The Arizona champion., 1885-03-21
LOCAL MATTERS.
A slight shower of rain Wednesday

A special train, carrying officers c the road, went west on Tuesday last
 Wyatt Earp is in jail in Ho Springs, Arkansas, for attempted burglary.
 MT. Ernest Myers, the wet good man, was in Flagstaff this week talk ing measures.
 In another column will be foun( the advertisement of the Arizon; Hide Company.
 Hons. D. ]. Brannen and w. G Stewart returned home from Presc ot on Monday morning.
 A runaway-or rather walk off amused the idlers on Railroad avenue Tuesday. No damage.
 Philip Hull spent the first of the week in Flagstaff, leaving for his range on Wednesday morning.
 A stock company is being organ ized at Holbrook to build an irrigat- ing ditch five miles or more in length.
 Dr. Branncn went to the Needles last night on professional business. He will be absent three or four days.
 Captain F. E. Pierce, Ist infantry, has taken the place of Crawford as superintendent of police at San Car, los.
 Some of our citizens observed the eclipse through smoked glass, but the majority of them preferred the beer glass.
 MT. A. E. Fay and wife, and Mrs. w. G. Henry, arrived home from Prescott to-day, after an abence of three months.
 We acknowledge the receipt of the Biennial Report Of the Territorial Treasurer, a neatly printed pamphlet, hearing the imprint of the Prescott Courier.
 4 gentlemen from San Francisco has large force of men preparing the ground for planting sixty acres Of Zinfandel grapes, on a section of land near Mesa City.
 Accounts from the different sec tions of the Territory are to the effect that the grass is springing up finely and that stock never looked so we'll before at this season of the year.
 Winter fingered in the lap of spring on Thursday night, to the extent of about two inches of the "beautiful, '" which soon disappeared under the rays of old Sol on the following morn- ing.
 Dr. Mason left on Thursday even ing's train for Williams. He has been looking after Dr. Brannen's practice here, while the latter was in Prescott attending to Legislative du, ties.
 Flagstaff is one of the most delight iul summer resorts on the Atlantic & Pacific road. There is the most beau- tilul and picturesque scenery ih the territory in its immediate vicinity. Tourists and pleasure seekers can here find a cool and pleasant retreat for the summer, with courteous treatment and reasonable charges.
 Golden, the famous temperance lecturer, delivered two lectures in Flagstaff, this week, and was greeted with full houses on both occasions. MT. G. IS good talker and seemed earnest in his efforts to ruin the busi- ness of the men who were the most liberal in their contributions when the inevitable hat was passed around.
 The courts have decided that no boundary fence can be made of barbed wire without the consent of parties owning the adjacent land, and any man who puts a barbed wire fence along the highway renders himself li- able to all injuries resulting to stock passing along the said highway.
 Like most new mining countries Arizona has suffered under the gen eral idea that it was good for nothing else. The idea established abroad that Arizona is nothing but desert, is very hard to eradicate. Arizona once supported large agricultural population and will do so again. The day is not far distant when, as in California, the raising of fruit, vines and olives, and the making of wine