The Arizona champion., 1885-07-25
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organize nose company.
 Pueblo people will take look at Prescott with a view of putting up custom reduction works.
 E. H. Hassett, the Quijotoa man who was stabbed at Phenix by ne- gro, died on Saturday morning.
 The Tailings probably liDeled Sam Purdy when it said that he had bath ed in the Yuma river and froze 1t with his cheek!
 Lester Jackson and JohE Curtin have purchased the Bull Whacker mine, three miles west of Prescott on the Verde road.
 In one of his recent sermons on evolution, MT. Beecher says. "But if the Bible is the word of God, ac- cording to the old theory of plenary inspiration, then Mormonism is right"
 Secretary Van Arman returned from his visit to California on Satur- day evening of last week. With all the boasted climate of the golden state, he says 1t does not compare with Arizona.
 w. H. Davis has been bound over in the sum of ST 1000 to appear be- fore the next grand jury of Maricopa county, in connection with the bar of bullion recently found in hls pos session.
 United States Marshal w. K. Meade will make his headquarters in Tombstone. He will appoint C. T. Dunavan as Deputy Marshal for the northern portion of the Territory.
 Pima county assessment roll this year foots up as follows: Real estate, Sa,III,82o; personal property, St,- S94,445; total, $4,oo3, a65. This is decrease from last year of more than SI, ,ooo, 900.
 Another reduction in postage is imminent. Postmaster Genaral Vi. las has already expressed it as his opinion that letter postage should be reduced to a uniform rate of one cent and will so recommend it in his first report.
 The Mexican government has sent ten companies of troops north to wage a war of extermination on the Apaches. They will cooperate with General Crooks command and may every last Chiri cahua fall into their hands. There'll be no more prison CTS then.
 E. O. Shaw and Lyman A. Smith are driving I,5oo head of cattle from Tucson to Navajo Springs ranch, in Apache county, distance about $50 miles. The cattle belong to the Wa bash cattle company, and Messrs. Smith and Shaw are paid sI,so per head for driving them.
 U. s. Senator Manderson, of Ne braska, one of the Senate committee on Territories, is now visiting New Mexico in an official capacity and is meeting the citizens to discuss terri torial matters and the Indian ques- tion. He will probably visit Arizona for like purpose.
 General H. G. Rollins has gone to Calico, Cal, where he goes to con- clude the sale of some very valuable mining properties he has had under bond for some time. We congratulate the General on his success and hope the property may prove bonanza to the purchasers.
 Ex-Brother M. P. Romney, late O. the Orion Era, under bonds to appear before the next U. S grand jury tc answer charge of perjury has failed to put in an appearance. He is re- ported to have emlgrated to Mexico leaving his bondsmen in the lurch s. P. Behan, of Prescott, is one O his bondsmen.-Journal.
 The Nogales Frontier states tina the Cananea mines have been sold tC a wealthy company of Cleveland Ohio, who will at once erect two thirty-ton smelters and work tn, mines for all they are worth. E. A Prince, of Casa Grande, will be su perintendent. These mines will draw their supplies from Nogales.
 There are at present about lift ymer engaged in working the Walnut Grove placer mines, with an average yielc of about two dollors and half pei day to the man. On account of scar