The Arizona champion., 1884-04-26
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
Hon. Pat Hamilton is sick and sorely affected with rheumatism.

John w. Grant, veteran prospec tor, proposes to organize party fo l, the purpose of prospecting the Sierr D Madre country, which it Is believed i now clear from the Apaches.
 S Wm. Garland, who owns two o three extensive ranges in our county
 has found it necessary to foreclose mortgage held by him on the Clifton } X Lords5urg railway in New Mexico 5 Amount involved, S39o, 900.
 Mark Smith and Judge RobinsoI were presented with q purse of s6ot by citizens of Blsbee as a testimonial
 of the,r appreciation of the vigorou
 and successful prosecution of the Bis bee murderers.
 The Prospector says that the daily
 hay train that arrives at Qnljota con slstS of twenty squaws loaded witt gramma grass. We will guarantee that train had twenty tenders in shape of Papago bucks who came along tc make sales and spend the money.
 Peter R. Brady is advanced by Pinal county as suitable candidate for Delegate to Congress. Mir. Brady IS bright, energetic fellow, we'll in formed in the needs of the Territory, and IS possessed of an unusual amount of push. He was candidate in 1870 for the office, but got left in the final canvass of the votes by q sort of 7.to job, in Tucson.
 United States Attorney Zabriskie, of Tucson, says that timber shall ntt be cut on the public lands for any purpose whatever until patent has issued to the locator. Secretary Tel Ter, of the Interior Department, says you may cut as much as you want for your own use, or you may cut as much as you please and sell it to provide a support for yourself and family or to improve your location.
 Received at the United States Llnd Office al Prescott, ArIzona, April 7th, 1884, the following township plts, to.wlt: Township No. 24, north of Range No. 5 east of Township No. 25. north oi Ranges Nos. ?, and 4 east of Township No. p, north Cf Ranges Nos and 5 east ot Town shlp No. sI. north ol Range No 2 east of Township No. 20, north ol Range No east and ct Township No. I0, north of Range No. I east.
 One Cf the acts of the next Legisla- ture should be the making of an ap- proprIatlon for an insane asylum. In addition 10 the enormous expense at tendant upon the conveyance of patients to Stockton are the fees for maintainance while there. Governor 'Trltle has recently received a repor, from Asa Clark superintendent oi the private insane asylum at Stockton, al which the insane from this Territory are treated, for the quarter ending March 3ISt. During the quarter 56 persons from this Territory have been confined; three have died, a..d one was discharged, leaving 52 at the end of the quarte-. Two of the deaths were from Yavapal county, being David Harris and Larry Conley. The expense for the quarter has been s.. 9S5'55.
 The Albuquerque Journal of re cent date contained an account of the arrest and conviction of the notorious Pony Deihl, at Las Cruces, for cattle stealing. Of the many notorious rus tiers, who at one time infested this section of country, none save Curley Bill, ever acquired the unenviable notoriety that did the subject of the sketch. There is every reason to be. lieve that he was one of the party that attempted the robbery of the Benson stage, at the time Bud Philpot was killed, and it is a surety that he was one of the party that robbed the Bis bee stage sometime following. He has been reported dead score of times, but his obituaries have been hardly cold before he is heard of in some new crime. Nothing from murder to petty larceny ever came amiss to him, and it is q source of in- tense satisfaction to know that the law has at last got him within its grasp Epitaph.