The Arizona champion., 1884-05-24
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

proposed railroad from that place to Globe.
 A little daughter of MT. and Mrs. A. G. Baker, of PheniX, got hold ol some morphine pills swallowed them and died.
 It costs about one half what it did two or three years ago to live in Mo. have county and miners wages are still $4 per day, and yet good miners are scarce.
 L. O. Cowan, of Peach Springs, has filed his official bond as Justice of the Peace in the sum of SI, 1000, with R. I. Frazer, T. o. Stevens and A. H.. Grant as sureties.
 John Spruance and S. L. Stanley, of San Francisco, have sold the sta. tion and springs known as Young $ Springs, near Peach Springs, formerly owned by Harley Fay, to T. F. Gar ner for s75o
 Wm. Nj. Krider, Treasurer of Mo have county, IS making some serious charges against w. H. Hardy, chair man of the Board of Supervisors of that county, and from all appearances they "stick," as Mir. Hardy has not yet reluted them. An investigation is called fer.
 The Tucson Star states that both the Republican and Democratic Ter ritorial conventions to nominate can didates for delegate and Territorial Superintendent of Public instruction will be held in that city. Half fare tickets over the Southern Pacific rail- road will be issued to delegates to the two conventions.
 The jail commissioners of Apache county, Messrs. Hubbell, Banta and Lopez have concluded sale of sio,. 900 of jail bonds to Henry Tuning for So, GOO They have also advertised for proposals for building an iron jail with six cells and corridor. BiCs over SS, 600 will not be noticed.
 When cattle companies buy bulls by the hundred, and turn them loose upon the ranges it means an increase of stock and capital will be the result. This has recently been done in New Mexico, and an act of that kind is worthy of commendation, for not only will it benefit one particular 10. Cality, but the whole Territory.
 The shutting down of the Tomb. stone mines seems 10 be making mat : ters lively down there among the miners. It might have been we'll for them 10 have carefully considered the matter of wages before they refused three dollars per day and thus made the closing of the mines a necessity. No company or man will long run a business that is bringing in no profit
 Governor Tri,le has received from Felix G. Hardwick, of Phenix, an application for the reward of $500 offered by the last legislature for the successful cultivation of cotton in this Territory. The application sets out that Mir. Hardwick raised, by means of irrigation, during the season of 1882, from five acres of land, $500 pounds of cotton, the seed of which had been planted in rows four feet apart. A sample of the cotton ac. companies the application. It is un. ginned and of a very fine fibre, and equal in quality to the famous product of the Sea Islands off the Carolina coast. He will doubtless get the re- ward offered, and an effort will be made to obtain the cotton for exhibi. tion at the New Orleans Cotton Ex- position in December next.-Miner.
 Would not Territorial fair be a pleasing feature in the happenings of an Arizona year? Certainly we could afford 1t, and it would do us much good. We have done so much in the last five years. surmounted so many obstacles, set so many wheels in mo- tion, unearthed so many hidden par. ticles of metal and stocked so many of the grassy fields that it would not do us injury to "rest from our labors' a few days each year and spend them together, looking at what we have done. and thinking of what we can do. This, w- believe, could be easily done by some one knowing where to begin and what to do, with the liberal assistance of all who would have kindly feeling for a thing of the kind. It would prove entertain