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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-30
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS.

Board met pursuant to adjournment
Joseph NORM, chairman; and commiss'
toner's Adam Norton, F. G. Myrick and
John X. Olafson, present.
Claim of Demarse Bros. against Drain
33 for labor and material furnished
amounting to s3l.0O audited and on mo-
ton duly seconded and carried, allowed
and warrant issued for the amount OF
same.
Claim of Gust Ostrum for refund OF
&c. 80 amount of 1908 taxes enormously
paid on $780, 90 excess valuation placed
on lots Z and 8, block II. st. Thomas,
duly audited and on motion duly second
ed and carried, allowed and refund
warrant ordered issued for the amount
of same.
Road petition from Beaulieu township
petitloning that road beginning at the
Sc corner of sec. 81, twp. 16l, range S.,
between Cavalier and Pembina counties,
and running west 179 rods, thence north
s rods, thence west 22 rods, thence south
5 rods, thence west 20 rods, thence north
5 rods, thence west IA rods, thence south
5 rods, thence west "a rods terminating
at the southwest corner of sec. 81, twr.
l61, range Sc be opened, read and on mo-
ton duly seconded and carried. Com
missioners Adam Norton and John X.
Olafson are hereby appointed as COM
mittee to meet with the commissioners
from Cavalier county to look over pro-
posed road. June 5th set as day for
looking over road.
The following claims were duly audit
ed and on motion duly, seconded and
carried. allowed and warrants ordered
issued for the amount of same.
The Herald Printing Co., blanks % 20
Crystal Csll, publishing comm'r
proceedings $500. ...... ..... 10 70
L H Simkins, goods furnished CO.
pr.-Mrs Jos Boyer .......:... 13 25
" r Moorhead, coffin for pauper,
John Doe ................ ia 70 90
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-30

The following claims having been duly
andited we're on motion duly seconded
and carried, allowed and warrants order
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
PERSONAL NOTES.

NIT. and Mrs. J. NJ Reisinger of Phoenix stopped over here at the Olive on their way to California on their wedding tour.
 Miguel Sadra was sent to the county jail for ten days yesterday by Justice of the Peace Carr on a misdemeanor charge
 The cement crosswalk on Seventh street has been completed and work was yesterday started on another walk on East Fifth street.
 Owen T. Smith returned to Cochise county last evening after spending a few weeks here with the Vanderwalk- CTS.
 Al Miller is absent on another trip to Roosevelt with a party of Phoenix gentlemen, one of which is Governor Kibbey.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. R. Clark's baby has been seriously i'll for the past week. but is now improving.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Marshall of Phoenix were visitors on the south side yesterday
 w. F. Hitchcock of San Bernardino. cattle buyer is here after another shipment of cattle.
 c. B. Wood of Phoenix was a visitor here yesterday.
 Don't forget the Closing Out Sac at Iukins
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

accommodate twenty people, when a bridge at Tempe would serve five thousand people who have to go to the county seat to pay taxes, and when these same people spend thou sands of dollars with the merchants of Phoenix each year. If you have any doubt of the number of south side people who trade in Phoenix watch the Mesa train from Tempe and Mesa few mornings and even ings. If you have any doubt as to the number that would drive, look at the increase in fares this year over last year. It has been impossi- ble to ford at Tempe for nearly six months.
 We have been criticised by some of the persons interested in the bridge at Heard's ranch because we mention NIT. Heard in this discussion. They say that We are making a personal fight of the matter. The fact of the matter is that no one planes Mir. Heard for trying to get the taxpayers to let him have their money to build bridge at his ranch and mostly for his own personal benefit Most any other man under the same circum- stances would do the same. But we do intend to let the taxpayers have the facts, no matter whom they strike The fact alone that MT. Heard and his associates find it necessary to raise bonus in order to try and get the vote of the county shows that they recognize the weakness of their po- sition and are trying to influence the taxpayers to vote for the bridge at Heards ranch when they know that If the question were left to a vote of the taxpayers on the merits of the case they would not have one chance in a hundred. Now if this sort of ar gument is personal, we intend to be personal However, in our opinion this is not personal. We are making no fight against MT. Heard as an in dividual, but we do object to the plans of Mir. Heard as the representa- tive of the Bartlett Heard Land & Cattle company, when these same plans have for their object the buiId- ing of bridge at a point where most of the taxpayers do not want it and the building of which would be an in- jury to our town under present con- ditions.
 As has been stated before, Mir. Heard's proposed road would pass through the country a mile south of
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
The Principal Reason For a Bridge South of Center
 Street-Figure it for Yourself

The citizens recognize the fact that if the location of the bridge across Salt river was left to a vote of the taxpayers on the merits of the case, that no taxpayer would vote for a bridge at Mir. Heard's ranch. We are certain that nothing would please us better than to have every taxpayer in the county take a trip to the end of Center street, cross the river and drive to Tempe. If they should do this there is no doubt that every per- son who is not a land owner near the site of the proposed Center street bridge would vote for the Tempe To- cation.
 The site at Tempe is the best for a bridge that can be found in the Salt River valley. The river at this point has good banks, there is rock on both sides of the river, the bridge can never be wider than 1400 feet. The present road is three miles shorter from Tempe to Phoenix and two miles shorter from Mesa. It is a good road upon which the county has spent thousands of dollars. has been gray eled from one end to the other and can be put in first class shape for a small cost. It is the shortest route between the centers of population in this county and when the reclama- ton service builds its new canal to connect with the Appropriators', it will run for three miles along the bank of the canal, a perfect highway that can be shaded from one end to the other.
 On the other hand, the road through Mir. Heard's ranch will have to be graded and graveled. This will cost the county more than it will to build the Tempe bridge and much more than is offered as a bonus by the land own CTS who would be benefited by a bridge at MT. Heard's ranch. The bridge at the lower site must be built in place where there is no bank to the river and, because the engineers recognize the fact that it will be dan
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

gerous to build a low bridge of the type that the advocates of this lower site propose, they propose to build a two-thirds bridge and the rest of the channel is to be damned with a causeway, or, in plain English, a dirt fill, over which it is proposed to let the water run when it is high enough to be dangerous to the bridge.
 Of course the type of bridge is to be decided by the supervisors, and the contract is to be let by them, so this discussion of type makes little differ ence at this time. But the fact re- mains that a bridge across the whole channel of the river at Center street would cost about s175,OO0, and not s10O,00O. The two-thirds bridge would be so low that it would be dangerous to the property owners along the riv- CT as well as to the whole of Phoenix, as at high water the brush and trees coming down would lodge against the bridge, raising the level of the water up stream and making a diversion dam that would either destroy the land south of the bridge or sweep through the streets of Phoenix as it did in 1891.
 The taxpayers of the south side are nearly a unit in wanting the bridge at Tempe, where it will accommodate the greatest number of people of the whole valley. If the land in the Heard ranch is divided into small tracts and sold the taxable value of this land will be nearly doubled. and by that time the tax roll of the whole county will be doubled. At this increased valuation a $20O,000 bridge could be built at Center street and the people who would be benefited would be paying for their share. At the present time the promoters of the Center street bridge as a rule do not live on their land south of the river and do not intend to do so In fact, the last election showed that there was about one vote cast to every 1000 acres of land. Quite an idea that the county should build a bridge to
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
TEMPE DEPARTMENT
TEMPE REbEKAHS
 GIVE GOOD SHOW
The Attendance, However, Was Not as
 Good as It Should Have Been.

The entertainment given by the Tempe Rebekahs Tuesday evening for the benefit of the Odd Fellows, Or phan home fund. was fairly success full affair, though the attendance was all that the merit of the entertain ment warranted. However, something like $50 was cleared by the effort.
 The first number on the program was a selection by the mandolin club followed by a reading by Miss Ellen Armstrong.
 Miss Irene Woolf followed with a vocal solo, The Cowboy Lady" in costume. The first. part of the pro- gram concluded with a reading by Miss Roxie Sturgeon and a vocal solo by Miss Laverna Losing.
 The main feature of the evening" entertainment was a clever one-act farce entitled "Hobson's Choice" In it the cast of characters was as fol- lows:
 Lieutenant Richard Pearson Hobson John Dykes.
 Hobbs. son of Oliver P. Hobbs James Hanna.
 Mrs. Hobbs-Maude Stewart.
 Dr. Measles Ca very new woman)- Elizabeth Cosner.
 Mrs. Quiggs proprietor of cottage) Mary Turner.
 Patience Qrish maid)-Irene Woolf. Miss Won Chatterton (city girD)- Elon Armstrong.
 Miss Montmorency (city girD-Lula Vanderwalker.
 Miss Wigglesworth (city girD-Olive Conroy.
 Miss Fitz Wilson (city girl)-Nellie Harris.
 Coopay (seashore cabman)-Homer Corbell.
 Klubs (policeman)-Cl Cosner. The program concluded with three tableaus, "Women's Rights. "The Two Flower Girls" and ''The Rock of Ages followed by a violin solo with piano accompaniment by Misses Cecil and Lois Mullen.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
HANDKERCHIEF BAZAAR
 TOMORROW EVENING
Given By the Episcopal Guild at the
 Goodwin Opera House.

Handkerchief Bazaar, April 15, 1909 Have you heard of the handkerchiefs, red, white and blue, For use, or for ornament, practical, too Which the ladies are going to sell to you
 On the Friday after Easter? There1l be handkerchiefs fancy, and handkerchiefs neat, Just the thing for the parlor, the shop, or the street, At prices all sorts and conditions to meet.
 On the Friday after Easter. Thereu be bags of all sizes and shapes Ideas quite the fashion, and others just new, For Maude and for Maggie, for Kath- ryn and Sue,
 On the Friday after Easter.
 ". There'H be handkerchiefs twisted in every way Into aprons. kimonas, and pillows so gay So sweet and enticing you cannot say Nay"
 On the Friday after Easter. At the Japanese tea room, pray step in and sup Of the daintiest tea in your own little cup, For it's yours when it's contents are all taken up, ....
 On the Friday after Easter.
 VI. At the Casa De Espana, at regular price There's chilli con carne, tamales and Frijoles and coffee, all served hot and nice,
 On the Friday after Easter.
 VII. The Episcopal mission now asks you to come To this sale of new handkerchiefs, purchasing some; The price is so mod'rate, you need not look glum -
 On the Friday after Easter. At the opera house (Goodwin's, the town of Tempe, This bazaar of fine handkerchiefs now is to be, There We hope all our friends and kind patrons to see
 On the Friday after Easter.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
TEMPE MERCHANTS
 CONTRIBUTE SPACE
A STRONG ARGUMENT FOR THE TEMPE SITE.
Almost a Page Devoted to the Reasons Why the Bridge Should Be
 Built Here.

We. the undersigned merchants and business men of Tempe. donate our advertising space in the Arizona Re publican for two days, commencing April 15. to be used by the bridge committee as it sees fit, This is to include our regular space under our contracts and as much more as we subscribe.
 Signed: Parry Goodwin Mercantile Co., Hyder Bros, Arizona Mercantile Co.. W. J. Kingsbury. A. Nelson, J. B. Cook. Laird X Dimes, John Hod- nett, A. M. Harmer, Gregg X Britton. Frank LaMont, Finch & Carr. Geach & Geach, R. A. Windes. A. B. Tom linson, W. Lukin and W. H. Easter wood"
 The above two paragraphs explain the appearance of the Tempe page of The Republican this morning and tells plainly just what the Tempe mer chants think of the present bridge controversy This space costs them money and is necessary in the conduct of their business. but for the good of the cause they have willingly sacri- feed their own good to the good of the town.
 It should not be judged from the use of advertising space in the argument of Tempe's side of the controversy that the paper has declined to pub fish bridge matter as news. It is merely that advertising space ire quently can be used in a manner that will attract much more attention than news space. That is exactly the case in this instance. and the ad this morn ing presents an argument that it is impossible to contradict The plate, showing the river and the lands sur rounding it, together with the main travelled road at the present time and the proposed road, was prepared by the Tempe bridge committee and at the expense of the Tempe people. The reading matter in the ad was likewise gotten up by the committee. Charles Harris made the drawing from which the plate was prepared, and much of the credit for the strong argument presented by this ad belongs to him.
 Follow the crowd-it leads to Lu- kin's Closing Out Sale.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
THE SALT RIVER
 AGAIN FORDABLE
A Crossing Established at the Old
 Ford Yesterday Afternoon.

Salt river is again fOrdable at the old Tempe crossing, a ford having been established there yesterday after noon by Roy Buck. For several days the river has been falling rapidly and yesterday it appeared. low enough to be safely fordable MT. Buck picked out a crossing and staked it. There was some quicksand in it, but with a little use it will be perfectly safe. and so long as the river continues at its present stage Tempe people will be able to save nearly an hours time in driving to Phoenix by the old ford instead of taking the road by way of the Heard ranch.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

Tempe, leaving this prosperous com munity entirely off the main travelled road across the territory This means, without bridge at Tempe, that We would be on one side of the new ter ritorial road across the territory; that unless they had special business in our town none of the large numbers of people who are coming to this val ley in the next few years would pass through our town. This means that the citizens of Tempe are being asked to build bridge and tax themselves for the maintenance of the same bridge, when this bridge will injure one of the oldest communities in Ari- Zona, when it will practically kill our town. This is a life and death mat ter with the residents of Tempe, and we do not believe that the taxpayers of this county are going to compel us to do anything of this kind, particu- larly in the interests of a real estate scheme, pure and simple Gentlemen, put yourselves in our place.
 Under instructions from the board of supervisors, Mir. Gus Streitz, the county engineer, is preparing plans and estimates for a bridge at Tempe and one at MT. Heards ranch. We are waiting with interest for this re- port from a disinterested engineer who is making plans and estimates for the taxpayers of Maricopa county and has no bridges to sell.
 TEMPE BRIDGE COMMITTEE.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
FIRST GENERAL SESSION
 0F R. R. COMMISSION
It Will Be Held at the Capitol on the
 18th of This Month.

The following self-explanatory let ter has been received from the Ari- zona railway commission by the Tempe board of trade:
 ''Gentlemen: The first general ses- sion of the Arizona railway commis- sion will be held on Monday, April 18th. in its office at the capitol.
 Municipal corporations, shipping associations, commercial bodies, cor porations and individuals wishing to appear before the commission for the purpose of filing complaints are in vited to be present.
 Succeeding general sessions will be held on the third Monday of June. August, october and December, 1909. as provided in the act
 Kindly advise all interested and oblige, Yours very truly.
 M. O. BICKNELL, Sec"
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
VAUDEVILLE TONIGHT.

The All Star Vaudeville company plays at the Goodwin Opera house this evening. presenting a short com edy. entitled Orange Blossoms" and a number of songs and dances. In addition there will be a new line of moving pictures and illustrated songs. The prices of admission will be 25, 35 and 50 cents.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
BRIDGE PRQEIIE

J. B. Cook, chairman of the Tempe executive committee. appointed to con- duct the bridge campaign, yesterday received from County Surveyor Streitz the profile of the proposed bridge site at this place. MT. Streitz made an extensive survey of the Tempe site a short time ago and the profile is the result. It will be on display at c. w Harris's office. where those interested may look it over at any time
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

(Phoenix Herald, Feb. 24, 1se1.)
 Another anxious day. Salt river rises higher than before, but began falling this morning. Household mi grations, entertainments and various remedies of Father Noah. Under Sheriff Barry, Marshal Blankenship, p. Miner and others kept gallopine through the exposed dis tricts, warming everybody of the pos sibIe danger. Slowly the yellow tide crept up into linville addition, AS BEFORE, and people began to move
 Here you might note a dray load Of furniture and clothing hastily tossed on, splashins through deep mud to higher ground.
 At another place the moving wagon , had just come and men began carry ing out their most valuable posses sions, while women and girls sazed, shiverins and dejseted, upon their forIorn prospects.
 At 7:30 a report that one of the levees thrown up yesterday east of the city had broken, reached town. The water at all events had reached Jackson street on the south side, and by 8:30 am. had nearly entered Dis trict Attorney Cox's garden, corner montezuma and Madison streets
 Still the water was reported coming from the east, having by g o'clock spread over the front grounds of the insane asylum and taken a course to- wards GiIson's place and Tom Kings. 
 About ii am. the water, creeping down Washington street, crossed the dividing eulvert between murphy's and Collins additions.
 Territorial Treasurer Smith, Lincoln Fowler and others dug mounds about their houses.
 The 300 yards of 2 foot eunbank- nent thrown up yesterday between the old Aztec and Salt River ditches by the citizens force, could not we'll stand, and the siIicious material had to go out with the first approach of water.
 DO THE CITIZENS OF PHOENIX WANT TO BUILD 4 DIVERSION DAM ONLY 14 FEET ABOVE THE GRAVEL BEDS SOUTH OF GEN. TER STREET: WE THINK NOT.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

(Phoenix Herald, Feb. 20, 189t.)
 But one sound could not escape un- heard, and that was the dull, lazy, crumblins crash of adobe houses as they tumbled in quick succession, wherever an undermining current could get them. Long into the night these uncanny noises could be distin- euished above the roar of waters and after each new reverberation some lucky citizen exclaimed: God help the new recruit to the ranks of houseIess flood victims" Eleven failing resi- dences were counted in a single hour at sunset.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

Lukin's Closing Out Sale is still in full swing
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

(Phoenix Herald, Feb. 1s, 1S91.)
 The water on Center street, a quar- ter of mile north of the fair ground, reached the draught horses bellies and was rapidly rising.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

Phoenix lies 27 feet above ORDI- NARY water mark in Salt river.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

Territorial Treasurer Smith, Lincoln Fowler and others dug mounds about their houses.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15
THE TRUTH ABOUT THf
 BRIDGE .....
THE REASONS FOR A BRIDGE AT TEMP

konb the foundations foot be wider. the the manta little Shortest oue Mesa and Tempe to Phoenix bridge should be built NOW
  O Maricpa County
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

About ii am. the water, creeping down Washington street, crossed the dividing euIvert between Murphy's and Collins additions
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

DO THE CITIZENS OF PHOENIX WANT TO BUILD 4 DIVERSION DAM ONLY IA FEET ABOVE THE GRAVEL BEDS SOUTH OF GEN. TER STREET: WE THINK NOT.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

Still the water was reported coming from the east, having by g o'clock spread over the front grounds of the insane asylum and taken a course to- wards GiIson's place and Tom Kings.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-15

Don't forget the Closing Out Sac at Lukin's.
Putnam patriot., 1909-01-22
POM FRET

Notwithstanding the stormy day last week Thursday, over forty church members gathered about one o'clock, at the tables in the Cong regational church dining room and enjoyed the turkey dinner prepared for them by the ladies. Later the church roll was called, and many absent ones respond ed to their names by a pleasant letter or passage of scripture to be read. The church reports were heard, and then Charles w. Grosvenor was again elect ed deacon for three years, and Miss Elinor Mathewson was reelected as secretary and treasurer. Rev. M. l.. Williston was chosen superintendent of the Sunday school, with Miss Reyes, treasurer. Rev. MT. Williston, wife and daughter, presented letters from the Harrington, k. l., church and were received into membership.
 The Searchlight Mission Club was invited by the Misses Grosvenor to meet at their home last Saturday after noon for & social. Although very cold there were thirteen members present, and they spent most of the afternoon putting together the puzzle pictures which are so much used now. They stopped long enough 10 elect officers for the coming year. The following is the list:
 President, Fife Danielson.
 Vice president, Louise Ballard.
 Treasurer, Gladys Wright.
 Secretary, Hattie Danielson.
 Entertainment Committee, Edith Briggs, Louise Pitts.
 Work Committee, M. F. Reyes, Ruth Ballard.
 Other committees will be filled in later.
 The Ladies' Benevolent Society met at the parsonage this week, and the la- dies voted to give $l00 to reduce the church debt.
 George k. Shaw advertises Putnam Foundry stock and Middlesex Con- pany Bonds for sale.