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Council targets budget in upcoming work session

MOHAVE COUNTY HISTORY

Travis Rains trains@kdminer.com

KINGMAN – Council will begin the daunting task of reevaluating the budget in light of the passage of the Responsible Sales and Use Tax Act and the repeal of the 1 percent tax increase at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Kingman Police Department, 2730 E. Andy Devine Ave. Council voted 5-2 on Aug. 15, 2017 to increase the Transaction Privilege Tax, or sales tax, from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent.

After receiving notice from the Arizona Attorney General’s Office that the vote was in violation of open meeting laws, Council ratified it in January. Then-Mayor Monica Gates and then-Councilwoman Vickie Kress were the dissenting voices for both votes.

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Joint county operations receives innovation award KINGMAN – Mohave County Recorder Kristi Blair and Assessor Jeanne Kentch joined forces in 2017 to create dualtrained customer service positions for the Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City offices.

As a result of those efforts, the Arizona Association of County’s 2018 annual conference last month awarded Blair and Kentch with the 2018 County Summit Award for their efforts in working “outside the box” in creating the positions.

These unique Summit awards recognize the innovative and creative spirit of Arizona county governments as they find new and effective ways providing services to their citizens.

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$10,000 for VIP seats to inauguration of top officials

Glen and Bessie Hyde at their Bright Angel stopover. (Photo by Emery Kolb, provided by Emery Kolb Collection at Northern Arizona University)

What ever happened to

Glen and Bessie Hyde?

They went on a honeymoon journey down the Colorado River, never to be heard from again Claire Whitley cwhitley@kdminer.com

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egends are almost always based in fact.

It starts with a story around a campfire, a teasing old woman, an already mysterious disappearance and turns into something grander, something surreal.

Something that is whispered in the night.

Add into this legend the mighty Colorado River, a honeymooning couple, and one of the largest searches the Grand Canyon has ever seen, and it is the perfect recipe for a story that can survive for nearly 100 years.

And that story, the myth, that legend all begins with Glen Rollins Hyde and his new bride Bessie Louise Hyde nee Haley.

The honeymooners Bessie Haley, born Dec. 29, 1905 in Takoma Park, Maryland, met Glen Hyde at college in San Francisco. Hyde, born Dec. 9, 1898 in Spokane, Washington, was an Idahoan farmer who told the 24-year-old art student all about river running from the Salmon River in Idaho to the Peace and Fraser Rivers in Canada.

This awe, this passion, quickly won Bessie’s

heart, and the two were married in the spring of 1928 in Twin Falls, Idaho.

For their honeymoon, Glen wanted to try to run the Colorado River.

In Green River, Utah he made a sweep scow – a large wooden boat some 20-feet long – and they set out on their 600-mile trip to Needles, California on Oct. 22, 1928 well-stocked and ready to face anything the river had to offer.

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Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX – Want to watch today’s inauguration of the state’s top officials in person but don’t want to be stuck in the cheap seats – or left standing?

You can get an up-close view. But it’ll cost you.

The base donation to acquire a pair of VIP seats is $10,000. That also buys you a pair of tickets to a special reception.

And you can get your picture taken there.

Got $15,000? That gets you three VIP seats, three reception tickets and two photos.

And for $25,000 you get the whole enchilada: Six seats up front, three parking passes, six reception tickets, three photos and six inaugural pins. You also get your corporate logo included on the

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Bessie and Glen Hyde at the foot of the Bright Angel Trail. They were taking tourist Adolph Gilbert Sutro to the Hermit Rapids. Sutro, who took this photo of the couple, watched the two wave to him as they disappeared around a bend in the river. He was the last one to see the two. (Provided by Glen Hyde Collection at Northern Arizona University)

Bessie Hyde took this photo of Glen Hyde at the 27 Mile Rapid in Marble Canyon of the Grand Canyon around day 11 of their honeymoon river run trip.

Glen and Bessie Hyde disappeared, never reaching their destination of Needles, California. (Provided by Glen Hyde Collection at Northern Arizona University)

This photograph shows the boat that Glen and Bessie Hyde used for their ill-fated run of the Colorado River. The boat is pictured as found in 1928 by Ellsworth and Emory Kolb and Jimmie Brooks. It was found in the Grand Canyon west of Diamond Creek. (Photo provided by Mohave Museum of History and Arts)

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Running the Colorado This October honeymoon trip was meant to be a record breaker, in more ways than one.

According to a Mohave County Miner article in November 1928, the couple was on a record-setting pace. They had been on the river for 26 days when they reached Bright Angel Creek in the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, and they had an estimated three weeks left before they reached Needles.

The running time wasn’t a sure record.

What was a sure record was the fact that Bessie Hyde is the first woman to descend the Grand Canyon, a feat more commonly associated with University of Michigan botanist Elzada Clover and her student Lois Jotter in 1938 as part of Norm Nevill’s expedition.

However, Bessie completed the descent a decade earlier.

Another record that was meant to be broken on this trip was that the couple intended to run every rapid. At the time, this wasn’t normal. The usual way to run the river, or any river, was to line the boat over the rapids – having people on the shore with ropes guiding the boat down the rapid – rather than riding all of the rapids.

By all accounts, the Hydes should have gone down in history for a series of firsts and a series of records. They should have reached Needles and been heralded as some of the greatest river runners to exist.

But no one can tame the Colorado.

The last sighting at Bright Angel Creek In 1970, Emery Kolb wrote to Barry Goldwater of the Arizona Historical Foundation.

The Hydes had arrived at Kolb’s studio on Nov. 15, 1928.

Kolb, a Grand Canyon photographer, took them in for their stay and helped answer any questions he could about the upcoming stretch of the river. He was impressed by their success.

Bessie told Kolb about the times Glen had already been thrown into the water by the rapids, namely the Sockdolager rapids, and how she barely managed to get him the rope in time.

Bessie, a petite woman, had managed to hold on to the sweeps and toss Glen a rope. Without a life preserver, Glen’s chances of swimming those particular rapids were slim at best.

And the Hydes had no life preservers.

Kolb was appalled that Glen and Bessie were running the river without life

A photograph of Emory Kolb, left, and Rollin C. Hyde, father of the missing Glen Hyde working on the rescue boat at Diamond Creek in the Grand Canyon. (Photo provided by Mohave Museum of History and Arts) preservers and tried to get ry, based on what he knew the Hydes to take some of of the couple’s usual plan his. He wrote that they of action. Bessie would looked each other, smiled, stand on the bank holding and said they shouldn’t the scow’s rope while Glen need them, as they were walked ahead to examine excellent swimmers. He the next rapid. Possibly tried again to make them she had been pulled or take some sort of safety blown into the river – equipment, even an inner weather at the time was tube, but again the Hydes particularly squally – and he jumped in to save her. refused.

The scow, in theory, Kolb let the couple go.

“My wife and daughter floated for five miles until drove them to the head its trailing rope caught on of the trail. Mrs. Hyde the rocks and held it.

Only the Colorado looked at my daughter’s shoes and said ‘I wonder River knows what really if I shall ever wear pretty happened to that young shoes again,’” Kolb wrote Idaho couple who never got to finish their honeyGoldwater.

They brought tourist moon.

A.J. Sutro with them from Bright Angel Creek to Does anyone Hermit Rapids, a relatively calm stretch of river to know what enjoy, and put him ashore. happened?

As they disappeared Rumors and around the bend of the river, waving to Sutro on theories abound Of course there are shore, it would be the last time anyone ever saw the rumors that surround this case, theories of what Hydes. happened that winter on Colorado River. Tales The search for the the of murder, hikes, differlost Hydes ent identities, and an old The Hydes never made woman who claims to be it to Needles. They were the missing Bessie Hyde. two weeks overdue, and In the 1971, a group of Glen Hyde’s father Rol- people decided to try to run lin Hyde put into motion the Colorado River with one of the largest search- guides. Among them was es the Grand Canyon has a 60-year-old woman called ever seen.

Elizabeth Arnold Cutler.

Rollin petitioned Emery After a particularly Kolb, who was away for hard day on the water, surgery on his appendix, everyone in the trip was for help. gathered around the “I realize this is likely campfire to tell stories. of no avail, but I wish to And that was when Rick leave nothing undone that Petrillo, one of the guides, can be done.” began telling the story of Kolb left immediate- Glen and Bessie Hyde. He ly and never did get his told of the last time they appendix taken out. were seen, when Bessie Glen and Bessie’s looked at Emery Kolb’s boat was found, intact, daughter and her shoes 46 miles from the mouth and said, “I wonder if I’ll of the Grand Canyon at ever wear pretty shoes 232 Mile Rapid on Dec. again?”

1, 1928. It was about 14 All was quiet around miles below the mouth of the campfire after the Diamond Creek. Every- story, and that was when thing was still on board: this “very thin and wiry” food, guidebook, diary, woman spoke into the gun, dry clothing and fire, “I’m Bessie Hyde.”

The boatmen smiled boots.

But there was no trace and laughed and asked her if she was Bessie, of Glen and Bessie.

Some tracks were what happened to Glen?

“I killed him,” Cutler found that were believed to be the Hydes seven responded.

O’Connor Dale, anothmiles above Diamond Creek, and farther down er guide, asked how she Glen’s tracks were found did it.

“Somewhere along along a rapid.

They led to the river here, we had a real bad fight and he beat me up. and did not return.

Kolb had his own theo- So late that night I got a

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The guides stood around the campfire grinning and laughing and said “Well, now we know.”

They even took to calling Cutler “Bessie” during the trip, to which the woman would teasingly respond.

But was she the missing Bessie? Chances are she wasn’t. Liz Cutler claimed to have no recollection of the story she told that night on the river when asked by journalists years later, and she had never heard of the Hydes.

It was a legend that grew beyond all recognition, even for those who were with her on the river.

“I was surprised when I got back in ‘82, after being away from the story for a long time, to find it was a big story,” recalled George Billingsley, who was one of the river guides. “But it sure got to be a widespread story being told every day in the Canyon. You can grab hold of a rumor and remember it for 50 years, exactly the way that rumor happened.

Never miss a lick. But it’s still based on nothing.”

And it didn’t help matters when in 1981 a skeleton with a silver belt buckle like Glen Hyde’s was found in a boat in the rafters of the Kolb Studio.

The skeleton had a bullet hole, .30 or .32 caliber, through the head.

Rumors spread fast that this was Glen Hyde.

This man, the rumors said, was killed, possibly

by Emery Kolb who lusted after Bessie. A crime of passion. However, Jack Judd of the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office and forensic anthropologist Walter Birkby at the University of Arizona disproved that theory.

The bones were not Glen Hyde.

Over the nine decades since their disappearance, several of these rumors of either Glen of Bessie Hyde showing up have circulated and spread.

“Yet every spicy myth about the reappearance of Glen or Bessie Hyde withers in the glare of rigorous examination,” wrote author Jack Dimock in “Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde.”

“As tempting and intriguing as it is to imagine one or both of the Hydes escaping to a new life, there is not a shred of evidence to support it.”

This case has inspired legends, stumped detectives and has left far more unanswered questions than answers.

What really happened to Glen and Bessie Hyde?

What happened that night on the Colorado River 90 years ago? Where did the Hydes go?

It is one of those unsolved mysteries. A legend whispered around campfires. The silent waters of the Colorado moving steadily onward, never spilling their secrets.

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BEIRUT (AP) – The planned U.S. troop withdrawal opens up a void in the north and east of Syria, and the conflicts and rivalries among all the powers in the Middle East are converging to fill it.

The American decision to pull out its 2,000 troops has forced a reassessment of old alliances and partnerships. The Syrian government, the Kurds, Russia, Iran, Israel and Turkey have all had a hand in the country's nearly eight-year war – each in a way, fighting its own war for its own reasons within Syria.

Now all of those conflicts play out in the territory being abandoned by the Americans, creating new tensions, potential chaos and bloodshed.

To reassure jittery allies, Washington sent national security adviser John Bolton to Israel on Sunday, where he said U.S. troops will not leave northeastern Syria until IS militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected. The comments put the brakes on a withdrawal abruptly announced last month and initially expected to be completed within weeks. The announcement upset regional allies and Pentagon officials who disagreed with the assessment that IS was defeated.

"We're going to be removing our troops. I never said we're doing it that quickly," Trump told reporters in Washington Sunday.

The territory The area up for grabs is around a third of Syria, forming a rough triangle. To the north is the border with Turkey, to the east the border with Iraq, and the third side is the Euphrates River.

This was the heart of the Islamic State group's foothold in Syria until the United States partnered with a Kurdish militia, creating a force of some 60,000 fighters – including some Syrian Arabs and Christian Assyrians – that wrested it away from the militants.

The territory is strategically important. For the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad and its allies Russia and Iran, regaining it means re-establishing sovereignty. The territory was once the source of Syria's wheat and barley, its dams generated electricity and it holds some of Syria's richest oil resources. Without it, Assad will have a harder time with reconstruction and operating long term.

For the same reasons, it's been a source of income for the Kurdish militia.

For the Kurds, their hold gave weight to their long-sought goal of autonomy. For the U.S., the troop presence ensured American influence. Turkey sees Kurdish autonomy on its border as an existential threat and has vowed to prevent this, accusing the U.S. of empowering the militia Ankara says is linked to Kurdish insurgents in Turkey.

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A piece of Kingman’s sordid history

Final condemnation order delivered in KAA litigation Travis Rains trains@kdminer.com KINGMAN – Mohave County Superior Court Judge Steven Moss delivered the final order of condemnation in the City’s legal battle with the Kingman Airport Authority on Jan. 23.

According to court documents, the order gives the City of Kingman possession of the furnishings, fixtures, and equipment owned or used by the airport authority, in addition to vehicles. Bank accounts, leases and contract rights initiated by the Kingman Airport Authority also go to the City.

However, Moss ruled that the Kingman Airport Authority, “does not need to reimburse the City of Kingman for payments made in response to any bill for legal services related to this action until such time as required by a court of competent jurisdiction after this judgment has become final, which will

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A horse-drawn carriage sits in front of the post office on the Southwest corner of Fourth and Beale Streets, circa 1890-1910. The Rabbit Patch, a red-light district of Kingman, was located three streets down on the corner of First and Beale Streets around this same time frame. It was there that Josie “Blackjack” Harcourt ruled. (Photo courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts)

As a “wild west” town full of prospectors in the late 1800s, it isn’t surprising that a red-light district would have flourished in Kingman, at least for a while Claire Whitley cwhitley@kdminer.com

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istory isn’t always virtuous.

Kingman history is no exception.

A town built on prospecting and in the Wild Western era of saloons, hard whiskey and gunfights is bound to have a sordid past.

And Kingman does, though it isn’t nearly as dramatic as it could be.

Records are unclear when the first prostitutes arrived in Kingman, and when the first brothels began operations. The earliest

mention that I could find was in 1887 when one Peter Branson accused Lottie Leslie of stealing $38.50 from him.

Branson had visited Leslie and another woman, Maggie Brown, on several occasions, spending nearly all of his money on them. The judge found Leslie not guilty.

But this little case isn’t the most interesting part of Kingman’s history with prostitutes.

That tidbit comes in the form of a woman known as Blackjack and her pet parrot Pollie.

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Financial literacy course may be required for high school graduation Vanessa Espinoza vespinoza@kdminer.com KINGMAN – Two trains leave the station at the same time. One is heading east and another west. The eastbound train travels 20 mph faster than the westbound train.

If both trains are 500 miles apart after 6 hours, how will this help graduating high school students with filing taxes, paying taxes or budgeting?

Arizona State Senator Rep. Rusty Bowers is sponsoring House Bill 2354 that would require high school students to take a financial literacy course in order to graduate.

The bill also proposes, “The governing board may approve a financial literacy course that would fulfill a mathematics course required for graduation from high school.”

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GOP Committee voted to cut income tax rates across the board Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX – Defying both Democrats and their own Republican governor, GOP lawmakers voted Monday to cut income tax rates across the board to prevent what they believe would be a “windfall’’ to the state on the backs of Arizona residents.

On party lines, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to cut state income tax rates across the board by 0.11 percentage points.

The net effect of HB 2522 would be to reduce state revenues this year by about $150 million.

Moments later the Senate Finance Committee gave its blessing to SB 1143 which does the

exact same thing.

But Sen. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, said there really is no tax cut, as that $150 million simply offsets the additional dollars the state stands to gain because of changes in federal tax laws. And he lashed out at foes who chided Republicans for pushing what they say is a tax cut.

“How can a revenue neutral bill be a tax cut?” he asked, saying he is “simply pursuing revenue neutrality.”

The bills, which now go to the full House and Senate, come despite the fact that about 20,000 returns already have been filed with the Department of Revenue – returns that were filed using the higher tax rates that Gov. Doug Ducey pre-

sumed lawmakers would approve.

Grant Nulle, the agency’s deputy director, told lawmakers if they adopted their plan, and not the one the governor wants, he figured it would take about four weeks to make all the changes in the forms and the department’s computers.

That means any returns already filed and those that people are turning in now – about two-thirds of Arizonans anticipate refunds – will be incorrect.

Nulle said, though, that if the bills become law his agency could recompute what each taxpayer owes and send out correction notices.

That assumes either bill will become law.

Monday’s votes came over the

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Governor Doug Ducey is advocating for the state to keep the income tax rate as it stands and use the additional funds as a “safety net” for the state.(Photo by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

Kelli Ward beats Lines and becomes the Arizona GOP chair

Rector’s sentence vacated and Judge Jantzen sets evidentiary hearing for March 4

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Eric McNeely

Eric McNeely, 54, of Kingman, Arizona was

John Albert Bryant

John Albert Bryant, born Feb. 25, 1964, was called into eternity Jan. 27, 2019.

Rulon Dann Ferrin

Rulon Dann Ferrin received his heavenly wings on Jan. 24, 2019.

He was born May 6, 1941 in Safford, Arizona to Rulon P. Ferrin and Dessie D. (Slaughter) Ferrin. Dann attended grammar school

Wild Continued from 1 Blackjack was queen of Kingman’s red-light district known as the “Rabbit Patch.” While there are no records that suggest when this area first originated, it was well known by the 1890s and early 1900s, as documented by Irene Cofer in her book “The Lunch Tree.”

This district was on the corner of First and Beale Streets, where Locomotive Park is located now.

“These drab looking cabins were quiet by day, but occasionally gaily dressed girls would emerge and walk down the narrow trail to town,” Cofer wrote.

“There was no electricity in early day Kingman, only a few gaslights, but this corner was brightly lighted with kerosene lanterns that could be seen from any direction. This was the ‘Rabbit Patch’ and ‘Blackjack’ was queen, at least that was what the older kids told me and I knew by the shocked expression on our elders faces when we asked questions, that this spot was a forbidden subject.”

And Blackjack reigned this area after she arrived in Kingman in 1887.

Blackjack’s real name was Josie Harcourt. She originally came to Mohave County in the 1870s with her prospecting husband and resided in Mineral Park. At some point, she separated from him and traveled from mining camp to mining camp until she settled in Kingman.

Blackjack was known throughout town as an illustrious madame who had a pet parrot Pollie which accompanied her around town.

“We heard all the things that we were not suppose (sic) to hear,” Cofer wrote. “We also learned that ladies should never be inquisitive about such

born Dec. 29, 1964 in California and passed away Jan. 9, 2019 after his battle with cancer.

Eric is survived by his wife; Michele McNeely, his son; Sean McNeely and daughter-in-law; Becky McNeely both from Mesa, Arizona, his stepchildren; Stephanie and Brian, and three grandchildren; Jayde, Titus and Tilly.

Eric worked as an electrician for Walker Service

Electric for over 14 years.

He loved being outdoors!

He enjoyed camping, hiking, golfing and spending time with his grandkids.

He was loved by all who knew him and will be dearly missed.

A Celebration of Eric’s Life will be held at 1 p.m.

Feb. 9 at the Elks Lodge, 900 Gates Ave., Kingman, Arizona.

Donations in Eric’s name can be sent to King-

man Cancer Care Unit, P.O. Box 3014, Kingman, AZ 86402.

John graduated high school in Bullhead City, Arizona in 1982. Afterward, he joined the Air Force to which he faithfully served for 14 years.

He eventually learned and mastered multiple trades which led to his career at Creative Care climbing the ladders and ranks, eventually leading multiple departments.

John is survived by his wife; Mariellen Bryant, his mother; Barbara Bryant, siblings; James Douglas

Bryant, Mark Alan Bryant and Mathew Charles Bryant, his children; Erin (Jeremy), Adam, Olivia (Robert), Austin, Wyatt and eight grandchildren.

John was a very kind, light-hearted, gentle man, who had an astounding faith. John was a devoted husband and family man.

Being kind and selfless while serving in ministry throughout the years, John’s life illustrated that of Christ’s love. He will be forever missed by all who

knew him.

He was preceded by his son; Caleb and his father; Clint. His family looks forward to the great day when we are all reunited together by our Lord as one.

Memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on Jan. 30, 2019 at Abundant Life Family Worship in Kingman, Arizona.

(Acts 16:31) Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.

in Safford (Pima), Hackberry and Kingman, Arizona.

Later the family moved to Glendale in 1953, he attended Glendale High and graduated in 1959.

After graduating he went on to driving truck and being a heavy equipment mechanic.

In 1968, Dann moved to Tucson, Arizona then met the love of his life Jackie (Engle) shortly after.

In 1969 he and Jackie married, and in 1970 he became a proud father and again in 1973.

In 1975 Dann and Jackie moved the kids to Kingman until 1989 when the

family moved to California because that’s where the “work was at,” not because he liked California.

Swearing he was going to move back to Kingman when he retired; he and Jackie moved back in 2003.

He met many life-long friends and infected people with his corny sense of humor and his “not-sofunny” jokes.

He is preceded in death by his parents and brother; Stanley G Ferrin.

He is survived by his beautiful wife of 49 1/2 years; Jacqueline (Engle) Ferrin, son; John P. (J.P.),

daughter; Danna Z. Ferrin, two granddaughters; Brianna and Natalee, one great-granddaughter ; Emberlynn, his sister; Zo Ann McEntire and many nephews , nieces and many close friends that will miss him dearly.

His talent for remembering and telling his corny jokes will never be forgotten.

Services will be held at Latter Day Saints Church, located at 3180 Rutherford Dr. on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. A viewing will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. with the services at 11a.m.

‘characters’ as Blackjack and her girls.”

Cofer said that the children, young girls in particular, were taught to walk past these women on the street sedately and to never try to see inside the saloons, which were plentiful in that “early day of Kingman.”

“One day I met one of these ‘women’ on a narrow trail, a small dog was trotting along behind her,” Cofer wrote of an encounter when she was 8 years old. “Intuition told me who she was as I knew everyone else in town. I went in to my act as ‘nice little girls’ should, head just at the angle to see all you could and not appear inquisitive, when a soft voice said ‘Goodmorning, Baby.’

I stopped and looked with both eyes; no horns, just a neatly dressed middle aged woman wearing hat and gloves. A thought ran through my childish mind, maybe this is ‘Blackjack.’”

And it could have been.

Cofer would have been 8 years old in 1897, a time when Blackjack was still alive and well in Kingman.

However, there is nothing confirming that Cofer did in fact have a brief, pleasant meeting with the queen of the Rabbit Patch.

Pollie died sometime in 1905 or 1906. Richard White, known as “Whistlin’ Dick,” was a frequent patron of Blackjack’s and had grown fond of her and her parrot. After Pollie’s death, he had a tombstone and casket made for the

Jack Halsey Jack Halsey passed away peacefully Jan. 17, 2019 at the age of 90.

He was born in Anthony, Kansas and was a veteran of the Armed Forces. He retired from the Santa Fe Railroad after

31 years and moved to Kingman, Arizona in 1992.

He enjoyed playing piano, shooting darts, playing pool and telling jokes.

He was preceded in death by his wife; Isabel Halsey, and son; Antonio Sanchez.

He is survived by daughters; Betty Cannon and Rose Urena, sons; Jack Jr. and Andrew Halsey, along with 15 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 9 at VFW Post 10386, 3036 E. John L Ave., Kingman, Arizona.

Mohave County Superior Court Judge Steven Moss delivered the final order of condemnation in the City’s legal battle with the Kingman Airport Authority on Jan. 23. (Daily Miner file photo)

Order Continued from 1 be after the exhaustion of all appeals or after the time for appeal has run.”

According to court documents, Spencer Fane LLP, the law firm of KAA’s attorney Andrew

Federhar, may keep the approximately $193,714 it was paid by KAA. But Spencer must keep the City of Kingman in the loop as to how it spends that money on its “reasonable attorneys’ fees.”

Those funds not used must be returned to the City of Kingman, the court said. es in Peach Springs was acquitted of the murder of Charles Hall. In 1916 there was a “house of ill repute” burglary in Golconda. Cactus Motel in Bullhead City came under scrutiny as a “house of ill fame” in 1947 for women who were operating out of the rooms there. All of those women were asked to leave town.

And there was also the murder of a madame in Jerome by the name of Jenny Bauters.

What happened? Why was Bauters killed?

What happened to her murderer?

We’ll cover that in a future Mohave County History story.

The headstones of Blackjack’s parrot Pollie were recovered by Mike Smith when the Pioneer Cemetary was set to become a football field. A funeral was held when the bird died. (Photo courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts) parrot in an effort to con- History and Arts. no action on moving them. sole Blackjack.

In 1888, Kitty BlongBut it isn’t just KingThe entirety of “Rab- man that has this past bit Patch” mourned with with “half-world women.” their queen. So much so The whole of Mohave they held a “Christian County has a past with it. funeral” for Pollie. The Prostitution was such procession wound its way a part of early Mohave through town to the Pio- County culture that the $ neer Cemetery where Pol- Board of Supervisors in lie was buried. White set 1897 passed an ordinance up a picket fence around that brothels couldn’t be 928-529-5058 the parrot’s grave. within 400 yards of a pubmohavememorial1@gmail.com The death of her lic school building, but beloved parrot may have they then reportedly took 4764 N. Stockton Hill Rd., Kingman had a traumatic effect on Blackjack as she died in April of 1907, within a year of her parrot.

White had her buried next to Pollie, also building a picket fence around her grave, before he left town and never returned.

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Stockton Hill project expected to close intersection with Airway this week KINGMAN – The northbound crew working on the Stockton Hill Road project completed night work on main line pressure testing Thursday, but due to weather, the completion date for patching has been moved to next Tuesday.

The southbound crew has also been affected by the weather. Closures planned at Kino Avenue this week have been postponed to next week. Crews will close the west intersection from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting the night of Sunday, Feb. 10. The work has an expected completion date of Feb. 15.

Once patching work is completed in the northbound work zone next week, crews will start work from Airway Avenue to Plaza Drive. The northbound, outside lane will be closed from just south of Airway to Plaza Drive starting Wednesday night until work See AIRWAY, 5A

Councilman Lingenfelter serves PAC chair with defamation lawsuit Travis Rains trains@kdminer.com

Traffic at Stockton Hill Road and Airway Avenue was jammed Friday afternoon. It is expected to get even more crowded this week as the Stockton Hill project moves into the intersection. (Photo by Travis Rains/Daily Miner)

KINGMAN – Vice Mayor Travis Lingenfelter is taking Steve Robinson, chair of the PAC leading the effort to recall Lingenfelter, to civil court over what he claims are “libelous, malicious Facebook posts.”

“On Tuesday, I had Mr. Robinson served with a defamation lawsuit,” Lingenfelter wrote on his Facebook page Thursday morning. “I have tried to ignore all of the malicious, sophomoric personal smearing, but it’s time to take a stand.”

The vice mayor makes multiple requests of the court in his filing documentation. The first is a request to See LIBEL, 5A

MOHAVE COUNTY HISTORY

He killed her in Jerome, then was hanged in Kingman

Jennie Bauters, the woman dressed in black at the center, was a Belgian madame who owned and operated a brothel in Jerome. It is said that Bauters was the richest woman in the Arizona Territory at the time of her death in 1905. (Photo courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts)

Jennie Bauters, one of the wealthiest women of the Arizona Territory, met a grisly end Claire Whitley cwhitley@kdminer.com

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urder is often brought about when looking at history. It is an act that is almost always violent and almost always unjustified.

Mohave County history has plenty of these dark spots.

The particular case of Jennie Bauters, a madame

of Jerome, is a rather interesting affair. Bauters, 44 years old at the time of her murder, was considered the wealthiest women in all of the Arizona Territory.

The “legendary Belgian madam” arrived in Jerome in 1896. By 1898, she built and owned a two-story brothel on Main Street called “Jennie’s Place.” It was the third building at the site as Bauters had to rebuild the brothel after each of

three Jerome fires.

After one of the fires, Bauters offered free passes to her girls, and it is said “the men rose to superhuman efforts that day” to rebuild the brothel.

Bauters was murdered around 9 a.m. Sept.

3, 1905, a Sunday, by one Clement C. Leigh, a See CRACK 2A

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PHOENIX – A stalemate at the Capitol over changes in income tax laws has the head of the Senate Finance Committee wanting to give Arizonans more time to file their returns.

The proposal by Sen. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, would spell out that this

year – and this year only – state tax returns for 2018 need not be filed until June 15. That’s two months later than the deadline set in state law.

Mesnard said he doubts there will be a deal on what Arizonans can deduct from their taxable income by the April 15 deadline.

He said the ultimate outcome of the bat-

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tle between legislative Republicans and Gov. Doug Ducey over those deductions – and whether tax rates should be lowered to offset the additional revenues – likely won’t be determined before a budget for the coming fiscal year is adopted. And Mesnard said that, at the current pace of talks, that will come after the current filing deadline.

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It’s that timing that is creating what Mesnard said is the need for delay.

“People can still file earlier if they so choose,’’ he said, using the tax forms already distributed by the state Department of Revenue. Those are the only forms that will be available ahead of the current April 15 deadline See TAXES 5A

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Crack Continued from 1A former lover. “Sunday morning about 9 o’clock the denizens of the ‘Bad Lands,’ were awakened from their early slumbers by the crack of a pistol followed by several others,� Our Mineral Wealth wrote on Sept.

8, 1905. “Several eye witnesses ‌ saw Jennie Bauters run from her dwelling followed by C. C. Lee (sic) shooting at her. “Not being content with giving her several death wounds, the brute ‌ went to his victim as she lay on the ground, turned her over and fired a bullet through her head. The vampire having a shot left fired it into his own worthless body looking for a heart but the bullet could only find the meat of a murderer.â€?

The Mohave County Miner reported that after he shot himself in the chest, Leigh laid out next to Bauters waiting to die. He placed a hat over his face to shelter it from the sun.

Leigh wasn’t dead, and he wasn’t likely to die as the wound was a small one. He was taken into custody and brought to the Kingman jail to await trial. “The people of Gold Road were wrought over the killing,â€? the Miner article read. “Jennie Bauters ‌ was big-hearted and it is said she always helped the needy and especially the poor miner and prospector.â€?

In her will and testament, Bauters left everything to her son Phillipe Bauters, 23 of Chicago.

Her property in 1905 was worth at least $14,000.

Phillipe sold Jennie’s Place to John Sullivan who converted it into the Sullivan

A plaque was placed on the two-story building that Jennie Bauters owned.

The building used to be a brothel and was called Jennie’s Place. (Photo courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts) Hotel. “Leigh committed one of the most cold blooded murders in the criminal annals of the country and should pay the penalty,�

Mohave County Miner wrote in November 1905. “He lived for years off the earnings of this woman and when she refused to no longer contribute to his support, he murdered her.

That is the cold fact of this case.�

Leigh was sentenced to hang Nov. 3, 1905. Leigh was the second person to ever be sentenced to the death penalty in Mohave County.

An appeal from his mother and aunt led to a year-long fight in the court system. His mother tried to have the governor, then Joseph Kibbey, reduce the punishment to life in prison. On appeal, LeRoy Anderson, Leigh’s attorney, was working to attempt to prove “that his client was insane.� “Locking a man up and keeping him locked up so that he can no longer follow his propensity to kill looks better to us than hanging, but would he stay locked up?� Our Mineral Wealth wrote on Nov. 3,

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1905. “Hardly, judging by the way governors have misused their power in the past. Gov. Kibbey will do well to let Mohave County convicted murderers alone.�

Leigh’s original sentence, to hang, was upheld and the date for the execution was scheduled for Dec. 14, 1906. The sheriff, Walter Brown, received a stay of execution from Kibbey to give Anderson time to bring evidence to prove his client’s insanity, and the new date for Leigh’s hanging was set for Jan. 18, 1907. It was the last time Kibbey interfered in the case. “C.C. Leigh was executed in the jail yard between the hours of one and two today, Black Friday,�

Mohave County Miner wrote. “His courage was good up to the time of beginning the walk to the scaffold, when his long strung up nerves gave way and he knew little more in the world as the drop of the trap only showed a quiver of the body.�

An Associated Press article made the execution seem more grisly, the headline in bold reading “Gruesome execution at Kingman, Arizona.� “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 gash being cut in his head and rendering him partially unconscious,� the AP article reads. “The officers carried him to the scaffold and held him up while adjusting the noose and cap. His neck was broken by the drop.�

Grisly or not, Leigh met his end.

Articles on the hanging stated he got what he deserved.

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KRMC open house to teach ways to care for the heart no matter your age Vanessa Espinoza vespinoza@kdminer.com KINGMAN – Nothing says “I love you� like learning how to keep the heart happy and healthy.

Kingman Regional Medical Center is hosting an open house at its cardiovascular center from 1-4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14 at 3269 Stockton Hill Road.

February is National Heart Month, a time to increase awareness of heart health. KRMC has hosted this event for 15 years and will have 18 vendors available to community members. “It’s a great event for people of all ages because it spotlights the importance of heart health and provides education on how the heart functions,� Julya Walters, KRMC communication specialists said. “People can take steps to care for their heart at any age.�

Vendors include Guardian Air, pacemaker vendors, coronary stent and aortic stent companies.

KRMC departments will be in attendance providing free blood pressure checks, explain common tests and procedures to determine heart health.

Pharmaceutical representatives will also provide information

Kingman Regional Medical Center Cardiovascular Center is hosting an open house Thursday. (Photo by Travis Rains/Daily Miner) on commonly used heart medications. Attendees will learn about heart health, risk factors, preventative care and treat-

ment for cardiovascular conditions.

The event is free and open to the public with food and refreshments.

THINGS TO DO THURSDAY Main Street Monthly Meeting

6 p.m., Kingman Visitor Center, 120 W. Andy Devine Ave., support revitalization of downtown, www.kingmanmainstreet.com.

FRIDAY Chris Commisso in Concert

7-8:30 p.m., Kingman Center for the Arts, 208 E. Beale St., free admission, www.bealestreettheater.com.

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1-5 p.m., MCC, 1971 Jagerson Ave., Room 232, 1-877-258-4825.

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Travis Rains trains@kdminer.com KINGMAN – Vice Mayor Jen Miles said her presentation on the I-11 East Kingman Connection Project was well liked by those in attendance at the Arizona Association for Economic Development Transportation Symposium held Feb. 28 in Wickenburg and sparked additional interest in the project.

“It was very well received,” Miles said.

“People did come up and speak with me after the presentation and express their interest and enthusiasm for what we’re doing because they saw it as important for the state and saw the benefit of it.”

Miles has been invited by the public works association’s Arizona chapter to be a keynote speaker at their conference this summer, where she will go into more detail about Kingman’s goals and vision for the project. In addition, the City has been invited to place an article in a National Bank of Arizona magazine titled, “Elevate AZ!” “I pointed out that the I-11 project is a collaborative initiative of the City of Kingman, Mohave County, ADOT and private-sector investors that is designed to take us out

See MILES, 5A The Flame and Horsehead Nebulas, NGC 2024 and IC 434, respectively. These are examples of emission and dark nebulas. Emission nebulas are excited by radiation from hot, young stars hidden behind the glowing gas. Dark nebulas are dust clouds that obscure and block light from objects behind them. These nebula lie about 1500 light years away in the constellation Orion, the Hunter, visible high overhead this time of year.

These nebula are South, and slightly East of the Easternmost star in Orion’s belt. (Photo Courtesy HDAC members)

Legislators want to tell local governments when they can have elections Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX – Three years after being rebuffed by the Arizona Supreme Court, Republican legislators are making another bid this coming week to tell local governments when they can have their elections.

House Speaker J.D. Mesnard contends that this time lawmakers will convince the justices to let them do what they want.

And the Chandler Republican is depending, at least in part, on some new verbiage to explain to the court why lawmakers are doing what they’re doing.

Tucson City Attorney Mike Rankin, who successfully got the high court to void prior legislative attempts to tell cities how and when to run their election, said this new effort will meet the same fate, no matter how lawmakers dress up HB 2604 with claims of justification.

Arizona law generally requires that elections be conducted only in even-numbered years, and only on four specific days.

The premise behind that is the argument that consolidating all federal, state, local and school issues onto the same ballots improves turnout and saves local voters the cost of running a separate election.

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he year is 1956. The National Science Foundation is in search of another peak to place a National Astronomical Observatory. An aerial reconnaissance produced 150 possible sites, which was later narrowed down to five, and then two.

In 1958, it was between Hualapai Mountain or Kitt Peak.

Members of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) were scoping the cosmos from atop Hualapai Mountain in 1957. Aden Meinel of AURA invited the public to Lt. Beale Memorial Park to view the moon using a telescope being

used to test the Hualapai Mountain site in September 1957. According to a Mohave Miner article, 1,400 area residents attended the program, and the following day the telescope was moved from the park to the Hualapai Mountain site.

John Golson, an observer for NAO, moved from Waco, Texas, to spend the year in Kingman and study the possibilities of having an observatory in the Hualapais.

From 1957 to 1958, Golson observed the sky from the Hualapai site. March 13, 1958, the final vote came in. Kitt Peak was selected and the Hualapai test site was taken down.

“Chief factors against the site included the large growth potential in the Kingman area, See STARS, 5A

World leaders push back against Trump's trade war threat KEN THOMAS & PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Friday insisted "trade wars are good, and easy to win," a bold claim that prompted threats of retaliation against U.S. exports like blue jeans and motorcycles.

"Make no mistake: If the president goes through with this, it will kill American jobs – that's what every trade war ultimately does," said Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican.

Trump has declared that the U.S. will impose punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

The move will likely raise steel and aluminum prices here. That's good for U.S. manufacturers. But it's bad for companies that use the metals, and it prompted red flags from industries ranging from tool and dye makers to beer distributors to manufacturers of air conditioners.

The American International Automobile Dealers Association warned it would drive prices up "substantially."

Markets tumbled in Asia, where

China had already expressed a "grave concern" about U.S. trade policy. And the European Union promised retaliation against American exports if Trump follows through. In the United States, the S&P 500 dropped as much as 1.1 percent before paring its decline.

"None of this is reasonable, but reason is a sentiment that's very unevenly distributed in the world," said Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU's executive body.

Asked if a trade war is brewing, he said: "I can't see how this isn't

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Continued from 1A transcontinental air traffic, both military and civil, which will increase with time and create a vapor trail problem,” Meinel said in a 1958 Mohave Miner article.

However, the Hualapai site did rank highest in number of clear nights, land procurement, access from the nearest town and access to utilities.

The voting breakdown was four in favor of the Hualapai site, five voted the two sites were equal, and 11 voted in favor of Kitt Peak.

In October 1958, a lease was signed with the Papago Indian Tribe granting AURA and the NAO 200 acres of the mountain top for scientific research as well as 2,200 acres for a buffer zone.

The Kitt Peak National Observatory is located 56 miles southwest of Tucson and is currently working on creating a 3D map of the cosmos. The map will help chart out the role of dark energy in the expansion history of the Universe.

Chris Patrick of the High Desert Astronomy Club in Kingman said the club is trying to find the Hualapai test site in honor of what would have been the observatory’s 60th anniversary. Patrick said they are waiting to hear from AURA with the exact latitude and longitude to make the trek up the mountain.

Patrick said he was

Miles Continued from 1A of the economic stagnation of the past 10 years and lead us into a period of economic vitality,” Miles said.

The project consists of building two interchanges to promote economic development, one at Rancho Santa Fe and another at Kingman Crossing.

Miles explained to the symposium the differences between the two interchanges, noting the former will be a gateway to the Kingman Airport and Industrial Park and will open the door for industrial growth in addition to defining Kingman as a regional logistics hub. The latter will create opportunities for commercial and retail development while also providing medical and education access to residential residents.

Election Continued from 1A In 2012, legislators voted to force the issue with cities that have been scheduling their elections as they wish. But that effort was voided by the the state Court of Appeals which concluded – and the Supreme Court affirmed without comment – that when it comes to the state’s 19 charter cities, lawmakers have no power.

Appellate Judge Michael Miller who wrote that decision said Tucson and Phoenix presented valid arguments to keep their odd-year elections.

“An off-cycle election allows the city to obtain the full focus of the electorate,’’ he wrote. Miller said it also insulated the local elections from the “influence of partisan issues that are inevitably interwoven with federal, state and county elections.’’

Miller also said having separate city elec-

aluminum executives to the White House and declared he would levy Continued from 1A penalties of 25 percent on imported steel and part of war-like behav- 10 percent on aluminum ior." imports. The tariffs, he Early Friday, Trump said, would remain for took to Twitter to "a long period of time," defend himself: "When but it was not immea country (USA) is losdiately clear if certain ing many billions of dollars on trade with trading partners would virtually every country be exempt.

"This is going to it does business with, have fallout on our trade wars are good, downstream suppliers, and easy to win. Examparticularly in the autople, when we are down motive, machinery and $100 billion with a ceraircraft sectors," said tain country and they get cute, don't trade Wendy Cutler, a former anymore-we win big. U.S. trade official who is now vice president It's easy!"

He later tweeted: of the Asia Society Pol"Our steel industry is icy Institute. "What in bad shape. IF YOU benefits one industry DON'T HAVE STEEL, can hurt another. What YOU DON'T HAVE A saves one job can jeopCOUNTRY!" ardize another."

Sen. Sasse echoed a Steel-consuming sentiment of many U.S. companies said steel lawmakers when he tariffs imposed in 2002 issued a statement in by President George W. response: "Kooky 18th Bush ended up wiping century protectionism out 200,000 U.S. jobs. will jack up prices on The decision had American families." been strenuously debatTrump's announceed within the White ment came only after House, with top offian intense internal White House debate. It cials such as econombrought harsh criticism ic adviser Gary Cohn from some Republicans and Defense Secretary and roiled financial Jim Mattis raising conmarkets with concerns cerns.

The penalties were about economic ramifipushed by Commerce cations.

Trump has long Secretary Wilbur Ross railed against what and White House trade he deems unfair trade adviser Peter Navarro, practices by China and an economist who has others. This week, he favored taking aggressummoned steel and sive action.

Chris Patrick of the High Desert Astronomy Club shows the observatory he has built at his home in Valle Vista. (Photo by Vanessa Espinoza/Daily Miner) put onto the trail of the Hualapai Observatory by an email.

“This guy said he went on a field trip up there when he was 8,” Patrick said. “He asked why the club didn’t have anything about (the Hualapai site) on our website.”

Patrick said he has an educated guess where the test site might have been, but without the AURA coordinates, that’s all it is – a guess. He does know the test site had a 60-foot tower, but Patrick said it is unlikely there is anything left at the site.

“It was probably easily removable,” Patrick said.

Problems with the vapor trails and being on the fly away to Los Angeles could be fixed with modern astrophotography, so Patrick said there were likely other factors which influenced the decision to have to observatory at

Kitt Peak. His hunch is the lack of a university nearby likely factored into it.

Kingman citizens were huge supporters of the project. Meinel said the enthusiasm and cooperation of citizens of Kingman was unparalleled and “will always be remembered by us as outstanding.”

“Arizona has some of the best skies in the nation for astronomy,” Patrick said. “If (Mohave County) was to build on what it can do for astronomy, it would help the economy, the schools and downtown. It is unfortunate another site was chosen. It would have been a boon for this area.”

After Kitt Peak was selected, rumors circled that the AURA board of directors didn’t base their decision on scientific reasoning. The disappointment was almost palpable.

However, Mayor E.J. McCarthy said it best when, in March 1958, he told the Mohave Miner: “We have lost the observatory, but I am sure we have attained a goal in our work.

“I would venture to say that never has a community such as the Board of Supervisors, the Chamber of Commerce, the City Council and all the people put their shoulders together, forgot all personal differences and worked so hard together to complete the program … the community will forge ahead and gain population, prosperity and become a better place for all of us to live in if we will continue to work for industry, highways and all other projects as diligently as we worked with the people of AURA.”

“This project not only implements the Kingman general plan but it aligns with the state’s goals to support strategic infrastructure projects and to encourage economic growth in rural Arizona,” Miles said.

She also spoke of the economic and job growth that may result from the project at buildout, including an economic impact of $5.09 billion via commercial and industrial development, and tens-ofthousands of direct and indirect jobs. Both could develop over the course of some 20 years.

“The key for Kingman is to continue to make steady progress toward this project’s implementation, to continue to advance our partnership agreements with state and private sector partners,” Miles said, “and not to lose sight of the great benefit the project will afford us because

it will lay the foundation for our region’s economic future and will contribute to the economic vitality of the state.”

She wanted to inform the citizens of Kingman that Dallas Hammit, ADOT deputy director of transportation and state engineer, talked about the Beale Street interchange with

I-40 and U.S. 93 being an ADOT priority. Proposals from firms are now being sought and an expected completion date has been set for 2023 or 2024.

“I was very proud to represent Kingman and the City Council as to what our vision is and what we’re doing to make it a reality,” Miles said.

tions also ensures local candidates do not have to compete with state and national candidates for donations to get their messages out.

There’s an even older precedent of the state’s high court voiding a different attempt to force Tucson to change how it elects its mayor and council members. The justices said the Arizona Constitution makes it clear that

local elections are matters of strictly local concern and that residents of charter cities can pretty much decide how to run those elections.

Mesnard, however, thinks he’s found a loophole of sorts in those rulings: A claim for legitimacy in state intervention.

It would put into law a declaration that having consolidated elections “is a matter of statewide

concern to increase voter participation in elections.’

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the time of the incident, Bravo was 16 and Bell 19.

Law enforcement responded to a call at about 10:20 p.m. and arrived to find a 16-yearold who had suffered gunshot wounds to the hand. The victim was taken to Kingman Regional Medical Center with serious but non-life threatening injuries. Bell is alleged to have shot the victim, while Bravo struck him in the head with the butt of a shotgun.

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The company will still be accepting Visa debit cards and other forms of payment such as Mastercard, Discover, American Express, cash, checks, SNAP and WIC programs.

The company decided to make the change because of

the excessive fees Visa charges.

According to the press release, Visa fees are the highest of any credit cards accepted at Smith’s and exceed grocery store margins in the highly competitive food retail industry.

“It drives up food prices and it isn’t fair to customers,” said Aubriana Martindale, Smith’s Food & Drug cooperative affairs manager.

The change will also affect gas stations. Through the Kroger

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lease be advised these robberies are tales of old and cannot be verified.”

That is the first sentence to greet researchers in a file labeled “stagecoach robberies” in the archives at the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.

Whether or not the words of

warning helped deter would-be treasure hunters is unclear, but the stories within the folder are full of bandits, gold and buried treasure.

This story comes from the eastern slopes of the Cerbat Mountains north of Kingman. From a time before a county newspaper.

Between 1840 and 1910, about $40 million in gold was dug out of the Cerbat Mountains. Prospecting, however, wasn’t a pro-

fession for everyone, and some people turned to easier methods for acquiring these golden treasures.

One such instance occurred in either 1872 or October of 1873.

A pair of robbers learned the schedule of a stagecoach en route from Prescott to Fort Mohave.

This stagecoach carried $72,000 in gold coins – a cache of government funds.

The stage route the shipment

traveled over would pass east of the Cerbats, where the two men made camp, and would pass through a stop at the remote Canyon Station – about 12 miles north of Kingman following Stockton Hill Road.

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PHOENIX – Calling it a matter of constitutional rights, the state House voted to allow parents and others to drive onto school campuses with loaded weapons in their cars.

The 31-27 party-line vote for HB 2693 in the Republican-controlled chamber came amid pleas from some lawmakers who said they feel safer for themselves and their children when dropping them off and picking them up. Rep. Regina Cobb, R-Kingman, said she can attest to that based on personal experience.

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you felt that others were going to violate their order of protection, you wanted to be able to protect yourself,’’ she said. “I was also that person that was dropping my kids off at school every day.’’

Cobb pointed out that current law allows guns in vehicles on campus, but only if they’re not loaded.

“I would not have wanted to stop a block away, unload my gun, go on to the school grounds and then come back and reload it again,’’ she said. “Using guns for most of my life, I know that’s when accidents happen.’’

That understanding was underlined by Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, who is a former police officer.

“Go to many police locker rooms and you’ll see holes in the lockers and the walls because of accidental discharges during loading and unloading,’’ he told colleagues.

And Rep. Bret Roberts, R-Maricopa, said the issue comes down to allowing parents to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

But Rep. Kirsten Engel, D-Tucson, said the Second Amendment is not absolute. And Rep. Gerae Peten, D-Goodyear, questioned the wisdom of people coming on to campus with loaded weapons.

“A lot of parents come to school when they are angry, irate, irrational, inebriated,” she said.

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As fentanyl seizures rise, so do safety concerns around the deadly drug LUV JUNIOUS Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Compared to the tons of marijuana and the thousands of pounds of heroin that are confiscated at the border in a given year, the couple hundred pounds of fentanyl that were seized in Nogales recently may seem trivial.

Don’t tell that to Erica Curry of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Phoenix office. “In Arizona in 2018, DEA and our law enforcement partners have seized 445 pounds of fentanyl,�

Curry said, “Which is roughly enough to kill 75 million people.�

That’s because experts say that as little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be a fatal dose. With more than 450,000 milligrams in a pound, that’s as many as 225,000 fatal doses in theory.

DEA spokesman Melvin Paterson puts it in perspective this way: If you put fentanyl in a salt shaker, there would be enough of the drug in one shake to kill.

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The pair of robbers decided it would be best to stop the stage on its approach to Canyon Station.

It was a rather unimaginative heist.

The taller of the two, a man either called Macallum or McAllen, supposedly hoisted his weapon and walked out onto the road. Macallum stood in the road and waved the stage to a stop while his companion remained in the brush with a rifle trained on the driver and guard.

Once the strongbox had been thrown down, the stage was waved onward – the first mistake these robbers made.

Gold is heavy. Heavier than these robbers thought.

With their horses hidden a ways off, the bandits struggled with their haul. All the while, a sheriff’s posse was forming closer to Canyon Station.

The outlaws, struggling to carry the weight, stashed the gold. Whether it was planned or not is unclear.

They were surrounded by the pursuing posse, and the unnamed man was shot and killed. Macallum surrendered and was sent to Yuma Territorial Prison, nicknamed “Devil’s Island.�

Before Macallum succumbed to disease or heat – daytime temperatures could reach 115 degrees – he supposedly told his cellmate where to find the hidden treasure.

This cellmate made his way to Canyon Station around 1915. The area was then owned by an Andrew Goodwill, a man

“We know that 2 milligrams for the average person that’s not using any type of opioids, that would be a deadly or lethal dose,� said Patterson, of the DEA’s Washington office.

Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales made the largest fentanyl seizure in the agency’s history in late January when they confiscated 254 pounds of the drug valued at $3.5 million. The fentanyl was hidden, along with methamphetamines, under the false bottom of a truck that was bringing a load of cucumbers across the border.

That single seizure was more than half the 445 pounds of fentanyl confiscated in Arizona for all of 2018, according to DEA statistics.

And fentanyl is showing up in a lot of different places. Officials say fentanyl is often found mixed with other opioids or pressed into pills and passed off as legitimate prescription medication. “It’s very uncommon for us in DEA to seize

coke (cocaine) or methamphetamines or heroin and it not have some fentanyl in it,� Patterson said.

Morgan Clothier, a forensic chemist in the Washington, D.C., Department of Forensic Sciences, said they see it in her office, too. “Fifty percent of the heroin cases that we handle in our lab contains fentanyl or another fentanyl analog,� she said.

Clothier said it is impossible to tell the difference between street and legal versions of a drug with the naked eye – the only way to find out if fentanyl is present is to test the drug. Even that requires special care because of the danger the drug presents. Clothier said fentanyl is “repacked in an additional external packaging so that way when it crosses hands ‌ it is an extra layer of protection.â€?

Because it is a synthetic drug, fentanyl is relatively easy to produce and package as legitimate, experts say, but with none of the safeguards. Curry said “there’s really no way

to know how much fentanyl is in whatever it is that you are taking.â€? “The pills are manufactured to resemble legitimate pharmaceutical drugs like oxycodone and ‌ Percocet, however, they are not,â€? she said. “These are pills that are counterfeit, are fake. “There’s no quality control to the production of these pills whatsoever,â€?

Curry said. “So a pill that you think is legitimate is actually very, very powerful. And just by taking one, one pill you can actually overdose and die from that.�

Fentanyl is not all bad.

In prescription form, it is used to relieve severe, ongoing pain. “Doctors use of fentanyl is meant to treat cancer patients, they use fentanyl as a pain medication,�

Patterson said.

But even the legitimate version has risks – WebMD suggests that patients ask their doctors if they should also have naloxone available, the drug used to treat opioid overdoses.

Despite the dangers of

who owned several mining claims in the Cerbats and had moved into Canyon Station after it closed in the late 1800s.

Goodwill often told stories of a stranger who came to the area and began scouring the hills. “He wasn’t a prospector,� Goodwill would say, “But fer sure was lookin’ for somethin.’�

The stranger eventually told Goodwill that he had been in the Yuma prison and had been given directions to this lost loot.

This stranger supposedly never found the treasure he was after.

Around 100 years after the initial robbery, former Mohave County Superintendent of Schools Nelle Clack, was interviewed on the subject.

Clack had reportedly found a cave high in the mountains in the vicinity of White Eagle and the C.O.D. mines, which she held interests in. Both mines were located above the old Canyon Station stop. “The entrance was between two huge boulders leaning against each other,� Clack told the interviewer. The cave, looking down on the stage route and distant Canyon Station, was an ideal observation point for someone looking to make easy money.

Clack said she found the cave and when she looked inside it seemed as though it was some kind of campsite. There

were rusted cooking pans and other signs of inhabitation.

Clack did not venture further for fear of rattlesnakes, though she was convinced this cave held the lost bandit treasure.

It had been her intention to return with others in order to search the cave for the gold, but she never divulged the cave’s location.

Any directions she gave to the area before her death were sketchy at best.

The area where the robbery took place isn’t difficult to find on any detailed map of that portion of Mohave County north of Kingman. Getting to the area is another story, especially since the area is privately owned.

Perhaps the ex-con-

vict had really found the gold in 1915 and only told Goodwill he hadn’t. Maybe posse members returned to the area back in 1873, located the chest, and kept their find a secret.

Or maybe the bandits hid the gold successfully, but not in Clack’s cave.

Or maybe this is just another one of those stories from before the time of any newspaper in the area. Maybe there is no gold, and maybe there never was any.

But, if there was, $72,000 worth of gold – at today’s prices – would be worth over $1.5 million.

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The 2020-2024 construction program allocates $260 million to $320 million per year for the preservation of bridges and roadways. It will also allocate funding for additional lanes along I-17 between Anthem and Sunset Point, and funding for the design, scoping and environmental assessment for the widening of I-10 between

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Mike Lipskin plays a few stride jazz songs on the grand piano at his home. Lipskin will be performing with Dinah Lee, a traditional jazz vocalist, 7 – 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23 at The Gallery at Kingman Center for the Arts, 208 E. Beale St. (Photo by Vanessa Espinoza/Daily Miner)

Two jazz musicians bring a taste of true American art to the Kingman community Claire Whitley cwhitley@kdminer.com

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t the first note, the first press of the keys, it fills the room. Energy, vibrance, dancing. Beaded dresses swirling in a colorful array. Clusters of bodies fill the dance floor, feet moving to the striding fingers on the piano.

Young men and women doing the Charleston and the Black Bottom dances long into the night, until they have literally passed out.

It’s the Roaring ‘20s. The Jazz Age. A piece of American history that lives on to this day right here in Kingman, in the likes of stride jazz pianist Mike Lipskin and jazz vocalist Dinah Lee Dixon-Lipskin.

“Jazz is uniquely American,” Dinah Lee said.

“It’s our heritage.”

Lipskin first got a taste of jazz from his father, a journalist in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. His father loved jazz, and the stride jazz Lipskin plays was the kind of jazz he grew up with.

“As soon as I heard Fats Waller, I thought I wanted to play like that,” Lipskin said.

He was hooked on jazz. The feelings, the emotions, the passion.

Lipskin has performed in the U.S. and Europe for over 45 years. He’s played at Carnegie Hall, Davies Symphony Hall and Newport Jazz, all while making his own sound in stride jazz.

Dinah Lee has been performing traditional jazz for years as well. She and Lipskin concertize in San Francisco and New York.

She started her musical career in second grade as a piano student in the Welsh community of Wellston, Ohio.

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Kingman presents ‘Budget 101’ KINGMAN – Grasping a household budget can sometimes be a challenge, and when considering the budget processes of an entire City, understanding its inner workings can seem daunting.

The City of Kingman, in an effort to clarify its budget, has provided the community with an informational video available on the City of Kingman YouTube page, https://bit.ly/2TJ2Xcl. “The City’s budget is structured to account for every dollar collected, and to ensure that every dollar collected is spent on the specific purpose intended,” explains City Finance Director Tina Moline in the video. “It’s just like in your household budget where you dedicate money to pay for your housing and groceries.”

Moline says the City’s budget operates in the same way, dedicating funds to various departments based on the services and programs they provide.

Revenue collected by the City of Kingman goes to fund departments such as

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High schoolers could keep loaded weapons on campus with new bill Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX – It’s billed by proponents as a way moms can defend themselves from attackers while dropping their children off at school.

But legislation that cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday on a 4-3 party-line vote also would permit high schoolers who are at least 18 to bring and keep loaded weapons in their vehicles.

And that alarmed some foes of HB 2693 who said it creates the opportunity for what starts out as a spat among students to quickly escalate if one goes out to the parking lot to retrieve the weapon.

That possibility did not bother Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert.

He pointed out that existing law already permits adults – anyone 18 and older – to drive on to public school campuses with a weapon in

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the vehicle. And if the person leaves the vehicle, the weapon has to be stored out of sight and the vehicle must be locked.

The only difference, Farnsworth said, is that current law requires that the weapon be unloaded before reaching the school, a requirement HB 2693 would eliminate.

Dave Kopp, lobbyist for the Arizona Citizens Defense League, argued that the current law actually creates more possibilities for accidents by forcing people to unload a weapon before arriving on campus.

He said the likelihood of a gun discharging increases every time it’s handled – including when it’s being loaded or unloaded.

That logic drew criticism from Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Glendale.

“In my opinion, I think the very last people we want to have carrying guns on a school campus are the ones that have difficulty with

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the most simple task of loading and unloading their weapons,’’ he said. “If you can’t handle that simple task, perhaps you should leave your gun at home before you drive to school.’’

Rep. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, said he crafted the measure with the help of the National Rifle Association.

“It’s not practical for people to have to stop before they drop their kids off at school, unload their gun, park at the school, leave the school, reload their gun,’’ he said.

The bottom line, he said, is self defense.

“We all know that criminals have no concern for the law,’’ Petersen said.

“They’re going to carry weapons wherever the want to carry weapons in any way that they want to,’’ he continued. “I want to make sure

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Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, is not bothered by a house bill which would permit 18-year-old students to keep loaded weapons in their vehicles on school campuses. The bill passed the Judiciary Committee Thursday 4-3.

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What is Harlem Stride Jazz?

Stride jazz is a “vibrant� and filled with “nuance and power� that was a significant part of the Harlem Renaissance, a flourishing of African American art, music, literature and poetry centered in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.

It was a popular kind of jazz in the 1920s and 1930s and was made famous by Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, who frequently performed at the Cotton Club, was one of the most influential jazz bandleaders and composers of all time.

It was called “stride� because jazz critics would say the left hand strode across the keys playing a long range of notes between the low section of the piano and the middle section of the piano, Lipskin wrote on his website. This left hand movement helped give the piano its own full rhythm section, a necessity before jazz musicians began incorporating more bass in their sets. “All this, combining the right hand melodic improvisations with a stride jazz bass make a rocking, swing beat,� he wrote.

Dinah Lee Dixon-Lipskin sings one of the many jazz songs she knows at her home while being accompanied by Mike Lipskin on the piano. (Photo by Vanessa Espinoza/Daily Miner) Center for the Arts, 208 retired to the Kingman sounds. “As soon as I heard E. Beale St. They have area and one night was performing in the Colorado that record, I knew I had planned a 16 to 18 song Continued from 1A Belle in Laughlin. Dinah to meet him,� Dinah Lee set mixing vocals, piano, Lee heard music coming said. and records. “After studies and les- from upstairs and she went “We met through Tickets can be bought son, I would open up the to find who was playing music,� Lipskin added. at the door for $15 or piano and my mother’s jazz piano.

The two have now per- online from the Beale sheet music would be on “I went up the esca- formed for years together. Street Theater. A third there,� Dinah Lee said.

The two play a style of each ticket price goes lator and looked around, The music she saw was and saw this little man of jazz that is largeback to the KCA, Lipskin jazz. Her mother would playing the piano,� Dinah ly unheard these days, said. accompany her on piano Lee said. “And he was adding new twists to old For further informawhile Dinah Lee sang. playing, and he was play- classics all while rememtion, contact Lipskin at “I loved the sound, the ing very well.� bering and respecting and 928-529-2100. chords, the harmonies,�

The man was playing remaining faithful to the Everyone is encourDinah Lee said. “I would “Embraceable You� by original composition. aged to come and listen, play ‘em and sing along. George Gershwin. While “Jazz is the original and dance the night away Being a jazz singer was he was playing he didn’t American art form we gave like 100 years ago. something I always wanted see Dinah Lee walk up to the world,� Lipskin said. “A great compliment to to do.� behind him. Dinah Lee “It’ll be nice for people to me as a stride jazz pianist So how did a New York said she watched him for remember that.� pianist meet an Ohioan a while before she started Dinah Lee and Lipskin is when couples get up vocalist? are performing from 7 and dance while I play,� singing along.

The two met through From there, this mutu- to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Lipskin said. “Hot jazz music. al friend introduced her to March 23 at the Gal- and swing was originally A friend of Lipskin’s Lipskin’s stride jazz piano lery at the Kingman considered dance music.�

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KINGMAN – The City Historical Preservation Commission will begin discussing preservation efforts for the World War I monument at the Mohave County Superior Courthouse at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in Council chambers, 310 N. Fourth St. A restoration effort for the monument is currently underway courtesy of the Arizona Military Order of Devil Dog Charities. The commission will consider helping with the restoration at Tuesday’s meeting. In other historical-project news, City Grant Administrator Bill Shilling will give a report on the progress of the renovations for the World War II flight control tower at the Kingman Airport.

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End of April eyed for final paving of Stockton Hill Road KINGMAN – Crews tackling the Stockton Hill Road project were last week working at night in the southbound section, but come this week, those crews will move to daytime hours.

Crews will this week begin work on the mainline and laterals. Weather permitting, trenches will be patched in the southbound section the week of April 1. Crews also plan to restrict northbound Stockton Hill Road to one lane at Airway Avenue beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday, March 26. The northbound, outside lane will be restricted in front of Smith’s so crews can install a tap into the existing water system. The restriction will end by 4 p.m.

Crews are soon set to begin work on improving storm water conveyance on Stockton Hill. The culvert crossing the road, a few hundred feet south of Hillcrest Drive, will be modified to add additional capacity to convey storm flows. That work will begin the week of

A photo of a stagecoach, titled “The Deadwood Coach,” with formally dressed men sitting in and on top of the coach from around 1889. (Photo by John C. H. Grabill, Library of Congress)

A stash of gold ingots could be buried with the remains of a stagecoach near Beale Springs, or it could just be another legend lost to time

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ost legends contain just enough truth to spark imagination. There is just enough facts to make the story easy to follow, but not enough to easily track, through history or on modern maps.

The story of the bandit “Hualapai Joe” Desredo’s lost stagecoach and buried treasure is no different.

One of the only facts that has been confirmed is that in 1880, a stagecoach carrying $200,000 in gold disappeared.

The legend says the stagecoach left Beale Springs headed toward Needles, California on a June night in 1880. Somewhere south of the Beale Springs stage stop, about two miles west of Kingman, this stagecoach, its team and three passengers simply disappeared.

Under the front seat was a large box reinforced with iron. It took six men to get it placed in the stage. This box was so heavy because it contained gold ingots from mines and shipments of money from business men in the scattered towns. There were also two small leather bags of raw gold taken in trade stuffed in between the chest and side wall.

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Bill legalizing marijuana edibles fails in House Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services

Marijuana edibles - products derived from marijuana come in many shapes and sizes. A proposal by Rep. Randall Friese, D-Tucson, has failed in the Arizona House.

It would have spelled out in state law that what voters legalized in 2010 for medical use includes any extracts, resins and concentrates. (Daily Courier photo)

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PHOENIX – Republican lawmakers rejected a bid Thursday to clarify that edible forms of marijuana made from extracts are legal.

On a 29-29 tie the House beat back a proposal by Rep. Randall Friese, D-Tucson, to spell out in law that what voters legalized in 2010 for medical use includes not just the dried flowers of the marijuana plant but also any extracts, resins and concentrates. More to the point, he sought to specifically include the words “edible’’ as a permissible form of marijuana.

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obtain up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana every two weeks. And he noted that the conditions that qualify for medical marijuana include seizures, with doctors allowed to recommend the drug to parents for their children.

“It would be easier for them to get the medication if we allowed the edibles,’’ he told colleagues.

Friese acknowledged that his proposal comes just days after Deputy Yavapai County Attorney Benjamin Kreutzberg argued to the Arizona Supreme Court that voters never intended to legalize anything other than the use of the flowers and leaves. Kreutzberg in essence is asking the justices to rule that all the other forms of marijuana now available through

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Friese’s proposal, had it been enacted, would have made whatever the high court decides legally moot. But he was unapologetic for asking the Legislature to weigh in.

“I’m trying to propose to this body that we make our own decision,’’ he said.

Rep. Regina Cobb, R-Kingman, argued that would be the wrong decision.

She said that in Colorado, where marijuana in multiple forms is legally available to adults, children have overdosed.

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Arizona State Parks’ boss wants to bring stability to agency ABOVE: Typical stage of the Concord type used by express companies on the overland trails. Soldiers guard from atop, circa 1869. There is no telling if a stagecoach like the one lost near Beale Springs had a military escort or not, but with gold coming from the mines nestled underneath the seat, it is possible. (Public domain photo from the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration) RIGHT: A map illustration of the area at the time, showing Kingman on the right and the Beale Springs station toward the middle left. This map was published in Arizona Highways in 1994 with a story about Hualapai Joe’s lost gold. The magazine article can be read at the Mohave Museum of History and the Arts. (Arizona Department of Transportation)

Legend Continued from 1 The story goes that four men saw this stagecoach, and its gold, leave Beale Springs. It is believed that later in the stage’s journey it was stopped by three bandits, one of whom was Desredo.

I say believed because shortly after the stage vanished, Desredo and his compatriots were killed in a gunfight with lawmen.

Desredo and his fellows were already suspected of robbing a store in Mineral Park, and had a posse of five men chasing after them. These lawmen rode to the Beale Springs station, confirmed the stage had been through to change out the teams the night before, and proceeded to the next stop.

The posse arrived a little after sundown, put their horses away and ate a hearty meal. While strolling outside the weather-warped wooden building for fresh air, they saw three men ride in.

“Hualapai Joe” Desredo was identified almost immediately.

The story goes that it was Desredo’s companions who began the gun fight by going for their holstered weapons. The posse shot them out of their saddles; dead.

With the crash of gun-

Extracts Continued from 1 “What is happening is the children are seeing this as gummy bears, Skittles,’’ Cobb said. “Some of those edibles look like a regular candy and so the kids are eating them.’’

And Cobb said there’s another problem with edible forms of marijuana.

When someone smokes it, there’s an immediate effect. That’s not so with edible forms which have to be absorbed into the blood through the digestive tract.

“So some people take it and then take another one because after the first response they don’t get a response,’’ she said. “And then they’re starting to overdose on those also.’’

But Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley, D-Tucson, said legislative action is necessary -- and soon.

“People are buying these marijuana deriv-

fire around him, Desredo went for his six-shooter and the sheriff, who was within six feet, dropped him with a fatal wound.

Desredo began muttering words as his eyes fluttered open and he spoke to the sheriff.

Right before he died, Desredo admitted to holding up the stage and burying the box of gold, though he adamantly denied harming the driver, a man widely known as John “Johnny Jumpup” Upshaw, or any of the passengers.

Desredo said after unloading the box, he and his men allowed the stage to proceed to Needles.

He did add, however, that a strange thing happened as the stage was leaving.

“I could hear wheels cracking against rocks and Johnny Jumpup yelling at his team,” Desredo told the lawmen. “Then, all at once, I couldn’t hear the stage wheels and Johnny Jumpup yelling no more.”

It just “vanished into nowhere.”

The area Desredo spoke of was searched, including the spot where he said he buried the gold, but nothing was found. No horses, no men, no stage and no gold.

As time passed, this story of lost gold and stagecoaches faded from memory.

Until 1940 when an Arizona historian Maurice atives, the concentrates and the edibles legally, and paying taxes, but in certain counties in Arizona they’re being arrested for these things that they bought legally,’’ she said.

Rep. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, had her own objections.

She pointed out that possession and sale of marijuana remains a felony under federal law. And Townsend argued that state lawmakers cannot enact anything that is contrary.

But Arizona courts have to date rejected similar argument of federal preemption by prosecutors who have sought to set aside the 2010 initiative legalizing medical marijuana.

The GOP opposition was not solid, with Rep. Noel Campbell, R-Prescott, breaking ranks to support the Friese proposal to spell out that extracts and edibles are as legal for patients as leaves and

Kildare was approached by a Mohave County character by the name of Max Bordon. Bordon, a hermit who lived most of his life in and around the Black Mountain range of western Mohave County, claimed he had found the vanished stagecoach.

The stage had been swallowed up by a wide fissure at the edge of a deep wash.

Apparently in the darkness, Upshaw had wandered off the trail and into the crack. Much of the remains had been washed away, but part of the coach was still there. And some of the bones of the passengers were still inside.

Bordon took Kildare to the spot, but made him promise that he wouldn’t tell a soul. He didn’t want to be bothered by any would-be treasure seekers.

And for years Kildare kept his word.

Then along came World War II, and, sometime during the war years, Bor-

don died.

After the war ended, Kildare informed the Mohave County sheriff of the incident, but the sheriff seemed disinterested.

More years passed.

Kildare is now gone.

But the stage is probably still out there, and maybe even the gold.

Kildare never said if he tried to return to the spot, only that he “couldn’t find that place” again.

When Kildare went with Bordon to the site, they approached it from the south, from Bordon’s camp in the Sacramento Valley west of Yucca, so it’s possible Kildare didn’t know the way again, especially if he followed what is thought to be the old stage route.

A route that has been lost to history.

Or, this could just be another of those legends from the Old West. Tales of bandits, robbers and gold.

A tale that has disappeared, with only enough truth to keep us guessing.

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“Those items in his amendment should be part of the definition of marijuana,’’ he said after the vote.

Campbell’s vote came despite the fact that it is his county attorney and fellow Republican Sheila Polk who has been leading the charge to take edible forms of the drug off the shelves.

“Look, I don’t know

about the county attorney,’’ he said. “All I know is it seemed to me that inclusion of those definitions should have been there.’’

The failure of the Friese proposal means the future of edible forms of marijuana rests solely with the Arizona Supreme Court – at least until there is a future ballot proposal to redefine both what is legal and who can use it.

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Colorado has 42 state parks while Arizona has 35, according to Broscheid.

Don't ask Broscheid which Arizona state park is his favorite. He wants to revisit all of them before giving an answer.

"I don't know about a favorite state park yet," he said. "I've got to refresh myself."

Broscheid considers himself to be the typical state parks visitor. He hikes, bikes, takes long backpacking trips through the wilderness and enjoys water sports.

"When I was a kid in northeastern Ohio, we had hundreds of acres behind our house," he said. "It was the curiosity about nature and the woods coupled with Marlin Perkins and the Mutual of Omaha nature-based television shows. My parents also just said, 'Get outside.'

Then, I realized that you can do this for a living and that you can provide opportunities for people to feel the same way as I did as a kid.

"And to me, it is so satisfying when you see a kid or an adult, at any age, hold a frog or hike and see deer for the first time," added Broscheid.

"I just remember that and I think that's what really drives me is that I'm responsible for providing that first experience for so many people."

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PHOENIX (AP) — The new director of Arizona State Parks and Trails says he needs to revisit all of the parks before he can pick a favorite, but that he already knows what the agency needs most now: calm and stability.

Bob Broscheid was appointed recently by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to head the Arizona agency and replace Sue Black, who was fired last November following numerous complaints including the bulldozing of potential archaeological sites to rush development of cabins and other improvements.

"Stability is priority.

There's been a lot of change. There's been a lot of uncertainty," Broscheid told the Arizona Capitol Times . "I will not bash anybody before me. I wasn't here.

"I think my top priority here is to calm the waters. It's a new day, a new approach.

I'm a new director and I'm really just letting folks know, 'We're going to be all right.'

Then we're creating a vision that is going to set the state parks for the next 20 years."

Broscheid, 49, graduated from Arizona State University in 1985 and worked for the Arizona Game and Fish Department for 20 years before leaving to lead Colorado's Parks and Wildlife depart-

Funeral set for officer killed while responding to crash PHOENIX (AP) – Memorial services have been set for a Phoenix police officer who was struck and killed while investigating a crash.

A visitation for Officer Paul Rutherford is set for 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic church in Avondale Rutherford's funeral is scheduled for Thursday at Christ's Church of the Valley in Peoria.

Rutherford died last Thursday after being

hit by a vehicle in west Phoenix.

He was 51.

Phoenix police officials say Rutherford was transported to an area hospital in critical condition where he was later pronounced dead.

The driver of the vehicle, identified only as a 40-year-old woman, stayed at the scene and cooperated with police.

Sgt. Tommy Thompson says officers determined she was not impaired.

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Councilman Yocum’s DUI trial delayed for 8th time HUBBLE RAY SMITH hsmith@kdminer.com KINGMAN – The jury trial for City Councilman Stuart Yocum, charged with driving under the influence in May 2017, has been conStuart Yocum tinued until June 7 in Kingman Justice Court, according to a court clerk.

It is the eighth order to continue the trial.

Yocum made his initial appearance before Kingman Justice Court Judge John Taylor on June 1, 2017, and pleaded not guilty to charges of DUI with a blood-alcohol content greater

The history surrounding planes and Kingman is a deep one, rich with aviation greats such as Charles Lindbergh

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he year is 1927. It’s a misty morning in late May and an unassuming mail pilot was about to make history.

With a look at the weather maps, a quick scan of the sky, and a single “Let’s go,” he climbed into his monoplane, “The Spirit of St. Louis,” at 5:52 a.m. Friday, May 20, cleared the ground and headed toward Paris. He passed over Newfoundland and started toward the open Atlantic Ocean at 7:15 p.m. that day. His exact whereabouts were contradictory until 10:21 Saturday evening, when his plane dropped onto Le Bourget field near Paris to a howling crowd.

The pilot climbed from his cockpit and announced: “I am Charles Lindbergh.”

Lindbergh was the first man to fly the Atlantic Ocean solo. It was in that moment that one midwestern, 25-year-old pilot became a hero.

Lindbergh grew up on a 118-acre farm along the Mississippi River near Little Falls, Minnesota. Lindbergh learned how to drive a car in 1912, a Model T Ford Tourabout his mother named

The rider of this bike died after crashing Sunday. No other vehicles were involved. (Courtesy/MCSO)

53-year-old dirt biker dies in crash

Top: The City of Los Angeles landing at the Port of Kingman airport.

Charles Lindbergh was the pilot. (Courtesy Mohave Museum of the History and Arts) Above: Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, of the Missouri National Guard, nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim.At age 25, in 1927, Lindbergh made a nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris.(United States Air Force photo)

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KINGMAN – Curtis Renner, 53, was killed Sunday in a dirt bike accident in the 5300 block of Roosevelt Street, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday.

The Sheriff’s office received a call around 4:30 p.m. Sunday and deputies arrived to find a dead man, identified as Renner.

The investigation determined that he was riding a dirt bike in the area, took a jump and crashed, dying from injuries sustained in the crash. No other vehicles were involved in the accident.

The medical examiner’s office came out to the scene and took Renner to the office in Lake Havasu City, at which time of next of kin were notified.

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Gov. Ducey unveils plan to get teachers pay hikes over next 3 years Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services

Flanked by Republican lawmakers, Gov. Doug Ducey unveils his plan Thursday to boost teacher pay by 20 percent by the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.

(Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

PHOENIX – Hoping to head off a walkout, Gov. Doug Ducey unveiled a plan Thursday he said will provide teachers the 20 percent pay hike they are demanding -- by the 20202021 school year.

The governor said he believes there are enough new tax dollars coming in the state through economic development and

simple population growth to immediately bump the average teacher salary in Arizona to $52,725 by the new school year. That compares with $48,372 according to the Auditor General’s Office.

And by the fall of 2020, the figure would hit $58,130.

That infusion of $684 million new dollars, on top of other state aid to schools, would still leave teacher pay in Arizona

below the current national average. But it would mean that Arizona would no longer be at or near the bottom, where it is now.

The plan already has the endorsement of several education groups. But Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona Education Association, said he is approaching the proposal with a certain skepticism.

Thomas said even if Ducey can deliver on the immediate hike, there

is no guarantee that the money will be there in future years. He said the only way to assure that is to put a tax hike proposal on the ballot, something the governor has refused to do – and considers unnecessary.

And Thomas, whose organization already is backing Democrat David Garcia to replace Ducey in November, also said

Lee Williams dominates Wednesday’s multi

City of Kingman hires Interim Planning and Economic Development Director Greg Kellogg permanently

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“By 1914, I was driving most of the time (but) when my father drove I usually rode the running board,” Lindbergh wrote in “A Reminiscent Letter.”

“I could pick leaves off branches as we passed … scoop up a stone from the road. I liked the wind on my face and through my hair.”

Lindbergh self-described his childhood as a “Huck Finn boyhood by the river.” The Lindbergh farm had no electricity or telephone. Kerosene lamps lit the house, while kerosene lanterns lit the barn and “gave a soft and lovely light,” which was enough for anything they needed.

In the fall of 1920, Lindy rode off on his Excelsior motorcycle to enter the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In the spring of 1923, he bought his “Jenny” airplane in Georgia, barnstormed to Texas and then headed north to Little Falls, landing on the west 40 of the farm.

“I felt nostalgia then if I ever felt it in my life,” Lindbergh wrote, “for I knew the farming days I loved so much were over. I had made my choice. I loved still more to fly.”

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This love of flying brought Lindbergh to Kingman.

Fresh from his historic flight to Paris and considered the greatest hero this country had yet seen, Lindbergh and others organized the Transcontinental Air Transport Inc. This company was going to offer 24-hour service between New York City and Los Angeles.

His first flight that brought him through Kingman had him landing here June 1, 1928. He was working on inspections for refueling stations along the proposed transcontinental airway. In October 1928, it was announced that Kingman would be on the TAT route.

“Kingman will be the most important station on the west coast,” said Major Thomas Lamphier.

In January of 1929, both Lindbergh and Lamphier came to inspect the airport, and work on the TAT airfield began on March 10.

Port Kingman was constructed on 310-acres near the northeastern frontier of the city at the time. Air service started May 17 with two flights a day. Then on June 25, a Port Kingman dedication was held, making it the first dedicated airport in Northern Arizona.

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L service plane at the port on July 8, 1929.

The landing was bouncy on a freshly oiled and compacted runway in the area of Bank Street, Beverly and Airway avenues, and Interstate 40, according to Southwest Aviation Report. The noisy “tin goose” lumbered up to the end of the concourse, the engines stopped, and a minute later the plane’s oval door opened. Standing in the opening, grinning and waving to a crowd of about 1,000 applauding people, was Lindbergh.

Lindbergh was greeted

by Kingman Chamber of Commerce President Willis Black. Lindy and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were there for the inaugural flight of the coast-tocoast air service.

Very soon, these landings became a daily occurrence. Several greats such as aviatrix Amelia Earhart, actors Douglas Fairbanks and Clark Gable and actresses Mary Pickford and Carole Lombard could be seen resting while planes were refueled.

Whenever the Lindberghs would visit, which was often throughout the 20-year lifespan of the TAT air services, they would drive into town and stay at the Beale Hotel.

On November 20, 1976, a dedication to the old

/F Port Kingman was held.

A memorial commemorating Lindbergh for choosing Kingman was established at that time.

“Lindbergh has been described as a ‘mechanical man,’ or as a ‘product of the machine age,’ and therefore devoid of human passions or frailties … not true!” wrote Gordon Codding of the famous aviator.

“He was to be ‘captain of his own ship’ in all ways, as all pilots are ‘master of my own fate,’ or as our Constitution says it, ‘free and independent.’”

Codding says the memorial to Lindbergh, therefore, is more of a monument to the man’s ideals and philosophy, to the way of life available in his time and place, rather than to some created glory or pompous position.

There is nothing left of the airport which came to life due to Lindbergh’s vision and planning. The only thing of the old “Port Kingman” is a structure that was once the terminal building, and the residence of former State Senator Robert Morrow.

It’s been reported that from the air, a faint outline of one of the runways can be seen on the ground, and one or two old runway light stands can be found riddled with bullet holes.

Worship Directory First Southern Baptist Church 3120 Hualapai Mountain Road, Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Paul Daniel (928) 753-3238 First Southern Baptist Church of Yucca Yucca Elementary School 12261 S. Third St., Yucca Pastor: Wayne Basye (928) 377-1016 Gideons International – Kingman Camp P. O. Box 3248 Kingman, AZ 86402 President: Vearl Haynes (928) 757-4277 Golden Valley Assembly of God 3355 N. Magma Road, Golden Valley, AZ 86413 Pastor: Richard Barnett (928) 565-2700 Golden Valley Baptist Church 100 S. Higley Road Golden Valley, AZ 86413 Pastor: Dean Stanley (928) 565-4682 Golden Valley Church of Christ 4137 W. Chino Drive, Golden Valley, AZ 86413 (928) 565-9495 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, LCMS 3958 N. Bank St. Kingman, AZ 86409 Deacon: Ken Bernard (928) 757-3525 Grace Lutheran Church 2101 Harrison St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Brian Weinberger (928) 753-3068

Journey Church 3782 N. Bank St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Gary Bassham (928) 757-4520 Kingdom of God 4798 Stockton Hill Rd. Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Bob Peet (928) 692-1122 Kingman Apostolic Church 4470 N. Glen Road, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Jerry Duncan (928) 897-6879 Kingman Bible Church 2495 E. Butler Ave. Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Jerry Adams (928) 727-2667 Kingman Centro de Adoracion Cristiano 4087 Eagle Drive Kingman, Az 86409 Pastor Jesus Vazquez 928-279-6085 Kingman Christian Church 2830 Gordon Drive, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Brian B. Van Dyke (928) 757-8783 Kingman Church of Christ 1915 Robinson Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Minister: Jim Maberry (928) 753-5600 Kingman Church of The Nazarene 4715 Stockton Hill Road, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Robert Myers (928) 757-4077 Kingman Family Worship Center 4087 N. Eagle Drive, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Bruce and Terri Grimmett (928) 757-2671

Grace Temple Apostolic Church 2465 Northern Ave..

Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: A. W. Singfield (928) 692-8444

Kingman First Assembly of God 1850 Gates Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Steven Lewandowski (928) 753-3529

Desert Church of Christ 2345 Gordon Drive, Kingman, AZ 86409 Minister: Leo Woodman (928) 757-5767

Hilltop Foursquare Church 2215 Emerson Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastors: Norm & Pearl Taylor (928) 753-5500

Kingman Presbyterian Church 2425 Detroit Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: George Carey (928) 753-5858

Divine Savior Catholic Community at Trinity Episcopal Church 425 E. Spring St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Fr. Leonard Walker (602) 432-7808

His Final Harvest World Outreach 4550 Bank, Ste. C Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Ron Green (661-316-5853

Dolan Springs First Assembly of God Church 16741 N. Pierce Ferry Road Dolan Springs, AZ 86441 Pastor: Howard E. Walzer (602) 377-6268 Dolan Springs Baptist Church 15065 N. Pierce Ferry Road Dolan Springs, AZ 86441 Pastor: Ric Smith (928) 767-4363 Family Bible Church 2040 Golden Gate Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Peter A Ernst (928) 753-2370\

Iglesia De Christo Nuevo Testamento 1915 Robinson Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Joseph Gormany (928) 530-2158

Kingman Seventh-day Adventist Church 3180 White Cliffs Road Off Anson Smith Rd. near water tanks Kingman, AZ 86409 Spanish interpretation available (928) 757-2614 Latter Rain Ministries 2532 Southern Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Ruby Alcorn (928) 753-0269

Iglesia De Jesucristo Palabra Miel 3130 Gordon Drive Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Juan R. Mejia (928) 763-4350

Light in the Dark 1st Southern Baptist Church of Yucca 12320 S. 3rd St, Yucca, AZ 86438 Pastor: Wayne Basye 928-377-1016

Joshua Tree Ministries 3540 Thompson Ave., Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Carl Clouseau (928) 692-8378 or (928) 692-5733 (FAX)

Living Faith Assembly of God 4605 Arnold Road Kingman, AZ 84609 Pastor: Albert & Nancy Johnson (928) 757-8993

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From left to right: Charles Lindbergh, Willis Black, Ralph Dunlap (TAT field inspector), Bill Clover ( TAT meterologist) walk past a plane during the Inaugural Flight of the Kingman Airport July 8, 1929. (Courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts) Living Word Lutheran Church, LCMC 2570 Northern Ave. Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Michael W. Birnbaum (928) 753-5952

St. Mary Roman Catholic Church 302 E. Spring St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Fr. Matthew Krempel (928) 753-3359

Meadview Community Church 540 W. Hualapai Creek Drive Meadview, AZ 86444 Pastor: John Mulvihill (928) 564-2411

St. Michael the Archangel Traditional Catholic Church 711 E. Andy Devine Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Fr. Edward Lindsey (928) 718-0086

Messianic Christian Fellowship 3766 N. Evans Street Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Ken Jenkerson (928) 530-6849

Sangha of Kingman Ocotillo Room, KRMC 3269 Stockton Hill Road Kingman, AZ 86409 Leader: Warren Ockrassa (928) 530-9852

Mt. Tipton Community Church 15050 Pierce Ferry Road, Dolan Springs, AZ 86441 Pastor: Rex E. Austin (928) 767-4184 Mountain of Praise Apostolic Church Senior Nutrition Center 1776 Airway Ave. Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Jose Garcia (928) 530-2315 Music Mountain Pentecostal Church 217 E. Andy Devine Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastors: Orval and Nowasa Drew Oak Street Baptist Church 605 Oak St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Jerry Dunn (928) 718-0074 Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Community 701 N. Stockton Hill Rd. K-2 928-606-4611 Our Lady of the Desert Roman Catholic Mission 15385 Pierce Ferry Road, Dolan Springs Pastor: Rev. Chauncey Winkler (928) 855-2685 Pentecostal Tabernacle Church of God 715 Main Street D, Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Edward Z. Trent Potter’s House Christian Fellowship Church 2675 Northern Ave., Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Charles B. Haynes Jr. (928) 692-2228 Praise Chapel 419 Harrison St., Kingman, AZ 86401 Lead Pastor: John Pool (928) 753-9200 or (928) 753-1909 Praise Chapel of Dolan Springs 16949 Lariat Drive at 15th Street P.O. Box 114 Dolan Springs, AZ 86441 St. John’s United Methodist Church 1730 Kino Ave., Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Rev. Donald E. Hegeman (928) 692-8828 St. Joseph’s Traditional Catholic Church (Needles, CA Mission) 408 Old Needles Hwy. Pastor: Fr. Courtney Krier (760) 963-1099

Searching for His Sheep Ministries (Sabbath Worship) 3886 N. Castlerock Road Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Danny Willis (928) 530-4514 Seventh-Day Adventist Church 3180 White Cliff Rd. (off Anson Smith near water tanks) Kingman, AZ 86401 Head Elder:Vern Fass (928) 757-2614 Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement Church 4055 Stockton Hill Road #5 Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Michael Torpey (928) 530-9699 Spirit Afire Fellowship Mohave Tax Clinic 3001 Stockton Hill Road, Suite 3, Kingman, AZ 86401 Lead Minister: Carl A. Bohn (928) 753-1040 Streams of Grace Church 455 S. Kirkland Road Golden Valley, AZ 86413 Pastor: Gerhard Griesinger (928) 565-3676 Trinity Chapel Home of the Burden Bearers 900 Gates Ave, (Elks Lodge #468) Pastor: Nathaniel Slabach (928) 681-0466 Trinity Episcopal/Anglican Church 425 East Spring St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Philip Shaw (928) 753-5658 United Pentecostal Church 2498 Northern Avenue, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Jerry Walker (928) 757-2109 Valle Vista Community Church 8620 Cortez Drive, Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Fred French (928) 692-7997 Watchmen on the Wall Men’s Fellowship Hall First Assembly of God 1850 Gates Ave. , Kingman Pastor: Marcia Stutler (928) 201-7777 What Did Jesus Preach Ministry 1505 Northern, Ste. B Kingman Service: 7 - 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays Wikieup Bible Church West Chickenspring Road Wikieup, AZ 85360 (928) 727-7910 Word of Life Ministries Call for Location Pastor: Elna Donson (928) 753-3396

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HUBBLE RAY SMITH hsmith@kdminer.com KINGMAN – The first-degree murder trial for Alfredo Blanco, accused of killing real estate agent Sidney Cranston Jr., remains on track for Sept. 25, with a status conference set for May 29 and final management hearing set for Sept. 10.

Mohave Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert asked about progress on the trial during a short status conference Monday.

Jacob Chavez, representing the defendant, said he spoke with the secretary of lead defense attorney Robin Puchek and was informed that the defense is still conducting and completing interviews.

Meanwhile, county attorney David Wayt told the judge that the prosecutor assigned to the case will file a motion in limine, which is a request that the judge exclude certain testimony and evidence during the trial.

Blanco is charged with killing Cranston

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Mohave Museum of History and Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary this week

Fire investigators probe for the cause of the early Monday fire that resulted in $10,000 damage to a home on Berk Avenue. (Photo Courtesy KFD)

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Fire causes $10,000 damage to Berk Avenue home KINGMAN – A house in the 500 block of Berk Avenue caught fire early Monday morning and was stopped by Kingman Fire Department before it could spread to other structures on nearby property.

Four fire engines and a battalion crew were dispatched to the fire about 10 minutes after midnight and found a single-family residence and another structure on fire.

Crews immediately began a defensive attack, Assistant Fire Chief Keith Eaton said. They were told the home was empty, and that there was no electric or gas service.

Extensive overhaul and salvage work continued through the night, and the loss is

“T Top: Roy Purcell works on figurines for an exhibit at the Mohave Museum of History and Arts. Purcell will be at the museum Friday to give a presentation. Above: One of the many exhibits on display at the museum.

The wording is an excerpt from an entire story and reads: “as a new cycle arises from the union of a golden sun ... “

he history of the Old West will come alive in Kingman next week as businessmen, clergy, civic clubs and schools all join in the observance of International Museum Week, April 17-27,” Cecelia Kline of Kline Inc. wrote April 19, 1968.

On April 27, 1968, the “most unusual small museum in America” was officially dedicated by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. Friday marks the Mohave Museum of History and Arts’ 50th anniversary.

Originally conceived by the Daughters of Mohave County Pioneers, the museum stands in the same space it always has, only it’s larger now. The original building was about 40 feet by 80 feet, and contained about 3,200 square feet of usable space. The building is made of concrete block, salvaged red brick and redwood.

In April 1962, Amy Neal provided a report that outlined the purposes of the museum.

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Arizona governor pushes for teacher pay deal as strike looms BOB CHRISTIE & MELISSA DANIELS Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey pushed lawmakers Monday to approve big teacher raises as school districts make plans to close if educators who call his proposal insufficient launch the first-ever statewide strike this week.

The Republican governor has stuck to his plan to increase teacher pay 20 percent by 2020 after educators voted to walk off the job Thursday because it didn’t include an overall boost in school funding or raises for

support staff. The GOP-dominant Legislature and others are wary of how the state will pay for the plan.

Ducey, who is running for re-election, has sent a message to lawmakers, vetoing 10 pieces of Republican legislation last week to show that he wants serious discussions on a state budget that implements his proposal. Legislative leaders say it’s unlikely they will reach an agreement before the strike.

The political dealing comes as Arizona teachers, among the lowest-paid in the U.S., ramp up a grass-roots effort that spurred

weeks of protests and joined a national movement for higher salaries. It started in West Virginia, where a strike garnered a raise, and spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky and most recently Colorado.

Over a half dozen Colorado school districts, including the three largest, are canceling classes or sending students home Thursday and Friday because of planned teacher protests.

In Arizona, teachers are keeping up demonstrations before school and lining busy streets

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Kingman area school teachers are ready to strike if overall funding for education isn’t increased by Thursday.

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The Lee Williams boys tennis team travels to No. 1 Tucson Catalina Foothills in the first round of the state tournament Wednesday

A teacher wants you to know that the talk of a strike is because they want more for your child

A Kingman man was killed in a motorcyle accident over the weekend

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Strike Continued from 1 during rush hour as the walkout nears. Car windows throughout the Phoenix area are scrawled with supportive messages, and businesses have put up signs backing the so-called #RedforEd campaign.

But teachers could face consequences in this right-to-work state, where unions do not collectively bargain with school districts and representation is not mandatory.

The Arizona Education Association, the largest teacher membership group, has warned its 20,000 members about a 1971 Arizona attorney general opinion saying a statewide strike would be illegal under common law and participants could lose their teaching credentials.

No school district has said they would fire educators who strike or revoke teaching certificates.

Hundreds of school districts and parents were scrambling this week to figure out how to handle a walkout.

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est – have already said they are going to close all schools Thursday and until the walkout ends. That means hourly employees, such as custodians, would not work or be paid.

Kingman Unified School District in a letter to parents said all schools except for La Senita would close on Thursday. Kingman Academy of Learning has only released a letter dated Friday in which it said the district is uncertain as to how Thursday will play out.

The closures could leave parents struggling to make child care plans.

Some organizations, like the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, are hosting day camps where parents can send their children.

Local parent-teacher associations also were working to ensure that students who rely on free breakfast and lunch at school can receive meals.

Despite the disruptions, Republican state Sen. John Kavanagh, who heads the appropriations committee, said a budget deal isn’t likely before Thursday’s walkout.

“I think if it was just the Senate that had to agree on the result we could do it this week,” Kavanagh said. “But given that we need the

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Ducey is working with lawmakers and plans to meet this week with Democrats. Ducey will not meet with teachers. (Daily Miner file photo) House and the governor to go along with this, this week is probably overly optimistic.”

Ducey spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said the governor is working with lawmakers and plans to meet this week with Democrats, who are usually left out of budget talks.

Ducey will not meet with teachers.

Republican lawmakers and teachers groups are concerned about the rosy revenue projections

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This necklace is part of the Hualapai special exhibit which will be presented Friday at the museum. (Photo by Claire Whitley/Daily Miner) History and Arts in 2003.

“At the training meeting … I referred to volunteers as ‘gemstones’ rather than pebbles. Everyone knows that when you throw a pebble into a pond, it has a ripple effect but when the ripples reach the edge of the pond they stop. With all of you being ‘gemstone,’ you have a far more reaching effect on our visitors than a pebble … Our polished ‘gemstones’ are one of the most valuable assets our Museum offers our visitors.”

This appreciation for volunteers continues to this day. From the couple working in the archives to help categorize and preserve old maps to the volunteers who learn the Bonelli House backward and forward in order to provide a memorable experience, volunteers make up the backbone of the museum.

The museum was born, created and supported by the Kingman community, and is still considered a centerpiece of the community.

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The museum is open 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 – 5 p.m. Saturday. A ticket costs $4, which allows entry to the Mohave Museum, Route 66 Museum and the Bonelli House.

For seniors that cost is $3, and children under 12 are free.

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Fusion “The purpose is to preserve the history and pertaining artefactual evidence of this era from our past; to establish a place where this material can be collected, authenticated and catalogued for present and future generations to examine and study,” Neal’s report reads. “ … And in general to contribute to a constructive educational and cultural service to the community through the use of materials in the collections.”

At its conception, the museum was known as the Mohave County Pioneer Historical Society Museum, but before the dedication was transformed into the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.

Under the direction of then curator Roy Purcell, the museum staff created a graphic portrayal of the county’s history that “will highlight the year-round exhibit.” It was Purcell’s vision, and the presentation of his vision, which changed the organizational philosophy. His vision wasn’t just a portrayal of the county story, but to provide for future development of the museum as a cultural center of the community.

“When we walked in, we immediately had a sense of belonging,” one volunteer said.

This privately funded, not-for-profit museum is governed by a board of directors. At present, there are about 525 members, but members aren’t the only important assets of the museum. Volunteers are some of the “gemstones” of the organization.

There are currently about 40 volunteers who work various jobs throughout the museum network, which is down from the 100 volunteers they have had in the past.

“With your volunteering to work at the front desk, gift shop, library or archives, we are able to have a museum that we are all proud of,” wrote Carol Hurst, President of the Mohave Museum of

Ducey is using to cover the pay raise, which will cost $650 million by 2020.

“I think the Senate’s going to come out with a funding version and other parts of the budget adjusted to make us feel a little more secure in the long-term revenue projections,” Kavanagh said.

“We’re a little concerned about the out years, and we’ll try to make some modifications to deal with that.”

Alfredo Blanco, charged with first-degree murder of real estate agent Sidney Cranston Jr., is wheeled into court at a previous hearing. His trial is scheduled for Sept. 25. (Daily Miner file photo) concealment of a dead body and tampering with physical evidence.

Continued from 1 Judge Lambert played an 18-minute police in June 2015 and bury- interview with Blanco ing his body on a ranch conducted at the rehab about 20 miles east of facility during an evidenKingman. Cranston’s tiary hearing in March, body was discovered and denied a motion in January 2017, and by defense to suppress Blanco was arrested a Blanco’s statements. couple days later at a Puchek had argued rehabilitation home in that police tried to the Phoenix area.

He has pleaded not “trick” Blanco into conguilty to first-degree fessing to the crime and murder, concealment of did not read his Miranda a dead body and tam- rights during what was pering with evidence. essentially a “custodial Blanco worked for interrogation.” At least Cranston as a property twice during the intermanager and had col- view, Blanco asked to lected $1,600 in rent have a lawyer, Puckek prior to Cranston’s dis- noted.

Lambert ruled that appearance.

William Sanders, an it was not a “custodial acquaintance of Blan- interrogation” because co who led police to Blanco was free to end Cranston’s body, will be the interview at any one of the key witness- time and leave the room, es. He’s charged with which he eventually did.

To celebrate its 50 years, the museum has been providing free admission on Saturdays as well as special events throughout the month of April.

The Hualapai Tribe will conclude the month’s celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday with presentations and demonstrations from its cultural center, including special speakers and dancers. Purcell and other former museum directors will also give presentations.

“The value of history … lies in its ability to show man where he has been along the path of historical development and thus show him where he is at present and where he is headed,” Purcell told the Mohave County Miner in 1967. “Art is the best mirror of man’s culture, giving us a true picture of his society at any given point along the development scale … Hence art, when combined with historical information and artifacts, gives a complete and more meaningful portrayal of man’s develop-

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For example, the proposed tax increase will cause Mohave Community College District’s primary property taxes on a $100,000 home to increase from $131.49 (total taxes that would be owed without the proposed tax increase) to $134.12 (total proposed taxes including the tax increase). The total increase on a $100,000 home would be $2.63.

This proposed increase is exclusive of increased primary property taxes received from new construction. The increase is also exclusive of any changes that may occur from property tax levies for voter approved bonded indebtedness or budget and tax overrides.

All interested citizens are invited to attend the public hearing on the tax increase to be held via Interactive Television (ITV) originating at the Bullhead City Campus, 3400 Highway 95, Bullhead City, Arizona 86442, at 12:00 p.m., on Friday, May 11, 2018, in Room #508. The hearing may also be attended at these additional campus locations: 1971 Jagerson Ave., Kingman, AZ 86409, Room 508; 1977 W. Acoma Blvd., Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403, Room 508; 480 S. Central, Colorado City, AZ 86021, Room 301.

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Travis Rains trains@kdminer.com KINGMAN – Decisions regarding taxes continue to divide the City’s elected officials in a manner citizens have come to expect, with Mayor Monica Gates and Councilwoman Vickie Kress advocating for stricter supermajority requirements than the rest of Council.

Gates and Kress were the only ones sitting on Council to vote against the 1 percent Transaction Privilege Tax increase in August and was later ratified in January.

Council discussed imposing a supermajority requirement for new taxes or reallocation of taxes at its Tuesday meeting. The agenda item called for a supermajority vote of five votes in the affirmative for both matters, but there was some disagreement on the item as

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KINGMAN – Here are five agenda items of interest when the Mohave County Board of Supervisors meets at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the County Administration Building, 700 W. Beale St.:

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Authorize staff to submit an application for another 75 acre-feet of water from the Mohave Valley Irrigation and Drainage District at an estimated cost of $2,500, paid from general fund contingency. The board approved buying 15 acres of land in MVIDD for $250,000 on April 2 to protect water rights from being transferred to the Central Arizona Project. To ensure that the land is fully used for intended agricultural purposes, it’s prudent for Mohave County to acquire the additional allocation of water.

Above:The Rosie the Riveter Poster Virginia Black Doyle modeled for. Top: Virginia Black Doyle modeling shots from circa the 1940s. (Photos from Virginia’s book “Has Been” provided by her sisters Helen Black Tapp and Mai Black Gray)

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n a span of 100 years, so much can happen.

The Allies won not one, but two world wars, the civil rights movement began and ended, women won the right to vote, humans were sent to space, and one Kingmanite who showed the world beauty and grace was born here.

Virginia Black Doyle was born to Arthur F. Black and Mabel Van Marter Nov. 16, 1917. She was the oldest of 10 siblings and she lived at the family home, 707 Cerbat Ave., through her graduation from then Mohave County Union High School in 1937.

“I felt strong and sure enough to believe in myself and in my agility, a drive to pursue my dreams and be not afraid to test my ability,” Doyle wrote.

She moved from Kingman to Hollywood with her friends Ollie and Ed Laferriere, and through them met the film director Buster Keaton, who she dated for a period of time.

She enrolled in Los Angeles City College, where she was in a drama class with Donna Mullinger, later known as Donna Reed, and then graduated from the Marie Fontayne See ROSIE, 5A

Legislative session ends with a mixed bag of results Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services

The budget may have been adopted and signed into law early Thursday. But that did not keep members of the #RedForEd movement from showing up at the Capitol later in the day to monitor what else lawmakers were planning. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

PHOENIX – If the just completed legislative session were a school year, the Class of 2018 would not be making the Honor Roll.

Oh, sure, there were a few outstanding successes, like coming up with a comprehensive plan to deal with opioid abuse from all angles.

And even the vote to give teachers a 19 percent pay hike probably rates an A even though educators wanted far more, like restoring state aid to at least 2008 levels.

There also were some Bs for dealing with problems, like having the state license sober living homes for the first time ever and removing Arizona from the list of states where there was no minimum age to get

married.

Much of the 116-day session resulted in what could be described as just average, run-of-the-mill alterations to existing state law, much of it to satisfy one or another business interest.

And there were more than a fair share of Fs – and incompletes in particular – for things left undone, particularly anything dealing with gun violence and school safety.

Still, there were examples of being able to work and play well together, notably the package of changes designed to deal with the spike of opioid-related deaths.

Coordinating with members of both parties and affected interests, Gov. Doug Ducey put together a plan that does everything from limit the number of pills that patients can get at

any one time and the strength of their dosages to training for doctors to a “Good Samaritan’’ provision allowing people to call for help when a buddy overdoses without fearing they will get arrested themselves.

Still even that had to be picked apart, with lawmakers rejecting some ideas like a “needle exchange’’ program to ensure that addicts weren’t sharing disease as they were sharing needles.

Ducey and the Republican legislative leadership did focus on K-12 funding, not only with the pay hike but also a move to start restoring $371 million in other annual school district assistance that they had taken in prior years.

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Dozens of wild horses found dead amid Southwest drought FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press CAMERON, Arizona (AP) – Off a northern Arizona highway surrounded by pastel-colored desert is one of the starkest examples of drought's grip on the American Southwest: Dozens of dead horses surrounded by cracked earth, swirling dust and a ribbon of water that couldn't quench their thirst.

Flesh exposed and in various stages of decomposition, the carcasses form a circle around a dry watering hole sunken in the landscape.

It's clear this isn't the first time the animals have struggled. Skeletal remain are scattered on the fringes and in an adjacent ravine.

It's a symptom of a burgeoning wild horse population and the scarcity of water on the western edge of the Navajo Nation following a dry winter and dismal spring runoff.

Conditions aren't forecast to improve anytime soon, and tribal officials suspect other animals have died with not enough to eat or drink.

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Vote Continued from 1A presented.

Jim Bacon, interim city manager, recommended that both issues require a supermajority vote of six. At the April 17 meeting a majority of Council said they preferred five, with some exceptions regarding the 1 percent Transaction Privilege Tax increase.

Councilman Travis Lingenfelter believed the agenda item should be split in two, with each individual topic, increasing taxes and reallocating of tax revenues, requiring different supermajority votes.

“This council essentially made a promise to the citizens of Kingman that half of that was going to go to our pavement preservations,” Lingenfelter said. “And for that, I would want to see a supermajority of six, because that’s a promise that I take seriously and I want to make sure that it’s difficult to reallocate those monies.”

However, he was supportive of a supermajority vote of five for increasing the TPT rate.

“Because if you pay

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In 1940, Doyle won the title of Orange Show Queen at the National Orange Show in San Bernardino, California.

“Congratulations to our most beautiful queen.

Certainly proud of you,” read a telegram Doyle received from her father and mother.

From California she moved to New York City, where she modeled for the Powers Modeling Agency and danced with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra. She starred in a production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” in New York and was described as “charming and convincing.”

“I fell in love with New York and so didn’t return to California for a screen test,” Doyle wrote.

Doyle was elected the “Girl of the Golden West” and went to Havana, Cuba, for Rotary International where she showcased her dancing and singing abilities on the ship Kungsholm.

Then World War II broke out.

Doyle became a model for Powers Modeling Agency, and Doyle went on to become one of the Rosie the Riveters. She was one of the first 200 women to volunteer for the USO-joint war appeal drive in November 1943.

Her billboard “While you’re earning more,

do is we picture the worstcase scenario when we got out there," said Harlan Cleveland of the tribe's Department of Emergency Management. "I did smell the decomposition and the bodies starting to smell, the carcasses. But I didn't realize until I looked down from the berm and saw all those horses down there."

Here, drought doesn't manifest in having to shut down swimming pools or let lawns go dry.

This rural community does not have its own potable water source.

Those who have running water in their homes get it from a well, piped from over 30 miles away. Most haul water, carrying large plastic tanks in the beds of their pickup trucks.

The groundwater is brackish and recommended for livestock only, but the two storage tanks closest to the watering hole no longer function.

Animals were accustomed to finding relief at the stock pond where the horses died, but locals say the pool of water beneath the decades-old earthen dam has dried up more quickly each year.

attention to what has happened at the county, one person, for instance, they have a supervisor from Havasu, that makes it very difficult to do anything,” Lingenfelter said.

“And you would be putting the city in the same spot. So I think it should almost be two separate … one supermajority of six to change where those half-cents go, and a supermajority of five to change the tax.”

Gates said that she could not support the motion as presented, 6-1 for tax revenue reallocation and 5-2 for changes to the tax rate itself, because of her belief that decisions about tax rates should require a higher voting standard. The motion passed 5-2.

“I didn’t support this before,” Gates said. “I support the 6-1 supermajority when it comes to anything regarding imposing new taxes or changing designations of where taxes go. So having said that, I can’t support this motion.”

Kress agreed with Gates.

A supermajority vote of 6-1 for reallocation of tax revenues and 5-2 for changes to the tax rate will be put on Council’s May 15 agenda.

Photo taken at 707 Cerbat Ave. Bottom row: Donald Black, Marian Black, Leo Black, baby Viola. Top row: Mabel van Marter Black, Arthur F. Black, Virginia A. Black Doyle.

(Photo Courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts) Save More. Save now to buy later” was in all the English speaking countries.

Doyle also starred in a promotional film about the war effort.

She received her official recognition as a Rosie the Riveter Nov. 7, 2008, from the Rosie the Riveter Trust.

Doyle married her husband Donald at St. Stephens Church in Geneva, New York, Feb. 10, 1945. Doyle said her wedding took place at a gorgeous church, and she wore a precious wedding dress, but the worry of war made it a time of distress. She had two sons David and Christopher.

“I think raising a happy, bright child is the

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most satisfying thing you can ever do,” Doyle wrote in her 2003 book titled “Has Been.”

Doyle moved to Hawaii in 1976 after a golfing trip left her enchanted with the beauty of the Waiaine mountains.

Active in many civic causes over the years, she was the treasurer of We, the Women of Hawaii, a philanthropic organization, and a member of the Hawaiian Railway Society. For much of her life in Hawaii, Doyle was an avid golfer and renowned walker. For her, a 20-mile walk was considered just a warmup and a stroll down to the beach was a daily affair.

Doyle died in November at the age of 100 in

Their “vast” credentials, education and community service will be beneficial to the board, Chairman Gary Watson said.

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Amending littering ordinance

In public hearings, amend Mohave County’s anti-littering ordinance by clarifying and adding language in the Environmental Rural Area Cleanup Enforcement (ERACE) reward program for

Makaha, Hawaii.

“Reaching 100 is no small feat,” her sister Helen Black Tapp wrote the Daily Miner. “Her sudden passing has been monumental to overcome.”

Virginia Black Doyle lived a glamorous life away from Kingman, but she always remained proud of the place where she was born.

“The world is a great mirror,” she wrote. “It reflects back to you what you are … I am a daughter, sister, mom, grandmother and also a poet, opera singer, model, actress, golfer, secretary of the Women of Hawaii, a Kingmanite and a Daughter of the Mohave County Pioneers.”

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In a manner of minutes, an entire forest can be aflame or an abandoned house could be engulfed.

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The Kingman area is certainly acquainted with the latter.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines arson as “any willful or malicious burning or attempting to burn ... property.” While the intent can be to defraud, it does not have to be in order to be labelled arson. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting, there are over 50,000 arsons committed annually in the U.S., with nearly $1 billion in losses per year.

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Joel Dvoskin, member of the American Board of Forensic Psychology, said not much is known about the mind of an arsonist. About 80 percent of arson cases never result in an arrest, which makes it hard to construct any kind of generalization for arsonists, Dvoskin said.

“The only thing consistent has been anger,” Dvoskin said. “(Arsonists) have less of an ability to deal with anger in an appropriate way. For those who are angry without a way to express it … fire is a primal way to express anger.”

There are other similarities among those who have been arrested, though due to the lack of arrests, there is a limitation placed on generalizing.

Most arsonists are male, although, according to the article “Firesetting, Arson, Pyromania, and the Forensic Mental Health Expert,” the number of female arsonists has been increasing.

Arson offenders are often unmarried, poorly educated, living alone and unemployed. Those who are employed tend to be unskilled laborers, the

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Young people risk health, career with tattoos Mia Atkins Cronkite News PHOENIX – A national study warns that youths, some as young as 8 years old, are getting tattoos and body piercings that risk their health.

The American Academy of Pediatrics study said tattoos and other body modifications are becoming more common among adolescents and young adults. One out of ten high school students surveyed had a tattoo, with 55 percent interested in getting a tattoo.

The study says pediatricians should tell patients of the potential pitfalls, which include negatively impacting a career and health risks such as infections and high-risk disease.

“Pediatricians should advise adolescents to seek medical care if there are signs and symptoms of infection. Normal skin and soft tissue infections should be considered first, but if there are any unusual features, prompt evaluation by a dermatologist is recommended,” the study says.

Dr. Vinny Chulani of Phoenix Children’s Hospital said tattooing carries risks regardless of age, but young people are less aware of potential trouble.

Torched Continued from 1 article reads. Arsonists tend to be more socially isolated – having difficulty forming a social network – and introverted.

Substance abuse disorders, particularly involving alcohol, are among the most frequently cited conditions associated with arson. Acute alcohol intoxication has been found to be associated with 20 to 86 percent of arsons, in prison and forensic hospital studies.

The vast majority of profiled arsonists have a below-normal IQ, typically between 70 and 90.

About one in four are in the below-70 IQ range, which qualifies them as “mentally retarded.”

Dvoskin does not like to “profile” arsonists because the profile tends to be based on arsonists that have been apprehended by the authorities – and most aren’t.

“It could be the smarter people get away with it, and less smart people are more likely to get caught,” Dvoskin said.

However, there are some red flags of a possible arsonist-in-the-works such as children who start playing with matches or fire as early as age 3, engaging in “daredevil” behavior – especially near fire, mixing chemicals

“Some of the risks, for example, include irritation and inflammation and that comes as a result of either a reaction to the pigment, or anything that may have been added to a pigment,” he said. “The other real risk is infections that can range from minor skin infections to abscesses.”

He also noted there have been documented cases for blood infections, heart valve infections, and even diseases as severe as HIV and Hepatitis B or C. Several states have few restrictions on the age of someone getting a tattoo – the national study said teens with tattoos get them on average at around ninth grade. Arizona law requires people younger than 18 to have a parent’s permission to get a tattoo and to have the parent or legal guardian there when their child is getting it done.

Mikey Sarratt, a tattoo artist who owns High Noon Tattoo Parlor, believes that a tattoo is not something a minor is ready for, so he does not allow anyone under the age of 18 to be tattooed at his business.

“I don’t think there is a mental capacity there to really truly take that on – to take on the responsibility of a tattoo, a lifelong tattoo, at that age,” Sarratt said.

or engaging in “secret” fire setting in which the fire-setter tries different mixtures and those who are noticeably excited while watching fires.

“The main message is how little we actually know about arsonists,” Dvoskin said.

Kingman Area Firebug Investigation into the local firebug is currently ongoing, so some information was unable to be shared about the profile Kingman Fire Department has drafted, said Mac Nelson, KFD fire prevention specialist.

“We have built a profile based on (Ed) Nordskog, but it’s very general,” Nelson said.

When confronted with the idea that the arsonist could be a firefighter, Nelson said it wasn’t a focus of their investigation.

“But we haven’t eliminated it either,” Nelson said. “Sometimes these cases can involve persons close to firefighters as well.”

There have been vegetation fires, dumpster fires and structural fires in the area, which are all being investigated as “suspicious fires.” These suspicious fires have been happening for over four years, Nelson said, and there are well over 100 fires that have occurred in that time span. Wayne Eder, Fire Chief of Northern Arizona

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Mikey Sarratt, who owns a tattoo parlor, said people shouldn’t get them at a young age. He got his first tattoos at age 17 or 18 and “I regret them every day.”

The study advises pediatricians to help their patients understand the commitment they are making when they modify their body. According to the study, a 2014 survey of nearly 2,700 people found that 76 percent of those surveyed thought tattoos and piercings had a negative impact on them getting a job, and 39 percent believe workers with body modifications reflect poorly on their employers.

Sarratt said he advises young adults that come into his business for a tattoo not to get anything they can’t cover up.

“You don’t know what you’re going to do with the rest of your life,” Sarratt said. “It’s going to

close doors instead of open them.”

Chulani said although tattoo removal is available it rarely works as well as people want.

“While removal happens and removal exists, research shows that young people probably overestimate how easy or how effective removal is.

Removal is costly, removal is difficult and removal is only partially effective,” Chulani said.

Chulani and Sarratt recommend anyone who is considering getting a tattoo should go to a licensed tattoo business, understand the care a tattoo requires to heal properly and realize the health and career risks of getting a tattoo.

Consolidated Fire District No. 1, said there have been “too many to count.”

Nelson said, based on the same modus operandi, or mode of operation (MO), the investigation team believes the vegetation and dumpster fires have been started by the same person.

“Nuisance fires (such as the vegetation and dumpster fires) can build up to empty buildings,” Nelson said. “What we’re seeing may be a progression, but it might also be an ‘oops.’”

Eder said there are different motivations to consider when working an arson investigation.

Vandalism, excitement, revenge, profit, extremists or terrorists and crime concealment tend to be the biggest arson motivators, Eder said. However, he has eliminated several motivations during the course of the investigation. Eder said there have been patterns among the fires he has seen, which lead him to believe these fires have been committed by the same person or group of people.

“We have interviewed suspects, but haven’t been able to hold them,” Eder said. “We are doing everything we can.”

Both Nelson and Eder said that the public is key to the arson investigation.

If there is something that seems out of the ordinary, or someone sees a person throw something out the

window while driving, Nelson said to make note of it.

“If you see something, say something,” Dvoskin said.

Kingman Police Department, NACFD, Mohave County Sheriff’s Office and KFD, along with other local agencies, have formed a task force to investigate the rash of fires. Agencies are asking for community assistance to help identify the suspect or suspects involved with the intentional burning of brush and structures.

As of July 11, the task force is offering a reward of up to $13,000 for information leading to the identity and arrest of those involved.

Anyone with information is urged to contact any of the task force agencies or report anonymously to Mohave Silent Witness by calling 928753-1234. Report tips online by going to www. kingmanpolice.com and clicking on “Give a Tip.” “We need the community’s help,” Nelson said.

“We don’t have cameras or officers on every corner. This investigation is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent luck, which involves the community.

We are counting on the community.”

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Arizona K9 rescue, retirement nonprofit kennel seeks permit YUMA (AP) – An organization that rescues aging and hospice dogs wants a permit from county authorities in Yuma so it can stay in operation amid local opposition and support among pet lovers outside the city.

Old Souls K9 Rescue and Retirement Home's request for permit comes after Yuma County received a complaint about Old Souls from the daughter of one of the nonprofit's nextdoor neighbors. She said a shade structure was placed too close to their home, and Old Souls' owners operating a nonprofit kennel out of their home without a permit.

Paula Rivadeneira, who owns and operates the rescue with her husband, Isaac, said she didn't know they needed a permit, the Yuma Sun reported.

"We actually contacted the county when we moved here to find out if we need a business license or a kennel license or whatever, and they said, no," Rivadeneira said.

"So the deal is, it's a complaint-driven organization, so unless there's a complaint they don't ask for those things," she said. "Now that there's been a complaint, we have to file in order to get this special-use permit."

The couple have lived in the home for three years.

The couple finds foster or adoptive homes for as many dogs as they can. The rest live out their days at the rescue with food, veterinary care and plenty of couches and pillows to lie on, until their health declines to the point that euthanasia is the most humane option.

Rivadeneira said the "Old Souls Hacienda" has a maximum capacity of 18 dogs, which will remain the same under the special use permit as proposed by county planning staff. Their five cats would also be allowed to stay, but the rescue as a rule doesn't take in elderly or sick cats.

– Information from: The Sun, http://www. yumasun.com

About this story

The Kingman Daily Miner reporter analyzed, contacted and interviewed several sources for this story, including: • Local law enforcement and fire department agencies, only hearing word back from KFD and NACFD. MCSO did reply saying there was no one to discuss the issue.

• Academic articles ranging from the 1980s until 2012. The one referenced in the article was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 40, No. 3, published in 2012 and written by Paul Burton, Dale McNiel and Renee Binder.

• FBI crime statistics dating from 2009-2011 and published by the U.S. Department of Justice.

• A phone interview with a psychologist from the University of Arizona Medical School and member of the American Board of Forensic Psychology.

• University professors of criminology, criminal justice and psychology from Arizona, Nevada and Idaho were unable to provide any further information as there has been little study.

• Mental health agencies and health practitioners were also contacted, but could provide no further information.

• The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, field offices in Phoenix were also contacted, but they did not provide further information or respond to subsequent emails.

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Gordon disputes being fired over sexual comments HUBBLE RAY SMITH hsmith@kmdminer.com KINGMAN – Judge Pro Tem Billy Sipe insisted he meant no disrespect to Mohave County Superior Court judge candidate Eric Gordon, though he repeatedly emphasized Gordon’s lack of experience and qualifications to be elevated to such an important position.

Speaking Monday at the monthly meeting of the Conservative Republican Club of Kingman, Sipe also brought up Gordon’s past employment record, noting that he was fired from the Attorney General’s office in Mohave County and from a private law firm in Kingman.

Gordon won August’s primary election for Superior Court

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Gov. Doug Ducey wants to “secure Arizona’s future”

Cordelia Kay blasted apart expectations and created a legacy

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KINGMAN – Gov. Doug Ducey stopped by The Daily Miner on Friday to discuss his thoughts on solar power, health care, and the state and future of Mohave County.

The governor said he is an advocate for solar, affordable and accessible energy. The energy discussion is of paramount importance in Arizona, where Ducey said people can die from power outages. However, he thinks Proposition 127, which would require utility companies to generate 50 percent of their power with renewable energy by 2030, could pose a problem for families, businesses and schools.

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n the 1870s, it wasn’t unusual to find gold, silver and turquoise in northwestern Arizona.

The area around Kingman was so rich with minerals there was a town named for it: Mineral Park.

Miners flocked to the area, and what was a mining camp soon became a bustling, thriving town full of people who had, quite literally, struck gold.

So, in 1902, when the newspaper “Our Mineral Wealth” published information about a large silver strike on the western slopes of the Cerbat Mountains, it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.

However, this wasn’t just a normal strike. The woman who laid claim to the land and to the vein, was a Mrs. Cordelia Kay. And Cordelia Kay was anything but ordinary.

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Above:A bird’s eye view of Mineral Park, about 17 miles northwest of Kingman, in 1880. Top: Cordelia Chapman Welbourn Kay, the prolific lady miner of Mineral Park from about 1884 through the 1910s. (Photos provided by the Mohave Museum of History and Arts)

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Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes MICHAEL LIEDTKE & BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video calls easier and more intuitive.

But it’s unclear if people will open their homes to an internet-connected camera sold by a company with a questionable track record on protecting user privacy.

Facebook is marketing the device, called Portal, as a way for its more than 2 billion users to chat with one another without having to fuss with positioning and other controls. The device features a camera that uses artificial intelligence to

automatically zoom as people move around during calls.

Since Echo’s release nearly four years ago, both Google and Apple have followed Amazon in releasing smart speakers designed for use with their other digital services – some of them, at least. These speakers can serve as hub-like controllers for “smart” homes as people install appliances, lighting and security systems that can be controlled over the internet.

Portal represents Facebook’s entry into that fray. But pointing an artificially intelligent camera into peoples’ homes could well raise other privacy questions.

“The first thing consumers are going to wonder is ‘how much sensitive data is this collecting

about me?’” said John Breyault, vice president of public policy of telecommunications and fraud at the National Consumers League, a Washington-based consumer advocacy group that has received donations from Facebook and other tech companies.

Earlier this year, Facebook had to acknowledge that as many as 87 million people may have had their data accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm that worked for the Trump campaign and aimed to use the data to influence elections. More recently, Facebook revealed that hackers managed to pierce its security to break into 50 million accounts.

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Facebook is marketing the device, called Portal, as a way for its more than 2 billion users to chat with one another without having to fuss with positioning and other controls. (Photo by Anthony Quintano from Honolulu)

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City P&Z to wrap-up cargo container deliberations KINGMAN – The City of Kingman Planning and Zoning Commission has a packed agenda for its meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in Council chambers, 310 N. Fourth St. The Planning and Zoning Commission will continue its discussion on allowing manufactured homes to be built on 5,000-square-foot parcels in the R-MH-6 district. Manufactured homes can currently only be built on lots of at least 6,000 square feet. Commissioners will consider amending City ordinances to allow for increased development on the south side of downtown Kingman, which has about 40 parcels of about 5,000 square feet. The commission could approve the text amendment at today’s meeting.

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also approve a text amendment that would clarify the circumstances in which cargo containers can be used as building materials in residential zoning districts. At its September meeting, the commission voted to keep cargo container allowances as is, meaning they are not permitted in residential zones unless being used as building material.

The text amendment to be considered by commissioners clarifies that containers can be used for storage if they meet International Residential Building code and the development appearance criteria. Part of that criteria requires containers to match the property’s principal building.

Property owners in Kingman have requested that the City look at

The Planning and Zoning Commission will continue its discussion on allowing cargo containers as storage in residential areas. (Daily Miner file photo) amending its zoning ordi- Zoning Commission will nance regarding the size also begin discussing of accessory structures, the potential for amendlike garages, on lots pri- ing zoning ordinances to marily one-half an acre promote a variety of eleor greater in single-fami- vations for single-family ly residential zoning disresidences. As mentioned tricts. Commissioners will at previous meetings, an consider revising the current allowance that says amendment could help accessory buildings can- combat “cookie cutter” not occupy more than 10 subdivisions where each percent of the lot in res- home looks like the last.

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costs of the medical help needed nearly destroyed the family’s wealth. John Kay opened a saloon and Cordelia bought a restaurant in order to pay for the doctor bills.

It took two years, but Cordelia recovered and finally, in 1893 gave birth to a daughter she always longed for. Hoping for better things to come, Cordelia named her Golden Silver Queena Kay. After the birth of their daughter, Cordelia went back to work.

They started making new finds, including the 1902 silver strike where the ore contained 3,000 ounces of silver per ton.

Again, not an entirely unusual circumstance in those days. But the article also pointed out it was Cordelia herself who made the strike.

“The tenderfoot may think we mean that she hired the work done, but not so,” the article in “Our Mineral Wealth” states. “Mrs. Kay cut the fuse, bit the cap, tamped the powder and returned into the smoke to see the result of the shot.”

That silver strike was one of many in the years to come.

Cordelia’s biggest successes were her turquoise claims at Ostrich Copper Mine. She apparently enjoyed taking the stones, called “Kingman Blue,” and selling them in San Francisco.

In 1912, Cordelia sold

her turquoise claims on the south side of Ithaca peak to a Denver mining expert. The exact price was never revealed, but it was in the thousands of dollars – a fortune in those days.

According to Cordelia’s granddaughter, Dorothy Smith of Kingman, Cordelia had not only learned a lot about mining, but she was a shrewd business woman all her life.

No sooner had Cordelia sold her mine than the Mohave County Miner reported that the “Kays Strike Copper.” Much like the silver strike in 1902, this copper strike was big, with samples showing exceptionally high averages.

Cordelia’s entire family was involved in mining. All three sons, Elijah, Lyon and Lucky, worked together to bring minerals out of their seven mines: The Golden Hammer, the Golden Horseshoe, the Elijah Kay, the Lucky Kay, the Morning Sun, the Setting Sun and the New Moon, which was owned by a member of the family until at least 1987, when an article mentioned the Kays in the Nevadan Today.

The Kays were successful, to say the least.

They remained in Mineral Park for most of their lives, building a solid family life rather than moving from one boom area to the next.

Continued from 1 Born Harriet Cordelia Chapman on Oct. 14, 1854 to Caleb and Mary Chapman of San Bernadino, California, Cordelia was no stranger to mining. Her father moved the family to El Dorado County in California where he was a miner from 1858 until around the time of his death in 1871.

Cordelia was only 20 when she came to Mineral Park as the young wife of Captain L.C. Welbourn in 1874. Welbourn, a former sheriff of Mohave County, decided on the mining game, a hard life Cordelia was quite used to.

In those days, all the ore had to be exported to Wales in order to be processed. Welbourn created a mill in an unsuccessful attempt to concentrate ores in one spot. He lost money and decided to turn to prospecting to recoup some of his losses.

Cordelia naturally went with him, and together they located several promising veins.

Life seemed to be going well for the Welbourns, but Capt. Welbourn took seriously ill in 1883. He became progressively worse until he returned to the East where he shortly died, leaving Cordelia sole owner of their many joint claims.

For unrecorded health problems, Cordelia left Mineral Park in 1883 and returned to California. While there, she met and married an English man by the name of John Kay. The Kays returned to Mineral Park in 1885.

Cordelia’s first task was working the claims and struck a rich body of ore in the Setting Sun mine in 1886. By July 2, 1887, the Kays had a ton of fine ore out of the Setting Son. Good, healthy strikes followed, and the lady miner Cordelia Kay and her husband made quite a name for themselves.

However, personal happiness was not on the agenda for the early years of the Kays’ success. In Aug. 1886, Cordelia gave birth to twins, but they died one after the other. The next two sons, Elijah and Lyon, were born in San Bernadino, where the medical help was better, and survived. Son Lucky Kay was born in Mineral Park in 1891, but complications almost killed both him and Cordelia. The

John Kay died July 29, 1924 at the age of 80.

Cordelia followed about 10 years later on June 4, 1933 at the age of 78.

In a time when women weren’t allowed near mines, let alone inside of them, Cordelia Kay carved out her mark in mining history.

Cordelia Kay was nothing short of extraordinary.

The Kingman Moose Lodge is asking for donations for the second annual warm clothing drive. (Adobe Images)

Sharing the warmth with those in need KINGMAN – The chilly season is approaching quickly, and not everyone is lucky enough to have warm clothing for the cold.

Kingman Moose Lodge is trying to help in that regard.

From Oct. 15 to Jan. 31, the Moose Lodge is holding its second annual Warm Clothing Drive, and will be accepting donations of clothing and other items suitable for winter weather.

They will be accepting new or gently used

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Please bring all donations to the Moose Lodge at 302 Monroe Street, anytime between 12:30 and 7:30 p.m.

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Mohave County honors slain militia member from Oregon standoff David Louis For the Miner KINGMAN – A two-mile section of road in northern Mohave County will be renamed in honor of a controversial opponent of government overreach and federal grazing rights.

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors gave the green light Monday to rename a section of Yellowstone Road to LaVoy Finicum Road, after the slain member of Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, a militia that seized and occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in early 2016.

The month-long occupation triggered a standoff between state troopers joined and the FBI. Finicum was shot and killed by law enforcement officers on Jan. 26, 2016. Eight members of Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, including its leader Ammon Bundy, were arrested the same day.

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A fair amount of people from the local community support the Kingman Cancer Care Unit, and KCCU turns that support back into the community. (File Photo by Claire Whitley/Daily Miner)

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few months, a year, even a few years can pass, but when vendors and shoppers see each other at the Kingman Cancer Care Unit’s 42nd annual craft fair, time won’t matter. They are old friends, and new, with handmade crafts and art for sale. More time tends to be spent catching up with old friends, though, than hawking wares.

The craft fair is a community event, emphasis on community. People are given a chance to talk to those they haven’t seen since last year, or even longer.

“It’s always been a tradition,” said Janet Watson, president of KCCU. “We try to carry on that tradition.”

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The fair brings over 100 vendors from across Arizona and several other states with a wonderful variety of original arts and crafts, including quilts, candles, soap, floral arrangements, holiday decorations, woodworking, jewelry, gift items and food. KCCU board member Noreen Welton said there will be a fry bread vendor this year, after a few years of absence.

The arts and crafts fair will be 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Sunday at the Mohave County Fairgrounds, 2600 Fairgrounds Blvd. Entrance is free to the public, but the fairgrounds will charge $3 for parking.

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Council members, vice mayor elected to be interchange delegation HUBBLE RAY SMITH hsmith@kdminer.com KINGMAN – City Council moved forward with Kingman Crossing with a unanimous vote Tuesday to approve a preliminary plat for rights-of-way necessary for Kingman Crossing Boulevard to connect with Airway Avenue from the proposed I-40 interchange.

The preliminary plat would create three lots on the land owned by the City of Kingman, one that will be retained for open space and drainage, and two that will be available for future sale for development.

The action was one of several agenda items related to the proposed Kingman Crossing and Rattlesnake Wash interchanges.

Council voted 5-2 to designate Vice Mayor Jen Miles and Councilmen Travis Lingenfelter and David Wayt to serve as Kingman’s official delegation to present a request for $20 million for the I-11 East Kingman Connection project from Gov. Doug Ducey on Nov. 27. They’ll also go in front of Arizona

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Road Continued from 1A Mohave County supervisors voted 3-2, with supervisors Buster Johnson and Jean Bishop dissenting, to approve the name change.

“I believe LaVoy Finicum died defending the Constitution in a manner of his own choosing,” said Supervisor Hildy Angius, who introduced the proposal. “That is why I told his father, who stood in front of me with tears in his eyes, that I was proud to make the motion.”

Supervisor Lois Wakimoto also supported the change.

“These things happened,” Wakimoto said about the occupation. “We can’t take them away. It wasn’t necessarily the right thing to do, but you can’t change what happen. Hopefully children learn from the fact that we don’t always do right, we don’t always do wrong, but we can’t change the fact that history is what it is.”

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constitutionally required to turn over most of the public lands they manage to the individual states.

Angius said the request to rename the road came from an area resident who paid a fee and notified property owners In Cane Beds, a community in the northern stretches of Mohave County. Nearly 90 percent of the landowners approved of the name change, she said.

Several people spoke up at Monday’s meeting in favor of the name change. Kingman resident Jennifer Jones-Esposito called Finicum an “American patriot” who was “murdered in cold blood” at the hands of authorities.

“He was willing to take a stand for things that most people will never have the courage to do,” she said. “We should never forget what happened to LaVoy. What happened to him should never, ever happen to an American, to an Arizonian, to a Mohave County resident … victory over oppression.”

The state troopers who shot and killed Finicum were later cleared of wrongdoing, but whether the shooting was justified is still a matter of debate.

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F Bishop didn’t think the name change is appropriate because it makes Finicum’s actions seem heroic.

“He kind of threw our laws back in our face,” Bishop said.

“The proper venue for this was in the court of law. I don’t think what he did was the right way of handling things.

I don’t recognize him as a hero, but I do recognize him for being a well-respected member of his community.”

Buster Johnson took issue with the board’s decision.

“I believe this person brought the actions upon himself,” Johnson said. “There is a peaceful way to get your point across and this is a person who put a lot of people in danger.”

Johnson said the board’s action could have unintended consequences.

“You also have to look at the long-term effect of the image Mohave County wants to project,” he added.

“I think this is a black eye on Mohave County and sets a tone when we are trying to stimulate economic development. This could really hurt that goal.”

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Craft Continued from 1A Watson said there is also a continuous raffle with about 200 prizes for attendees to win. Claire Crum, who has been in charge of publicity for the craft fair, said the grand prize is $500 in cash.

“Everything has been donated by people in the community,” Crum said.

“Some people come back every year to donate things.”

Watson said this is the only fundraiser KCCU does for itself. The vendors pay a fee for the booth space, which goes to KCCU. Watson said KCCU uses some of the funds for their minimal operating expenses, but the remainder goes toward patients in Kingman KCCU helps.

“There are very few people whose lives haven’t been affected by cancer,” Crum said. “This is our chance to give back … we are there for them.”

Arts and crafts fairs are unlike anything else. The booths with all kinds of homemade items from pottery to jewelry to embroidered pillows make up quite the

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Journey Church 3782 N. Bank St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Dale Sharp (928) 757-4520 Kingdom of God 4798 Stockton Hill Rd. Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Bob Peet (928) 692-1122 Kingman Apostolic Church 4470 N. Glen Road, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Jerry Duncan (928) 897-6879 Kingman Bible Church 2495 E. Butler Ave. Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Jerry Adams (928) 727-2667 Kingman Centro de Adoracion Cristiano 4087 Eagle Drive Kingman, Az 86409 Pastor Jesus Vazquez 928-279-6085 Kingman Christian Church 2830 Gordon Drive, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Brian B. Van Dyke (928) 757-8783 Kingman Church of Christ 1915 Robinson Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Minister: Jim Maberry (928) 753-5600 Kingman Church of The Nazarene 4715 Stockton Hill Road, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Robert Myers (928) 757-4077 Kingman Family Worship Center 4087 N. Eagle Drive, Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Bruce and Terri Grimmett (928) 757-2671

Grace Temple Apostolic Church 2465 Northern Ave..

Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: A. W. Singfield (928) 692-8444

Kingman First Assembly of God 1850 Gates Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Steven Lewandowski (928) 753-3529

Desert Church of Christ 2345 Gordon Drive, Kingman, AZ 86409 Minister: Leo Woodman (928) 757-5767

Hilltop Foursquare Church 2215 Emerson Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastors: Norm & Pearl Taylor (928) 753-5500

Kingman Presbyterian Church 2425 Detroit Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: George Carey (928) 753-5858

Divine Savior Catholic Community at Trinity Episcopal Church 425 E. Spring St. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Fr. Leonard Walker (602) 432-7808

His Final Harvest World Outreach 4550 Bank, Ste. C Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Ron Green (661-316-5853

Dolan Springs First Assembly of God Church 16741 N. Pierce Ferry Road Dolan Springs, AZ 86441 Pastor: Howard E. Walzer (602) 377-6268 Dolan Springs Baptist Church 15065 N. Pierce Ferry Road Dolan Springs, AZ 86441 Pastor: Ric Smith (928) 767-4363 Family Bible Church 2040 Golden Gate Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Peter A Ernst (928) 753-2370\

Iglesia De Christo Nuevo Testamento 1915 Robinson Ave. Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Joseph Gormany (928) 530-2158

Kingman Seventh-day Adventist Church 3180 White Cliffs Road Off Anson Smith Rd. near water tanks Kingman, AZ 86409 Spanish interpretation available (928) 757-2614 Latter Rain Ministries 2532 Southern Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Ruby Alcorn (928) 753-0269

Iglesia De Jesucristo Palabra Miel 3130 Gordon Drive Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Juan R. Mejia (928) 763-4350

Light in the Dark 1st Southern Baptist Church of Yucca 12320 S. 3rd St, Yucca, AZ 86438 Pastor: Wayne Basye 928-377-1016

Joshua Tree Ministries 3540 Thompson Ave., Kingman, AZ 86409 Pastor: Carl Clouseau (928) 692-8378 or (928) 692-5733 (FAX)

Living Faith Assembly of God 4605 Arnold Road Kingman, AZ 84609 Pastor: Albert & Nancy Johnson (928) 757-8993

menagerie. The smell of fry bread and food booths, the sounds of vendors and visitors all make up the distinct environment of a craft fair and its community. Welton described the feeling as “homey” and “comfortable.”

“Once you go there, you’ll see why it’s so hard to describe,” Watson said.

Watson said any firsttime, craft-fair goers should walk through the whole fair, noting which booths have something of interest and then returning to them later.

Watson said the craft

fair is possible through the support of the community as well as Crum, Welton andKCCU treasurer Phyllis Eaton, all of whom are volunteers. Crum said KCCU is always welcoming new members, and “new blood” is the most wonderful thing for the organization.

Watson said she hopes the community will come out this weekend to enjoy the nice weather.

“I invite everybody to come and have a good time,” Watson said.

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Meadview Community Church 540 W. Hualapai Creek Drive Meadview, AZ 86444 Pastor: John Mulvihill (928) 564-2411

St. Michael the Archangel Traditional Catholic Church 711 E. Andy Devine Ave., Kingman, AZ 86401 Pastor: Fr. Edward Lindsey (928) 718-0086

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