Arizona republican., 1898-09-14
SOUTH SIDE.

] Tempe, Ariz, Sept. 13-(Special Correspondence of The Republican J. William Wilson has returned from Silver King, where he took his sistsr, Miss Bertha, who will teach the school at that place.
 Deputy Sheriff William Moore and wife of Mesa are in Tempe today.
 Mrs w. T. Cummings returned from the coast this morning, where she has spent the summer.
 Miss Georgia Ho1mesly and Julia Nichols returned this morning from Jerome. where they have been spend ing their summers outing. They were eye witnesse sof the Jerome con1lagra- ton.
 P. B. McCabe is in Tempe from the Vekol. He says the new process is al last making money, the net income be- ing $2O0 some days and ranging neal it every day.
 Harry Bernard is slowly recovering from a ravaging siege of fever.
 The public school this morning opened with ten more scholars on the roll. In mentioning the different grades Of the school yesterday the second and part of the third grades were by some oversight left out. These scholars are under the charge of Miss Clara Miller and this morning num- bered tnirty-one.
 Frank F. Drew is down from Mesa today.
 John Biddlecome is back from Je- rome and is figuring on Charles N- Taylors new house.
 Alexander Baker. a man of extensive cattle interests on the San Pedro. drove into Tempe this morning from that river in a two-horse mountain cart.
 Miss Chatham opened the Double Butte school yesterday morning with twenty-one scholars.
 Henry Schoushusen is building 2 new roof over his house and adding two rooms, which improvements will give him a very rooyny residence. He hauled a load of lumber home from Tempe the other day. After stopping on getting inside the house yard he decided to unload little farther along and started his team, when one of the wagon wheels went to the ground broken beyond repair. MT. Schou- shusen says if he had not changed his mind he would have a good wheel yet.
 There has been considerable activity in Tempe water rights lately. Last week Valentine Cant and JudsOn liar mon each bought from the canal office a half right, and today J. NJ. Yaple bought a half right of Watson Pick Tell through w. A. Bolton's agency One hundred inches of water consti- tutes q whole share in the canal and one-half share will water a quarter section of land.
 Next Thursday William Strong'S haling outfit will pull out again and begin baling Neils Peterson's hay fol A. J. Peterson. The third and fourth crops will be put up. MT. Strong has more than 500 tons ahead of him COD tracted for to start out with.
 Justice Carley yesterday sent a Mex ican to Phoenix for ten days for being drunk, and another today for the same amount of time and for the same of fense. He has one more on the docke from whom there seems to be no fint forthcoming, and consequently he vii very likely be sent to Phoenix ,omor TOW for ten days.
 Water, water everywhere, yet not { Crop in sight Such is the condition O. affairs in Tempe today. The city council considered the Hoadley propo sition, left the town in m agitatet state and the meeting Of the stock holders Ot the Tempe canal called fol the purpose of considering the idea O consolidating both branches of tn, canal as far as E. G. Frankenberg' s has made this a water day without parallel. Groups of ranchmen stoot here and there on the streets all da. quietly discussing the consolidation scheme and other groups of Tempe cit izens could be seen almost franticall. hurling their arguments at each other while councilmanic. caucuses and wir pulling were going on in a sort of mys terious uneXpectedness The counci last. night would perhaps have ex pressed itself favorable to the Hoadle, proposition if the expected changes hal been made in it before it came befOr the council this time. The change looked for would allow the town to bu, the plant at. any time after five years would al the town of Tempe t