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The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Newest Big Gun will Throw
N Ton of Steel 10 Miles

The United States navy is about
to astonish the world again with a
new gun having callibre of six
teen inches, which will make the
present world beating fourteen
inch gun obsolete.
The plans for the new gun have
been made by Rear Admiral Twin
ing. chief of the bureau of ordnance.
The admiral says that the length
of the gun will be sixty-seven feet.
The fourteen-inch gun is fifty-two
feet bore and about eight feet in
the breech. The fourteen-inch gun
fires shell that weighs fourteen
hundred pounds and can rip the ar
mour off ship at distance of
eleven miles.
The siNteen-inch terror is to carry
n shell of the enormous weight of
1000 pounds and will be effective
at fifteen miles, thus proving that
the horizon cannot put limit to
modern naval science.
A somewhat greater ship than is
now projected is the necessary CON
sequence of guns of the size con
templated by Rear Admiral Twin
ing,
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
SPECIAL MEETING OF BOARD
OF EDUCATION AUGUST 19
Much Business Transacted of I'm
portance to Schools of Delta
County.

The full board met in Judge
King office on the above date for
the purpose of comforting with Prof.
Condit relative to several proposed
changes to be made in the schools.
The revised course of study for
the high school and the grades was
considered and accepted as submit
ted by the superintendent.
The new course seeks to make
practical the work of the schools.
The principal changes were in the
eighth grade and scientific depart
ments of the high school. The new
course was ordered printed for dis
tribution.
A systematic course of study for
the regular teachers meetings was
approved.
The several institutions of the
state have accepted the groupes of
study and offered to give each teach
er credit toward a degree when the
work is completed under the direc-
tion of the city superintendent.
great many of the people have
ashtu AlIdN Al4t anu nv 80
district, own the text books. The
principal reason urged was that it
Is unsanitary to pass books from
child to child. Then the annoyance
TO the child TO be compelled TO use
dirty and worn book that some
one else had defaced. and the fur
ther fact that a child naturally wants
10 own his own books.
Several other minor topics were
favorabl consideded.
Everything is shaping for a splen-
did school year, the best in the his
tory of the Delta schools.
There are now thirty regularly
employed teachers in the Delta
schools. Each teacher has been Sc
lected upon his merits. The three
evils of politics, religious creed and
personal favoritism, have not got
ten into the Delta schools. This is
because of the liberal public spirit
that prevails and because Delta has
broad minded men on the board of
education.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
President Signs Statehood Bill.

President Taft signed the joint
resolution for the admission of Ari-
zona and New Mexico to the Union
on Tuesday afternoon of this week.
Senator Penrose, Representative
Weeks of Massachusetts, Barchtield
of PENNSYLVANIA. the delegates of the
two territories and number of
citizens witnessed the signing.
When the resolution was laid on
on his desk he looked up at the big
crowd around him and said:
Has anybody read this?'
Nobody answered and to make
certain of II the president read the
resolution himself.
We'll gentlemen. its done he
said. as he put the last stroke on
the parchment.
The resolution signed by the
president provides that Arizona
shall eliminate the judiciary recall
clause from its constitution.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Insurance Companies Refuse
to pay Mueller Policie

A sensation was created in Den
yer last Saturday when it became
known that the New York Life In
surance company had refused TO pay
$4,000 policy on the life OF AL
fred Mueller. late secretary of the
National Jewish hospital, of which
he was the original organizer and
honored as its founder. 1t is claim
ed that the books OF Mr.. Mueller
are $4,000 short and it is now ad-
mitted that he came to his death
about three weeks ago by commit
ting suicide The body of Mueller
was cremated at his own request.
= is stated that Mueller's life
was insured for about SSl 900 and
that this insurance had been hypo-
thecated The whole matter was
brought to the surface in the refus-
nj of the Eew YORK Life to paw the
insurance polcy on demand.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25

The Delta public schools will open
on September 4th.
Saturday, September End, at p.
m. the general teachers meeting
will be held in room b. Central Bldg
Examinations for high school and
grade assignments will be given in
the Central building September End
and ith.
Principal Henderson, will be in
the office September LIST and End
to confer with the pupils and par
ents relative to high school assign
ments.
The city superintendent will be in
his office August Slst and Septem-
ber LIST and 2nd. for the purpose of
receiving new pupils and for consul
tation.
PHILIP NJ. CONDIT.
Sup't. of City Schools.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Delta Man Pays sum of $4,000
For Apartment House in Denver

The Peerless Apartments, 1925
Washington, have been sold by Mr..
Charles Z. Mudd of Denver to Mr..
Claude Z. Clarke of Delta, Colo,
for $4,000. The sale was handled
by H NJ. Fletcher, of the T. c.
Hitchings Investment company. In
cluded in the deal was a transfer
from Clark to Mudd of an S0-acre
fruit tract near Delta, for a consid-
Grafton of $4,000.
The Peerless Apartments are a
three-story. modern structure. with
a frontage on Washington street of
ninety-three feet. The building eN-
tends back from the street the full
depth of the three and half lots.
Denver Post
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
More Active Shipping Season Or

More Active Shipping Season On
A common sight in Delta for
the past week or ten days has been
numbers of wagon loads of fruit
boxes and crates, the boards being
packed in bundles ready to put to-
gether. These were varied by occas-
ional loads of cantaloupe crates.
This presaged the real beginning
of active shipping.
Elberta peaches are now begin
ming to ship. Some fail apples are
still going to market in carload
lots and the cantaloupes will star
in car lots next week. At Paonia
large fruit picking and packing
forces have been put on this week
Cedaredge and upper Surface Greek
will come in a little later. Hotch-
kiss with its valley and mesa or
chards, is beginning TO swell the
county shipments.
OF course this will not begin to
compare with the shipping season
after the great winter apple crop,
the weight of which is now threat
ening to tear the trees limb from
limb, begins to move, but trainload
after trainload will go out during
the earlier season.
The early potato crop is not
nearly taken care of yet and but
little hay has been moved. In fact
the second cutting of alfalfa has not
yet all been harvested. Threshins
of wheat and oats has begun as yet
in only a small way. In another
month or six weeks the sugar beet
fields will tax an army of work
ers to dig. top and load the beets.
1t is a busy country, this banner
county of Delta.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Looks Like Day Current.

The Delta Light company will
run day current through the
peach icing season, beginning per
haps within week. This will last
for a month.
The company will presumably
have to run day current also
through the apple shipping season
and also through the ice storage
season later.
With the installation of the city
pumping plant for fire protection,
II would seem necessary that the
light company be run double shift
right along. so there really seems
to be hope of both n day and night
current.
Many people could no doubt use
the day current for driving machin-
cry or utilize II in domestic ways.
The Independent would greatly pre-
fer to pay home people for electric
power than to blow its cash to
John ID for gasoline, and sincerely
hopes that enough business can be
secured by the light company to
meet the extra expense of running
days as well as nights.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
U. S. TO COOPERATE WITH
COLORADO IN EXPERIMENTS
Large Sum to be Expended This
Year on Drainage and Irriga-
ton Problems.

For years we have desired inves-
tigational work in irrigation, practi-
cal work that will help the irrigat-
or in the field, and attempts have
been made from time to time along
this line. Funds have, however been
short and the work is so expensive
that il has been necessary to put
off until tomorrow what could not
be done today, says Z. b. House, of
the State Agricultural College at
Fort Collins.
Now. however, a change has TAX
en- place. The last legislature ap-
propriated $4,000 for experimental
work in irrigation and drainage.
This was later cut by GOV. Shat
roth, together with other appropria-
tions, to $1,000, in order to bring
IL within the revenue of the state.
In order to make the work as
broad as possible a meeting was
held in Denver June 2lst, with
Prof. Samuel Fortier. head of the
irrigation division OF the L. S. bu-
reau of experiment stations, and
DR.. A c. True. L. S. director of
experiment stations; the president
OF the agricultural college, members
of the state board OF agriculture
and representatives, from he ir-
rigation engineering department of
the college. II was there decided
that the L. s. government and the
state of Colorado should cooper
ate in the irriEational work for
Colorado. and contract was sign
ed whereby each party agrees to
pay the sum of $500 for this
work.
With an expenditure of practic-
ally $4,000 surely some interest
ing and profitable work should be
done The work has been started
and is progressing nicely Although
IL was a little late in the season
to do much field work this summer,
we shall be ready and on the
grounds when next years irrigation
season opens.
This work will include the ap-
plication of water to crops by diff
ferent methods, showing the advan-
tages of one system over another.
The best time to irrigate crops
on different soils and how much
water to apply is another problem
Irrigation pumping plants of
Colorado will come in for their
share of the work, The study of
different factors effecting the flow
of the water in bitches. head-works
and weirs, will also be taken up.
II is to be hoped that the work
Just started will be carried on for
years and that many of the irri-
cation problems may be solved
which will bring dollars into the
pockets of the Colorado farmer and
be of great benefit to the state.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25

At the request of creditors, the
affairs of w. J. Howe, doing bust
ness in Delta under the name of the
Howe Furniture company, We're a
week ago placed in the hands of a
creditors committee, as follows:
George stephan. A. H. Stockham and
II. J. Baird. These three gentle
men in their capacity as such com
mittee. become the assignees of Mr..
Howe, though not through the
courts, and will proceed on behalf
of his creditors, to settle up the
business.
The total amount of liabilities is
not exactly known. but it is thought
that $4,000 or $4,000 will cover
same, and that the creditors will
receive practically the amount of
their claims, although the work of
invoicing has not been finished.
The stock will probably be dis
posed of in such manner as the
creditors committee shall deter
mine
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Delegates to Chicago's
Good Roads Congress.

The following are named in the
long list of Colorado delegates just
named by Governor Shafroth to the
Fourth International Good Roads
Congress to be held in Chicago
September 18th to October list:
DIR. J. A. Whiting and A L.
Roberts. Delta county; Oscar Nc
Creary and w. S. Whinnery of
Hinsdale county; w. S. Wallace
and A. ]. Lee of Mesa county; II.
c. Bartlett of Gunnison county; c.
II. Nickel of Montrose county; ]
NJ. Kuhn and ]. II. singleton, Of
Park county.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Ground Broken for Colorado's
New Homo For prcsidcT

The work of breaking ground for
the summer home for the presidents
of the United States. was begun in
Denver yesterday. The home will
be located on Mount Falcon, near
Morrison. Twenty residents of the
town of Morrison volunteered TO
break the ground, which marks the
beginning of what is considered by
many, one of the most important
movements begun in Colorado in
many years. Those in favor of the
summer home of the presidents. do
mated by the state and supported by
the state are enthusiastic and de
clare that ii is now an assured fact.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Water Must Not be Taken From
Western TO Eastern Slope

Acting District Attorney Ethel
bert Ward of Denver, on Monday re
ceived instructions from the depart
ment of justice to put the govern
ment into the suit in the district
court at Hot sulphur Springs to
prevent the taking of water from tn
Western Slope to the Eastern Slope
for irrigation purposes.
This is evidence that the govern
ment will step into the fight be-
tween the water users of the West
ern and Eastern slopes and stop
the diversion of water from the
Grand river to reservoirs on the
east side of the continental divide
Attorney Ward will begin at once
to prepare the suit.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
List of Jurors Drawn for Sep
tcnbcr Term of District Court

G. NJ. Aldrich. IL. p. Balch. Il. +.
Barrow, w. j. Barrow. Il. S. Beach,
]. Il. Beckley. John Beezley, S. l..
Brown, c. c. Cockrell, w, S. Cir
ardet. S. p. Grier, Grant Heter. Il.
NJ. Hovey, Henry 1sensee, l.. ID.
King, ]. r. Lamar. A, l.. Livergood,
A. l.. Lombard, V. II. Merrifield,
G. w. Meyer. j. A. Moss. |, NJ.
McMurray, ]. G. Neff, f. l.. Ray.
Otis Smith, A. ]. Worse, G. f. Wal
ling, w. ID. Wheeler. f. ID. Willough-
by and c. Il. Wright.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Enir Iudrcs selected.

The Fair management has COM
pleted arrangements for expert
judges in all the departments. The
live stock will be judged by l.. b.
Berkheimer of Iowa; poultry and
pets, Il. j. Holman. Paoniai Agricul'
tural products by c. L. Fitch or
Fort Collins: Fruits by h. S. Her
rick: domestic science and fancy
work by Miss Allison or one of her
assistants in the State Agricultural
college at Fort Collins. Miss Allison
will probably give daily demonstra-
tious in domestic science.
This selection on the part of the
Fair association means fair and i'm
partial judging to all exhibitors.
State superintendent of Schools
Miss Helen Wilson has announced
her intention to be present at the
fair.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Death of Mrs. Luce.

Mrs Cornelia Elizabeth Luce, died
in Delta Sunday evening. aged "A
years. Her body was taken to La
Platte, Nebraska, for burial. Mr..
Linn Luce, son, and Mrs. l.. A
Hick, a daughter, accompanying it
Byram Luce, the elder son, who was
called East recently by family sick
ness, will attend the funeral OF
his mother Mt La Platte, she having
passed away during his absence.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
MANY PEOPLE COME FROM
HOTCHKiSS TO TRIAL HERE
North Fork Railway Company Hav-
ing Trouble in Securing its
Right of Way.

A case entitled the North Fork
Railway company, VS.. Edward Had
ley, ct al, consumed three days in
the county court this week and was
the cause of bringing from Hotch-
kiss and vicinity, quite a number of
people.
The case was tried before Judge
Stewart, with the following as jury
men: Lee Jacobs, C. P. Nutter,
NJ. ]. Johnson, C. ]. Adams. D. G.
Salisbury and Albert E. Miller.
The following witnesses appeared
Fred S. Hotchkiss, P. G. Slatten,
Ed Duke, Charles Ives, Paul Wilson
H. B. Poe, DR.. Hadley, Geo. Rug
giles, H. r. Fetz, Messrs. klingen-
smith, Osborne, Peterson and Prem
tiss.
The case was to obtain right of
way sought by the railroad by con-
demnation, for which the price aske
was considered by the company as
exorbitant.
The jury returned a verdict at 2
clock yesterday afternoon in favor
of the railroad company, fixing the
damages due the respondent Hadley
at $4,000.
There are a number of other res
pondents whose cases have not yet
come to trial. 1t is possible that
these may be settled out of court
based upon the result of this one
test case.
Judge a. R. King appeared for
the plaintiff company and Attorneys
Adams and Hogg. of Telluride for
the defendant.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25
Congress- AdiouruS.

Congress adjourned at noon We'd
nesday, Before adjourniug n STRAW
vote" was taken for preference for
president in 1912. On the Republi-
can side 1856 were for Taft, &c
for LaFollette and 2S non-commital
The Democratic vote was. Harmon
90. Clark so, Folk 45. non-com initial
II.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25

Mrs. c. c. Grim and little daugh-
ter. left on visit to Denver Tues
day. Emma the little daughter
will be placed in school there.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25

Mrs. Zabe Wray and two sons. of
Long Beach. California. arrived in
Delta the latter part of last week
for visit with their cousin. Mrs.
Beryl Gutridge, and accompanied by
her, went up to the latter's home
ner Maher, Monday.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-08-25

A. f. Penley went to Salt Lake
City Wednesday on business. He
expected to be gone about a week.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-19
APPLES BRING BIG PRICE
Farmers in the Mountains Find
They Pay Well

Mr.. J.. t. Finley, Of North Wilkes
borO, was in Raleigh or yesterday.
He is the chief founder of the North
WiIkesbOrO Fair Association, which
holds annual fairs at that place. He
says nat the prospects for a big fair
this year is better than ever, and
arrangements have been made by
which the fair will be SO good as to
draw attendance from q dozen cOun-
ties.
Asked about the crops in his coun.
ty. Mr.. Finley said: We have an
average crop in Wilkesboro. We nave
stood the drought better than most
counties. The apple crop is not
large n Wilkes but Very good in Ashe
and Allegheny, and on the day | left
home there were a hundred wagons
filed with apples in the town. APP
pies are bringing rs cents per bushel
right in the mountains.
Mr.. Finley told Of a Virginia den
list who not many years age bought
= tract Of land near Wilkesboro and
has a fine orchard. He said that the
crop this year was not very large but
very good. and the owners son said
hat his father would net 5 cents
apiece for every apple grown IN the
orchard. The apple industry in that
section is going to bring great wealth.,
and Mr.. Finley says that the grower
who make the most money wrap each
apple in tissue paper SO that it reaches
the market in good shape.
It will be recalled all over the State
| that when prohibition was pendin
in North Carolina a great many peo-
ME were lead to believe that if pro-
| hib;tion won the farmers in Western
| North Carolina growing apples would
be greatly injured and that the ap-
nles would rot upon the ground, but
with the ordinary apples bringing 10
cents per bushel and the extra oral
nor, annles 5 cents apiece, this argu-
. menr is effectualiy answered.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-19
Poor Railway Facilities.
DISCRIMINiTION AGAINST
NEGROES ~ NEv YORK

y a II i tAiit0-t
To Editor:-I Glanced yesterday 10 pass
by the building that incioses tae new
aqueduct work Just beginning III Bryant
Park. Fifty-scconl street. Thrragh the
door OF admittance Italian ana ether
orknle were entering, WI le there stood
there Il s~iN-foot. Young. muscular negro,
humble, abject. hat n hand, asking ad-
mission and work. which. later be t3lu me
were denied him.
May I ask why foreigners. II whatever
nationality. frequently n ignorant ~ II ;
negro. possibly more 81. rery likely not
mature; lied. While tie IS a citizen. ~" given
work and pay. which coming f.onl e ma
n:cipaIity. are opposed to le oicn - NJ
as they apply. especially u these 1nskll"l
occupations:
Verify. ! beIinSe that now, tlways.
the southern white man IS the ir@.,~ best
friend. for a. | - South can. from lie
train window. Sc whit" ilt:i and negroes
working S'ae hy side. aging brck.
shinglin- houses AID doing other fyor.
that Is Iuucn above digging in the ground.
- r.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-19
DEeT ROYED TWO
ACRES IN | WEEK
Supervisor Wigs Tells
of Army Worms in
Wake County
he CITES AN ANCIDENT
Mr.. Hillcry johnson, of Barton's
Creek, Has Two Acres of Cotton
Destroyed by These Worms in a
Wcek-Description Of Then and
HOW 10 Break Their March.

Army worms have marched into
Wake county. Road Supervisor Wigs
yesterday told how they destroyed two
acres of cotton belonging to Mr.. Hill
lery johnson in Barton's Creek town.
ship.
Quick in Their Destructive Work.
Last Sunday said Mr.. Wigs.
Mr.. Johnson observed these worms
on two or three stalks Of cotton. Now
they have eaten two acres and tao
ground is covered with them. The
field puts enc in mind Of a large spi-
der web.
Description of the Army Worm.
Asked to describe the army worm,
Mr.. Wigs said:
They are about an inch and a half
long and about as big around as a
broom straw. They are green with q
black streak running up and down
IT, cir backs
Mr.. Wigs stated further that these
worms moved about with great ener-
gy, COINS from stalk to stalk, remain
ing at each long enough to strip It of
leaves and leave it in a deSolate, bar
rem condition..
One Way to Break Their March.
Mr. Wigs says that from personal
observation, he considers hat one
way to break toe invading march Of
these destructive pests is to dig a
ditch around the field in which they
are observed. After they have eaten
up the leaves at their command they
will move onward, but When they
come to the ditcn they will fall into
it and cannot get out.
The army worm is a problem and it
20 ~~~l 4Lo% ~ WOW fO
eradicate them entirely will be de-
vised.