The Arizona champion., 1885-06-27
LOCAL MATTERS.

tnlS week.
 James Allen and wife, from tn,
 Mogollons, came in this week to pur chase supplies.
 Jack Montgomery came in from Oll Greek this week, to enjoy few day. of city life in Flagstaff.
 For unadulterated original and per suasive qualities, Tom Boyd swipe! the whole bak---ox hyde.
 John Fielding, we'll known ranch CT, who was formerly resident O Flagstaff, has opened store at Heck berry.
 It will cost $4.6o from Flagstaff to Winslow and return July 4th. The railroad company will carry passen' gers both ways for one fare.
 MT. Lemon, who was formerly a partner with Miss Fletchar in the rail- road eating house at Peach Springs, died at Seattle, Washington Territory, last week.
 Cal. Davids has assumed command at the Frisco Saloon, in this place Cal. has been for some time connected with the houie, and is popular with its patrons.
 All the necessary papers have been received making the Flagstaff postof flee money order office on July rst. This will require bond of SIS, ,ooo from our postmaster,
 Our townsman, J. R. Fitzpatrick, arrived from his trip to Chicago on Thursday evening last, accompanied by Mrs. Fitzpatrick. We regret to know that Mrs. K. is very ill, unable to set up. and sincerely hope she will improve more rapidly in her mountain hone.
 s F. M. Murphy, Arizona's Com \ missioner to the New Orleans Expo. sition, passed through Fllgstaf on Tuesday evening last, on hls way to Prescott from New Orleans. Frank has done good work for the Territory at the Exposition, and his many friends will say ''well done, good and faithful servant"
 Mir. s. s. Ackers, from the Verde, was in town this week. He is just returning from the annual rondeo, which commenced On the Ist inst, and he has been travelling all the ,ime since. Mir. Ackers is an extensive cattle owner, and we'll known through out Yavapai county.
 ]. H. Farley, of Peach Springs, was in town this week. We noticed some time since that our friend Farley had been arrested on a charge of kill ing cattle belonging to another party. His case came up before the county court of Mohave county, and the jury rendered verdict of not guilty. IL was mean spite work, and doubly re bounded back on it's author.
 'Chas. Fry, the youth who recently claimed mileage from Flagstaff as witness in a case, in which he was sub poenaed in Prescott, was up this morn ing for sentence, for obtaining money under false pretenses. On account of his extreme youth, judgment was sus pended until the first day of the next term of court, in order so give him an opportunity for restitution. Jour. nal.
 Who will be the appointee for in spector of cattle for the northern dis tricts. The MogoiloR Stock Associa ,ion, at their meeting in Flagstaff July ,d, will recommend the name of some responsible man for the position. Thousands of Texas cattle arc now being shipped into Arizona by the A. X P. railroad, and no one to inspect them. This is wrong and ought to be remedied.
 Charles Cone, of the firm of Spen ger & Cone. cattlemen of Mohaye county, met with an accident at Hack berry on Monday last, which came neH proving fatal. Some one had placed torpedo on the railroad track md freight train was standing at he depot. Mr.. Cone was passing ,round the track at the rear end of he train, when the cars were backed ID and ran over the torpedo, causing explosion. A piece of the missile itruck Mir. Cone in the breast directly ,ver the heart, ranging upwards, n,ak- ng a very ugly and dangerous wound. Dr.. Brannen was telegraphed for. and ,e was soon on the spot. A piece of he torpedo was removed from the wound, and at last accounts Mr. Cone vas doing as well as could be ex- ,ecsed. II