The Delta independent., 1909-09-03
Stale and General News.

Glenwood Springs is to have free de-
livery of mail.
The state conclave of Knights Tenn
% and "a.
The National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held at Atlantic City, N. j., next year.
Harry X. Thaw has been taken from
the Westchester county jail back to
his old quarters in the Matteawan asy-
lum for the criminal insane.
The taxpayers of Montrose county
have voted to bond the county for the
sum of s25, 600 for the purpose of en-
larging and equipping the county high
school.
The entire force of the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Company at
East Pittsburg has been placed on full
time. Several thousand employees are
affected.
Mayor Ozaki, of Toxic. has offered
as a present to President Taft 20, 600
cherry trees. for the purpose of plant
ih6 tAC hCW pain Oii thC Odilho VI tuc
Potomac river. in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, of saloon smash
ing fame, has buried her little hatchet
and is going into the chicken business
in Arkansas. Will she sell eggs for
nog? Hope she keeps that hatchet
buried or it may get loose in the roost-
er coop.
George Fisher of Missouri is the
worlds champion chicken picker. He
can pick fowl in three seconds and
has picked 1900 in twelve hours.
When 1t comes to picking a chickens
bones the preachers still hold the cham
pionship.
Miss Kate M. Gordon, chairman of
the Susan B. Anthony fund, wants to
raise million dollars for the cause of
woman suffrage. Her plan is to get
100 women to give 81. 900 each and
/ 200 women to give s10n each to this
memorial fund to Miss Anthony.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road has adopted the practice of in
cluding Bibles in the supply of books
furnished in the library compartments
of its limited trains So far as known
the Burlington and Pennsylvania are
the only roads following the custom.
Approximately 1863, 200 acres of nom
irrigable land. located in the vicinity of
Newcastle, Wyo., have been designated
by the secretary of the interior for
t,pIar ka 10
act. This makes the total of such
designations to date in Wyoming H.
$40. 800 acres.
General Booth of the Salvation Army
is suffering from septic poison of the
eye, condition that has necessitated
the Abandonment of his religious cru
sade in the provinces and his return to
London. He has also postponed his
proposed American and Candian tour,
set for this fall
An organization formed to inculcate a
new religion based upon astronomy has
filed articles of incorporation at San
Francisco. The society is known as the
Astrologers of the United States. and
its purpose is to make known to its
members the influence of heavenly
bodies upon earthly affairs.
The Colorado Women's Baptist Col
lege in Montclair, which will open for
students September 7th will probably
be the only institution of its kind in the
country that will offer special course
educating girls TO be home-makers and
mothers. In the curriculum the course
will be called Higher Home Arts
Twenty casks and nine cases con-
tanning specimens. trophies of the hunt,
collected by the Roosevelt expedition,
in South Africa. were brought to New
York last week, on the steamer, Pro-
vincia. from Marseilles. The specimens
representing twenty different kinds of
animals, will be forwarded to the Smith
sonian institute at Washington.
Fifteen skeletons, lying together in
such a position as to Indicate hasty
burial and three English copper coins
bearing the date of 1892, were found
with the skeletons during the excava-
tion for The United States medical hos
pital, near the banks of the Patomac,
bringing to light, it's believed, some
Indian or piratical tragedy of early
American days.
At Rheims, during the past week,
aeroplane records have been broken
several times. One machine travelled
over hundred miles and remained in
the air over three hours. AS is gener-
ally known, machines of this class have