The Arizona champion., 1885-03-14
LOCAL. MATTERS.
New s'loon in town.

NOthlng put nrSt-ClaSS liquors sOlO at the Frisco.
 Snow, rain, hail and delightiu sunshine the past week.
 Business men say trade is improv' ing in their respective lines.
 The proprietors of the Frisco are making that place very popular re- sort.
 Messrs. Marion and Trundy will open a first-class saloon on the south side soon.
 A hot box detained the westbound express here for some time on Wednesday evening, last.
 And the legislators homeward fly. Some think they are very "Ay' to get home without walking.
 Col. Harry Reed, editor of the St. Johns Herald, the leading journal of Apache county, is in Flagstaff.
 Since the passage of the Maricopa railroad bill, real estate has advanced from as to 50 per cent in that coun- ty.
 "Jolly Fellows is the name of those fine cigars at the Frisco, and Jim and Jack are the jolly boys who set them up.
 The east-bound train was eight hours late on Thursday. The delay was occasioned by bridge being burned near Peach Springs.
 The Prescott Journal has ordered water motor from the BaCkus water motor company, of Newark, N. J., to take the place of steam in running it's machinery.
 If fire company was organized here it might be the means of saving considerable property. Flagstaff has had two narrow escapes lately from disastrous fires.
 MT. Sol Lewis, of the Bank of Ari- zona, received the sad intelligence or Sunday of the death of his mother in San Francisco. MT. Lewis left for there Monday morning.
 The new apportionment bill gives one additional representative to Mari copa and Graham counties respect lively; takes one from Pima and puts Yuma in the southern senatorial dis trict
 The following Prison Commission CTS, to serve two years or until their successors are appointed, have been confrmed; E. B. Gage, Tombstone; w. C. Davis, Tuckson; A. G. Hub bard, Yuma.
 w. L. Van Horn arrived in Flag staff from Holbrook, on Thursday evening last. MT. Van Horn says business is picking up in our sister burg, and that Holbrook IS proud of their little journal and journalistess,
 Councilman Weedin and Represen- tative Ruggles have done good service for their constituency during this ses- sion of the legislature, important among which was keeping their county line intact and securing an appropra- ton of SI5,ooo to aid in the con struction of bridge across the Gila river at a point near Florence.
 The long-felt want has at last been supplied to the good citizens of Hol- brook in the shape of a neatly printed weekly newspaper - The Holbrook Press--published by Mrs. w. A. Out ton, the first number of which is be- fore us. We wish the enterprise sue, cess. It speaks we'll for the enterprise and liberality of the citizens of Hol- brook.
 As we predicted, that devilish lit tie Cupid got his work in. Two lacerated hearts is the result of a bulls-eye shot from his unerring dart. We will not give the names of the poor victims away until the cake and wine is forthcoming, but they will be missed by our young society people when they begin to pull under the yoke of matrimony.
 Mr. Rumscy, of old town, got him. self into trouble this weed by shutting off Flagstaff's water supply. He thought it a good scheme to appro- priate Antelope Spring to his own use, and proceeded to fence 1t in by placing logs around it. He was ar rested for the offense, but compro' mise was effected and he was released by paying costs of suit and promising to remove the Instructions from the spring,