Arizona silver belt., 1886-11-13

The Northwestern Live Stock Jour nal states that the recent outbreak of disease at Mandan, Dakota, was really plsuro-pheumonia,
 Millions of acres ot rich grazing lands Tn the Indian Territory have just been burned over by prairie fires, destroying large numbers of cattle besides hay which had been stored for winter use. Those whose cattle es- capped a;e compelled to seek pasturage elsewhere,
 F. J. Simpson returned last Tuesday from the Aztec eompany's ranch in Arizona. He tells the Stars young man that grass in that country as m this, is just splendid, and their cattle are rolling in fat. He mentioned that in places in New Mexico and Arizona where he never saw grass before in his life, there are now hay stacks at nearly every railroad switeh.--Pecos Valley Star.
 F. W. StrS0t, formerly of Lake Val ley, and who married into the Chero- kee tribe in 1888, has organized com pany in New York for the purchase of the Cherokee strip. The syndicate, represented by Mir, Stra0t, it is said, will offer $S per acre Tor the 6,000,00o aces of the strip. Most of it will be used for grazing and raising stock as only small portion is fit for agricul- tural puCposes.-Las Vegas Stock Grower.
 Mr. T. S. Smythe, of Whitlock Cien- aga, passed through here Wednesday on his way from Tucson. He was ac- compahied by Mir. 0zro Haskin, who is the owner of patent for the man nfacturing of concrete pipe, and who goes to Whitlock to superintend the manufacture of large quantity of this pipe for the Snythe Cattle Com pany. It is the intention of the com pany to pipe the water from the cien- aga further out on the range. There are already two miles of pipe on the ranch. Southwestern (Wilcox) Stnekman
 Last week we gave the opinion of Mir. Todd that the wolves had de- stroyed nearly fifty per cent. of the calf crop on the Cressweli ranch. Mir. Latehan, who came in Saturday, says that the loss is greater than that and hs thinks the entire calf crop will be killed out Tn a few months. Mir. Me Kenzie has just brought pair of Si- bsrian blOodhounds to his ranch to hunt them with, and has contracted for twenty more. Every ranchman should do likewise and rid the country of these destructive pests. Pan- handle
 A correspondent of the Inter-Repub- lies writing from Raton says: But little shipment of beeveS from this or any other point in New Mexico, this IS not from scarcity of the article, for the whole Territory is teeming with fat bullocks, but 1t IS because of the wretehed market in the East. When an 300 to 100 pound steer will only net from $l0 to $25 in the Eastern market 1t pays better to skin them at home. If prices improve So it will justify, New Mexico will yet send 5000 or 40,0O0 bseveS to market be: fore spring opens. Grass is so good that beeyes will remain fat in most localities until March, that is, unless we have an unusually bad, wet winter.
 The San Francisco market is not like Chicago, ready at all times to take what comes and cry for more. Beef producers on the Pacific slope have never formed the habit of shipping in to mayket and trusting to luck and the demand. The wholesale butchers go out into the country and buy up cat tie by the thousand head, aiming to always have two or three months sup ply on hand at convenient shipping points. Hence few train-loads oi fat cattle coming in unlocked for tend to demoralize the market for the req. son that buyers are full--(not of red liquor, but of beef). It would be dis astrous to the ranchman or trader to send in large shipment without hay ing sold them in advance, Cor, North. western Live Stock Journal.
 The supreme court of Iowa recently rendered a decision m the case ol Johnson vs. Miller ct al, which has been before the courts for twelve years, and was commonly known al the "Jones county calf case" In lS74 Robert Johnson sold five calves whicf he claimed to have bought of q stran ger named Smith, and were afterward proved to have been stolen Johnson was prosecuted by the Ant,-Hors, Thief Association and acquitted. H, then brought action against sever