The Arizona champion., 1886-04-10
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1886.
STOCK NOTES.

Chicago slaughtered 9I5,57I head ot cattle.
 Arizona cattlemen say there has been absolutely no loss this season from inclement weather.
 Ocean freight rates on live cattle are quoted at from SS.5o to 5000 per head with small insurance.
 The annual meeting of the North ern New Mexico Stock Association was held at Springer, N, M., on April sth.
 It is stated that nearly six million head of cattle have passed over the Texas cattle drive in the last twenty years.
 The regular semi-annual meeting of the General Stock Growers Associa- ton of southern Arizona met al Ben son last Monday.
 l.. !. Rose, of Los Angeles, has sold his stallion, "Sultan," who has rec ord of s;a4, for SIo, ,ooo to two New Mexican stockmen.
 Upward of 1000 horses arc being trained at Newmarket, England, for next years work on the turf. They are in the hands of about thirty pro fessional trainers.
 In 1885 nearly SI,ooo, 900 was giv- en away in purses and stake money to the different jockey clubs in this country; and this year it will doubt less amount to a good deal more.
 California wool-growers will hold a meeting during June to decide upon a day when poison shall be put out for killing coyotes, which have become very destructive to hocks.
 A Colton citizen tied one end of a rope around his wUist the other day, while he lassoed a Texas steer with the other. He thought he had the animal, but at the end of the first 100 yard heat he found that the steer had him.
 Miller and Lux are making pre- parations to shear I5o, 900 head of sheep at Firebaugh's, California, this spring, This will require large force of "clippers," and will conse- quenily make things lively at that place.
 American cattle are firm and strong in LivelPool at I3H and 14 cents estimated dressed weight. American refrigerator beef is sell;~o there fo o1I arI 10 cents, which show dis crinination in England in favor oi i've cattle.
 That terrible disease, glanders, i sad to be prevailing 10 an alarming extenr among the horses Tn some 0 the counties of California. In tn, past few days 50 horses have beer killed in Tehama county, and a mum Der elsewhere.
 A Miles City man has invented new stirup which will not allow tn foot to be caught when one is al, mounting, What the amatuer COW boy Is yearning for is the invention by some one of a saddle which vii enable him to approach the untame hroncho of the plains without frs saying his prayers.-St Paul Globe
 A labor-saying Yankee of Chapin ullle, Conn.,, has rlgged crank at tachment to a wheel Of his wagol connecting it with a churn that h places in the wagon; and Shen th cream is all ready he dumps it int, the churn, hi,cles up his horse an, takes ride, returning home in du une with a nice mess of butter tha ho, indeed "come" very easily
 Among the Arizona stockmen thcr a'c some quite appropriate name, Fur instance, Mr. BalIwiukle own large herds, Mr. Coward possesse stock interests and Mr, Hcnerman identified with the industry. The are addicted 10 shorthorns whe among thoroughbreds, and chew tn best oud money can buy.-Tucso Citizen. Socorro county has Head Horn, an Oxbndge and Grazer.- Bullion.
 The company in which Charles W Beach is interested, Messrs. Comstoc & Co.,, have purchased from Mary l Miller two ranches and 100 mares i Kirkland Valley, the purchase pric being S22, ,ooo. This purchase give the company range of about l miles in length. They have als