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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07
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WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW:
Topeka at Omaha.
Denver at Lincoln.
Pueblo at Sioux City.
Wichita at Des Moines.
Tessie Alderman broke into the hit
column with two singles and two dOu-
bles out of four times up at Wichita
Tessie rot half that many in 1905 in
nearly a whole season in the Western
association.
The Joplin corpse which was unload
ed on FL Reno hasn't won a game yet
and the Joplin fans are not a bit sor-
rowful over the recent baseball be-
reavement in that city.
Bad news emanates from Wichita.
Buck Weaver may not be back in the
game for a month or more, and Ad
Brennan is on the sick list Fortune
bunch for they can win in spite of all
kinds of bad luck
Johnson's drive off Harris Monday
did not go over the center field fence as
stated in the Lincoln dispatches but
cleared the left field fence. But Kerns
has hit many a mightier swat.
Secretary Robbins will return from
Omaha tomorrow, to preside at the Of
which will take place in a week or two.
Danny Green is gettino off good with
Wichita, both in his fielding and in his
hitting. The averages of the league
which are compiled by various statis-
ticians in towns that are worse off for
amusement than Topeka, unanimously
give Danny the batting honors of the
league this week, taking the palm away
from our Rasty Wright.
Shipke's leg which was bothering
him when he was here with Omaha
two weeks ago has grown so much
worse that he is now out of the game, |
and Pendry is taking his place. King
is filling in at second and Hollenbeck |
is out in the center patch.
Lindsay who was out of the game !
has returned to the initial station fer |
the Denver team and Thompson's in |
juries have mended sufficiently to al |
low him to catch. Mag, also on sick /
leave, is on the trip with the team and |
will play third. while young Davis will
remain in Colorado to fill some semi
professional engagements.
The wichita Eagles Sunday pink
sport sheet contained a full page about
the signing of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
Wichita is considering the PROPOSE
ton Of erecting a new ball park within
easy access of the business section Of
the city This is what Holland should
do. The present park is two miles dis
tant and the street car service in Wich-
tia is so bad that the fans would rather
stay at home than take chances on
getting to the game. The cars have to
take siding every two blocks.
There is nothing in the story about
the trade of McManus for Gagnier.
Cooley says Lincoln has made no such
oYertures.
Hope is still running high in Pueblo
as the following from the Star-Journal
will show: There are going to be some
Jolly old times in this Western league
this year. Here is Pueblo right on the
trail Of Des Moines and a four game
series coming up, starting tomorrow
at Des Moines, which, if the Indians
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Delta County S Fair.

The first days program at the Delta
County Fair this year will be one of the
best that has ever been offered in the
county. The fair opens on Wednesday
and those who mis- the first day, think
ing that as usual it will be devoted to
making entries and placing exhibits,
will find that they have missed some
thing. The tomato fight alone is going
to be worth trip to Delta and in addi-
ton to this there will be fine speed
program. including the first of the
lodge relay races.
The fun will start early on the sec
ond day with the baby show, which is
expected to bring out all of Delta
county's prettiest youngsters, and the
mothers of any of them will tell you
that there are no finer children in the
world. Montrose will turn out in force
on this day coming up with band and
with Olathe will combine to make the
affair a big success. There will be the
usual number of speed events, together
with number of side features that
will keep the big crowd amused. One
of them will be the prizes to be awarded
the oldest Delta county settler on the
ground, the man with the largest fami-
ly, etc. There will be an old fashioned
pulling match which is bound to attract
a great deal of attention, lodge relay
races, etc.
The third day will be inaugurated
with the big parade of decorated car
riages and automobiles which. it is pre-
dicted. will be the finest display ever
seen on the Western Slope. This will
also be big day in the racing line as
it will see the finals in the lodge relay
races, which will be the most exciting
event of the day. From start to finish
this years fair will be the biggest and
best ever given in the county.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Good Roads Work.

The auto club is helping in a way to
make good roads a reality. They have
man at work with one supplied by the
county, removing rocks in places where
such work is needed. The county road
superintendents and forces are also do
ing good work over the county and in
some sections extra subscription and
volunteer work is being done. This
condition can be pointed to with pride
and improved conditions will result.
With proper attention and good effort
Delta county can soon have the best Of
roads. This would mean much to every
person who travels them, as well as to
property interests.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
TeNuride's Great Flood.

The following is the despatched stor,,
of the flood at Telluride and below
points sent out Tuesday;
TELLURIDE. Sept. 6. 6.-Railroad traffic
is at complete standstill, county
bridges and roads are washed away,
farms are torn to pieces, mills and min
ing machinery torn from the grounds in
the worst cloudburst that ever struck
in this vicinity. That no lives We're lost
in due to the rapid work of getting the
news along the line, and there are sew
eral very narrow escapes recorded.
The property loss. including that to
livestock. farming lands, mining and
mill property will reach over $3.50. 900.
Over thousand head of live stock
were caught in the avalanche of water.
rich orchards torn out of the land,
leaving nothing but the bare soil. board
ing houses torn from their foundation.
power plants dismantled. and general
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Cantaloupes Mix Easily.

Indications point to more or less
mixing of cantaloupes this season with
something else. They are an exceed
ingly easy product to mix with either
pumpkin, squash or muskmellon, if
allowed to grow near each other, and
the quality is greatly run down in
single season with the slightest mix
ture. The product of other patches has
been damaged by too much water.
Still there are plenty of good canta-
loupes-the kind that have made Delta
county famous. after the buyer has be-
come sufficiently experienced to make
proper selection. These things, how
ever. should be guarded against by
growers.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Pldindealer Makes a Kick.

Montrose is somewhat exercised be-
cause a few poker games show up in
Ouray or other mountain towns. vet
lion there and there are more criminal
cases on the court dockets of Montrose,
Delta and Grand Junction every year
than the mountain towns have had all
their lives or ever will have. If those
good agricultural districts want prohi-
bition and all that sort of thing they
are welcome to it, but it will be wise
for them to let the mountain towns be
pious or wicked, as the case may be, in
their own particular way. One thing
about we mountaineers-we mind our
own business.-Ouray Plaindealer.
The above seems sort of reflection
on both our dignity and morals. As
matter of fact there are very few cases
in the police courts of Delta county.
We don't know anything about Ouray,
but We have known a number of
mountain towns where the only rea-
son the police courts were not crowded
day and night was because drunks and
other malefactors and disturbers were
never arrested. We do not say that is
the case with Ouray. We do say that
it has been the case in practically all
the mining camps in which we have
had experience, and the writer has
spent twenty years of his life in mining
towns, where the saloon and the gambl-
ing house and the tenderloin boasted of
being the real thing in the poor mans
club" They We're the Club all right,
with knots on it. In such towns We
have seen the sidewalks blocked with
drunks, have witnessed all sorts of dis
graceful disturbances-not dozens, but
hundreds of times-and no arrest was
made or attempted.
In all his life the writer has never
seen city of like size as orderly as
Delta, or with as few police court
cases, and the reason is: If man ap-
pears on the streets who needs taking
care of he is at once taken in hand by
the autorities. There isn't time, day
or night, when Delta ladies cannot
traverse the city, if they wish to, with
feeling of perfect safety.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Della Beats California.

w. o. Stevens returned home last
week from California. coast and sound
points. Mr.. Stevens was not impressed
with the Pacific coast country as a
money making section. Much of the
alfalfa saw would not be cut by West
ern Slope farmers. Orchards of Eng
lish walnuts, l learned, yielded profit
of perhaps $50 an acre, while five acres
was supposed to employ one man."
w. o. thinks Delta county can beat
California two to three hundred per
cent on profit making farming.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
D. & r. c.. in Its uFertile Lands of
Colorado" Praises Delta and
County Districts.
In Good Language the Merits of Differ.
ent Districts Are Publicly Discussed.
Twill Help Promote the In
terests of Delta County.

large ditch, the Overland Canal, has
been completed. 1t is estimated that
nearly fifty thousand fruit trees were
planted in Redlands in the spring of
1908.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
tions of health resort to the other
charms of the place.
PAONIA.

PAoNIA.
Paonia is a name known in all mark
cts where fruit of the highest quality
is handled. The town is located eight
miles up the river from Hotchkiss. The
lands whose orchards have given the
town its fame lie all about l., on the
high mesas and benches on both sides
of the river. Paonia is a town of l, 500
population. with good schools, churches,
a high class of business buildings, pure
mountain water, and an enterprising
population. 1t is younger town than
population. There is land in all stages
of development for sale at Paonia-
high mesa land just brought under
water, old alfalfa fields which have
been subdivided for sale as fruit land,
young orchards and old orchards.
South of Hotchkiss and Paonis, on
what is called the Smith Fork of the
Gunnison River, are the towns of Craw-
ford and Maher. These towns are based
upon recently constructed canal and
reservoir systems which have opened
much good land for settlement. These
sections, somewhat remote from the
railway, offer land of first-class pro-
ductive quality at moderate prices, and
their promoters point to the fact that
the railway was built up the valley to
meet the fruit production along the
river, as evidence that the planting Of
orchards in the outlying sections will
certainly bring the rails there in time.
Below Hotchkiss. ditch system is un-
der construction which will irrigate
10, 600 acres or more of land lying be-
tween Hotchkiss and Delta, close to
the railway. From Fertile Lands of
Colorado, published by the D. & R. G.
Railroad Company.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
advertised Letter List.

Letters remaining uncalled for in
the postofiice at Delta, Colo, for the
week ending Sept. Z. 1909:
Agustin Barela, John J. Donnell
William Erwin, VIM. H. Gilman. Mrs,
w. A. Hall. Louis M. Hartwick. Mrs.
Jake Heberling (2). H. N. Horton, l.,
e. Koon. Miss Josephine Lamore, Ear
Wallace. Chester Prott, Guercio Sal
vatore, ]. w. Weipper.
ELLA NEW, p. NJ.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Business Affecting Interests
of the Entire County
Is Transacted.
A Sumptuous Banquet and Excel.
lent Talks on Local Sub
jects.--Marching Club to
Be Organized.

Business of Importance to all sections
OF the county was transacted at the
regular meeting of the Delta County
Business Mems Association, held in
Odd Fellows hall last Monday evening.
After splendid supper served by the
ladies of the Episcopal church the bust
ness meeting was called to order by
President Dale.
I. X Seaton read the report of the
committee which has been making ar
rangements for Delta county's repre-
sentation at the ceremonies incident to
the opening of the Gu nnison tunnel by
President Taft on September %. The
Importance of making fine showing
on that day was forcibly impressed.
Thousands of visitors will be in Mont
rose on that occasion and they must be
shown the products of the county and
made to understand that we have a
large share OF the benefits accruing
from the tunnel.
Wednesday, September %, has been
designated as Delta County Day at the
Montrose fair. On that day special
train will leave Delta at 9 a. M, carry
ing as many of our citizens as can
possibly be secured. A marching club
is being organized under the direction
of Thomas Dewar. Two hundred red
and white umbrellas have been ordered
for this club, which will make an at
tractive appearance. Those wishing
to join should notify Mr.. Dewar at
'onces All the automobiles available
also will be in the parade, together
with a number of novel features which
the committee has not yet announced.
On September % delegation from
the Colorado Manufactures Association
will visit Delta. Mayor B. P. Smith
was made chairman of committee
which will provide for their entertain
ment. 1t is proposed that the business
men receive the visitors informally at
the Odd Fellows hall, and arrange
ments will be made for a display of
fruit. together with a good supply for
the visitors to eat. Mayor Smith has
declared the day public holiday and
members of the school board have
decided to close the schools for that
day.
The train occupied by the Manu-
facturers' Association will leave Delta
at 10 o'clock and the Delta special for
Montrose will start Immediately after
ward. The big industrial parade at
Montrose will not start until after the
arrival of the Delta train.
President Taft will arrive in Delta at
:25 on the afternoon of September
% and committee consisting of Mayor
Smith. Judge King and W. P. Dale
was appointed to make proper arrange
ments for his reception. An effort
will be made to give the president some
suitable token as a remembrance of
Delta county. The presidents train
will leave Montrose at 10. m. and the
Delta special. which will run through
to Somerset, half an hour later. 1t is
also proposed to run special to Delta.
starting at about $50 p. m.
From now on during the winte,
months regular meetings of the associa.
ton will be held each month and it is
hoped that the attendance will be large.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Tunnel Kills One More.

Sunday evening Walter Honey was
killed in the Gunnison tunnel. crushed
under ton of rock which fell from the
roof. By and by the enlargement of
the tunnel will be completed and the
string of fatalities which have attended
its construction will cease. Honey was
young man whose mother lives at
Rockford, Indiana. He was Industrious
and popular with his associates.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
DroDned in Cunnison.

Edward Walker. an old-time resident
Of Whitewater, was thrown from a
wagon while attempting to ford the
Gunnison river aud drowned. Walker
was az years old and though he made a
heroic struggle to escape from the
river, he was taken under by current
and drowned.
The Delta independent., 1909-09-10
Vote Very Light But Almost
Unanimous for the
Propositions.
Propositions for the Water Works
Improvements and Bonds
Win Tuesday.--The
Figures.

Upon the propositions to increase
Water Works improvements for the
City of Delta in amount not to exceed
$40, 900, the vote was as follows:
FOR WATER wopVS.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-29
BRITISH BIG NAVY PLANS.

1t will be just twenty years ago on Tuesday
next that Tenniel in ole of his inimitable
Punch cartoons, represented Queen Victoria
as saving 10 Emperor William on the latter's
visit TO England Now, Willie, dear. you've
''plenty of soldiers al home; look at these pretty
"shps-I'm sure you'll be pleased with them.
AT that time the easy supremacy Of the British
navy was unchallenged and Interchangeable,
while the German navy was regarded as a neg
ligible quantity. However much or little
"Grandson Willie" was pleased with Grand
mother VictOrias' ships, there is no doubt that
he was nightly interested in them, and 1t Is
quite reasonable to suppose that by contem-
plation of them he was moved to plan for the
building Of ships of his own. 1t is certain that
in the twenty years since that memorable visit
he has been copying. if not imprOySag upon,
British naval models so diligently as to cause
some apprehenslons lest he should make his own
navy actually superior 10 that of his British
kim
To what extent these apprehensions were JUS
titled or were exaggerated may be a prolific
theme of discussion. There those who con-
fidently declare, i'm view of the tremendous dis
play of naval potency which has just been made
on the Thames, that there never was any occa-
sion whatever for them: while others are quite
as confidently pointing to the governments final
acquiescence in the demand for more Dread
noughts or super-D -Dreadnoughts as proof that
they were well founded and that the govern
ment was brought TO realize that fact of which
circumstance its present action is. they say, tan
tamount TO confession. Certainly the statements
of the Prime Minister and the First Lord of the
Admiralty on Monday strongly indicated that
If their former programm had been adhered TO
there would have been danger of England's
navy being surpassed by some other. Or at least
of its strength falling below the safety mark.
However these things may be, it seems certain
that the programme which has now been
adopted by the British government. in response
New-York tribune., 1909-07-29
NAVY REORGANIZATION.

Dispatches from the Tribune's Washington
bureau reveal an important step recently taken
by the Secretary of the Navy and indicate that
Mr.. Meyer has undertaken a particularly hard
task in a promising manner. To q board over
which Rear Admiral Swift, commandant of the
Boston Navy Yard, presldes he has intrusted
the consideration of a large number Of problems
on the satisfactory solution of which the highest
efficiency of the navy will largely depend.
One of the aims of the board, it is already
known Is to devise better means than now exist
of insurlng continuity Of policy in the depart
ment How great is the need of such an admin
istrative balance wheel appears when it is re
membered that there have been seven secre-
taries of the Navy in nine years. Such changes
certainly open the way to variations in policy
which may be abrupt and even unfortunate. If
comparatively little harm has resulted hitherto,
common prudence dictates a recognition of the
possibilities that more serious consequences may
ensue p the future unless there is a guarantee
New-York tribune., 1909-07-29
THE Y. u. c. 4. CONGRESS.
Lord Kinnaird PreSides at Meeting
in Germany-Ofcers.

Barmen-EIberfeld. Germany. July 2S-Ths Worth
Alliance of Young Mems Christian ASsOciar1s
opened it's seventeenth worlds conferences hsrs .
day- Lord FCinnaird presided az the meeting u
fifteen hundred delegates from al countries ,
cluding sixty Americans. were present an1
met each delegation az she station and played ~
national anthem The delegates marched throHs.
splendidly decorated streets. which we're thronssa
with spectators
A large number OF interpreters and three hunala
boy guides assisted the visitors and will De N =
tendance until the conference closes. on Ausus'
Speeches OF welcome were made by the NAVE
prominent clergymen and representatives OF -
civic Authorities. Male choruses sang hymns
The election OF officials followed the Preiiilnz,
OF the meeting. PTivy Councillor SchineSina -
elected president. Prince Bsrnadotte OF s0els@
Lord Kinnaird and James Stokes. OF NeV l''.
honorary presidents. and DR.. Lucien C. Wsfns'' =
New York. vice-president.
At a dinner given for the worlds ccn1rriI'ee - =
Mr. Stokes reports were read showing the piOs' Z.
OF the movement notably In Turkey Wne.s
secretary is an American. and also ~ - -.
where another American is secretary me =. =.
has succeeded in obtaining the Emperor : -.
age and a gift from his majesty or XIV 49, !.
for the support of the American syninas,--s -.sss
81. Petersburg. which was gift rom NJ
New-York tribune., 1909-07-29
THE RLOTS IN SPAIN.

The gross inconsistency of the demonstrations
in Spain, which purport TO be against the prose
cuton of the campaign in Morocco, is displayed
in the fact that more fighting is being done and
more loss and destruction is being caused by
them in Spain than would probably occur in
the whole of the necessary operations at Me
lila Arson. theft and murder run riot in Cata-
lonia and Valencia a protest against the mill
tary protection of Spanish lives and property
on the Riff lttoral
We have no doubt that some of the earlier
protests against sending troops to Morocco were
sincere. They were inspired by that remarka bic
andpathy to military service which is TO be OBJ
served among large part of the Spanish nation
But 1t would be grotesque 10 give such credit
TO these later activities of the Catalonlan mob
The anarchists and other criminals have sim
ply made of the opportunity to organize
an extensive campaign of loot. There Is, they
think fine chance 10 rob churches and plum
der shops Probably many Of the rioters do not
even know that there is campaign In Morocco,
and few who do know care. What they are
mindful of is the chance to crafty criminal
propensities. and 10 do 1t more safely as mem
bers of Il crowd than they could do Il alone
The elements Of criminality and unrest are
50 numerous and strong in Spain particularly
in Catalonia, that the situation must be re-
garded as serious The throne Is not In danger.
and the ministry may not have 10 resign.
though II might he we'll for the ultra reaction
ary Prime Minister to retire In favor of more
liberal and progressive man. But it will prob
ably take time and cost many lives and much
treasure to suppress the mobs and TO re-estab-
lish law and order 1t is to be hoped that the
proclamation of martial law throughout the
kingdom is an earnest Of resolute and there
fore successful assertion of governmental au-
thority
New-York tribune., 1909-07-29

of greater stability than is now assareu Ine
wisdom of alterations in navy yard management
the desirablity of closer coordination OIL .ne
various bureaus and methods or advancing
young officers to posts of large responslO!ii'y
subjects TO which several of Glr. Meyer pleu-
ecessors have given study. and when nave Oeeh
referred to Admiral Swift and MS associu'e''
together with various recommendations haee
regarding them by other advisers.
The composition of the new board "aIrahlS
the expectation that its work VIII prove eA-
tremely valuable to the government. lts meiil-
bers are men of high character and large eA-
nerience in the service. Admiral Swift was l''r
wears a member of the General Board OF the
Nayy Department. Captain Staunton is now
serving ON that board as well as on the Doard OF
construction III Captain Vreeland the once OF
naval intelligence has representative. captain
Fletcher commands the battleship vermont
Commander Smith is on duty at'the Naval war
College and Lieutenant Commander Chandler Is
connected with the important bureau OF naVlga-
tion There is reason to hone that the boaru
will nropose to Secretary Meyer a programme
for the reorganization of his department which
he will find truly helpful and which will insure
whatever cooperation he may ask from Con-
gresS.