Weekly journal-miner., 1909-05-19
MURDERED AND HIS BUSINESS PLACE .
 SET ON FIRE
Chinese Merchant At Jerome Found Dead
 Sunday Night
From Tuesdays pailyl

day night at g o'clock when Jim Lung
 a Chinese merchant of that town, was
 beaten to death and his place set on
 fire with view of hiding the atrocious crime. It is believed that robbery was
 the motive that prompted the assas-
 sins to the dastardly acts, as Lung
 was believed to have kept large sums
 of money in his place.
 Sheriff Smith left for Jerome yester-
 day morning and is now there in hopes
 of finding some clew that may lead to
 the arrest and identity of the assas-
 sins. Two Mexieans from Jerome were
 arrested on suspicion of being implicat-
 cd in the murder by Deputy Sheriff
 Charles Mainz yesterday afternoon.
 They are being held in custody there
 awaiting further investigation.
 Lung was engaged in business in
 Jerome several years and was held in
 high esteem by not only his fellow
 countrymen but the business men of
 the place, whose respect he had earned
 by his strict business integrity. His
 fellow orientals of the place have of
 fered a large reward for the arrest and conviction of his murderer or murder CTS.
 At 9:15 o'clock Sunday night, cook employed in q Chinese restaurant across the street from Lungs place noticed smoke coming through the win dows of the building occupied by Lung. He immediately turned in the fire alarm and with others near by rushed into the burning building. They saw a mattress on top of a pile of bedding on fire and carried it to the street, eX- tinguishing the blaze before the ar rival of the fire department. Finding the fire out before their arrival, the fremen reeled up their hose and re tired without further investigation. Twenty minutes afterwards, CAstable Charles King, night officer of the town, entered the building to investigate the cause of the fire and to see that it was completely extinguished, and was star tied to see human feet protruding from underneath the pile of bed clothing on which the mattress was found burning. | Removing the bedding, he found the remains of Jim Lung, with the head | badly crushed and an ugly knife wound | in the neck. Further investigation proved beyond doubt that Lung had been brutally murdered, and the body l covered with the bedding and mattress, | which was set on fire by the assassins with a view of hiding the atrocious crime.
 Sheriff Smith was notified. He left yesterday morning and IS now assisting Constable Charles King and other Jer- ome officers in a vigorous search for the guilty parties.
 .t....-..:..-s.s.-:. .f.-s.s..s-'s''t''s''s''s-t' terday afternoon for Columbia, where he will enter the Missouri university. To Address Medicos.
 Rev. ]. F.. Crutehfeld, presiding elder of the Methodist Church, South, of this city, left for Phoenix Sunday evening. Rev. Crutehfeld will return to Prescott Thursday to address the meeting that evening or the duty of the churches in the fight against tuberculosis
 Mining Man Here.
 w. H. Skinner, treasurer and general manager of the POeahontas Copper per Queen Mining company, arrived here last night from his eompany's camp near Mayer, on mining business. Mining Man Here.
 Bernard Cunniff, general manage, NJ. c. Cunniff, superintendent of the Savoy Mining company, arrived here last evening from their camp in the Bradshaw mountains, on mining busi- ness.
 A Flying Visit. h
 James Hamilton, foreman of the Bar { Diamond Land & Cattle company, paid $ . flying business visit to the city yes { -erday, returning to his company $ { ranch in. Chino valley on the afternoon c rain. C 0r. Barlow Coming. f
 Dr. W. Jarvis Barlow, dean of the ! Los Angeles department of medicine C If the University of California, came C n last night. pr. Barlow will deliver V he address on Medicine" before q he Arizona Medical association next q Wednesday,. He will be the principal O speaker at the public meeting to be l. leld in the auditorium of the high O chool on Thursday evening for the purpose of forming an Arizona society D or the sturdy and prevention of tuber- V