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Stutc Library, " wljulo MOHAVE COUNTY MINER aivl OUR MINERAL WEALTH OFFICIAL PAPER OF MOHAVE COUNTY Vol XXXVI. Kingman, Arizona, Saturday, August 31, 1918. No. 44 tS . HENRY BACON JR.MEETS DEATH IN RESERVOIR 9 Henry Bacon jr., son of Henry Bacon, the wealthy cattleman of Hackberry met death under peculiar circumstances in a. reservoir, nine miles south of that town last Tuesday morning. Three young fellows, N. B. Tyree, Tip Wilder, and Henry Bacon had been riding the range in the vicin ity oi the reservoir and when they came to it one of the young fellows proposed that they go in swimming. Tyree dissented because the water was very cold, but agreed to show them how to swim their horses across the deep part of the pond. This reservoir slopes down a few inches in depth at the upper end to about 14 feet close to the dam. The young men forced their horses into the water and after disporting for some time they again proposed tosgo in swimming. Tyree refused, but Wilder and Bacon went in, keeping close to the embankment in going across the deep part of the .pond. "Wilder got across first and in looking back, after he had gotten onto the bank he saw 'young Bacon slowly jinking. He called to Tyree and he at once jumped in to save the drowning boy. He reached him just as he was sinking for the third time. The boy grasped him and the two struggled Tyree to break 'he hold so that he might be free to swim out. He fin ally got Bacon to paddle along a few feet, but suddenly the young fellow gave up and sank. Tyree dived after hir and brought him to the surface, but was too weak, to go on and had it not been for Wilder" roping him and dragging him vout ho too would have been drowned. Hhe young fellows made every effort to locate and rescue the boy, but all their efforts were of no avail and they sent word to Hack berry. Several men returned in a machine and the work of securing the iody was undertaken. Not until af ternoon were they successful. The water was cold and impeded the work, but the rescue party continuedthetf" eff orts until the body was located and V Drought to the surface. "It was a sad party that arrived in .Hackberry Tuesday afternoon. Henry .Bacon, jr., was one of the most popu lar of the young men of that place, and his untimely death, cast a pall over the whole town. He was aged about 18 years and -was .his father's superintendent on the range. ' The funeral was held fron the school house in Hackberry Thursday afternoon. More than 100 people went from Kingman and' hundreds from the surrounding country to pay their last sad duty to a most estima ble boy. Flowers in profusion cover ed the bier and the large school room was a profusion of blooms and green ry. The services were conducted by .Rev. C. L. York, of the Kingman Methodist church and the choir of male voices. A line of automobiles reached al most from the schoolhouse to the lit tle graveyard on the hill, and many people followed on foot. The death of Henry Bacon is anoth er sad event in this estimable family. During the past few years the family has lost by death eight children and the mother. To mourn his death there is now left the father, one boy and four girls, besides numerous relatives. BALL GAME IN KINGMAN Last Sunday the married men and the single menvplayed an 8 to 6 game at the local ball grounds, which, prov ed to be one of the best gamies of the season. L. Martinez was the star hitter of thq game making a hit every time up to bat and 3 two base hits among them. Tommy Hayes got one two base hit and a home run. Scotty Stewart got a "three bagger." The two teams are going to trj it again Monday at 8:30 P. M., the pro ceeds as usual going to the Red Cross. The line-ups will be: Married Floyd B. Chamiberlain, C. Jay M. Gates, P. Ray Robinson, SS. Lou Robinson, ' 1st. Chet Warren, 2nd. Scotty Stewart, 3rd. Ora Gruninger, L. F. Frank Van Marter, C. F. Willard L. Linville, ' R. F. Single Men - Abo Bale,; C. P. SS. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. C F. L. F. R. F. Loren Marinez, Stan George Don George, Bud Johnson, "Bill Harris, Geo. Grantham, Jim Martinez, Tom Hayes, HAS NARROW ESCAPE FRO I. M. George had a narrow escape fromf a serious injury last Thursday evening at the mining property of J. J. Connolly in the Golconda section, when a misstep precipitated him to the bottom of a small cut. The ac cident threw his left ankle out of place but with the assistance of Mr. Connolly, who was with him, it was replaced and he was helped back into his car. Today that member is still sore and swollen but has greatly im proved and within a few days will again be as good as new. NTO TELEPHONE POLE Thursday evening Gus. Goodwin met with a serious accident when the automobile which he was driving swerved into a telegraph pole at the side of the road, about a mile east of town. He had been showing his daughter how to manage the wheel and drive and coming into the narrow part of the road concluded that it would be safer to take over the man agement of the machine himself. As he was getting into the driver's seat the machine struck a small rock swerving it into a pole. The impact broke the pole off and in falling it struck Goodwin v.. 'Mi such foif-e that three of his ribs weto broken and he may be internally injured. He was taken home shortly after the accident and yesterday morning was taken to his brother's, where he is said ta be doing as well as could be expected, al though it will be a day or two before he will be out of danger. BABY BOY BORN IN CHAPMAN HOME There was born to the wife of Nor man H. Chapnan (nee .Bacon), last Wednesday morning, at Hackberry, a baby boy. Dr, T. R. .White , reports mother and child' getting along nicely. The father of the babe is in the army, stationed at Fort Sill. This is the second war baby born in Mohave county, the other one being born in Kingman about two j months ago to Mrs. Frank Stone. Mr. Stone is in the army in France. GRAND .RED CROSS BALL CHLORIDE ON LABOR DAY The Chloride Branch, American Red Cross will give a Grand Ball on Labor Day, at Miners' Union Hall, and in vites our Kingman friends to be pres ent. Tickets, One Dollar for gentle men, ladies tree. Come out and enjoy a pleasant even ing while youre helping rne ea Cross. FRONT STREET WILL SOON BE FINISHED The County road gang is now at work on Front street and it is fast taking on the appearance of the fin ished Fourth street. The big roller and its efficient engineer is rapidly smoothing out the wrinkles of Ahat section of Mother Earth. CATHOLIC LADIES ALTAR SOCIETY TO MEET TUESDAY The Catholic Ladies Altar Society will hold a meeting on the Mezzanine floor of the Beale Hotel next Tues day, September 3, 1918. All members invited to be present to transact im portant business. ARRESTED AT SAN FRANCISCO ON FEDERAL CHARGE A. J. Butler, a fireman of Needles, formerly on the Chloride run of King man, was arrested on a federal war rant at San Francisco charging him with misuse of a pass. The complaint alleges that a pass was issued to Mrs. A. J. Butler and that it was turned over to a woman not his wife for use and that the other woman used the pass to travel to San Francisco from Needles. The case will be heard in San Francisco. Word 1 was received this week that Howard Smith has arrived safely in France. BRITISH WOUNDED PASS During the fiercest of the fighting In a battle In France British wounded on the way to hospitals were carried past the lines 9! the French. As he passes the trenches filled with machine gunners In action this wounded Tommy, interested, has raised his head to watch his French cousins help hold the Hun. Away at the rear In the woods cavalry horses can be seen corraled while their riders wait the command to advance. BOOTLEGGER AWAITS Deputy John W. Harris brought Charles Odom to the county jail last Wednesday evening from Powell, Ari zona and placed him under a charge of bootlegging. The details received were that Odomyhad gotten onto No. 8 at Needles thatmorning with a cargo of 12 cases of whiskey and in some manner had gotten the information that the Sheriff's office here had been advised of his leaving and were after him. This caused Odom to leave the train al Powell in an effort to avoid the officers, OfficeriHarri$,.howevet drjive 'overland alid found the man at Powell., station with -his -cargo, which was shippe'dto Kingman to' be, held as evidence and Odom brought ' in and placed in jail to await trial. E BOYS CALLED TO ENTRAIN WEDNESDAY, 4TH Nine more boys have been called to entrain for Camp Bowie, Ft. Worth, Texas on the fourth of September. Some of them will leave from here on Number 2 and others will start from their present residence. The following- were called: Edward E. Barber Samuel F. Walters Lawrence B. Russell Charles J. Amann Henry C. Price Robert E. Reber William H. Woodbine Robert Asher Hall John Fagetti. PEOF. J. A. MOORE NOW IN FRANCE J. A. Moore, who was well known to all of Kingman people as the com mercial instructor of the Hjgh School here, is now in the service of Uncle Sam in Fiance. Mr. Moore enlisted in June at Camp Kearney and has al ready gotten to the other side. JUDGE A. S. HAWKINS TO SPEAK TONIGHT Judge A. S. Hawkins will speak in Kingman to-night concerning his can didacy for office of attorney general. The speaking will take place at the Elks Hall at 8:00 o'clock and' will be followed at Si. o'clock by the Camp Fire Girls dance. ! STEALS MILK BOTTLE RELIEF PENNIES . One of the proverbial "meanest per sons in the world" removed the milk bottle containing1 donations for the Belgian Relief for Children from the counter at the Harvey House one day this week and to date no trace of such person has been found. The bottle contained in the neigh borhood of S3 in pennies and small change and we would be tempted to prophesy that the soul of the person who made away with it is a great deal smajler than the change. THROUGH FRENCJf LINE LEONARD MORGAN AND EDITH WHIPPLE HARRIED Leonard Morgan and Edith Whiple were united in marriage at Fort Mo have by Zadock Sheffield, justice of the peace of Oatman precinct, on the 11th of this present month. Both young persons are well and favorably known in that section and a host of friends will wish the well on life's journey. BIG DANCE AT ELKS HALCTO-NICHT vAVtKe Elks' Hall tonight, the Camp Fire 'Girls' under the direction of Mrs. Geo. Shea will give another of their popular dances. The pro ceeds from this dance1 will go towards a lund for the "doption and mainten ance of a F'c.-ich War Orphan. The Girls expect lo adopt a i'-ioc-ycar oM child, and if the proceeds are suffi cient and they frel that they can un dertake it, they will adopt two. They will give a stated amount per mbnth for the ckild or children and in addi tion to sending money, will make and send clothes. For dresses, they will use all newj materials-serges, sateens or any suitable winter weight dress goods. This work is under the super vision of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and Miss Putnum, Credit Lyonnais, Paris, has charge of the work. She looks after the moving and installation of refugee families. GOOD ROADS A PART OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Judge J. M. Lowe, president of the National Old Trails Roads addressed a meeting of the Young Men's Division of the chamber of commeice at Kansas City on the 20th of this month on the subject of good roads. He called the attention of the people to the fact that the government had spent and was spending the astounding sum of one billion d(llais in the rehabilitation of the railroads of the United States, and that a similar sum would build at least one hundred thousand miles of concrete highway that would be of greater benefit to the people than even the railroads. The railroads, of course, must be maintained, but as an auxil iary the highways of the country would be of still greater benefit. Highways wfere bulwarks of France's defense system and made it possible to bring up the country's reserves rapid ly, and in the United States highways wpuld not only provide a defensive system but would ah?o provide ade quate means for handling and main taining troops and bringing out farm supplies during tinies of stress. The United "States must be tied together with a chain of wagon roads, and no amount will be considered too great when the benefits are considered. FIVE HUNDRED MEN WANTED FOR WAR WORK IN THE EAST The County Community Labor Board has been requested to help sup- ply a hurried call for 500 laborers for a war plant near Charleston, W. Va. For particulars apply1 to any U. S. Labor Reserve Agent in the county STORES WILL BE CLOSED IN KINGMAN LABOR DAYl Next Monday all of Kingman stores will be closed for all of the day, in celebration of Labor Day and many employes will take advantage of the holiday to visit either the Grand Ball to be given at Chloride by the Miners' Union at that place Monday evening or the Celebration at the Mountain View Ranch on the highway to oui east some 35 miles to be held Sunday September 1 and Monday Sep tember 2. There will be a ball game in Kingman at 2:30 P. M Monday afternoon. TOBEOPENEDNEXTFRIDAY Mohave County Chairman, C. J. Walters, announces that the Red Cross work rooms will be opened Fri day September 6, after having been closed during the month of August. Mrs. Allen E. Ware has resigned as chairman of the work room comjmit tee as the condition of her health will not permit her to cdntinue the work at this time. Mrs. J. H. Hutchison, who has been in charge of the work under Mrs. Ware, has been appointed temporary chairman. The allotment for this chapter has beeen received and the ladies are earn estly requested to come out and help with this very necessary work. LIEUT. H.V. SHANK VISITS SISTER HERE Lieutenant H. V. Shank is visiting here this week with relatives, a sister Mrs. J. N. Brewer and a brother J. E. Shank and family at Oatman. Mr. Shank is one of Uncle Sam's aviators and comes here, from a fly ing field in Texas, where he is an in structor in the flying service, having long ago received the degree of Re serve Master AviatoK. ABO .Jxasj been held ..there pass- his'' learnings on to the incoming cadets. . " Friday a pleasant evening was ar ranged for him by his sister, Mrs, J. N. Brewer at her home in this cty and a most enjoyable time was had by a large number of neighbors and friends. SIX POUND BREAD UNIT LIFTED ON SEPTEMBER EIRST Flagstaff, Aug. 31. The first trench in the food saving campaign has been gained and as usual Arizona has gone over the top, leading the con servation forces of the nation in the saving of wheat. Joyous tidings have been brought back from the front by Herbert Hoover that a sufficient sur plus of wheat has now been accumu lated to make longer unnecessary the limit of six pounds per person per month. A; new wheat conservation program will go into effect September 1, which will not only dispense with the ' six pound limit, but will do away .with the card rationing plan operated in Ari zona, the only state in the Union to adopt this measure to secure a fair and equitable distribution of wheat flour and other products. The principle feature of the new wheat program is that the fifty-fifty regulations are replaced by those call ing for the use of twenty percent sub stitutes only. These substitutes are to be mixed with the wheat flour in manufacture, but until this new "Vic tory" flour is placed on the market, flour njust be sold with either corn meal, corn flour or barley flour in the proportion of one pound of the latter to four of flour. No dealer wiljr be allowed to force other substitutes upon the consumer, although such substitutes as milo maize flour and meal, rice flour, po tato 'flour and buckwheat flour may be sold as substitutes in the same pro portion if the customer elects and the dealer has the same in stock. Rye flour and mjeal may be sold as a substitute in the proportion of two pounds to three of flour. Whole wheat and graham flour containing 95 per cent of the wheat berry may be sold without substitutes. These rules apply to all custom and exchange transportations as well as sales to fanners. The rationing of bread by restau rants will be discontinued. HOHAVECOUNTYSUBSCRDtERS TO THIRD LIBERTY LOAN URGED TO GALL FOR BONDS Mohave County banks announce the arrival of coupon bonds of the Third Liberty Loan, on which final payments were completed on August 15th. These bonds are now ready for im ir,(,diate delivery and the Arizona Cen tral Bank and Citizens Bank are urg ing that they be called for promptly. The first interest coupons on bonds of the Third issue are due and payable on September fifteenth, and the inter est is for the period from May 9th. to Sept. 15th., 1918. The banks are also urging that this interest be re-invested in securities of the United States in the form of Thrift and War Stamps, a procedure that will materially assist our govern ment. The banks will gladly ex change such interest coupons for War Savings Stamps, or will cash them, or receive thenifor deposit. Subscribers who made application for registered Liberty Bonds, will pro bably not receive them for several weeks. Bearer Bonds are issued through the Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco, while the registered bonds are issued from the Treasury Department at Washington, D. Or, which accounts for the delay. All subscribers for Liberty Bonds are ask ed in the interest of good business good loyalty and the success of all future issues to hold their Liberty Bonds. In addition to the services already rendered in connection with Liberty Bonds the banks are gladly accepting for safe keeping, free of charge, bonds of those who have no safe-deposit boxes. FOUR SUGAR SLACKERS TO BE PROSECUTED AT BISBEE FLAGSTAFF, Aug. 30. Four res idents of Bisbee and Lowell have been cited to appear before the county food administrator for Cochise county to show cause why they should not be prosecuted in the United States courts asugar repeaters. They are William Hulley, John Geldot, H. H. Hilton and Michael Harmon. A sugar repeater is avperson who seeks to evade the regulations of the United States government by buying more than the allotment of two pounds per person monthly, through the sub terfuge of purchasing from more than one concern. This practice is regard ed as a pernicious form of sugar hoarding which the food administra tion intends to halt. According to documentary evidence in possession of the authorities sugar in two pound lots was shipped to each of the above named offenders during July from John Sexton & Co. of Chi cago. During the same month sugar cards taken out with Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Co. of Bisbee show that Hulley obtained 14 pounds, Geldot 12 pounds, Hilton eight pounds and Harmon 14 pounds. Under the food regulations all mail order houses are required to furnish reports showing sales of sugar, and these lists are now being carefully scrutinized, with the result that per sons so unpatriotic as to attempt to obtain more than theiv share of sug ar will find themselves in an embar rassing position. The penalties for sugar hoarding uncler the food control act' are two years' imprisonment or $5,000 fine or both. INMATE OF COUNTY FARM PASSES AWAY , Alexander Wilson, one of the in mates of the County Farm, plassed away at that institution last Monday, death being due to. tuberculosis. The deceased was a nev 'Arrival in th'is sec tion, coning here aifpwVmonthsback from Oregon. Burial .was- in.'?, the Mountain View1 Cemetary Tuesday. LEAVES POSITION1; OF POSTMASTER TO . , SERVE UNCLE SAM WilliattJ Dazee is viisitirig Larry Quinlan in Kingman to-day. Mr. Dazee is enroute to the coast where he is to report for service in the Navy. He was formerly postmaster at Wins low and left that position at a salary of $250 per month to enlist as a second class seaman in the Navy.