Arizona republican., 1900-11-15
JEROME NEWS
Happenings of Day at the Great
 Copper Camp.

Jerome. Ariz., Nov. 12.-(Special cor respondencs of The Republican )-The grading work on the street is progress ing rapidly. The ground is 50 hard it has 10 be blasted before the pick will turn it up. A gang of men reaching across the street is working with pick and shovel moving the diIt and loading it on wagons.
 The contractor has a gang of men at work today grading for the foundation cs the new water tank. The tank will be placed on the hill just above town. Tine force to be attained from the high prsssu will give Jerome one of the best water works in Arizona. The pipe will be laid and water ready to put out a fire in 60 days from date.
 The decision If the supreme court in affirming the decision of Judge Sloan in ths Tamborino case is a hard blow to Joe Tamborino. who, it seems, will have to serve the long deferred term in Yuma The alleged attempted shooting of F. A. Tovrea by Tamborino kook place in Jerome about a year ago. Tambor!no was found guilty and was sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary. by Judge Sloan. He moved for a reconsideration by a high CT court.
 While fooung with 45-calibre pis- tol yesterday. a Mexican accidentally shot himself through the palm of his hand. The ball went upward. entered the arm again at the elbow and passed through the arm. pr. Simpson was called and att nded the man. He found a badly lacerated arm. No bones were broken. The same man was shot in the stomach in a fight on the streets of Jerome a year ago.
 The baby of Mir. and Mrs D0ana Merrill has been severely i'll with complication of whooping cough and bad, cold. almost running into pneu- monia pr Hart was called and has been administering to the little one who is now thought 10 be out of dan ger. Tn re has been a regular epi- demic of whooping cough in this town during the past month. IL was brought to town by some Mexican children from Phoenix So far no deaths have oc- cured from the disease.
 It has at last developed that Frank Myer went the way of most of the r. publican ticket in this county. and was defeated by a small majority. Frank is a good man and worked hard for the place of assessor but was little shy of the requisite number of votes. Tom Campbell should feel elateG at being the only republican elected in the county.
 There is a movement on foot to beat J. B. Jolly out of hls office on the grounds that he has been a resident of the territory less than two years. Al present he is holding the office to which he was appointed by the supervisors af- ter tho present regularly elected super intendent, C. F. Cox, resigned to accept a position as teacher in one of the schools in the county.
 G. O. France. circulation manager of the Los Angeles Herald, accompanied by $. g. Culver. a representative of the paper. arrived in town Sunday after noon, and is trying 70 build up the pa per in this district.
 Two men were sent out to open up some of the porperty of the Verde Con- soldated Mining company this morn ing The Verde Consolidated people have some good prosp cts, and mean to open them up as fast as the work can be done.
 One of the neatest prospectuses that has ever been gout5n up by any Jerome company is that of the Verde King cop per company, a few copies of which have been received in Jerom-. The book is rich in descriptive matter and contains a number of excellent illus trations showing fha relative positions of the different groups of mines in this vicinity. The Verde King company is surely rushing development work 1t their property. The tunnel is being run in day and night The itrail is about finish q to the tunnel, and the car and track will be landed at the mouth of the tunnel this week
 D. D. MCDONALD.