Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-16
DAVIS
 PUZZLED ABOUT
 TWO REQUESTS

being circulated at Jerome was re ,eived at the sheriffs office yester lay and with it an article in tn Verde Copper News purporting t, give the reasons for the action. Ac ,ording to the Jerome newspaper he chief cause of complaint wa he alleged friction between the two deputies ahd the two city policemen They do not speak to one another, ii the words of County Attornel ohn L. Sullivan.
 At any rate, there is being started movement to bring the discordan dement's into harmony once nor, 10 that there will be no furthe back and forth over req 1T fancied wrongs.
 The petition which, according tC he News, is being liberaily signec t Jerome, reads as follows:
 To the Honorable
 The Board of Supervisors
 Of Yavapai County:
 Whereas there exists a move
 ment to curtail expenditures by
 all municipal, county, state and
 governmental departments, and
 Whereas, the citizens of Yava-
 pal county should join in and
 further such movement.
 Therefore, we, the undersigned
 taxpayers and voters of said
 county, knowing that at the pres
 ent time there exists a lack of
 cooperation between the repre-
 sentatives of the sheriff's office
 of said county located in the
 town of Jerome and the police
 officers of said town, most re-
 spectfhlly petition your honor
 able body to take such steps as
 you may deem necessary to elim-
 mate this unnecessary expense
 and, if possible, establish the
 proper relationship between the
 above departments of our county
 and city government.
 At his office yesterday, the sheriff lid he was not looking for trouble, ut If it's showed up to you. the nly thing to do is to pick it up nd carry it off and pretend you le it"
 He said he was puzzled at the vift change in attitude and pointed the following, which he said was le text of circular letter, issued Jerome under date of November
 1920, and carrying signatures in -pewriting of F of the leading omen of Jerome:
 "We are writing you because we elieve that the time has come for e women of Jerome to work to- ether. We are all interested ill Jc- 'me. Our homes are here, our lsband's work is here, our families e here. As a group of public irited women, we are uniting to cure better police protection for rome, both inside and outside the -y limits.
 Perhaps you do not know how adequately we are being protected
 present A very large percentage
 our people, in fact, almost half, e outside the city limits and these ople have absolutely no night pro :tion. Inside the city limits we ve only Chief Crowley with one
 two assistants.
 These are very uncertain times, only in Jerome, but all over the l rid. This is the period of read tment after the great world war. is inevitable and we will need to just ourselves 10 it as best we I. The newspapers are filled with
 pernicious activities of anarchists O have no regard for life or prop y. The recent bomb explosions Int on Wall street, New York, ,ws what utter disregard they | re for the lives of innocent ,plc.
 Suppose that party of these w. W.'s should come into Jerome
 the train tonight, disguised as nest workmen. What chance uld Chief Crowley, with two or ee men, have against an organ d band of outlaws bent on de uction? What would have been fate two years ago when they amptcd 10 blow up the water ks, rob the banks and burn the in, had not the soldiers and cial deputies been here to pro- [ us?
 We need al least dozen or more ,d men as deputies on duty, both