The Arizona champion., 1884-06-14
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

have formed a stock association.
 Bountiful showers of rain have re gently fallen in the Verde and Chin valleys.
 The Plnal bank has been wound Il by the stockholders with no loss | any one.
 Prescott's new city hall is to COS SIS, 400, and is to be built by C. D
 Brown, of that city.
 Van Arman, Secretary of the Terri tory, is willing to become Republican candidate for congress.
 The cattle roundup of Suiphu valley is completed. The stock mel all speak in the highest terms of satis faction over the results.
 The bonanza kings firm have mad Casa Grande their supply point 0  machinery from Nevada and Califor mia to their Q1ijotoa mines.
 St. Joseph citizens have expended s37,ooo in drains and ditches, anC will soon make the desert in tha section bloom like the rose.
 The Benson Herald says: A fierce fire has been raging in the Little Ora goons during the greater part of last week. The sight at night was most beautiful. s,I ] s.aas
 Sergeant Lawrence. convicted o manslaughter, for killing a fellow soldier at Wilcox some months ago, has been sentenced to eighteen moEths Imprisonment in the penltentiary,
 I. R Adams, who was convicted of mansaughter, for the killing of Con, stable Roberts, at Tombstone, was sentenced by Judge Pinney to five years in the territorial prison at Yuma.
 A scheme for another new county is on foot, Sulphur Spring valley, the rich stock growing country of Cochise county wants to be set off in county by itselt, with Wilcox as the county seat.
 The round house of the Southern Pacific road at Glla Bend caught fire recently and was burned to the ground. Two engines were consumed. The origin of the fire is not known, but it IS believed that some one set 1t on fire.
 Territorial Treasurer Butler ex- presses the opinion that he will be able to meet all warrants for terri torial expenses during the present year, unless the cost of conducting the penitentiary and insane asy lum is unusually large.
 There are now in the Sulphur z bring valley, according to the Will COX News, five artesian wells that have a good flow of water, the surplus of which is used for the propagation of carp. More artesian wells will be driven in the near future.
 There was more truth than poetry in the remark of miner made at a meeting held in Tombstone of the creditors of Hudson x Co. He said: "These d-d thieves, who have stolen cur money, will call us tramps when we are packing our blankets across the desert.
 Douglas Gray, Esq.,, has a speci' men of rara avis in his office on Cur ley street. It is an lbia and was cap tured on the Verde river by an em. ployee of the United Verde Copper Company. The Egyptians regarded this species of bird as sacred.-PreS' colt Journal.
 All hopes of a compromise, having for its object the resumption of work in the Tombstone mines, may be con sidered at an end. The owners of the mines are willing to resume on a S3 per day basis for the miners wages, and on these terms only. The miners declare that they will not work for this figure, and here the matter rests for the present.
 Here is what the New York Life terms an "Arizona Episode. 1.-Two drinks Two more. Friendly game of poker. More drinks. Jack pot. More drinks. Four tens. Lively betting. Four aces. Seventeen pis- tol shots. One inquest. Much pub lie enthusiasm. A lariat. One posse of citizens. A battering-ram. A necktie.party. Editorial in local pa per Of "Strdes of Civilization"
 The following are the stations tc which the 9th cavalry have been as signed in New Mexico, in accordance