The Arizona champion., 1888-04-14
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
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Texas has more horses than any other state--I, ? ,So3 head.
 A good many cattle are reported to have been fatally poisoned in Kla- math county, Oregon, by eating wild parsnAi's, OTasf pUrt'. Tn .
 Cook Courty, Illinois has been de. clared, by both the national and state officials, free from contagious pseuro, pneumonia. ''N |
 The stocEmea who met at Wilcox last week, organized the "Wilcox Round-up,'"' and decided to have a spring rodeo to begin April 10th.
 Mercedes, the dam of those remark. ably fast runners Barnes and Runny- nede, the last named a winner of valuable stakes, has foaled q fine Ally by HindoS. s.9 '
 In 1880 Governor Moody, of Ore gon invested S6oo in a Jersey COW and cali. He then invested 5000 in a thoroughbred bull. His sales since have yielded him SIy,ooo, and his herd 10 day is worth Sas,o2o.
 It IS stated in a California paper that ia colt was recently foaled in Diamond Valley. Alpine County, Cal, wiah five feet, The fifth foot bsahcheS out fron the inside of the l 1t fore leg, near the ankle joint and lsperfect in form"
 Parties who have recently returned from California state that the beet markets of that state are becoming stronger and prices ruling little higher in spite of the continuance of The runs that are larger than could have been expected.
 A local hide dealer says: "Hides were never so low as at present" But how is leather2" we asked. dust the same as three years ago." was the reply!'T Another piece of thlevery that the middleman has to answer for. The big four controls the hide matket of the United States and makes the prices.--Stock Grower.
 The largest purse ever offered for trotters south of Mason & Dixon's line IS the S5, ,ooo which the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association has resol, ed to hang up for a free-to- all race at Lexington next fall. Ken lucky can we'll afford to give big purses, as the trotters raised there bring millions of money into the state every year. ". '
 Word is sent from Beltnn, Texas, that careful estimate of the cattle losses resulting from the regent se- were blizzards places the number of head lost at bes~een I. 900 and 400, The heaviest losers were pasture own. CTS in the eastern portion of the coun ty, one party losing 5o out of 100 head. The hide maIket here is well supplied with green hides, brought in by those engaged in skinning tte dead animaIS."< { '''
 A Wyoming COW puncher has this to say on the "moon theory of branding: "Any cowman that has ever worked on the range ought to know tha. if the brand is put on so as to bum through the hide, il will spread aS the calf grows, but if not burned very deep il will not grow a particle. Those fellows that think the moon has anything to do with it are of their base and don't know any thing ahout branding calf"
 Yesterday a cattle king took a sack of what he supposed were coyote and ynx's scalps to Justice Jobs office to Lave them counted and get the nec- essary certificate to entule hIm te the bounty. The sack was opened and it's contents. which proved to be strips ot sheep skins and rubber over. shoes, emptled on the floor. The cattle king was no less astonished than the justice al the .Goptenls of the sack and he left the jnsi,ce's office swear. ineto be avrnged on thvse who chang |. cd rhe,sacks the sacks ana Ien him a lot. of worthless sheep skins for coyote ana wndcat scalpS worth S3o or $40 - -Nevada SiIvrr Siaia VI '