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The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09

The public school has been closed for two weeks on account of the ill., ness of Mrs. Marshall.
 The Arizona CHAMPION, a paper in which one is always certain to find interesting reading, has been removed fom Peach Springs to Flagstaff Clifton Clarion.
 The Arizona CHAMPION states that it will hereafter be published at Flag staff. The CHAMPION is a lively little paper, and one that is devoted to the interests of the Territory.-St. Johns Era.
 The Arizona CHAMPION has issued It's last paper at Peach Springs and now removes to Flagstaff where it hopes to have larger field. Fay is making one of the very best papers in our sister Territory.-Albuquerqu Journal.
 A. E. Fay and his sparkling Ari- zona CHAMPION, have settled in Flag staff, in the northern portion of this county. The first Flagstaff number of the paper rips into business like unto the way one of Ayers big saws rips into the great pine logs Of old Yavapai. i.-PreScott Courier.
 A Portland, Me, letter to ]. B. Watkins, of Tonto Basin, states that the building of the A. M. B. R. R. is fixed fact. The letter also states that the writer and Colonel Eddy expect ed to start for Anzona by the 25th inst. The Railway Age of the I7th, says seventy-fve miles of that road will be completed the present year.
 P. B. Brannen & Co. are the auth orized agents for the celebrated Stu debaker wagons manufactured at South Bend, Indiana. These wagons are in general use throughout the Territory, and have the very best of reputation among ranchers and men requiring heavy wagons. They also manufac- ture buggles, phetons and buckboards, which meet with ready sale in all parts of the western country. If you want wagon of any sort, call on P. B. Brannen & Co.,, of Flagstaff.
 Mir. C. w. Beach, late editor and proprietor of the Prescott Miner, and an old time Arizonan, arrived in this city yesterday, He has severed his connection with newspaper life, and being enroute to Texas to purchase cattle, concluded to pay visit to Tombstone. 1t will be remembered that it was Mir. Beach, who, by well directed shot, and after having been stabbed himself, stopped the bloody onslaught being made by Pat McAteer in the district court room, at Prescott. l-Tombstone Epitaph.
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09
Thirty Head of Cattle stolen.-fhe Theives
 Arrested. Examined and Bound Over.

During the week Justice Marshall has been kept very busy in bis court three men, Wm. ]: Smithman, Dan. w. Smithman and John w. Christian having been arrested near the Utah line by James A. Gillett, B. D. Mich ols and Edward Lang, cattle men of that vicinity, for stealing thirty-three head of cattle, from Messrs. Stewart, Taylor, Crosby and others. The fact in the case, as brought out in the ex- animation are as follows MT. Gil lette's ranch IS about twelve miles from the Utah line. J. B. Smithman, who represented himself to be ]. Cooper, who was making for Gilletts, met Mir. G., and inquired the way to Gillelte's ranch. Mir. Gillette making himself known to him, SmithSon said he had a band of cattle in the Soap and Badger creek country, Yavapai county, which he desired to sell. MT. Gillette said he would go with him and look at them Mr. G. went to see the cattle and made bargain for them, Smithman agreeing to deliver the cattle at MT. Gille!te's ranch soon as possible, and on the following ev- ening he arrived accompanied by his brother and Christian. The next morning they commenced to put Gil lette's brand upon the cattle, when Gillette noticed but two carried the same brand, and some were not branded at all, while others had brands with winch he was acquainted, some having the brand of MT. Stew art, his neighbor, residing in Utah. MT. G. told the men he would not take inc cattle until he was satisfied they had a good title. They agreed to go with him to MT. Stewart. The thieves then started out, and Gill lette was to overtake them at House Rock, where they would camp and await his coming. Gillette came on to the place designated, but the men were not there. He then went back to his own camp, and found the men had returned there, and started out again, telling Gillette's men they would meet Gillette on his return. Gillette again went 10 House Rock, where he met Messrs. Nichols, Lamb and Stewart, and also got letter from Lees Ferry, stating that the men had crossed the river. The four then start ed for Lees Ferry, it now being un- derstood the cattle were stoleu. The thieves were overhauled in Thousand Springs Canon, in this county and were arrested. The thieves submitted gracefully, and were brought 10 Flag, staff on Monday night last. The ex- animation lasted three days, when the party were bound over to appear be- fore the next Grand Jury, and were placed in charge of Deputy Sheriff Black, who took them to Prescott. They claimed they thought the cattle were strays, or left by emigrants cross ing the country, and they had right to take them up. l. is well under stood they knew who the cattle be- longed to. The evidence is very de- cisive against them. The thieves all came from Utah.
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09
TOnto Basin.

It is claimed thata thousand people in this section are cut off from any communication with the outside world for the lack of mail service. This is a matter of great importance to the business men of our town, as well as 10 the people of Tonto, and calls fol prompt and direct action on the part of the residents of both sections. A petition to the postal authorities, plainly setting forth the facts and signed by the people of that section, would accomplish more than columns written upon the subject. Flagstaff k the natural market for the people ol Tonto, and the Mineral Belt road vii more directly unite the interests o the two sections. A mail route be tween Tonto and Flagstaff IS what i. needed.
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09
c. E. Williams Married.

Mir. C. R. Williams, the late popu- lar general freight and passenger agent of the A. x P. road, was married a few days since. The wedding took place at Las Vegas Hot Springs, and Miss Lula NJ. Kendall, daughter oi Mir. Kendall, the present proprietor of the Williams House, Prescott, is the happy bride. Mir. Williams is a prominent man; having so long and so successfully filled the office of gen eral freight and passenger agent of the A. x P. road, and his many friends will join with us in wishing him and his accomplished bride a long life ot prosperity and happiness.
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09
Diablo Canon to Chino Valley.

In our issues of December 2oth, and January 5th we published an ar. ticle written expressly for the CHAM PIoN, on the resources and scenery along this portion of the A. X P, line. We considered it at the time an able treatise on the resources, and most graphic description of the scenery in this wonderful country. The article has been widely copied by the press of Arizona and New Mexico, and we have not been able to supply the de. mand for the two issues containing the communication. For the purpose of supplying those who may desire to send this article east, and at the earn est request of many of our patrons, we have decided to republish in one issue, the entire article, carefully re- viewed and somewhat enlarged by our special correspondent. Extra copies will be printed and those desiring more than one copy should leave their names at the CHAMPION office before the date of issue, which will be Saturday, the 23rd inst. Remember the date.
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09
Flaostan' Brewery,

MT William Carl, of Las Vegas, has been in town this week, looking after some enterprising town in which to erect a brewery. He has been through southern Arizona and all along the line of the A. & P. road to The Needles, and has returned to Flagstaff, where he intends to ccm- mence building as soon as the weather will permit. MT. Carl intends to erect brewery of large capacity, and will manufacture as the trade may de- mand. He certainly could not have found a more desirable place to locate his busine S, where building material, fuel and water is plentiful, with every facility for shipping. We welcome MT. Carl to our midst.
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09
The storm.

The last storm not only puts us be- yond the danger of a water famine this winter, but it's benefits will be felt far into the coming summer months. The storm began with a rain on Saturday and continued long enough 10 extract the frost and give Mother Earth the full benefit of its copious showers. Since the storm sat in II has been ralning and showing alternately and continuously. Great lakes are to be seen west and south of iowa, and even the oldest inhabitant thinks it best 10 await the end of the storm before treating us to the inevit- able comparison between truth and fiction. The usual amount of snow and rain from now until the opening up of spring, will give the ranchman and stockman the most favorable season we have ever had in these parts,
The Arizona champion., 1884-02-09

Old boy Fay has pulled up his printing plant at Peach Springs and removed the same to Flagstaff which he says is a larger and better field. We trust he may not be mistaken. Tombstone Epitaph.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
A Veteran Explorer.

When the Israelites were in the wild
erness they rested many years at
+ adesh-barnea. To locate this exact
spot has been for a century the desire
Of Biblical geographers. A dozen
points have been suggested and adopt
ed, with great doubt and dispute be-
tween scholars. About forty Years ago
an English clergyman, Rev. John Row
lands, 2 good traveller and Arabic
scholar, went to a spot in the desert
south of Hebron, unvisited by any
other explorer, and identified it as the
long-desired location. He wrote to a
friend, his letter was published, and
aroused a geographic war. Some au-
thorities accepted howland's location,
others rejected it. Thereafter in
Vulnerable explorers have sought to
reach Rowland's fountain of Kadesh
without success. Some declared it
imaginary. Others said he had mis-
taken another and well-known site for
a new place. A dozen important loca-
tons. dependent on this, remained in
dispute, and Rowlands was widely dis
credited. He made no answer or publi-
cation, and seemed to have disap-
peared. In 1881 Rev. DIR. H. {.
Trumbull, of Philadelphia, succeeded
in r~ediscovering the lost fountain
Of Rowlands, and in an exhaustive
and invaluable book, c%onclusively
identified itastae site of Kadesh-barnea.
Since DR.. Trumbull's visit several ex-
peditions have endeavored to reach the
spot and failed. 1t might be ranked as
the most inaccessible, as it is one Of the
mostimportant, OF all ancient sites.
Meantime the silent Mi. Rowlands,
whose name has been banded about
among the geographers, has been a
quiet clergyman in a country parish in
England, troubling himself not at all as
to who e ltved' and who disoelieved
him. He knew where kadesh was, and
now that he is seventy-tive years old,
he writes to DR.. Trumbull from Jerusa-
lem Il pleasant letter from which it APP
lears that he thought the other day
while in \ gypt on a trip that it would
be a good plan to take some of his
Young people to Kadesh. So he started,
as in he O Il time, and went to Sinai,
and then directly over the desert to the
inaccessible fountain of kadesh, which
only he and DR.. Trumbull have seen,
and so on to Jerusalem. His letter, not
intended Tor publication. is as cool as if
Kadesh were a mineral spring in En-
gland and he had never heard of any
trouple in getting to it. Mr.. Rowlands
is a wonderful man, and puts other and
younger explorers innumerrble to
shaMe.--N Y. Jeu7na! of Commerce.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The British Museum has bought
John Millions copy of the Bible.
The late Lord Seatield's estate ex-
tended over 100000 acres, with an an
nual rental of 10000.
The forests of Europe are estimated
to cover 500, o00, 900 acres, or nearly
twenty per cent, of the surface Of the
continent.
The Altai estates of the Gar of
Russia cover 10000 square miles, being
about three times the size of England
aud Wales.
"A railroad on which the cars run
astride a single rail has been so success
full in Africa that one like it is TO be
built in France.
White stockings are coming once
again into fashion in London, from the
crusade BY the doctors against colored
wear as slow prisoners.
The Shoemakers' Guild Of Berlin
recently celebrated the GO0th ami
versary of its Incorporation in 12S4 by
a great procession, numbering more
than 1000 persons. which passed before
the Royal | alace, where the Emperor
and the Crown Prince stood on the
balcony to see it.
"A diver engaged in diving opera
tons Off the coast opposite Gibralter,
under Apes Hill, with the object of as
certaining the whereabouts of q recent
wreck, has discovered at the bottom
from eighty to one hundred large guns,
mostly t%hirty-two and forty-two pound
ers, and also two large anchors. They
are supposed to have belonged to some
large line OF battle ship which
sank in the old wal, probably after the
battle of Trafalgar. AS there was no
apparatus for the purpose none of the
guns were brought up, so that it mas
not been possible to ascertain their ma,
tiOnality,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
An Indianapolis man has inven

An Indianapolis man has invented
Q live poultry cal. 1t has numberless
partitions, storm curtains. cleansing
apparatus, water and food troughs.-
Indianapolis Journal.
AT the New York Convention of
Deaf Mutes a pair of patent ears was
shown. With them partially deaf peo-
pie would hear better than with their
ear trumpet.-M Y. Sun.
Experiments made by NJ. Muntz
with various kinds of water-spring,
river, sea and rain water. also snow
prove that alcohol may be found in all,
except in pure spring water.
-Sawdust when used as a substitute
for sand in house plastering is alleged
to impart very desirable properties to
the plaster. 1t makes the covering for
walls light, warm, and porous. BY its
non-conducting qualities it causes the
inner surface to retain the heat, which
sand plaster allows to escape.
1t was long believed that the height
of the atmosphere Of the earth did not
exceed forty-five miles, but from the OBJ
servations of luminous meteors it is in
terred that the height OF the atnlos-
phere is a. least 120 miles, and that, in
an extremely attenuated form, it may
even reach 200 miles.-CUcago Inter-
Ocean.
"A simple way to ascertain whether
a sample of petroleum is dangerous or
not has been recommended by a chem
ist of considerable standing. An ord.
nary tumbler is filled two-thirds tQll
with the oil. While filing up the re-
naming one-third with water q flame is
held over the vessel. Ii the vapOr
which rises takes fire the test indicates
that the petroleum is not safe to be ex.
posed to the atmosphere.
The curious statement is made by q
writer in the London Daily Mas. who
has been collecting some particulars re-
garding diving operations on the
Thames and elsewhere, that men have
grown old in this particular business,
though in early life they had been in
danger OF consumption. The sheory is
q simple one. Men under water in a
diving dress breathe a condensed at
mosphere, and are, therefore, inhaling
oxygen in a concentrated form, and
lulS, III Is dSSulueu, is conducive 10 Llle
cure OF consumption.-Halrs Journoly
Health.
The iron describes an apparatus
for freeing carpets from dust without
beating them. 1t consists of a polygon-
al drum formed of wooden bars and
fixed on a shaft revolving horizontally.
The drum is twelve feet IN diameter
and six feet in breadth, and is enclosed
in a chamber. 1t is driven by an Otto
gas engine of acknowledgements,
which also drives q fan or drawing eff
the dust from the chamber as it is ex-
tracted from the carpets. The carpets
are placed in the drum, which is fitted
with a series OF internal rollers, and
which turn the carpets over as thedrum
revolves. The speed is twenty-five
revolutions per minute, and at this rate
it is found that from two hundred to
three hundred square yards of carpet
a be thoroughly cleansed per hour
without the possibility of damage to the
fabric.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
w7H AND POINT.

Don't blow in the gun your grand
father carried in the war OF 1912. 1t is
more dangerous now than it was then.
"A writer in a health publication adj
vises people to olive in the sun" But
how under the u are people going to
do it.-Bos on transcript.
A little girl was trying to tell her
mother how beautifully a certain lady
could trll in singing, and said: %,
mamma, you ought to hear her garsle!
She does it SO sweetly."
do you know what the board over
that cows face is for:o" asked the
Colonel. "No," responded the Major,
''unless it is to keep her bushes from
being seen when the milk man works
the pump-handle.'-Bos'on Post.
"A San Francisco Snowman is ad-
vertising a troupe of educated flies. Ii
he will send one on here to teach others
how to walk around the edge of a milk
pitcher without falling in he will gain
everlasting fame.-LHicago Times.
-''That Husband of Mine'' was w.
ing upon the lap of a young married
woman on the train the other day when
a baseball dude and would-be masher
leaned over the seat, read the title of
the book, and then looking around in
monkey pantomime. simpered out:
.'Ah! where is he::' s.MindiAe his
own business, 1 hopc,' was the crush
ing reply.
an honest rustic went into the shop
of a Quaker to buy a hat, for which
twenty shillings was demanded. He
offered two dollars. Gas / live," said
the Quaker, 81 can no afford 10 give it
thee at that price, LAS you 1ive,'
exclaimed the c~ountrvman. .sThen
live more moderately, and 10 hanged to
you"' "Friend,n said the Quaker,
Chou shalt have the hat for nothing. I
have sold hats for twenty years, andmy
trick was never found olt till now.':--
A. y. Ledgcr. ~
1t was a case of breach of promise.
The evidence being all in, the defend
ant was allowed to say a word in his
own behalf. "Yes," he said, Il kissed
her almost continually every evening I
called at her house" Lawyer for the
claimant-'Then you o ess it," De-
tendant-"Yes, l do confess it.; but I
had to do it, Lawyer-'.Had to do
it! What do you mean?' Defendant
-''That was the only way l could keep
her from singing" The jury give a
verdict for defendant without leaving
their ats.-Detrot Post. =
-Friend-"Ah! glad to see YOU.
Blank. How did your great boat race
with Swift, the champion s%culler, come
out?" Blank champion oarsman)-
4 won.' 'Glad of it; glad Of it. I
was afraid he would beat you. What
time did you make?" ''An hour and a
half" "Great Leonidas. An hour
and a half! Why it's a ten-minute
course, and l have seen you do it in
eight" ''Well, you see that villain
Swift sold out the race and was bound
1 should beat him, and he rowed as
slow as he could" .'But why should
that affect your time? Why didn't you
spin oven the coarse in eight minutes."
Well, you see | had sold out, too, and
wanted him to beat me."-PAIulelpas;a
CAL.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
Our Young Folks.
THE HAPPY SPRING.

O the happy, happy spring. ,c sonds
Pnyed with white ana s~islenihS ean"e'
Whnt a lovely life it lives!
An itself away it gives,
Gladly answering oil demands
q the pleasant, sparkling spring!
Where its crystal waters slip,
Grass-enS rdled, ~vine-enlaced,
woodland creatures come to tastA
Rabbit shy, with thirsty lip,
Many a bird on airy wing.
Stoop1ng, wheeling to the brink,
Chattcring squirrel. brisk ana SINAI
Human folk-'tis good to all; .,,
LEONE" itiwhispers, come n or'nA'
So they flock their needs to bring,
Yet it never is bercft.
Every moment hat it lives
All its life away it gives.
Yet there's plenteous measure left
What n sweet. mysterious thing!
Though so generous and free,
Lavishing from morn till night
Wealth Of waters pure and bright
Yet it knows not poverty.
o the happy, happy spring!
Beautiful the aims it gives
With its clear, refreshing food
Even to leaf and flower and bud,
Blessing everything that lives.
-Cetid IhdLteI, IN va ADdke.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-22
Roman Remains in London.

The extension of the Metropolitaa
Railway in London, requiring deep es
cavat. on in the very heart OF the city
has given occasion Tor many interesting
discoveries. A part of the new line, from
the Mansion House Station to the Mi
nories, on the north side of the Thames
and near the shore, is cut through soil
which has been accommodating during
much more than two thousand years oil
continuous occupation, and relics, ndE|
only OF Roman but OF British London
have been exhumed in abundance. Just
south of the Bank of England the eycs
walton crosses a handsome street known
as WalbrooA, on each side OF which Isl
little eminence, that to the east benz
reputed to have been the site OF tue
fortress of the British Prince CaSsl'e'
l%aunus, who fought against Julius Cesar!
while that on the west formed part o.
the Roman colony subsequently eslas
llshed. In digging under Walbrook, u.
bed OF the ancient brook from when =
takes it's name was laid bare, and NV
small landing stages, for boats IRON
the neighboring river, were exposed
Both of them were built upon oas
piles, and one had quantity Of oak tes
roots thrown in among the piles, slowlas
that the oak trees used were cut VPv,
the spot, aud the roots and useless t"Ss'
thrown in among the piles as the re e.
est way OF clearing the ground; wv
the piles, in each case, was a bed Of soJ
crete, and on this was a pavement ~. y
red Roman tiles. 1t is quite posSl"
that the Roman pavement may nd"
taken the place of a wooden platform
belonging to the original strl'c'. .s,
which had fallen to decay, so that wv
thousand years may have passed t aars
the piers were built. About them WEN
found n or two skulls. of q br'ss;
type, besides Roman pottery, leaden tu.
Inns OF a Roman design, and a pel' III
bronze statue of heroic size. NV' ns a.
OFT, at the bottom OF a shallow we'll s w..
found, with itahead downward, the s .sbo
eton OF some unfortunate Br1ton, w
had either been thrown or had alien ad
and had been left there, dlsres' .So
alike by his friends and by those p's;,a Hy
drank the water of the well.-bu"""
NeWs.