The Arizona champion., 1883-12-08

stock interest, will soon be started in Tucson.
 MT. John N. Miller, the popular restaurateur and saloon man of Peach Springs, has returned from The Needles.
 We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of M. Hale x Co.,, dealers in dry goods, etc., Los Angeles.
 Governor Torres, of Chihuahua, has offered a reward of S25o each for Apache scalps. That's the kind of Indian policy we need in Arizona.
 ]. B. Huntley, having disposed of his interest in the saloon and lunch counter business to his partner, John N. Miller, left Peach Springs this week for his home in Wisconsin. "BleSsings brighten as they take their flight.
 Judge W. C. Hazledlne, of Albu- querque, attorney for the A. x P. road, has made proposition to the supervisors of Yavapai county to pay taxes on their property in that county at the rate of S2, 900 per mile, which offer was declined by the county com miSsioners.
 Pete Deveaux, convicted of man slaughter in the Cochise county court, and sentenced to ten years imprlSon ment in the penitentiary, while en route to prison, jumped from the car window and broke his skull. He was still alive at last accounts, but it IS stated he cannot recover.
 The firm of M. Earth & Wilson, wholesale and retail dealers in general merchandise, Flagstaff, A. T., is one of the oldest and most reliable on the line of the railroad, and orders en. trusted to them will be filled promptly and at reasonable prices. Their ad- vertisement will appear next week.
 Miss Belle Van Buskirk, who has been engaged in teaching school al Blackberry, passed through Peach Springs, on the night of the 5th inst en route to her home in Albuquerque. Miss Van Buskirk, we are sorry to say, will not return, and host of friends and admirers are left to mourn her absence.
 Hon. w. A. Rowe, speaker of the Twelfth Legislative Assembly, is the father of bouncing boy, born to him on the 2d inst. Father and mother are correspondingly happy. We don't know who will get to congress first, the father or the boy, but we would suggest to the Democracy of the Territory to try the father first, as he Is an available candidate.
 The following persons have visited the Grand Canon this weeK: Mir. Ben Smith, master mechanic, $. P. R. R.. Sacramento, Cal; Mir. Wm. McKen- zie, assistant manager, S. P. R. R. 7, Sacramento Cal; MT. Mainwaring Brown, Dun Edin, New Zealand; MT. Koch, F. R. S, South Kensington, London; MT. Wm. Weiss, Chicago, III.
 Speaking of high licenses for retail ing liquor, Bob lngersoll IS credited with saying: "It the Mississippi was one flowing stream of Bourbon, its banks solid crusts of loaf sugar, and the surrounding swamps of pure mint, there would be no more drunkenness than at present." The New York Times added: Maybe not; but there would be a h--l of an emigration west" And it might be added, east, also.
 One night this week, Thomas Quiz. ley, one of the teamsters discharged from the rip-rap camp, while in Ash Fork, was relieved of about S8o-all the money the poor fellow had. Quigley IS highly spoken of by those who know him, and we are Sorry to hear of his ill luck. There IS toe much of this business along the line of the railroad, and if an example was made of some of the rascals who thus prey upon workingmen, the result might be beneficial to all.
 MI. C. Brown, writing from Stock. ton to the Prescott Courier, whither he had gone, conveying Larry Cooley to the insane asylum, speaks as fol- lows of a case of insanity well known along the line of the A. & P; q saw one of those 'Danes,' l forget their names, who were sent to Yuma for hanging the little boy who stole money from them at Sims camp, on the A. & P. railway, some time ago. The smallest of the three has his quarters in Stockton, with his hands tied. He spoke very rational to me; but, l am told, is very wicked at times. He spoke about the affair,