The Arizona champion., 1885-05-23
LOCAL MATTERS.


 Sheriff Mulvenon arrived in tow
 6n Friday wNh sEe assessment rol
 rindef hE arm.
 Col. Eddy, of the Mineral Bel
 Railroad, writes that he intends ty k
 in Flagstaff by the a7,h inst
 The log train, with Conducto
 Howard and Engineer Neely, com
 nenced running this week.
 Mr. Yancey and family have arrive, from Beaver Creek to this place wRes they will make their home sn the flu ttrs.
 Judge Simmer Howard and wife T2ssed through Flagstaff on Friday evening last, on their return trip iron the east.
 Sports from the southern climes arc seeking the more comSorta>A Pc sSade of the trees about Flagstaff for the summer.
 Mrs. Pittman, one of the oldest pi5necfs along the 4 & P., noted the changes and progress of our town on Wednesday.
 J. C. Burge and ]. w. Spafford arc still out in ;he region of the Grand Canon, taking Views and Writing up the country.
 On the nth inst, at Jerome, John McKinnon was made happy father, by the arrival of a son. Mother and child doing we'll.
 P. B. Brannen & Co. have just re- teivcd an invoice of twenty-five Sluiebaker wagons. They Deat them all for style ahd finish.
 4 lodging house in Flagstaff would be paying institution, the capacity Of the hotel being insufficient 10 ac- tommodate the increasing population.
 Our esteemed young townsman, Will J, Mlrphy, has been confined to his bed by sickness during the past lew lays He is on the recovery side, however.
 We call on the commissioners auth o'ized to rxpend s4,oot oz .hc wag 1 oa road from Flagstaff to the Verde, 10 come forward and report or haul 1 down their hig. .,
 The Flagstaff Hotel, under the management of Mir. Gr1v@; Is fssl ! gaining in reputation, and is nightly | crowded with patrons. The righ! man in the right place.
 Conductor Roberts is now in charge of the "short run" between Winslow and Williams, in place ol Charles Moore, who has been promo ted to the through run.
 Two large freight teams, formerly employed on the Jerome load, passed through Flagstaff on Friday bound for Aspen, Colorado, the latest scene of excitement in the mining world.
 The engagement of MT. Perkins, the well known cattle man of Apache county, and one of Elags.aff's fair daughters, Miss Carrie Brothers, now teaching schools at Holbreok, is an. nounced.
 ]. H. Wingfeld and Mir. Smith, of the Mogollon country. arrived in town yesterday. Doubtless they had seen The dispatches of the departure of the hostile Apachcs for 'he Mogollon range. W. C. Demorest, the well-knowi hotel man at Winslow, is putting up :, the stone wall for new hotel at that :; place. + will be 6ox4o, and the be pushed to an early com. ! piction. Adam Conrad, our "Village Black n smith," is driving a good trade at a he new shop, head of Railroad Av- T rnue. tie handles the hammar and s iongres with that precision which stamps him as a good workman, :, Father E. V. LeBreton. of the b Catholic church at Prescott, breaches Il iis farewell to the Prescott congreea- 1T Ion tomorrow, when he will 20 to il ucson to reside. Father Fogarty, Il ite of Tucson, will succeed him. q, Cal. David, the well-known and I, op1lar bar tender, who for a long O. me was with the Beal Eros. in old Il own, after an absence of several lonths in California. ha, returned to