The Delta independent., 1911-06-02
TIMELY TOPICS.


deplorable, according to Delegate
Wickersham of that district, who
On eonesday before the house
CON mittee on territories, urged
favorable report on his bill creating
an elective legislature for the ter
ritory. Alaska" he said, under
the present system of long-distance
administration, has not been given
a single legislative measure for hve
years" There can be no question
that an attempt to govern such
big territory from the national cap
itaI thousands of miles distant is
failure.
President Taft On Wednesday
denied the application for the par
don of Charles w. Morse of New
York, and of John r. Walsh of Chi
cago, the two most prominent bank
ers ever convicted and sentenced
10 federal prisons under the nation
al banking laws. Not only did the
president refuse to pardon them,
uul ne also declined to exercise any
other executive clemency in these
cases or to shorten the sentences
imposed by the courts. In denying
the pardons the president took
firm stand that the national bank
ing laws or any other laws must be
upheld when they affect the rlch
man, even more than when they al
fe,t the poor. The record in the
Walsh case, the president said,
shows moral turpitude of that in
sidious and dangerous kind. to
/ ,tal iah he
laws were especially enacted"
Utah is prepared to cooperate
with Colorado in the building OF
good roads. Word has been receiv-
ed from Governor Spry, of Utah,
expressing a Willingness on the part
| of the Mormon state to build
boulevard to connect with the road
which is being constructed from
Grand junction west to the Utah
line. Governor Spry plans to use
convict labor and to build a splen-
did road to connect with the road
from state line to state line through
Colorado.
Miss BeIva Smith of Somerset.
died last Wednesday from the eff
fects of laudanum which she took
by mistake She was a talented and
accomplished young lady. being only
twenty years of age. She was the
daughter of one of the prominent
business men of Somerset and was
highly spoken of by all who knew
her.
One man was killed and three
| others were injured III an automobile
accident Saturday afternoon on the
speedway at Sable, near Denver.
Robert w Bean. "a years old. OF
Detroit, Mich. lost his life while
speeding a big Studebaker car. He
was being followed closely by an
Apperson racer When he turned
his head nervously to see Just how
| closely he was being followed. it is
believed that he accidentally turned
his steering wheel so that he ma
| chine was suddenly swerved to the
] left rom the track. Bean was
! caught under the auto and killed
Robert Roberts. the mechanician
with him. escaped serious injury
| An instant later the Apperson racer
| veering to the right to avoid the
Studebaker car, left the track and
| turned turtle. The driver and the
| mechanician just lodged death and
J escaped with minor injuries.
| The orchardists around Topeka
Kansas. smudged during the freez'
| ing period and are now greatly wor'
ried for fear their apples will taste
Of the crude oil. fearing that the
| odor was absorbed.
| Denver holds the record for any
city its size in the United States in
the small number of smallpox cases
found. according to DR.. W. H.
Sharpley. commissioner of the city
health department, in statement
made last week.
H Richard ]. Brown, connected with
the DIR. Rhodes company institute In
Denver. was declared guilty OF
fraud. malpractice and decit and
/ ordered to pay $4,000 damages to
S. A. Combs in verdict rendered
in the district court before Judge
II. l.. Shattuck by the jury Friday
afternoon. Brown had treated Mr.
| Combs for hernia and, II was al
legged, caused him injury for life.
Over at Marble Mrs. Curley was
fined $4,000 on eleven counts for
1 sol 1tnty