The Arizona champion., 1885-06-13
LOCAL MATTERS.

Mohave county stock men will soon organize a stock association.
 Double teams, with fine carrssges, are let at s per day in Phenix.
 Mineral Park has two faro games. So does Flagstaff, and more are coming.
 Tonto Basin, this county, returns 1000 head of cattle to the county assessor.
 Articles of incorporation of the Prescott & Arizona Central Railway have been filed with the Secretary oi the Territory.
 NJ. H. Sherman, banker of Phenix, formerly of Prescott, was married to Mrs. Pierce, iif San Francisco, on Tuesday of last week.
 The Arizona Cattle Company re- ceived, this week, at Flagstaff, four Galloway bulls, to place upon their range. They are sleek cattle.
 Witnesses in criminal easel under law whicn went into effect January I, 1885, now receive compensation of Sz per day for attendance at court. 
 ". ], Blake, the polygamist, who served six months in the Penitentiary, has returned 10 Apache county. He says he wants no more polygamy in his.
 Judging from the number of cases before the grand jury and in court from Williams, one would suppose a regular social cyclone had swept over them.
 The Atlantic & Pacific railroad company has been obliged to add many cattle cars to its rolling stock to meet the demand ot the live stock along its line.
 Mrs. Hall, late housekeeper for Mir Barnhart, at the Barnhart ranch, ia this county, sued her employer for upwards of sroo salary, and obtained a judgment. Good.
 Tomorrow, I4th, is Cbildren's Day throughout the United States. Appropriate servIce will be held at the school house in the morning, Rev. J, F. Pierce, officiating.
 Our citizens should call a meeting and select three good men, parents or guardians of children of school age, for school trustees. The election will be held Saturday, June a7th.
 M. V. Howard, Esq. formerly Of Prescott, has located Tn St. Johns. MT. Howard is bright young lawyer, and the bar of Yavapai. county will wish him success in his new home.
 R. J. Gray, of Arkansas, cattle. man, accompanied by his mother, ar. rived here last week, and both have gone to visit his brother-in-law, Mir. Scott, on the Verde. The mother and daughter have not met for twenty years.
 The Aztec Cattle Company, who recently purchased from the A. & P. railroad company million acres of land, or whereabouts, will ship to Flagstaff next week 6,ooo head oi cattle, and many thousands more are to follow.
 Under law passed by the last leg islature, the jury in cases where par ties are convicted of murder in the first degree, can afix the penalty. When none is fixed it is the duty of the judge to afix the death penalty.
 J. C. Rogers, (Sandy) takes a posi- tion today as day "bar-keep" at Jas. A. Vale's Palace Exchange. He is the boss mixologist, and summer drinks will be in demand at the Palace. Dan Coakley has the night shift.
 Flagstaff is at present inflicted with number of cut-throats, some of whom are wanted for crime elsewhere, ostensibly "tiE horn gamblers" by profession, who ought to be ordered out of town, and not stand upon the order of their going.
 Charles Sterling and George Ran dolph. charged with stealing heifer from Wm. Munds, in December last, had their trial in Prescott this weex, and the jury returned a verdict of | guilty. At this writing the prisoners have not received their sentences. Playground, the man who killed Daggett at Williams in January last, had his trial at Prescott, and the jury rendered a verdict of mansiaughter, the extreme penalty of which is ten years. Through the encreetic. untir.