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The Delta independent., 1901-08-23
Relics OF CIin Dweiicrs Near Delta.

An important archaeological discov-
cry has crowned the tour OF the geolo-
gists over Colorad', :, with other posi-
bilities in view. Professor Il. NJ. Bargs
recently discovered Indian cliff dwell
iags on ledges near Delta. The oiscov.
cry was made while touring the Uncom-
pahgre plateau and Professor Bagss is
the recipient OF many congratulations.
The find was made in the most norther-
ly point at which cliff dwellings lave
ever been discovered. The geoIosists
have began the examination of the
western slope which is rich in fossil re-
mains and brings reward at every turn.
The tour began at Grand Junction,
where the scientists studied the topo-
graphy of Grand valley.
The Delta independent., 1901-08-23
ADVERTISED LETTERS,

The following letters remain in th.
postofiice uncalle for:
Foggy, Gertrude Pierce, T j
Hiestcn, G Edwin Pollock. James
Kelly, 10 RudcIpby. Msx
Noles, ID "
c. 9. CHRYsLER. p. NJ.
The Delta independent., 1901-08-23

James White. Bryantsville. Indiana.
says DeWitt's Witch Hazel Sa!ye healed
running sores on both legs. He had
suffered six years. Doctors failed 10
help him. Get DeWitt's. Accept 10
limitations. DIR. II. X. Braisted.
The Delta independent., 1901-08-23
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New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
STEEL LABOR SITUATION.

1t is not at all certain that there is to be a
great strike in the steel industry, though the
situation is not without its threatening aspect
This Is the time of year when the steel mills
are accustomed 70 shut down. for the sake OF
resting the and on account of the heat,
and the idleness OF many mills and of many
workers during this month must not be taken
rs evidence that they will remain idle when
the active season comes again. The steel strike
has certainly not yet reached the stage where
1t IS contest to the death between two great
forces, the United States Steel Corporation on
the one hand and the Amalgamated Association
the other, however the prospect of such a
contest may appeal to the imagination Of news
paper writer's and sensationasts in general.
Undoubtedly there are those among the labor
leaders who would welcome such contest, and
there may be great deal Of talk about fighting
the tyranny Of the trust; but in practical
effect such contests as there are will probably
be between the individual companies and the
labor organizations represented among their
employees. The United States Steel Corporation
has expressly announced that 1t does not under
take TO regulate the internal affairs of ire com
panles whose stock it OWNS, and this policy is
one which for obvious reasons it seems likely to
adhere to- With the steel corporation declining
a contest of this nature, it may prove difficult
for the labor leaders TO precipitate it. even If
they are so inclined.
In considering this other labor contests
there are certain clearly defined principles
which it is we'll to bear in mind. President
Shaffer, for instance, is said 10 charge that the
United States Steel Corporation, while organic
ing itself a large scale, refuses TO permit
steel workers 10 organize in a similar manner
But this could not be true. This is n free
country. Men may organize and so long
they are peaCeable no one can interfere with
them. There are some companies within the
United States corporation which do not recog
nize the union scale of wages. and do not
employ union laborers as such, but this is far
from coercng the employees in the matter of
organization. If there should be any conflict
between the labor organizations and the corpo
ration it would be not in the form of a contest
for the right TO organize but rather in the form
of n contest TO compel the steel corporation TO
force all its companies TO recognize the union
and the union scale.
But as we have indicated, there Is no such
contest in progress at present. and there is no
great amorrt of evidence that there will be
such contest. There is a month TO wait
before such movement could become fully
operative, and in the mean time there is reason
10 hope that wiser counses will prevail.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04

OF uniformity, after the Russian plan in Fin
land-a plan which unwttingly our advocates
of uniformity adopting when they demand
that the elaborate commercial and revenue sys-
TEN adapted TO y highly complex and extraor-
dnarily wealthy community must he extended
to land Of simple. semi-civilized people on
the plea that all who owe allegiance to the gov
ernment should enjoy uniform taxation.
All that the much abused imperialists have
claimed in dealing with the new possessions is
the right of the United States TO adapt its au-
thority TO their requirements. to take to them
an elastic system OF institutions under which
they would be really free to develop, not hard
code of laws by which they must be squeezed
into apparent uniformity with ourselves as
sacrifice 10 theoretical equality. The old habit
of dealing with realities instead of acting on
philosophical distractions has made Anglo
Saxon governments the best and freest In the
world, and before the United States rushes i'm
pulsvely TO bring distant peoples under the op-
Grafton of its domestic fiscal laws 1t should
consider the actual effect of such action. A
man is not made loyal by equal privileges
which, under the conditions surrounding him.
are unequal burdens.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
WORSE THAN THE WEATHER

The weather for more than week has been
oppressive, torturing. deadly. The day before
yesterday was supposed to mark the climax il
did reach the highest temperature and then
gave n brief respite through the grace of an I'M
expected storm. Yesterday was q little more
endurable, though still uncomfortable in a dis
tressing degree. And for to-day the profess
sional prognosticators give little promise of any
substantial relief. We shall not attempt 10 de-
clare in advance what to-days weather will be.
But sad conviction compels the forecast that
IN this city this will be the worst day Of the
whole heated term the most oppressive most
distressing, most deadly day of all the year,
And that will not be because Of the weather,
but because of something worse than the
weather-the noise, the smoke and the intoler-
able stenChes.
What comment upon our civilization 1t Is
that the anniversary of one of the most impor-
tant and most exalted events in human history
should be commemorated chiefly after the fash
Ion of savages! That our rejOicings over our
national independence should be expressed in
acts of cruelty and barbarism! That in honor
of the creation of this republic we should do
nothing better than TO create for day an orgy
of disorder, discomfort and destruction! What
a spectacle it is for the government of the
greatest city in the Western Hemisphere 70
notify the people 10 he on their guard all day
against fires and explosions. since it-that gov
ernment-has licensed the irresponsible and
mischievous classes to put the whole city in
peril of such disaster And to think that in
these twenty-fo hours there will he dozens Of
fires. scores of deaths, hundreds of maimings
and thousands of people made i'll or more Ill, all
as reminders of our boasted freedom from for
etgn oppression!
Yes, it will he far worse than the weather
There will, beyond doubt, be actually more suf
ferng caused to-day by so-called fireworks
than by heat in the hottest day of the year
And there will be this additionally annoying
feature of the case-that while the hot weather
is, as we said yesterday, entirely beyond our
control this curse of noise and stencil is en-
tirely and easily preventable and exists and is
yearly repeated only through a lax concession
10 the latent savagery in human nature, which
it should be the mission of our civilization TO
suDDress and 10 suhdue.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
HUNTING DOWN "FIREBUGs."

In some Of our Western cities certain dis
tricts are at the mercy of gangs of incendiaries,
and the anxiety and alarm over their operations
are by no means trivial. Here in New-York
within recent years the crimes of "frebugs" in
tenement districts were terrifying in the ex-
treme.
But the Police Department, the Fire Depart
ment the District Attorneys office and the
courts united in the most vigorous measures in
order to check the plots of the scoundrels who
We're guilty Of arson. Several convictions were
obtained and sentences of exemplary severity
were imposed. The atrocious creatures who
were setting fire to tenement houses swarming
with men, women and children, in order to
defraud the insurance companies, were hunted
down and sent to prison for long terms. In
cendaries Were convinced that no mercy would
he shown them in New York. The results have
been sautary. Arson is becoming a rare crime
here.
Every Western city which is cursed with the
presence of villains who start fires in tenements
should use every means in its power to put all
these plotters behind the bars for many year
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
PERSONAL.

King Edward VII has accepted from Scott Mon
tagu. Member of Parliament. a present OF a num-
Der Of American bronze turkeys, which were i'm
ported into England In a wild state, but have
adapted themselves very comfortably to their new
surroundings. a2d have thryed remarkably at Mr..
MontaCU's place in Hampshire. The Kings birds
will be lodged at Sandringham
The Pope Is not allowing the young King OF
Italy 10 pick up all the collections In the Ital-
ian market. Six thousand pieces containing many
rare Papal coins. which collected by Cardinal
Randi have been bought by Pope Leo and added
10 the fine collection In the Vatican. Many fell
into the Cardinals hands in 1852 for their weight
in silver, when Pope Plus introduced the French
monetary system and the old coins were retired
by the Papal Government.
The late Senator vrIeneuve, OF Montreal be-
queathNd $4,000 10 Laval University for the found
ing and endowment of chair TO be known the
NillcneuVe chair.
The Maine Historical Society has voted to accept
by Mrs Anne Longfellow Pierce and mas appoint
ed this committee To take charge of the property:
James r. Baxter John f IIill. William p Frye
Eugene Hale, Thomas b. Reed. ]. L. Chamberlain.
II. L. Chapman, the Rev. John Carroll Perkins and
General John Marshall Brown.
The ex-Empress EuGenie Of France is now the
godmother to the children of an immense number
Of friends, and also. by proxy TO 32si French men
and women who were born on the day as
the Prince Imperial.
Colonel Thomas McGregor 9th Cavalry. who was
placed the retired list on account of age the
other day. is native Of Scotland and enlisted In
the United States Army as private I'm 1858 rising
to the rank OF captain during the War of the Re
beon. He was brevetted major for gallant ser
vices against the Indians at Santa Maria Mountain.
Arizona, in 1873, and reached his present rank
In 1898.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
HAPPENINGS At NETPoRr.

Newport. r. l.. July ; CSpeciaD.-Mrs. r. I Gam
nell entertained at dinner this evening at her
villa on the Cliffs. and Mrs ". d Hatch gave
large dinner at the Clambake Club at Easton's
Point.
The members of the Clambake Club will hold
their annual meeting tomorrow and elect officers
H. Yale Dolan of Philadelphia. is the guest Of
his brother. Clarence W. Dolau.
Captain and Mrs. French E. Chadwick gave 3
large luncheon at the War College this afternoon
in honor of Santiago Day. About fifty officers and
their wives present, Including Admiral His-
ginson. Captain Mauney OF the Massachusetts:
Captain HUnker of the training station; Captain
Brownson. of the Alabama; Commander Mason, OF
the torpedo station; Commander Mansfield OF the
Lancaster; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Merriman, Of
the Kearsargv. and all Of the officers of the War
College an3 North Atlantic Squadron Admiral
Sampson ana Mrs. Sampson We're to have been pres
ent but were unavoidably detained in Boston
Mrs. J. Amory Goldman and Miss Goldman. Q.
vue-ave
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur T Kemp were having pre-
pared a skeleton fac-simile II what their new villa
would be when completed TO give them a cor
rect idea OF what the place would be when finished.
but the squall Tuesday afternoon completely de-
stroyed the outline structure.
Mrs. W. NJ. MAYER is entertaining her sister Mrs.
Francis Morris OF Morristown. y. J.
Lieutenant Wheeler. son of General JOSEPH
Wheeler. will report at Fort Adams for duty TO
morrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crovnirsh HELD of Boston. arrives
at the Thorndyke. in jamestown. to-day for n
season. Mr.. Crcwninshield designed Thomas W.
LawaCr's boat the Independence.
Joseph Wharton and family arrived at their cot
tase. in jamestown. to-day.
Mrs. j. y Nolan Miss n. NJ Greene and Ms
NJ. V. Corhon registered the De Fosssi
House for the summer
William CUtcheon, J. J. Duncan and G. E. BecAe'
of New-York. registered at the Perry HOUSE,
Daniel Mcdonald, fireman the battesh9
Massachusetts placed in brig yesterday after
noon FOR infringement OF rules. but became =
troublesome ana unruly that It was found neees
saTy TO remove him to passageway betweeit
decks, He became quiet and no more was neas s
from Vim until this morning. when the guard VS.
sent 20 bring him 10 mast. 20 the commanding eM
Ger. when he found dead. An inquest was hea
this afternoon by the medical hoard of the nes-
and MCDonald's body buried with millta!
hon0rs. Ii is supposed that he became tempo
rarily insane account of the intense heat
Al the horticultural show this afternoon MS
Perry Belmont gave special prize for the oss
| table decoration. the judges being Mrs SURG
, Roche. Miss Gerry and Mrs. W. StoTrs Wells ~
exhibits were showed tables completely set WI
china. crystal silver and linen. the prizes oex
awarded 10 Mrs. w. StOrrs Wells, COmnooo
Gerry and Gibson Brothers, OF Newport
After the competition Mrs. e-Roche gave
tea to the women present. and afterwara 10
gardeners of the cottagers
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
WARNLNG& AROET TIE L1W.

One of the City Magistrates the other day
discharged a prisoner who had been guilty Of
splitting upon an elevated railroad platform, on
the ground that no one had warned the man that
he violating the law and he had no idea he
was violating it. The prisoner was a resident
of this city, presumably of sound mind and at
least ordinary intelligence. 1t does not seem to
have occurred 10 the magistrate that instead Of
diScharGing him he might have negotiated with
him for his appearance in a museum as a
curiosity. Neither was anything heard in court
of the familiar principle that ignorance of the
law is no excuse.
The incident suggests, however. the fact that
there is gross neglect to warn people against
violations of law. and that on the part of those
whose special duty II is 10 give such warnings
and then to enforce, if need be- the law. For
example, every elevated railroad platform
there is conspicuous notice prohibiting smok-
ing or the carrying Of lighted cigars or cigar
cites upon the platform. Yet every day hun
dreds of men openly violate that rule They
walk past the ticket seller and the ticket chop
per with cigars in their mouths, lighted aud
emitting smoke. Yet these employees of the
company, whose duty It is TO enforce the rule,
make no protest nor objection. Nobody is ever
restrained from going upon the platform be-
cause he has lighted cigar in his mouth, nor
is asked TO dispose of II. No one is ever remon-
strated with for walking up and down the plat
form putting smoke into the faces of other
people And who ever hears of train guard s
objecting to a passengers carrying lighted
cigar into n car. at least so long as he holds it
in his hand and let's it there shoulder and stink?
It really seems that one Of two things should
he done Either the attention of passengers
should be called TO the rule and the rule should
be enforced, 1t could easily be- or the signs
should be taken down altogether for. since
they are made of glazed metal they are not
even good to strike matches on for the lighting
of cigars.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
ADAPTING LAW TO DEPENDENCIES

In spite of the decision Of the Supreme Court
that there is nothing in the constitution of the
United States which compels this government
TO extend its domestic fiscal and commercial
system 10 possessions brought within its juris-
dction and sovereignty, the assumption is still
common that there is something in the spirit Of
American institutions which calls for such ex-
tension. and that the nation cannot in justice
10 itself or to the inhabitants of the OUTLYING
islands exercise the constitutional liberty which
it possesses. Thus "The San Francisco Chron-
icle" says of the Filipino:
There is reason why he should not ac-
custom himself to contribute to the common
welfare by paying the same national taxes that
we pay. What men pay for they feel they have
part In If they contribute equally with their
fellows and in the same way. That which they
are taxed. as subjects. TO pay for they hate
The Filipnos can be made loyal Americans only
by being included in our fiscal and commercial
system.
II is useful 10 consider what the result of
such policy would be in the light of Con-
gressman HulI's opinion that the new civil gov
ernments are likely 10 prove too expensive for
some of the Southern Philippine provinces
where the people he says. are not able TO pay
even moderate land taxes for the support of
their local government. II that is true what
would they do with their tobacco subjected to
our heavy internal revenue taxes in a land of
cheap labor and low prices for commodities?
The same situation was faced in Porto Rico
and the island was saved from crushing load
Of taxation by law which was loudly misrep-
resented imposing burden.
People who are carried away by distractions
and judge laws by their outward aspect and
anpella tons, instead Of by the reality of their
operation, think that there must be something
terrible and oppressive in the imposition of laws
and taxes On inhabitants Of dependencies differ
ing from those 10 which we subject ourselves
They proclaim that all persons under the gov
eminent must be subject 10 uniform laws and
taxes. They forget. however that superficial
uniformity may be in fact the greatest dis
parity and that conditions I'm an island half
way around thc earth may be such that govern
ing IL under home laws and imposing on
il our domestic tax rates would be acts OF the
most abominable tyranny.
In their anxiety for philosophical structure
OF the State, with everybody from New-Yorls
10 Iloilo having the same abstract rights ON the
pattern Of the -dreamers Of the French Revolu-
ton, they forget the practical nature of Anglo
Saxon institutions and the power OF govern
uepts founded on the English common law TO
adapt themselves to conditions without re-
gard to logical uniformity. but at the same time
without any sacrifice OF the essential prin-
ciples OF individual rights. Such government
can go into the Indian Jungle and administer
Apylo-Saxon law, enriched by local custom and
tempered 70 local needs. II can giyo French
Canadians the essence Of Anelo-Saxon freedom
without uprooting their civilization in the name
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04
THE SIGN NUISANCE.
SUPPORTING THE TRIBUNE's POSITION.

From The Brooklyn Eagle.
They do some things better IN France than they
do here. and among those things is the treatment
of public advertising. Here there IS no treatment.
ANY body with 81 shoe q 50 patent medicine.
or one cent gum, face powder, a soap, or
a locomotive, a cracker Is AT liberty use any
wall fence 20 tell about II and beSeeCh the public
TO so to his rescue by buying II. He need stint
himself to the size of the letters In this petition
nor the amount of space TO be filed by his illUstTa-
tions.
We have allowed this matter proceed to far
lengths. We have seen the gradual encroachment [
Of the lad" upon places that should be forbidden.
Our street railway companies obtain valuable fran
ohises from cities, and IL is doubtful II those
Sanchises permit them TO carry ON an advertising
business contonty with the business OF transporta-
tion; Yet they not only fill the upper parts of their
cars with posters, hut hang them. distractions,
against the windows shutting out light and air
aud interfering with the view.
We have with difficuty succeeded in keeping
ads out OF our parks and city halls. but not of
the fences that surround public Enclosures nor OF
the municipal telegraph poles. AS the spectacle
that confrouts one entering a citv by boat nr
rail. or on looking down from height, as from the
brooklyn Bridge. IL is hideous beyond compare.
MisGEawn figures, slaring signs, shouting coo. =
respectable town the boisterous aspect of n mining
camp on the approach OF cheap circus. These
things jar on the they njure public taste they
lower municipal dignity. they fail OF their object
py ther very number, since nothing stands out
with prominence enough to gain attention. and
shut out the horrent sight.
we could secure reform In this matter II we were
70 Go as the French have done and tax all signs
We always need money for public purposes and
TINS would De an easy way to increase our funds
Let us copy the French and limit what has grown
New-York tribune., 1901-07-04

JUSTICE AND DECENCY FOR THE POOR.
y Mr.. Vreeland. the president of the Metro
politan Street Railway Company, IS reported
recently to have indulgcd in most unworthy
sneer n the working people of this city, though
in form il seems to have been intended as
criticism Of people of wealth. The complaints
against the service rendered by his roads he Is
reported TO have said, come from the people on
the West Side Of the city people who ought TO
ride in their carriages instead of in streetcars
while the poorer people on the East Side make
no complaint. but are perfectly satisfied with
the accommodations they get 1t wns appar
emily, as we have said intended as a rebuke to
the more arstocratiC patrons of Mr.. Nreeland's
roads. But it should not have escaped Mr.
Vreelands nimble perspcacity that It was i'm
fact contemptuous reflection upon the poorer
people of the East Side
For il means. If it means anything that the
poor people are less Jealous of their right and
less scrupulous as to decency than the rich:
that the weary workingmaR is so mean spirited
as to he content to stand up in the car on his
ride home from work in order that Mr. Vrce-
lands company may make larger dividends and
that the wives and daughters of poor men have
a lower sense Of modesty than wealthier women
and do not object 10 the revolving physical indie
cencies which are daily forced upon them under
the system which Mr.. Vreeland upholds and
comnends. That and nothing less. is the Iori
cal and inevitable significance of Mr. Vreeland's
reported words. We do not suppose for y
moment that he meant it. He was once q moor
man himself, and thus is able TO appreciate
and sympathize with the poor; and I'm his
present prosperous estate he is too true q
gentleman 10 intend any such insult 70 tba
majority Of his fellow townsmen Yet since
he did not mean that, his whole utterance is
left meaningless.
1t is really in behalf OF the poor that tho
fight for better streetcar accommodations IS IN
be made. For these form the majority of the
patrons Of the cars, especially in the crowded
hours. Rich people can. as Mr.. Vreeland sug
gests, ride in carriages or pick their time of
travel so as not to suffer from overcrowdnp
But the poor man must travel on streetcars If
he travels at all. and he must do so at lust such
and such hours. He is Of all passengers most
weary and most in need Of a seat The same
may be said, of course. OF the multitude Of
working women and girls. These need the
comfort which is TO be had only In having q
seat for every passenger. Moreover. these work.