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The Delta independent., 1914-03-13

with the abundance and purity of its
domestic water supply will receive
prior considerations, in accordance
with the general policy of the govern
ment in all cases of public necessity.
All campers, travellers cnd other per-
sons entering upon the area will be
required to be doubly cautious in the
observance of hygienic ard protective
measures.
Trinidad is said to have an abund-
ant supply of exceptionally pure wat
er, due largely to previous applica-
tion of modern methods of protection
and sanitation. The greater portion
OF the water comes from the north
fork of the Purgatoire river. arising
within the National Forest boundary
and is conducted about a mile to stor-
age in North lake by pipe line. From
this reservoir it is released as re-
quired and carried to the city limits
through a conduit approximately 40
miles lcng. The cooperative agree
ment with the government is but one
important step in the plans laid by
the city for still further improvement
OF Us present water supply SIS EN-.
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
GOVERNMENT PROTECTS
SOURCE WATER SUPPLY

Announcement is made that the
secretary of agriculture has formally
executed the cooperative watershed
protective agreement between his de-
partment and the city of Trinidad, re-
Gently negotiated by Mayor Dunlavy
on behalf of that municipality. The
agreement, which becomes effective
Immediately, has as its object the
preservation and protection of the
city's domestic water supply, which
is derived from the headwaters of the
north fork of the Purgatoire river in
the San Isabel National Forest.
The area involved covers about 10.
900 acres and the manner of protec-
ton afforded by the government will
consist of regulated grazing. intensive
fire patrol and a strict enforcement
OF the departments sanitary regula-
tions. 1t is pointed out that. while
the agreement does not restrict the
conservative use Of the natural re
sources OF the watershed by local res
idents. the city's needs in connection
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13

the house, in most cases the wife. to
get splendid meal.
Then as soon as it is ready, she
goes out and yells and John and the
children run in and gobble up every
thing in sight. After they have fill
ed themselves the wife, often hold
ing a baby in her arms. sits down to
the scraps.
Now. that is all wrong Why, even
pigs are social enough to grunt at
each other when they line up at the
trough for a meal. Surely people
ought to be able to pass a friendly
word, especially when they are man
and wife and have their own child
ren TO sit down with. The woman of
every farm ought to sit down with the
family. and if she had TO held baby
then her husband ought to run to the
stove and help move the dishes
about.
Ny idea is that every woman
ought to know how 10 run her nus
bands farm. so that if he died and
she is left with the children to bring
up she can do it. Generolly she has to
sell out to a land shark and go to
some city where nearly everybody in
the family almost starves."
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
Warranty Deeds

Revised by the Grand Mesa Abs
tract Co. Delta Colo. Week ending
March 8, 1914.
Susan J. Winton ct al. to winton
Coal Co. tract Coalby, s50,0oO.
J. A Bacon to J. NJ. Conner, lots
Cedaredge, 81.
Lula E Gilmer ct al to Robt.
cooper. tract Austin. 81.
Clarence A Smith to Walter H.
smith. tract Cedaredge and lots Delta,
81.
w. r. Torbert to W. c. Williams,
tract Hotchkiss. 81.
Della c. Venard TO John c. Jones.
tract Paonia, 81
Anson NJ Boggs to Chas. w Rine-
hart, tract Coalby, 81.
o. ]. McReynolds 10 Cora d. Nc
Reynolds, tract Cedaredge. 81.
w f Shinaman to Minnie L, Nc
Cormick. lots Cedaredge, 81.
Jennie Bagley to Mary E. Hickman,
tract Delta, 81.
Alexander W. Morrow 10 Carrie F.
Foster, tract Crawford, 81.
Fred c. Hager to Frederick Rine-
hart ct al, tract Paonia, 81.
Alma Huiser TO Ira c. Foster, lots
Crawford, 81.
Mary A. Gabler 10 c. C. Hawkins.
lots Paonia, 81,
Lothar Hartig TO Antoinette Nc
ann .ract Malta SS 400
Frank Allen to Sophia Allen, tract
Hotchkiss, sS.5O0
George w Hibbs to Osborn f.
Ruble. tract Welcome. 81.
VIM. h Burnett TO T. A Burnett,
tract Delta, s1.700.
Mary c. Carson TO wm. II. Burnett,
tract Delta, $4,000.
Anna Phenice to George Deter,
tract Delta. 81.
G. II. Doughty ct ri. TO George F.
Rock. lots Delta. 81, %
VIM. N. Parker to VIM. S. Shoup,
tract Coalby, 81,
Edward p BARROW TO w. G. Cook,
lot Hotchkiss, 5000.
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
EUGENIcs LOWERS STANDARD
DECLARES BERKELEY PROF

Branding eugenics as the greatest
snare of modern thought" Prof. A. L.
Krebler, of the anthropology depart
ment of the University of California
declared in lecture a few days ago
that the movement was a joke
THE American press and public
treat 1t as SUCH" he said.
According to Prof Kroeber "indi-
vidual endeavor and high national
ideals are the only things that VIII
make better human beings"
'.Heredity." continued the professor,
lis the most misunderstood subject
under discussion today. Ninety-nine
percent of what is commonly attribu-
ted TO heredity has nothing whatever
to do with it and is merely matter
of individual or national environ
ment
Scientists have run riot with the
idea until they fail to distinguish be-
tween heredity. which comes from
the inside, and Inheritance. which
like fortune, comes from the out
side
Civilization is an Inheritance pure
and simple. not caused in the slight
est degree by heredity. Civilization
has progressed, but man has stood
still and probably will always remain
the same.
Alfred Russell Wallace was entire
ly right when he said that, in spite
of the enormous advances of civiliza-
tion, human intelligence and capacity
have not increased in thousands of
years.
The cave mcn of the ice age pos
sessed the same mental capacities
as the Anglo-Saxon of today. and un-
til this fact is recognized all history
will continue to be misunderstood.
so far as civilization is concerned,
there is no such thing as an Anglo
Saxon breed or q white mans burden
! ~Kipling-though his newspaper
training has made him an effective
poet and his idiosyncrasies a great
lone-has fundamentally false ideas OF
national psychology. He does not
know what a race is or what civiliza-
tion means.
Even Galton. founder Of the eugen'
ic movement. and an eminent scient
| ist, was deludcd through overlooking
the influence CT civilization on man.
"Eugenics appeals TO men who are
morally long-aaired and to the women
who are intellectually short-haired.
1T is easier to talk of breeding i'm
proved human beings than to begin
| by improving ones self and training
ones children better. The future OF
the human race can be enhanced only
through character building by individ
uals and courageous adherence to
ideals by nations
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
Making A River Work

From With Men Who Do Things"
by a. Russell Bond in the Febru-
AIRY St Nicholas.
1t isn't the tide they fear so much
as the Chagres river. You have no
idea how it rains here during the
rainy season. Why, I've seen that
river rise % feet in night. There
would be no keeping such flood
out OF the canal if it We're cut down
TO sea level. So. instead OF trying
TO keep the river out. the engineers
decided to let it in and make use of
It. only turning it into the lake in
stead. so that it can be kept under
control. Accordingly. they have dam
med up the whole Chagres valley at
Ia place where IT Is about a mile and
2 half wide. and the reason they
picked out thar place was because
the-= is a knob of rock in the middle
OF rhe valley where they could put
the spiuway or overflow. and another
mass of rock at one side to support
the locks"
But" I protested do you mean
to tell US that the big dam is not
founded on rock?"
1t isn't like any dam you ever saw.
Why. it's a hill OF dirt half a mile
thick at the base and tapering TO a
hundred feet at the top. And the
funny part of it is that they built that
dam with water!"
With water!" / exclaimed.
Yes; muddy water. First they
dumped g lot OF rock across the val
lev 10 make two walls half mile
apart. Then dredges sucked up mud
from the sea and pumped it up long
pipe line to the dam, where it pour
ed ont in a muddy stream between
two walls The fine mud settled to
the bottom and in time filled the
space between the walls. while the
water flowed over them or trickled
out between the stones. or was sucked
up by the torrid sun. In that way a
plug or core of clay was built across
the valley, and on it earth was piled
and more mud was pumped in. until
at last the top rose los feet above sea
level"
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
FARMERS WIVES SHOULD
KNOW MORE ABOUT FARMS
lPhiladelphia North Americanl

philadelphia North American)
Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke, OF West
Chester, the only woman on the board
of state farm advisers, surprised the
farmers wives at the farmers insti-
tute She told them they were not
on their job.
ANY woman on farm" she said,
he it wife. mother. sister or house
keeper. ought 10 know all the bust
ness that is going on about the farm
And let me tell you why they don
know, in most cases, anything that is
going on about the farm. And let me
tell you why they don't know, in mos,
cases anything that is going on.
In my visits to the homes of farm
ers. / have found that in nine cases
out of ten. the front door is locked
and the woman is somewhere in the
back of the house puttering around
a dingy kitchen.
When | knock at the front door,
she peeks out ct me and when ] ask
where her husband is she slams the
door in my face,
"As soon as run up against that
kind of C. situation. as it is my most
woman isn't on her job. also know
that she doesn't trust her husband
/ know this because can see there
is no confidence between them. The
woman doesn't know anything about
what her husband is doing and the
husband doesn't seem to expect that
she will.
When | have asked these farmers
wives how they get 10 certain places
on the farm, they can't tell me.
They can't even tell me where their
husband is. Very often have to turn
to little boy and ask him where his
pop is. He generally knows because
he has more sense than his mother,
The first thing the farmers wives
OF Pennsylvania should do is to move
from the back of the house to the
front. They want to open the front
door and let the automobilists who
fly by see that they are up and about
and not buried somewhere in the
woodshed.
why. know plenty of farmers
families who never think of opening
the front door except when there is
a funeral. They seem to think the
only thing that ought to pass through
the front door is a corpse.
'1f there is one place where the
family of a farmer ought to get to
gether it's at the table for meals,
Yet the practice among farm people
! in Pennsylvania is for the woman OF
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
Pediereed Seed Potatoes

Rural New Yorker pedigreed seed
potatoes. l will deliver by parcel post
inside the second zone. fifty pounds
for $3.50. cash with order. Reference
NJ. and NJ. Bank or any business house
in Ouray, Colorado.
Fairview Gardens. ouray. Colo.
Edwin Rewalt If.
The Delta independent., 1914-03-13
DOUBLE FARM HARNESS

DOUBLE FARM HARNESS
the dependable kind that wears well
and looks we'll.
1T Is THE HARNESS TO BUT
1t is the harness to sell.
1t is faithfully made from good
material. and plenty large to fit
horses from 1900 to l.400 pounds,
Our prices are reasonable, but rem
ember Il 1t quality. and not prices.
is the ,al standard of harness
value. Our harness have quality.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
BUSINESS men TO
LABOR ON FARMS
Eastern Harvest Hands Desert
Jobs in Kansas Because
of Extreme Heat.

Hoxie, Kan, June 2S.-Hoxie is al
most a deserted village. The men
have gone to the wheat fields. The
rush started today, when a delegation
of farmers came to town lamenting the
fact that harvest hands imported from
the east had quit their jobs because of
the heat.
1--WE have got to have help quick, "
declared the leader of the delegation
at a meeting of business men called to
discuss the situation.
A half hour after the gathering dis
persed the town BARRIERS posted signs
on their doors reading: "Shaves and
hair cuts Saturdays only"
The doors of the court house were
locked and every county official don
ned old clothes, merchants turned their
stores over 10 young women clerks.
lawyers forgot their fees, the editor
placed his wife in charge OF the shop"
then the army of business men took TO
tho fields.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
MAY Get PETRAS
JURY THIS WEEK
Alleged Murderer and Wife Ex-
change Smiles Before a
Crowded Court Room.

Geneva, Ill. June 23.-Tony Petras,
on trial for the murder of his former
fiancee, Theresa Hollander, dubbed
to death in an Aurora cemetery, said
today he liked the looks" of the 100
men summoned as a special jury pan
el, and attorneys began to hope the
jury might be obtained by the end OF
the week, although no juror has yet
been accepted.
Petras had his girlish wife at his
side in the court room. They laughed
and smiled at each other. as though
he had not a care in the world. The
court room was packed.
Bailiff Gary, who yesterday succeed
ed Henry Young, today gave way to
Warren Andrus. Gary said he had
too much other work in the sheriff's
office. Young was objected TO yester-
day by the prosecution.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
MISSION HAS
TO FIX BENEFITS
Commerce Body to Determine
Rate Reductions Incident
to Opening of Canal.

Washington, D. c., June 23.-That
distribution throughout the country
of the benefits of the Panama canal
will gest with the interstate COM
merce commission, and not with the
transcontinental railroads, is one of
the conclusions being drawn today
from the supreme courts decision on
the intermountain rate case. 1t has
been generally claimed the Panama
canal would reduce freight rates from
the Atlantic seaboard to Pacific coast
cities, and vice versa, but questions
as TO what extent the railroads might
allow interior points to snare in the
benefits of water competition enjoyed
by seaboard cities were in dispute.
The court decided the commission will
answer those problems.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
MAKING SUMMER
RESORTS SECURE.
State Board of Health Starts a
Sanitary Survey of I'LL
nois Outing Spots.

Springfield, ILL.,, June 23.-There is
an abundance of evidence on file in
many health offices throughout the
country substantiating the charge that
summer resorts are common sources
of typhoid fever infections. For in
stance, last year following the two
month summer vacation period, the
Chicago health authorities after care
full investigation of every case of ty-
phoid fever reported in that city, found
that 40 per cent of the September ty-
phoid fever cases were extra-urban
infections, the evidence in many cases
pointing clearly to summering places
as sources OF the trouble. Many other
cities have voiced similar charges.
1t stands to reason that places with
out practically any sanitary supervi-
sion are bound to be sources of dan
ger to those who assemble there, even
for a brief time. Polluted water sup
plies, uninspected milk and food sup
plies, antiquated and neglected toilet
facilities, improper methods of garbage
disposal and, as often is the case, dis
charging of sewage into the source of
water supply, are the grosser evils
which in whole or in part may be
found to prevail at most any summer
resort.
These are conditions which call for
correction; the hundreds of
Of visitors at Illinois resorts
yearly must be safeguarded.
The Illinois state board of health,
with the approval of Governor Dunno.
proposes to see that they are correct
ed and for that purpose inspectors have
already begun a sanitary survey Of
the resorts in this state. Adjoining
states have previously done little in
this line.
Reasonable time is, of course, to be
given public resort owners to make
the corrections ordered. On failure
10 comply with the orders issued. with
N the allowed time, steps will be taken
10 enforce them and the facts of the
resorts sanitary status then
will be given to the public.
1t is expected that the work of in
;pection will be completed in July. A
'einspection in August is contemplat-
ID.
So far as possible, large public pic
tic groves also will be included in this
sanitary survey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
CARESSES LIONS
DEVOURINGL
Miss Adgie Castillo Will Not
Kill Jungle Beasts That
Ate Her Fiance.

Chicago, Ill, June 23.-Cy De Vry,
keeper of beasts at Lincoln park zoo,
attended an inquest yesterday to pay
tribute to an undertaken.
The animal keeper sat through the
session at 502 South Dearborn street
and heard the evidence on which a
coroner's jury brought in a verdict of
accidental death for Emerson D. Die
trich, killed and half devoured by
vaudeville lions the day before.
The testimony was completed and
the inquest all but closed when De
Vry arose and announced to Coroner
Peter NJ. Hoffman he had a speech to
make.
II want to say word for L. c. Ball,
the undertaken said De Vry. He
showed rare Judgment in suggesting
the use of formaldehyde when the lions
were tearing at the unfortunate mans
body.
In all my years of experience 1 had
never thought of, or heard of. the use
Of formaldehyde to control wild ami
mails 1t is an important discovery,
and one likely TO be valuable at any
time. You never can tell what will
happen in the animal business"
Miss Adgie Castillo, the performer
and lion tanner, was at peace with the
brutes which made a meal of her
fance. She saw Trilby, the mother
lion, and the five murderer cubs take
their daily feeding of raw beef. Then
she went into the cage in the box car
at Sixteenth and Clark streets to car
ess and kiss the lions. She insisted
Teddy, the aggressor in the killing of
Dietrich, was not TO be punished.
AS witness, under the questioning
of Coroner Hoffman and Deputy George |
A. Webster, Miss Castillo was inclined |
to blame the keeper, George McCord, |
for failure properly TO defend Dietrich, !
the manager. The jury did not con-
cur with her attitude.
He could have gone into the cage !
and guarded him." Miss Castillo said. |
The lions are only cubs, and they are
governed by fear"
Was there jealousy on the part of /
either Dietrich or McCord regarding
You?" the coroner asked.
mo. there was no possibility OF it."
she answered.
McCord admitted he was afraid to
enter the lion cages and explained
hat was how Dietrich came to be
cleaning the car
did you like him-get along well?"
demanded the coroner.
I'VE had a lot OF quarrels In the
heatres about staging the act" Nc
Cord answered. But we were friends,
md Sunday we had no trouble at ALL"
why didn't you go into the cage
md help fight the lions?"
1T would have been death for me
o go in there"
Miss Castillo is remaining In Chi
ago TO await the arrival of Dietrlch's
'arents from Brooklyn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
CABINET FAVORS
PORK BARREL CUT
Approves Commission to Map
Out Comprehensive Plan of
Waterway improvements.

Washington, d. c., June 23.-Gen-
eral approval of an amendment to the
rivers and harbors bill for a govern
nent commission to map out a COM
prehensive plan of internal waterway
improvements was given at the cabi-
net meeting today. The amendmenS
is designed to do away with the so
called pork barrel' system of making
rivers and harbors appropriations.
Reports were laid before the cabi-
net today showing revolutionary condi-
tions in Hayti as serious, and calling
for immediate solution.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23
John Wanamaker Says
Poor Leadership Has
Been Costly in Past.
POLITICS ALSO HURTS
Merchant Prince Paints a Rosy
Prospect for Workingman
in United States.

Philadelphia, Pa, June 23.-'Tt's an
insane thing not to recognize organiza
tions of labor" said John Wanamaker
today, giving further testimony before
the federal commission of industrial
relations. He made the statement in
reply to a question whether employers
should recognize labor unions on the
general question of unionism.
Wanamaker said he believed labor
has suffered frightfully" in the past,
because of poor leaders, but added he
is seeing a better class of leadership
coming in. Asked if he could supply
the missing link that would bring cap
ital and labor together, Wanamaker
said: Il believe labor and capital have
right to organization. On one side,
capital, there is responsibility, and on
the other. labor, there is none. There
you stop. Missing links. l believe to
be prejudice and misunderstanding,
which must be overcome. One OF the
ways to wipe out this prejudice is to
unhitch labor unions from political
PARTIES
For Eight Hour Day.
Wanamaker believed the depart
ments of commerce and labor should
be the last resort in labor disputes.
One of the things he found wrong in
labor unions was the limiting OF the
lumber of those who want 10 learn.
trades. Questioned whether he would
advocate an eight-hour day, he re-
Piled: Eight hours or less
Speaking of capital, Wanamaker
said John d. Rockefeller, Jr.. made
great mistake when he put President
Wilson in the position of sending
troops to Colorado" Contact with en-
ployes is the remedy for much misun-
derstanding, the witness said. Re-
garding a minimum wage for women,
the witness said as an experiment it
should not be condemned. 1T ought
to be tried he declared. Discussing
public ownership as a means to reduce
Industrial strife. Wanamaker said he
was an absolute believer in govern
ment ownership of public utilities.
Paints Rosy Future.
The witness painted a rosy future |
LOT lne "OIhnendn- Men anu Wo-
men are in a rising market. Being edu- |
Gated. they have more sanitary sur
and are no longer mats for
r:ch men TO wipe their feet upon," he |
said.
Commissioner Weinstock remarked |
that the commission will. in drawing
up recommendations to congress, con-
slider the wisdom of advocating public
ownership of utilities as a means OF
strife between employer and
employee of public utilities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-23

quences in the event of an unfavorable
verdict at the hands of jury presided
over by the Judge in the manner pc
culiar to himself.
The subcommittee regrets its ina
bility TO either recommend a complete
acquittal of Judge Speer of all culpabil-
ity so far as these -charees-ere-cv->
cerned, on the one hand, or an i'm
parchment on the other. And yet 1t
is persuaded that the competent legal
evidence at hand is not sufficient to
procure a conviction at the hands OF
the senate. But it does feel that the
record presents a series of legal op-
pressions and shows an abuse OF judi
cial discretion which, though falling
short Of impeachable offenses, demand
condemnation and criticism.
IF Judge Speer's judicial acts in the
future are marked by the rigorous and
infieXible harshness shown by this rec
ord. these charges hang as a porten-
tous cloud over his court, impairing
his usefulness, impeding the admins
tration of justice, and endangering the
integrity of American institutions"
VoIstead for E~oneration.
Complete exoneration of Speer was
recommended by Volstead, republican.
Minnesota, member of the investigat-
ing committee. II do not criticise
motives of my associates, but the
proceedings Of the investigation have
been marked by acts of cruelty. I'M
just and unfair" Volstead said in his
report. mo effort has been made to
protect the judge against slander and |
abuse that could serve no other pur- |
pose than to disgrace and humiliate |
him. Every enemy that 29 years on
the bench had produced was invited |
and eagerly encouraged to detail |
grievances and supplement that with |
all sorts of innuendo, insinuation and |
Insulting opinions. utterly illegal as
and incompetent for any
proper purpose"
In connection with a charge that
be dissipated through allowance of
excessive attorneys fees. Volstead
presented statistics of the cost of the
administration of bankruptcy assets
1f the southern district of Georgia
rom 1899 to 1912 in comparison with
he districts of residence of various
members OF the house judiciary COM
nittee for those years. Tabulations
AIKEN from reports Of the attorney
general showed that the cost OF
;peer's district was 81 per cent, while
he average of other districts listed
vas 1872.