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The state herald., 1908-08-14

FOR SALE. Seven head of good sized
young horses. All broke. ] E. Shepard.
The state herald., 1908-08-14

Attend the god medal contest at the
opera house this evening
The state herald., 1908-08-14

c. E. Paul left Holyoke Tuesday for
a visit at Cowls, Neb.
The state herald., 1908-08-14

Hear F. P. jolly lecture on the Jolly
Side of Life.
The state herald., 1908-08-14

Bring your fat hogs to the Pioneer
Meat Market. A. W. Scruggs.
The state herald., 1908-08-14
For Sale or Trade.

My New Century Aultman & Taylor
separator 30x46 with feeder and weigh
er and - horse power engine Of same
make with tender and tank, all in good
condition. w. a. White, Holyoke, olo.
The state herald., 1908-08-14

Tieke, Agent. llolyoke. Colo.
NV W AkttY, q, PA, Omaha "
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Commissioners Adjourn

The Delta county commissioners
finished up the business of their mid
summer session Tuesday. Aside from
the routine work there was about the
usual amount of special business,
among which was the granting of some
extra road work and the consideration
of voting bonds for bridge purposes
and additional road improvements. In
this latter matter the subject was
postponed action until the October
meeting. it not being certain, accord
ind to advices had, that the county,
under the laws governing its organiza-
tion, could. at present. issue the bonds
required for the fund stated, even if,
at the general election this fall, the
people of the county should approve by
their vote an order for their issue.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Forest Man Invests.

w. r. Kreutzer, supervisor of the
Gunnison National Forest bought 81
acres of the Hammond land this week
of NJ. L. Rhodes. There are about 10
acres of orchard and it is delightfully."-
located just short distance from the
city limits. Mr.. kreutzer intends
eventually to make this place his home
and he could not have made better
selection for that purpose than this
land. which already has city water and
by fall can have electric lights, and
has one of the most slightly building
sites in the valley. Cline & Hufty
handled the deal and they are particu-
lsrly well pleased with the class of
customers they have been selling to
lately -Paonia Newspaper.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Delta Becoming a City.

Delta is getting to be quite town.
This week there were several cases of
forged checks, though all by one per-
son, last week it was shoplifting and
the week previous it was horse steal
ing. Ed. Marrow, on Monday passed
forged checks to Delta people as fol-
lows: Mr.. Williams S3l. so; Ramsey
Dry Goods Co. 100; Girardet & Kurz
s24.sO; Gus Schlapp $3.50; Fred Towle
$500. The above checks bore the
names of Wiggs & Howland. Pulvers,
and Eifert, all contractors, and as he
had on different occasions before pre-
sented checks to the stores which were
genuine, he experienced no difficulty in
having the forged ones accepted when
offered in part payment for goods, re-
ceiving the balance in cash. All were
pronounced forgeries excepting the one
to Towle, which was his personal check
on a Delta bank, where he had not and
and had never had any money on de-
post.
Marrow went from Delta to Mont
rose where he proceeded to get drunk
and where he was easily picked up on
the following morning by Sheriff Gibbs
of Delta, who was sent there after
him. He is now in the county Jail here
and will have to face the reward of
his violations of law, which will of
course mean lengthy term in the
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Sousa Sings.

Miss Susa Carpenters concert at the
Delta opera house Wednesday night
was well attended, the audience greet
ing Colorado's prima donna being of
the city's best people.
Miss Carpenter has very wide
range of voice, sweet face and
queenly figure, and presents the grac-
iousness of manner bred in Colorado's
climate, which state, like the balance
of its citizens, she dearly loves. Her
student nature, character, ambition
and voice give her a foundation for
success which can hardly fail of reali-
zation.
1t is quite difficult task for single
singer to entertain an audience with an
entire concert, and to say that Miss
Carpenter is capable of doing this sat
isfactorily, is higher praise than would
he sloppy eulogy.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
News Writers
on Western Slope
See Rich Valleys and Visit Great
Gunnison Tunnel.

Sundays train brought to Montrose
number of the newspaper CORE
spondents and others who have been in
attendance upon the Democratic con-
vention at Denver. Chaperoned be
Consulting Engineer |. w. Mcconnell
and Project Engineer C. T. Pease,
these men spent Sunday night at River
Portal in the picturesque Grand Canon
of the Gunnison river, returning to
Montrose this morning where they
were driven in autos over the fruit belt
on Spring Creek mesa and through
some of our fine agricultural sections
before the departure of the afternoon
train when they went west to catch the
eastern train.
The party is in charge of the Ma
tional Forestry association and this
was the personnel: Mr.. Hill, New
York Tribune; Mr.. Brahany. Brooklyn
Eagle; Clarence Lyman, the Denver
correspondent; Mr.. Holman of Oregon;
Mr.. Ruhl, Golfers; P. C. Baker, De-
troit News; c. J. Blanchard, U. S. R.
s.; Mr.. Aubere, st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat; Mr.. Gardner, Chicago Journal;
Mr.. Walker. Newark News; Mr. Dunn,
Washington Ladies' Daily; Mr.. Crist,
Chicago Sentinel.
But few of these men had ever been
in the mountains before and the trip
over to River Portal was most marvel
Gus and amazing to them. They rode
for nearly two miles in the tunnel on
the electric cars and could not get
through talking about the wonderful
thing the governmtnt is dong for the
people of the Uncompahgre valley. 1t
is safe to say they will write up tire
Gunnison tunnel in great shape and a
million people will read about it within
the next few weeks who never heard
of it before. -Montrose Press.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Delta Country Lively,

Things are lively these days on the
farms around. Haying is under way
and in the meadows great stacks are
reared. while other meadows are
covered thickly with shocks. Beet
growers are looking after their crops
in the matters of irrigation and thin
ming as needed. Market gardens are
supplying consumers and shipping a
surplus, while those raising berries
and cherries are doing the same. The
country looks good and will look better
as the season advances. Great is Delta
county.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Cartoonist Spencer.

Cartoonist Spencer, of the Denver
Republican, with Mrs. Spencer will
form part of an outing party going
from Delta to lola tomorrow. T. X.
Seaton. president of the Delta Busi-
ness Mems Association. Mrs. Seaton
and her sister, Miss lone Moore. will
make up the balance of the party.
After fishing day or two in the Gun
nison at lola, the party will camp above
Cebolla Springs for two weeks, where
the trout are so plentiful that they are
said to swim along the creek anxiously
looking for fishermen-of Spencer and
Seaton's skill.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Montrose Chautauuua.

The Montrose Chautauqua will have
big day July %, Senator La Follette's
day. On that day at 1890 DIR. Charles
A. Payne will deliver his lecture, "The
Romance of World Building At 2:30
a concert by Swanee Jubilee Singers.
At 300. The Self Sufficiency of the
Republic lecture by John Dewitt
Miller. At : p. m, Songs of the
Sunny South-by Swanee Jubilee Sing
ers. At p. m, lecture" "Represen-
tative Government, by Senator Rob
ert Nj. La Toilette. An all day ticket
for the above program granted excur-
sionists for 70 cents.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Iowa Picnic.

The Iowa picnic at Paonia yesterday
was a big success. The crowd was
large and happy to the fullest ex-
tent. The excursion from Delta alone
carried 200 picnicers, requiring three
coaches. The day was spent in social
enjoyment, speaking music and feast
ing. 1t was a notable reunion of Iowa
people in Delta county, an occasion
which they will remember with pleas
ure until next years Iowa Day" will
bring them all together again.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Nye Show Has Trouble |

The Nye shows that were in Delta
two weeks ago had all kinds of trouble
at Palisade. The Tribune called them
Cheap" and said some other warm
things about them. and in return the
show crowd smashed the office win
dows of the paper and threatened to
wreck the office The proprietors
guarded the Tribune office all night
with rifles. During the melee one of
the trained bears got away and COM
mitteed suicide by drowning itself in
the Grand river, and the show was
blamed with the disappearance of a
gold watch from room some of them
occupied. The crowd had the ear
marks of general toughness, which is
more or less characteristic of such out
fits.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
lola Home Of Rainbows

The home of the Rainbow Trout
Such is lola. midway between Delta
and Gunnison, on the d. & r. G.
Not only is lola the "home of the
rainbow trout but it is, with its
mountain breezes, its widened valley
and nice hotel accommodations, the
home and very pleasant resort of every
fisherman who loves good sport ac-
companied by all the com forts of home.
Here the river is a series of broad
rifles, out of which the trout are seen
jumping and splashing, the rivers
banks being low and convenicnt-just
such haunt as the fly fisherman
dreams about.
The lola hotel. run by S. n. Zeigler,
is furnishing good rooms or cabins well
furnished, and what is equally impo-
tant, good fare for there is no one
who gets so hungry as fisherman or a
hunter, and here it may be proper also
to advise those who love hunting that
lola is in the center of n game country,
where. in season, can be found deer,
bear and grouse, in plenty.
The hotel is but few steps from
railroad station and postofiice, located
on delightfully."- cool slope up from the
meadow through which the river runs.
Delta people who go up the Gunnison
fishing, will make no mistake by gong
to lola.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Drowned in Gunnison.
Harry Madison Goes Under At
tempting to Wade Stream.
Body Recovered this Forenoon.

Mr.. b. B. Madison arrived yesterday
afternoon from Kersey, Colorado, to
take up the search for the body of his
brother. Harry Madison. who was
drowned in the Gunnison river Tuesday
evening. Ranchman Collins, for whom
Harry was working, wss in the river
with Harry at the time. They were
wading around with their clothes on,
while Mrs. Collins was sitting on the
river bank. There was a calf across
the river that had been hurt by train
and Harry started to wade across to
inspect its hurts. Getting into swift
water he was suddenly taken off his
feet into deep hole, and being unable
to swim but little, he was drowned.
There was cable which he could have
clung to and pulled himself across with
safety, but he apparently had no fear
of deep water at that point. He was
"a years old and a native of Illinois.
Before coming to Delta he lived at
Greeley for four years. He was an in
dustrious young man of good habits
and well liked.
He was a member Of the Knights of
Pythias and Woodmen of the World
orders
The body Of Madison was found near
noon today, washed on a shoal about
quarter Of a mile below where he was
drowned.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Assessors Notice.

In pursuance to section ninety-three
(93) of the Revenue Law, notice is
hereby given that on the 18th day of
July and successive days | will sit to
hear any and all objections to the as
sessment of property as the same now
stands in my office at Delta, Colorado,
and you will further take notice that
all objections must be made in writing.
S. l.. CocKREHAM,
County Assessor. Delta County, Colo.
list. pub. July u; last pub. July "a
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17

Winton says if you want the best
coal he has it at both old and new
mines. Try the New Mine Coal, you
will like it. Keep up Tongue Creek for
new mine.
Come in and see my new line of
wheels. q. e. ENGLlsH.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Advertised Letter List.

Letters remaining uncalled for in
the Postoiiice at Delta, Colo, for the
week ending July IA. 1908:
John Anderson, Stuart Beattie.
C H. Bryson, Mrs. w. Harrison,
Mrs. Martha Hart, Guy Murphy,
Mrs. Ross. l.. C.. Smith.
Lu World, Mrs. Della Harrison.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Bank Vault at Ridgway Wrecked.

On the night of the 18th bold at
tempt was made to rob the bank at
Ridgway. The burglars tunneled to
the vault and wrecked it with dynamite,
destroying its books and papers but
failing to break open the strong box
containing the cash Local parties
We're suspected and several arrests
were made.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17
Its Name Is Delta.

There's a land called Colorado,
In the West in tho West:
There's a spot in Colorado,
That is blessed thai is blessed;
Delta County is Its name
And worldwide is it, fame.
We will shout for Delta County
With the rest with the rest.
The Delta independent., 1908-07-17

Go to +. C. Luce 4 Son for "Porcelo"
the only preparation exclusively made
for cleaning bath tubs and all enam eled
and porcelain ware. II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
The Passing World.

This dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal
strongly suggests the need of giving wider
publicity to the Scriptural story about
the good Samaritan:
After lying helpless under tree near
the ostrich farm. east of the city, from
Sunday afternoon until Tuesday night
while red ants Swarmed over his body and
literally ate him alive, Burton u. Jar
Wis, twentysix years old, a contracting
teamster of Terre Haute, Ind, died today
at the county hospital, where he was
taken when found last night. Jarvis was
suffering from tuberculosis, and came to
California two years ago. Last Sunday
he left his hotel in the afternoon to go
to the ostrich farm for a pleasure trip
On the way he became faint, and, walk
ing over to a shade tree, lay down. In
stead of recovering his strength he faint
ed, and did not regain consciousness until
long after dark that night. For two days
and nights he lay helpless, with ants and
other insects tormenting him. Occasional
passersby thought the man under the in
fiuence of liquor and did not 90 to his
assistance.
OF course the people who saw the suf-
ferer under the tree and passed him by
feel very badly now for their mistake.
Doubtless not one of them but would
have stopped to aid the sufferer had he
known that he was not the victim of in
diligence in drink. But the consciousness
of mistake remains, with all the sting
of the thought that perhaps the mans
life might have been saved or prolonged
had some one called for help for him on
the first of those two days of torture.
Whose business Is 1t to attend to the
stricken by the wayside? The police will
karrest- the disorderly or the criminal and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
Friday Bargains i'm
Mems Clothing Dept.

A lot of Mems Fancy Two
piece Summer Suits, representing
the ends of a number of lines.
Materials are cassimeres, worsteds
and panamas, in gray, snuff
brown and olive green striped,
checked and plaid effects. Every
suit is of this seasons production
and is cut and. finished in the lat
est and most approved fashion.
All sizes in the lot.
SITS each.
Were $I2.5o and $500.
Also a small lot of Mems
Three-piece Summer Suits-ends
of several broken lines - OF
worsteds and cassimeres, in light
gray and brown striped and
checked effects.
$I1.75 each.
Were $500 to $4,000.
And these remnants:
effects: sizes SO, "a and SO. Reduced from $500
10 10 pairs Mems Serge and Flannel Golf Trou-
sers, In plain white and striped enects; sizes 81
80. "a and 80. Reduced from $oOO ana $oU 10
Main floor Tenth St.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
The Black Hand Evil.

Little progress appears to have been
made toward the elimination of the So
called black hand criminals from New
! ork and other large cities of this coun-
Try. Not week passes without the record
itg of some new crime in which black
mailing demands have been made upon
the victim. who has refused to yield to
them and has then come to grief through
the use of stiletto pistol or dynamite.
In their efforts to trace the assassins the
police are usually handicapped blythe I'M
Willingness of the objects of black hand
attentions. who are almost invariably
Italians, TO give testimony against their
assailants. Here is a typical case, just
printed in a New York paper:
Giro Bivono, who conducts a grocery
store at Jo2 First avenue, was shot and
fatally wounded on mis- doorstep last even
ing, after talking with alleged black hand
men. At Bellevue Hospital Bivono iden-
tined an Italian as one of the two men
who had fired upon him. but later said
he had never seen him before. His wife,
however. said he was the man who had
snOt her husband"
In this instance il is plain that the
wounded man feared that If ne identified
those who shot him he would be later
Slain if lie were to recover from his
wounds, or if he died his family would
suffer. Evidently the wife had no such
fear. Such instances seem to demonstrate
that If there is no single organization.
covering the whole country and governed
BY an effective system of discipline.
there are compact. well administered
groups of blackmailers, operating system
at.caily and effectively. In short, it is
obvious that our cities have been for some
time deliberately exploited by brigands
as bold in their work as the road agents
of Yellowstone Park or the bandits OF
southern Europe. The Italian highway
men have transferred their activities from
the less orderly sections of their own land
TO the most densely populated portions
Of America.
The black hand crimes must be checked
before they extend beyond the limits OF
the Italian colonies in our cities. 1t is
disSraceful reflection upon the American
municipal governments that organized
crime has thrived so long almost without
Alndrance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
Hearst and the Democracy.

The Iroquois Club of San Francisco, a
democratic organization to which William
r. Hearst belonged. sent that gentleman
a request for his resignation. and got il
with letter which, SO far. is one of the
ceverest deliverances of the campaign
Using two homely but very effective il
Illustrations, Mr.. Hearst stated his case
and left his former friends TO ponder the
matter. Maybe they wish they had kept
their peace.
Mr.. Hearst, as he frankly confesses. is
no longer a democrat He at last found
the changes in the party's creed too rapid
and confusing for his temperament. HE
was democrat in 1892, in 1896. in 1900
and 1904. but he draws the line at the
Denver platform and Mr.. Bryan's aban-
donment of policies TO which the latter
at one time gave support. Where is free
silver; where government ownership of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
Mr.. Gompers and the Stump.

There is nothing surprising in the an
nouncement that Samuel Gompers will
take the stump for Mr.. Bryan. On the
contrary. it was something to be ex-
pected. 1t is a logical development of
Mr.. Gompers' position. In interviews and
with his pen he has been advocating MIR.
Bryan's election ever since the Denver
convention. Stamping, therefore, will be
but another form of his support.
This new feature of the matter. how
ever. may emphasize the objection felt In
the circles of union labor to Mr. Com
pers whole course this year as respects
labor and politics. Labor organizations
are non-poitical. Their membership in
clUdes democrats, republicans. populsts.
independence leaguers, prOhibitiOnists and
socialists. Their object is the promotion
of the interests of labor on general lines.
On other matters the members divide as
other citizens do.
The argument of Mr.. Gompers is that
on the question of injunctions the Denver
platform is friendly and the Chicago
platform unfriendly to labor. Hence tle
insists that organized labor in its own
interests should give it's support to Mr..
Bryan. In doing so it will be fulfilling the
object of its being.
But there are many labor leaders who,
while DESTROYS of more liberal law on
the matter of injunctions do not put that
matter, as Mr.. Gompers does, at the head
of everything else. Other questions, as
they think, to a far greater degree than
that of injunctions, affect the interests of
labor and must be considered in connec-
ton with the November result How
about sound money and protection? re-
publican wage-earners ask How about
government ownership of public utilities
and the initiative and referendum? popu-
lists and Hearstites in the ranks of or
ganized labor ask. And so on. If Mr.
Bryan and his friends are brought in they
will try to forward all the policies for
which they stand.
Mr. GOmpers as an individual is en-
ions and to freedom of action with re-
gard to them. But it is not Samuel
Gompers the man who will APPEAR on the
stump asking votes for Mr.. Bryan. but
President Gompers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. His Importance in the
campaign springs entirely from his of
fetal position which has been bestowed
upon him not for political purposes. In
the HldtteI VI Ills erection poltlcS prayed
no part at all-in fact. was barred. Hence
the strenuous objection certain to be
made by republican, populist, indie
pendence league. prohibitionist and So
cialist waSe-earners to this open effort of
President Gompers to deliver the nom
political Federation of Labor to Mr.
Bryan in body.
Why Mr.. GOmpers should open his
stamping tour in Texas may excite some
wonder. Union labor is not strong in the
south, and Texas is as certain for Mr.
Bryan as Maine is for Judge Taft The
vancouver may have a significance which
will appear later in the campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27

occasionally the inebrtated. But police
men often have restricted views and make
mistakes. In the open spaces there are
no representatives Of the law. The I'M
happy wayfarer who falls IL at the mercy
Of men who are IN a hurry, men w1io
dislike to bother with trouble, men who
are intent selflshly upon their own affairs,
men who are strongly pretudiced against
inebriety as fault best visited with its
own suffering as a rebuke.
The truly charitable man will help the
drunken as readily as the sick or wound
ed. There Is no condonement of intem.
perance in lending a helping hand to the
weak-willed man who has fallen. Often
such an act Of brotherhood will give new
courage to the struggler, lending him
fresh vigor for the fight against his weak
ness of will. The true Samaritan shrinks
not from the liquor-laden breath as
ban upon his Intervention.