The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28
FLAGSTAFF FLASHES.

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 c. M. Montgomery. the Los Angeles fat stock buyer, is in town this week
 A. II. Spellmire returned Saturday from visit to his family in Los An geles.
 Frank Leaning has become stock holder in the Flagstaff Commercial Company.
 Harry Hibben made a trip over the A. & P. in the interest of Babbitt Bros. this week.
 The Saginaw Lumber Company have closed down their mills at Williams and Challender for thirty days.
 The Pullman Car Company have en- joined County Treasurer A. T. Cor nish from collecting any taxes assessed to that company in this county.
 B. N. Freeman, of Denver. is in town this week. Mir. Freeman is con- nected with the Arizona Central Bank and other enterprises in this vicinity.
 Charles Howard, of Challender, was caught foul of the rigging of his horse yesterday and had his shoulder thrown out of joint. Dr. Cornish was called to attend him.
 The militia failed to turn out Wasl . ington's birthday because of the de- plorable condition of the streets. The boys observed the law, however, by reporting at the armory.
 A number of quite young men are shaving on their mustachios to avoid the payment of poll tax. Those trou- bled with ingrowing mustaches can now afford to laugh at bcwhiskered youths.
 Beware Deputy Sheriff Robert W. Bell. He's collecting poll tax. Every man who is unfortunate enough to have lived twenty -one years is eligible to collection, except the militia. Its members are exempt.
 Hon. E. F. GreenIaw came up from Phoenix Sunday, and spent Monday and Tuesday at Chalender. returning to Phoenix on Wednesday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Grcenlaw, who will remain during the session of the legislature.
 John w. Ross came up from Will jams yesterday in the interests of D. J. Buckley, scalcr in the employ of ihe Saginaw Lumber Company, who was lodged in the county jail on tie charge of passing d forged order for S on Al Brown.
 Be it recorded that on Wednesday, February 27, the climate at Flagstaff was SO salutiferous and demulcent that several sturdy admirers of the nation; game hunted the garret for base ball and had glorious game of "catch. ' Our climate is ''beaut."
 Ed Randolph came in from Red Horse Tank Monday. He reports the snow four feet deep at his place and between Red Horse Tank and the rim of the Grand Canyon the snow is said to be from three to six feet deep and it will be six weeks yet before the trip can be made to the Canyon.
 In the supreme court at Phoenix in the case of the Arizona Lumber & Tim. Der Co. vs. William Mooney. who clalmed damages from defective saw, it was held that the injury might have been caused by fellow servant. and the decision was therefore reversed. A pew trial has been granted.
 The attracuqqs of the big city of Flagstaff are so manifold and allpring that the effort to organize a dramatic club has been abandoned. Various causes sf0 attributed to the lack of support which the movement received. but the one mentioned seems to have been tue principal reason of disrup tion.
 Two suits were begun in district court yesterday. One was tho Arizona Central Bank against J. F. Daggs and William Jackson, to recover 450O sheep and 22,000 pounds of wool at 1 cents a pound. The other is by J. A. Dimes against J. H. Hoskins, Jr., to recover 100 French Merino sheep valued at slO00.-Republican.
 The San Diego World" is at hand with the article entitled ,iSbort Route Lo the Sea-" which recently appeared in TIE CocoNINo SUN, fully reprinted. The article was comprehensive ex-