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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
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Umbrellas Make Desirable Gifts

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
HOW THE NAVY WORKS.

The battleship Alabama was COM
missioned eight years ago-three
years after. the Spanish-American
war-at a cost of $2,650,O00 for con-
struction alone. Already she has be-
come practically obsolete and has
been ordered to the navy yard in
Brooklyn to be rebuilt, at cost of
$1,00O,000 or more. The ship must
have new engines, new boilers and
new guns, and the armor must be
strengthened. Ten years hence, the
vessel will probably be sent to the
scrap heap. That is the way modern
navy enlargement goes Marietta
(Ga.) Journal.
Gov. Hoke Smiths opinion
about who should be appointed rail-
road commissioner to succeed Mr..
McLendon, will probably have no
bearing with Gov. Brown in naming
successor. 1t is now Governor
Brown, and not Governor Smith
Wrightsville (Ga.) Chronicle
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09

volume, led on by the insurgent Re-
publican forces in this body, that as
sures the downfall and destruction
of the bourbon element, the old DOM
inant party planned by Hamilton, in
which there yet reposes the spirit of
kings and the belief that one crowd
was created to be ridden, booted and
spurred by their masters, and that
when they call for bread they should
be given stone, and when their
children cry for fish they should be
given a serpent" The hope of the
country is in the fearless, indepen-
dent leader who stands for justice,
be he insurgent, Democrat, Prohibit
zionist, or Populist, and people are
coming to point where they must
be Shown" Mitchell Gazette.
We have been shown and the peo-
pie Of this State are Indignantly pro-
testing against taking us out of that
nursery of liberty-the great Middle
West-and dropping us down in the
backyard of Little Rhody.-Sioux
Falls Is. Dak.1 Critic.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
McLENDON's SUSPENSION.

If the voters of Georgia, instead
of the legislature, could have passed
on the matter of S. G. McLendoh's
suspension as chairman of the Rail-
road Commission, we do not believe
that Hoke Smiths action ever would
have been sustained.
Chief among the reasons the ex-
governor gave for the suspension of
the chairman was that he had broken
his pledge to the people. Investiga
ton discloses that Hoke Smith is the
one who broke his promise to the
people. The Macon platform called
for Immediate" action in the port
rate matter. The governor and the
commission were instructed to take
immediate" action. But what did
Governor Smith do? Instead of act
ing Immediately" he waited until
his term had nearly expired to take
any action in the matter, and then
not until he had been tormented into
it by Clark Howell in the Constitu-
ton. And when he did finally call
on the commission to act in the mat
ter, what did he ask of them? He
asked for special rates from the
ports to Atlanta, exclusive of all 9TH
er inland points, which, as you see,
would give Atlanta a special priv
ilege which the other towns in the
State would not have enjoyed, and
genuine Democracy is eternally OPP
posed to special privileges. When
McLendon voted down this PROPOSE
ton to give Atlanta this special priv
ilege, he did the people of the bal
ance of the State valuable service,
and they will not be slow to show
their appreciation if given an oppor-
tunity
In the first place, the suspension
was not sustained on any of the
charges of Governor Smith, but upon
the bond deal, which was not men
toned in the governors charges.
1t has been proved that in the bond
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09

transaction McLendon violated no
law.
He may have made mistake, but
that is not sufficient reason for the
legislature to take the action they
did in the matter. Their disposition
of the question was altogether arbi-
trary, without any law whatever to
sustain them, and in voting as they
did they have established most dan
gerous precedent.
The McLendon investigation ele-
waited the suspended chairman in our
estimation, and if he wants an office
in the gift of the people of Georgia
nothing that has yet been brought
out against him will restrain us from
giving him our hearty support
Whigham (Ga.) Journal.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
FORGOTTEN SONG.
BY Ethel Clifford.

How shall we meet that have been
parted long?
| have forgot the burden of the song
We sang together very long ago.
How shall we meet that used to be
SO dear?
| have forgot the page that was so
clear
In the lost book whose name we
did not know.
Have you forgotten, too? You tell
me, no,
But can you sing the song of long
ago,
Take up the measures and COM
plete the staye?
How strange it were if all the years
that seem
To stand between us proved an emp
ty dream,
And | could give you now what
then I gave!
Alas! The rose, half gathered,
droops and dies,
And tears that fall not still may
blind the eyes;
The song unfinished halts until the
end.
How shall we meet that parted long
ago?
| have forgot the song we used to
know,
And broken music none may ever
mend.
New York American.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
GREAT MIDDLE WEST.

Senator Davis, of Arkansas, in a
speech denouncing the tariff bill
poked some of the members some
hard jolts in the ribs about their
only ambition being to swell their
colossal fortunes by taking from the
poor man his last vestige of hope and
from their helpless families their
only means of sustenance. Among
other things he said: "They are
turning their faces in hopefulness
and glad acclaim to the great Middle
West, where a small cloud has arisen,
which is gathering in strength and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09

Little Joe" got the boot; Tom
Watson got the boot; then the boot
was given to Guyt. In between times,
however, the people gave Hoke the
boot. This would seem to have
eyened things up bit, at any rate
Gainesville (Ga.) News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
BELONGS TO NO PARTY.

The fact is that predatory wealth
knows no party The great mass of
the people of all parties believe in,
and want, square deal. But they
are partyolaters. They permit them
selves to be hoodwinked, quadrenni-
ally, by the resentatives of the
system. Fo $ corrupt politician
you put 1ger on, there is
standing 80. for him, and profit
ing by 1es1ity some big business
man. SEAL corruption and spe-
cial c%oS,e are twin evils. The
wa nor other boss can no
NJ ~. along unless he has back Of
2 - ~ >datory wealth, than a train
II = Cove without propelling power.
Th\ Senators or other Congressman
who are defying platforms or other
expressions of the will of the people
lose little sleep over the protests of
the people for they are sure of the
friendship of those who "work" the
eople-Pennsboro CIV. Va News.
THE WHEREFORE OF THESE
TEARS!
Concluding a big type editorial on
the appointment of Mr.. Joseph f.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
Public Opinion Throughout the Union

Gray, Of Savannah, as Railroad Com
missioner, the Atlanta Journal ex-
claims in it's wrath:
I'm bold and defiant terms the
present administration has made it's
choice.
"Thus tainted in the midst of OPP
preston, the people of Georgia will
know how to act''
O, mommer!
0, nanny look at Sam!
Send for the suck-bottle!
But what is all this noise about?
For the first time in the history
of the Railroad Commission the sec
ond city in the State, Savannah, gets
member of the Railroad Commits
sion. The second time in it's history
South Georgia gets a Commissioner.
The other one was McLendon and
they fired him, and more than half
of the Representatives of South Geor-
gia, under some strange hypnotic in
fiuence, danced around the funeral
pile.
Atlanta has two Commissioners out
of five. She tried hard to get Brown
to give her this one, but Brown gave
the job to a South Georgian
Hence these tears!
1t is the grief of the daughters of
the horsecloth. They cry "give,
give!" Solomon said there are three
things that are never satisfied, 'tyea
four things say not, it is enoughi' .
but Solomon never knew Atlanta
The Journals kick-the ostensible
kicks on Gray, because it says, he
is opposed to port rates.; and the
Journal is going to have those spe-
cial privilege rates for certain At
lanta jobbers as sure as Billy B. Dam
jawed his mother-in-law.
SO far as Gray's port rate record
is known, he presented to the Com
mission some resolutions from the
Savannah Chamber of Commerce pro-
testing against the granting to Beck
& Gregg, of Atlanta, special rates on
Especial iron," which, if granted,
would have given them great ad-
vantage over all the other dealers in
hardware in Georgia.
Savannah as a business community
resisted the Beck & Gregg conten-
ton; and she acted through her
Chamber of Commerce, and her
Chamber of Commerce sent it's reso-
buttons by the hand of its secretary,
and this secretary was Joseph F.
Gray.
Four previous Railroad Commits
sions refused Atlanta these special
rates; and for that offense against
Atlanta jobbers Hoke Smith fired
first Joe Brown, now Governor, and
then Guyt McLendon. If Joe Brown
thought when he was a Commission
er that special privileges were I'M
Democratic and wrong, he doubtless
thinks so now. If any issue is made
in this case the people of Georgia
made it when they elected Brown
Governor.
The Journal cannot weave another
web over the eyes of the people on
this question. The people were
fooled once, but they cannot be fooled
the second time by the same trick
operated by the same tricksters. The
people are not fools. The cry of
wolf got them once. 1t failed the
second time. 1t will fail again the
third time.-Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09

There is no question but what the
old mule and OK cart have the Oldest
claims on the public roads, and the
automobilist using them should go
slow.-Turner Co. Banner, Ashburn,
Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09

The Bible stories can be made real
and actual to children through the
Tissot pictures, which you can get
free from the Jeffersonians
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09

No better gift to a friend, child or
Sunday School teacher than the lis
sot Bible pictures, which you can get
from the Jeffersonisns free. Read
our offer.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
JEFFERSONIAN CLUB No. 1, Thomson, Georgia

An enthusiastic meeting held at the Court House, Thomson
Ga Saturday, September 4 organize Jeffersonan Club No.
Colonel John Wkeon elected President and S. G. Hawes
Secretary Members detailed TO begin active campaign
throughout McDufie County.
efersonian Clubs being organized at many points in
Georgia. Alabama North and South Carolina Florida, Mississippi
Tennessee Arkansas and Texas
We shall know next week which will have the honor of
ganzing Club No. 2
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-09
THE WHEREFORE OF THESE
TEARS!

Concluding a big type editorial on
the appointment of Mr.. Joseph F.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
Delta Is Spreading.

South across Eaton Avenue, block
after block has been built up of hand
some dwellings.
Down nearly to the big ice house of
the d R G., which doubled its ca
pscity last year and then ran short of
ice with which to ice refrigerator cars
of fruit in the fall a huge warehouse
has been compl ted by the Alabama
Nursery Company
The Delta County Fruit Grower
Association this fall erected an immense
addition for storage room, built of
Delta pressed brick.
Down along Meeker and Grand new
model blocks have been built. Furth-
er up on Garnet mesa handsome brick
dwellings have been erected.
All along Main street new and hand
some business houses have taken place
of the less pretentious ones torn away
to give them room. At the extreme
north end big square brick accommo-
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
Subscriptions Received.

The following subscriptions to the
INDEPENDENT have been received since
last report:
John E. Hillman, Seaton Drug Com
pany. T. E. Lamb, w. J. Howe. G. T..
White, W. NJ. Hastings. C. F. Cunning
ham. ]. Porter, J. G. Smith, E. S.
Day, E. Seeley, l.. Copeland, H. A.
Richardson. Mrs. J j. Barker. George
Young, B. Luce, b. P. Smith, H. H.
Wolbert, C. E. Dana, Tom Dewar, DR..
C. B. Kinsley. H. Z. Perkins. F P.
Hall. George Stephan, f. d. Herrick,
R F. Williams, w. G. Cook. A r..
King. w. d. Wheeler. Delta; H. Harry
Smith, Denver; Mrs. NJ. J.. Burnett.
Middlesboro, Ky; F. G, Wade, Olathe;
Nelson Brothers. c. c. Ha~k ~kins, Pao-
mia: D. C. Stevens, Wicnita, Kansas;
J. S Fuller. Austin. James Reel, Ophir
Ed Verhofs,ed. Olathe; G. NJ. Gwynn,
Essex. Iowa: J. Z. Whinnery, Read
Almond Adams. Middlefield, Ohio; Z.
d. Shellenbarger, Mound City, Mo D..
d. Clark, Denver.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
North Delta.

Across the Gunnison river from Delta
is North Delta, large section cut nd
into gardens, small farms and orchard
tracts, traversed by streets and lanes.
Its population of seven or eight hun
dred are clustered together in all the
appearance of town, and the strang-
er travelling the streets and lanes of
North Delta is excusable for believing
himself to be in the incorporate ed city
In all the country there are few if
any more beautiful spots than North
Delta. 1t is a combination of garden,
farm, orchard and park. beautifully
green in summer time and immensely
productive. Here we get our fine
Strawberries and raspberries, our de
licious vegetables and later on peaches
and apples.
North Delta has a splendid school
with three teachers and large en-
rolment of pupils, and there large per-
centage of our excellent families reside.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
The Great Gunnison Tunnel.

One of the largest of the govern
ment's reclamation pr jects, and also
one of the first nearing absolute com
potion, IS the great Gunnisun iunnel.
whose flow of water Was opered by
President Taft on the 23rd OF Septem-
ber this year.
This tunnel will convey surplus water
from the Gunnison river, from the
Black Canon's depth, II, ross hitherto
desert waste, emptying it into lateral
ifches which viii irrgate vast tracts
of md, the wa er fl, ding It's way into
the Uncompahgre and thence back into
tie Gunnison.
The cost of driving the Gunnison tun-
mel has been nearly S5,W0, 600 and hal
Il million or more v ill yet have to be
expended before all details of the pro-
jet are completed.
1t will be open to supply water for
next seasons irrigation. however, the
III ification of ditch systems before
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
Banquet to Apple Queens.

Arrangements have just been made
with the Albany Hotel management
for the serving of the Banquet to the
Apple Queen and her Maids during the
Big Apple Show IN Denver in January.
The Albany Hotel has made elaborate
preparations for the entertainment of
its guests from the fruit growing dist
riots of Colorado for this week. Special
displays will be made in the Rotunda
of fruit from the different sections of
the country.
Its central location, only three blocks
from the Auditorium, makes it conven-
lent for those attending the Show
Secretary divers office is located
across the street from the Albany, and
the Albany will naturally be the COM
mon meeting point for all people inter
ested in Colorado's Fruit Industry.
The Albany rates are very popular
with State people and the Management
is looking forward to a very large
crowd on this occasion.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
UnJfcation Of Uncompahgre
DHches is PROGRESSING

Senator Tobin and Millard Fairlamb
were appointed by the Water Users
Association in the arbitration matters
of value rating between the lronstone
and 1ronstone Extension ditch compan-
les and the association.
The Chipeta Ditch company, at a
recent meeting. decided to come in on
the same terms as the lronstone and
Montrose and Delta bitches came in.
and Messrs. Tobin and Fairiamb were
also appointed to act in their transfers.
Messrs. Flicker and Weeks were ap-
pointed to act for the Ironstone bitches,
and the four will select tifth member
of the committee.
Other bitches are coming in on the
same terms and the matter of unifica-
tion promises to be all IN good shape
by spring. In the meantime Congress
will doubtless carry out some wise plan
to be proposed. by which the reclama-
tion project can be completed and much
land watered aside from that already
provided with outlets from the Uncom-
pahgre river.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17

owned by companies or individuals. be-
ing all tnat is demanded BY the govern
ment, and this work is now so for un-
der way that its compl, tion by time
for the irrigation season to open is well
assured.
Most of the land to be reclaimed is
claimed by entries filed during Lh- peri
cd of the projects progress. In final
adjustment there will be some land
available to additional homeseekers,
direct from the government, but The
exact time cannot be STATED Land un-
der the tunnel can be purchased where
claimants have title.
Much is expected in additional pro-
duction from the thousands of acres
the tunnel will bring under cultivation.
A view of one of the canals appears
at the bottom of this page.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
ladhoH Pass to be Tunneled.

II mink there is no question but
what there will be tunnel built at
/ Marshall Pass, and that work will COM
mence early in the spring. stated
man yesterday vino is in touch with
railroad affairs and who has been for
years. He stated that he understood
that PARTY of surveyors have been on
the ground making surveys of the route
through the mountain and that while it
will be spring before they can do much
towards locating the line he thinks it
will be pushed.
This man gave out the information
that the present general manager,
Horace w. Clarke, has been given a
vast amount of money with which to
carry on needed improvements on the
ID. & r G. system and that the tun-
neling of Marshall Pass and making the
line from Montrose to Salida broad
gauge track were some of the improve
ments that are to come under the ap
preparation made for him. Clark is
road builder. He made a record by
putting an eastern road in shape and it
is said that this is the reason he was
brought to the d & r G Other men
could possibly do the same thing but
General Manager Clarke is in very
close touch with the big financiers of
the road and can get what is needed to
carry on the work.
There seems to be no doubt but what
the main line will be changed to run
via Montrose. thus shortening the dis
tance from Grand Junction to Denver
fully fifty miles The road to Montrose
from this city will also be put in first
class condition, the track ballasted and
the road bed otherwise made secure. -
Grand Junction News.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
The INDEPENDENT will start each

The INDEPENDENT will start each
candidate off with 500 votes.
Thereafter the candidates themselves
will be entitled to one vote for each
penny of subscription secured for
this paper up to O. clock p. m. of De-
cemper Path, when the voting will be
closed. A years subscription will
count 200 votes.
Blanks will be supplied at this office
and the votes received up to Thursday
afternoon will be counted and published
in fridays paper.
The lady elected representative will
have her expenses paid to the EXPOSE
ton and be royalty entertained while
there, and if not elected Queen will be
one of the Queens court and will re-
ceive suitable prize from the Expo
sition management
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17

STONISHING Council in charge
n judges entitled awards
received admitting
that exhibit whole thing However out
head.
in
evidence a international exhibit
The Delta Tunnel
similar awards the Delta pavilion being
President Taft
Following Bluffs Hortcu
turalCo and al Pueblo:
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
Delta's Water Supply.

Piped from flowing springs on Grand
mesa, near snow line. Delta's water
supply is the pure mountain variety. 1t
is brought down sixteen miles to the
town. Heretofore it has had a gravity
pressure from tanks on Garnet mesa,
but now a fine storage reservoir is be-
ing built on that mesa and is nearly
completed.
Delta's water works, when the pres
ent improvements are completed. will
represent an expenditure of about
$3.50, 900. The water rates. while mod
crate, bring in quite respectable
revenue to the city, enough to make
the system self-supportlng.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
Yule Cake.

On Christmas night, if maiden place
a piece of the Yule-cake under her pill
low she will dream of her future hus-
band. Also portion of the cake
should be kept for the next year, as it
brings luck in the house The plum
pudding must always be kept and again
partaken of on New Years day if one
would have successful year.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17
Irrigation District Organizes.

The vote at an election to organize
the Lower Rogers Mesa Irrigation Dis
trict, held on the 7th, carried without a
dissenting voice and James Armand,
b. M. Stone and p. p. Slack We're
elected directors.
The district has plans for securing
additional water to irrigate some of the
best of Delta county land, and these
plans will be carried into effect at as
early date as is possible.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-17

dates the machinery of the De'ta Elec-
trio Light company s plant, erected on
the site of the ore burned last spring.
In other parts of the city many new
buildings greet the eye, all erected
within the past two years. And the
building improvements are to go right
along.