Arizona republican., 1898-08-17
SOUTH SIDE.

worth and Dr. Charles H. Jones went to Phoenix today Mons Ellingson and wife and Col Shultz and wife left today for Flagstaff where they will spend several weeks.
 The NJ & P is experiencing another car famine The cars are wanted and but two could be had A. J. Peters is loadng three cars with hay toiay
 w. W. Dobson and Woolf Sachs re turned from California today.
 The river last night rose and fell 5000 inches.
 Miss May Austin has secur. q the school at upper Lehi This will be very grat- flying to the young ladys friends
 The city council is building new waste ditch for the carrying off of the water that runs down Fifth and Sixth streets w T. Cummings has his Missouri mules showing the dirt sideways for the ditch.
 Miss Mare Sweeney s isiting friends at Yuma.
 Messrs. Jina and Jack Gtbson Of Phoe nix are on the south side today.
 Wade Rulings of Phoenix is on the south side today building republican fences.
 A meeting will be held at Kingsbury's hall next Saturday night for the purpose of organizing a Young Mems Republ can club.
 Joe Monihon and Lee Gray, democratic candidates. are on the south side today making a final roundup before the con- vention-
 Sheriff Mel Greenleaf of Yuma was here this morning Walter Bolton showed him about town and through the normal building. Mr. Greenleaf is here looking for a place for his family, who will come here for the purpose of allowing their children to attend the ro.mal and pubic schools.
 Fisher Bailey has Q new heir He thinks it is the best boy ever born.
 pr. G. 4. Scroggs had very lively and enjoyable time with his pet family mule. "Rosanetta-" IL is one of the finest lit tie animals in the world. Never has it been known to do anything Lad. Mrs. Scroggs has ridden it something like 200 miles, and in all its history its decerum has been the most refined Built is Very likely that it objected seriously to man like Dr. Seroggs riding it. so it put up mule job on him. When the doctor put the saddle on it swelled up and filled the cinch about three inches more than nor nal. The doctor mounted and rode down town, where it again shrunk back to it's normal size, made a shy and sent the saddle around underneath itself. The doctor traveied with the saddle to the amusement of his friends The mule was not from Missouri. so it didn't do any kicking. but allowed it's rider to get up and square himself With the crowd.
 MESA.
 Mesa City. Ariz., Aug. 1G.-(special Cor respondence of The Republican.)-R E. Fisher, Dr. Sabin James Ta,ney, B. NJ Johnson, Miss Steel. Mrs. Fulton and Mrs. Fuller went to Phoenix today. Mrs. : Fuller left for Pine and will be met at Prescott by her husband.
 Johnson Bros. shipped forty boxes of fruit today.
 The democratic delegates to the county convention from Lehi are: Soren Soren- son, T. P. Biggs and D. R. Jones.
 Ben Goldman and William Goodwin of Tempe are in Mesa today.
 Code and Salter are surveying the ground for their new business block of three stories.
 w. L. Shrine and wife will leave for Final on Saturday.
 Ed Tovrea, J. c. Boyd. Joseph Camp bell, A. J. Edwards J. ". Walker, Joe Moniilon and Lee Gray are in Mesa to- day Most of these gentlemen are demo- cratic candidates for some office or other.
 The akes-Rogers-Leavitt party left this morning for the Finals.
 Mrs. Molly Rogers and daughter re- turned this morning from Prescott. There was a party Of old folks gathered at the home of D. c. Babbitt last evening in honor Of that gentieman's tifty-sixth birthday. Refreshments and reminis- cences were enjoyed.
 T. P. Banta raised 72.240 pounds of wheat on thirty acres of land. This is the largest yield yet reported He has corn three feet high and reports his whole twenty-eight acres doing nicely.
 On September F the Young Ladies Mu- tual Improvement association will hold its annual meeting. Shortly after it. with the Y. Nj. M. I. A. will hold grand banquet, reception and dance.
 The Good Templars will have a social on Saturday night next in the old Bee Hive storeroom. Ice cream and take will be 10 cents and number of vs tors are expected to be present from Tempe and Phoenix
 Miss Mamie Hayler left this afternoon fer Goldfeld. where she wilt be the guest for a month or so of Andrew Dob- bic and family. She has heen in ill health for some time and was accompa- nied by Miss Williams as nurse
 W. E. Pomeroy today received a letter from T. W. Brown at Bonan City. So- nora, Mexico. where Mir Ponleroy was while away. Here Messrs. Turnbull and Garrett are operating placer mine. MT. Pomeroy says there is gold there, but it is rather an up hill undertaking, as great difficulty is had in obtaining water and when secured it is necessary to pump it to a considerable elevation to attain hydraulic pressure to operate with The letter stated that a. run had been fin- ished, but that the cl5an-up was not yet made and it is not known how feasible the proposition is
 There were twelve delegates elected yesterday to the populists' convention They are: G. w. Woy, B. M. Johnson L. B. Johnson. J. l.. Turnbott, Frank Pur- wis. James Thurman, Phil Coleman John T. Coleman, Dan Dorobeugh. MT. Brown TT ala otoI