Arizona republican., 1899-10-16
SOUTH SIDE.
TEMPE.

B. B. Goodrich of ''The Breeze" spent last evening at Phoenix.
 Several of Tempe's young men at tended the base ball game at the Phoe- nix park yesterday.
 The normal foot ball grounds are being put in fine condition for the game next Saturday with the Indians.
 The Maricopa train was four hours late yesterday.
 Mrs. I. B.Page was a passenger to Phoenix on last evenings excursion.
 Messrs. Ben and Joe Porter of Phoe- nix were south side visitors Sunday.
 Wesley Hill spent Sunday at Tempe and Mesa.
 As the quail law was out yesterday quite a number were out gunning.
 Miss Kittie and John Harter of Con gress spent Saturday at this place. They were the guests of MT. and Mrs. Carroll, returning to Congress yester- day.
 Miss Margaret Hughes came down from Wickenburg Saturday and spent Sunday visiting relatives, returning to Wickenburg last evening. Miss Hughes is principal of the Wickenburg public schools.
 The Breeze" is serving fresh oysters in any style and they are served in
 
 The lecture given at the M. E. church last evening was well attended and appreciated by all present.
 Miss Edna and Philo Ozanne spent yesterday at Mesa visiting friends
 Chris Sigala, catcher for the Grim son Rims" team. caught for the True Blues" yesterday at Phoenix in the game between the DeMund and True Blues.
 Miss Bertha Wilson was elected Sat urday evening by the trustees to fill the position created by them as teacher in the Tempe public school Miss Wilson is a member of the class of '93 and has taught five successful years in the territory.
 All arrangements have been made for the foot ball game between the normal and university teams. The game is to be played at Tucson on Thanksgiving, and being the first con test between the schools will certainly be an interesting event.
 The principal of nearby school was so deeply interested in Tempe Sunday | morning that he missed the outgoing train and had to wheel it out of town on bike
 Bert Morgan is serving fresh oysters in any style in his confectionery store.
 Milton Meyers. our local repairer, spent Sunday evening in the capital
 The score of the Indian Monarch | foot ball game was 17 to : in favor of | the Indians. The game was played ! at the Indian school last Saturday.
 The town council and a number of | citizens went over to the Butte last | evening and selected a site for the well | for the water works. The site is about | 220 feet in height, which will give the pressure wanted for the town
 A large number of Tempeites took advantage of the excursion last even ing and went over to the band concert.
 T. P. Jones is a great admirer of wild forms of animal life and curios. His latest in this line in the show win dow is a live rattlesnake. It is four feet long and of the black diamond va riety, which is the most poisonous and dangerous kind of reptile in the world. It draws large crowds while it winds it's way around the large glasses and throws out it's tongue.
 MESA
 Saturday the river fell to 50,000 inches. The greater part of the day water was running in the Highland canal Thursday night when the water first came down the river rose s5,GJ0 inches in an incredibly short time. John Coleman, who was at the head of the Highland canal, said the crest of the flood was one mass of driftwoOd from shore to shore. The driftwood filled the head of the canal from bot tom to top. Will PoIneroy worked all night in an effort to make a pass age for the water that would prove sodsend to the lands under the canal. He first cleaned out a shallow channel gan on the lower end of the jam in the canal some rods below the head. Later I in the morning he had succeeded in floating the whole jam down the river | md down the canal. The canal had ! 'un of 2,OO0 inches for about two hours. | The head of the Consolidated canal is l 50 large and so arranged that it was C lot choked by the extraordinary : imount of drift Large quantities of {, however, went down to the division r gates. There was too much of it to be pulled out, and water was far greater $ necessity than dry roads and door 0 ards, so the whole thing was turned - oose on the mesa. Every headgate md every check gate was closed and n some cases the water was thrown ntirely out of the laterals. There was lot a great deal of water lost, how ver, as the thirsty ranchers soon got ut and kept the water moving in it's roper channels.
 Hon. C. R. flakes and Hon. H. C. HERE IS BUT ONE {