The Arizona champion., 1891-01-17
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 GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

olnaIl-poX Is prevalent III Texas to an alarming extent. < '' .'- '
 Emma Abbott, the great actress, died in Denver last week. .'.
 California imports into the State 1000, ,000 dozen eggs annually.
 The Cheyenne and Aparahoe In dians will be d1sarmed by order of the Interior Department.
 Short Bull has expressed his inten- tion to take Pine Ridge Agency if it takes every warrior he has, I
 There are ll6 patients in the New York Hospital undergoing the Koch treatment for consumpt1one ','.'
 Secretary Noble pronounces the state ment that the Sioux Indians Were in a starving condition as falsehood.
 The slogan of the'Postmaster General resulted ip the Louisiana Lottery shares dropping from $l, 400 to $4OJ
 The Mormon church schools proper are reported by the Census Depart ment to: have 96 teachers and 5,092 pupils. 5 ;; ei .a- .- s..
 Senator Stanford has been unani mouslly chosen by the Republican eau GUS Of the California legislature for re: election. .- 'e '''f
 Jack Dempsey, the middle-weigAt champion of; the United States, was knocked out by the Australian cham pion last Wednesday at New O. leans.
 Official reports. give the number of soldiers killed in the recent Indian fight as twenty-five and thirty-eight wounded, while the Indians. loss was l50 killed. r'
 A recent dispatch from London says: Intense cold continues throughout Europel Express trains are snow boundin Germany and Austria The harbor at Genoa is frozen for the first time in sixty years. -H
 The census announcement that there are 40 religious bodies'in- the United States exclusive of many independent congregations, will surprise most peo- pie whose knowledge of different seets does not embrace more than twenty or twenty ty-fve at the most X
 Gen Miles sent a letter to the hos tiles asking for hearing, the Indians tore the letter to fragments and said eve want no treaty, we are here to fight" The Indians in the hostile camps number over 4,000 men, women and children and represent every agency in the two Dakotas.#' ''
 The death rate in New Orleans has been greater during the past month than at any previous time save when yellow fever prevailed iii epidemic form twelve years ago. The unusual mor- tality is attributed by physicians of teat city to the prevalence of La Grippe of which there are now nearly 30,OO0 cases under treatment,
 - A Sioux runner went to the Ceur d'Alenes reservation to try and induce the Indians there to join the hostiles. Celtice, chief of the Ceur d'Alenes learning his mission, ordered his arrest and confinement in the guard-house and Saturday had him whipped, after which he was escorted to the limits of the reservation. and dismissed with a warning not to return.
 During the year just closed the Busch Brewing Assoelatjon of St. Louis, turned out 5, 100000 bottles of beer, 100000 barrels of draugh beer and consumed in its manu- sacture l,50O,000 bushels of barley which represents the crop of 10000 acres of land, besides 100000 pounds of hops. The amount of water used was l,OO0,000,000 gallons or one thir- teenth o: the amount used in the en- lire c.ty of St. Louis.