The Arizona champion., 1885-06-20
LOCAL MATTERS.
Prescott has a three-bit restaurant,


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 For Coughs and Colds Red Star 'Cough Cure is safe, pleasant, sure remedy.
 The pay car passed through on Friday and liquidated the boys along the road.
 ". c. Stewart, late Councilman from this county. has returned from an extended trip east.
 Judge Coakley can personate the broken.down sport or faro bank fsnd to the queens, taste. .>. .,.,..
 Daggs Bros. & Go. are shearing several thousand sheep at the old slaughter house, near town.
 The skating rink continues to at. tract nightly devotees of the rollers Tonight grand skating carnival IS on the program.
 A, if by magic ones pains vanish if he be sufferer from rheumatism or neuraliga and applies St. Jacobs Oil, the pain-banisher.
 Rev. N. L. Guthrie, pastor of the Marine street Nj. E. church, in Pres colt, is the happy father of bounc- ing boy, born on the 10th inst.
 Hon. Robert Cornell, of Prescott, who went ca at about two months since, was in St. Louis on the I,th inst, and has gone from there to the Ar kansas Hot Springs.
 Playground, who killed Daggett, al Williams, in December last, had hi> trial at Prescott last week, and has been sentenced to the Peni,entiary for term of eight years.
 Our townsman, Dr. D. ] Brannen, has been invited, and has accepted the invitation, to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Winslow. The Aitizens of our sister town could not have made 2 better selection.
 The Armje Hotel, at Albuquerque, under the management ofP. B. Sher- man, takes the lead of the hotels in New Mexico, and is the popular stop ping place for travellers visiting that city. It is one of the best hotels on the Pacific coast.
 The CHAMPION will suggest the names of Geo. Hoxworth, w. H. Ashurst and J. F. Hawks, for school trustees of Flagstaff district. All have children of school age, all pay school tax, and are deeply interested in school matters.
 Messrs. Price and Hickman, of New Mexico. purchased fine team this week of Lockett brot hers, paying g4oo for the same. The same gentle. men arc also looking for good cattle range in this county and will doubtless become permanent residents.
 The stage coach which left Ash Fork fer Prescott on Wednesday last, when near a station took fire from match, ard being covered with cloth, was totally destroyed. Two passengers and the driver succeeded in saving the mails, express, baggage, etc.
 About 40, 900 sheep will be sheared in Flagstaff within short time and the work is now progressing, Sheep shearers are coming in daily and the majority are of that class that will leave most of the money in town, thus making things lively for time.
 Sheriff Mulvenon passed through on Wednesday and picked up two prisoners at this place. Geo. Wilson goes to serve four months sentence in the county jail for receiving money under false pretenses, and S. Friar goes to Prescott to stand trial before the District Court.
 Billy BiddInger and his brother Charlie. the we'll known and artistic manipulators of the razor and shears, have opened first class barber. shop snd bath rooms in the Brannen block, where patrons will receive due atten- ton, The old stand in the San Juan wiil ale, be continued under the same management. See advertisement.
 Iohnny Berry, of the San Juan, by holding "s,raight flush, ? won this morning, 2 bouncing baby boy. weigh. ing len pounds Johnny is noted for being lucky, and now has capped the climax by holding the best win ming hand of the season. or course, Johnny is happy, and is receiving the hearty congratulations of his many