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The Delta independent., 1899-03-03
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The Delta independent., 1899-03-03

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Old pepen foa saIe At this once.
Ladies calling cards With plstes. This
ONCE.
Buy your oysters At Palmer 4 jack
sons market.
A. c. Botsford made flying trip to
Grand Junction last Saturday.
Robert Stone and family have moved
from Telluride To their Uncompabgrs
valley ranch.
Lon Hartman, Of Gunnison. 10 down
looking over his cattle and ranches in
Delta county.
DR.. ". A. Shepherd. OF Colorado
Springs. is in town looking over thu
prospects in the county.
Mrs. Steve Bailey returned to her
home in Olsthe. after few days visit
The Delta independent., 1899-03-03

Ladies calling cards With pistes. This
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17

into false pass in the Rockies and there
left them without guide, with snow
falling and with 10 food except the few
mountain sheep they could kill, and their
horses The Fremont party had hard
time of It, Many of the men had been
attacked by scurvy and were almost
dead. When Carson learned of the loca-
ton of Fremont and his party. which
numbered twenty-five men, he and l
started at once for the town to secure
food and burros for their transportation.
We turned back with our supplies and
met the colonel near where Pueblo now
stands. AS we rode into the camp the
men acted as if they were crazy. They
die not even wait until we unpacked our
burros. but tore the packs off and ate
rayenously the raw onions and potatoes
we brounght.
We stayed three days and then pulled
out, passing up the Arkansas, near Where
I.eadville. Col, now stands. We crossed
the main divide of the Rockies up TO the
headvaters of the Blue river. That night
I heard Carson tell the colonel that from
there to the Colorado river one could eX-
pect a fight with the Utes or Apaches al
any time and to keep his men In readl-'
ness. 49,,
Colonel 1 can prevent the Indians
from surprising you" said CARSON ou'
7 can't prevent an attack.
The next evening we camped on Tue
head of a small ravine in cluster VI
timber. Carson selecting the place as
some protection against an attack. JUST
as we were sitting down to supper We
heard loud yell down the ravlne, ana
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17
A Boys Letter About Railroad.

Everybody in North Dakota knows Maj.
Edwards, of Fargo. Most everybody
knows that the Major has a large family
not so numerous as King Solomon's-
but large enough. A short time ago,
George, a son not quite fifteen. made his
first trip East without escort and W. o
to his mother about the journey from St.
Paul via the Burlington Limited, to Chi
cago, in this way:
Il have just gotten on the most beau
tiful Car it is possible to imagine; there
are yet ten minutes before the train
starts, and 1 will improve them by de-
scrbing the car | am in. There are eight
beautiful chandeliers on the ceiling. Each
one is arranged thus:
All the little lights with cut glass
O shades, while the big one in the
small lights, covered with dome
are two frosted lamps of about eight can
dle-poWer each, arranged so they may be
easily put out. One conspicuous thing
Cby its absepce) is, there are no curtain
trimmings as there usually are. The wood
work is all finished in some orange-red
wood except the ceiling, which is black
everywhere but around the chandeliers.
The C"Tickets, please') upholstery is in
blue, with figures of lighter hue, sur
rounded by blue tape.
I'm the middle of the car is a division,
with two pillars on each side, probably
for ornament.
THE doors are covered with blue and
gold tapestry, which makes hands )me
effect without seeming so heavy as those
of cloth.
'At the ends, over the doors, are fhgree
ironwork ornaments, and the whole is
car an Eastern potentate would be p.oud
to ride in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17

| the juice extracted, is poisonous; 1t is al
| legged that 1t benumbs the person who
| rests under its shade and causes the hair
of animals which rub against It's trunk
to fall off. 1t inflames for some days
the hands and eyes of carpenters who.
work it. 1t is employed for making beds,s
because it drives away the chineh Tor
bed bug, and its juice kills the wood
borer which grows in articles made of
wood
More serious still are said to be the
results. of resting in the shade of the
manzanillo or manchineel. This tree
spreads throughout the seacoasts and
river banks, is covered with regular
leaves, its stem almost two feet in cir
conference its bark smooth and delicate,
the flowers rose tinted; 1t is loaded with
small applelike fruit of a pleasant ap-
pearance and Odor, the leaves resemble
those of the pear tree; the entire tree is
full of a milky juice, which eXudes in
the heat Of the sun. According to cur
rent belief, the incautious traveller, at
tracted by the beautiful appearance of
the manzamillo, reposing in its shade,
soon finds himself poisoned, and if the
Tactical substance falls upon him from
the leaves, or If he touches the leaves,
he suffers as from an application of
some blistering substance. 1t is also
said that a fish which eats the fruit be-
Genes injected, the glllS becoming yelIOW
and black, and one who eats the fish in
this state is said to fall into a profound
lethargy, with a general relaxation of all
the limbs according to the quantity of
fish he has eaten. This effect, accord
ing to popular belief continues twenty
four hours, and frequently results in
death. The use of brandy or other spirit
uous liquors or the drinking of sea water
is considered beneficial as an antidote.
A small herb, called the they, the flower
of which resembles the lobelia, grows
in the meadows and pastures of the
Island It's poison is said to be so active
that a horse or other animal eating of
it dies in short time. The natural
instinct of the animal teaches it to avoid
this dangerous plant as soon q the
odor reaches him.
The eowhage abounds upon the lime
stone soils of Porto Rico. This is a
tropical climbing plant, with beanlike
pods, very much resembling huge brown
caterpillars. They are covered by a
multitude of fine poisonous hairs, which,
when disturbed, irritate the skin like
the sting of nettles.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17
KISSED YOUNG DEWEY.
SaIesyyOman I'm Il Cincinnati Stor
Displayed Her Interest.

CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 16.-Young
George G. Dewey, son of the hero of Ma
Mia, was kissed in one of the large de-
partment stores in Cincinnati in broad
daylight. Dewey travels for New York
dry goods house. While chatting with
the superintendent of one of the local
stores it became noised through the house
that the unassuming young man was the
son of the great admiral. A young sales
woman rushed up to him and said:
This, 1 believe, is Mr.. Dewey You
have the greatest father in all the world,
and 1 am going to kiss you"
Without further ceremony she implant-
ed a kiss squarely on the mouth of the
young man.
In the excitement Dewey got away. He
remarked as he left that he would return
after working hours to get his sample
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17

This will greatest saving sale the because the
prices everything THIS LINE Advances that will make the
cost half much again paid for these months
this OCCASION result
seen likely again for Offered worth today
THE PRICE WE ASK We with the biggest
COLORED DRESS GOODS in THE TWIN CITIES Satisfy yourself examining
great
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17
They Plead bankruptcy

Dow Morrison, residing at S75 Martin
street, filed a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy yesterday in the federal court,
giving his assets as $4,000 in real estate
and liabilities of $17,S23.5O.
Vlasoeld, a clerk living at 5S7 John street.
His liabilities schedule S,455.61 and as
sets $3.50.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17

In the spring of 1917 I was a boy fiji
teen years old, without friends or home.
While hunting for work in St Louis 1
met Kit Carson at the American hotel,
where I had applied to the clerk for d
job. The proprietor told me that I had
better so home to my mother. and that
he had nothing for such boy as l was
70 do. As I started to leave the office,
brushing the tears from my eyes, was
accosted by Carson, who had been sitting
there, with a paper in front Of his face,
listening to the conversation. Come
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-17
HOW KIT CARSON DIED
"REMINISCENCES OF CAPT. DRAM
NAN, THE INDIAN FIGHTERS
FRIEND
THEIR MEETING IN ST. LOUIS

The Start of Kit Carson, James
Hughes and Capt. Drnnnan for the
West-Cnrson and the Fremont
Expedition DrnnRan Was with
Carson When He Received His
Death BIOw-Ris Last Words.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
GOOD Ronds md Motors.

With the coming of the automobile
we presume many suggestions will
presently appear in print as TO the need
of better highways and advice to farm
ers as to when and how the roads
should be improved. That the roads
should be improved we freely admit,
but that the farmers should do the
work or meet the expense of it so as to
make $1,000 horseless vehicles popular
and practicable and thus reduce the de-
mand for an important product of the
farm strikes us as not being quite just
The injustice of compelling farmers to
give the land devoted to public road
purposes and then maintain the roads
for public use will be strikingly appar-
ent when the automobile manufacture
ers take up the cry for good roads,
Colman's Rural World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
A Daily Record of the Great Events That are Trans
piring in South Africa.

care upon them as Gen. Butler carries
on his shoulders"
The special correspondent of the
Daily Mail at Modder river, describing
the fighting, says:
The Boer trenches extended far beyond the
kopje into the open plain. Those on the plain
were hidden by screens OF leaves. Those near
the kopie were guarded by double line Of
barbod wire Evidently they feared our storm
ing and bayonet attack We raked the kopie
trenches with an intense well directed fire of
80 guns, including a naval gun and n howtzer
battery, both using lyddite believe they ef,
fected severe damage. The Boer prisoners re-
port that one lyddite shell fell among 40 men,
only five Of whom escaped unhurt Other shells
burst in the enemy's lager, causing its COM
plete destruction The Beers are in still larger
force than we found them at Modder river, out
numbering us by almost three to one. The
Transvaaers are apparently dominating In
their military councils although in u minority
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
ROADSIDE FRUIT TREES.
An Instructive Letter from Hillary
5. Brunot, American Consul ut
81. Etienne, France.

The cultivation of fruit trees along
the highways of France is being extend
ed each year. The government having
first set the example, the communes In
certain departments adopted this prac-
tice as source of revenue, so that now
roadside fruit cultivation has become
an important branch of national In
dustry.
1t is not, however, only In France that
fruit trees have been planted along the
roadside; in Germany, Belgium and the
duchy of Gutenberg the system has
been greatly developed, giving salts
faction TO the state as well as TO local
interests. On the routes OF Wurtem-
berg, for instance, the fruit harvest
from this source produced in 1878 over
100000, and last year, the return had
more than trebled. The annual revenue
derived from the national roads of Sax
ony planted with fruit trees rose from
$4,000 in 1880 to $4,000 in 1892, furnish
ing total sum of $34o 900 for the 10
years. In Belgium, according to the
statistics of 1894, over 4,630 kilometers
of roads were planted with raj ,571 fruit
trees, which furnished the almost in
credible sum of 100000. In France
the production Of fruit trees is esti-
mated at $6O,ooO,OOO.
In Westphalia, in the duchies of Ba-
den and SaXe-Weimar, In Alsace-Lor-
raine, Switzerland, etc, the employees
Of the administration of roads and
bridges and the road supervisors are
instructed in fruit arboriculture. In
some of the southern departments OF
France the roads are bordered with
cherry trees, producing the small fruit
called merise wild cherry much APP
preciated for making wine sui generis,
preserves and even alcohol.
In the Tourain, plum trees dominate;
while in the Allier and the Limagne
the walnut trees transform the roads
into shady walks. In Auvergne the
chestnut tree fiourishes; while in Nor.
mandy place is naturally given to the
apple tree.
Some 20 years ago the picturesque
roads of the northeast of France were
lined with stately poplars; but, al
though ornamental, their roots went
far and wide, rendering the adjacent
meadows sterile, and plows were con-
tinually stopped by offshoots lying al
most Mt the surface of the soil. The
farmers appealed in such strong terms
that the communes decided the fall OF
the poplar, and soon axes and saws
were brought into requisition and the
roads cleared of these trees In favor OF
the humble, but more useful. mirabelle
(smal plump to the great satisfaction
of the villagers. Thousands of baskets
OF this fruit are shipped TO Paris daily.
Some 80 years ago the distillation OF
the mirabelle was unknown in the
country districts; the people plucked
II as food for their swine; but to-day
they have learned to make more Pre- At
able use of It. They distil II IN large
quantities and find a ready market for
It. A quart of this alcohol, slight per-
fumed. sold five or six years ago for only
20 or 30 cents; to-day Il brings not less
than so or 60 cents, while in Paris the
best kind cannot be obtained under one
dollar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
How to Build Grain Bins.

Considerable labor may be saved by
proper construction of grain bins. No
work is more disagreeable than that of
shoveling grain out of bin, frequently
the work being done by getting into the
bin when the grain is low. This labor
can be saved by attaching spout to the
lower portion of the bin, or the front
boards may be made removable. The re-
movable boards should be preferred If
bins are used for the storage Of roots.
it is much easier to take roots from
bins than from pits in the open air,
and by properly packing the roots In
the bins they can be kept in good con-
aition until spring.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15

SHOWS become deeper and deeper. The
long part of the hinge is made of a rod
of iron that will turn easily in the eye
Of the other part of the hinge, In the
lower hinge have three or four holes
drilled through the iron rod, as shown.
When the gate is to be raised slip a 20
penny wire nail through the required
hole beneath the part containing the
eye, and the gate will stand at the ele-
walton required. When the snow is gone
the gate can be returned to its natural
position.-American Agriculturist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
TO HONOR WASHINGTON

Impressive Masonic Ceremonies at
Mt. Vernon and Washington
Washington, Dec. IA. The hun.
dredth anniversary of the death of
George Washington was celebrated
here and at Mount Vernon today with
impressive Masonic ceremonies. Pre-
sident Mckinley and the Cabinet
took part in the exercises as we'll as
delegations from about forty lodges
throughout the United states, Eng
land, Canada, Nova Scotia and New
Zealand. The services at Washing
toms tomb, Mount Vernon, were
most impressive.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15

In Fig. /, and there will be no wash
ing. In places where the water runs
violently for a short distance the plan
shown in Fig. 2 is excellent, small stones
forming the bottom of the ditch. A
similar result is attained by using two
boards, as shown in Fig. 3, Such open
bitches about the farmhouse and the
farm buildings keep the soil dry and
save much unpleasant walking during
wet weather. There are many situations
subject to sudden rush of water, where
ridges of earth or stones need to be put
across the open bitches at frequent in
tervals to check in part the swift flow
of the water that otherwise would wash
the earth seriously, even when sodded
over.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
FACTS ABOUT ROADS.
Authentic Figures showing what II
Costs to Haul Produce in the
United states.


"The condition of roads in the United
States, taken as a whole, can most
clearly be shown in figures. If we can
make inquiries of n hundred farmers,
in as many localities, as to how long it
takes each of them to haul load of
crops to town, how far he hauls it and
what his time and that of his team are
worth, we can readily ascertain what
it costs on an average to market load
of crops" says Otto Dorner, chairman
of the highway improvement commit
tee of the League of American Wheel
men.
'If the number of these inquiries be
sufficiently increased and EXTENDED
over the entire country the result will
pretty nearly show what it costs on
an average in the whole United States
to haul II load of crops to market. If
with each inquiry we also ascertain
the weight of the load we can figure
out how much it costs per 100 pounds,
or per ton, to market all these crops,
and if the inquiry also include the num-
Der of miles comprising each haul we
these crops per ton per mile. This
gives a unit which can be compared
with the same unit, similarly obtained,
by similar inquiries made in other
countries.
IAN inquiry Of this kind was made
in November, 1895, by the United States
department of agriculture, through it's
Office Of road inquiry. Ten thousand
circulars were sent out TO farmers in
all parts of the United States asking
for information in these various partic-
ulars. Replies were received from over
| 1900 counties, distributed throughout
the United States, and the results were
carefully compiled. The weight OF loads
hauled varied between an average of
2;40o pounds in the prairie states and
an average of 1897 pounds in the cot
ton states, the average weight of farm
loads for the whole country being 2,OO2
pounds, or practically ton. The av-
erage length of haul was found to be
10 ITO miles, varying between 0-10
miles in the eastern states and % $40
miles in the Pacific coast and mountain
states. The average cost of market
ing a ton of crops in the United States
was found to be $500. 1t was as high
as $5.12 in the Pacific coast and noun
tain states, due to long hauls, and as
low as Sl.s7 in the northern and east
ern states, which are more densely set
! tied, and where railroads are numer-
Gus and hauls are shorter. The average
cost of hauling ton Il distance of one
mile wns % cents, il being % cents
in the prairie and Pacific coast and
mountain states. and rising as high as
% cents in the eastern states.
"The net grand result of all these
inquiries and computations showed
very clearly, and as nearly as human
intelligence can. that II cost the farm
ers of the United States on the average
in time, labor and energy, figuring the
value of teams, wagons and men al
what they can reasonably be hired for
25 cents every time n ton of their crops
was hauled a mile nearer to market
or, briefly. that il costs % cents per
ton per mile to move crops in the Unit
ed States"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15

The entertainment to be given at
the opera house on the Goth ought to
be well patronized not only because
the NJ. r.. choir want some financial
aid, but that a merited reception may
be rendered one of Iola's former and
respected citizens. One who has
grown up in the town, graduate of
our public schools and graduate of
the Kansas City, Mo-, School of
OratoIy.
The opera house should be we'll
filled on that night as an entertain
ment will be given by Miss Clara
WEIGH worthy of patronage.
PROGRAM
Music, THE Radiant Morn" ........... Woodland
choir
THAT Waltz ofVonW eber' ........ Clara Welch
Music la) Without Thee" ......... DeHardeth
Margaret L. Btuner
lbl invocation" ......,,.......,..,D eHardeth
Hazel Maude Graen
Comedietta ,.., Clara WEIGH, Olive Hankins
Music when Evenings Twilight. ..... Hatton
Quartet
Selected ....,... ..',..,.,,,,,' Clara Welch
Hazel Maude Graen
Sketches from Paul Lawrence Dunbar
......,.... ....,.......,....,,.,.C Clara WEIGH
"Aeolian Tyre" .,..,...,.....,,...,,.,., Dandy
choir
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-15
KANSAS CLIPS AND C0MMEN rs

The city that Jack built is situated
in Kansas and lie called Galena.
Not all trusts are omnivorous. The
Cracker Trust hasn't gobbled the
Kansas safe crackers so far.
The Belle Lettres club of Chanute
is literary club and not collection
Of tattooed people as was reported.
Emporia is preparing to forget
Charlie Cross. The statements of
three banks show deposits OF over
81, 200, 900.
One of the chief objections to rural
delivery i'm Kansas 80 far suggested
Is the universal custom of farmers
keeping dogs.
J. II. Burton owns over 81 600
worth of stock in new mining cor
poration In Missouri which has been
christened the "Holy Terror"
A Wichita man wants 1000, 900
rabbit skins and this proves that the
original of the nursery song about
Daddy Bunting is Kansas man.
In the Fowler shops at the Univer-
sity Is "a new "brick tester" 1t IL
ssid some Of the fraternities run can
didates through IL to discover whether
or not they are eligible.
Three Atchison Swedes took out
naturalization papers before leaving
for visit to the fatherland 80 they
could celebrate their home coming
with American freedom.
The lodging power of the average
Kansan Is illustrated in Franklin
county where the assessment in 1885
was "a, 500, 472 and in 1899, fourteen
years later 1t is 81 800, 043.
For the first time in history the
rabbit market is firm and the Armour
company is advertising In Kansas
papers that it will pay ST a dozen for
jacks and 81 so for cotton tails.
Lawrence is greatly alarmed over
the report that all the sorghum has
been shipped out of the county which
means a cessation of the long drawn
out sweetness of taffy- pulling.
Two young men at Independence
disturbed q religious meeting and the
police judge has them credited on his
books with $3.50 each. They will
have to go deeper than that when
they settle the account on the record
ing angels ledger.
Among the many things the modern
Tom show is guilty OF is the death of
little Winfield hoy. He saw the
play and in trying to initiate the
Quaker's gun flourishes shot and
killed himself.
Marriage licenses cost 50 so at
Hutchinson and a would-be Benedict
kicked like bay steer on the price
The prospects of the youth who
marries when he cannot afford such
necessities as license are certainly
gloomy.
Mrs. Hunnicutt, living three miles
south of Hunnewell, Kans., died re-.
Gently and $ll 900 was found und er
the carpet In her cabin. This "sweet-
ness wasted on desert air" would
have been changed to sweetness IN
herited by a deserving heir, had the
men OF the neighborhood known of
the money.
Volume l, No. J., of the Cherokee
Sentinel is out. Its politics Is stamp.
ed by the following item: 1--WE are
thankful for our existence, and that
the Mckinley administration has
been no worse" And the editors
creed by the following: "If yeu
would be wretched take to grumbling
think only of yourself, always look
for bugaboos every where. and you
will find them"