The Arizona champion., 1888-05-12
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
STOCK NOTES.

IS Tn tine condition and the result will be lots of good, fine beef for the eastern and western markets. .
 The stomach of an average horse contains twelve quarts, while that oi a man who weighs about e.eighth as much will hold three quarts.
 A mysterious horse disease prevails in Pratt County, Illinois. They begin trembling, their limbs luiVer, their bodies swell and death is very sudden. The disease is spreading.
 ., Unprecedented rains in Texas have swollen nearly all the rivers out of their banks, thousands of cattle have been drowned and serious injury has been done to the farming interests in the valleys. 'H
 The Drover's Journal special cable. gram from London quotes a sharp advance in prices oi American cattle Best American steers, I315c per ID. estimated dead weight, being IAc nlSner than one Week ago.
 On May sd, G. L. Brooks, of Al buquerque, received from the Ante lope Springs ranch, fifteen car loads of cattle. The were shipped to Henry M. Porter, at Magdalena, who will put them on his Datil Mountains ranch. a~ '-
 Frederick Schumann, of Kinney, Kansas, shot and killed himself in the Colorado House, Kansas City, in fit of despondency growing out of the sale of lot of cattle at the Kan sas City stock yards, on which he did not realize the cost of the cattle Schumann recently lost his stock farm owing to the depression in cat tie values
 The pony ridden by the late prince imperial of France when he received his "baptism of fire" at Saarbruck during the Franco Prussian war; has just come to sudden end, like its unfortunate master. After Sedan, the pony was bought by a German baron, and was kept on his estate in Silesia for the children to ride. It fell down on a slippery road last week and broke its leg and had to be shot.
 Hon. ]. H. Breed returned Satur, day, across the country from the Verde ahd Prescott, where he went a week ago in search of fine horse. flesh. He brought back with him q superior blooded stallion, which he procured from the well known stock. men, Head & Ackers, of the Verde. Several more horses are on the road, and the colonel evidently intends to breed nothing but superior stock in this locality. -WinslUw News.
 The whole western country has just been visited by soaking rains, and numerous parties concur in the state ,ment that they never beheld a more Tank and luxurious vegetable growth nThe prairies are relieved and beauti fed by all manner of wild flowers, winch bespangle the seas of wild grass and weeds, and freight the breezeS with delightful perfume. The cattle are in clover ana beginning to look like stall fed stock, so sleek and plump are they getting.-Stock Grower.
 The New York Star bids MT. Mills, Of Texas, not to be worried over the opposition of the wool Iaisers of his state, inasmuch as they are mostly carpet. baggers from the east. This may account for the course of the eminent Texan. He may have re. 'nole interest in a cattle ranch. If this should prove true the whole mat, ter would be made clear, because the hate of cowboy toward a sheep raiser is like that of 'jnes, who had hung uu in his room, the legend: "Oh, Lord, do not let me forget that can uot sleep at nigEt until have cursed Smith. "--Reno Gazette.
 People in the east are sometimes astonished by the stories that are told of the long rides and drives that are taken in The west. A'foadster in this region that is good for fifty miles . day is very rare animal. Col. l w. Dyer, oi New Mexico, said the other day; We think nothing of driv- ing sixty miles day. have driven a span of horses seventy-fve miles in a single day without seeming to weary them. There is something about the air and atmospheric conditions that permits the lungs of the animals to work just right all the time. My ranch is thirty miles from Senator Dorsey's, and three hours is consid. cred ample time to drive over there. .--New York Tribune.