The Arizona champion., 1883-11-03

The platform at the depot is to be extended, The new depot will go up near the bunk house. An e,egan, march in Skidmore Guard style to the "squeezed' Lemon eating h use.
 MT E. Rush, conductor on the A. & F., won the gold watch, rallied for sIoo, by Mon. aghan & Murphy, at the Needles, Tuesday evening last. It is valuable prize, and could not have fallen into better hands,
 C. F. Rogers, the well-known butcher Of Williams, has purchased the market of Mac Clellan & Rousch, of Albuquerque. and will hereafter furnish the Albu luerque people with Arizona beef, He will hereafter make the metropolitan city hi, home.
 Mrs Brady's boarding house, in resident car at this station, is now the popular regular boa, ing house on the other side ol the ditch Her tables are supplied with ,he very best the market affords, her boarders are all we'll sa,s- fed, and one man is as good as another!
 Telegraph operators are waiting in Albu querque to accept situations along the line of tte road, where operators resign on account of the reduction. They must be of the Jay Gould stripe, or night school students from the east.
 It makes a difference whether a man has got gold mine or ot, we discover. Yester- day Doc. Griffin picked up $ note in the bacH yard of Stevens X Co.'S store, right under the nose of Steve, who has been tramp. ing upon it for the past ten days, aNd ddn give it shelter in his vest pocket! Wou6 We were interested in Lost Basin!
 The Prescott Morning Courier comes to Us enlarged to a seven column paper. Thi, evidence of Bro. Marion's success we are proud to note. He is the oldest editor in the Territory, and prints live, newsy daily, Democratic to the core. May sixteen more years of such valuable service in journalism be allotted to him, is the wish of ihe CHAM PIoN
 George Karr, formerly of the firm of West. lake, Bradley & Karr, propretors of the Clip, per Club Rooms, Albuquerque. comm tted suicide by shooting himself through the head, on Wednesday night last The body was found on the bridge crossing the Rio Grande, on Thursday morning The remains have have been sent to Parsons, Kansas, inter. meni
 Mrs. Garden, formerly in charge of the eating house at Manuelito. has opened the Windsor hotel, Albuquerque formerly the Ballingall. on Front street. Mrs Garde was the best caterer to the traveling public on the line of the A. & P, and will bring to the Windsor a reputation in this particular which will largely increase the business of the house.
 Pat Hamilton, report to the CHAMPION at once. We've aprisate letter from a friend of us both, which It is important you should see. Some say you are on the San Francisco Ex aminer, and others that you are in Tucson. busy with the "Resources of Arizona" Communicate with us at once. We ar con. 6dent the extensive Territorial circulation oi the CHAMPION will find you.
 Among the visitors to the Grand Canon thls week were ]. II. Pickett, firm of Pickett X Elliott, lawyers, of Silver City; Cal in Miles, of Albuquerque, freigh. agent for the A., T, & S F.; C. C. Marsh. civil engineer in the U. s. navy; Mir. Haywood, clerk in the Pills bury drug store, at Albuquerque, and Mir. Wilson, ofthe geological survey party. There were a number of other visitors who failed to register.
 Conductor Nelson, who for many weeks was lying so low with fever at his home Tn Peach Springs, is about again and gaining strength rapidly. He returned this week from trip to Albuquerque and Demlng. and claims that he gained more strength a, Charlie Zeigers lunch cou ter, where he got wild duck, chicken, turkey, etc., than all else he had seen. We hope soon to see him re in stalled on the road.
 When Milton $. Pycert was removed from the position of night yardmaster at this sta ,ion. Mir. Wilde was appointed in his place. Now another change has been made in the position, Mir Downing. formerly yardmaster Williams, succeeding Wilde. Like mill tary rules, Downing had priority over Wilde, on account of being an older cmploye. Mir. Wilde will take the same position he held be fore being promoted to Pycer's place.
 Mir. Stevens. our popular merchant, leaves tomorrow for Lost Basin, taking with him a supply of goods for that prosperous mining camp. Steve has been busy during the past ten days. rigging up a new wagon for the trip, and the nly way we can accou for his courage is his visions of gold in the Ida mine, and he proposes to go there this time in style.
 "The rich they ride in chaises,
 And the poor, be j---, they can walk"