The Arizona champion., 1884-06-14

and Stewart, who were empowered to call the next meeting, the club ad journed.
 Hart's ranch, at the foot of the San Francisco mountains, Is yet buried under about three feet of snow. an unknown occurrence heretofore to the oldest inhabtant at this season of the year. This ranch is fully 10000 feet above the level of the sea, the highest in Arizora, and yet MT. Hart has produced $ pod crops with the av- craze yield of nearly every variety of farm products and garden vege tables, without irrigation.
 Carpenters Anderson & Leonard have taken the contract to erect at once. on the vacant lot between P. B. Brannen's store and the Doctors office, large warehouse, for storing purposes for the store, 54x24 feet. When erected, in connection with the fine large store edifce, MT. P. B. Brannen will, without question, have the lagest and finest business house on the line of the A. X F., or between Albuquerque, N M., and Los Angeles, California.
 MT. A. E. Fay, accompanied by his estimable wife, left us last Sunday, 10 take a relaxation from business by a trip to California. They intend to be abesent about ten days and will "do" the orange country in the vl- cinity of Los Angeles before their re- turn home. In the meantime it will give Eye prints" an opportunity to bob up serenely and undertake the task of editing this great moral and local family paper. Any improve ment noticed can be charged up against us.
 John T. Clark, editor of the Port age City, (Wis. Register, one of the leading Republican journals of the Badger State, who is taking Arizona air at Prescott as a cure for asthma, finds time to put in some good work on the Journal. He thinks his asthma is fast going "where the woodbine twineth," and intends to make per manent home in this Territory. He will prove valuable acquisition to the fourth estate on the coast.
 Last Tuesday Major Minor lost hls famous saddle horse Billy" The Major had taken him out of the stable for ride, and had not proceeded far when the animal suddenly reared up and fell down dead. In falling the Major was thrown under the horse, ana was severely bruised on one side, and will be unable to transact business for several days. l he horse was valuable one, and d pet as we'll, and every one sympathiles with Mir. Minor Tn his loss.
 The CHAMPION Is again placed un, der obligations 10 our Representative in congress, Hon. C.. H. Oury, for valuable public documents, among them large and well bound volume entitled "Tenth Census of the United States, work of reference that IS very valuable. embracing as it does statistics of the population, gathered at the last census taking, together with extended tables of the population of the various states, counties, and minor civil divisions, with distinc tions of race, sex. age, nativity and occupations; also tables devised from other census reports, relating to news papers and periodicals, public schools and illiteracy, the dependent, defec- tive and delinquent classes. The volume is profusely illustrated with maps, appertaining to the subject matter, and must prove work of great value to the student of Ameri- can history.
 A few weeks ago, the Florence. (Pinal Co. ) Enterprise, took Deputy United States Marshal Evans to task for arresting on spurious charges in- nocent citizens and bringing them into court only to be discharged. These occurrences becoming so com mon, the editor, Mir. 1hos. F. Weedin, with true journalistic spirit investi- gated the matter and found that these arrests were made chiefly for the fees Of office, and expos d the scheme. For daring to exercise the freedom , of the press. he was arrested upon a criminal charge of libel, preferred by Evans, and taken to Tucson. He re- turned home last week, and was agreerDly surprised by an enthusiastic , rete nti0n from his Eellow citizsnc urhn