The Arizona champion., 1891-05-09
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The Colofado river is aS the 22 foot gusge and rising rapidly, The Gila is at . stand seill.--Yuma Sentinel; ''
 e {, 1J.M,. ormsby ha. been .reappointed Regent of the Territorial University. Mt. Ormsly is wsllNquali6 6sd for the posisions.:. .:T t% jG siis I 's2,..
 The, Prospector says: ''The water from the Tombstone mines will irrigate ;'thousand acres of land when the pptnps start it." t~N Y 'f'f :" | Traias' ,en. < Che Pheasnii. and Mari. copa railroad are now running as far as Tempe, and tho road will shortly be finished to Phanix. !,r . | Manuel Garcia. editor of Fl Fron. terizo, of 'Phanix,, was accidentally shot'in the leg e few days since, y letting his pistoli fall 'oY 'tGe' floor, dis charging it. The bal shattered the bone of .hisieg, sndHamputation will be necessity. s S.,. .."". ; ''' ,>,n X &': 't',. .SQn~ homestead entries on l60 acres the fee is $l4; on eighty acres, s7; on forty acres, ,s6. These. tees must ac. company the application to file. When final proof.is mad,, the fees are, for l60 acres, s4; for eighty acres .s2;fptfoTty acres, sl.-Presscsott T ycSarisr. : '"
 A Fort Smith, Arkansas. paper gives what purports to be an account si she deaah of John Stiles aud John Hudgeons, well knos,p ip this, county. The party was aadased of horse steal ing and was overtaken in the Indian territory and shot by the pursuing posse.--Mobave Miner. :" '... .'
 Lum Gray has returned from a trip to his mining claims on the Colorado rivers 'thirty five miles northwest of Ehrenberg. He "broagHs @'in some samples that assayed high iii gold and silver fine 'sanspias Of galena went s3s.s0 in silver and S2O.67 in gold; and the carbonates ran s2sl.S0"in gold and s29.76 in silver. MT. Gray sass he hss three feet of the latter ore. I-Gazette. '"ti.'". ::
 Tine estimate of the United States marshal for federal court expenses at Florence approxim.tss thirteen thou sand dollars, the larger portion of which will be expended in Florence. This sum, in addit on to the rental by the United States of court room, jaii and offices, will pay good interes, upon the cost of the new court house. 7-floFsnos ', !. ssn ,HHnssrprlss. 'j {";. : %
 ! The Herald was ono of the first lpapers in the territory to come out squarely flor statehood for Arizona, and the only one with one exception, outside of Phoenix for Q time. But in the light of facts revealed by the cen fsus, We arc S6nstrsinea to ffd9uire if i, is not almost case of the boy prema
 turely leaving the farm [ And then the fact that we have more office seekers is also Q disadvantage Nogales Herald. '' "'. | %
 It is sad one or more good offsrs fhave been made by New York parties for Arizons's funding bonds. If thi, be 50 it is sincerely to ba, hoped th., the Territorial Funding Commission will loose no time in availing itself oi tbss A3sr, as the indebtedness of the counties and Territory will be taken up by these funding bonds tpd the money put; into active circulation amoug cYtizieensi of the Territory whc held nearly all the indebtedness to be i 1takephp. :. Hense the 'ilhportanee to our citizens that as little time as pos sible be lost in placing oarindebted' ness, so as to get into circulation tine large sum of money tied up in county and TerrisQrisll k0Ras!!ii--F saeaa Fuseon e Star.
 "This prison investigation busansss is all a humbug and waste of good money. The gentleman making this remark was J. H. Tevis, member ol the legislature from Cochise, and one of the investigating committee, Mir. Tevis was very emphatic in bis denun- citation of isodle ofs'the sets of the las. leyislature-I don't think 1t did much damage. It ia . great misssb to crowd % much business into the clos. ing hours of the session. If, J had bsen the governor I would have closed my office at midnighe of the last day and told the legislature to go to. l like Governor Irwin better than any governor we have had, .and.,I am. 2 Democrat, too."--Yums Times.
 When passing through Tucson some time since, General McCook, in com. uand of the department of Arizona, stated te,usS citizen; of Tuscon, that he had caused tG be ssysd to the govern. msnt the sum of s2Oo, 900 per snnum in the abandonment of ths' sfSht-posts in the department, Forts Lowssi, Mo. DoweIl, Verde, Mohave, Thomas, I Marcy, near' Santa Fe, Union and Sel' don. sThs object of these abandon. fmshts, is the 9centralisation 'of'Ssr' risons to available points, leaving only such points ss are regsrdod as ahso' lutely essential, instance San Carlos, l Apache, Huachuca, Bowie and Grant. The sSlsss ,sis ,ih touch win plans dt