Arizona republican., 1899-04-28
THE NEWS OF
 JEROME

Jerome, Ariz., April 25.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)- Corporate matters are growing warm.
 A number of the citizens of the new city have become violently opposed to the incorporation and the regulations, police and fire restrictions that will
 necessarily result therefrom. and have banded themselves together to effect disincorpOration. J. H. Collins of Prescott has been retained tc attend
 to the legal end of the matter. and in the meantime all progress is hung up awaiting the final issue. It will re-
 quire a two-thirds majority vote of all property oWnecs in the city limits to effect this disintegration, and it seems very unlikely that the icono- clasts can induce that number to affix their signatures to document that will thrClT Jerome back into the rut of barbarism- There is no question Of the desirability of incorporation, and | 1t would seem that the mere matter of taxes, police, and fire regulations, and police surveillance are at the bottom of the opposition. In other words that selfshness is melting short sighted people to block the road of advancement
 Another fire was narrowly averted Sunday morning, when a blaze was discovered under the stairway in a part Of the town given over to the l knights and ladies of rest. Suspicious circumstances in connection with the fro have caused the impression to get abroad that incendiarism is lurking in the city, and all good citizens are keeping a watchful eye or their prop erty. Within the last two weeks sev- eral small fires have been nipped in the bud. Unless fire protection is speedily afforded it is on the cards that Jerome will again be swept out of existence by the devouring element.
 Mining, and the formation of com panies to that end, is still booming. The United Verde Extension, United Verde. Jr., the News. the Jerome Cop per company and other claims in this district which show copper are active and hustling.
 Wentworth, the monologue artist, will give an entertainment at Castle Hall Jerome, next Monday night un- der the auspices of the local lodge or Knights of Pythias Tickets are being sold only on subscription, and a large audience is assured. The surplus will go to the lodge in aid Of it's expenses in entertaining the grand lodge on the Sth, 9th and 10th of next month. Great preparations are in progress for this purpose. The Knights Of KhOressan will bring up a team Of twelve from Phoenix to accompany novitiates in their narrowing journey acr r0ss the desert. A grand reception and ball in honor of the visiting delegates and their ladies will be given on the night Of the 9th in the new Masonic hall. which will be ready for the event, and 1 has one of the finest dance floors in the territory.
 A daily edition of the Reporter will | be published during the session, and | wil be the official organ Of the grand | lodge, reporting it's deliberations in full.
 Conductor Russell of the United Verde & Pacific has taken a two weeks vacation and will visit his brother in southern New Mexico.
 The teachers for the ensuing term have been elected by the board of trustees. They are as follows: Ida J. Johnson, principal; Kate L. Riley, Adele Hauxhurst. in termediate grade; Maria E. Hall, pri- mary grade. The election has given general satisfaction to the people of this school district, who have been school matters with keen interest HERBERT AI1LAIRE