The Arizona champion., 1888-08-04
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 Two horse thieves were killed near Benson last Saturday by Goa stable Woods.
 The recent rains caused many washouts on the Southern Pacific in Southern Arizona.
 Several soldiers have recently de- serted from Huachua and crossed the line into Mexico.
 Lew Miller and wife of Flagatllf were registered at the Phoenix Ho- tel, PhGniS, last Sunday.
 The l 4-months-old child of George Nichols was drowned in ditch near the residence at Tempe last week.
 N, H, Galloway, a Southern Pa cific brakeman, fell from tho cars near Tucson last week, breaking his neck and dying instantly.
 Grapes, pears, figs. peaches and other fruits are being shipped from the Gila and Salt River valleys to Chicago and other Eastern points.
 Phoenix Arizonan: There are Sl and B counterfeit silver certificates in circulation. None have been passed on this office, the amounts being too large.
 Jack Brady, formerly popular conductor on the Atlantic and Pa cifc, has returned from an extended trip to Mexico and is now engineer ing on the Winslow-Williams di- vision.
 It is said that coffee can be sue cessfully raised in Southern Arizona, experiments having been made with the shrub. It is not difficult of cultivation, and there is large profit in it, even with q moderate pro duction.
 The recent rains have made wash outs on the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad, and the roadbed is in very bad condition. Sometimes it takes twenty hours for trains to traverse. the sixty miles between Prescott and the junction.
 Sol Prescott, a miner, was struck by lightning near Tombstone last week. The bolt struck his right heel, burning a large hole and sever ing two arteries. It tore the sole of his shoe into shreds, and also burned the ball of his foot quite severely.
 The Phoenix Gatette says a far mer nsar Tempe had horse with large swelling on the jaw, supposed to be a wen. He decided to cut out the wen, but on cutting into it discovered hard substance, which proved to be an oval-shaped stone two and a half inches long and one inch thick. The question is, how did the stone get therel
 Phoenix Arizonan Con Shay-ee, the Apache Indian sentenced to be hung on the 10th, is evidently not aware of his new lease of life, se- cured through stay of proceedings pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, as he is very anxious to have his family, at San Carlos, come and see him before he dies. He has a photograph of his two wives and three children, which he holds in his hands almost the entire time. District Judge Barnes fnod Ed itor Bagg of the Tombstone Pros, pector $500 or imprisonment for contempt in publishing an article mildly criticising decision of the Court. Bagg went to jail, A mess meeting was held condemning the Judge, and l80 citizens signed @ subscription and paid the fine. Com, menting upon the action of the Court, the Ph9nix Gazette says "While a case is pending in Court it is not the province of journal to try to interfere with its course O: meddle with the administration of | justice, but it has long since been demonstrated that a newspaper has a perfect right and is at liberty tc criticise an edict of the Court after it has been given to the public. Such decisi8n is then the property of the public, and they are at lib