b'Jerome continued from page 17Hampton House and the J.C. Penney store had been breakingthe building where he ate and a crack that caused light to$3,018.94 in taxes to the state and county. It was December up for two years and the town of Jerome had been keepingcome through the wall in room 122. of 1937 that Sullivan learned that in the 1934 deal, he it repaired. During the same period, the town had repairedThe heavy and steady decline in Sullivans light and wateralso signed away any liability UVX might have had due Main in front of the Sullivan Hotel many times with rock,bills are significant of the slowness of his business. Heto damage to the hotel or any other property he owned in slag and cement, Sullivan reports. He said the sidewalk inpaid $119.95 in June of 1920. In June of 1937, he paid onJerome. This apparently erased all hope Sullivan might have front of the Sullivan was also cracking and sinking causing$15.35 and in July it was $9.99. Sullivan noted that a sharphad to recover damages to his property from blasting, cave-runoff from melting snow to flow into the lobby. report was heard about 10 a.m. one morning from the Sheains and slippage.cement building and cracks in the walls were found inside By February of 1937, Sullivan reports there are 40 housesand outside of the building and underneath the Post Office. HARD TIMES BREED CRIMEdown or abandoned in Jerome resulting from mine cave-ins.Owning a hotel in Jerome at the time presented other He wrote that men were working to hold up the ServiceSullivan by this time was slipping in the payment of hisdifficulties. Times were hard. Sullivan recorded several Drug Store and that three men were employed at the task. Ataxes, hoping the county would reduce them in light of theburglaries at his hotel in the 1934 period. A man named few days later, Sullivan noted that plaster had fallen on thedifficulties his building was going through. By DecemberHong Sing has his room broken into. So did three others, stove in the hotel. Expenses went on. Sullivan noted that he1937 he was faced with paying $4,222.19 in taxes on thetheir doors broken open. So did Jim Stine, a man who had paid out $12 for coal and $28.35 for lights and water. Byhotel alone. It appears the county had agreed to reducehad lost his legs. He sharpened knives, saws, etc. at a work February 10, he noted his cash on hand was $58.60. this by $1200. He already, in 1934, had relinquished titletable in his room. The burglars took the table. A man was to the Sullivan Apartments to UVX in exchange for themarrested, but Sullivan says he was released on probation as During the month, there had been considerable slippage atreleasing a mortgage on the hotel and paying off taxes duehe worked for the mine.the Kavochovich store. The roof and the back of the storeon the apartments. In February of 1934, Sullivan devoted a had fallen down, killing some chickens. Men from Unitedpage in his ledger to chronicle his tax problems and the dealHe complained that few arrests and convictions resulted Verde Extension were working on it, removing part of theon the apartments. from crimes in Jerome, and noted a case where a woman wall. The same day, the brick on the firewall of a cigar storewas taken from Brown house in the middle of the night by the Post Office fell onto the sidewalk. Then, the entireLOSES APARTMENTS with 30 men standing around and watching. Her husband back side of the Kavochovich store fell in. He said that on February 2 he signed over the Sullivantook her from the house and shot her to death in front of Apartments to the Bank of Clemenceau for a mortgage ofthe 30 witnesses. He said no one was arrested for the crime. When the UVX and Jimmy Douglas first found out about$8,000 plus about $500 in interest. The bank in addition the injury to Kates baby, Douglas said he could not bewould pay all taxes due on the apartments and to releaseThe blasting continued to shake the hotel, the earth under it responsible for what happened up the hill in Jerome.other collateral which consisted of the Sullivan Hotel, lot 4continued to slip and sink, and the value of the property, he Apparently by May of 1937, he had a lawyer on the case whoand 5, block 1, Jerome.had bought from Jenny for $1500 and spent $62,000 on had visited Kate at the Sullivan and asked her to get depositionsdipped dramatically. Sullivan reports that a representative of on how the baby was injured.He gave a 1931 evaluation on the hotel as $23, 115, onJimmy Douglas met with him and said that Douglas wanted which $1,276.33 in state and county taxes owed. The 1932to give him $3000 to pay off the tax debt. Sullivan declined On May 12, Sullivan reports of hearing cracking noisesevaluation was down to only $13,935 and $957.91 wasthe offer. He also had decided to give up the Wig Wam to from the Post Office next door to the hotel. He writes thatdue the state and county. The 1933 evaluation was downsave the hotel, if necessary. As late as February 22, 1939, a the wall and pillars cracked in the hotel up to the wall of theto $11,520 and $784.70 with taxes due. Notice the rapidnoise in the ceiling of the front living room caused Kate to new Post Office building, which created quite a stir arounddecline in evaluation of the hotel property during this threestart while cooking. A young girl named Ramona was cut here.June 22 at 3:30 p.m. a big shot shook the hotel. Heyear period. 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