The Arizona champion., 1886-05-08

known Fred Hughes for years, ana more true hearted man would be hard to find in Arizona.
 People stopping at Ash Fork should, if they desire comfortable bed and elegant meals, give Mrs. A. A. Pae- ton, proprietress of the new Ash Fork House, a call. Everything about the house is new and clean, and travellers will be treated in first-class style.
 If the trains are regular there will be no preaching in the school house tomorrow, May oth. Preaching May roth a. m. and p. m. Sunday school every Sabbath at 10 o'clock a. m, ]. G. EBERHART, Pastor. Judge Noah Davis maintains that "marriage should be made easy" Oh. marriage is easy enough, Judge. There's no trouble about that. It's the skirmishing around afterwards to keep the flour barrel full that digs fur rows in the brow.
 Dr. Brannen WAS called away sud. denly Sunday evening by telegram to attend Mrs. Hennessy, at Winslow, wife of Conductor Hennessy. of the A. P. R. R. The doctor does not get much rest here, owing to the fre- quenr calls made upon him from peo- pie along the line of the railroad.
 Mrs. F. w. Middleton and sister, Miss Price, lett this week on a visit to their father and mother, who reside at Globe. They will be absent about three months. Mir. Middleton's father accompanied them. Their many friends here wish them a pleasant journey and asieedy return.
 The stock men are jubilant, and wear grin from ear to ear. They have bright prospects before them. The late raips have had a tendency to make vegetation grow very rapidly, and the foothills are covered thick with grass, which stands about six inches high. There has not been so good prospect for several years.
 Samuel C. Miller, one of the lead ing citizens oof Prescott, arrived here yesterday. He informed the CHAM PloN reporter that he considers the building of the Prescott branch rail road certainty. MT. Miller is one of the pioneers of Arizona, and with party from California camped where Flagstaff is now built, in the summer of 1861.
 E. E. Booth, one of the best typos in Arizona, who has been "holding the fort" on the CHAMPION for over year, leaves for San Francisco next week on trip, in which he proposes to combine both business and pleas ure. MT: Booth richly deserves al vacation, for more faithful and in dustrious young man would be hard to find. The CHAMPION wishes him success wherever he may go, and hopes that he may return to Arizona doubled up"
 There is great interest being talk en among the members of the differ ent Grand Army Posts in Northern Arizona, in regard to the National Encampment, to be held in San Fran cisco next August. Arizona without doubt will be we'll represented. Ram som Post, of this place, intends send ing at least two-thirds of its members, and arrangements will be made where by all members, and old soldiers, as we'll as their relatives, will be enabled 1 to obtain railroad fare at greatly re- ducel rates.
 We invite the attention of our read 1 CTS to the ad. of Porter Bros. & Co. | of Los Angeles. in this issue of the CHAMPION. These gentlemen are wholesale dealers, packers and ship pers of California fruits, and have one of the largest and finest stock of goods in their line to be found in the state. Their facilities for buying and handling these goods are not ex- celled by any firm, and thelr prices are very low. They offer special in- ducements to Arizona dealers, with whom they have at the present time a large and growing trade.
 Wm. Gardner and Wm. Murphy are the boss snake hunters of North ern Arizona. Monday morning while these gentlemen were out walking, about mile from town, they ran