Arizona republican., 1898-08-15
SOUTH SIDE.

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 Tempe, Ariz, Aug. 14-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)- About twenty people went down to the band concert tonight.
 F ". Butler. Professor Vanderhoof and wife and A. R. McCamley returned from Prescott this morning.
 H. M. Willis and Ezra W Thayer of Phoenix are up today.
 Politics is the only thing talked about today. The democratic prj maries yesterday has brought them forward in surprising manner. The Tempe delegation IS composed Izyrene held it's first primary election yesterday and very or derly affair it was, too Perhaps this will sound strange to some people, but it was not only orderly, but it was nearly a temperance gathering. A flask Of whisky was brought out to soak the primary up, but To. out of sixteen voters but five would touch the liquor, and they seemed ashamed of themselves. Even the candidates felt strange as they tipped the glistening bottle to their lips. Kyrene is pc culiar place. The best people in the world live there. but they have record and believe in maintaining it. With this object in view the result of the election was not much of a sur prise when it was discovered that no choice had been made between the two candidates. G. s. Johnson and H. F. Collins. Both were given creden- tials and each will. perhaps. appear before the convention with a half vote and whole influence.
 f'Now I can bathe my weary soul
 In seas of endless rest
 And not a wave of trouble roll
 Across my peaceful breast"
 These reverent words were heard to escape Conductor Walter Porter's lips one day last week as he stood in the side door of the baggage car and while the Mesa train was passing through the new split switch at Tempe The sfnb switch has been taken up and no longer will important passengers have to wait 8 half hour for the switch to be opened and no more will the train crew have to turn out to a man in the blistering sun and handle red-hot rails, go down the track forty roGs, take out rail and then with several sledgehsmmers pound the track back from the switch to close the gap and make it possible for the -ends in the switch to move by each other. If the removal of rail did not afford sufficient room to move the track back the sledgehammer circle 1t would resolve itself into a bucket brigade, and reinforced by some of the passengers, this layout would 1carTy water from the water tanks on the tender aud from a nearby canal and pour it on the swelled track until it had cooled and shrunk sufficient to mest the requirements of the oc- casion. It is altogether likely that fhe old stub switch was the cause of Conductor Harris rheumatism. which made it necessary for him to take his family and go to the coast to get his mind and body in normal condition again. He can be looked for back soon, for as soon as he reads this ar ticle he will become possessed of the courage to return to his own again.
 Yesterday while working with his brazer. M. H. Meyers narrowly es- caped death from an explosion of the air compressor which sent the top of the cylinder through the ceiling and tore lip things generally.
 MESA.
 Mesa City, Ariz., Aug. 14.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican)- Something like forty people went down to the band concert this even ing.
 Thomas F'lannigan, H. M Willis. Ezra w. Thayer. Jack Gibson, Robert Banta, John Powell. T. F. Randolph, J. F Johnson and c. B. Goodell came up from Phoenix today.
 Miss Sic Allison returned from Prescott this morning.
 George Gam and wife came up from Phoenix today to call on their old friends.
 The subject discussed by the theo- logical class of the Mormon church today was the "Pre-existence of Spir- 1ts.''
 Yesterday evening as the Mesa train was passing Knights crossing at Tempe an eccentric on the left side of the engine broke. delaying the train a half hour. The broken part and the driving beam had to be re- moved so as to throw the left cyiip- der out of action. This morning g when the engine was run on the turn table the driving beam on the right side stnpped on the tad canter and
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