Arizona republican., 1898-02-16
The South Side


 Correspondence of The Republican.)- Niels Peterson, B. J. George and Wal ter s. Johnston, Dr. Chandler, A. J. Peters and Mrs. Curt W. Miller went to Phoenix today
 Charles Hall owner of the Mammoth mine at Goldfeld. with J. c. Johnson of Mesa, are in towr today. Mrs. F. M. Doan is in town today. R. G. Finch is repairing and gravel ing his sidewalk and approaches in front of his stable. T. J. Parry is also fixing up the walls and setting out trees in front of his shop
 Professor A. H. Fulton of the String town schools made the normal days visit yesterday. c. T. Hayden was a caller there today.
 and child here at the Hayden this noon, coming from Visalia, Cal.
 Mrs. McCamly, who has been near 1 heart, is much better today. i Otto Eberhardt, leader of the Pio- neer band Judge Kibbey, Dr. Norton, i Butcher Tribolet, Sylvester Andrade, Assessor Luke and Deputy Neri Os- 1 born, E. B. Sinclair for Barkley- 1 Bergman, L. M. Francis, selling War Crys, were up from Phoenix today. Professor Gulley of the canaigre company was here last night.
 Boon Lewis and Walter Gates have returned from their prospecting ex- petition.
 Last night carload of green canal gre roots was shipped to Jersey City, N. J., for the purpose of testing slicing machine that is being built there.
 | William McFadden returned last night from a trip to his cattle range in Gila county.
 H. Pollard of Big Bug, and w. H. Patterson are registered at the Tempe i hotel.
 I. B. Fage has gone to finish w. T. 1 Trussler's house.
 1 Rean Wiggins will move his saloon across the street into Ben Goldman's | building, East Tempe, the first of the month. o. s. Douglas will paper the building throughout. He is now 1 painting Dr. Scroggs' house.
 The city council of Mesa has con- l tracted with A. J. Chandler to take ten electric lights for the town. It i seems an assured fact that Mesa will be lighted with electricity now. [ Ten cars of cattle went out of here last night. A car of lumber came in 1 this morning for H. W. Ryder. Two Kyrene.
 W. J. Kingsbury and wife, Pro- i lessor Grindell and Miss Martha Gage drove over to Phoenix tonight to attend the Entre Nous club.
 Tho cifu council mot 1oct nj met with a clash and the first contro- versy and disagreement in it's history was raised. Money was appropriated to pay for work done on Mill avenue so far. A. J. Chandler came before the council in the electric light mat ter and made a talk, but he was not yet ready with all his plans. John Smith, a milk peddler, objected to his license, saying that if he was com pelled to pay S10 a year he would have to go out of business. On being told that the council was compelley to levy 1 that much license anyway, he said he would be around today and pay up. l w. A. Bolton protested that his in l surance business was taxed too much. ! The matter was referred to the ordi- ! nance committee. Dr. Jones said he was not taxed enough. He offered to i cement and gravel Sixth street from Mill avenue two blocks west, provid- ing the council would do the grading, which would cost $15. The proposi- tion was thankfully received. Before vote was taken, however, the propo- sition was put to grade Fourth street two blocks west. Then came the first break in the exceptionally smooth pro- ceedings of the present city council, which was by it's actions promising so much for Tempe Half the council thought it could not do both and the other half, although in favor of doing both streets, considered that Fourth street should take precedence over Sixth street. Dr. Jones then offered to give $5 toward grading Sixth street On this proposition the deadlock re- mained. Dr. Jones then withdrew his entire proposition and shortly after the council adjourned. Each mem- ber's temper was very nearly beyond control. The matter will very likely be adjusted, however, as the principal objection of the opposition to grading Fourth street is that the council has no assurance that the taxnavers will