The Arizona champion., 1886-05-08


 if they desire comfortable bed and elegant meals, give Mrs. A. A. Pae- ton, proprietresS of the new Ash Fork House, call. Everything about the house is new and clean, and travellers will be treated in frst-class style.
 If the trains are regular there will be no preaching in the school house tomorrow, May 9th. Preaching May 10th a. m. and p. m. Sunday school every Sabbath at 10 o'clock a. m,
 J. G. EDERnART,
 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 ire quent calls made upon him from peo. pie along the line of the railroad.
 Mrs. r. w. Middleton and sister, Miss Price, left this week on a visit to their father ard 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 speedy return.
 The stock men are jnbilant, and wear a grin from ear to ear. They have bright prospects before them, The late rains have had tendency tc make vegetation grow very rapidly, and the foothills are covered thick with grass, which staods about six inches high. There has not been SC good prospect for several years.
 Samuel C. Miller, one of the lead ing citizens of Prescott, arrived here yesterday. He informed the CHAM PIoN reporter that he considers the building of the Prescott branch rail road a certainty. MT. Miller is one of the pioneers of Arizona, and witt a party from California camped where Flagstaff is now built, in the summer of IS6I.
 E. E. Booth, one of the best typos in Arizona, who has been "holdine the fort" on the CHAMPION for over a year, leaves for San Francisco nexl week on trip, in which he proposes to combine both business and pleas, ure. MT. Booth richly deserves 8 vacation, for a 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, 10 be held in San Fran cisco next August. Arizona without doubt will be we'll represented. Ran 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 well as their relatives, will be enabled to obtain railroad fare at greatly re. duced rates.
 We invite the attention of our read. 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 oi goods in their line to be found in the state. Their facilities for buying and .haQdling these goods are not ex. celled by any firm, and their prices are very low. They offer special in ducements to Arizona dealers, with whom they have at the present time 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 a mile from town, they rar