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The Delta independent., 1905-05-12

Entered at the Delta. Colorado, postofice for
transmission through the mails second class
matter.
The Delta independent., 1905-05-12
Fancy Vests.

Fancy Vests.
No mans wardrobe is COM
plete without two or three
fancy vests. We have a
large assortment of wash
able vests in plain colors
and fancy patterns, made
right up to the minute at
prices $l.50. $1.s0 and
$3.50. A saving over others
of from Soc to $1.OO.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24

Mems Silk and Wool Underwear-Blue
and white, pink and white and blue
mixed shades. Pure. silk and zephyr
yarns. Reinforced armpits, $3.50.
DR.. Wright's Sanitary Absorbent Health
Underwear, S9c.
Shaker Neck Sweaters Plain maroon,
white, grey and combinations. Double
knit 15-inch necks or Y necks, IS.
Cashmere Wool Eosiery-Merino hosiery,
Fayoumi Egyptian cotton, Sea Island
cotton, silk striped and silk embroid-
cred hosiery. Values to 75c, 25c.
Heavy Natural Wool Camel's Hair Brown
and Black Hosiery-Also selected yarns
in cotton hosiery, 121ac.
Blue Flannel Shirts-72 or. weight. But
ton down collars. Double breasted.
Double backed Full finished. 1925,
Genuine Anderson Scotch Madras Shirts
Negligees and stiff bosoms. Cuffs at
tached or detached. Plated fronts and
plain fronts. Regular or coat, shapes.
Latest pattern effects $3.50 stock, 81
Manhattan Full Dress and Semi Dress
Shirts, SO.
President Suspenders and high class
Isle and English web suspenders, 25c.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24
:" III Haberdashery Has Won Unqualified Preference

Arabian Mocha Gloves, Anglo cape gloves
8
..# /MMMmN Craven tan gace kid gloves, Dent s.
/#&#RAN Perrin s. Fowne's own make
1xR.M#W=> IN Eight shades. Lined with silk or wool
SXS>>l un]ined. Paris points Assorted stitch
|#>M#N N8%%=A ings. Auoing, driving, dress
}>>>}W#==>>S gloves. Values of So and $3.50, ST. so.
i>A #NI>>%%>A Cabretta Suede Gloves, Kassan glace
~ NJ %%%>=>A gloves dogskin gloves Eng
III ~ #%t lish buck gloves Three styles lining
T. M**MsA $:::& unlined Cut patterns or
& x"0kzs*,: Tta '1calbers higher priced styles
T. !. Dark, medium light coorings, $3.50
| "a A#s@ Al merit, ST.
I ~ M8X&$MSMM Shrunk English Cashmere Under
E@### &aM#A nN wear-Englsht underwear,
VI MMg2M N.$ ony wool rib underwear, Australian
n 4SH@8yH ~ lamb Is wool underwear Single dou
N&S8MNMk bic breasted and backed. .Undyed
WSA@Ms M@BgN ural wool greys, pure cames hairs
@a#N&$S@ tans, blues and whites, 81 So
WMAKMW3S Medium and Heavy Weight Wool Under
&&NMNsfw wear-Blue pink, tan, ecru, IS
a~2asS#S@a hair and natural wool shades All sizes
to SO, $1.OO.
WarpA
Etienne Weaves heios slates glacier
pasma greens bu Overshots
highest character wide full founhands $l00 cravats 5O
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24

1Oung TIen S OVeTCOdTS
YOUNG MEMS FANCY OvERCOATs-
Tweeds and plaids with the breath of Scot
land in every strand. Plain worsteds, ker-
seys and meltons for. dress wear. Collars
of same material as coat or of velvet. Belt
or. plain back: Swell ''strand" auto shape.
Sizes 80 to SO chest. &1e
YOUNG MEMS RYTON OVERCOATS-
This winters most favored fashion and an
athletic style particularly fitting for young
men. Broad back .collegy cut with wide bell
skirt and permanent box seams. - &10
YOUNG MEMS COLLEGE .COATs-Black
and grey kerseys. Fancy cheviots and new
nobby heather plaids. Tailoring and style
that pushes the usual $15 Of GO 7E
fering for merit 80 to 3e chest. sp9. { y
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24
Trousers With Quality's Stamp

Trousers With Quality's Stamp
Hard grey Spring hip plain style Extra at
to Of finish. Surprising GO IN
inese at higher price e7OsGO
HAND TAILORED showing of high
eadv1ow
tailored finest imported
richest
So. - o.a ~. .-4.-.
lambs undyed $3.50
is theira actua worth here at ST. So
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24
Children'S OvercOats

O1I11QE4El s OVGT'CUdCS
LITTLE HUssAR OvERCOATs-Blue ker-
seys and fancy Societies. Styles fit for a
little prince Red windproof
flannel lining. Wide military GO IN
buckled belts. Sizes to s.....e eT1C.aJO
CHILDREN's LITTLE DRAGooN OVER
COATs-Twelve distinct styles. -Four shades
in heavy kerseys and closely curled superior
heavy all wool chinchillas.| Silk braid
fancy trimmed and daintily &g
emblemed sleeves Sizes 8 to 8..... epO
CHILDREN's -"MIKADO" MILITARY
COATs-Full cut kerseys in blues, olives and
browns Bluff stitched. .Nobby little navy
SIZES sizss sli to ~GGi o.ue en'nenii'as $3.95
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24

HANIMERSMITH GRAY WORSTEDo SUITS-A style
affected by who appreciate fashions trend. Two
shades Creased seams Wide lapels that seem to give
extraordinary breadth Of chest and shoulder Deep
Ss:ssa ssa:ss o: side :': oon:.!: ~ ~ .~ $40
EXTREME WIDE VALE WoRsTED sUITs-Deep gray
double diagonas Eight-inch side vents Full hand tai
lored garments Correctness is their keynote No to-
or SFsE $40 ssr % esf re 'fsfsi s even 30:
SILVER STRIPED CHEVIOT SUTTS-Most modest pat
terms dark grays dark browns and dark blues Some
clearinghouse Center-vented coats made with Lachman
non-breakable shoulders Designs for the man G. 4 @
who prefers the sedate in DRESS
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-24

Our Own Make Fur Garments
SKINS guaranteed for dat
AND TRIMMED OVERCOATS-
natural Brook Mink lining, 500. -, , .
OVERCOATSNatural Brook Mink
lining. Genuine George S65.
BROOK MINK COILARED OVERCOATS-
HeavyC Chevipt lengths, S57.5 So
OVERCOATS-Wool lining. st.
shell, $780, .- =. ~ . ,
| sea collars
Mink Marten
Hudso Bay Otter collars $25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

WIDE and which is worth to Uncle Sam as
It stands $4,000. 1t has three enormous
cranes on 1t, one of which will lift twenty
gines and the only repairs needed are at
different places in the hull. This is COW
cred with barnace which must be scraped
off and the holes made by the salt water
patched UP.
Next this vessel lies a Scotch dredge with
a chain of great dredging buckets upon
It, 1t Is practically whole and Paymaster
Tobey estimates that it is worth about
100000. Each bucket will carry barrel
of material. The chain to which the
buckets are fastened is made OF links
weighing l judge, 100 pounds each.
Standing on this Scotch dredge / counted
forty other vessels belonging to the canal
from where I stood. Some were sunk In
the water with only their tops showing,
others were floating. but all can be raised
and used. These vessels are worth all the
way from $50 each for scrap iron up to
100000 each, for use in the excavation of
the canal.
At La Boca, on the Pacific end of the
canal we saw three great dredges lying in
the mud. Any one of them must have
cost in the neighborhood of s250,00O All
are in good condition above the water line
and all float at high tide. Some of these
are now being treated so as to prevent
deterioratio until it is determined whether
they can be used in the canal work. In
addition there are eleven dredges in the
canal which have cost altogether in the
neighborhood Of 100000, and there are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
SLAVES IN FRANCE
Clerks Who Work Eighty
Four Hours a Week.
WANT A DAYS REST
SENATE NEARING A VOTE ON
THIS IMPORTANT LAW.
How the French Store Boards Its En-
ployes and Pays Them S14
Month.
WANT A DAYS REST

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS, March -. 1905
There is big new-style Paris grocery
store around the corner, and in 1t thirty
honest young clerks have been waiting
patiently three years for the French senate
to wake up and vote a law for them. The
senate must vote soon, and ii is curious
that the clerks hopes all center round
man whom they have heretofore guyed
thoughtlessly. This is Senator Rene
Berenger, called Father Modesty,' of
whom you shall hear presently.
Meanwhile over all Paris and all France
the clerks in big and little shops. the arti-
sans and skilled laborers of the most diverse
industries, and even laborers are waiting
on the senate.
They have not dared to make a row. 1t
is delicate. They fear to lose their jobs.
They fear, above all, to see their weekly
pay reduced. Yet through their trades
unions and mutual associat ions they have
sent in petition on petition to the placid
senator's demanding that their law be
passed-the law of Sunday rest,
Now, the French senators have their seat
in the historic palace called the LuXem-
bourg, surrounded 10y a magnificent big
park, in which the band plays every Sunday
afternoon. Every Sunday afternoon. for
three years past, the senators have seen
their gardens of the Luxembourg filled with
a clean and cheerful multitude, flirting.
family promenading eating waffles. and
listening to the overture from "Sigurd' and
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and many are already in use Some were
made in Belgium, and Mr. Strom says that
they would now cost about 5000 piece;
Some of these have been repaired Tor $Zoo
each, and they work as well as II new.
At Bohio was shown large locomotlve
crane. of which there are 267 on the lsthmus.
New ones would cost at least $1,000 apiece,
but the French cranes are in good condition,
and the mechanical engineers are aoaptlns
them to our work.
In this same place there Is about quar-
ter of a million dollars worth OF dump
car trucks, and also some engines, Wnlcn
would cost in the neighborhood of $1O,OOo.
The latter are lying out in the sum- put the
metal Is. in good condition., although the
wood has been eaten away by Whlte anus;
This machinery will be cleaned, repaired
and put into use. In the sheds nearpy are
boilers for engines of various kinds Ihey
are on wheels and can easily be moved 10
the machine shops.
AS went through one warehouse i
scared a flock of bats out of a locomotive,
and upon testing another was attacked py
a swarm of yellow Jackets which had mace
its nest inside the boiler. Lizards, lnciuo-
ing iguanas. were crawling here and there
among the car wheels, and we had 10 VAIN
carefully for fear of the snakes
Machine Shops at Tavernilla.
At Tavernilla, little farther on, we
went through complete machine shop
which was left by the French 1t mas
stationary engine in one corner and Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
Kidding Ships of Rats.

How to rid ships of rats is the subject
of brief report Of United States Consul
General Guenther at Frankfort, Germany
Scientific research has demonstrated that
the dreaded bubonic plague is spread by
rats carried by ships from the seat of con-
tagion to other countries. Consequently
every effort is being made to exterminate
rats on shipboard. Thorough experiments
by physicians on English ships. Mr.. Guen-
Their says, have demonstrated that under
ordinary conditions sulphurous acid gas
renders exactly the same service as dis
infectant as formaline gas. Experiments in
Paris gave the same results
The consul general says that for ships
the use of sulphurous acid in one form or
another seems to be the most advantageous.
1.-THE health authorities Of Hamburg" says
he, have obtained good results from car
bon oxide gas, but sulphurous acid gas has
an advantage, as 1t kills at the same time
all bacteria and insects. Sulphurous acid
gas made by burning sulphur In the we'll
known Clayton apparatus is most recon-
mended. Rats are easily killed by the
gas also plague and cholera baclli. but not
the germs Of ..Milzbrand." which causes
the fatal Inflammation OF spleen In domes-
tic animals Cotton and jute bags can also
be disinfected in this manner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

on hand 81 barges, SO yawls and 81 steam
launches. There are 2T3 iron cranes, 800
big pumps of various kinds, 1S9 rock drills
and 40 steam winches. There are IA
bridges. valued at almost one million dol
lars; 10 electrical machines. - planning ma
chimes. 151 punching machines and all sorts
of machines for shearing iron, riveting and
bolt screwing.
There is a floating drill apparatus valued
by the French at over $4,000, boring ma
chine at $1,000, section dredge worth
5000 and other dredges running UP into
the millions. AS TO the cars and locomo-
tives. they are of every description. There
are thirty-four American locomotives val
ued at 500. 600 and 212 Belgian locomotives
valued al s., 900 600 together with'a lot of
Decauville locomotives for hauling dump
cars over the little narrow gauge Decau-
vile track. There are steel rails enough to
lay 1T6 miles of standard gauge. and more
than sixty-five miles of narrow gauge
There are 5000 dump cars, the most Of
which can be used; and there are 5000 troll
leys for carrying dirt away from the canal
The most of the railroad material is good
and the dump cars are now being repaired
and remodeled. The locomotives, when
cleaned and oiled, are found to move all
right; and the engineers tell me some of
them are even better than any which can
be purchased today.
Our Big French Dredges.
My trip over the canal was made in COM
pany with Paymaster f. c. Tobey. the
chief of the materials and supplies depart
ment, Paymaster V. s. Jackson, his assist
ant. and Mr.. Carl A. Strom, the mechanical
engineer in charge of all the machinery on
the isthmus. We began at Colon and trav-
eled from station to station. taking plenty
of time to go through the larger ware
houses and to investigate the condition of
the materials there stored. We examined
the steam dredges lying out in the open.
both at Colon and La Boca. These are
now being repaired and they will soon be
doing active work on the canal. At Colon
we inspected one dredging vessel made Of
steel which was 200 feet long and forty feet
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members there is sort OF lmpossibility
even to give day of weekly rest by ro-
tation."
and IL is astonishing how much formal and
studied discussion il has excited during the
past five years.
For example. every French city has ';s
fourishing chamber of commerce. There
is not one of them that has not offered IT'S
solution either to the deputies or senators.
Again. the conseils generaux may be COM
pared, in a way 10 our state legislatures.
Those of twenty-one different French de-
partments have declared In favor of Sum
day of enforced rest in favor of even post
office employees tas in England, while
eighteen of them would extend Sunday rest
to all government employees.
Conflicting Interests.
So also the municipal councils OF French
cities have voted and declared themselves
for and against. The municipal council
of Rouen is distinctly against the law. That
of Lille is distinctly in favor of it.
No one denies that many financial inter-
ests may be temporarily threatened. for IL
seems that when a land once LET'S itself
go in the direction OF Sunday work 1t gets
caugh. in the adjustment of IL to condi-
tions. So the Federation Of French Manu-
facturers and Merchants came to the SEN
ate crying national danger
I'm case that legislative intervention g
threatened" IL said. the federation begs
that the government VIII nrSt provoke an
International understanding, in order not
TO impose new burdens IN French industry
and commerce.
Another proposition has been to give DIS
cretionary powers to mayors.
Let US have enforced Sunday rest" say
its advocates. bat let the mayors Of the
different communes have authority 10 de-
clare exceptions"
Something like this has even crept into
the text of the law as voted by the cham
Der of deputies, its reporter, the celebrated
Georges Berry. declaring:
The powers given the mayors W II form
the safety valve OF the law. Exceptions
will be necessary ly reason OF The pro-
dgious diversity OF Industries and COM
merCe."
On the other hand, NJ. M!ller2nd, q social
list, Is distinctly against the idea. Ii would
permit the mayors of 56.~m French com
muneS TO become 50 many leglsi .tOTs.'
Also the senate commission is aE8.Est II.
Instead the commission fayors the law Ii
self fixing the exceptions; and each en-
ployer desiring to benefit by them would
notify the labor inspectors OF the fact. as
Is done at present when excepted industries
work overtime Whole groups of indus
tries are thus recommended for exception
By the senate commission, such as indus
tries working at only certain epochs of the
year. those using perShable materials.
those working in the open air. those who
respond at certain seasons to an increased
demand, all food industries, all establish
ments where one consumes on the spot,
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lathes. There are ten concrete mixers with
stationary engines These have never been
used and they are equal to just so much
money In the making of the canal as all
sorts of dams and other concrete construc-
ton are demanded. Mechanical Engineer
Strom tells me that two men can in one
week fit these machines for actual work,
and he says that they will probably mix
100000 barrels of cement within the next
few years. In addition to this material the
building contains three span bridges ready
to be put across the Chagres or some of Its
tributaries.
Mr. Tobey thinks this warehouse too val
liable to be used shed to cover old ma
chinery. He says its present contents will
be taken out and the structure formed into
a great warehouse for the canal work.
In Monkey Hill Park.
Not far from this warehouse is what is
known as Monkey Hill Park. The word
park was used by the French to indicate
the yards in which their heavy machinery
was stored out of doors. There are num-
Der of these parks, each containing about
ten acres and each covered with structural
material of various kinds, worth altogether
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here
Is pile of iron plates, and there one OF
steel rails laid up like cord wood; here
are sheets of zinc, there bars of iron, and
farther over enough galvanized iron plates
1t would SEEM to roof Uncle Sans strip.
The galvanized iron here is superior to any
made now. 1t is better coated with zinc
and will last much longer than ours. That
on some of the buildings is twenty-five
years old and still good. In these parks
are to be seen acres of car wheels and iron
cars of various kinds. / noticed some poul-
try wire in one yard and in another a great
stack of telegraph wire.
Locomotives and Cars at Bohio.
Everywhere we went, we saw locomotives,
and in many places steel rails. Indeed,
there are said to be enough steel rails here
to furnish more than 200 miles of track.
The railroad locomotives are usually good,
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euuipped with the finest of machine TOOLS
many of which are set up and ready TOT
work Almost none of the machinery mas
been used. 1t is all painted, and 1t looks
as though it We're marshaled for sale rath-
er than for work Every piece is labeled
and ticketed, but this is so with almost
all of the machinery and supplies.
In an adjoining shop we saw lot OF
belt conveying machines. BY means of
stationary engines the eXcavated dirt can
be thrown on these belts and thus carried
out over the banks to the dumping grounds
beyond 1t is Il curious thing that the
French tried to dump on the level and
when their canal banks became high, they
carried the stuff over the banks to the
lower places farther on. The Americans
will dump in the valleys and will make
gravity do much of the work.
Near these engines standing out In the
open are a large number of stationary en-
gines used for operating trolley ropes 10
carry the earth in buckets away from the
canal They will be of no use for the pur-
pose for which they We're intended, but
the mechanical department may be able TO
90 something else with them There are also
hosting machines lying in the bushes,
which are in good condition, with the ex-
cepton of the wood work. Indeed, all OF
the French machinery is so we'll made that
it will stand the wear and tear of the
isthmus much better than ours. The trou-
bic with much of it is that it has become
obsolete, new labor and time-saving inven-
tons having taken it's place. The result
is that great deal of excellent STUN Will
have to be thrown on the scrap heap while
parts will be saved to repair new machines
There is, however, much machinery here
which is as good any in use today. Mr..
Strom showed me an engine lathe worth
500, which is equal to any of the same size
now made, and a punching shear which, he
said would cost $500, and which is good
as any in use.
Results the Watchword.
Indeed It takes brains and good judg
ment to know what to do with this stuff.
Paymaster Tobey appreciates it's value and
so does Chief Engineer Wallace and his
mechanical engineers, who are practical
men from the biggest railroad shops of the
country. They are all taking advantage of
everything that can be possibly used. The
one demand of the chief engineer as to such
things is results; and his men understand
that machine, to have a place in the
canal work, must do its duty in the short
est possible time and at the least possible
cost in the way of repairs, fuel and opera
ton. Indeed, the only open sesame here
is results" Every man and every ma
chine is being weighed in the balance, and
if found wanting he or it will very soon
go to the scrap heap.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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OLD CHURCH AT FORT GIBSON.
Building in Indian Territory That
Sheltered Wen-Known Americans.

From the Fort Gibson Post.
An effort is now being made to preserve
the "old church on the hilT' at Fort Glib
son, l. T., the oldest building in the terri
tory. This church was the old garrison
church at Fort Gibson during all the early
days of the west and was afterward used
as schoolhouse, with Henry NJ. Stanley,
then a young man, as the teacher.
The old building has been occupied con-
tinuously since 1892. Gen. Hazen while re-
siding here was married and brought to the
fort his bride, Miss Mclean of Cincinnati,
Ohio, now the wife of Admiral George
Dewey She is said to have been the most
stylish woman who ever lived in Fort Glib
son and occupied the large stone building
still standing on Garrison hill. Many peo-
pie in the old town remember her well.
Fort Gibson, the oldest town in Indian
Territory, Is rich In historic lore, much Of
which has been written, but most of which
is yet unrecorded. Settled shortly after the
Louisiana purchase. there was established
a military post in 1919 Many notable and
distinguished men have lived there, some
now resting in the United States national
cemetery. about mile from the old fort,
where 2,459 soldiers are buried and where
may be seen the names of a number Of cell
ebrated soldiers, scouts and warriors who
figured years ago in border and Indian war
fare
Among the number is the noted Seminole
chief Billy Bowlegs, who fought with Osce-
Ola at the battle OF Wahoo swamp, where
Gen. Dade was killed and the American
troops were routed: After the treacherous
capture of Osceola owlegs Joined the
American army and was assigned the rank
of captain. a fact recorded on the tomb
stone at the head of his grave.
Stanley. the African explorer, at one time
taught subscription school at the fort,
| occupying the old frame building still
standing near the old public square.
Washington Irving. the noted American
writer, visited Fort Gibson and wrote his
Tales of Traveller" in a tent just outside
the old parade ground on Garrison hill.
In 1916 the poet Longfellow, on a tour of
observation In the west, visited Fort Glib
son by the way of the Arkansas and Grand
rivers. Next year appeared the most loved
of all his poems, "Evangeline," where seem
cry In the vicinity of Fort Gibson is graphi-
cally and beautifully described
The oldest church in Indian Territory" is
OF hewn logs which have been covered with
boards. Before its spacious fireplace, still
In use, many notables have warmed them
selves-Gens. Scott. Taylor, JEFF Davis.
Robert e. Lee, Mcclellan and others. Gen.
Taylor lived in the old house with his fam
| ily included his daughter, Miss Betty, who
married JEFF Davis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

did you have NAL de mer on your way
over to the continent?" asked Mrs. Old
castle.
"No; John took a bottle or two with u.s.
but when I'm seasick none of them kind Of
things ever does me bit of good. London
Tit-Bita