The Arizona champion., 1886-12-25
FROM THE CAPITAL.

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 General John A. Logan in n sick Room. Special Cor. of the Champion.
 WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. IS, 1886 Every one in your locality knows all about the grea; Maxwell land case. The Maxwell grant in Northern New Mexico is the largest Spanish grant in the Southwest. covering don't Know how many hundreds ol square miles and with several considerable sized towns built upon the territory the present claimants are fighting for. The history of thls disputed land from the time 1t Was gwen to the 0lt French fur dealer Beaubiin down tu the present tim. is as interesting as d romance. The opponents of the claimants declare that the grant has been performing physical Imp J,'l biilty-tAat It has grown In area ultli II IS larger than many European coun tres, whereas the g.dnt as originally cened by the spanish governor con- sisted of comparatively small tract 9t land h the center, on which the Maxwell house and home ranch Is sit utated.
 At the coming term of the Supreme Court this case will come up, and the Attorney General say he Is confident of reversing the decision made last year by Judge Brewer Tn favor of the present claimants, d Srndicdt C ot Hol landers, who pad about S2,ooo, LOO tor It. It the government wius be- lore the final court of appeal, to which It will be now submitted, there will revert tD the public domaln what weil-lutormed men say is the finest private property Tn the world, con taialns mineral treaslrrs h abund ance and plat aus we'll supplied wlt" water, cepaOlc oi grazing a hundred thousand cattle.
 Frank Lawler IS one of the bes. looking, as well as the best naturtd, ', men ln Congress. Ills generous heart and genlal riannerS induce the ladies who come to Wasnington to get so ne. thing for themselves or thelr friends to go to him first consequently nr has been pestered with what misnt De acceptable attentions In smaller doses. At last Mr. LAwler got mad. He went out and requested the doork=ep CT 10 admit no more women nor bring m any more wonens cards. The other day Mrs. Lawler went up to the house to see her husband.
 Cant let you in, said the door Keeper; Mir. Lawler won't See any more ladies to day"
 "Blt," said she, I'm Mrs. Law fer. I'm his wl!e.
 "That's too thin. You can't work that racket here," answered the man. "A hundred women have told me the same story to day"
 Mrs. Lawler went away, wondering how It was that so many women were claiming to Dc MT. Lawler', Wife and what explanation was made when the Hon, Frank went home 10 dlnueI will never be known.
 Senator Dawes Indian severalty bill has passed the house with Soms few amendments, wniCh are not very ln- portant. They nave cut down the tune for the IhdiAns lo apply for theil lands 10 two years and placed the whole control ot the administration ot lndtan affairs with the Department, oi the ln,eriUr, and II It should b. justly earned oIi, In few years time II wlII put an en to Mr. Indian as al. Indian, most ciiectuIliy.
 l he President seems to have com pleteiy recovered fro.n hts rneuna tiNm. Whatever may be said of Mr. Cleveland, he IS an indrtatisaoie worker, Slttlng al his desk from touT teen 10 sixteen hours day. No won M iiio NalNNS OSNtilC Stliss NliS. Cleveland nAS returned from her lIto north, bat the holidays Will be mucn qulsler al the WAltc House than the, were during the Arthur regime. The late Pfrsident.was d 6oH 0aOaat, anu Ueiieved Ia the cid English way oi md&Ing d nlciry Christmas.
 There Is no pnDilC man in Wash. lhgton o.dAy more popular than Gen. John 4. L)5ln, and only one woman, aud that Is his charming wife, who, aitaouth on the saady side of fifty su n.ners, Is stlil one oi the brightest and most attractive among the ladies of the capital. Gen.. Logan's pain iui II not serious illness begets great sympathy, He is confined to hls ruolh with a severe attack of rheun. atiSn. The G.nrral slls in his easy char before the lire and receives his iri:Ids, many of them old war com fadeS, who WaNe an enterlalniug SICK