Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-05
Tempe Department.
From Wednesdays Daily.


 R 0 Lowell was here today looking after his Normal School work.
 Mrs. Ashby Hawee, Mrs. Chas. H Jones, Mrs. B Price, Mrs. G A Scrogge Miss Mae Austin, Me. ard Mrs. Niels Peterson and Grandpa Decker expect to join tomorrow's excursion to the coast.
 If Andree, the seroneut, would quit botheFing with the north pole ard es- ssblieb balloon line between here and Klondyke he would perhaps find 1t more profitable investment, eat more regularly and spend more of his even- ings et home. Then, too, he might make pretty spec by stealing Arizona wstsrmelons and selling them in Alaska tor their weight in gold
 From Thuradsy's Daily.
 Two cars of honey will be shipped east on tonight's trsir.
 Waiter Kibbey, Lloyd Dlmspon, Frank Halliday, Phoenix, end H. Hauer- bar, Tempe, regIstered yesterday ct the Tempe House.
 Hon. Nisls Peterson did not join the excursion this morning, his cattle busi- ness requiring his attention at present during the eesson of scarcity of water. Quite delegation of Tempe people will go to Phoenix tonighs to attend the l Governor'e reception. It is possible an excursion wilt be run over the Mese line.
 l " G Gates returned thIs morning | after weeks absence and notWith- standing he had big sack of gold rock ! he firmly denied that he had been to
 Alaska. He proved au elibi by saying that he hsd been in the mountains E hundred miles south west of Case Grende exporting a gold mine which 1 promises well. There ere shres shafts
 on the claim aud hs has every reasor
 50 believe ii will prove 8 good property
 Geo Kane of Phoenix arose this 1 morning to ses the eclipse of the sun 1 After washing bis facs he forgot Whst
 he got up for he took sn eight mile
 bicycle spin to the grand canal snc back Is was still too eaely for breakfes l so he rode over to Tempe where he saw
 she local astronomers studying ths l heavens with a smoked glass. The occasion of his esriy rising occurred tc
 him and he took hand, or rather sr eye, in the observation, located 6 few new spots on the sun and rode back te l Phoenix.
 1 A prominent Tempe clsizen remarked that Governor MoOord's greatest re 1 sponsibility and that which should olsim his earliest sttenti is the recon mending of suitable candidate for the
 Tempe postmsstership; thus preventing the nervous prostratiou of stesn sppli osnts, which is likely to ensue if the suspense lasts much longer. 4 lot oi them feel that they have alFesdy beer beaten ont of two OF three months sal. | sRy- ln the Gnbernatorial contest. Strange to say She msu who made the remark is one of the few sonthsideTe who sRe not aspiring to the place. | Wonder if we oouldn't have 8 branch office in East Tempe?
 | The excursion tFein which passed through Tempe early this morning, es was announced, made 8 flying trip They only had au hour to make the run l from Phoenix 60 Maricops h order 60 make connection, so they only stopped in Te6s.pe long enough to take on board those wbo> were ready aud waiting. The result was shab Mss May Austin missed the sraih> by 200 yards, and Mrs Ashby Hayes miahs just ss we'll have missed, fog after she got aboard the srsin sssrted sad her husband jumped hsr money. She oeme back from Mar ioopa this morning and will have to wait another day.