The Arizona champion., 1886-08-28

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 John C. Herndon, of the law firm of Herndon and Hawkins. at Prescott, passed through here on his way home from a visit to the east, Wednesday forenoon.
 Geo. H. Loucks, recently agent of the A. x P. R. R. at Kingman, will hereafter occupy the same position at Williams. He was in town Thursday and Friday.
 Quite lively scrapping match oc- cured in one ofthe saloons on Thurs day. Result-Free flow of claret, no lives lost, and hand shaking over the bloody chasm.
 Lyman T. Drum was in from Stone mans lake. He has almost recovered from the wounds inflicted upon him at Fort Verde last month by the Car rolls, father and son.
 John Woods, from the Verde, was seen around town few days bracing up on mountain air. J. T. and Neal Munds were also. up from their Verde ranch purchasing supplies.
 P. B. Brannen left for the east on Thursday, where he will lay in and forward to his store here the largest and most varied assortment of gen. eral merchandise ever seen at Flag staff.
 Thomas Wing, who has been Re- gister of the Land office at Prescott for about three years, has been re- lieved by MT. J. L. Camp, of Gil mer, Texas, who was appointed a short time ago.
 A. E. Foote, formerly clerk of the District Court here, now of Flint, Mich, has bought from Chas. rhomp- son a half interest in the Mayaower mine, near Prescott, for SIo, 900. This will probably bring him back to Arizona.
 There are about dozen rolls of blankets in the baggage room at the depot here, which, not having been called for, are supposed to belong to lramps who shipped their dunnage rather than pack it, intending to beat their way on the break beam.
 Henry C. Aver, Assistant General Superintendent and Treasurer of the Aver Lumber Company, has returned from quite a lengthy visit to Chicago and other eastern cities. With his many friends we welcome him back to our mountain city.
 Ladies who desire to see the month ly sheets of "Butterick's Fashions" and keep themselves posted on the latest styles, should send their address to llfeld Bros, Albuquerque, N. M., and obtain, free of cost, those cele. brated fashion sheets which are pub- lished monthly. july3-am The Burton & Leoni Arcrobatic Troupe gave open air performances on Railroad avenue on Thursday and Friday afternoons of this week. The feats consisted of acts on the la perche, double trapeze, slack wire, horizontal bar and club swinging. Prof. Burton is the most graceful performer on the horizontal bar we ever saw. N
 The Rabbit Bros. have just bought from Lockett Bros, 9 head of full blooded Polled Angus and Hereford bulls. They were driven to their range at the San Francisco Mountains, Tuesday. We understand that it is their intention to breed up their stock to the highest degree attainable. | We learn with profound sorrow oi the death on Monday night last, at Holbrook, of Mrs. Reed, wife of our old friend Col. Harry Reed, after an illness of only five hours. The Col. onel and his son Frank have our deepest sympathy in this their great bereavement.
 The democratic primary will be held this evening between the hours of 7 and 9 p. m. Quite lively interest is being taken, and we are informed that two tickets for delegates to the county convention, which meets al Prescott, Sept. E, will be placed in the field.
 Professors H. s. Pritchett and Wm. B. Potter, of the Washington Univer- sity at St Louis, arrive d here last Wednesday week and after stopping over night hired team and went at once to the Grand Canyon, where they spent three days examining the wonders of that remarkable cleft in the earth's surface. They returaed on Monday and took the first train