The Arizona champion., 1883-11-17

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 The Indian Tradership at San Car los IS said to be worth S5o,ooo a year.
 The Chicago Tribune has figured out the rate at which cattle increase in this country. The product of 100 two year.old cows for ten years IS placed at a,S54, and for twenty years at a5,47S.
 Geo. Prouty, formerly clerk at this railroad station, now occupies posi- ton as check clerk at Ash Fork sta tion George has many friends in Peach Springs, who will be pleased to know of his success.
 ]. R. Robbins, Surveyor General of Arizona, died in Tucson on the 4th inst. He had been suffering with consumption for some months. The deceased was formerly connected with the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 Yardmaster Moody left on Thurs. day evening last to meet the body oi his brother law. who was killed by the cars, near Chihuahua, Mexico, on on Tuesday last. The deceased wa, named Don Harris, and he was con ductor on the Mexico road.
 Mir. A. l. White, who is writing up the resources of New Mexico and Arl zona for the New Years edition oi the Albuquerque Journal, has been in town this week, and paid a visit to the Grand Canon. MT. White expressed himself as greatly pleased with what he saw.
 The grandeur of railroad develop. ment in this country is now complete. A tram is to leave Portland, Maine, for Portland, Oregon, and Is to run from the Atlantic to the Pacific upon an unbroken chain of railway tracks, The route is circuitous, but direct rom point to point.
 The well-known Chinaman, Char lie, who was chief cook for the Indian Queen Mining Company, at Hack berry, for upwards of a year, has ac cepted position with Harley Fay, and now havors the viands at the lunch counter. Charlie is rated among the best cooks in Arizona.
 Tel Operator Griffin, at this place, we are pleased to know, is to remain with us. His salary has been placed at the former figures, as has also the night operators. We are glad to know this, as we should exceedingly regret to see change made in our telegraph office management.
 Our neighbor of the Prescott Cour fer is full of advice to the coming Legislature, over year off yet, and sks that flush" demands on the treasury be topped off, Give them your views or printing contracts and the manner they are "mangled" It would be a very interesting chapter, truthfully told.
 John H. Behan, ex.sheriff of Co., chise county, and formerly resident of Mohave county, has returned from an extended eastern tour, and is now Tn Prescott with his little roan, which he has entered for the races there Johns Little Nell' has scooped in numerous victories on the Colorado, Missouri and Kansas courses.
 Peach Springs is the only town in Mohave county which has paid in all her county taxes. The Sheriff was here one half day, called on the tax payers, and collected S286 co, all that was due from the town proper. In every other town, some with less taxes to pay than ours, large major, fly of the people have asked for time.
 The news is at hand of the robbery of two trains of cars in Indiana b, four men. If such thing had hap pened Tn Arizona, the Territory would be damned by all our eastern friends as bloody, outrageous country, un- safe for eastern people to be in; but a the occurrence happens in Indiana, d mere comment on 1t as a "daring act" is made in the papers, and noth, ing more thought of it.
 Jaffa Bros representative, Phil. Preager, of Albuquerque, was in town this week, looking after the interests of his firm. Mir. Preager is well known in Arlzona, and is every whe-e popular with the people. The firm of Jafa Bros. do large busi ness Tn this section, and are one of the most reliable business houses in Albuquerque. Phll's many friends in Peach Springs are always glad to see him.
 The Legislature, which will meet here early in 1885, will be called on to examine into the fees of officers, with view of cutting some of them down. Fees have not been meddled with for many years, and some of them are certainly too high. Taxes