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The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Notice.

At meeting held at the Court
House at Delta on Tuesday, Feb. 4th,
1908 company was organized to take
over and operate the Kuhnley coal
tract. The incorporators are j. w.
Kuhnley, w. G. Cook and F. Waller.
The Directors for the first year are the
above named gentlemen and A. B.
Wire and John E. Cole. The Company
is capitalized for $1,000. in $40 shares,
and there are still l20 shares of stock
to be subscribed for. Subscription lists
may be found at Ault's and Cook S
Drug Stores. and at Wire and Reed S
office.
The final meeting for the adoption of
Constitution and Bylaws, will be held
at the Court House at Delta at 10 A. NJ.
Monday. Feb. 10th, 1908. All inter
ested are requested to attend, as this
is matter of vital Importance to
users of coal, now, and in the future
Il. A. AuLT, Chairman.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Editor Away.

Because of a press breakdown Mr..
Anderson. of the INDEPENDENT left for
Denver Saturday to see about a new
press. This will account for the better
or worse appearance of the paper this
week, as the case may be
1t is hoped to get the office machinery
to running smoothly in time and all the
wheels to turning as nicely rs those in
the heads of the office and newspaper
people connected with the paper.
Up to the present we have had
troubles a-plenty, but, little at time
we expect to ''get there"
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Delta County Fruit Growers Association.

The Delta County Fruit Growers
Association is one of the county's
largest business institutions. The three
warehouses of the company are packed
with goods in the various lines handled.
At present these are: Oranges in car
lots, stock peas, honey, rock salt, the
poisons used in spraying orchards, and
many other supply lines.
The past week car of apples and
one of honey were the local product
shipments away; at this season of the
year most of the company's business
being supply lines shipped in. During
the fruit season the company handles
immense amounts of fruit and is a
great aid to growers in marketing their
crops.
The Association has now on hand
800, 900 pressed brick with which to
construct new storage buildings, but
has been deferred because denied the
building privilege sought, by the town
council. This matter, it is hoped. will
be satisfactorily arranged so that the
new building, proposing to cost SIS, 100.
can go up.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
No Beets in Arkansas Valley.

Unless the sugar trust backs down
no beets will be grown by the farmers
for the factories at Rocky Ford. Swink,
Las Animas, La Junta and Holly in the
Arkansas valley, but tomatoes will be
raised instead for the canning factories
of that section at $l1 per ton the can
ners furnishing free seed instructions
to growers.
The sugar trust say they will not pay
the fiat rate of $5 per ton demanded by
the farmers and the farmers have all
agreed not to grow them unless they
do, but grow tomatoes.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07

H K. Correll will give 81 so rocker
to the Oldest person born in Montrose
or Delta counties.
R. F. Williams will give a pair of
shoes to the boy under Is years who
wins the barrel race.
Remington Elliott will give suit of
clothes to the man bringing the largest
number of boys to town.
Will H. Mathers will offer s5 in
merchandise to the oldest settler in
Montrose or Delta county.
Peoples Pharmacy will give s. in
trade to the winner in the Fat Mems
race, 200 pounds and over.
Williams & Williams will give free
feed to the man coming the longest
distance with rig bringing family.
Delta School of Music will give one
term of lessons to school boy or girl
having best average for fall term.
Hillman's will give a $3.50 Overcoat
to the gentlemen bringing the largest
number of ladies to town on one wagon.
Porter-Obert Hardware Co. will give
a 81. so buggy whip to the person show
ing the best single driving horse and
rig.
Geer & Clack will give a 81 center
table to the man coming the greatest
distance with team, bringing his
family.
Seaton Drug Co. will give a set of
Shakspeare's works to the teacher
having the largest number of pupils
from any school district.
No person living within the corporate
limits of Delta will be permitted to
contest for the above prizes.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Subscriptions Received.

The following subscriptions to the
INDEPENDENT have been received dur
ing the week:
Geo. Deter, II. j. Baird, Il. M.
Davids, Tom Dewar, Henry Isensee
Delta; l.. p. Ward, Read. DIR. A. L.
Miller, N. p. Madsen, Austin; L. j,
Mathews, Paonia; Geo. C. Farrar,
Leadville; Mrs. Minnie Doyle. Durango,
C. M. Collins, Delta; Peter Etyel Mil.
waukee, Wis.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
BUSINESS MEMS MEET
ING WELL ATTENDED
SENATOR DE LONG ADDRESSES EN-
THUSIASTIC GATHERING
GQEAT IS THE WESTERN SLOPE

counting, however, her extensive dried
fruit interests.
''In Colorado every community has
some specially on which it puts its
brand. On the eastern side of the Con-
tinental Divide Greeley has stamped
her brand upon the potato and Greeley
potatoes are sold in every part of the
United States and hundreds of cars are
shipped across the water. Rocky Ford
has put her brand upon the melons and
Rocky Fords are not only served in the
homes of the rich throughout the
length and breadth of our land but the
kings and queens of Europe have these
melons on their breakfast tables.
Western Colorado has placed her brand
upon the peach. The delicious and un-
surpassed flavor is so well known that
it often happens that Colorado peaches
are sold in various markets from two
weeks to a month before they are ripe
on our trees. 1t has been stated that
even California, famous as her peaches
were in the earlier days, has permitted
her products to be reboxed and re-
labeled Shipped from Colorado.
II am informed that during the past
year Delta has made wonderful pro-
gress. In residences, remodeling old
and constructing new, you have invest
ed no less than $3.50, 600. In other i'm
provements no less than 500, 200.
$3.50, 900 of improvements within your
city in single year! This, however,
is only a beginning. The present year
will far surpass it and each succeeding
year for decade to come will give you
more investments and more improve
ment- With the rich lands that sur
round you, with the coming of wealth
which the government canal will bring
bound to come every section of your
county and all the western part of the
state. it is modest to say that within
the next decade you will have between
10. 900 and 20, people. You will have
factories of which you have not
dreamed, schools that would be the
pride of any people, large, eommodious
and well attended churches; manufac-
turies of diverse and various kinds,
such as you have not yet conceived of;
electric lines connecting your city with
every part of the country The beauti-
full resorts on Grand Mesa with which
you are familiar, will be placed in quick
and easy connection with your populous
city. The future holds in store for you
more than your widest dreams have
ever contemplated. i wish you Peace,
Prosperity and Progress.
At the Business Mems meeting, two
committees were appointed on some
important measures which will prob
ably come up before the association for
consideration at its next meeting.
Taking it altogether the address was
happy surprise and every one went
from the hall feeling well paid for be-
ing present on this occasion.
Hon. Ed. 7. Taylor, of Glenwood
Springs has been invited to address the
next meeting of the Business Mems
Association, which will be on March I'd.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07

The regular monthly meeting of the
Delta County Business Mems Associa-
tion was held at the Odd Fellows hall
on Monday evening February Bird. The
program was as follows:
Banquet at $50, and although the
weather was very bad, 60 people sat
down to the feast. Many more came
later to take part in the business meet
ing and to hear the address by Senator
De Long.
Mr.. De Long gave an excellent ad-
dress, and by the came, fully demon
strated that he is not a pessimist re-
garding the future possibilities of the
Western Slope of Colorado.
In opening the address he spoke of
the first settlers of Colorado. before it
was state, and how they finally
crowded over to this side of the Con-
tinental Divide. He told of the
development of the country down to
the present time, describing in detail
the development of fruit, vegetables
and grain; how our products were ship
ped as far as to the Orient. He said
it was impossible to keep a city
from growing that has the resources
that the little city Of Delta possesses;
that Delta would within FIVE years
double its population.
He drew glorious picture of the
resources of Grand Mesa, thereby max
ing it the greatest summer resort in
Ia v,,anttnnad tho raa1 nf
good roads. and especially the need Of
better railroad service to carry out the
products on this side of the slope, the
development of this country in manu-
facture, the wonderful water power
which is going to waste; what electrici-
ty will mean to Delta in the future, and
the wonderful coal supply we have.
"Montrose, Delta and Mesa counties"
he said, "have awakened the interest Of
the whole world in the possibilities of
horticulture. 1t is claimed that in all
Colorado there are rs, 900 acres of fruit
lands which, during the year 1906, pro-
duces s5. .243, 00o or an average of s67
per acre. East of the Continental Di-
vide are 1900 acres in fruit which
yielded total of 81, 100. 900 or an aver
age of s45 an acre. West of the Con-
tinental Divide there were %, 500 acres
of fruit which yielded an income of
s3,iO0, 900 or an average of si39 per
acre.
eastern Colorado is 70 years old;
Western Colorado is about 25 years old.
The lands in Eastern Colorado are sell
ing for hundreds of dollars per acre.
Not half of our horticultural lands are
yet planted. Thousands of acres are
being planted each succeeding year for
decade to come. Despite the fact
that we have really only begun in the
fruit industry, remember report
which | have been unable to verify,
that Mesa county alone shipped out
1000 car loads Of fruit in the year 1906,
that the whole state of California in
green fruits shipped only 5000 cars.
If this statement be true the one coun-
ty in Colorado shipped third as much
as the whole state Of California, not
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Paonia's Short Course.

The Newspaper publishes the names
Of about 100 persons who participated
as students of the Short Course held in
Paonia recently.
Besides those who actively patron
lied the school, twenty-five persons
who could not attend offered to sub
scribe 81. 90 apiece to help out il they
were needed. However, their kind offer
was unnecessary, for the actual stu
dents were sufficient to defray all the
expenses.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Adjournment Of February Tenn Of
District Court.

By order Of Court the February Term
of the District Court has been adjourned
until Monday February 18th, 1908. The
Petit Jury are excused from attendance
upon said Court until O'Clock of said
day, at which time the members will
be required to attend for service on
said panel.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07

throughout the land, for the Delta peo-
pie are not slow in letting these things
be known, and this more than any other
cause has been responsible for the
great increase in population and conse-
quent rise in land values in that To-
cality.''
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
homeseekers' Rates South.

One fare plus $500 tc certain points
in Texas and New Mexico and return:
liberal limits; stopovers; via Colorado
4 Southern. Full information on ap-
plication.
7. f. FISHER,
General Passenger Agent,
Denver.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07

Unheard of terms! We loan eight
per cent money with privilege of par
tial payments. KING 4 STEWART.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
Address on Lincoln.

The Pastor of the Baptist church.
Rev. S. A. Hayworth, will take for his
subject next Sunday evening. "Abe
Lincoln, A Man of Full Stature.
There will be special music. Seats
free. Every body is invited.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
for Rent.

Twenty-Five acres choice beet land
bordering city limits on Garnet Mesa.
Apply to
STARR NELSON. Box los.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07
DEATHS.

VIM. Frederick Blumberg. aged "a
years, month and 25 days, died Mon
day of senile paralysis, at the home of
his daughter Mrs. Harvey of Escalante
Canon. The remains were inferred at
Delta on Tuesday February 4th.
Mr.. Blumberg leaves sons, daugh-
ters, "a grandchildren and 6 great
grandchildren to mourn his death.
John B., son of Mr. and Mrs ]. B.
Morgan, died Tuesday morning at the
age of 8 years and 10 months. The
many friends join with the INDEPEND-
ENT in extending sympathy to the
parents in their sad bereavement.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07

Druggist Ault hns the DR.. Bell Pine
Tar remedies for sale.
The Delta independent., 1908-02-07

Delta Flour si.i5 at the Spot Cash.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-19

Since the advent of Darwinism upon the
stage of intellectual thought volumes have
been written, pro and con, concerning man
and monkey Despite the popular notion
that Darwinism meant a direct ascent Of
man from the simian, instead of a common
origin for both, it is none the less fact
that monkeydom affords an interesting
field for investigation and experiment.
According to California reports there is
under consideration, a movement looking
toward the importation of herd of South
American monkeys into the land of gold for
the purpose of training them to gather
prunes during the harvest as means of
attempting to solve the labor problem.
Prune growers are reported to have lost
crops through the lack of harvest hands.
Men, women, children, and then Chinese
and Japanese, have all been tried, but it
seems that the problem of gathering the
prune crop has not been solved and Martin
v. Seeley, of San Jose, is reported to have
announced his intention to make an effort
at training imported monkeys for the job
The report further states that Mr.. Seeley
has already communicated with friend,
A. b. James, of Acapulco, Panama. with
view to securing the monkeys for the pur-
poses indicated. Then, upon receiving
them, the work of training will begin. Once
trained the prune grower anticipates that
the monkeys will take the place of men in
the harvest field and he be enabled to
gather his crop at less cost and expense.
No one will question, or deny, the prune
growers property right in the monkeys
thus purchased and imported But the
ghost of former years still haunts the
southland, and it would not be surprising
If another abolition movement sprang up In
the effete east demanding an emancipation
proclamation for the simians.
reported that some distinguished natural
historian proposes to affiliate himself with
few apes of high order, live with them,
talk with them, take down Photographic
record of their vocabulary for preservation,
to study their ways, habits, methods, and,
If possible arrive at some definite concu-
sion concerning their capabilities of de-
velopment towards civilization.
Thus it will appear that whether man and
monkey be closely related by progenital
ties or not, both are destined to be brought
into closer contact. Not only Is it proposed
to make them of use for scientific investi-
cation, but to bring them in the labor
markets of the world and by taking the
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-19
BLUE GRASS BLADE
! Current Comment on Public Events

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
places of men increase the demand for op-
portunities to labor, decrease compensation
therefor, and while monkeys live well, are
fed WELL in order to enchance their oppor-
tunites for labor, human children may be
permitted to cry themselves in hunger to
sleep.
Julia Ward Howe of fiction fame, has had
a vision, in which,, 1t is alleged there was
brought to Julia vision of the final disap-
pearance of evil in the world. But Julia
is not the only civilized being who has had
such dreams, or visions. Thousands have
dreamed in the same direction and many
have believed that the day was about to
dawn when a realization of what they had
dreamed was about to come. From the be-
ginning of written history there have been
men and women noted as dreamers and
Julia can find innumerable prototypes by q
little searching. If Julia can be persuaded
not to infiict her socalled vision upon a
suffering public her friends ought to get
busy.
is an attack of mental jimjams. This d.
sease is epidemic among writer's of fiction.
She brings nothing into the world, for all
she has to report is that in her dream she
saw an age of human battle with forces of
evil suffering, followed by triumph and an
era of universal peace and purity. Every
man and woman who has ever entertained
a thought for the welfare of the human race
has realized this eternal conflict and no
dream was necessary to make the revela-
ton. Every reformer, man or woman, has
constantly had such vision before their
minds eye, working, struggling, laboring to
bring about its realization. We said "eter-
nal conflict" and the conflict Is eternal.
Everywhere the good and the bad, right
eousness and crime, intermingle. 1t is
constant struggle These opposing forces
have ever been at work SO long as man has
inhabited the globe. They will continue to
be at work so long as man shall continue
to inhabit the globe. Even taking Christian
theology at its word, there can be no end
to the conflict, for what will be able to
quench the mutual and irrevocable hatred
and enmity Of its deities for good and bad.
Crime may wear mask, error may be
blinded by prejudice, selfishness may live
under a cloak of piety, greed may pose as
possessing sainthood, but the forces for
evil still remain, and all the combined hosts
Of orthodox religions are powerless against
them. To repress the evil and enhance the
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-19

good should be the true aim of every noble
man and woman. This millennium can never
be attained while superstition is allowed
to obstruct the wheels of the car of prog
ress, and the labor of the army of Free
thought is to lessen evil by systematic,
though intellectual, personal restraint, fol-
lowing improved personal character, result
ing in life of purity and purpose.
Julia is not the only person to dream
dreams. Joseph, of old, is said to have
been afflicted with the same disease, but
his dreams first got him into dire distress,
and then he became lucky and dreamed
himself into Opulence. For Julia to attain
the perfect state which she is alleged to
have witnessed in her vision, she must
first align herself with the forces that make
for religious, political and economic prog
ress, leaving in the rear all forms and SUI
perstitiOns that have combined to keep the
best, are but mental phantasies, and we
opine that Julia has slipped her mental troll
ley pole and got on the wrong current.
1
Baptist church, of East st. Louis, has gone
up against losing game He publicly an
nounces that he will, hereafter refuse to
marry any couple where the woman refuses
to take the obligation to "obey" her pro-
spective husband, and he calls upon other
ministers of the gospel to follow his foolish
ignus fatui.
TheOlogically, as also from an orthodox
standpoint, he is right, and no woman living
in the hope of heavenly reward in company
with Jesus and his apostles, ought to offer
the slightest objection. Paul places woman
as far beneath her husband, as her husband
is beneath Christ, and that is deuced long
way, If Christianity be right Then. accord
ing to the law of dominant right, wherein
the inferior must obey the superior, woman
must conform to the scriptural requirement
and promise to obey her husband in all
things
The tendency of the age is for woman to
avoid the taking of such pledge. The day has
dawned when woman is recognized as the
mental and intellectual equal of man. In
many instances woman has shown mental
superiority over some men. Realizing this
she has refused to bow the knee in humil-
ity and submission, asserting her equal
right and mental capabilities, and in defer
ence to expressed wishes on the subject, in
Vulnerable parsons have agreed to overlook
the theological injunction to "obey" and
omitted the word from the service alto
gether. 1t is a safe and reasonable pre-
sumption, that If Rev. Bass persists in ad-
herring to his expressed plan, the number
of MARRIAGES contaminated by him will be
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CATHOLIC

Christmas service will be held next
Thursday, Dec 24th at the home OF
u. j.. Henneberry, at 9 q. m. Rev.
Father E Frederick Of Prosser, offici-
ating.. Midnight mass will be held
IN PascO at the court house.
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yards In the Eastern Washing tor
system with headquarters at Kenne.
wick. He will give particular atten
ton to the operate of the ne
yards at White Bluffs and Hanford.
Last week the special committee
on the Sewerage question held a
conference with Engineer H. D. Han
ford Of Seattle, a sewerage expert.
and ascertained that it would be
necessary to make complete topo-
graphic survey of the territory de.
signed to be included in the new drain
age district before an estimate of
cost OF RECONSTRUCTION could be made.
Another meeting will be held befol e
any action will be taken. A big
difference In the cost will he made
II sewerage system only can he put
in without being necessary to make
the mains large enough to carry the
surface drainage as well. Mr.. Han
ford was of the impression that on
account Of the dry climate here tie
cheaper system could be put in.
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FINLEY,


Report was made that the work
OF building the new hall would begin
Immediately after Christmas.
Mrs. f. II. Johnston of Wilbur,
WASH. s@.tspending; the holida, s
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +. F.
coffeen at Finley:
The discussion of the need of a nc W
school building was called up aud a
final discussion was set for a second
Saturday evening In January the
evening, of the 9th.
Mrs. W. A. Murray and, children, OF
B oundary Falls, B. c. arrived for
the holidays and 'a:more extendt d
visit at the parental home of MIR. and
Mrs. 6. E. Finley. "a.
The Finley Development Club he'd
the annual election of~.officers last
Saturday evening, with the follow.
ing result: S. H. Godfrey, president
l.. Hedington, vice president; O.. G.
Isetzlaff. secretary; N. G. Bowles
treasurer.
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Good Cough Medicine.

Coughs, colds, Group and whoop-
ing cough are promptly cured by
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, There
as it contains nothing that will in
re the smallest child. For sale by
The Columbia Pharmacy.