Arizona republican., 1898-07-07
SOUTH SIDE.
,NANAAE EXPERIMENTATION

Tempe, Ariz., July 6.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)- Dr. Charles H. Jones, Mrs. John Stelz- reide and o. c. Smith went to Phoenix today.
 T. Nicholas will build himself a barn in the rear of his Mill avenue meat market
 Rev. s. L. Guthrie and wife have postponed their departure to Califor- mia until next Friday.
 Four cars of hay will be shipped out of Tempe tonight and A. J. Peters will pay the freight on three of them. James Baird will ship two cars of cat tle to Fl Paso tonight.
 Tie river has risen. There were 30,000 miners inches of water in it this morning
 Justice Meyers is building harrow for himself while court business is dull. a- People are still struggling into town from Phoenix after the glorious Fourth The railroad has plenty of trackwalkerS and the road between the two towns has been minutely in spected. It is sad to note that the new calling does not agree with some of the poor fellows, as scattered at various intervals along the side of the rails are indications of grea5 up- heavals produced by internal erup- tions.
 A Mexican son-in-law yesterday con- cluded to give his fathar-in-law family licking. The father-in-law enterej Justice Meyers court and se- cured , say of proceedings The matter rests just that way.
 It is now almost certain that the cement sidewalk will be laid from the Farmers and Merchants bank TO the Deggs corner.
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 Mesa City, Ariz., July 6.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)- J. D. LOper and wife and A. P. Shew- man went to Phoenix today.
 Johnson Bros. shipped sixty boxes of fruit today.
 Dr. Conuor ald Captain John Null leu came up from Phoenix today.
 The Woodmen lodge is having cleo tric lights put in their hall.
 Ben Goldman and Mons Eliingson of Tempe are in town today.
 Frank Murray was the Mesa man Il Barracks last night.
 The great reaction after the Fourth set in this morning when Mesa woke up and found itself asleep.
 Nat Brupdage is loading produce and will leave for Globe tomorrow or next day.
 Two Indian boys passed through Mesa today en route from the Indian vxv7o how will visit with their people for few days previous to departure for the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. After a course in that institution they will be sent to Paris to the worlds exposition in 1900.
 The east branch of the Consolidated canal was damaged a great deal by the rain. It will cost $1, 800 to repair it.
 The city council met last night and are engaged with their work as a board Of equalization. They will alsc visit the cemetery as a body in the near future and see what can be done to beautify these much neglected prem ises.
 Mrs. Hill left on Saturday for Sal Lake, where she will spend the sum mer.
 A large party of Mesa people l: forming for a months outing on tn Natural Bridge.
 The rain was a fortune to the val icy It came just in time to saw fruits and vines. The Concord grap would have been a rare thing in tn market had the rain not come whel it did. It has put the ground in splen did condition for corn and there vii likely be a very large percentage 0 grain ground planted to corn, espe cially as many believe this will be comparatively wet summer, which it is. will grow immense yields Of corr
 The prize for the best float in tn Fourth of July parade has not yf been awarded.