago. Bryon Sherman, who had resided in Northern Arizona for 30 years, died at Kingman September 10. He was in the saw mill and stock business in this county at one time. DETAILS ASSASSINATION TOM LAKE IN ARIZONA.W. R. LAKE OF BOISE GETS NEWS OF  THE   MURDER.   January 25 1906 Man by the Name of Ogden Is Said to, Have Committed the Deed with Colt's  Revolver.     W. R. Lake, the Boise timberman who resides at 119 State street, yesterday received by mail the details of the assassination of his brother Tom Lake,  at  Kingman,  Ariz.,  on  January 15     Another brother. Frank Lake, a mining man of Park City, Utah, went to Kingman last week to look into the matter. He found  that on the evening of January 15 Tom Lake, superintendent of a mine a short distance from Kingman, was driving into the city in company with a man by the name ot Holland. They were overtaken and passed by a rig driven by E. Ogden, who stopped his team a short distance ahead and dismounted.     When Lake's team approached, Ogden called upon him to halt, and ordered Holland to get out of the wagon, as he intended to kill Lake. Holland refused to dismount, whereupon Ogden shot Lake twice with a Colt's revolver, both shots inflicting mortal wounds.     Ogden was arrested and at the preliminary hearing before Probate Judge Brown at Kingman was bound over to the district court without bail to answer the charge of murder in the first degree.     At the preliminary Osden put up no defense, and Lake's brother in Boise Is absolutely In the dark as to the causes which led up to the tragedy. He believes, however, that the murder was the result of labor troubles.     Tom Lake was formerly a. shift boss in one of Senator Clark's mines at Butte. He went to Kingman to take the superintendency of one of Clark's copper properties there. He was about 36 years old, and leaves considerable property.   GRUESOME EXECUTION AT KINGMAN, ARIZONA C. C. Leigh Faints and is Carried Unconscious to the Scaffold. Has Relatives in California. Kingman Arizona Jan 18 1907 Associated Press C.C. Leigh was hanged to day in the jail yard here for the murder of Jennie Beauters, a woman of the half world, at Gold Road, on September 1905. As he was being led to the scaffold, he suddenly weakened and fell against the sharp edge of one of the jail cells a great gush being cut in his head and rendering him partially unconscious. The officers carried him to the scaffold and held him up while adjusting the noose and cap. His neck was broken by the drop Leigh is said to have relatives in Visilla California. July 4, 1908 Last Tuesday morning Frank Crozier and Miss Lottie Grounds were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, in Fresno, California. Mrs. Ida Crozier, mother of the groom attended the wedding. The young couple are well known in Kingman and Hackberry, being natives of Mohave county. July 11, 1908 Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Murphy are building a new residence near their lodging house on South Front Street. There was born to the wife of W. A. Reiff at Boulder Springs, on the 6th day of July, a baby girl. C. J. Hutchison, general manager of the Expansion Gold Mining Company reports that fifteen thousand gallons of water is now being produced by their water shaft and well at the mines. March 14, 1908 There was born to the wife of W. F. Grounds Jr., at Milkweed ranch on the 5th of this month, a baby girl. June 1, 1928 Six boys and six girls were graduated from the senior class of the Mohave County Union High School. The graduates were: Audrey V. Brakeman, Joseph A. Bonelli, Emmett P. Chapman, Ruth K. Cunningham, Lowell S. Hart, Marjorie E. Jagerson, Louis F. James, Millicent E. Kapp, Annabel E. Kause,  Marguerite L. Lewis, George B. McDevitt and Ronald V. Seipple. May 11, 1928 Word was received that Minnie M. Kayser and E. L. Ming of Hackberry were married on April 18. They are making their home in Hackberry after spending their honeymoon at the Grand Canyon. The bride and groom endeavored to keep this a secret but the news of the marriage finally gotten out. Lost Flier Found On Arizona Desert Kingman Arizona June 2 1950 C.E. Edmonson of Raymond Washington, missing pilot of a plane that nade a forced landing in the desert near Badad Arizona was found alive Friday. The exhausted flier was brought to the Kingman Hospital by an unidentified rancher. The hospital said Edmonson was tired and suffering from exposure, but other wise in good condition. July 31, 1958 News from the Sandy: The early settlers who came in wagons overland included the families of the Boners, Cornwalls, Cofers, Carrows, Shipp, Kaysers, Despains, Hand, McClure, Jack and John Owens, the Briggs and other. These pioneers sold their extra produce—vegetables, milk, butter, eggs and hay—to the Signal merchants, two Jewish brothers named Mose and Gabe Levi, and their cousins, William and Henry Kushlin.  The post office was at Signal. The mail was carried from Fort Mohave on the Colorado river to signal on Pack mules. Soon there were enough children on the Big Sandy to establish a school. Ad Cornwall was their first teacher. Later another school was established in Signal. Continued next month. August 21, 1958. Nine new faculty members and fourteen familiar faces will greet students returning to Mohave County Union High School. R. L. Williams, assistant principal and world history: Frank Baca, Spanish and boy’s athletics; Kenneth Conrath, general math and distributive education ; J. David Cunningham, math and boy’s  athletics; Charles Cook, metal shop and boys’ athletics; Joan Deines, girl’s athletics and history; Stanley Gould, music; Wanda Hull, home economies; Fay Logsdon, English; Esther Meier, library; Bill Musgrove, science and biology; Charles Orr, mechanical drawing and shop;  James Vandevier, driver training and boy’s athletics; Theodore Wallace, American history and civics; Georgie Ann Witt, treasurer and bookkeeper;  Marjorie Hokanson, registrar. June 19, 1958 Oatman News: Along about 1933 an old timer burro prospector pulled into Oatman from the Chemehuevis to provision up. When the old timer prospector arrived in Oatman he had a gaunt look, a beard about 12 inches long and three burros, A man’s whistle can become mighty parched after 15 or 20 miles looking at the south end of three burros over the hot, black lava flows of the southern Black mountains. Consequently the prospector tied his burros in front of Roundy Richardson’s saloon and climbed up the old boardwalk into Roundy’s to moisten his whistle a bit. After inviting several old friends to join him, and after his whistle was loosened up sufficiently, he turned to his companions and said, “Boys, I’ve got the goldarndest biggest lizard out there that ever grown in Arizona”. Lashed behind the packsaddle on one burro was a rolled-up tarp. The prospector removed the tarp and laying it on the ground, proceeded to unroll it. About that time out slithered a 3 ½ foot alligator, looking dusty, dehydrated and sure enough hair-triggered. The prospector said,“ Boys’ that critter isn’t only the biggest lizard in Arizona but I’d bet my shirt it’s the meanest lizard in the whole Colorado desert. May 28, 1958 The Big Sandy by May Davis Young: Burro Creek joins the Sandy before the mountain formation closes in. Just below is the little town of Signal. Signal was mining camp started in the 1860’s. Prior to 1872, James R. Boner moved from Kern County, California, to Mineral Park, Arizona. His family consisted of his wife, four boys, and one married daughter, a Mrs. Despain. The next year, the Boners had a baby boy born in Mineral Park. Soon after this Mrs. Boner burned to death. In 1873 Boner moved his motherless family by ox team to the Big Sandy. Mr. Boner’s brother, John, and his daughter, Mrs. Despain, were already located on the big Sandy by this time. His oldest son Alfred Boner, and Tom Collins, an ox team driver, located the Gideon Cornell place in 1873. There was nothing but a spring on the place at the time. Later, a man named “Dirty Frenchy” killed Tom Collins over a poker game in Wickenburg. In 1874, two more of James Boner’s sons, Stub and Jim, located the Neal place. Other members of the Boner family located and sold several ranches as settlers began to move in. Continued  next month. February 6, 1958 Mr. and Mrs. Dick Allan of the Hilltop Motel are the proud parents of a baby girl, grandparent are Mr. and Mrs. George R. Allan, also of the Hilltop Motel. April 20 1973: 5 in Arizona Die in Wreck, Kingman, Arizona A widow and her four young children were killed when their small foreign car plunged into a dry river bed west of here, the Arizona Highway Patrol said. Investigators said Edith Wright Wiltbank, 32, of Thatcher, Ariz,, apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Her four children killed In the crash were David, 9, and his three sisters, Thelma Marie; Larae, 7, and Tawnl Ruth, 6. Two Slaying Suspects Recaptured in Arizona Nov. 10 1973 KINGMAN ARIZONA (UPI) A man and woman wanted for the murder of a Richardson Texas, dentist were captured  in a vacant house Friday two murder ot a Richardson, blocks from the jail where they escaped with three other prisoners, Arizona Department ot Public Safety officers found Roy Bell, 37, and his wife, Linda, 28, after a neighbor noticed the door of the home open. The Bells are charged with murdering Dr. Kenneth I. Hurtlg, and had been named In fugitive warrants from Texas charging them with robbery and attempted burglary. The couple was held in Arizona on charges ot possession of dangerous drugs. Bell's sister, Caroline Bell Gumm, and two companions were arrested south of Hoover Dam Thursday on charges of conspiring to aid the escapees. Witnesses had reported seeing the escapees enter a car with Texas license plates. The other escapees were captured on an Arizona highway. A search plane, looking for the escapees since Wednesday, also crashed killing two persons. A telegram from Kingman says: Bill Epperson, a cow-puncher of the "Bejuses" style, came to town last night and called on a young lady. Miss Daisy Rucker with a six  shooter on.  Moving around on a chair his gun went off and shot a hole through his thigh and shot the young lady through the ankle.  Her wound is painful, but Epperson's, unfortunately, was not serious enough.