The Arizona champion., 1886-01-16
LOCAL MATTERS.


 Sunday school will commence to morrow morning at II o'clock. "A
 The lumber for the new railroad depot is loaded and will be on the ground in few days.
 Nah Dls Ough, the Apache female warri for, is in the Tombstone jail, awaiting the action of the grand jury.
 Rev. J. G. Eberhart is recovering from his seyese sickness, but is unable as yet to attend to his pastoral duties.
 Over fifteen hundred passengers were held over and taken care of by the Santa Fe road, during the recent snow blockade.
 There will be heavy passenger business over the A. X P. for the next four weeks. All the northern routes arc frore up tight:
 Mir. H. Harper, the A. & P. agent at Ash Fork, was robbed of S7o in money on Thursday evening. The theft has not been captured yet.
 Mir. George Fl. Tinker, the we'll known journalist of Prescott, made a visit to Flagstaff on Thursday, and left on Friday morning for Holbrook.
 A blackboard line has been started from Blackberry to Lost Basin, which will carry the mail bags At present the trip will only be made once a week.
 There was dance given at the res dence of Mir. Henry Lockett, about two miles north of the city, last eve ming, at which there was large at tendance of the prominent people of Flagstaff.
 The bodies of two Wallapai Indian squaws were burned recently near their reservation. As is customary with this tribe, the blankets and hors- es of the dead Indians were burned with them.
 The many frieuds of Mir: Church, of the Arizona Cattle company, will regret to hear that he has been very sick at Fort Moroni. He is much better now, and his speedy restora- tion to health is hoped for.
 Staab X Brc. arc closing out ,heiT business in Albuquerque. It was the only large business firm in that city (which stradflstly refused to advertise, Their fate is warning which mer- \-elhasa,sg2:sss elhasa,sg2: $ vi $ill mlke note-1.
 A southern exchange says tha, Gov, ernor Zulick will appoint the follow ing gentlemen as the new Board ol Prison Commissioners: B. A, Pack ard, of Tombstone; A. D. Lemon, oi Phsnix, and Hugo Richards, of Pres. . colt.
 The Tucson Times says: Six Ari. zona editors were getting really 10 start out and scalp an Apache Indian and claim the reward offered by Gen .ral Thomas, of Flagstaff. but were restrained by Governor Zulick's pro clamation.
 Flagstaff is said to be enjoying about two feet of snow.-Juurna!- Miner. .t.
 This is slight exaggeratlon. There is scarcely any snow on the ground al the present writing, and the deepcs; snow of the season was ten inches.
 A party of gentlemen from Kansa' and Utah passed through Flagstaff on Thursday evening on their way to the placer mining fields near Walnut Grove. The mining property these gentlemen have gone to visit is the same that A. w. Callen (known as Old Grizzly, has been operating for the last three. years.
 There was jail delivery at Albu- querque on Wednesday. When the jailor went to announce breakfast to his guests he found his hotel was empty. Nine prisoners had skipped and left no information as 10 their destination. Among them were the men who stole Mir. Mabie's jewelry case at Gallup about two weeks since.
 On Monday evening at the school a literary entertainment will be given by Mir. Harry Mulligan, the program consisting of choice selection of humorous and other readings. Mir. Mulligan is the young man who was accidentally shot last September from the explosion of revolver which fell from the pocket of man who was sitting by him in a wagon. The ball, :. which entered the thigh, has never