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

TEMPE.
 J. T. Moore is back from his health
 trip to California and is much inn
 proved.
 pr. G. A. Scroggs spent Sunday afternoon at Phoenix
 Woolf Sachs returned from an exten-
 sive business trip to southern Cali fornia.
 w. J. Kingsbury left yesterday for a short business visit to Casa Grande.
 MT. Sturtevant's representative, Cap tain c. A. Weeks, is in town in the interest of the water works
 Today will be a busy one for Tempe The much discussed election will be held.
 Dr. Charles H. Jones was a profes- sional visitor in the city of Mesa yes terday afternoon.
 Mark Redden returned yesterday from Jerome.
 Charles Mullen leaves this morning with. number of cowboys for the fall round up near Livingston
 Rev. Scharabrough, presiding elder of the M E. church, south, returned from the northern part of the territory yesterday.
 At meeting of the southern branch of the Tempe canal stockholders last Saturday V. Cant, Harry Hancock and Byron Carr were elected directors for the ensuing year. Next Saturday the western branch will hold it's annual election at this place.
 Tempe was shocked yesterday morn ing by the death of Mrs. R. A. Iron which took place at her home on Eighth street Mrs. Iron had been in poor health for some time but no one thought that the end was so near. Mrs. Iron was charming woman, loved and respected by all who knew her. She was a liberal patron If charities and all benevolent institu- tions Dudley I. Craig, son of the deceased woman, was at her side, but her husband is at the ranch in Plnal county, to which place Q courier has been dispatched. The funeral will he held at o'clock today. Interment will be made at the Double Butte cemetery
 The sewerage pipes connecting the new hotel with the river are all laid and the work finished. The pipe is six inch, hard clay and well underground with plenty of fall With this line of pipes the hotel has the best of drainage systems -'
 Among the most prominent features of the new hotel are the large veran- das and the glass dome over the eleva- tor from which all Tempe and sur rounding country can be viewed. A view not easily surpassed. The hotel will be ready for occupation within a month. Then commercial travellers as we'll as resort seekers can fully satisfy their tastes in Tempe.
 This mornings sun will break on q decisive day for Tempe. Whether or not the sun will set on a grand day, re- mains for the people to say. The op- | position to the bonds has condensed it's | argument to the assertion that Tempe | cannot afford water works and dove 1 tail into this another assertion that | Tempe will not support the system. It [ is set forth that the taxes will be in creased to such an abnormal amount | that the property owners will be rid | den to ruin and that the people will not take water These statements are condensed to figures. The town will be compelled to raise s, 100 annually. which it can never do.
 The bond supporters have answered these arguments in clear terms. The S5, 100 is made up of the following items: sinking fund, s1,50O; interest, S1, 800; running expenses at $50 per l month S1 800 Allowing, to begin with. that the estimated running eX- penses are not too high, the town will not nave to stunt 1tSeIf to pay It's lla- bilities. At a low and safe estimate the sum of $3,672 annually will be de rived from water receipts. This sub tracted from $5, 100 leaves a balance of $1, 42S. which must still be provided for and for which a few misinformed voters believe will have to be raised by taxation. The city last year raised by a property tax $1, 300, which was put into public improvements. This money can be used by the city for any pur- pose The property valuation has in creased to a large extent this year and if the whole S1.428 cannot be paid from this fund the deficiency will be so small that it would be paid by sub taken in half hours work. There is no room left for calamity alarms on account of increased taxes { Because this money would be taken from the streets, cannot deter anyone from voting for the bonds. as city water is vastly more important to f Tempe than graveIed streets. Tempes i streets are improved, anyway, better than the streets of any other town, : in the territory.
 The contention that the people of Tempe will not take the water is ri 4 1iculous. No town which has city water ever begged for consumers Of | hat water. That the people are too poor, is an assertion that can in no ! way be any benefit to Tempe. The . people of Tempe are not wealthy, but ' Ire practically all welI-tO-dO. No | | Tempean was ever before known to 2