The Arizona champion., 1885-10-24
LOCAL. MATTERS.

Flagstaff weather is more than de- iightful.
 Childrens story and picture books at Sanderson's.
 so.pound case of choice apples for S4 % at Sanderson's.
 There is now postoffice at Lot Basin, Mohave county.
 The gate receipts at the Phenix fair amounted to S2,SSs.ss. A good cook stove for sale. En- quire at the CHAMPION Cffice. Encourage every enterprise that will tend to build up the town.
 Something should be done to clear up the refuse around the streets, The Verde district is yielding splen, did crops, notwithstanding the dry season.
 Sanderson has just received q fine collection of photograph and auto, graph albums.
 Many changes are looked for by the employees of the A. & P. road on the first of the month.
 It is rumored that the A. & P. rail road intend taking ch:rge of the eat ing houses on their lines. .. The Territorial Insane Asylum is to be erected about two miles outside of the town limits of Paenix.
 FOR SALE.-Three or four tons oi good potatoes at Sr.5o per hundred Apply to L. R. Paxton, Flagstaff.
 The new management of the A. & P. have decided 10 build a pa1 senger and freight depot at Flagstaff Nearly everyone at Mineral Park is busy locking after mines and the out look for the district is very encourag- ing.
 Business on the railroad IS lively. Thursday mornings east bound train consisted of twelve cars and two To. scomotives.
 THE ELpREDGE B. SEWING MA. CHINE.-For sale or rent at t. " MldGleton's. This machine ranks among the best in the market.
 To RENT OR FOR SALE.-Eldredge B. sewing machines, the best for dura. bility and good work, ever offered in this market. Inquire at the hardware ,,ore of r. W. Middleton.
 lr you want real good drink oi fine quality whiskey, James A VIls's, on the corner of R,iiroad Avenue and San Francisco street, is the place to fud it, aud don't you forget il. ....
 Anyone stepping into the Elk sa. loon on Railroad Avenue will alway find Sandy" or his assistant, Jack Hennessy, on hand ready to supply them with the finest liquors and :igars to be found in the market. / Lee Harrls, boy about eleven years old, while playing with a Win chester gun at Williams on Thursday last, accidentally shot himself. The ball entered the brain through his forehead, killing him instantly.
 In consequence of the burning ot the bridge on the Southern Pacific road at Yuma, and the consequent stoppage of traffic, both freight and passenger business on the Atlantic & Pacific road have largely increased.
 Al fairyiew on Thursday, an emi- grant train stopped and an employc of the water service stepped op the tender to get drink of water. As the train started up he was thrown to the track, breaking leg and severely cutting his face.
 Charles Mixer has been appointed superintendent of the California dt. vision of the A. x P. road. MT. Mix er was for lorg time with the Atchi, son, Topeka x Santa Fe road, and was esteemed by everyone both as a man as an efficient officer of the road. There is pretty we'll grounded ru nor about town and in railway circle, that the paymas;er's and local audi. tors offices of the Atlantic X Pacific are to be consolidated and placed in 2 the charge of MT. F. Nichols, late ot the Mexican Central. .--Albuquerque /Jonrnal.
 Y It IS believed the new and vigorous management of the A. & P will pip- the water from the big spring on the San Francisco mountains, into this place. In that event some of the