The Arizona champion., 1883-10-06
Chief Justice Smith, of Kingman,

age as we'll as any of the boys, and it looks as though he was going to have the last say.
 J. w. Stephenson, cx-district attor- ney of Mohave county, has been in town this week on Justice Court busi ness. Mir. Stephenson received a hearty welcome among his many friends here.
 Mir. Farlee returned home on Fri day night fast, from the fair, and re ports our townspeople all enjoying themselves, in fact, having a good tune. They will return home when necessity colnpelsl
 J. H. Hyde, editor of the Mohave County Miner, came in from Mineral Park on Wednesday evening last, on his way to the Albuquerque fair. We hope he will have pleasant visit. |
 Judge l. R. Russell, of Blackberry. paid Peach Springs brief visit thi, week, seeking pleasure. He landed in hornets nest, real symptoms oi war, and got away before his many friends here could say "How do you do3' Come again, Judge, when time are more peaceful.
 An ingenious mechanic of James town, Chatauqua co ,nty. N. Y., has completed perfect locomotive, said to be the smallest in the world, being only eight and one-half inches long. The pump throws drop of water per stroke. The mechanic was at work on it at intervals for elght years.
 T. O. Stevens and the miners who are to sink a 4oo-foot shaft on the Ida mine, in the Lost Basin district, leil for the scene of action by teams, talk ing with them mining tools and pro- visions sufficient to last for months. They will push the work vigorously, and as the property giv, s great prom ise. we expect to hear of good re suits.
 The regular annual cattle disease scare is just getting fairly under way. There must be something to counter act the effects of the hundreds ol thousands of cattle that are shipped from he cattle ranges of the west, o beefsteak will get so cheap that it will take the average butcher TWO or thre, years to become millionaire. w. D. Pyton, Ash Fork, an ole contractor on the A. & P. was il town this week, on his return home where he will engage in contract for building twenty-five miles of th' Thirty.Fifth Parallel road to Prescott. Mir. Pyton is man of experience in railroad building, and his success i> due to his skill and practical know ledge in his work.
 It is said that the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company purposes hereafter to use on their road rails Go feet long, instead of 30, and will be gin their manufacture at once. The rails will also be increased in weight from 68 to 70 pounds per yard. The decreased number of joints to care for will lessen expenses, it is thought; bu there are difficulties in the way oi handling and transporting the Go foot rails which trackmen will under stand.
 The herder, George Ward, was no, killed by Indians, the verdict of tn, coroner's jury to the contrary not withstanding, but by or at the instl gation of rustlers, who had bees steal. ing and feared his evidence against them. Leaving out the question oi justice to the Indians, on the prinCi. pie of giving even the devil his due, journal or person who starts o, gives currency to untrue statemepts oi Indian outbreaks does a gross injus lice to the section affected thereby, and the custom cannot be too severel, condemned. ed.-Prescott Miner.
 George F. Barstow, of San Francis. co, who left an estate valued at ESQ., 900. gave these injunctions in his will "Having observed that ostentatious and expensive funerals are injurious to the people, after absorbing mon y which the property cannot we'll spare, to vanity and pride, therefore, by way of example, for which beg pardon Of the undertakers, let my coffin be plain redwood box, put together with common nails or screws, without paint or varnish, with plain iron han dies, and all else about the funeral to