The Arizona champion., 1884-06-07
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

It Tucson pays s4, 200 year for cleo
 tric light.
 Harvesting has commenced in th 'f Tempe Valley.
 n Tom Moore killed a man in Tont
 Basin las, week.
 Parer and soap works are the lates
 Tucson enterprises. Judge Pinney, of Phenix, has beer i wrestling with bilious fever. il The Red Rock country. east O Verde, is fast settling up with farmers 1. and stock men. 7 C. F.. Knowles, of Rhode Island while in liquor, killed himself al Tombstone, May 25th. The Courier says that the mining interests in the Prescott district is looking brighter than ever.
 The Mexican placer mines of the Weaver district have taken out fifty thousand dollars this season.
 The town we'll at Qnijotoa is now 500 feet deep and has 200 feet of water, so says the Prnspector.
 s. C. Reese, of Chino, has. thi, spring, sold about sSoo worth of strawberries from a very small patch.
 At recent tizwin dance at San Carlos two Indians were killed in a general free fight among the Apaches.
 s. C. Miller's fine barn, one and a half miles from Prescott, was destroyed by fire Monday evening. Loss s4,o
 The Sentinel says that twenty car. loads of Arizona cattle for California markets recently passed through Yuma.
 A five. year. old boy of ]. B. Hook CT, Salt River, who recently fell into a cellar, died of his injuries a few days since.
 Goodman & BOurke advertise that they are prepared to ferry freight and DlS,enIers across the Colorado river, at The Needles.
 To relieve the dull monotony in Phenix the two editors of the La Union recently indulged in prize fight. It resulted in q draw
 The Tucson creditors of Hudson X Co. are pettioning the court for the appointment of receiver to settle up the affairs of that firm.
 An appropriation of sIo,ooo has been included within the appropria- ton bill to be used in repairing the Colorado river above Yuma.
 Sqnatie-S are clearing the bush from the railroad land along the line of the Ariz )nl canal in the Sllt river valley and preparing to settle thereon.
 Henry Lambert has been awarded the contract to supply Fort Mohavv wl;h beef for the ensuing year, while Paul B;con has the wood contract.
 It has rained every month, more or less, in Arlzona during the last three years; the quantity of rainfall ha, been increasing during the last year, which indicates that Arlzona's arid days aro ot the past. If so, mesa lands will soon be converted into grain ds.-Tucson Star.
 Salt river and Tonto valleys never looked SD attractive as they do at present; everywhere mother earth Is tacpeted with green substances. The frequent rains have rendered irrigation unnecessary and some of the finest fields of barley have received no water except what fell from the heavens.
 The mine owners say they will nev. CT start up work until three dollar rate of wages Is peacefully conceded, and the Miners Union says it will never concede. Between the mill stones the business men and mechanics of Tombstone are being ground. and the camp Is getting black eye and backset from which it will take many months 10 recover.
 The death of an old.timer ia Ari, zona and New Mexico who will be remembered by hundreds of our pco pie in both Territories, is reported. His name was "Bllly" Kiggin; he died in Cochise county in some camp in the vicinity of Tombstone. He had been a stage driver by profession, and was Royal Arch Mason.
 The Phenix Herald announces that Lloyd Hill recently perished on the desert near Glla river, on his way to visit friends at Morgan station. He