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The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Throughout the Country 1t
Has Shown an Unusual
Number of Accidents.
DELTA AT GRAND JUNCTION
Delta Boys Are Pronounced Good
Players and Gentlemen in a
Letter to Superinten-
dent Condit.

The Western Slope foot ball season
closed with the games Thanksgiving
day.
Delta played Grand Junction 26 to
nothing in favor of the Junction team.
Delta basket ball girls won on the same
day against Grand Junction. Paonia
won on that day over Gunnison, score
II to nothing, and Teller Indians played
the Y. NJ C. AS. at Montrose to 6.
The season has not been a very
brilliant one in foot ball for Delta. The
name "Huskies" which the Grand
Junction players still give the Delta
team, is hardly appropriate. as most of
the boys are not heavy. They started
out as quick players and not only won
several victories but promised well for
the season. They bucked into a rough
game at Paonia two weeks ago, one of
the hardest fought games ever wit
messed, and number were hurt. Two
had ribs either fractured or torn loose
and others sustained injuries from
which they had not recovered when
called to battle with the Grand junction
Tigers, so it can readily be seen they
were in no condition to make a hard
contest.
Last year and year before, the Delta
team was entitled to the name
"Huskies. for the players were so
husky" that not another team on the
Western Slope was able to score
against them.
AS it stands. the record of the Delta
boys is not bad for the season. The
games stand: Paonia. and l. Grand
Junction and l. Montrose, Delta 2.
Gunison, Delta /.
Delta's basket ball girls made the
following record: Montrose, and l,
Paonia defeated them in one game.
Season closed with the second victory
over Grand Junction on Tha nksgiving
day.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
In Apple Markets.

What has been saidlof late concerning
the dishonest apple packer is subject to
little further discussion. though not
to palliate the fraudulent packer.
From indications. however, he has
side partner in certain classes of sellers
who do as much or more harm to the
marketer than the dishonest packer.
A party in Los Angeles recently re-
lates: Il saw box of apples marked
Jonathan and alleging to be from the
Western Slope orchards. On examin-
ing them found they were culls and
generally inferior apples. l asked the
dealer why he did not buy better apples
and he frankly replied: They are too
high priced. I can sell these and get a
bigger profit out of them
In other words he was selling culls
out of fancy-marked box, as the IA
nous Western Slope Jonathan, on the
reputation of the apple and the box.
This greatly complicates the situa-
ton There is no way to prevent the
miscellaneous buyer from coming out
and buying any sort of apples he thinks
he can sell, and to misrepresent grades
is part of his sharp practice. On the
other hand it is almost impossible to
procure uniform and perfect pack of
an entire crop. Even in such packs
there must be grades, and the retailer
in the city market is as ready to palm
off seconds for firsts as is an occasional
packer to slip culls in the middle of his
box.
1t being apparently impossible, ther,
to do away with the frauds mentioned.
the one thing left seems to be for re-
sponsible orchardists and associations
TO build up such reputation as will
establish entire confidence on the part
of buyers. that there shipments and
packs can be taken as guarantee for
the goods, and the public kept posted
upon the necessity of being on the look
out for the genuine and the fraudulent
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Subscriptions Received.

The following subscriptions to the
INDEPENDENT have been received since
last report:
DIR. L. E Rowe, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Mrs. Dora Bullock, Cory; ]. T. Huston,
Riverside, Nebraska; E R. Standish,
Bacca Grande, Florida; Thos. Roeber;
w. r. McNutt, Paonia; John W. Knoll,
Telluride; Titus Lewis, Saida; DIR.
Haswell, Denver; j. S Cariker, Austin;
Burton H. Corbett, Colorado Springs;
DIR. Wheelock, o. L. Fairlamb, John
Powers, R. D. Blumburg, George
Young, Minnie Taylor, w. o. Stephens,
F. P. Hastings, Gale Bros E. G. Rus
Ter, l. NJ. McMurray, Frank B. Wisner,
NJ. H Carlson, Harry Stockham, ]. E
Huntley, Remington & Elliott, Joe Har-
rington, Geo. Conklin, DR.. Burgess,
Harry Haywood. T. S Robinson, T.
w. Griffith, F. ]. Guyer, H. P. McIn-
tyre, R. S. Kelso, Mrs. Ora Watson,
Delta; E. F. Rochel, Saltwater, Okla
homa; w. E Monlux, Cory.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Good Outlook for Next Year.

All indications to date point to an
other good crop year in 1910. The win
ter promises to be snowy one and
that is one of the first preparatory ar
rangements of nature in preparing the
soil and assuring it a water supply.
While it is early to make predictions.
we like to be optimistic. Something
can be foretold by the fruit buds and
the fall season has been late and par
ticularly adapted to their maturing
against winters rigors.
The seasons for some years previous
to 1909 were not of the best, and as
elements are said by astronomers to be
getting back into their normal channel.
we may hope for series of good years
for all the crops.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Looking Forward.

Delta County's future is full of
promise.
Present merits of resource and pro-
Water and soil were her creeds and of
both she had plenty.
1t only remaided for mans industry
and ingenuity to combine them.
Great canals were constructed to ir-
rigate farms and orchards sufficient to
place Delta county in the lead of all
counties of the state as an amount and
quality producer, until it has puzzled
railroads and producers how to get
what is raised transported to market.
New bitches are constantly being
made to bring additional land under ir-
rigation, by companies, in addition to
the vast tracts which the Government
will irrigate by means of the Gunnison
tunnel.
| Thousands of acres of fruit trees
have been and are being set each year
to add to the already enormous orchard
production. More sugar beets are to be
grown; more alfalfa, grain and pota-
toes will be raised. The present favor
able conditions for stock will stimulate
that industry
This means. Of necessity, more
railroads, the development of our great
coal fields and the building of beet
sugar factory. With the advent and
progress of these will come scores OF
other things until this aectior NJ ,ha
Western Slope Of Colorado will become
veritable beehive Of industry.
Looking forward, it is hard to grasp
or picture all the things that are prac-
tical or feasible for Delta county
things which crowded conditions, merit
of resource and superabundance Of pro-
duction will force.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Orchard Work in Delta County.

In a brief trip over some of the most
productive orchard territory in Delta
county within the past two weeks, the
INDEPENDENT editor observed few
things in orchard cultivation which may
be of interest.
Around Paonia the system seems to
be to seed in red clover for two years,
then clean cultivate for one year. then
seed again to red clover for another
two years.
The clover is a soil loosener and
yields well. Whether it is better than
alfalfa or not. the orchardists up that
way have adopted it and of course must
have a reason satisfactory to them
selves for doing so.
Freezing in the orchards at winter
time is another plau which appears to
be generally favored. and orchards
were being flooded to get the proper
wetting of the soil.
Against aphis the lady bug beetle
had been shipped from California and
stocked into some of the orchards most
infected. with the happy result of
practically exterminating the aphis.
The lady bugs can be purchased at a
certain season of the year by the gallon
in California and shipped to the orchrd-
lists. At the stated period they gather
on willows or other shrubs in numbers
sufficient to bend the twigs, and boys
go out with sacks into which they are
shaken until quantity desired is
obtained.
Pruning in some Of the orchards is
also under way at this time.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03

teams, have come to search the country
over for modern Hercules, whom they
can buy to attend. not as a student
particularly, but to be trained a MEM
ber of their foot ball team.
In this way the game is becoming an
open field prize-fght without gloves and
minus Q1eensbury rules. whose one
merit is brute strength to a finish.
This feature threatens to destroy the
game. Its votaries may succeed in
modifying it sufficiently to restore it
to practical favor, but that is doubtful.
If excluded by school faculties for
time. some modified form may be in
stalled.
The basket ball game, as played by
the girls, has not yet developed any
special ''rough-house" features, is
perfect and healthful exercise, and is
delightful game to watch.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Civ DIRECTORY Progress.

F. A. Mckinney. the directory pub
Usher. started the preliminary work on
the new directory of Delta and Delta
county the first of the week. He has
been working in the business district
and is meeting with general success.
The canvass in the resident district will
probably begin next week then North
Delta, and after that the other towns
and postotfices in the county and the
rural routes.
The directory will be printed in Delta
by Delta printer and both in appear
ance and information will compare fav-
orably with any county directory pub
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Notable Property Adpances.

About three years ago the HALEY,
then Maryott ranch, of 500 acres, stu
ate about five miles from Delta, was
sold for $4,000. A year ago Mr.. Nc
Mutt sold the place for S43, 900. Last
week the place was again sold to syn
dicate of Pennsylvania capitalists for
about SIS, 600 Thus an advance of
$40, 900 is noted in two years and an
other advance of S32, 600 in one year.
While the former figures may have
been regarded as low, the last named
are not high, compared with land sale
figures at the present time, being slight
ly under Si0o per acre, while the i'm
proved orchard land is held at 81, 900
per acre and up.
The farm is a rather noted one, hav-
ing first belonged to a couple of wealthy
English gentlemen. 1t was improved
by them with s15, 900 castle of English
architecture. The land at present has
4e acres of bearing orchard, and it is
said the entire body will be divided into
small tracts for orchard and other de-
velopment.
The purchasers named in the deal are
w. NJ. Dunn and c. II. Blakney of
Brownsville, Pa, G. +. Fear of Wash
ington, Pa, and James A. Dunn of
Wazensburg, Pa.
J. M. Gagan of Denver and Sam
Farmer of Delta, were instrumental in
bringing about the deal.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Della County is the
Neu Fruit Standard.
Editorially the Grand Junction News
said in its Sunday issue

Editorially the Grand Junction News
said in its Sunday issue
GOOD FOR DELTA
Delta County. at the National Horti-
cultural Congress at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, captured 36 fruit prizes out of a
total of a entries. The only prize of
any consequence lost by Delta county
was the first prize for Jonathans. and
those who were in charge of the exhibit
say this prize was lost only on account
of a mistake by the judges.
The people of Delta county are get
ting pretty "uppish" about their fruit.
They have a right to the feeling. Like
Mesa county, they have marketed this
year the biggest crop in their history.
And though first Mesa, then Delta.
then Mesa again, then some other
Western Slope county, may carry off
the first prize, after all there is so
little difference between the fruit Of
these various sections that it is i'm
possible 10 decide which is best.
After all. the main thing isn't so
much whether Mesa or Delta or Mont
rose or Garfield is ahead; 1t is that
Western Slope fruit is ahead of all
other fruit everywhere. And that fact
is being amply demonstrated, where
ever ou- fruit comes in competition
with fruit from other sections. We all
rejoice with Delta, therefore, over her
victory at Council Bluffs.
The above is an acknowledgment
that the standard of weighing all Colo
RADIO fruit by Mesa county and the
Grand Valley, is at last giving way in
the public mind to new standard-the
Delta County Standard.
That means nothing less and moth
ing more-superior merit awarded by
expert judges and the public.
And at this late day, with her super
rior soil and great area OF territory;
her many thousands of acres Of bearing
trees and additional thousands of acres
coming into bearing, Delta county is
beginning to receive the cp2 which
riRntfully belongs to her.
That Delta county has the most
perfectly adapted fruit lands to be
found In any state, or in any county OF
any state. will be as readily acceeded
by those who make proper investiga-
ton. as that the quality Is superior, OF
That she already ships more fruit tc
market than any other county In the
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Delta Players Complimented.
Grand Junction, Colo.
Noyemher d 1909
SUPERINTENDENT CoNDIT,
Delta, Colorado.

Della, SOlOrauo.
Dear Sir:
want to compliment you on the ex-
cellent showing made by the Delta foot
ball team at Grand Junction. do not
remember ever having seen football
game played in so gentlemanly a spirit
as the one played by the boys from
Delta. 1t was certainly a great plea
sure to me to be connected with the
game at all and hope my services
were satisfactory. The boys from
Delta are splendid losers and perfect
gentlemen.
would suggest to you that in the in
terest of high school football. both
from the players and from the spec
tators standpoint, that hereafter high
school football games adopt standard
of twenty and twenty-five minutes re-
spectfully as the length of halves, as it
was clearly demonstrated in the Thanks
giving day game that the strain of the
long game is too great for high school
boys and that it detracts from the spec
tators' pleasure in making the games
such long drawn out affairs.
Yours very truly,
F. B. WEIGH.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
This Weeks Deeds
Recorded Read ,SZ5, ,ZO3.

Anothe good showing is made this
week in the matter of real estate trans
fers as shown by deeds recorded. yet
deals are reported closed the past week
around Delta alone, which would more
than double the aggregate total of the
deeds recorded. These will help to
swell future record figures.
The records now are averaging up
sufficiently to point to at least million
dollars a year invested in Delta real
estate, and it is entirely probable that
the investments for 1910 will greatly
exceed that amount.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Ex-Governor Buchtel to Preach
and Lecture in Della Sunday.

Ex-Governor Buchtel is announced to
preach in Delta Sunday, also to deliver
his lecture on Abraham Lincoln Sunday
evening. Chancellor Buchtel is out of
politics and back at the head of the
University of Denver, where. many
people of the state agree he should
have been content to remain, still that
should not prevent them from hearing
him at Delta, for his sermon and lee
ture will both be treats.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Delta DDelling Brings $1,000,

A. C. Remington sold his fine resi-
dence on Palmer street, between Fifth
and Sixth to Mrs. Mary Putty. of
Sulphur. Oklahoma. the consideration
being $1,000. The deal was negotiated
by the Delta Land Company.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Gould Have Had the Cup and Rest
of Prizes. did Not Want
To Be Piggish.
The Exhibit an Eye-Opener to the Apple
Growers of the United States.---The
New Standard for Fruit Spells
nDelta County, Now

III Council Bluffs Iowa. below With ourhs
of thepr
others justly
b ell salts
and elta County"
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03

FNy:fUe Acres Brings $2o, 900.
j. N. Jeffers sold his 55-acre ranch in
Hart's Basin this week to Richard
Kaufman, of Des Moines, Iowa. for
consideration of $26, 200.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Delta Cattle Win at
Chicago Stock Shop.

The two cars of feeders which took
2-year-old prize in Denver last sp ring
also captured premiums at the big live
stock show in Chicago. j. B. Killian
of Delta was the shipper.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Real Estate Transfers.

Warranty deeds recorded during the
week ending November 80, 1909, fur
nished by the Delta County Abstract
Company, Byram Luce, President:
b. l.. Laycook to j. e. Wat is,
acres Delta. Consideration 1000.
Edward B. Stewart to Harry F..
Stewart. y int. 40 acres near Cedar
edge. 81.
Qualls Bruton to Henry Bruton, y
int 6.24 acres near Delta. s725.
Jesse w. Beezley to James Beezley,
part two lots Paonia. $500.
George Graham to Charles H. Cheney,
40 acres near Paonia. $4,000.
John A. Stithem to Bert N. Craw-
ford, lots Crawford. 81.
H. C. Whitesell and wife to w. H..
Byrd. y int. tract near Cedaredge.
81 500.
Paul Wilson and H. G. Poe to Red
lands Orchard Co., l2O acres near
Eckert s2s, 600.
Thore Thompson to E. D. Smith,
tract near Cedaredge. Sl-70O.
VIM. S. hathaway to Geo. A. Hall,
14.s1 acres near Hotchkiss. $1,000.
VIM. H. Babb to Minos C. King,
9, ,5S4 acres near Paonia. 81 600.
Hugh Wilson to E. A. Evans, lots
Delta. $3.50.
l.. A. Thomason to Pete Spor, = lots
Paona. $500.
Hermine Sare to Therese Dalchow,
lots Paonia 1925.
John P. Kettle to John Sugien, 10
acres near Hotchkiss. 50. 600. t-'-s--.--s
John p. Kettle to Ernest Sugden, 10
acres near Hotchkiss. So,
A. E. Amsbary to Elijah E. Spencer.
tract near Delta. $500,
Marry V. Jones to Lizzie A. Morris.
y acre Delta.
B. II. Corbett and wife to NJ. w.
Beebe, 40 acres near Hotchkiss. Sll 500.
Total sales SIS, 5,703.
The Surface Creek Realty Company
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03
Interest Is Now Beginning to
Awaken in What May
Prove Big Contest.
MISS CONKLIk IN THE LEAD
Votes Are Coming in More Rap
idly Every Day.--Lively Times
Ahead for the Candidates
and Their Friends.

The result of the votes cast for
representative and candidate for Apple
Queen up to O'Clock yesterday after
noon, as counted at the offices of the
INDEPENDENT and Tribune, was as
follows for the three Delta candidates:
Eva Belle Conklin. n..............5,7 5, 7S0
Zetta Keiffer 1855
Genevieve Hartig. .................2,1 165
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03

The Surface Creek Realty Company
report the following sales:
The E. C. Higgins 80 acres at Eckert
to Albert 7. Forney. Con. SIS, 100000.
Ia acres on Pitkin Mesa, Paonia,
known as the J. B Ross place, to Doc
tors Allen and Allen of Nebraska.
Con. Sl4. 600. 90. Cline & Hufty assisted
in the deal.
The Delta independent., 1909-12-03

Best General Display by any one county
Best 10 plates Winter apples ......... !
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but this dodge has become too transparent and
modern schemers are far more ingenious.
While they seldom get results. here is one
case where the RoosevetS were taken in One
day letter addressed to Mrs. Roosevelt was
opened by her social secretary. In "a few well
chosen words" the writer volunteered her
vices as vocalist at a charity concert of which
leading lady was patroness. The sigma
ture that of a noted English singer who
had never appeared IN concert IN America.
1t caused some surprise; but when the social
secretary called on the woman. she made such
a pleasant impression that her offer was &C
cepted and announced In the society columns
of the newspapers. She took her turn on the
program. Recalled at the end of the song, she
made pretty little speech, saying she must
leave at once to catch train.
\ few weeks later the bboards and
newspapers of New York contained the an
nouncement that a new vaudeville singer
would be the star at the Blank Theater.
Miss Dash" so it read, now makes her debut
in the metropolis but has had an ovation in
Washington society, where she has been pat
ronzed by Mrs. Roosevelt" and it was all true
but the name She had assumed that of the
English singer in order to get the publicity.
Her notoriety short lived: for letter
sent to the theater manager bearing the White
House postmark caused the posters to come off
the boards and the advertisements out of the
papers. The woman who had also deceived the
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Working for the Party

Working for the Party
THE man who best appraise the impor-
lance of the President in the public eye is
the party manager. Bluntly speaking. he
thinks the head of the nation is the trump card
in the hand he plays in election time. The
greatest power for vote getting is this one man
whose visit to doubtful part of the country SO
often results in carrying the majority to his
side. That's why the man of the White House
gives the people chance to get good look at
him every four years, and he always goes where
his party is least popular. There his task is laid
out for him. Perhaps he does not want to run
again: but he goes just the same. He owes it
to his party t. work for the other fellow.
\ month, six weeks. or two months, until the
dawn of election day, the President continues
on and on, listening to the cheers. gazing at
the intense strain of the faces. giving out in
terviews. debating letters, eating and sleeping
as he can get chance, risking health, perhaps
life, in showing himself to the people in all
sorts of weather.
But every hour he is getting votes, and when
on that Tuesday night the big black figures
flashing upon the screens on street corners from
Portland east to Portland west. show another
victory. to whom do the party leaders send the
first praise? To the man who by his position is
the nations greatest political force.
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BEM1Du BELrRAM1 COUNTY AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA
THE BAZAAR STORE.

The residents of Bemidji and Beltrami
county have watched the steady growth of
this now popular establishment from it's
infancy. From the start, the Bazaar store
was success, success for the simple
reason that the proprietors had but one
object in view, that being to give value re-
ceived for every dollar spent at their count
ers. This, with strict attention to business,
courteous treatment of all who deal with
them, and, above all, to treat every customer
the same has made this place of business
noted for what the people call square
DEAL"
Eric Ives, manager of the Bazaar store,
confines his business to specific lines
lines he has made a life study of, and
which he ably judges when replenishing his
stock. AS may be imagined, the trade is
given the benefit of his personal experience,
an element which enters largely into the
merit of the materials he purveys.
Mr.. Ives undoubtedly hands out the high
est grade dry goods to be found west of
the Twin Cities. Especially is this true as
applied to the ladies' wearing apparel and
dry goods which adorn his counters and
show cases. Everything in the way of
ready-to-wear and tailor-made suits, skirts