The Arizona champion., 1886-08-07

 hobby suits to be made by the cloth 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 citizen and our best wishes go with him.
 Wm. Garland, the railroad con- tractor and stock raiier, recently drove to the mountains from his Chino Valley ranches some 700 head of young steers, which will make very select lot of beef when fatlened on our mountain grasses.
 The lumber mills at Rogers lake, 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 milk in the cocoanut.
 Ladies who desire to see the month ly sheets of "Butterick Fashions" " and keep themselves posted on the latest styles, should send their address to Ilfeld Bros, Albuquerque, N. M., and obtain, free of cost, those Cele- brated fashion sheets which are pub ished monthly. july3-2m
 P. J. McCormic, known all along the A. X 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 drove of horses and mules on Tuesday, which he raised on his ranch in the Mogollon Mountains, and shipped them, just car load, to California, where, if the markets prove good and the venture is profit, able, he will make several more ship ments.
 It has been quite dry in the valleys and in parts of the mountains, but re- cent rains in all directions have i'm parted new life to the country, and the fat beef that the San Francisco and Mogollon Mountains will produce this fall will surprise not only the natives but their eastern customers.
 H. E. Sweetser has resigned the position of traln master on the A. & P and that office has been abolished. ]. H. Polk, late Asst. Supt. S. P. K. R., at Los Angeles, has been appoint ed Division Supt. of the A. x 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, l. R. Xiii patrick and T. C.. 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 a 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 X Van Horn for defendant.
 We learn that fraudulent checks have been passed upon some of our busi- ness men. Some sharper has succeeded m getting off one for sao 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 O. It, 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 their 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