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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-17

ber 1873, to carry dispatches from the
Holstein and Mccoy ranches, near the
site of Atwood to Ogallala, Neb., 1856
miles, giving to the world the first
news of the depreciation of the Indians
in the last massacre that occurred on
the Kansas plains. Street was in 1ho
saddle p hours, riding alone across the
prairie. The Indians were following
but he eVaded them and delivered his
messages to the officers at Fort OS2l-
lala, enabling them to intercept the In
dams. Capt Street served Decatur
county in the Legislature and was speak
er of the Kansas house of representa-
tives during the Populist regime.
Writes Kansas History.
The past few years he has engaged
in collecting and arranging material
for book detailing his experiences and
the early history of the settlement Of
western Kansas from the days of the
Indian, the buffalo and cowboy down to
and including the Indian raid of 1878.
His work was Yearly completed and
ready for printing. Last fall and VIM
ter he lectured in western Kansas and
had arranged to open his fall lectur IS
in washington, Kan.
Mrs Street was absent IN Indiana
and did not reach home until after her
husbands death Mrs. Street when L
girl was captured by the Indians and
held several weeks until rescued. the
family consists of a daughter and four
sons, one of whom is a lawyer in Den
yer. Mr.. Streets sisters Mrs W. 4.
Groom and Mrs. 0. W. Cook, of Wash
ington, Kan, reached Ober1in before he
died Mr. Streets last public appear
ance was September 80 at the unwilling
of a monument erected by the state and
Decatur county to the memory of the
40 settlers who were massacred by the
Dull Knife band of Indians in 1878.
Have you seen Goldberg or Mutt and
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Chicago Produce Market.

& Chicago, Oct. 17.-BUTTER-Cream
23029c; dairies, 21M26c.
EGGS-Market steady. Receipts b,OO6
cases; at mark, cases included, 1591Sc;
firsts, gle; prime firsts, 22c-
CHEESE@Market steady Daisies. 14a
1414c; Twins, 131z413szc; Young Americas,
IN 01412c; Long Horns, 14lzQ1415c-
POTATOES-Market firm. Choice to
fancy, 55Q60c; fair to good, 50G5Sc.
POULTRY-Marlxet easy. Turkeys, l5c;
chickens, &c; springs, 1015c.
VEAL-Market steady. so to 90 h. WITS.
Sq9c; 90 to IS h. WITS, 91zd1Oc; So to ITO
Id. WITS, lie.
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Kansas City, oct. 17-CATTLE-Recei
10000, including 1000 southerns. Market
steady. Native steers, $50098.35; southern
steers, S4.O0Q5.25; southern cows and heif-
ers 81 75G5. rs; bulls, S. 2514.40 calves, $45
Oils: western steers, $4.OO97.5O; western
COWS, 81 75d4.75-
HOGS-Receipts 10000 Market steady
packers and butchers, $6.20Q6-50; lights,
Sc. loot. As; pigs, $42545.50.
SHEEP-Receipts Is, 900. Market steady
Muttons S3O0G475; lambs, s4-2Q5-50;
range wethers and yearlings, $3.2594.50;
range ewes. $2.50@3.75.
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RETRIBUTION IS QUICK,
Indians Who Murdered Light House
Keeper Found Dead.

Winnipeg, Oct. 1.-THE finding of
the body Of Robert Forbes, an aged
light house keeper at Pie island, Is
miles from Fort William, Ontario, led
the police to suspect Nose McCon,
chief of a Squaw band located north
of Thunder bay, and Fred Smith. an
other Indian as being the murderers.
A search for the Indians resulted In
finding their bodies in cabin on
Squaw bay, near Pie island. They
had died from wood alcohol poison
ing. The alcohol it is believed was
taken from the light house. where it
was kept to clean the lamp.
See second and third pages of State
Journal this evening and every evening
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RYEZ94d95c
HAY-NfarI1et steady. Choice timmothy,
$500; choice prairie. $12.50913.00
E BUTTER-Creamery, CSC; firsts, 26c;
seconds, 24c; packing stock, 19c-
EGGS-Extras, 23c; firsts, 211kc; seconds,
1870.
WHEAT-Receipts, 40 cars.
CLOSE: WHEAT-December, $1.O0ss;
May, $104; July, 96ssc-
CORN-December, 617sc; May, 6s7sc;
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Il FINISHED by the Chas. Woln Pacisfns
Co. yards close at noon Saturday. we
cannot use pigs. thin HoWa or No..
weighing less than ITO lbs. Do NOT MAJ
ket hogs unless same are well ffnished
as we cannot use half fat stun we a-i,S-
below prices elective at once. until filr-
Their notlcel ~
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ROBINSON STARTS.
Leaves Minneapolis in Hydropiane for
New Orleans.

Minneapolis, Oct. 17.-Aviator Hugh
Robinson started on his Minneapolis
to New Orleans flight at 9:12 today.
The weather was ideal for the trip.
He arose in his hydroplane from
Lake Calhoun to about 1000 feet and
headed east over Lake street to the
river. He viii follow the river to New
Orleans.
st. Paul, Oct. 17.-Going at an esti-
mated speed of a mile a minute Avia-
tor Robinson came down the river to
St Paul and passed over the Robert
street bridge at 1922 a. m. His air
craft was sailing steadily. At Robert
street the aviator turned sharply to
the right, making a short cut over
land southwark. He was visible for
only few minutes and soon disap-
peared- 1t is understood that his first
stop viii be at Red Wing, MINI.
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st. Joe, Oct. Receipts 800.
Market steady to strong. Steers, $4,000
s.. 5Od7.75.
HOGS-Receipts 1900 Market SC lower.
Top, $6.45; bulk of sales, $6.30Q6.40.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 Market lower
Lambs. S5.006600-
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STEERS.

stufr-)
II you win favor us with your ira,,,.
advising number OF head. quniifv ~. ~
and length OF time on feed. we Will ,s &c
you an ofrer or arrange Tor our h, a,ake
BUTTER AND EGGS
FURNISHED by The Continental cre.u.-.
Co. Topeka. KanI
CHICAGO EGGs-21c.
N Y. EGG32Sd25c.
CREAMERY BCTTER-Chicago. 2sc:
N. Y, soc; Elgin, 25c.
Wholesale Fruit and Produce ne.-,...
furnished by sam'l (. Lux. cora5 1asrkst
BARRELED APPLEs-Jonatb.
bbI, s4.5o: Grimes Golden. per stands,b5e 5 !
BOX APPLEs-shacIsiefor D.r -.
1.25; Jonathan. Der box. $50. ooN'
WINTER APPLES = Winesans
standard 3 bu Dbl. s4.25; Ben Bav,. Der
standard bu. Dbl, ss.75. per
BANANAS Medium sized buncbe. -
bunch. $2-5OGs-5o; Port Limon. per Per Pc
SIC. ~
cRA oSI5I. 7 3 2 Dbl. 500; per Dbl
Per crate. 800. rs
MICHIGAN GRAPEs-Per bssi... q,
NEW YORK. GRAPES-Per ba.lte,. &c.
to 50 basket lots. 20c per crate. "a ~ =.
crate lots, zoe: ~ iV'
TRAIL. LEMONS-Per crate e. b. %.
VALENCIA oRANGEs-Per crate is 81 q
CoIORADO PEAcHEs-Per bo,- 49,.
rer box in 5 box lots. SOC. 'N' fLo0;
KIEFFER PEARs-Per crate. SIZE
ITALIAN PRUNES-Per crate go;
KAW VALLEY BEANS-Per 6t. .o.
basket, 75c.
HOLLAND CABBAGE-Per In ~,
CARROTS-Per bu.. S1.O0 -'ac'
COLO. CELERY-Jumbo per b,,roh o.
FCsG PLANT-Per doz.. 60 to ~ rSH eVc
GAIA ONIONS-Per bu. 81 Ok
sTOMATOES-Pe 20-Ib CIima~ -.
HOME GROWN SWEET PorArors
per evV III SET zPOTATOEs-Per busb., go.
Per bu. in 10 Blu. lots 800 fAVO'
Jaw VALLEY POTATOES-Po ~,
TIC; wisconsin Rurals per bu. sack 81 e.
TURN1Ps-Per bu.. s1oo. "u'' "'lo.
TTO~rT-v Per case S3.75.
FIGs-Per box, Sc.
CHTrSt'-L. II. cheese. per IN 7e1l,.
wis yellow. 30 lbs, per b.. 1sikc. w. W..
WHITE 80 lbs, per ID, 165kc: Ney, ,1- ~
T2ricl, per h., 16ikc: Wis. Block ST. ~ =
lbs, per h.. 1e1Ac; Ldmburger. per IN %
16Ikc. ''''
box lots per box. 15c- Nv
BASKETS-Dia- D. H, pecISs. DER doz
4Oc Dia d. H.. "A bu.. per doz.. 40e. ma
o. H. Il bu., per doz., 40c; Ola q II 1r
bu., per doz. 4oc; Dia. o. H.. rs bu- per
GRAPE BASKETS-s-lb baskets oo.A
Deductions on bury wool from So - e.
stock proportionately lower AnTorsS I've
hair - months, 14Q12c; CONNER, h, .lo-
and defective at half price.
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Kansas CITY Produce Market.

Kansas City, Oct. Observation-Disclosures
unchanged. No. 2 hard, $1.01GD1.O9; No. 3.
1.OOQ1O7; No red, $1.oO1zd1. 011z; No. g.,
98cQ$1.O0.
CORN-Market unchanged. No. mix
ed, 701z@1c; No. 3. 7015@70s4c; No. white,
73c; No 8, 721zc.
oATs-MarEet unchanged. No. white.
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New York sugar and CoTee Market.

New York, Oct. 17.-SUGAR-Raw. nom
inaI: Muscovado 80 test S5.45; centrifugal,
Sc test, s5.s5; molasses, SO test, $500; re-
fined, steady. -
COFFEE-Spot, firm; No. Rio, l5Aq
157kc; No. 4 Santos, 1870.
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Chicago, Oct. T.-CATTIE-Recei pts
estimated at 5000. Market steady. Beeves,
81. S0@855; Texas steers, $41046.15; western
steers s4.25q7.2O: stockers and feeders,
49, 20d575; cows and heifers, $200q6.20;
calves, $5.50Q925-
HOGS-Receipts estimated at 24,00O-
Market steady. Light, $5-95Q6.75; mixed,
Sc rs; heavy. $6.0546.75; rough, $6.050
625: good to choice heavy, $62546.75 pigs,
S.. 506590; bulk of sales, $6.3546.65-
SHEFP-Receipts estimated at AZ, 600.
Market weak. Native, 81 2544.00; western,
81. 501400; yearlings. $S.1Oa4 50; lambs, ma
tive. S4O0d5.S0; western, $4.0096.00-
DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE
WHEAT-Receipts, $4,000 bushels; ship
ments, 50, 100 bushels
CORN-Receipts, $4,000 bushels; ship
nents 49, 300 bushels
Car lot receipts: Wheat 100 cars, with
"a Of contract grade; corn 456 cars, with
10e of contract grade; oats, 2Ss cars
Total receipts Of wheat at Chicago, Min
neapolis and Duluth today were 928 cars,
compared with S56 cars last week and 637
cars the corresponding day a year ago.
Kansas City Live stock Sales
.tThe following sales were made this
morning at the Stock ards. Kansas
Cfty,-and reported over long distances
telephone direct to the State Journal ~
Clay, Robinson s. Co, 1--we stock commits
sion merchants with offices At all mar
kets-l
Kansas City. Oct. observation-disclosures
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z'g 4So head Market steady to strong.
bestS ns- rsseecipts 1900 head Market
$6.O0Q645; top, $3.50 iN OA sAiea'
slow. Top lambs. $40.
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CHILD DRAGGED TO DEATH.
Ten-Year-OId Boy Falls Under Now
ing Machine.

Grfdley. Kan, Oct. 17.=George Isch.
aged ten years, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Sam Isch, living northwest of town,
was killed when a team attached to a
moving machine ran away He fell
between the wheels and sickle bar and
was dragged about half a mile.
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EREFN CURED TTTDFS = NO.
s.. short haired, No. ], 12o: No q ~.
S5da brands, over 40 fiat. No. i ioc. So.
brands. under 20 flat, No. !, &c: Run. 49, 49,
stags, fiat. no. /, 91zc; Bulls. side l5randl
al MAT No. l. &c. Green Balred si,,-
nat. &C; Green salt cured deasons. 49,
500 Csc :SkuniSs. each 25a15c. Green rro@c-.
hide are No 2 Green incurred hides ~
less than same grade cured. Green bsi5
cured a less than cilred- Horse hides green
zorse hides 30 2 ssooa2 So cree, o9 ns,
$40; dry. according to wool. per ~. -
-55ka4c.
REFS NAX-15d25c.
DRY HIDES - Dry flint but~ha-~
heavy, lie; dry flint. fallen heavv ros.
dry hint light, under rs lbs Ice. 49,
flint. culls 1ocs dry salt. heavy ~ ms
and up. 13cs dry salt. light under Is iba-
WOOL QUOTATIONS.
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma
Bright medium. l54l3c: dark medium. ~
Colorado. New Mexico and Texas +
Light medium. 154l3c; light fine. Ho1cs
heavy fine, 1241oc.
Topeka Grain Market.
FURNISHED by J. B. Billiard. corner ISaa.-
sas ave- and Curtis Btl
Topeka. Kan. Oct. II.
KAFFIR CORN-Per cwt-, $l-2541-s0
+WHEAT-S8@93c.
OATs-40sf45c-
CORN
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could have so timed his fuses as to
destroy any train he wished
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FURNISHED by J. 3. Billiard. corner Kaa.-
sas ave. and Curtis stl
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See second and third pages Of State
Journal this evening and every evening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-17
TopeIsa Hoe Mark,


Quotations Furnished by James c. sr,,,.
Hide Co.. los East Third 81 S-'14tA
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Topeka, Kan. oct. H.

MIXED AND BUTCHERS. IS. aoa,e n
HEAVY -.------.-------.--.---... s. Done n
LIGHT .........--...-..-.......... x 49, ~
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KAFFIR coRN-Per cwt-. sl.25ai,s 80
WHEA T-S8G93c.
OATS-40GI45c-
CORN
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Have YOU seen Goldberg or Mutt and
laugh.
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Kansas city. Oct. 7-CATTL.E-Receipts
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
SAY ONE MAN STANDS IN
WAY OF THE UNIFlCATlON
Committee Submits Very Favorable
Report to the Reclamation
Service.

The committee of five Montrose
men, s. A. Sprague, C. A. Block,
/. n. Pepper and G. l.. Price, ap-
pointed to use their best efforts to-
ward bringing about complete uni
fication of the ditch system has
made report as follows:
Your committee of five appoint-
ed some time since, to assist in the
unification of certain bitches, beg
leave to submit the following re-
port: We have secured signatures
of more than 1900 shares out OF
a total of 500 of the stockholders
of the Chipeta ditch. and are ready
to turn the contract over to Mr.
Pease.
After repeated visits to Olathe
and vicinity, We We're assured that
a sufficient number of stockholders
in the Ironstone ditch had been or
could be secured to warrant the
transfer of that system to the gov
ernment When our committee went
down to get the signatures we
found that the transfer was BLOCK
ed by the action of one or two
stockholders. We reported the facts
verbally to the authorities and we
presume this report was made to
Secretary Fisher at Grand Junction.
He evidently thought it unfair that
"a very small per centage OF the
people interested should block or
retard the projects completion He
ordered the work to be resumed,
saying in effect that his department
would deal with the lronstone
company when their territory was
reached.
we beg leave therefore to sub
nit to the public that decision
has been secured which guarantees
the completion of the project with
in a reasonable time. and the eX-
penditure of the 81 100000 allot-
ted to ii out of the twenty million
bond issue authorized by congress.
Your committee has incurred ex-
penses in this work totalling some
thing over 5000, which the business
men OF Montrose have guaranteed.
We may have to call upon them to
pay the amount of this guarantee,
namely, s5 each, but suggest, in
view of the results obtained, that
the amount will be well invested.
All Montrose and vicinity must be
vastly benefited by knowing just
where we stand. as well as having
this immense amount of cash eX-
pended near us.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
Play Joke on Eloping Couple.

Everett Mann and Mildred Gra-
ham, both of an age to marry of
their own free will and right, board
ed train at Grand Junction Sat
urday for Montrose, on a special
visit to Cupid.
Conductor Gallagher hunted them
up and notified them that the sher-
iff had been warned to look out
for an eloping couple from Grand
junction at Delta.
Mann owned up and asked the
conductor to help him out in some
way. Gallagher told him that the
safest way would be TO leave the
lady alone in the car and allow
himself to be locked in the toilet
until they had passed Delta. This
he agreed to do and it is claimed
that he was not let out until the
train was near Montrose.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
Spanish American War Veteran
Visits Delta-For1ncr Resident,

Fred McCullah. veteran of the
Spanish-American war and one of
those who helped to rush San Juan
hill. is in Delta, accompanied by
his wife. visiting relatives and old
friends.
Mr.. McCullah was resident of
Delta twenty years ago and served
as deputy postmaster when w. O.
stephens was postmaster. He is
at present assistant postmaster at
Long Beach. California.
Along with fighting Spaniards
over the wreck of the Maine, MIR.
McCullah had hard tussle with
yellow fever. which came nearer
getting his goat than any Spaniard
did. When he came to Delta after
ward he was little more than a
physical wreck. He seems to have
overcome this now. however, as is
dupois. McCullah married n niece
of |. ID. Johnson, of North Delta,
Indicated by his 2440 pounds aver
who with her husband is mutually
enjoying their visit.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
Leung Chang Touched for
S2I. Last sunday Night.

Sunday night of this week. about
10 p. m. two Mexicans, a. NJ.
Blair and Tony Madrigal, entered
Leung Chang's establishment near
the depot and asked if they could
get a bed and while the Oriental
was showing Madrigal the Bed, Blair
proceeded to rob the money drawer
of s2l and made his getaway.
Both were arrested and SIS of
the money was found on Blair and
he was charged by Justice Coombe.
in whose court the case was tried,
Monday morning. with theft. The
hearing was continued on Tuesday
and Blair confessed his guilt but
sQuealed on his partner and said
that Mr.. Madrigal was implicated in
the crime and that that gentleman
had Sc or 81 cached somewhere in
a handkerchief. Tony was then ar
rested and both bound over to the
District court and committed to jail
in default of bail.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
North Delta Territory
Has Been Greatly Enlarged.

Several miles of productive fields
have taken the place of sage brush
waste within the past two years
on the North Delta side of the Gun
nison river. This has been made
possible by the increased water
supply of the North Delta canal.
Where there were only winding
trails three years ago, there are
now fenced lanes and graded roads,
with thrifty farms on either side.
A. ]. Smith, who owns one of
these new, rich farms, told the In
dependent scribe this week of his
good wheat yield, and added; i am
also just grading out three car
loads of potatoes which l will ship
10 Colorado Springs"
Along this stretch of newly pro
ducing land are hundreds of acres
of sugar beets. which look well for
first crop.
Good ditch building is one of
the best of our progressive improve
ments. for. thereby new acres are
added to the producing area, which
means very much to our general
growth and success.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
Sugar Beet and Factory Outlook

Grand Junction, Sept. "A careful
estimate made by Manager Fred G.
Holmes and special committee
from the Western Sugar and Land
company, indicates that the sugar
will grind between 5000 and 65,-
600 tons of sugar beets.
This will net the growers of
the Western Slope, at the lowest
possible estimate, more than $780,
900 and the payment to the ranch
ers may run even higher than that
amount, because of the premium
paid by the factory for beets run
ming an extra amount in sugar con-
tent.
For long time early in the sea-
factory here might not be opened
because of the small acreage of
beets, since the ranchers had gone
into raising fruit. An extensive
campaign, however, not only assured
the opening of the factory, but also
the largest crop in. its history.
The Grand junction plant is sup
piled with beets from Delta. Mont
rose and Mesa counties, as well as
from some land in Eastern Utah.
If conditions develop as expected
however. the Shoup-Davie interests
which control the local factory, will
next season erect a plant at Delta
to take care of the immense acre
age in that county and Montrose.
This years crop of beets is look
ing unusually fine, according to
the experts who recently visited the
beet fields all over the valley. AS
yet. all the work OF thinning, eN-
cept in a few cases, has been done
by whites. which is one of the chife
objections of beet culture. but in
the future it is probable that Japan
ese will be secured to take care of
the more arduous labor connected
with beet growing, so that this OBJ
stacle in the way of obtaining acre
age will be removed.
The growers this year are work
ing under a sliding scale, with a
minimum of s5 ton. The average
output per acre is seventeen tons
of sugar beets, but many of the
ranchers produce as high as
twenty-five tons TO the acre.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
FRUIT SHIPMENTS HAVE
STARTED WITH BIG RUSH
Carloads OF Peaches Run 30 to 60
Day-Heavy Express Ship
ments Delay Trains.

The peach season is now at its
height on Elbertas and about fifty
carloads a day are going out from
the North Fork part of the county,
while several cars a day are being
loaded along Surface Creek points.
At Cedaredge and the upper part of
Surface Creek the packing is not
yet fully under way
Express shipments of peaches,
prunes and cantaloupes are being
made by the hundreds of crates
daily, making almost every train
more or less late. Yesterday five
hundred crates of prunes were un-
oladed on the platform at the Delta
County Fruit Growers association
building from one orchard
So far about two hundred car
loads of potatoes have been ship
ped from Delta, of the early variety,
and the crop is still being harvested
The price here now is S1.35 per
hundred. The first few weeks of
shipments brought s1.75.
Fall apples are beginning to
ship in carload lots. The harvest
of the winter varieties, which COM
prise the bulk of the Delta county
crop, will not begin actively for
another month. There will be from
200 to 1900 carloads of the win
ter apples from the county.
Garnet mesa growers loaded out
a carload OF cantaloupes yesterday
and others will follow from the val
ley and mesa fields. Very heavy
crate shipments have been going
out every day for more than week
Oy express.
The rush season, now on, with
fruit alone will last until cold wealth
er. Additional hands are coming in
every day to help take care OF the
crops.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08

The Delta Fair Association eN-
tended an invitation to Mayor Rob't
w. Speer of Denver, to be present
on Thursday, September 14th, and
deliver an address at the fair.
The Mayor, by telegram. has ac-
cepted the invitation and will be
at the fair on the above date.
The president of the association
has appointed the following commit
tee on reception:
T. X. Seaton, chairman; George
stephan. c. II. Stewart, Porter Plum
b. =. Smith, C. ]. Lippert. A. K.
King, Geo. Bruce. J. +. Hillman,
j. c. Murphy. DR.. A. II. Stockham,
Geo. Duke, Hotchkiss; II. f. Fer
guson. Eckert; II. +. Maxville' Pao-
MIA Il. +. Hubbard, Cory.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-08
DELTA ELKS ROYALTY EN-
TERTAIN GRAND OFFICER
District Deputy Grand Exalted Ru-
Ter W. w. Rowan Present
Wednesday Night.

The meeting Wednesday night of
Delta Lodge No. 1885, B.. P. o. E.,
was one of the most enthusiastic
in the history of the baby lodge,
the attendance being very large.
This was due in part to the general
interest, while the presence Of
Grand Exalted Ruler Rowan, who
Game in response to an invitation
helped to swell the ranks on this
particular occasion.
The business session of the lodge
was a most satisfactory one, their
being seven applications for mem
bership. Some good degree work
was also put on. DIR. Rowan de-
livered an instructive lecture and
praised the lodge for its material
and progress.
AT the close of the lodge session
the members of the lodge marched
in body headed by DR.. Rowan and
the officers of No. 1885, to the ban
quet ha1l in Odd Fellows building,
where an elaborate spread of fruits,
meats and coffee was served.
At the close of this repast, Ex-
alted Ruler Geo. H. Duke of Delta
Lodge, in a neatly worded speech,
presented TO DIR. Rowan. on behalf
of the mem bers of Delta Lodge No.
1255, a beautiful gold watch. hand
somely engraved with date of pres
entati0n, lodge number and reci-
pient S name. DR.. Rowan was deep
ly effected by the testimony of es-
teen from the members OF his baby
lodge of EIks and showed emotion
in the wording and manner of his
acceptance in which he thanked the
donors. saying he would cherish
their gift as long as life should
last.
Both the lodge meeting and ban
quet were of the most pleasant char
acter possible.