The Arizona champion., 1891-04-25
Arizona Notes.


 Trains are not running yet on the Phoenix & Marioops railroad, and . trip to the Capital City now is said to be attended with many discomforts and vsxatious delays The managers of the railroad, however, are doing all that men and muscle can accomplish and expect to have trains running in a short time.
 La grippe is prevalent in Phoenix; also in Tuscou.
 It is believed the Grand Canyon mines will some day be one of the greatest producing resious in the world of gold, silver, copper and lead As. bestosis also found in large quantities.
 Says the Yuma Statineh If the Government of Arizona wants tho prisoners. to work, why not. set them at it. Yuma has the soil and the water, more, she has tens of thousands of tons of, wild hemp and need not i'm. port it.. ket4he prisoners make sacks, bags, rope, tsine, oord and clothing from the hemp. Contractors are ready to furnish the plant and use the prison labor. but some 'namby pamby' half loye;sick man or. woman says: Don't let out the prison labor, it conflicts = With whatl the tramps. No more, no less. Put the prisoners to work. The prison is all right"
 The Medical. World says it is re- ported that. Dr. Hellman, one of the lesding officers sf' ths new medical in. stitution founded by the Prince of Ed, inburg in St. Petersburg, has disoov, cred successful means for the cure Of glanders. The discovery is on the same line as Koch and is said to con. sist in bacterial inoculation. If true, it E discovery in veterinary practice and -is,alss of great consequence, from the fact that the disease is occasionally found in the human subject.--Live Stock Journal.
 The Assembly of Arkansas has re. placed the picture of General Washing, ton with that of. Jefferson Davis. We recommend to the churches of that State to take down the pictures of our Savior and mail up chose of Judas Is, earjot.-Republican,
 ;Qss. dipping, no matter how thor. ous 1t is done, will not cure scaL. It may kill the live scab germ, but not the eggs. In from seven to ten days after the first dipping there should be a second circus of the same kind, ard if possible each dipping should be more thorough than the other.--Journal
 Company ''B," N. G A, of Phoenix, has reorganized under the new law, and elected the following officers: Captain, J. W. Crsnshaw; lst Lieutenant, H. J. yessup; 2d Lieutenant, H. F. Rob inson. '.i
 A novel excursion party will visit the Grand Canyon this summer from Albuquerque. They will come all the way, about 360 miles, on horseback The party will consist of three or four couples.
 The Tucson Citizen we'll and truth. fully says; "The statement is often made that there are no agricultural lands to be taken up in Arizona to amount to anything, This is great mistake. There IS an abundance of good farming lands to be had in every county in the Territory, and all are glad to know 1t is being rapidly settled upon. There is more good land where water can be had with which to irri. gate in Arizona than tbere is in Col. orado and Nevada put together, and as to grazing lands, with the climatic ad. l.vantages on our side, there is no con- parison." !.
 The appointment of General Thomas F Wilson to bs District Attorney for Arizona in place of Hon. H. R. lief fords,. dccea sed, came as a great sur prise to the people of Arizona yestsr- day. The fact of the United States Court being in session, and Mir. Wilson being at present Deputy District At. torrey, no doubt prompted the Presi dent to immediate action. While the 5-