The Arizona champion., 1885-07-18
TerritOrlal Items.


 tors in Tombstone. ...
 A congressional committee talks of coming to Arizona to investigate h. dian affairs.
 The Hon. John G. Campbell thinks Arizona is capable of pasturing sev- eral million head of cattle.
 Hon. C. C. Bean, Delegate to Congress from this Territory, has started for Denver on mining busi- ness.
 A Mohave county paper accuses cattle men out there of having de- ceived the assessor.
 The Tonto Basin road bonds have been sold to Hon. E. W. Wells for 90 cents. The amount of the bonds Is S6,ooo.
 The Tombstone Record -Epitaph is pleased with the mining prospects in the bonanza camp.
 Jacob Henkle, who, it is said, went to Washington after the U. s. Mar shalship, IS coming home without it.
 Signal, Mohave county, will, ere long, be buStling place. No non- sense in this; i, has the rich silverr ore to back it up.
 F. w. Blake has been elected cash fer of the Bank of PresCo ott, vice Alfred Eof, resigned. The other officers remain ai heretofore.
 The Florence Enterprise states that Arthur Elliot has ordered material for newspaper he proposes publish ing at Casa Grande.
 Prescott will very soon lose one of her best citizens, in the person of MT. Alfred EoG, who goes to California, in which state the Courier hopes he will win fame and lucre.-Courie-.
 Ripe tomatoes from Phenix sell at Prescott at the rate of 30 cents per pound. Phenix musk melons are al so in market.
 The Indians will not be taken out of Arizona this year, as there is law of Congress against it. This being the case, those resolutions will have to be kept on ice. for further use.
 The Clifton Clarion asserts that As 'ociate Justice Fitzgerald, of our Su- preme Court, was Confederate mill tary officer.
 Mir. s. s. Ackers, one of our coun- ty's most intelligent stock raisers, is in lhe city, from his range in the Mo sollon mountains. He tells us that stock of all kinds is in good condi- :iou in his portion of the county Courier.
 Notwithstanding the quarantine aw passed by the late Legislature against the importation of Texas cat le there is a considerable movement ,f cattle to this county, particularly oNthat portion along the A. & P. oad. An advance in the price of :attle is noticeable.
 The Yumas are about to inaugurat. fiesta, or fandango, down at Ago lcnes. The tribe will then collect rom far and near and celebrate the eturn of green pumpkins, green orn and watermelons. An invita- ion will be extended to other tribes o participate with them in their rand fiesta.
 The Phenix Gazette says: Water 5 at very low stage in the river, and he Salt River valley canal company 5 now resorting to the expedient of urnishing certain sections periodical y, and shutting others of during the Ime. The ranchers near the city are to do without water for a 'eek or two until their turn comes.
 It is a fact rot generally known hat SS,ooo to $6,oo per month is hipped away from Prescott by the none of which ever returns pr circulation. If this amount of ,oney was handled by white people ;e greater portion uf it would be laced in circulation at home instead f being shipped to San Francisco or ne Flowery Kingdom. The new Indian commissioner is 7 ringing things down to fine point. he chances for the post traders on ,e reservations are made exceedingly lose, and the fact is the commission ' will attempt to reform the whole usiness. The old post traders will ( I be dismissed and new men ap- oirted. The rate of profit allowed ( n the goods is placed at 30 per cent (