The Arizona champion., 1886-08-07

 ing house of B. Friedlander & Co.,, of San Francisco, which he represents.
 L. Meyer has sold to Frank Hart his entire herd of sheep. MT, M. will soon leave us to take up his residence hereafter in Southern Nevada. We are sorry to lose so good a citizen and our best wishes go with him.
 Wm. Garland, the railroad con- tractor and stock raj ser, recently drove to the mountains from his Chino Valley ranches some 100 head of young steers, which will make a very select lot of beef when fIttened on our mountain grasses.
 The lumber mills at Rogers lake. a branch of the Aver Lumber Company of this place, are running at their full capacity day and night. The lumber from these mills is all hauled to the Spur, on the railroad, five miles west of here.
 The town is SO very dull since the departure of so many of our citizens for San Francisco, Saratoga, Long Branch and Europe, to spend their surplus earnings, that it is with diff 'culty ye local can gather an item which satisfactorily accounts for the lack of mllk in the cocoanut.
 Ladies who desire to see the month ly sheets of "Butterick's Fashions" and keep themselves posted on the latest styles, should send their address to Ilfeld Bros, Albuquerque, N. M., and obtain, tree of cost, those cele- brated fashion sheets which are pub. lShed monthly. july3-2m
 P. ]. McCormic, known all along the A. & P. as a successful contractor, passed through here this week bound tor his ranch at Williamson Valley. He has some heavy railroad contracts Tn Kansas, which he has been work ing on.
 James Allen, an old Arizonian, brought in a drove of fhorses and mules on Tuesday, which he raised oa his ranch in the Mogollon Mountains, md shipped them, just car load, to California, where, if the markets prove good and the venture is profit. lble. he will make several more ship nents.
 It has been quite dry in the valleys and in parts of the mountains, but re- cent rains ia all directions have i'm parted new lite to the country, and :he fat beef that the SIn Francisco and Nogollon Mountains viii produce this tall will surprise not only the natives but their eastern customers.
 H. E. Sweetser has resigned the position of tram master on the A. X P and that office has been abolished. !. H. Polk, late Asst. Supt. $. P. R.. R., at Los Angeles, has been appoint ed Division Supt. of the A. & P. R. R. between Winslow and The Nee- dies. Andrew Smith has been trans. ierred to the position of Supt. of the Albuquerque Division, A. & P. R. R
 Hon. w. G. Stewart, ]. R. Xii. patrick and T. G. Norris will start for the Upper Verde tomorrow to attend Judge Goodwin's court in the case of P. Strahan vs. J. R. Fitzpatrick. It will be very interesting and costly suit. The ownership of horse is the cause of action, and the case will be hotly contested by Geo. A. Kingston and T. G. Norris for plaintiff, and Stewart & Van Horn tor defendant.
 We learn that fraudulent cheeks have been passed upon some of our busi- ness men. Some sharper has succeeded in getting off one for $ao purporting to be signed by J. H. Breed and an- other for SIS bearing the name of D. B. Parker. It will behoove our citi zens to carefully scrutinize all checks offered as to both signatures and en- dorsements, and as an additional safe guard to require the party presenting one to write his name on the back oG 1t, whether the check be drawn to bearer or otherwise.
 Barney Harmsen and party returned from their hunting expedition to the north of San Francisco Mountain last Sunday much improved by thelr vaca. tion and abundantly satisfied with their success. Besides other game, they killed four deer. one of which they covered into their own commis. sary and distributed the rest amongst their friends in town. The CHAMPION mansion was honored with a haunch, for which machas gyaeias.
 The boarding school for girls, con-