The Arizona champion., 1885-05-09
LGCAL. MATTERS.


 applied for a divorce from her hus
 band.
 Many familiar faces, among the ole
 mill hands of last year, are seen or
 our streets again.
 The Mineral Belt charge of electric
 ity has not yet been applied. Batter ies are looked for.
 ]. C. Burge and ]. w. SpafforG leave to-day for trip through the Grand Canon region.
 Conductor Roberts is now running the passenger in place of ]. F, Woods, who has leave of absence.
 The Catholic element of Flagstaff and vicinity will soon commence the erection of church edifce in this place.
 Ed. E. Aver, President of the Aver Lumber Company, is now in Flag staff, having arrived this week from Chicago.
 John Feely and Mrs. Lulu Bacon, both of Ash Fork, were married at Williams by Justice Nellis on Wed nesday last.
 w. H. Campbell, of Phenix, is in town. A gentleman well known in the Territory, we hope he will become a resident of Flagstaff.
 J. Donahue, known as Sandy" still runs tEe Flagstaff Hotel bar, and is getting a good trade. Sandy" Is popular with the boys.
 A number of Flagstaffites are at Oak Creek this week, trout fishing. We expect, of course, supply of the "fnny tribe" on their return.
 Phillip Hull, our old-time ranch man, has fallen heir to a fortune of about $40, ,ooo. consisting of farms and stock iG Iowa, from relatives.
 Burt Pen!ey, of Peach Sprirgs, clerk of the resident engineer of the A. & Ps, is lying dangerously i'll at that place. He is under the care of Dr. Brannen.
 Hon. w. G. Stewart accompanied J. r. Fitzpatrick to New Orleans, and returned to the home ot his aged parents iu Kansas. He hopes to return to Arizona soon.
 The boilers at the Aver mill are now fnlly in repair, after weeks of labor, and by the middle of next week the machinery will be running, and the mill Tn active operation.
 Conductor Frank Morgan pur- chased, near BurlIngame, Kansas, for ty-eight head of COWS which arrived this week, and are now on the Hox- worth ranch, near Flagstaff.
 Geo. Hoxworth, while in Prescott this week, visited the loGge of the Grand Army of the Republic, and his Prescott comrades entertained him Tn grand shape. We return thanks for him.
 Dr. Brannen, on Friday last, took rom a patient in Flagstaff, a tape worm, (or two of them), measuring 90 feet in length. The patient is do. ng well, and his appetite is not half IS strong as before,
 The Flagstaff Hotel, under the of MT. Grove, the new starts off under the bright st of prospects. Many improvements Ire being made, of which we will peak hereafter,
 Both our Winslow and Ash Fork correspondents have failed to send in heir items for publication this week. 'El Mahdi," see that "A non" ap- earance of these interesting letters oes not occur again. ' Wanted-information as to the ' 'hereabouts of George Chapman. my one knowing his address, will l onfer favor by writing the Cochise ( .ecord, Tombstone, Arizona, or Wallace Corbett, Tombstone, Arizona. s The Chief Justice of Williams, N. a :. Nellis, is one of the happiest men | , be found in Arizona. Its boy, nd tips the beam at eight pounds. I he child was born on the 9th, and IT. Brannen was present at the arriv- r The Kathrens- Hoxworth land liti- { ation, which has been heard before h hos. Wing, Register of the Land f fhce at Prescott, is concluded, but a ( ecision has not yet been rendered. t number of our citizens were in | rescott as witnesses. z The festival which took place last d ight at the skating rink, called out an n