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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08


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The Delta independent., 1886-11-23

ated by the mines? Is it Just that the
mines should escape taxation? Should
the mines not help to liquidate the
debt they create? Should they not pay
for the projection they receive from
the law?
When 30 per cent of the taxable pro-
perty of a municipal corporation is ex-
empted from tax ,tion; when that ex.
empt property creates by the litigation
arising over it and the protection af-
foraed it large public debt, is it
strange that the municipal corporation
becomes so insolvent? The debts of
this county in particular and of the
mining counties in general are large
ana the county warrants worthless be-
cause the-greater portion of the prop
erty in the counties viz. mines-.are
exempt from taxation.
Cansists may attempt to discrimi
nate: they may argue that the wealth
arising from the mines create vast pro-
perty interests in the state which are
taxed. This is so of the merchants
stock in trade. of the stockraser's
sheep and cattle. of the farmers lands,
NJ the manufactures plant. But the
stock in trade, the sheep and cattle,
the land and the plant are all taxed
and why not the miners capitalize
mines? In truth and in fact large
part of the wealth produced by the
mines is exported to other states where
stockholders and owners reside. Mines
were exempted from taxation in 1876
because they needed protection and
the fostering care OF the state They
have reached such stage of prosper
lily that they no longer need protection
Tax the mlnes-and our counties and
state VIII become solvent. and he able
to construct public works. Tax the
mines. is the burden of our cry.-Sil-
erton Miner.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
--is-r----- i-------~--
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.


Ex-Presitlsnt. Chester a. Arthur
died at his home in New York City. at
8 O'clock last Thursday evening, Of
Erixt,t's disease. of which he had been
"a sufferer for the last few years. The
funeral took place Oh last Monday
Mr.. Arthur was man who will be
kindly remembered by all who knew
him either socially or officially and al
though not a great statesman lie made
u good President and would undoubted-
~ have been re-nominated had he not in
Cured the enmity of Grant, Conklin
and other party leaders. His death
leaves Rutherford Is. Hayes the only
living President.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23

The Scientific American. advertised
in another column under the lead OF
Patents" certainly needs no one to
''sing its praises" but, notwithstanding
lhis fact. we feel it an absolute duty TO
the general public. at least that por-
tion of it which has never seen or
heard of the paper. to tell them that
such II "one is published at the low
price of SO Il year, and that its true
value cannot be overestimated. 1T
stands at the head of all publications
of its kind. A file of the paper may
he seen at this Office and subscriptions
received.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23

The government, through the land
office at Gtinnison. is looking into the
final land prcefs made in tins section
notices having been served on about Il
half-dozen wlro have been reported by
some sneak or sneaks as not having
fully complied with the law. We do
not think the government will he able
to show fraud i'll any Of the CASES re
ported, and the result viii he that Il
-l,uinber of the ranchinen who have all
they can do to make "A living, Will be
compelled to eXsiend Il few hundred
dollars in transporting themselves and
their witnesses to Gunnison. TO attend
the trial. Az this to crafty the tat
tIing propenslties OF petty spite of Il
few men.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23

1t is stated that il band of Ute In
dians III the White river valley are
causing considerable trouble among
the stockmen and |anclinen OF that
valley. These Indians all carry passes
from their reservation agents. grant
ing them leage III go OIL hunt and
they slaughter game in large quanti-
ties just for the hides, leaving the car
t.ilsses to rot on the ground. They
also run their herds OF ponies Oh The
ranges among the stuckmen's horses
and it is quite common occurrence
for them when they leave the range to
take valuable st.,llioDs with them.
This is not exactly stealing, brt. we'll
knowing the result of running their
ponies on the range, the stockmen con-
Sislrr it not much better. Horses are
s.Hlso very often fDnnd in their hes'ds
that have brands on them of owners
who have lost them for some time,
l'erliaps for year or more. 1t is so
very easy for them to conceal horses
and other stock. while they are allhw-
ed to run their herds on the range, and
if detected to plead innocence. These
Indians ought to lie kept on their res
ervatlons and not allowed 10 run
1r,liscriminately over the country. If
they are not restrained trouble is
bound to ensne: and that very soon.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
CoIorov Notes.

The new pastor nf the Colorow Bap.
t'st church has cDine in and begun his
work. 1t is hoped that the Wine planted
bere 1pay nov grow with a great in
crease IN number and spirituality.
Jas. Frasier and family have moved
jp from CoaI Creek.
c.s, Lee .nss just gone np.to onraY.
Bruce Burkly Is holding bachelors
carnival at Reeds rsHclr
x,n,e q our ra.,el = lost tl'ey ~-
s'.' = E
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
Tax The Mines.

Fax ltion is olious. 1t wrests from
the citizen his property for the benefit
of the state. 1t is "A burden placed up-
on the individual for the benitit of the
many. The law which creates it
should be carefully drawn and rigedly
executed. Property is taxed that the
expenses of the government may be
met; that the cost Of making and en-
and sheriifS may he ptid that proper
ty may he protected from the vultures
of society. All property which re-
ceiyes these benefits should bear its
burden of TAXATION Property receives
and requires the protection OF the law
in proportion to its value.
The mines Of Colorado constitute
the greater portion If the ,.AallI OF
the state. Ii the main most OF the e3
penses of maintaining our courts are
created by tie litigation arising Dut of
mines, land the diversifying indus,riA
created by mining operations. Tile
greater portion Of the revenue of coum.
ties and state is used l,y the mines. and
the public EXPENSE which they create
The enormous Tax levies of many OF
our cnunties are made necessary 10y
the great municipal expenses created
by tile mining industry.
Is it wise or Just that the farm er
tie stoekinan. the merchant and the
mannfacturer should bear the burden
Of the city, county and sl.lte dept Gre
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
Ash Mesa Notes.

A large force Of workmen are ready
to push to completion the lronstone
and Delta Chief bitches.
Tie new sclIeolhonse is nearly COM
pleted.
DR.. Ashley is moving down from
Montrose with the contemplation of
ranching.
JAS Rhodes and family are gore.
Mr.. Corn is home again with lis
steam thresher.
All are getting ready for cold wealth.
er, although little behind land.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
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Tho AWrnI Wa n.

There was II young chap hanging
around the railroad junction at Union
Springs, Ala, where we had to wait
two hours. who was terrible to look
at l can't begin to make you under
stand how mnch fiercer and more
bloodthirsty than il common pirate he
appeared. The butt of revolver peep
ed out on his right hip aud another on
his left hip and the handle of bowie
knife stuck ont of his shirt in front.
He wore sombrero of gigantic size
and he had his pants in his boots. He
had a fierce goatee and mustaclle. and
his eyes We're black rs midnight.
This awful man staggered up and
down the platform and spit and smok-
ed and swore.. l made calculation i'll
pencil. on the end of my trunk. and
figured that he could get away with
the six of us in about seventeen sec
onds. 1t was Il fraction over seventeen
| but gave him the benefit of the doubt
| There were seven of us. hut the sew
enth mal was so short and slim and
sickly looking that didn't count him
in. In case of II riot, and the six of us
being killed lie would probably be
spared us not worth fhe ammunition
necessary to dispatch him.
About half an hour had gone by
when the awful man with the arsenal
l tnt l,a yal
down upon him in supreme contempt
and gruiily demanded:
well, chicken, what brought you
here?'
None O. your business!" was the
prompt and emphatic reply.
wv what" exclaimed the man-killer
| in tones of ustomishment. and moving
II step nearer.
"None o. your business. sir!'.
For IA few seconds the awful man
was stunned at the little mans temer-
| ity. Then he rolled his quid over, col
| lected IL meuthful of tobacco juice. and
deliberately elected it across the little
mans boots. A clock couldn't have
| licked ten times before the slim and
sickly chap WAS on his feet. had Il der
ringer within four feet of the big
mans nose. and in voice which was II
sort of IA hiss, he said:
up with your hands or I'll kill you
| stone dead!"
There was "A slight delay. caused by
the big mans astonislinent. Then
his big arms went up, and blue
white look chased all other colors out
of his face.
keep them up if you want to 1--we"
cautioned the little may. and lie ad-
vanced, picked out the weapons one
| by one and hung them over his head
into the grass. When he had liirshed
he said:
Now go, and it you come back here
I'll kill you|'
The big man went down the plat
form without "a word. jumped of at
the far end. and during the lraIf-miIe
we had him in sight on the track lie
never turned his head. When he dis
appeared the little man returned To
his trunk. lighted II cigar, and as we
looked ut him with opened mouths lie
carelessly explained:
"IIe might have hurt some of us be-
fore lie quit fouling mound." Detroit
Free Press.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23

One of the strikers at Chicago put
his theory of the eight hour movement
in this shape: "Dc you mean to say
that ANY man can make me sell ten
hours OF my labor when l only want
To sell eight?" This is scientific. And
yet this same man means to say. and
does say that when he has delivered
only eight hours of his labor, the pur-
chaser ought to pay him for ten.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
Irrigation Made Easy

A great saniDy IF labor ANIL time By
tlsiny this Dam for Irigdting Ditci,es.
In the past the lateral bitches from
the main waterways have had to be-
damned with dirt or Il system of gates
at "a great cost to each party caused by
handling dirt to dam tue bitches so as
to raise the water over tho land, more
or less of the dirt would wash down
into bitches at the removal of the dam.
to be cleaned out ut an additional ex-
psnse. etc. etc. Now this dam does
away with all such work and expense
We call the attention of patrons of
irrigation to this useful and labor-sav-
ing inyention. You can save enough
in one year. with this dam. to pay for
the use of said dam lifstime. DAM
ming small streams of any kind, dams
can he madL of all sizes. Stop right
here and make Il note of this.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
The Gunnison Review-Press las
abandoned its daily edition and will
hereafter run tri-weeklv.

.rwenty-six German socialists are on
asial in Berlin, charged with resisting
the police during disturbances last
spring. We call the attention of Herr
I.iebnecht to this announcement. He
is needed at home.
The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
The Greatest
Labor
Invention of the age.
The Creates

Send in your orders and apply for
particulars to X. F. Dillon. Delta. sole
gent for Delta. Montrose and Mesa
counties
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26
NEWS OF TIE moRaINe

FoREIGN.-There is talk of a German
Austrian alliance against Russia. .... Sebas-
topol and other Black Sea ports have been
protected against hostile torpedo boats.
An English polo team is coming TO Amer
ica...... Dixie and Foster are likely to fight
a duel. Yesterdays cholera record for
Italy was very light ..... Gladstone's enc
mics are at their wits ends in England.
Silver in London, 433d; consols, 1Glk
AIS, 114s.
EAsTEEy.-Blaine is talked of in Wash
ington as the coming man THE new
naval bill provides for the completion OF
the Monadnock at Mare Island ..... There is
still subdued excitement Oh the Texas
border over Mexican outrages. Congress
is likely to adjourn the last of this week
THE new 81, 81 and S. silver certificates
are nearly ready to be issued. The head
quarters train of the G. A. r. left Wash
ington yesterday, and hundreds OF dele
gates are now on the road hither..... Mem
bers Of the Greedy expedition are again
rushing into print......The captain of an
Atlantic schooner has been murdered by
an insane cook.....New York cigarmakers
decline to join the Knights of Labor ...
Heartrending reports of suffering come
from New FOundland and Labrador
Government bonds are quoted in New York
at 1863 for As of 1907; liz for As; 1901 for
IS; sterling, 81 IS; silver bars, 95l.
PACIFIC CoAsT.-A half-breed named
Hough, who resisted arrest, was killed by
the Sheriff Of Modoc Charles Waterman
has been drowned in Trinity river There
were two fires at Red Bluff on Saturday 900.
Residence of S. Katzner, at Marysville,
robbed of $500 Saturday nigh IT,. Chinese
miners at Peach Flat, Sierra county, have
found $50 900 nugget of gold. George
Lynch died at San Jose yesterday after hay
ing had leg amputated.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26
BRUTAL.

White men who adopt Indian meth
DDS are no better than the Apaches them
selves. Montgomery, near Clifton, Ari-
IONA, shot and killed one of a band of
Apaches. He cut off the head of the In
dian, first scalping it, and sent it on to
Lordsburg, on the headlight of loeomo-
tive. The scalp will be sent, says the dis
patch, by the officials of the Lordsburg
and Clifton Railroad, to Mrs. Cleveland
Montgomery is a brute, ard deserves the
execration of decent men. Civilized peO-
pie do not mutilate the bodies of their
dead foes. On the contrary, they give them
sepulture. Montgomery is the kind of
timber Of which savages are made The
engineer who ran his locomotive to Lords
burg with the CHASTITY frontispiece is an
other brute, fit associate for the Montgom-
cry brute. The officials of the Clifton and
Lordsburg Railroad, if they send the scalp
to Mrs. Cleveland, will also testify to
brutal instincts, and Grover ought, in that
case, to pack his gripsacS, go west and
cowhide the whole indecent lot. Such
savagery as that reported in the dispatches
from Tombstone is blot upon our civil
ization and gives our Indian wars all the
color of heartlessness and the horrible
front Of savagery
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26

The soil IN proportion TO the acreage of each.
There are no capitalists whose interests con-
hict with the interests of the men who own
the land to be irrigated. The same state OF
affairs crisis IN nearly creYy case throughout
Southern California.
The enforcement Of the Supreme Court
decision would practically wipe out of ex-
istence the south end of the State, and the
main reason that can be assigned for the
present prosperous times in that section is
the fact that no one can be brought to be-
lieye that any people or any section of
country will ever submit TO being wiped
out of existence even by Supreme Court
decision.
BY the enforcement of the Supreme
Court theory all the waters of the Santa
Ana river would be turned back into the
stream or divided among riparian owners
in such way as to practically destroy
Riverside, Highlands, Lugonia, Redands,
Anaheim, Santa Ana. Orange and Tustin
City to the extent OF $50,000,000 worth of
property, TO say nothing of smaller settle
ments-this destruction on one stream,
to say nothing of the other irrigation in
terests of the State.
This is not contest between Lux and
Haggin it is contest TO save the great
irrigation interests Of the State from ruin.
Rather than that this decision should
stand, the State could better afford to buy
out the interests of both of these great firms
and request them to leave the State.
The people who have been conducting
this campaign for the past three years are
opposed to any monopoly of the waters.
Messrs. Haggin & Carr do not represent
the irrigation side of this question only in
a comparatively small degree. They are
only incident to this question-their case
happening to be in this instance the test
case.
This Irrigation Executive Committee
have perfected what was known before the
last Legislature as the District Bill, which,
with some notifications, perhaps, will
thoroughly protect the people from any
water monopoly. The Legislature will be
called upon to pass this or some similar
measure at an early day that will afford
the people ample protection.
| might also state in this connection that
Miller & Lux own one of the largest canal
systems in the State, but that under the
District Bill law, neither they nor Haggin
Il Carr can make their system oppressive to
the people. This is square statement of
facts-the opinion of interested parties to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
By request of the Executive Committee.
l.. NJ. HoLT.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26
TAKING THE FEATHER RIVER

j. NJ. Ward, a member Of the Legisla-
ture, and eight associates have fled a
claim of appropriation upon 50 much of
the Feather river as will secure to them
the free and unrestsained use of 100 600
inches of water of that stream, to be di-
yerted just below the confluence of the
north fork of the river and the main
stream. The proposition is to use the
water, through the medium of canal
sixty feet wide, for the purposes of irriga-
tion, milling, etc. If the unrestricted
operation of seizing upon rivers is con-
tinued, there will presently be no stream
ieft free, if indeed any river is now I'M
claimed. 1t is admitted that the running
waters thu far appropriated are held bv
comparatively few men. But, regarding
the Feather, we believe ii demonstrate
that the taking of water from it by a
sixty-foot canal six feet deep will so check
the current of the river as to destroy its
navigability except at exceeding high
water in winter Whoever has studied
the nature OF its discharge into the Sacra-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26
TEE CASE OF CUTTING.

Cutting, an editor, printed in his paper,
on American soil, some caustic criticisms
on the officials of town on Mexican soil.
Happening to cross the line shortly after,
he was pounced upon, locked up, put in a
dungeon and on a reduceddiet and treated
with indignity. The town is in the State
Of chihuahua, and its officials refuse to
obey the order of the President of the re-
public to release Cutting, because it is a
State matter, and orders from the State
authorities must be awaited. In the mean
while there began 4 massing of Mexican
troops at the town; Americans were dis
armed and treated with indignity even
the attaches Of the American ConsuPs of
flee were assaulted and beaten. Our Gov
eminent interfered, but nothing has come
of it, except to offer to release Cutting on
bail. This was refused, as it would recog-
nize the right of Mexican authorities to
seize and try Americans for crime COM
mitted, if at all, on American soil The
matter has grown into much Importance.
1t demands and is receiving prompt atten-
ton at Washington. 1t is to be hoped that
it will lead to settlement of all the border
issues. We must have clear agreement
very soon as to just what our border policy
is to be. If Mexico much more provokes
the men on the border there will be incur
sions into Mexican territory, reprisals and
outrageS that will cost both sides very
dear. American citizens must behave
themselves in Mexico, but also Mexico
must respect the rights of American citi-
zens, or take thrashing, such as clearly
she viii merit if we have a few more par
allels to the Cutting case.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26

mento will realize the force of this state
ment. The Feather is a chief tributary
OF the Sacramento Engineer Hall cites
in his recent work tie laws from the
earliest Roman legislation to the latest
European, that not only the navigable
streams cannot be taken without consent
Of the sovereign, but that stream which
makes another navigable falls under the
same rule. The navigability Of the Sac
ramento being dependent in part upon the
full flow Of the Feather, does any one sup
pose that the Federal Government will
permit the integrity Of the former to be
menaced by diversion of the latter ave
do own the headwaters of the Sacramento
river exclaims the Nevada City
Herald Of the 22d. And after
reciting how they are collected
and used, adds: And yet those very same
waters, so collected, so used in mining, and
so returned to the beds Of the streams, keep
up the volume of water in the Sacramento
river. Appropriation or non-appropriation,
they are ours, and we viii use them as we
please, so long as we can do it without
violating law" This possesses the virtue
of frankness at least, but the qualifying
sentence at the close of the paragraph is a
loophole through which the Herald may
escape from dangerous doctrine, when
il comes to measuer blades with the Gov
eminent The truth is that there must be
not only no destruction of navigation by
artificial filling of the river, but it must
not be starved by the diversion of its main
stream or the chief tributaries The river
that is navigable belongs to the people of
the whole Union, and no individual can
acquire private right in the diversion of
its waters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26

IT appears now that William T. Cole
mans name as well as n. ID. Rideout's
was unauthorizedly used in the indorse-
ment of the extra session business and the
attack upon the Supreme Court. Mr..
Coleman wires from New York that his
name was used unauthorizedly, and that
while he is for irrigation, the use of his
name by the committee was ill-advised
and without his knowledge or consent.
The Irrigation Committee ought to be fair
and not use names without consent The
fact that man is member of commit
tee does not authorize the majority to ap-
pend his name TO report of which he
has no knowledge, and to which he has
not expressly given his consent.