The Arizona champion., 1883-11-10

afternoon.
 We are in receipt of very handsomely
 printed invitation to attend a social hop,
 given in N ilso s hall. Flagstaff, last evening.
 Ne regre, very much our inability to be
 present.
 Mrs. F. A. Conant of Chicago, correspond.
 ent for Abbolt's Monthly and The Living Church. b th Chicago publications, and Mir. C. w. Conant, wholesale wool buyer, of Chi. cago, arrived m town last evening.
 Last night. at abou, O clock. as some par ties were coming out of the side door of Fay 's restaura l. they discovered fire in the roof of Jack Commaek's building. The alarm vas given, ladder obtained, and pail of water put out the fire. Had i, got htle more start, serioas conhagralion could not have bee prevented This IS the season of the year when ftes occur most frequently, and our citizens should be prepared to fight i, Barrels of water ought b. standing at con. venieni places along the street. The citizens of Globe are very anxious to secure mall route 10 Winsl W. on the A X P. road via Green Valley or Union Park It i| said that mail route on the line proposed would accommodate and furnish at least I 900 citizens with mail who are now com pelled to travel long di,tances-some of them | .t There seems 10 be good grounds for the establishment of ma, service on the route proposed, and there are no good reasons wh, the people interested should not have it.
 By an associated press telegraph dispatch, we learn that, on the goth ult., section oi the wall of the Cook llock. in Tombst ne, which covers more ground than any other in the city, fell to the ground. bringing with it heavy timbets and the wooden awning, peo pie barely escaping with their lives. We re- member, nearly three years ago, when that same section of wall, after rain which con tinued four weeks, fell to the ground, bury ing workInen in the debris. That block is a mona ent to the fair fame of Tombstone, the first of large dimensions erected in the city. and Ben Cook. its owner. will now see to it that it's next crumble will be caused only b, the withering hand of time.
 r Prescott IS the hub of Central and Northern Arizona Courier.
 But, John, the spoAes and felloe of thai "hub" don't seem to get into place. Prescott Is dormant without its smelters and manufac tories Her people sit quietly down and let Albuquerque, whi h two years ago was com posed oi but a handful of men, ride quietly over her, and become the great trading mart Of Northern Arizona, while Prescott is not as lively a town for business as It was seven or eight years ago. Your people must awaken from that Rip Van Wnkle sleep, quit hoard ing their wealth and make that hub" consist of custom stamp mills, various ma ufactores, etc., for which Prescott is so particularl, adapted, before the spokes and feloes will groove in, forming the perfect circle
 We visited, this week, the great cave, locat- ed near the railroad, abou, eight miles east of Pea h Springs, and procured therefrom some of the finest specimens fl water and lime formation that were ever brought to the pub | Inc gaze It is useless for Us to undertake to | write at length description of the cave, as 'ha, task was thoroughly done in 'lumn article which appeared in the CHAMPION a | few weeks since. Fr m the time you enter at the mouth ofthe cave, until you descend to | it> lowest depths with candle in hand, the | curious freaks of nature covering its walls inspire one with wonder and awe. lt must | be visited io be appreciated. An order has been issued by the railroad co npany for con. duct rs give iay-over checks to all passen gers who desire to visit points of interest along the road.
 The following details of the illness and subsequent death of Major Nick Nolan are found |" letter from Holbrook to the Albu querque Journal
 Major Nicholas Nolan, a genial man, brave soldier and an excellent officer, dled here on the 25th instant, of mountain rever. He had been in town a week, having come down from Fort Apache to meet his family. lis wife, accompan jed by his two children and her sister, Miss Dyer, arrived here the first of the week from Fl Paso, Texas. She expected to meet her husband at Fort Apache, hut instead found him here, but stricken with his last ill ess. It adds to the poignancy oi her grief that her husba d remained uncon. sclous from before her arrival up to the time that death supervened. Major Nolan was a veteran in the service. and was a participant in he first memorable engagement at Bull Ruo. lis body was taken 10 Fort Wingate. where il was inferred Saturday afternoon W i h the military honors due him.
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