The Arizona champion., 1888-07-14
WEEKLY CHAMPION
STOCK NOTES.
News of interest 10 cattlemen Taken From Exchanges.

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 At Fl Paso, Texas. on the 4th, a flash of oflightning killed fiity-two goats that had taken shelter under tree.
 Receipts of live stock at Chicago for the first half of 1888 compared with the first six months of 1881 exhibit and increase of Is4,oo cattle, sI4,ooo hogs and as,ooo sheep.
 A Connecticut colt is said to have been found getting pears to eat by rubbing himself against a pear tree until the shaking brought down the fruit, which he would eat, and then return and shake the tree again. .
 A much larger percentage of the calves are being branded this year on the round.ups to which they belong than ever before, showing that the COWS steyed well together last winter-didn't wander off af, ter strange gods and fetch up in the wrong swim; as it were.
 Ira Moore, yesterday received a fine yearling stallion from the Ken. lucky farm of MT. Tharlton. His dam is Glenco, his sire being Red Bird, and he is registered as "Red Buck" He is a beautiful colt, and comes of fast stock. Ira took him out to his Walnu, Grove ranch to-day.-Journal.M
 Cattlemen in Northern Texas claim that over 500, 900 head of cattle have been shipped or driven into Indian Territory this year and now they are beginning to re. pent of it as the abundant rainfall in Texas this spring has given them an abundance of grass at home.
 Henry Lambert, the Colorado River stockman, was in Kingman this week and while here received a carload, nineteen in number, of Shorthorn bulls from the Sullivan ranch in Yavapai county. Mr. Lambert had the animals driven to his Walnut Greek ranch, south of ,this ace.--Mohave Miner. . The McKeon cattle, sold at sher- iffs sale last week to Goldman & Co.,, Of Phenix, to satisfy a rnort- gage, were sold by Mir. Goldman to Ben Parks. There are some. thing over one hundred head in the band and the price paid was SI,3oo. MT. Parks has token them to his ranch on the side of the Dos Cabezas mountains, Wilcox stockman.
 Agricultural writer to his wife: 'Mary, did you feed the hogs!" "Yes." "And milk the COWS" "Yes." ""And watered the horses1" "Yes." "And got all the chick ems inl' "Yes." "Well, give me a piece of paper and pencil l want to write an article for an az ricultural paper on the "Necessity of Farmers Giving Their Personal Attention to Their Stock"
 A Remarkable Freak of Nature. A mare known as the "Oregon Beauty" is on exhibition in Louis vile, Ky. Her color is sorrel and that of the mane, tail and fetlocks a creamy tint. The mane is ten feet in length, the fetlocks four feet, while the tail sweeps the ground "A though .he mare is an eight-Year-eld, the tail and mane are of only four years growth, having grown an average of i've feet year during that time.
 There.s a decided feeling, both in New Mexico and Arizona that the territorial board of assessors should not rate cattle for taxation this year higher than sIo a head. This is just and equitable. The sfockmen everywhere demand this rate and nothing higher. It is really the full value of the cattle as they are now selling. A vigorous and telling protest will be heard from the range if the assessors monkey with an unjust valuation this year of grace. Stock Grower (Montana,)
 An exchange remarks that in re- cent years the cattlemen of Dako- ta. Burt and Wayne counties, Ne, braska, have been pas;uraging their cattle on the Wianebago reserva- tion. The Winnebagos were paid for the pasturage, and so the ar- engagement was good for them. Likewise it was good for the cattle
 
 men and the cattle. Now come government troops to expel the cattlemen and their steers. It is, in the governments opinion, nee essary for the dignity of the nation and civilization of the Indians that this reservation grass be moved by prairie fire rather than hitten off by beeves.
 Attached to the passenger train Sunday evening was the special coach occupied by Mrs, Langtry. The boys wanted to see her. They looked at the windows but the blinds were drawn, At last a lucky idea seized them and one of them mounted hronco and soon