Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-30
SOUTH SIDE.
TEMPE.

TEMPE.
! Charles Woolf was business visitor
at Phoenix yesterday
R. G. Finch drove over to the cap
ital city yesterday.
"A J. Peters was business visitor
at Mesa yesterday.
H L. Chandler was down from
Mesa yesterday.
Roy Hill spent yesterday forenoon
at Mesa.
Forest Richmond of Phoenix was
pleasant visitor at Tempe yesterday.
Mrs. Clark Churchill of Mesa was in
town Friday visiting her son, Briggs
Goodrich.
DR.. Charles Jones was a business
visitor at Mesa yesterday forenoon.
Mack Browning left yesterday for
Glendale, where he. will spend several
days visiting friends
Bud Penn returned yesterday from
his ranch at Pina1. He reports ranges
and stock in a 1ourishing condition.
Superintendent B.. F. Porter of the
NJ. & P. railroad spent Friday in Mesa
and Tempe looking after the interests
of his road on the south side.
William Fellows, who was going as
a teamster with the boys, has a new
plan on foot. If he can get the names
of twenty men who will enlist in the
Thirty-fourth infantry, in with
case Lieutenant Luna will return to
Arizona to muster them into the ser
vice, he will have another chance OF
seeing the Philippines.
Col. McCord was a pleasant visitor
at Tempe last Friday. The colonel |
spoke we'll of Tempe in regard to its
new buildings that are going up.
J. M. Lewis, the popular watermelon |
man of Tempe, says that he has six |
acres of watermelons and from this
he picks not less than a hundred and /
twenty-five pounds each. and the |
melon harvest generally lasts about a
hundred days, if not more. The mar
ket price for melons now is $12 per
ton, and from this statement two
hundred tons will be gathered from
this small patch of six acres. If all
the melons could be gathered at the
right time, this patch would be worth i
$500 per acre. Mr. Lewis has been
in the melon business for seven years,
and he has the reputation of growing
the best melons on the south side.
Many of these melons are exchanged to
the Indians for wheat, mesquite posts
and many other things the red man
has to sell, and every day Mr. Lewis
brings to town about sixty of his mel
ons, and long before night he starts
home with an empty wagon
MESA.
Mr.. ]. w. Drew Oh the Mesa Lumber
company spent yesterday in Phoenix
IN business for his firm
Mrs. Walter spent yesterday in
Phoenix visiting friends.
Leroy Hill spent yesterday in Mesa
cooking after his interests n the hi
,ycle store.
Professor Forbes of the University
II Arizona spent yesterday in Mesa
ooking over the Trippel almond or
lard.
The commercial interests of Mesa
re steadily forging to 9ne front One
hundred crates of fruit and produce.
wo cars of hay and three cars of I
wheat were shipped out yesterday.
Messrs. Brizzee and Scott spent
'esterday in Phoenix on business
A. J. Peters spent yesterday at
tesa looking after his grain interests
t this place.
The Mesa Hay and Grain company's l
hresher left last night for Florence /
D do the threshing at thatapIace. =
Ayoung cyclone swept through the
I
amp on Friday. The mill properly
nd other buildings owned by James
carries at the Highland mine were
licked up bodily and carried down the
3nyon. All property in the immedi~ n
te vicinity suffered considerable dam O
ge. No lives were repokted lost by 7
'. A Kimball, who lately returned :
ON Goldffeld. j
The family of B. NJ Johnson gave L
i'm birthday surprise party on Fri
ay evening at his residence in Mesa. c
large party of friends and the mem
ers of the family were present and I
Il report very happy time Mr..
0hnson has reached his eighty-first
ear and is still hale and hearty.
The carload of buggies and wagons !,
II the Abel-Wilbur-M Mullen Hardware :.
,mpany arrived on Friday and this l
,lendid new stock is now on exhibit n
on at their stores in Mesa and Tempe. 7
In a recent interview with Mr. Olsen +
the Utah Canal company the writer :,
altered the following facts of the
ouble which occurred recently at @
Ell between some of the stockholders a.
the said canal. 1t seems that some 9
the stockholders at the lower end t:
the canal, acting under the advice P
their attorneys, had gone up to :,
chi to lake out the headgates of =
me of the Lehi stockholders, who II
e said to be using water Illegally Ii
scause of not having their shares w
ansferred into the Utah canal before n,
sing the Utah canal water and were
king out these gates when Mr.. Bill p
ps, who was returning from Mesa, e.
}peared upon the scene demanding fl
at the work of taking the gates ont n
stopped. Mr.. Billups not being able @.
stop Them by argument and strong p
nguage, said he would get some al
ing that would stop them. After Mr.. g;
illups had gone soma of the party n,
ert before Justice Bfggs to swear =.
1t q, warrant against Mr.. Rillups and -
lring their absence Mr.. Billups re- d
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