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The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
Cow DaSheS Into
Glass Store Front

The temper Of COW was clearly
demonstrated to a number of Delta
residents who happened to be on
North Main street last Tuesday morn
ing at about 10 O'Clock. and Fred King
can easily give a perfect version of the
incident.
The COW was being driven to slaugh-
ter pens by James Lee of the kurz
market. and when near the corner Of
Main and Third the critter took n
sudden notion to break from the
straight path to slaughter and dashed
headlong into the glass front of the
Delta Fire and Vulcanizing warks,
Just north OF the Delta Light CON
pany's offices. and would have doubt
less gone right into that shop but for
the fact that Fred King and the owner
of the place, who happened to he
standing near the front door. held
their ground and the COW thereupon
whirled about and got away.
In the whirl. however. nearly half
the front went down with crash,
and the two men above mentioned he'd
some little trouble in lodging The
wreck.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
Death of Former
Delta Resident

Word came to this city Tuesday af-
ternoon of the sudden and unexpect-
ed death of Mrs. w. D. Wheeler,
former well known and highly re
spected resident of this city, at her
home in Denver at 1880 Tuesday after
noon. The message came to Mrs. DR..
Grove, a daughter OF the deceased
lady. and there were no details.
Mrs. Grove departed Wednesday
morning for Denver and Independent
reporter gained no word of the fun
eral services and burial, whether it
was TO be in Denver or Delta.
Mrs. Wheeler resided in this city
some four or five years and removed
to Denver about one and one-half
years ago. She leaves to mourn her
death her daughter Mrs. Grove, and
one son, Roy Wilson.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
Methodist Church.

The Sacrament of the Lords Sup
per will be administered at the morn
ing service.
This will be the last Communion
for this conference year, and all mem
bers of the church are urged to be
present The sermon title for the
morning is How to Obtain the Bap-
tism of the Holy Spirit" The eve
ming sermon will be patriotic; subject,
Our Country" The sermon will be
short and special musical program
will be rendered as follows: Anthem
by Choir; Solo by Mrs Oliver Cook;
Duet by Prof. Chas- E. Smith and
Miss Helen Smith.
A cordial welcome given to all
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
Here From Korea
to Visit Parents

Miss Olga Shaffer, a missionary,
who has Just returned from Korea, af-
ter working under the auspices of the
Methodist church mission the past
year twelve miles from Seoul, gave
a lecture in the Presbyterian church
Monday afternoon to the ladies OF the
town and outlying districts. An audi
ence OF over one hundred and fifty
ladies' listened to this interesting and
instructive talk.
Miss Shaffer exhibited souvenirs and
miniature costumes of boys, girls, men
and women of the native Koreans, and
entered into the every day life Of them
which made the lecture an exceptional
one. She said the Koreans had spirit
religion. which, with their charming
personalities, lovable, attractive ways,
made them easy to reach with our
Christian religion.
There are seventy-five thousand
Christians in Korea, all having en-
braced the faith the past thirty years
Both men and women are great Bible
students, going through a course of
study which after six years of class
work, wins them a diploma. Old ladies
sixty-five years of age compete for.
and win this diploma. The largest
class in the history of the Christian
nations is the one which was held in
Union College which had nine hun
dred members.
After visit with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. j. NJ. Shaffer of Redlands
Mesa, Miss Shaffer will go east year.
then return to Korea.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
GRAND OPERA NOT WANTED
IT'S THE LEG SHOW THAT WINS

This is the decision arrived at for
Grand Junction people by Editor Wal
ter Walker of the Daily Sentinel, as
will be noted by the following COM
ment:
The two daily papers financed a
grand opera program for Grand juno
ton.
we were deluded with the idea that
something really fine along this line
would be appreciated by the people of
the city TO the extent that it would be
literally patronized.
Well, we missed our guess. What
we needed was rare and racy leg
show, with a lot of cute little half
dressed broilers and series Of sug-
gestive little songs and an exemplifi-
cation of some of the noisome dances.
Then we would have gotten the money
but grand opera, Oh, My, No.
"As we said before it's the leg show
that gets the big money and the pack
ed houses. Don't you know that lot
OF people here who bemoan the woeful
absence of grand opera and kindred
attractions are the first to purchase
tickets for the girly-girly shows, revel
in such charming. eleyating lyrics as
If ! had Somebody at Home Like
You / Wouldn't go out ANY More 'Ev-
erybodys Doing II Down by the Sea,
etc, etc. and then go out and with
furrowed brow express the chagrin
over the fact that we never have
anything worth while here You know
the kind, so do We and they didn't
hear David Duggan last night
No. it's not David Duggan or Nine.
Adams or their kind that can get the
big audiences here, it's Flossie and
Tessie and Rosie.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03

lthrsw Miss Stewart out and the horse
proceeded to Delta National bank cor
ner where both horse and buggy went
down and the former considerably
wrecked.
Just before falling the horse had
whirled by an auto load OF persons
standing near the crossing on Fourth
street and il is needless to add that
all these persons were not a little
frightened when they saw the rig
coming at fun speed and they could
not move from their track with a
dead" engine. There was sigh of
relief when the runaway got by with
out q crash
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03

e. l.. Knox arrived in the city on
Tuesday from uranium mines of the
Standard Chemical company in the
Henry mountains of Utah where he
has been at work the past six months
and expects to go over to the Para
dox country where he has claims Of
his own inside the next few days and
put In the summer on developments.
Knox states that the Standard COM
pany has good producing properties In
Utah but tho camp is located in such
n barren out-ofthe-world place that
a man is always glad to get away.
It's 125 miles from railroad and
nothing in sight but sand.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03

Hywel Davies and w. R. Farley,
federal commissioners of conciliation
representing Secretary of Labor VIII
son, issued a formal statement recent
ly showing the purpose and scope OF
the present investigation of the Colo
RADIO coal strike. They have been in
Colorado several weeks in an effort
10 effect a solution of the industrial
war.
The statement follows:
The mission OF federal commits
sioner OF Cancellation is to investigate
the causes of labor disputes and If
the conclusions warrant any sugges-
ton that appeals to either or both
parties OF the controversy, II is their
duty to place themselves. If desired.
at their service.
The federal commissioners came to
Colorado early in May to find out. If
possible. the underlying causes OF the
strike that has disrupted the state
Naturally our first duty was to inves-
tigate and get at the facts. We have
endeavored TO do this by personal Wis
its TO the different mining camps,
also by verbal and printed interroga-
tories
throughout we have been received
with every courtesy and every facil-
ity necessary to reach an intelligent
conclusion, as far as we have gone.
Answers TO our printed interrogatories
have been forthcoming, but for var
ious satisfactory reasons. all will not
be on hand until sometime in July.
The commissioners were selected
by the department of labor with the
approval of the president, to come to
Colorado on account OF our long years
OF experience in the adjustment and
prevention OF labor disputes in the
southern states.
'As we have been in the coal min
ing business all our lives as employer
and employe. IL is natural to suppose
that we should be able to grasp the
situation better than any investigat-
ing committee composed solely Of
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03

Marion Brewer seventeen year-old
son of MIR. and Mrs. George Brewer,
had an experience a few days ago
which has made him trifie suspicious
of electricity and in the future he'll
handle the live wires with greater
care. He was fixing an extension wire
to the electric iron at the home of
his parents on South Palmer street
when four fingers of his right hand
came in contact with an unwrapped
place on the extension and shock
resulted with accompanying burns
which serve as future reminder, A
local surgeon attended the burns at
once and ''toughy" is already able to
make use of the injured member.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC ROAD
TO BUILD LINE ON WEST SLOPE

Every indication now points to the
fact the Southwestern Pacific Railway
company will build line of road in
this section of the Western Slope and
it is shown by the applications for
right OF way that this line will travel
the entire length of the Paradox val
ley.
The following from the Montrose
Enterprise gives further information
concerning the great railway project:
Papers showing the exact route
which the proposed Southwestern Pa
cific railroad will follow in this state
have just been filed here in the United
States land office.
The line according to the plats will
have & length of 1882 miles in this
state, and will run through the center
Of the Paradox valley assuring an out
let for all of the produce raised in
the rich lands of the western part of
this county.
The railroad, according to the sur
Ivey, will start at the west boundary
line of Palisade and go thence south
for half mile, then due south a mile,
where il crosses the Gunnison river a
mile west of Whitewater. missing
Grand Junction by ten miles. Thence
lit will 90 through Unaweep canon TO
the top Of the Uncompahgre divide
Following east creek nearly 10 its head
il descends along the valley OF West
creek 10 its junction with the Dolores
river
From this point the railroad will go
nearly due south following the general
trend OF the Dolores river, passing
close to Bedrock and Cashin. Para
doa will be only six miles from the
proposed line of the new railroad.
Passing across Paradox valley, the
railroad will cross the state line close
to the center of the west boundary of
San Miguel county at the south cor
ner of township "A north, of range 20
west n. NJ. P. NJ.
The Incorporation papers of the
company were filed two weeks ago in
sacramento. California, by D. c. Col
lier, president of the new company.
The Rocky Mountain News. COM
menting on the enterprise has the fol-
lowing to say;
The Southwestern Pacific Railway
company, which was recently incor-
porated 10 build a new railroad be-
tween Denver and the Pacific coast,
has become as great railroad mys-
terry as was the incorporation of the
Western Pacific prior to the disclosure
OF the identity of the people behind
the last-named project
A dispatch TO the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat quotes Claude NJ. Clapp,
brother of Rolla Clapp, chief engineer
of the company. as saying that nego-
tiations looking toward using the Colo
rado Midland as the eastern end OF the
line are progressing. Local officials
Of the Midland discredit these rumors,
hut admit that if the new project is
carried TO a successful consummation
il would be a logical move.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
A. the BAPTIST Church.

The regular morning worship at IL
o'clock followed by communion.
In the evening the pastor will preach
from the theme, The Church and the
Republic" This sermon will be in keep
ing with the real eth of July spirit
The choir will furnish good music for
both services. A cordial invitation is
extended to everyone to attend these
services.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03

merchant seems to have come from a
Mexican arrested last Thursday even
ing and fined ten dollars and trim
mings for drunkenness. The Mexican
had left q ten dollar bill with Chung
before his stroll about town and sub
sequent arrest and when fined next
day the money was collected at
Chung's store
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03
Warranty Deeds.

II. F. Ii. Ho,ingsworth to ]. w.
Green, tract Paonia, $500.
w. F. Hornsby ct al to p. A. Car
perter. tract Cedsredge. 81.
w. B. Stockham et al. to Georgia
Cook. lots Delta, $50.
The Delta independent., 1914-07-03

Federal Commissioners OF ConiIi-
iation."
Evening star., 1914-04-12

to the complete rout Of all mortals afoot or acab
Imagine: Militant sufragettes trying to set fire to the
Prime Minister'S mansion, "Siegfred being sung at the
opera, and a yellow London fog!
The press about Covent Garden was mathematical
problem over which Euclid would have shed bitter
and hastily retired his rbors and citron tables
Thirty years previous Ito the thirteenth of May,
Eucld) some benighted beggar invented the Chinese
puzzle; and tonight many frantic policeman would
have preferred it. sitting with the sculerv maid and the
pantry nearby. Simple matter to shift about little
blocks of wood with the tip of ones finger but cabs and
carriages and automobiles each driver anxious get
ahead of his neighbor-not mention the shouting
and the din and discord of horns and whistles and sirens
and rumbling engines!
IT'S hard luck" said Crawford sympathetcaly. at
will be half hour before they get this tangle
Strengthened out"
a shouldn't mind im if it wasn't for Kitty replied
his wife. Il worried about her.
"Wel simply could not drag her into this coupe
and get into hers myself She's heady little lady, if
quicker than we shall Her cab is five up. If you wsh
I'll take look in and see if she's all right
please do and she smiled at him. lovely, enclant-
ing.
"Youre the most beautiful woman in all this world!"
"Am I?'
Click! The light went out. There was smothered
laugh; and when the light fared up again the agrette
in her copper-beech hair was all askew.
"If anybody saw us'-secretly pleased and delighted
any would have been who possessed a hus-
band who was her lover all his waking hours.
"What! in this fog9 And lot I'd care if they did
Evening star., 1914-04-12
By HAROLD MAcGRATH

Now don't stir till come back; and above all, keep
the light on
@And hurry right back! I'm getting lonesome al
ready
He stepped out of the coupe. Harlequin, and Colum
bine, and Humpty- y-Dumpty-shapes that came out OF
nowhere and instantly vanished into nothing, for all
the world like the absurd pantomimes of his boyhood
days. He kept close to the curb, scrunizng the
bers as he along. Never had he such a fog.
Two PAGES away from the curb headlight became
effugence. Indeed, there thousand lights
ammed in the street. and the fog above absorbed the
radiance giving the touch of Brocken All that
was needed was witch on a broomstick. He counted
FIVE vehicles and stopped. The door window was
down.
"NIss Killgrew?" he said
"Yes Is anything wrong?"
"No lust wanted to see if YOU were all right Better
let me take your place. and you ride with Mrs. Craw-
ford"
4Good of you; but you've had enough trouble.
shall stay right here
"Wheres your light"
It's fun to look about. never saw anything to
equal it."
sNot very cheerful. Well be held up at least hall
hour You not afraid?"
"What! T." She laughed. @Why should be afraid?
The wait will not matter. But the truth is I'm worried
about mother. She would go that suffragette
ing; and understand they've tried to burn up the
Prime Minister'S house"
@Fine chance! But don't you worry. Your mothers
sensible She'll get back to the hotel, if she
isn't there Already
a wish she had not gone. Father will be tearing his
Evening star., 1914-04-12


ness. and incertitude, that this thing had sub
stance. You could feel it; you could open and shut
your hands and it your palms; and it pene-
trated your clothes and beaded your spectaces and
rings and bracelets and shoe buckles. 1t Night
mare, bereft of its pillows grown somnambulstc; and
London became the antechamber to Hades, lackeyed
by Idle Dreams and peoped by Mistakes.
There is something about this species of fog unlike
any other in the world. 1t sticks. You will find certain
English cousins of yours, far away from London
Hongkong, who still wrapped up snugy in it.
Happy he afflicted with strabsmus for he
only his before his face In the daytime you be-
fish, to wrggle over the oceans floor amid
strange flora and fauna such ash and lamp posts
and venders' carts and cab horses and sandwich
But at night you neither fish, bird, nor beast.
The night May Is (never mind the year. the date
should sufice), and Wapurgis night, if you please,
without any Mendelssohn to interpret it. That happy
line of Pandemonium the high capital of
Satan and his peers'-fel upon London like Elah's
mantle. Confusion and his cohort of synonyms (why
not ragged up and down thoroughare and side street
and alley east and west danced before palace and tene
ake,-all to the vast amusement of the gods to
the mild annoyance of the halfgods lin Mayfair, and
the Bobb Merrill
Evening star., 1914-04-12
CHAPTER I

OG! A London fog, solid, substantial, yellow
as an old dogs tooth or a jaundiced eye!
You could not look through it, nor yet
gaze up and down it, nor over it, and you
only thought you 'saw it. The eye be-
came impotent, untrustworthy; all senses
lay fallow except that of touch; the skin
alone conveyed to YOU with prompt
The Detroit times., 1914-05-28

finely. lie has already proved him
self 10 be one OF the best college
players In the east"
Spiegel got out for baseball princi-
pally because Bob Lowe was secured
as coach. lie had no thought OF try
inc for the team until the announce
ment that the Detroit man would have
charge OF the club was made.
Spiegeis prowess on the football
field is well known 10 gridiron fans
tie scored more points than any other
player on a big team I'm the east last
season. In spite of the fact that he
vas not from one OF the big teams
Of the east he was chosen by Walter
Camp for his second AlLAmerican
eleven as halfback He was named
In the roll OF honor published by the
Outing magazine
Spiegel is not the only Detroit boy
on the w. & j club. RUDE Boyille,
formerly OF Central high school.
baseball and football star. Is playing
The Detroit times., 1914-05-28
WASHINGTON TAKES THIRD STRAIGHT
FROM The TIGERS; this BY 20

WASHINGTON. May 2s. = The
Tigers lost their third straight game
to Washington here yesterday. drop
ping the encounter by a score of
To o.
Doc Ayers. the young Washington
recruit pitcher. held the Tigers to SIX
hits that were scattered. The Ma
tionals. on the other hand, found
Mark Hall, Miles Main and Reynolds
whenever they needed to- Four err
rors by the Tigers helped the Ma.
tionals out when they couldn't get
hits. Three OF these errors came In
the seventh when Moriarty. Stanage
and Burns all threw down Main.
Washington outpitched, outhit' out
flelded. ohtran and outlucked Detroit.
They we're the Tigers superiors In
every department.
The Detroit times., 1914-05-28
Spiegel, DetrOiter Is Proving As Bright
Coach Bob Lowe Makes Crack Player AL the First Yea
A Star In w. &L Baseball As In Football

right field for the club. He is one
OF the teams best helders and one OF
the best hitters Boyille played an
end position for the successful W. &
j. football team last year and with
spiesel won much honor on the grid
iron.
Coach Lowe has run into a big OBJ
stAcle on his way 10 the conference"
championship in faculty ruling
which barred his star pitcher from
compe tition. scholarship requirements
Dong placed higher than the hurler
Could reach
In spite Of the setback given Lowe
when the faculty put the ban on the
pitcher, Lowe believes he has fine
chance for the eastern title.
II hope the Tigers get to winning
again said Bob today. IL want 10
see them go west at the top OF the
heap again Every time they lose my
friendS here josh me about IL and II
gets on my nerves"
The Detroit times., 1914-05-28
JANSEN IS A GOOD
SHORT RUN PROSPECT.

r ANSEN, particularly and Muir
ply, also, are good prospects
- In the short runs. Jansen is en-.
tered in the quarter and the half-mile
run and Murphy In the half.
In both these events the field is
made up OF lot of classy material.
Jansen has done the half-mile In
1857 S-5 against Syracuse. In this
event AZ Cambridge, he will have 10
race Brown OF Yale and Meredith OF
Penn. Brown has gone the route in
1882 1-2, and Meredith in 1855 rs.
Speiden OF Cornell has done II in a
fifth OF second less than Jansen,
beating Murphy. Mlchigans other en-.
try In the event In doing SO. Capper
OF Harvard is another notable entry.
IL Is likely that Coach Farrell will
conhne his entry TO the half-mile 10
Murphy and send Jansen in the quar-.
ter, the distance at which he did his
FIRST best work. Jansen cannot very
well enter both and do good work in
them He will meet less competition
In the quartermile.
In that event he will meet wtIkie
OF Yale, who has gone the distance in
AS IS this year when not pressed and
apparently can do better than that
He will race Caldwell OF Cornell with
whom he tied In so seconds for first
place ia a Cornell Michigan meet
Barron Of Yale r. another entrant to
be watched. This man forsook the
40 20 get into the 40
The Detroit times., 1914-05-28
They, With Captain KOhler, viii
be Big Point Makers for the
Wolverines Saturday
FARRELL SPRINTERS WILL
MEET BUNCH OF STARS
All of the Men Who Placed Last
Season Will Be Back in the
Short Dashes
BY RALPH L. YoNKER

-HE University OF Michigan must
depend upon its two great
u dash men, Bond and Seward
10 win the greatest number OF It's
points for Il in the intercollegiate
track and field meet to be held at
Cambridge tomorrow and Saturday, In
which the crack college athletes OF
the country are entered.
Bond and Seward are going east
with far less respect being paid them
than they deserve. They have both
run great races in the west in fine
time. Bond has unoficially broken
the worlds record for the 22Oyard
dash with a mark of 21 fiat. Some
watches caught him at 20 40. Seward
has done the 100-yard dash in 8 40
with the help OF the wind, equaling
the college record.
These two men will race in the 100
and 220 In the east. They will face
all the men who took places in The
intercollegiates at Harvard last year,
which means that they VIII have TO
be at their best TO win. Patterson and
Lippincott OF Penn are the men most
to be feared In the l00-yard dash.
Patterson won the event last year and
i-ippincott was third. Bond was
fourth. Keller OF Cornell, who finished
second last year, has been beaten by
the Michigan men this season. LIP
The Detroit times., 1914-05-28
koHLER MUST BE
GOOD TO WIN.

- APTAIN KOHLER will have to
do better than he has in the
past this season II he is TO
win his shot-put and hammer-throw,
Saturday.
All Kohfer's task consists of tn the
shot Is to defeat Whitney and Beatty,
the former OF Dartmouth and the lat
ter OF Princeton, both OF whom beat
Kohfer badly last year at the inter
collegiates and both of whom beat
him again at the Penn relay carnival
this spring.
Kohler hasn't been putting the shot
as far as usual this spring something
over "A feet being his best work,
while he took third with heave OF
over 46 feet last year
In the hammer-throw Kohler will
have fierce competition from Nc
Cutcheon OF Cornell, who has already
beaten him In the event in the Cor
nell-Michtgan dual meet, and In
Loughridge, Of Yale, who has been
winning that event for his university
this spring.
Reports from Ann Arbor indicated
that Kohler looked especially good In
the hammer just before going east.
which has encouraged Michigan men
10 believe he will cop. Dark horses
are expected to figure prominently in
this event as there seems 10 be but
little dope on IL.