Arizona republican., 1899-06-01
THE NEWS or
 JEROME

Jerome, Ariz. May 3O-(Special
 Correspondence Of The Republican j-
 The city council remains firm in the
 determination to maintain the fire or
 dinances. and the kickers are gradually
 losing heart and evince disposition
 to accept the inevitable. It is for
 tunate thing for Jerome at this june
 tjIre that it has, first, a council, and second, that the personnel Of this
 bcdy is in possession of a vertebrae of
 90 little residence.
 Business affairs are naturally rather
 stagnant, and will be for some little
 time yes A town does not recover
 minute. But so long as the working men in Jerome have thousands of dal-
 lars a month to turn loose there will
 be business men who will invest
 money in buildings and stocks Of | goods.
 Sheriff Mund. a Jerome boy, is mak- 1 ing enviable record in office. A nun ! Der Of criminals have been taken ny
 him within the last few months with neatness and dispatch. Among his latest hauls is that of Hutchinson,
 who is charged with wholesale horse stealing from his employers, the Per rin company. Associated with Hutcn- ins0n are J. V. Wright and his wife. They were all taken in the brush near Jerome, and the sheriff succeeded in capturing thirty head of horses out uf thirty-two that had been driven off In addition to this, Munds has just snaTed the Mexican murderer of the section foreman so brutaily slaugh- tered at Ash Fork. He is confident | that he has the right man. Evil doefs with Johnny Munds on their trail are i leading Nemesis, and ther chances of escape are slim indeed.
 A few months ago one James Allen was married to a 13-year-oId girl by justice of Jerome. The affair create1 much indignation at the time and called out harsh criticism in the local press. As a sequel of the misnating, papers are now on file petitioning 2 divorce. The action is brought by the child wife on the grounds Of adultery Her story of mistreatment is pitiful indeed.
 Next Sunday the Rev. J. NJ. Ken drick, Episcopal bishop of New Mex ico and Arizona, will administer the sacrament to commandments in Je- rome at the O'Keefe hall, and will also administer the nte of baptism.
 Mesdames Thomas and Frank CIeal- ents, wives of Mine Foreman Glenn ents and Shift Boss Thomas, have gone 10 Butte, Mont, to spend the summer with relatives.
 The wife and daughter of Gus Thor heck have returned to Jerome after a visit in Kansas. Mrs. ThOrbeck was formerly Miss Gillespie.
 Jeff Davis denUfV undar Sheriff Munds, returned with the daug hter Cf Jack Duff, from Mexico, just one day after the fire.
 Quite q party of Jerome people vis- ited the Copper Chief mines last Sun day as guests of Miss Hendy, who was assisted in receiving the callers by her friend Miss Smith Of Prescott. Among these who drove or rode down were: MT. and Mrs. J. A. KnCblock, Mrs. Treadwell and Mrs. D. R. Coover, Miss | Decker, Tom Campbell, H. A. and Q. l ". StroGthOff, A. c. Kennedy of Pres l colt. T. H. Decker and F. A. Provot. ! Mrs John Duke and Mrs. Ryan also as sisted the young hostess. An &d- | journment was had from the Hendy | house to Silver spring, a most dis | couraging train, where luncheon al fresco was gratefully partaken of.
 The Reporter office has been strug- | gling with mass of ''pi' resulting | from the well meant. but disastrous effort Cf a volunteer to save the office | during the late blaze, but il is again 1 on deck cheerful and optimistic as ever.
 As a resu:t of the recent grand lodge sessicn of the Knights of Fythias at Jerome. the local lodge is flooded with applications for membership, and each weekly convention is prolonged 10 a late hour in the work Of coDferrilg ranks.
 Jerome is still suffering at the hands of Mir Whepley of the Kansas City Star He visited this locality sey- eraI weeks ago On a detail to write ID the Clark properties, and is now pre- back in ''Kaw'' working the trip fer all it is worth Some of his articles are literary gems, but as for accuracy-well, that is another matter.
 There will be no trouble about the new Jerome getting all the fire insur- auce at reasonable that it wants. Sub- stantial buildings. ample water supply, fire nose and hydrants, and a hose company will induce the companies to make 9 fight for the business. Mer- Til Bros, local agents Of many first class companies, anticipate heavy business in insurance just as socn IS things get shaped up
 B. A. Edgington, who came to Je- rome from Clifton last October to take charge Of the retail shoe department of the T. F. Miller company, has taken months vacation, during which time he will revisit his home at Fullerton, Nebraska. This is the first time that z