The Arizona champion., 1886-07-24

leW uA}s nave Ueen CrOWueu WILT members of the Grand Army of the Republic, en route to San Francisco, to attend the national encampment which convenes in that city on the sd day of August.
 The weather has been simply de lightful during the week. It has clouded up every day, just sufficiently to temper the rays of the sun, and we have had copious showers both night and day to freShen up the grass and add new life to the growing crops.
 The hotel building recently owned by w. H. Cook at Ash Fork, has been purchased by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company, who we un destand will remodel and repair it, when It will be used as | boarding and lodging house, for their employees at that point.
 w. J. Hill came in Wednesday rom his sheep camp. He has finished sheep shearing and the clean up amounts to about 100, ,ooo pounds. Not a bad thing to have to roll around in your. pocket alter it. has been con. vcrted into Uncle Sam's coin, especially when sheep hair is worth Ia cents per pound.
 The practice of drinking lemon juice and water before breakfast as a prophylactic against biliousness is rapidly growing in popularity, and many physicians think that the bene- fit derived from 1t is more than doubled by taking a similar dose at night also.-Ex.
 We have large number of strangers at present sojourning in our mountain town, who have come here to enjoy the delightful, cool, invigorating eli mate, which at this season ot the year excels any place to be found in Ari- zona. A few weeks sojourn here is worth all the tonics and medicines ever invented to those who require rest and recreation.
 The attention of the readers of the CHAMPION is invited to the advertise ment of Dr. A. T. Bishop, of Ash Fork, in this issue. Doctor Bishop desires to sell his drug store and fix lures on account of private business, which demands his immediate atten- ton in the east. As he has also a lucrative practice this is an excellent opportunity for some physician who desires to obtain paying business.
 Four hundred and fifty head of fine beef cattle passed through this city yesterday, shipped from Wluslow, Arizona, few days ago by the Aztec Llnd X Cattle Company. The cat tie were in splendid shape and speak whole colums for the grazing lands Of New Mexico and Arizona -Albuquer- que Journal.-You should have omit ted New Mexico, as the cattle came from Arizona only.
 T. ]. Eaman and others of Camp Verde, recently sold to the firm of James H. Campbell & Co.,, Live Stock Commission merchants Of Kan sas City, roS half breed steers, aver. aging IIz6 pounds, at S3.55 per cwt. and 66 light cattle out of the same herd, but rough and uneven, aver aging o93 pounds, at s3.ro per cwt. The cattle were driven from their range on the Verde river, and shipped from the cattle pens at this point.
 On Tuesday Captain B. B. Bullwin- kle, General Manager of the Arizona Cattle Company, shipped from here 300 beef steers to Kansas City. They were loaded in IS cars of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. These cattle are in first class condition, and we heard several stockmen, who were pre- sent witnessing the loading of the beeves, say that they were as fine a band ot steers as they had seen ship ped from here this season.
 We understand that the cattle men of Flagstaff and vicinity will ship a large number of cattle from here dur Ing the next four m )n;i,s, provid ed they are given living transportation rates and fair prices for their stock. There are hundreds of f.u two and three-year-olds in our section of coun- try. the slght of which when cut into steaks and roasts will make the mouths of the eastern epicures water, and live stock commission merchants in the eastern cities should encourage the