The Arizona champion., 1888-06-23

= Oak Creek ranch this week.
 The doors of the church hay = been grained beautiful crazy quil
 shade.
 Let every one attend ''Esmeralda
 at the Arizona Wood Co.'S. hall this ss evening.
 Next Sunday is San Juan's day
 which will be fttingly observed by
 the Mexican element of our town | David Rabbit has received car !, load of hardware, doors and paints,
 which are for sale at bed rock prices, If
 If you want to buy or sell any
 thing or want situation call at the
 Real Estate and Employment office
 of G. A. Woods.
 Earnest Meyers, of the wholesale liquor firm of Lowenthal X Meyers,
 of Albuquerque, N. M., is in town,
 taking orders for his house. | For school trustee, to succeed J.
 R. Fitzpatrick, who retires on the
 30th inst, the CHAMPION respect
 fully presents the name of Gorham
 A. Bray.
 NJ. E. Shepperd will have straw
 berry ice cream on Sunday at his popular restaurant opposite the
 Railroad Depot. All are cordially invited to attend.
 From a casual perusal of certain paragraphs in our local contempo- rary this week, it would seem that 'the gun which is always loaded for bear" went of at half cock.
 It seems as though the Mogollon Gun Club could find good target material without wasting glass balls. And if it is not asking too much we'd like to join the club.
 Ellis Wainwright, managing di- rector of the Arizona Cattle Com pany, will be in town tomorrow. c. c. Goven is still the efficient manager of the company's interests here.
 Go to Brannen's if yoa want any thing fancy in dry goods, gents fur nishing goods, boots and shoes, hats, etc. He has the largest stock in ! town. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded.
 Rev. Father Farriar will celebrate | two masses at the school house to- morrow. First mass at : a. m., at ! which communion will be distri- buted. Second mass, at 10 a. m., will be high mass.
 The Salvation Army Of Winfield, Kansas, billed the town with the following intense literature "Smil- ing Bell, from Wichita, the girl who jumped out of two-story win dow to get salvation, will be at the rink Monday, at eight o'clock p. m. Cyclones of salvationl Tomatoes Of power! Gales of grace. Celestial breezes! Collection at the door to i defray expenses.-Ex.
 We have reason to think that we may possibly lose our friend Robt Richards a' VIC have it from good authority that he has been offered a half interest in q whole ale candy manufacturing establishment in Kansas City, and in conversation with us he to-day said if he could sell his business here for spot cash he had serious thoughts of taking the offer. We hope he will conclude to stay with us as we candidly be- lieve he would be loser if he were to give up the hold he has in Flagstaff to some one else.
 The Arizonan (Phenix) of last Saturday says: Con Shayee, the Apache under sentence of death, at tempted to take his own life in the county jail this morning. About 9 o'clock the attention of the prisou- CTS was attracted to the cell occu- pied by the condemned by a strange . n oise as though some one was strang- ling. Turns, a prisoner, proceeded tp inves igate and found that the Indian had Spliced a couple small pieces of rope together, and tying one end about, his neck and the other to bir ot the cage, was sus- pended, and would soon have died , but for the timely interference of Burns.
 Jeff Shipp, one of the noted i Shipp Brothers on the Santa Maria, t visited Prescott during the present t week, on his return from Baker. q field, California, where he and his I brother recently delivered to Carr r < Ha- gin, eight hundred head of i two, three and four-year-old steers, t for which they received Sl7 per O head, paid on delivery of the cattle on the line of the Atlantic & Pacific in Mohave County. Mir. Shipp states that already, during the present year, several thousand head I of fine beef steers have bee ship ped from Mohave county to South b ern Califo mia markets, and that t the number will be greatly aug f hafo,a tb. fou ,,onkk. .