The Arizona champion., 1883-10-06
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6.

The Denver, Utah and Pacific rail road has been sold but the names o the bu, CTS have not been made public
 The Illinois and Indiana railroad, are having little war on paSsenge. rates and are carrying passengers from Chicago to Indianapolis at five cents per head wltha chromo thrown in.
 Lieut.. Porter, the obsconding Assis tant Commissary Substance at Fort Thomas, has been heard from in Scno ra He got away with SIooo cash, and was short some S$ 900 on stores.
 It has been discovered that the Czar practiced little deception on the oc' casion of his coronation. Instead of riding through the streets of Moscow, at the head of the procession, as was reported, his highness was hid away The supposed Czar al the head of the procession was an officer of the impe. rial guard, made up to resemble the Emperor.
 A San Diego, Cal, paper says that the extension of the California South. ern railroad from San Barnadlno IS likely to be carried out; that the sur vey of Cajon pass is to be resumed. the supposltion being that the Gala fornia Southern and Atlantic & Pacl fic roads will meet at the Point of Rocks, about 100 miles north of Saa Barnadino, half way or whereabouts between that place and Needles.
 Leon Abbett, the Democratic can didate for Governor of New Jersey, i. a native of Philadelphia, but settled iu Hoboken, when quite young man. where he was elected three times to the assembly. He afterwards remov ed to Jersey City ard was elected to the state senate, over which he presid ed for three years. He is at present corporation counsel for Jerse, City, and is accounted a man of high pro fessional ability.
 An Illinois woman recently discov. cred that her husband proposed to elope with the housemaid. Dld she weep and shed tears and kick up a fuss1 Not a bit of it, She just wrot, letter purporting to arrange for hel elopement with neighbor, and le, it fall into his hands. And it about drove him mad. He fired the servan; girl out of the house, and sat up all night with shot gun to shoot the vii lam who was after his wife, and has been since then the most devoted hus band in Illinois.
 chief Justice French returned from Mineral Park this morning on the Ash Fork stage. Notwithstanding that he has held twenty-two days term Of court at MDhave county and lost tw, nights sleep on the return trip, he i, as active as youth in his teens, and willnow enter upon his labors in cham bers preparatory to holding term of here in November. During his tern of court In Mineral Park, the chief jus won many encsninms from the pres and bar for the promptness in which he disposed ot business. Journal.
 Ex.Senator Sharon, who is at pres. ent in New York, in the course of ar interview said, in response to the ques- tion: "What are the prospects fo silver mining in Nevada?" "Ver, poor. believe them pretty much all exbaused, and especially the Comstock lode. When you have dug down B.. 900 feet for precious metal and found none, believe you can safely con clude there's none to find. Still keep up my interest in the Nevada mines, and my citizenship in tha state, though I am at present residing in san Francisco.
 RAILROAD MlNING.-That San Fran. cisco railroad. conference is a queer institution. The reporters have so far been unable to get at what the mag mates intend doing. The Examiner's bright young man thinks that the Cal ifornia railroad prelates want it all. He also states that they control the A. & P. railroad, statement the thought of which almost makes us sick, as, in case they do control the A. & P. it may be years before San Francisco will have competing road. Word comes from New York that Gould and Huntington are going for Willard and his railroad. Courier.
 The Clifton Clarion has the follow ing: Jessie Stiles, who was accident ally shot, died Wednesday.
 Several stockmen from Apache county passed through Clifton on Thursday looking after stolen cattle. and had secured quite a number b, the time they arrived here.
 Garland's railroad camp has been moved to North Clifton, where he has large force of men engaged in grad ing at the lower end of the Coronado railroad. About one half mile of the old track will be torn up and two roads graded to the furnaces.
 A telephone from the Longiellow states that Chinaman was shot near there. The murder was committed for robbery.
 D. L. Sayre, editor of the clarion, has returned home from trip east.