Arizona republican., 1900-09-15
A JEROME DELEGATE
How His Gripsack Was Packed When
 He Came to Phoenix.

Jerome, Ariz., Sept 13.-(Special cor resp0rdence of the Republican.)-I would like to ask. for information. what has become of the project to build q wagon road from Jerome to the mining district south of here. The schem- seemed on the point of materialization q short time ago, and now there seems to be nothing more heard of it. The owners of property in the district that would be opened up cannot afford to let The matter rest until the road is built. The business men of Jerome cannot af- ford to let the matter drop ei-her. With the road completed to the Copper Chief transportation would be cheap5ned to those poinss so much that the road would pay for itself within a year. As it is. freight to the Copper Chief must be hauled down to the valley and back up Nhe mountain to the camp. With inc road on 'jhe line of the survey Mir. Treadwell had made recently. the haul ing would be over an easy grade, and the distance cut in two. Nowhere in this county is a road need-d So badly as the one in question. In all proba- bility the county could be prevailed upon to give mel,hing towards tha road. and every mining company ope- rating between Jerome and the termi- nus would donate towards the work. The business men of the town would certainly feel enough interest in their own welfare to help out the good cause with a liberal donation. Let some good rustler take hold of the propositi n and everything would soon be settled in favor of the road.
 When Teddy Decker vert to thz con ven.ion in Phoenix Tuesday hs vas armed with the greatest variety of p-- liical pointers a man ever carried fer his own enlightenment. Before he
 started for the train he left his grip in H. J. Aliens office. and it was there the boys go, in their work on poor Ted. On the bottom of th= grip was pasted the declaration that appeared in the last isue of the Mineral Wealth or Kingman, defining Kean St. Charles position and intentions should he be elected to the legislature. In the grip was d heterogeneous collection of speeches made by William Jennings Bryan, Senator Clark. and others. There was also an assortment of full dir2e--pail arguments as propouIded by President Mckinley. A few pack ages of salve and ontments fir imme- diate use were also in the grip Every delegate but Ted was aware of the con tents of that wonderful grip. and was waiting till it was opened to see the tun. II. J. declared his innocence in the pcrpetration of the joke. bct Ted Is from Missouri and will have tO 0a shown before he will believe.
 r.. A. Tovrea. mayor of Jerome. had brother drowned in tn, terrible disaster that overlook the city of Galveston. The drowned man was a policeman il the submerged city for four years and had d family there. As yet Mr. Tovrea has h ard nothing from the family, so they also may be am7ng the dead. As soon as the Republican arrived in Je- rome giving the first news of the dis- aster, MT. Tovrea sent a telegram to his brother Sam. but received no re- sIonse. Yesterday he saw his name among the list of drowned in ih= pa pers from Los Angeles. Mr. TOvrea immediately called up HI. Hooker. of Phoenix and told him t. find Charlie and bring him to the phone as he wanted to instruct Charlie to look up the family of deceased for him. Char lie and wife will go from Phoenix to Texas on visit. He went from Jerome