Arizona republican., 1900-10-18
JEROME DISTRICT
G Jssip of the Mines-The United Yer
 de Junior Deal.

J rome, Ariz., Oct. 16-(SpeciaI Cor respondence of The Rpubllcan.)-W are enjoying the incest weather imag- inable after the recent rain. The roads are already dry and hard. Jerome fall weather is simply grand.
 A civil suit was filed yesterday in Judge McKinnons court in which the names of MT. Hagan, owner of the Ha- gan building, on Main street. and J. w. Wood proprietor of the Racket store. appear respectively as prosecutor and defendant. The case came up over Wood breaking the terms of a contract he had entered into with MT. Hagan. wherein he leased the Hagan building for a year at $60 per month rent. Af- ter staying in the builGing eight months he moved out without leave or license. When MT. Hagan returned from the Paris exposition he found the building empty and the former tenant in the O'Keefe building. He asked for the rent due, amounting to $240, according to the terms of the ase. and Wood re- fused to pay il. Hence the suit. H. M. Globes appears as attorney for the prosecution.
 Tom Martin received bank draft from parties in the east V sterday, for Sl.00O. the tirst payment of SS.592 he is tD receive for 1000 shares of the capital stock of the United Nerdn Junior mining company. He was interested in the property and was one of tn contracting parties when the sale was made. Mr. Martin received considerable money a year ago. and with this amount will have a nice stake. He will take trip to New York as soon as ne finishes up some husin ss he has on hand at pres ent.
 F. J. Conrey is in town from the Cop per Chief mine. and reports everything oui there prosperous. Conrey owns property in Jerome from which he de- rives quit q nice little rent every month.
 Sullivan, the jovial Singer Sewing machine agent. is in town making sales to prosperous citizens. He is inter ested in mining and owns some fine prospects in the Big Bug country He tells an incident that happened at his tunnel recently which shows the dan ger of giant powder. The party who is driving the tunnel by contract had put in a shot and fired it. and gone to dfn- her. When he returned from dinner he saw that th- smoke was pretty bad in- side yet, so thought he would do a lit tie prospecting that afte~lCon, and work that night to make up for lost time. He was standing on the ledge a couple of hours afterward above the tunnel. which is in over 300 feet wh n he heard a terrific explosion. Going to the mouth of the tunnel he found that the box of powder had exploded. The box continued fifteen pounds of powder and was sitting in the tunnel 60 feet from the mouth. The force of the ex- pIosion had knocked down all the loose rocks hanging to the roof of tic tun- mel. clear to the breast but otherwise nothing was damaged. The ground was so solid it resisted the force of the explosion. What caused the powder to explode is d mystery: there was no one in or near the tunnel when i. happened. l There had been no shots put off for over three hours previous U the eXplo- sion. If any miner can suggest a cause of the explosion of that box of powder let him advance, with his the | ory.
 T.. H. Harding opened his roller skat- ing rink last night. There was fair sized crowd present considering it was the first night and the ev, mt had not been very well advertised. The rink will be a great resort this winter.
 tE. H. Meek was in town this week from the works of tn Jerome Power company, of which he is superintend- ent.
 The quaker doctors had the crowd last night till nearly ten o'clock, and everything else had to get out of the way of the show. The trained dog s jump for life was one of the features of the performance.
 D. D. MCDONALD.