Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-28
News From Jerome.

A correspondent for the Journal
 Miner was in Jerome Monday and
 has the following to say of the great
 copper camp:
 D. D. Mcdonald will leave tonight
 for Hot Springs Junction, from which
 place he will go to the mines of the
 American Gold & Copper Mining
 company.
 Rev Oliver returned from Prescott
 Sunday morning where he had been
 taking an examination touching upon
 his qualifications to be regularly or
 dained as a minister.
 Mrs. B. E. Townsend, whose hus-
 band is contracting for the Verde King
 company, is visiting in Prescott with
 MT. and Mrs. D. D. Mcdonald. She
 accompanied them home from here
 yesterday, and will remain the bal
 ance of the week.
 The shoot for the territorial cham
 pionship at bluerocks, which was to
 have taken place Sunday between W.
 c. Miller and D. D. Mcdonald, was
 postponed till next Sunday. McDon- aid is as confident of winning the medal as he is of shoting for it.
 H. A. Strodhoff, accompanied by his wife and sister, went to Mexico this week where he has accepted responsible position with the Copper Queen Mining company. He will be general manager of three merchandise stores.
 There is little signs of the late strike about the great works now, al- though the shelter had not been blown in when the writer left Jerome Monday morning. Preparations were being made to start some of the fur naces this morning. So many men have gone away from the town since the strike was declared it will proba- ply be several days before every thing is running along as smoot hly as be fore the strike began. Many mar ried men have left, or are preparing to leave, as we'll as a great many sin gle men. It will be some time before | the camp recovers entirely from the eHectS or the strike.
 Work is being pushed on the filling of the washes along the U. V. & P. R. k. preparatory to changing the loca- tion of the road from its present bed. Substantial stone culverts are first laid . along the wash for about fifty feet. The stones are laid in cement and are as substantial as such work can be. The cuts are then filled in with stone and dirt until the desired grade is at tained. The rails will then be laid on the filling, doing away with the dangerous trestles along the route of the road. A total of twenty-three washes will thus be fill ed in. In some of the washes it will be necessary to make two culverts. When completed the road will be as solid as it is possible to make. The road bed will be about fifty yards higher up the mountain in most places than it is now. Several gangs of masons and helpers have been at work on the undertaking for several A Prescott contractor has the contract for filling in the washes. The stone work is being done by the United Verde company. Although a dangerous looking road there has never yet been a fatal accident.
 There was considerable excitement caused by the suicide of Charley Beagley, son of Mayor Beagley. The boy had been subject to epileptic fits since childhood and was melancholy in consequence. He could not get put and make living for himself like other boys, therefore always lived at home with his parents. Like many other boys raised in western town, he had early taken to gambling. and was always very downcast after losing l sum of money. When he had had l fit that was very severe and had re- covered from the same, he would brood over his affiictions and declare he would end it all by committing suicide. He had recently made such threats to different people in Jerome. afternoon, Charley saw two ads going up the hill with a .22 cali ore rife and followed them. When near Sam Heslets residence, which is pack of the school house, the boys stopped and began shooting at a tin ,an. Charley asked them to let him take a shot. He took rife, aimed at the can, changed his mind, and turn ng the rife towards his left breast, pulled the trigger with his thumb. ( The tinv missile Of death hardly as , arge as pea, sped towards the boys heart, passed through the point of hat organ and went to the skin on the opposite side of the body. Saying, go and tell mother, ''the boy dropped o the ground and soon breathed his asst. The remains were taken to the ,esidence of his sorrowing parents, rom which place the funeral was held Sunday afternoon.