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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
RAILWAY RATE
HEARING BEGUN
COMMISSION BEGINS WORK IN
SALT LAKE
ARBITRARY AND OPPRESSIVE
ACTIONS CHARGED
Hartman Lines and Other Big Eastern
Roads Involved in Important
Case to Be Decided
in Utah
rRv Associated Press.l

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 22.-The
hearing before the interstate COM
merce commission of the petition and
complaint of the Salt Lake CONNER
cial club traffic bureau against the
various railroads eenterining in this
city. charging them with maintaining
arbitrary, oppressive and exceptional
transportation rates both in and out
of this territory and unjustly dlscrlm-
mating against the shippers ana Joo-
bers Of the intermountain region, be-
gan today.
OF the Interstate commerce commls-
sion there were present Commits SION
ers Charles w. Prouty and E. e. Clark.
Among the railroads represented by
counsel and high officials are the Har-
riman lines, Denver & Rio Grande;
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chi
cago Northwestern; Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific and Missouri Pacific.
The Merchants exchange of san
Francisco was also represented by
counsel.
Considerable competition and the
long and short haul questions viii be
the main factors in the hearing.
The principal witness at today S
session was ]. A. Munroe, general traf-
fic manager of the Union Pacific rail-
road at Omaha.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
SEPTEMBER TIDE TABLE
cnANGE IN REACH sERYICE

sunday trains via Salt Lake route, leav-
ing Los Angeles at m. and leaving sar
Pedro at p. m. have been discontinued
No change in other trains for the present
9-23-3
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
oHANGE In RrAcH sERYIcE

Sunday trains via Salt Lake route, leav-
ing Los Angeles at a. m. and leaving San
Pedro at p. m. have been discontinued.
No change in other trains for the present
9-23-3t
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
rREE-Pianos Given Away-FREE

No home need be without a piano-an
offer free and without cost of any kind
that all may participate IN its pehehts
See page 3. part II.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23

The resignation five months ago OF
+,,a vaxeTie cabinet was due to in
ternaI divergences of opinion that fol-
loved the breaking up of the coalition
of political parties which the premier
had supported because Of Its efforts
to secure the establishment of Hun
garian % state bank, Independent of the
crescent Austrian state banking IN
gtif11fiOn
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23

Lands on the west coast of Mexico Sonora
sinaloa.-H A. Smith. $40 Byrne bldg.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
HUNGARIAN PREMIER GOES
DOWN WITH STATE BANK
Influence of Emperor Franz JOSEF Una
able to Keep Alexander WekerIe
at Helm of Affairs

BUDAPEST, Sept. 22.-The resigna-
+ion of the Alexander Wekerle minis
try was decided on at the cabinet
council today. The difficulties which
led to the resignation of the first WEEK
erie cabinet on April 21, still exist ana
the ministry has remained in once
until the present time, only on the
personal solicitation of Emperor Franz
Josef.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
LANDS ON THE WEST
COAST OF MEXICO,
IN THE STATES OF
SONORA AND SINALOA

call your attention to the following spe-
cial offerings on the Sonora, Yaqui, Mayo
and Fuerte rivers. suitable for immediate
colonization.
1900 acres on the Sonora river, 25 miles
from HermosiIlO, in the grain belt border
ing on the river; ten miles to a -four mill /;
available for alfalfa and garbanzo, as well
as grain; s1.50 an acre; S2.5O for any sub
divided lots.
1000 acres on the Yaqul delta near Es-
peranza, with the privilege of digging a
canal from the Yaqui river; underlaid with
water at as feet; with railroad station on
the ground; splendid subdivision project ;
So so an acre.
20 900 acres on the Mayo river, two miles
from sonora railway, with present $50 600
crop; water available for the entire tract;
$500 an acre.
On the Fuerte delta in the district of Los
Mochis, II, 900 acres; ideal cattle ranch,
with fresh water lake; near shipping port
ON the gulf suitable for agricultural colony
ss.0O an acre.
These are the best buys from Hermosillo
TO Culiaean.
H. A. SMITH
Main $500; TAis7. Gao Byrne bldg.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23

Following are the wholesale jobbing prices:
CITRUS FRUITS-Oranges-N lenclas,
90 25609 so. Lemons 81 25a9 25 Grapefruit, sS25;
seedlings, g. Lines. S1.25qL50 cwt.
PINEAPPLES-41sQ5 a pound.
r-a. o n
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
To Grade Potatoes.

Here in Weld county we are trying
to inaugurate system of sorting and
grading:our potatoes so as to adopt a
standard and fix type by which the
tradelwill:be enabled to recognize and
handle our goods anywhere. In fact
the dealers haze combined with the
growersltoIgrade all the spuds going
onto market from the various stations
this season. Through the cooperation
of the dealers the situation may be
remediedo but the present method is
both impractical and detrimental to the
industry. 1t is impractical because in
the first place it is impossible for the
dealers tossort the amount of potatoes
shippedsdirect::from the field during the
diggingfseason.
Then suppose a grower wishes to
hold.his crop for an expected rise in
the market When it reaches point
at which he desires to sell his potatoes
are unsorted, 1.-THE dealers have their
warehousesofull of potatoes which they
have been holding for the same reason
and therefore can not sort those of the
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

implement itself should be stored IN a
shed of some kind for shelter.
The farmer who takes the proper
care of his implements not only houses
hem and keeps them in good adjust
ment, but he paints them occasionally.
Paint closes all cracks and keeps out
the moisture. 1t not only preserves
the wood, but the iron parts are bene-
fitted as well. 1t also gives the tools a
muct better appearance.
1t should be remembered that the
prosperity Of farmer may be esti-
mated by the way he cares for his ma
chinery. Poor care indicates shiftless-
ness, waste lack of energy, and the
necessity of buying more implements
in short time. Good care on the other
hand, indicates prosperity, develop
ment. bank deposits and long g-lived ma
chinery. H. M. banner.
Colorado Agricultural College, Fort
Collins.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
Western Cattle Wanted.

The management of the Denver Ma
tional Stock Show is making special
efforts to secure as large a display of
feeder cattle for the coming show as
possible, in order to be able to supply
the hundreds of cattle feeders who are
coming to the show for the purpose of
buying the feeders exhibited. This
feature of the show has always been of
great interest and last year the feeders
exhibited sold at very high prices to
the many buyers who were here. A
watch has been carefully kept upon the
feeding and marketing of these cattle
and as far as they have been heard
from all have made big money for the
feeders. The cattle feeders have dis
covered that there is more money in
the fancy feeders shown at the annual
Denver show than in the best they can
buy on the eastern markets. The cat
tie exhibited here have the breeding
and health and the minimum amount of
feed produces the maximum amount of
gain. 1t is expected that the prices
paid at the coming show will be higher
than ever before as the demand is
likely to exceed the supply. Western
cattle growers should bear this in mind
and if possible arrange to have load
or two at the show. The date of the
coming show is January S-l5.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
Shelter the Farm Machinery

The farmers land, livestock and ma
chinery are his business capital. To
make good returns and interest on the
money invested in them, they must be
properly cared for. There is no source
of loss greater to the farmer than that
caused by not sheltering the machin-
cry.
The farmer, or anyone else, cannot
afford to buy a new machine that is
perhaps actually used less than one
month during the entire year and then
let it stand out under tree or behind
the barn for the other eleven months.
Machinery was not made for shelter
ing hogs or furnishing roosting places
for chickens. The rain should not be
allowed to soak the bearings $,
or the sun blister the paint,
neither should a few unnecessary bolts
be taken out to fix the cultivator in the
spring and another to fix the plow in
the fall. The iron parts should rot be
allowed TO rust;, neither should the
bearings and gearings get out of line.
All the above are happening with too
much machinery, aid the result is that
too many farmers must take their med
icine like.men and buy new machines
before the ones they now have are
paid for, or should be one-half worn
out.
Money lostlby neglect of machinery
on our farms represents, in thousands
of instances, the difference between
prosperity and poverty, or it is the di-
viding line between failure and sue
cess.
Expert machinery men have made
the statement that "the farmer would
not have to buy over one-half the
amount Of machinery he is now buying,
provided he would care for it proper
ly." A season without shelter damages
farm machinery more than the wear
caused by its use during the same sea-
son.
The action of the weather, which will
cause rusting of the iron and steel
parts. as well as rotting of the wood
parts, will seriously interfere with the
working of the machine when it is
again put in use. By this exposure,
certain parts become very much weak
ened and the entire machine thus be-
comes shorter lived.
When the seasons work with ma
chine has beenl. finished, it should be
thoroughly cleaned and all parts that
are likely to rust should be carefully
wiped with:an oiled rag. 1t is a good
idea to coat these with tallow or good
grade of axle grease. After carefully
putting away the CREASED parts, the
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
DeltaIoooes ano Societies

Ofeers and usembrs will confer favor by adans Of
changes. Other lodse notices ADDED on request;
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

a NCIENT, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.
- Delta Lodge. No. to, holds stated eommu-
nications second and fourth Mondays at Masonic
Hall. jos. Farmer, W. NJ; A. ]. Obert. Secretary
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

ENCAMPMENT.--Wes Slope. No, -, meet
L hrst and third Mondays at 1. O. q. + Hall
William Garrison, c. p. y. J. Bradley Scribe.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
Wash Your Alkalied Land.

Considerable areas in the State of
Colorado have become in late years
strongly alkalied. Good crops used to
be grown on this land, but as time has
passed irrigation waters have been
poured upon the land year after year,
the water table has risen and gradually
the alkali has worked to the surface as
the water from below has risen by
capillary attraction and evaporation.
The ground has gradually whitened,
yields have decreased year after year,
the growth of "Alkali Weed has in
creased, and finally the land has been
abandoned because it would not pay.
This question is then asked by the
farmer: What can | do to redeem this
land? The answers for most cases is
as follows; Drain it, flood it, and give
it deep cultivation. Draining it lowers
the water table. Flooding it dissolves
the alkali crust at the surface and
carries it away in solution or carries it
downward to the drains and it passes
away through them. Deep plowing and
cultivation mixes what remains through
the upper foot of soil instead of leaving
it at the surface. Good crops can now
be grown. Some of the very worst
alkahed lands in the world have been
redeemed in this way. But" SAYS
the farmer, I'm a busy man, money
is scarce, and it takes time, work, and
money to drain a field" True, farmer,
all very true, and now that winter is
coming on and the ground will soon be
frozen, let me suggest this as a tempo
rary remedy: Next spring, when the
water is turned into your ditch, put on
your gum boots, get out with your
shovel, and give this land a thorough
| flooding. As soon as it then becomes
dry enough to plow, plow it good and
deep, plant your oats, or wheat, or
potatoes, and although by this flooding
you raise the water table and the alkali
begins to collect at the surface again,
yet before it collects in sufficient guam
titles to do any real damage, your crop
will have matured and a good crop har.
vested. This can be practiced for sew
eral years, and in the mean time rut
away part of the revenue from this
land and you will be surprised to find
how soon you will have sufficient money
on hand for your drainage system.
Try it, Mr.. Farmer, and see if il
doesn't work for you. 1t has been very
successful in many parts of Colorado.
Z. B. House,
Colorado Agricultural College, Fort
Collins.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

grower. By the time the dealers can
take them the market has declined.
Who stands the loss? If the farmer
sorts his own potatoes he always has
some on hand ready for market. The
proposition of allowing the dealers to
grade the potatoes is somewhat like
jug handle-all on one side and it is the
dealers side. While there are great
many reliable dealers and farmers in
the Greeley district when it becomes
question of honest grading in whose
hands will the work be better done?
l will give few instances of the Gu
pidity of some of the dealers and leave
it to the reader to draw his own conclu-
sions. During the digging season of
last year dealers We're known to buy
direct from the field carload lots of po-
tatoes sorted over a one and one-half
inch screen when they knew they were
sorted in this way. There is not man
in Colorado who can sort potatoes over
such a screen for four good pickers and
do anything like a good job of grading
tiiciC iicNCi '" as a SioP IN
which there were no small potatoes.
The dealers also bought potatoes after
they were stored which were sorted in
the same way. A dealer WHO would do
this would in all probability not hesi-
tate to ship them without sorting if he
had opportunity.
1t often occurs that when farmer
delivers load of potatoes which he
has contracted to A that A refuses to
receive them because they are not
properly sorted. He drives across the
street to B who takes them at the
prices which A had agree to pay. If
these potatoes were unfit for A to ship
they should also be unfit for B. Here
is where the cooperation of the deal
ers could be most effective. Knowing
what is required by the trade let the
dealers together with the growers es-
tablish certain grades-a first and Sec
ond if thought best-then see that every
dealer refuses to accept potates unless
put up acc )rding to the established
grades. So long as dealer will know
ingly handle poor article there will
be some one to furnish the goods.
If the dealers and growers can not
come to such understanding there is
but one remedy left-an inspector at
each loading station. Even this would
not be effective without the enactment
of laws providing for the appointment
of such official inspectors, defining
their duties, fixing their compensation
and providing for their punishment
should it be proven that favoritism had
been shown to either dealer or grower.
There should also be law making it a
criminal offense for any shipper to
change the inspectnr' stamp on car
of potatoes. Without legal authority
and supported by proper legislation the
inspectors work would be ignored by
both dealers and growers except so far
as it pleased them and conditions would
be no better than before. w. Z. L.
| Harbour in the Field and Farm.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

\YIOMEN OF woODCRAFr meet SECOND and
" fourth Mondays at l. q. q. +. Hall. Mrs
Clara Bradley, q. N; Vida Bouldin. Clerk.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

| DYTHlAN SISTERS --Columbine Temple, No.
Al. meets second and fourth Thursdays at
Mathers, Hall; May Travis, NJ E. c.; Mrs. T. X.
Seaton, X. of II. and s.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Nc
~ Clellan Post, No. 70, assemblies second Sat
urylays at l. o. o. +. Hall. W. II. Poundstone,
Commander; j IL. Shippee, Adiutant.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

p OVAL ARCH MASONS.-Delta Chapter, No.
N rs, holds stated conversations second and
fourth rhursdays at Masonic Hall. DIR. l.. .
Hick, II. z f; I. h Seaton, Secretary.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

PoYAL NEIGHBoRs OF AMERICA meet first
N and third saturdays at l. o. o. +. Hall.
Pearl Lincoln, Oracle; Emma Skinner, Recorder.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19

n No. 81, meets Tuesdays 1t Mathers' Hal
Paul X. Osborn. c. c.; II. II. wolbert, X. of Il
and s
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
Lipe Stock Shop.

The Denver Live Stock Show will
be held January to Is, 1910.
There will be the usual attractive
offerings and the show will be in every
way up to the standard of former
exhibits. Taking place Immediately
after the National Apple Exposition.
doubtless many farmers will remain to
see both shows.
The Delta independent., 1909-11-19
Studebaker Car Breaks Record

The "EMF" model of Studebaker car
broke all worlds records on half. mile
track at Rome, Ca, by defeating all
entries by making 81, miles in 6 min
utes and 81 2-5 seconds. Entered in the
race were Overland, Hudson, Buick and
White gas cars. This is great distinc-
ton for the Studebaker EMF.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-26
IE7TERS TO THE EDITOR.
- A VETERANS REMoNsTRANcE.
Objects to Virginia Placing Statue Of Robert
E. Lee in National Capitol.
ai+o- oF The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir. Referring to the editorial paragraph in The
Tribune of July 20 relative to the Virginia propo-
sition To place statue of Robert Z. Lee in the
CAPITOL at Washington 1 desire to take excep-
ton to the idea and especially to the last clause
Of the editorial, viz: Robert z. Lee was both
great Virgnian and great American The
terms American and patriot should be synonymous
but in these latter days the idea Of patriotism
seems to be undergoing a change Of meaning. In
the opinion Of such oId-fashioned men the sur
vvors of those who taking their lives in their
hands, went the front In 1851 to defend the
Union the term great American is not appiica-
BILE to a man who, having received his military
education at the expense Of his country and for
a great part of his life occupied positions of trust
and confidence under its flag, used the knowledge
thus gained in a strenuous attempt to destroy that
country not only in violation Of his oath, but Of
his conscience, he himself admittedA Our Con-
stitution declares that treason shall consist In
bearing arms against the government; therefore,
he who commits that act is traitor. and appar-
emily the only difference between Robert (. Lee
and Benedict Arnold that Lee had the man
hood to resign his commission before the consum-
nation of the act and received no pecuniary re-
ward for his treason. 1t would however, be as
appropriate to place statue OF Arnold in West
Point as that Of Lee in the Capitol at Washington
Generally If ex-Union soldiers venture to eX-
press their sentiments upon these points they
met by the query: Cannot you realize that
the war ended forty years ago?' Iney WOuId De
very glad to, II such stngs this and the erec-
tion Of a Georgian ''pique" monument at Ander
sonville TO Writ, the Infamous keeper Of the
prison pens that place. who was hanged By our
government after trial, were not given them
While they bear no animosity those against
whom they fought. they still abhor treason and
rebellion they did from 1861 1865. and object
to the laudation OF the chief traitors. If statue
Of Lee or OF any other officer OF the United States
army who deserted his flag in its peri. is TO be
placed in Capitol let it be done after we Union
soldiers have all passed away That time cannot
be very distant
In writing this supported by the unanimous
sentiment OF my post. JOHN HAZE,N.
Senior Vice-Comnander Winchester Post 49, G. a. r.
Brooklyn July %, 1909.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-26
NOp 4 C4NE FOR LEFTY.

Liberty as well as life is guaranteed by the
Constitution, and just how far the public au-
thoriteS may go in abridging ii, in the presumed
interests Of the community, is n question not
easy to solve. In the case Of Mary Mallon, who
has been detained for long time North
Brother Island, peculiarly difficult point is in
volved. While the public has rights which must
be respected, it is equally true that the unfortu-
nate woman has rights, and upon the Health
Department of this city devolves the delicate
task of adjusting the relationship between the
two.
That Mary Malon should resent references to
herself as Typhoid Mary is natural and justi-
fable. Even though she may. during her ser
vice as cook in various families, have left a
wake of death and illness behind her. she is
entitled to respectful treatment, for, so far as
the public has any means of knowing, she is not
in the slightest degree responsible for the curl
ous freak Of nature which has made of her
repository for typhoid germs. Apparently in the
best of health herself. she has seemed to breathe
poison upon those with whom she has come in
contact In the homes where she has been en-
ployed and under the circumstances it appears
that the Board Of Health was entirely justified
IN taking some action.
1t is unfortunate that in order to secure the
majority in their rights, hardship must some
times he inflicted on the minority or on an IN
dividual. The smallpox patient is isolated and
finds himself rghtfuly Stunned for the time
more than the vilest moral eper. 1t is the price
he must pay for the safety Of the rest. The
same rule applies more or less strictly 10 many
other diseases in order that the general health
OF the community may he conserved. The case
of Mary Malon does not come directly under
this classification because of her own apparent
good health, bare possibility that the attacks
of typhoid in the families for which she worked
were merely coincident with her presence there
and the fact that. according 10 the testimony OF
medical men. Investigation would show that hun
dre1s if not thousands, Of equally dangerous in
dividuals moving about among their fellow
men and spreading disease wherever they go
one official of the Health Department has even
gone so far as TO say that he does not want 10
know of such cases because of the great mum
ber of them and the manifest impossibility OF
controlling them all Under the circumstances
the least that the public owes TO Mary Maon
is the best medical treatment, IN order that she
may be cured of her strange affiiction.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-26
THE GERnAN OUTLOOK.

The passage of the financial bills, the appoint
ment of new Chancellor and the adjournment
Of the Reichstag mark the ending of one Of the
stormest and most prolonged parliamentary
crises-for want of better word-in the history
of the German Empire, and the nation now
take time for meditation upon what has been
done, and upon what must be done in the not
distant future. That such meditation will re-
suit in profound and general satisfaction is not
for a moment to be imagined. Rather is it
likely TO cause dissatisfaction with what was
done by the Reichstag in its late session, and a
popular demand that upon reassemblng that
body shall address itself in broader spirit of
patriotism to the task Of thoroughly reorganiz-
Ing the financial system of the empire. For the
fiscal enactments Of the late session were moth
ing but patchwork of mGkeshifts They may
prove sufficient TO carry the government over to
another year, but there can be no serious thought
for The empire.
The new Chancellor has already made that
fact clear. He has said that the government
accepted the measures Of the Reichstag only as a
temporary Dlodus TfCendi, and there can be 10
doubt that he will forthwith begin the formula
ton Of other schemes which will be presented
as substitutes at the next session. For that
work he is well fitted. He is representative
OF the best type of that highly educated and
more or less ar;stocratic bureaucracy which has
long governed Prussia, and which through Prus-
sian domination is largely paramount in inn
perial affairs. AS a Prussian minister-like his