The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-07-21
TIMELY TOPICS.

More than 1900 horses died
from the heat in New York City
during eleven days, from July Bird
to the 14th. One packing concern
suffered a loss of $4,000 in horse
flesh and another corporation met
with loss of $4,000. Estimating
that horses are worth about $3.50
each the total loss in horseflesh in
the city is set at 100000 by the
newspaper statisticians and the
loss throughout the country at
more than s1,OOO,OOO.
Charged with selling opium and
being white slave traders, Thomas
B. McCleave and his wife, Dorothy,
were arrested at Colorado Springs
Saturday by secret service men
who believe the McCleaves had been
acting as distributors of opium in
that region. Letters have been in
tercepted which indicated that Mrs.
McCleave had been acting as
white slave agent. 1t is said that
McCleaye admitted to receiving the
opium and that his wife prepared
it for smoking, but he denies that
he has sold any. Letters the secret
service men have secured indicate
that McCleave has been doing
flourishing business in selling the
drug and it is thought that both
he and his wife are members of a
band engaged in an opium and
white slave traffic throughout the
West The pair were taken to Den
yer by deputy United States mar
shall
The custodians of the 100000
900 Carnegie peace foundation an
nounced last week campaign OF
popular education to establish more
4 friendlier relations between the
United States and Japan. The di-
vision of intercourse and education
has arranged an exchange Ito give
to each people better knowledge of
the other and to help build up a
public, opinion in both countries that
will resist attempts to arouse an
| tagonism" Under this plan DR..
Inazo Nitobi, president of the first
/ Higher College of Toxic, and one of
/ Japans foremost educators. will
/ be brought here early in October.
/ He will spend about six weeks each
I at Brown university. Colum bia, John
Hopkins and the universities of
Virginia. Illinois and Minnesota lee
/ turing on japanese history and cur
rent problems The following year
a DISTINGUISHED American" will
be sent to Japan for similar ser
vice. The plan is to make this eX-
change permanent, representatives
of each country visiting the other
on alternate years. The committee
says that the japanese government
has heartily approved the undertak-
ing.
State Engineer Comstock is of
the opinion that Glenwood Springs
is located in Pitkin county. The
fact that every may of the state
shows it in Garfield county and
that the residents of the town con-
slider themselves as part, most
important part OF Garflelo couh-
~, does not overcome the opinion
Of the state engineer. He believes
that the boundary line between Pit
kin and Mesa counties and Gar
field county runs six miles too far
north and that an act OF the lesls-
lature will be necessary TO make the
legal boundary line run where the
actual one now is. The state en-
gineer arrived at this opinion after
a careful reading of the laws form
ing these counties. and although he
has been investigating the matter
for over a week he has discovered
nothing to cause him to change
his mind How the present boun-
Diary line came to be where 1t is
when the statutes plainly state that
the line shall be fixed by the north
boundary of Park county is more
than the state engineer can tell. He
has inquired of the map makers and
others and the only authority he
can find for the present line is
that ii is fixed by a monument In
the northern part of Pitkin county
There is according to the state en-
rineer not the slightest probability
that the present boundary can be
set aside, as it has been recognized
for years. He believes that the
legislature should repeal the Ole
law and pass new one making the
real boundary line the legal one As
we'll.