Arizona republican., 1899-05-24
TIE NEWS OF
 JEROME

Jerome, Ariz., May 22-{ Special
 correspondence of The Republican)-
 Jerome presents a sorry spectacle.
 The burned district lies filtered with
 the debris Of the fire, heavy sheets of
 corrugated iron are distorted and
 twisted into grotesque. shapas, miles Of
 electric light. telegraph and telephane
 wires are inextricably taEgle1. piles of
 broken brick, plaster and mortar. and
 over all the dreary slcorch and black
 ened footsteps of the red devil that
 has been the inveterate enemy Of
 Jerome ever since it's inception. Those who have time after time lost their all in cGnfiagratiOns, stand look ing upon the sites of once prosperous
 business, sigh heavily and contemplate unSatiSfied mortgages covering prop erty now vanished. Much outside money will have to come into Jerome to enable it's people to rebuild. Tho fire of September 11th, 1898, made bcr- rowers of a heavy percentage of the business men, and just as they were getting shaped up again along came the disaster of last Friday that hit them all hard.
 It is likely that the greater number UI lu6 SUld4l Sd1UOu hGSDCIS WIFI Uy the board, at least for some time to come, and a new crcp will spring up in the fallow field. Dave Conner Hoover & Cordiner, Mcfarland & Hooker, the Lanham Bros. and Van Allen & Archanlbeau, while heavy losers. arc already taking active steps to resume business, and will put up brick CT cement buildings. The day of the finsy wooden shack is past
 The rear wall of Dave Corners hotel went down yesterday afternoon with a crash. from the effects of a siId- den wind. No one was hurt
 The east wall Of the Hoover & Cor diner new ceme-t 0lcck shows c couple of cracks but it is thought it is not beyond repair.
 keepers have fitted. About fifteen of them, with their cousins and other help have left the emp, they say, for good. Oriental superstition and fatal- ism is not proof against repeated chas- tisement of this character, and the de- parted 'fchinIzs' are assured that 9 curse is on Jerome, and like rats they have hastened from the sinking ship. And the superstition is not entirely to the Mongolians. A promi- Ient saloon man remarked the other day: 'fWell, aint it enough to make anybody superstition ?''-3nd further: Why I saw the last new moon over l the lef. shoulder, myself"
 There are only two restaurants left, 1 the Sotcyo-re and the Grand Central, | both in the hands of the cclestiais, | and their prCpriGt0rs have grown very i baughiy and disdainful. They serve | 3ny old thing to the h-Ggry, and take | it or leave it, IS the motto of their | estabi ishments- you have to pay ! whether you take it or not As one | 3f them remarked while the flames were burning: Make plenty money | TOW, charge 'em four bits, sliX bits, | 2ne dollar, ard catch um plenty | ncney." His cousin to whom he | was speaking. and who had lost his | 7l2ce, sadly shook his head and in a . Encouraged tonc replied, Heap stcl, n head Las year fire lose um Ii hun led dollar. rCw lose uIn six hunned | dollar. heap sick in head heap s;ck!"
 The talk Of arson while still passing ! ! whispers haa not resulted { n anything cf an overt nature Thsr2 i seems to be much bitterness directed . toward a certain quarter. bu, ir the absence of 2 direct charge and nothing apparently more substantial th3n -t!s- 1icion. your correspondent feels that | [ would be uEfair to Giva the names ,f persons alleged to be suspected. Probably this phase of the matter will 4 die out altogether
 H. J. Allen was at Ash Fork on Fri II lay morning when the news oflthe fire