The Arizona champion., 1888-06-23
THE TERRITORIES.

George Lail informs the New Mexican that twenty teams arc excavating on the Taos valley canal.
 The residence of O Aldrich. located near E. M. Bigg's mill, in Rio Arriba county, together with its contents was entirely con. sumed by fire.
 w. E. Clanton will start an S. rich farm near Phoenix, Arizon a. He has purchased two large breed. ing birds and ten two months old chicks as a starter, the price paid being ST ,ooo.
 Yuma Sentinel: The first ripe grapes of the season, "Black Ham. burghs," were picked from the vines in J. H. 1aggart's garden on Saturday last, June ad For early fruits Yuma beats the recordl
 Thomas Highland, a German suffering from consumption, sho; himself fatally at the Albuquerque house, Albuquerque, on the I9th: inst. He was in the last stages of :he disease and preferred to dle al, once rather than finger along. Sensible man.
 A jury of San Miguel county staid out four days considering a case against a notorious woman named Chata Baca, charged with keeping a house of ill fame. The verdict returned after SO much de liberation was "guilty," and the penalty imposed one great Ameri- can iron dollar.
 The Atch,son, Topeka & San la Fe railroad company have just received for their mountain divi. sion two monster locomotives, that weigh one hundred tons each and which will haul ore hundred freight cars on a fair grade, or seventy five on mountain grade. They will probably be pu; to work on the GlorIeta mountain grade,
 Nr. R. c. Parsons. a wealthy mine.owner of New Mexico was found dead Tn the river at Las Ve- gas Hot Springs recently It is sup posed that he committed suicide though theories on this point are very conflicting He had re- peatedly been offered sIso, 900 for his interest in the Hopeful mine, and as often refused. He was from Ohio.
 Wallace, N. N, was visited by a small cyclone this week, which wrecked the town in about three seconds. The residence of Major Bogardus received the toughest sort Of treatment. The Major was indulging in bath, when the cyclone burst in the side of the house. The startled M jor made his escape Tn considerable hurry and a becoming set of store teeth The rest of his wardrobe wen, along with the cyclone. The hou' C is almost q total loss.
 The largest transfer af cars from the A, T. and $. F. road ever made to the Mexican Central was forwarded across the river on the 18th. There were Is7 cars, drawn by three locomo tiyeS. This immense transfer of freight aggregated over five mil. lions of pounds and was made up principally, of coal, from the Ger. rillos mines near Santa Fe, and cedar railroad ties from Michigan. This item gives some general idea of the increasing trade of Mexico. --El Paso Tribune.
 Mir. Thiels. who was in jured at Gallup while coupling cars, hay ing his lelt arm terribly mangled, and who was brought into the Al lantic & Pacific hospital, is repor. ted by Dr. Clark as doing well. Last Friday Dr. ..Kastor, surgeon at the hospital. concluded in or der to save portion of the limb, to amputate it a few inches above the hand, which was done, the young man standing the operation manfully. There are eighteen pa lients at present in the hospital. and the doctors say that they are all getting along h,ely -Albuq. Citizen.