Arizona republican., 1898-10-17
SOUTH SIDE.

Tempe, Ariz. Oct. 16-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)- J. Charles H. Davidson Is up from Phce- nix today.
 Curt w. Miller WAS a traveller to ths capital this afternoon.
 As usual number of south siders went down to the train last night after it had left.
 Judge Howell is down again from Tonto.
 The tide of travel is toward Globe again.
 There have been less cattle shipped cut of the valley this fall than in any previous fall for a number Of years. Why it is so cannot be definitely un- derstood unless it be the drcuth in California has caused California cattle to be thrown on the home markets at any price almost.
 The war with Spain, perhaps, is over, yet the world moves on in it's ever changing glints and lines. The thunder peals and the sun shines, though the American people thought the Spanish war being over there would be nc more thunder nor flashing lights. It WAS because they were deafened by the nearness of the noise, for soon could be heard again the dis tant rumblings and seen the scintil- lating colors cn the horizon of the great world. The battle of Omdurman has been fought and won, the Minne- scta Indians have risen and fallen again, the peace commission is still ending the war which still exists be- tween the United States and Spain, preparations are being made, issues forming and armies drawn up already for the greatest battle Of ballots, the greatest contest of principles in the history of the world-the campaign Of 1900-and the local campaign is on at ts height. Yet there is nothing to read about.
 Miss Woodie Kay, Miss Mamie Meagher, MT. James Kane and Mir. Richard Girard formed party which drove tci Phoenix this afternoon.
 A GARDEN OF THE SOUTH.
 A family of immigrants came into the vallsy one day last week. They were the very highest type Of American people, the kind who honor any section they settle in, whc help to build up a new country into a matchless common wealth because Of their intelligence and progressiveness. Such were they as they sat in the Mesa train and gazed out Of the car window at the panorama of beauty before them as the train sped on it's way. They evidently had never been in a country dependent on irrigation for its development. It was a sight of wonder and pleassre to them. Trees, orchards, grain, fruit, grass, corn, homes; yet nothing, if 1t were not fir the water trickling and rushing through the endless ditches and canals. Here was a newly sown field being flooded with water, across the way a beautiful home. Next out through the great cottonwocds could be seen a great alfalfa field dotted here and there with ricks of hay. A hedge row closed it out and the next picture was a scene Of grazing nerds Of cattle, fat and sleek and content. A rumble and a canal was crossed, another field, more cattle and homes, a rising sen sation, a rumble, a roar. Look. There it was; it was the source, the twin ca nals of the Tempe system, flowing si- lent and significant. IL was gone, the trees wsre gone, everything was gone. away stretched the desert. Verdure could be seen hare 2nd th7rs in tne distance, but 1t was like the flicker ilgs -f the past. Suddenly the view