The Arizona champion., 1886-05-08

The spring roundup under the control of the Apache County Stock Association will commence on May 20, at the Meadows, on the Little Colorado river.
 The sheep men are having hard time Tn some parts of this section. Rains have been late and there is so little grass that the ewes are unable to feed the lambs and they are dying of starvation. Colorado City (Tex. ) Clipper.
 Exchange: With the first appear ance of green grass, horses are begin ming to travel, and those who are engaged in riding after them at pres ent have their hands full. From now until the time when grass shall be good on those ranges where horses . were turned loose last fall, there will be great deal ot riding to be done.
 Beef cattle of good to extra quail ties are higher at Chicago than at this time last year. Common quail ties are lower. The range of the market then for shipping steers was S4.5o to S5.75. Only few strag- gling lots of Texas cattle have gone forward within the last week. It is estim ated that fully I5,ooo corn-fed Texans are being kept back by the strike. Present squotations are s4 to s5.-Stock Grower.
 William Courteney has refused an offer of s29 per head for I,5oo Mon tana stock cattle. He has just sold 700 one and two-year old Wyoming heifers at S2o and s26 per head, and has inquiries from Cheyenne parties for Montana ranges and cattle. Yes teTday he made salesof 5os ;Texas s.serS, to be delivered at Mingusville on or before June. Ist.-Miles City Live Stock Journal.
 Col. Charles Goodnight, the cattle king of the Panhandle section, rep resents his cattle interests as having suffered greatly by the winter, and has lately lost 700 head by the drought which followed the cold weather. Other cattlemen report losses aggregating 10000 head from this same cause, belonging to pastures in Neuces and other adjoining coun- ties in Texas. From all accounts cattle losses have been heavier in Texas than was generally supposed.- Stock Grower.
 The German Land and Cattle com pany of Lower California has made a contract for 10000 head of Texas stock cattle and I, 1000 horses by their agent. J A. Pennington, to be deliv- cred on the company's San Curran ranch, the contract being signed at Dallas, Texas. They will contract for like number of cattle at the price paid for those bought, which necessarily IS at very confidential terms Stock Grower.
 Not long ago SIS horse was stol- cn at Pomona, Gala, and in the course of three months was sold and resold half dozen times. The first owner found the animal and brought suit against the last purchaser; he sued the one who sold him the horse, and the latter sued another man who had owned the animal. There were as many suits as there had been owners, and in all there was about $Soc spent in the Litigation.
 It is essential for the stock interest of the southwest and the railroads of t,iS section to have proper under standing. Each should treat the other fudy. The stock business is an ,m- pOrtant factor in the frieght business of our roads, and, now that the country is so well occupied, driving has become in many sections difficult If not impossible, railroads must con stltute the cattle trails of the future. They should therefore work in har- mony.-El Paso Live Stock Journal
 Medora (Dak. ) Cowboy: G. Cor ham Bond has returned with one of the finest horses that has ever been brought into this country. It IS a f1ll-blood Norman stallion, imported by l. A. Dahlman of New York. He ls about 10 hands high, dark bay col- or, weighs I65o pounds, is eight years old and is we'll known throughout the east by the name of Gambetta. He was taken yesterday to the Little Mis- soun Horse Co.'S camp. He cost