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The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Force on Track
Badly Injured

John Peterson's gang of twelve or
fourteen men engaged in track i'm
provements for the Rio Grande COM
pany near town who go to and from
their work each day on a hand-car,
had wreck about mile west of this
city last Saturday morning in which
all were considerably scratched and
bruised about the face, shoulders and
body and four of the crew were in
jured to such extent as to demand
attention and care at the railroad hos
pital in Salida. They were taken to
the hospital on the morning train
Saturday after being temporarily
cared for by the company physician
here, DR.. L. A. Hick.
The car used by the men is one Of
the early day type on which three or
four big strong men can take hold of
propellers on either side and work
up speed according to their strength.
These men were all Sampson-like
Greeks and when four lined up on a
side to furnish steam, it is said that
an average Rio Grande passenger train
would have plenty to do to keep IN
sight
Everything went along smoothly IN
til the car ran into a heavy spike
sticking up between the connecting
point of two rails in the track and
began a series of jumps which even
tually landed the entire party in a
heap. Two of the men were run over
by the car and it is said that their in
juries are of a very serious nature.
The slightly injured men were able
to resume their work on the track and
grade after receiving necessary surgi-
cal attention.
The crew consider themselves for
tunate in getting as easily as they did.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30

II. X. Ferguson was a Delta visitor
Tuesday of this week.
The Searchers' Literary society met
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Stell.
Rev. Clark of the Eckert Baptist
church who was quite badly injured
in n runaway last week is improving.
Miss Clara Stell returned home last
Sunday after spending week with
friends in Cory.
A number OF Eckert young people
enjoyed a moonlight picnic in Tur-
ner's grove last Tuesday night.
C. A. Bowie and w. L. Miller spent
Monday in Delta looking after busi-
ness interests in that city.
On Friday night May 7th. the Senior
class of the Eckert high school will
give the class play. "A Scrap of Pa
per-" which promises to be very good,
The entertainment given by the list
year class Of the high school last
Friday evening was well attended and
everyone present enjoyed very pleas.
ant evening.
Sunday afternoon Rev. Davis who
has been conducting revival meetings
in the Eckert Baptist church baptized
twenty-seven new members who have
Joined the church during the meetings,
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Delta Teachers Employed

The following is list of teachers
so far employed for the ensuing
school year in Delta.
S. Lou Showalter, Ada Horton, Alice
Royce. Mabel Briney, Gertrude Ans
barry. Winifred Castel. Emma Myers,
Olive Ingersoll, Edith Mcintosh. Grace
Cummings, Lolo Briggs. Ida Stauffer,
Mary Catren, b. F. Yeoman, Winifred
Wonders, Grace Conklin. Ethel Scheid,
Hazel Ault. Della Atkinson, Mary
Burnett. orrel Chapman.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Sarles = Parsons

The marriage of Miss Muriel Par.
sons to Mr.. Henry Sarles was solem-
nized at noon, Wednesday at the home
of the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mort Parsons on Dodge street. The
marriage service was read by Rev. j.
II. Cramps, of the Presbyterian church
using the ring ceremony. The bride
wore a gown of ivory messaline and
carried a shower bouquet of apple
blossoms, The house was prettily dec
Grated with spring blossoms. Follow
ing congratulations three-course
luncheon was served in the dining
room. Mr.. and Mrs. Sarles will leave
in few days for Spencer, Nebraska
where Mr.. Sarles is associated with
his father in hardware and lumber
business. Mrs. Walker and Miss Lau-
ra Walker, grandmother and aunt of
the bride, were in attendance from
Denver.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Help Beautify
Delta Cemetery

Notice is hereby given that Tues
day. May Is, has been designated as
general Cleanup Day at Delta GENE
terry. All interested in having our
cemetery cleaned up and beautified by
planting trees. grading driveways. etc,
will please be at the cemetery at 900
a, m. with teams, wagons, wheelbar-
rows. shovels and rakes to do a much
needed work.
BY order Cemetery Board.
WATSON H. STEWART,
JOHN E. HILLMAN,
GEO. C. WILSON,
/. CHAS. HALL.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Dan SOuthard
Gets in Bad

Making his advent here with the
deavor to operate the Zeigler coal
mines last fall. then, when that indus
try fell through. embarking in the pro
motion of the Gunnison River Coal
been caught in whirlpool of finan-
cial flood-water. out of which the
grasping at straws was unable to ex-
tricate him.
Southard does not impress one as
belonging to the vicious class of swim
dlers. Rather he looks like a youth
whose innocence may have been put
out of balance by an abnormal bump
OF business irresponsibility.
He came here with young wife
some six months ago. and little later
babe was born to them. or the ma
trimonial history we know nothing.
The wife seems nice and lady-like;
the babe is an innocent by virtue of
birth. Viewed from the home the sit
uation is one OF extreme sadness.
The main offense charged against
Southard is inducing dozen or more
Polish people to sign with them to
work in the mines, with the offer. II
is stated, that homes would be sup
piled them. along with small tract
OF land. they to receive SO a day. half
of which was to be paid in cash and
the balance to apply on the purchase
OF property mentioned.
This had no unreasonable look. but
II seems that advance money was ask.
ed for and received by Southland from
these Poles. in order to bind contracts
This too, would have been fair. had
Southard been possessed of what he
appeared and pretended to own his IT,
tie proving only to be an option on
land and coal mine, obtained, It is
said. without payment of any money.
The victims claim that Southard OBJ
OF $4,000 In money and wages due.
Their lack of being able to get pay
ment OF wages excited their suspicious
and slight investigation was only
needed to make plain to them that the
backing to the enterprise into which
they had been duped was entirely lack
ing, and that both the money they
had advanced and their time. were
lost.
This raised hornets nest about
Southard, who had previously been
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30

lodging back and forth in efforts to
get his matters Strengthened out, and
in this way it is presumed that the
money he had procured on advances
had been absorbed as well as more
or less checks issued against his bank
account in excess of his balance.
On Tuesday the crisis came when
his victims sought to face him in his
Cedaredge office. Fearing bodily in
jury might be intended, he escaped
through a rear exit and hid for a
! time. Later he obtained an automobile
and came to Delta. Learning here
that a warrant was to be issued for
his arrest, he secured a relay Wednes-
day and started for Grand Junction.
Orders were forwarded for his appre-
hension and retention, and he was
halted by officers there. Sheriff NJ. A.
Davis and deputy Joe Harrington went
down and brought the much sought
promoter back to this city.
In making the run in an auto from
Delta to Grand Junction after South
ard. Joe Harrington made it in an
hour and forty-five minutes, beating
all previous records by 80 minutes.
Southard was brought to Delta and
has since been in charge of the sheriff
or one Of his deputies. awaiting the ar
rival of parties from Cedaredge whom
I bia 80, IL Ty
messages to this office he asserts tha;
he will go ahead with the promotion
OF his coal proposition and that his
present interruption is the result OF
misunderstanding.
The actions of the men whom he
thought were after his life in Cedar
edge. has been quietness itself in
Delta. Bednarchuck. the foreman.
speaks good English and appears an
intelligent workman. He states that
he advanced 5000 in cash and has s65
asked was their money. that they were
not armed. he having but a very small
pen knife in his pocket, which he dis
played in this office, and which was
in reality no more than a toy. He says
the men are most OF them here with
out money and no work. that they are
not murderers and do not wish to vio-
late any laws-all they want is their
money.
Mr.. Southard obtained his bond of
It is said. go to Denver Immediately
and endeavor to raise sufficient capi-
tai to square up all present financial
difficulties. and proceed with his un-
dertaking.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Wars Progress
AS It Now Stands

There is nothing very startling in
war news aside from the reports of
the list of killed running up into the
thousands each day. The early fight
ing lines between Germany, France
and England have again become the
field for hardest fighting. Italy is
still on the verge of joining the fray
and Greece is beginning to lubricate
II looks like there would not be much
left of Turkey in little while but
giblets.
This government appears to be
hopeful of early peace in Mexico.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30

I
on Tuesday granted and issued a
writ of peremptory mandamus against
Earl Wilson, county treasurer, COM
manding him to pay ]. E. Shelledy,
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners the sum of S209 upon
county warrants for diem and ex-
penses. The Treasurer had refused
to pay the warrants on the ground
that the money included a per diem
and expenses for a trip to Denver to
attend the County Commissioners
convention. and other matters, claim
| ing that the charges were irregular
and illegal. Judge Dingman held that
the law did not confer upon the
County Treasurer the right of discre-
ton or review after a claim had been
allowed by the County Board, and tina.
the Treasurer had no other legal
duty to perform but to pay, provided
there was sufficient money in that
particular fund upon which the war
rants were drawn. The suit has at
tracted considerable public interest
on the Western Slope.
The above account has been the sub
ject of rather hostile criticism by one
newspaper in the county. which has
asserted that the bills of the commits
sioners for their expenses 10 Denver
ought not to be paid.
Without reference to any legal stat
us of the case, which the county
court has now passed upon. it must
be recalled that for some years the
county commissioners of the state
have been in the habit of holding bien-
nial meetings in Denver. for the pur-
pose of interchanging ideas on county
management and to suggest legislation
of benefit to the counties of the state.
The object of this case hints that
the real object of the commissioners
trip to Denver was to lobby for a
raise of their own salaries. The direct
reply would be that no such legisla-
tion whose enaction could have been
by them influenced at that session.
could have benefited anyone of the
commissioners now holding office.
Independent has not been asked by
one of the commissioners OF dis
cuss their side of the matter. From
one or two its editor has asked for
information and has been told that the
meeting was attended solely in the
interest of Delta county and with the
hope of benefitting the county.
In the matter of having served the
county effectively. II is narrated that
number of economic movements were
started whose carrying into effect
have already brought about pronounc-
ed savings and which will continue
to save the county money. Aside from
new measures prompted by the as
semblied commissioners of the state.
our own commissioners held long ses-
sion with the tax commission in which
matters were explained with sufficient
clearness that the burdensome raise of
several million dollars to last years
schedules will not be added this year.
In discussing the matter with eN-
Governor Ammons, who spent several
days in Delta county this week look
ing after personal business. that auth.
ority volunteered the following state
ment: Il am surprised to learn that
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
Colorado Major
Goes to War Zone

Members of the local company OF
the Colorado National guard have just
learned that Major w. A. Jolley, a
resident of Boulder. who was well
known to all the Delta boys doing
service in the Trinidad strike fields
last winter. has gone to New York
city and that he will sail on May 1st
for Serbia where he has volunteered
for Red Cross work.
The Colorado officer was an active
participant in hospital work in the
Southern Colorado camps last winter
and became very popular with all
members OF the guard.
The Delta independent., 1915-04-30
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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20
What To Look Forward To.

Business failures in July. 1915. &C
cording to r. G. Dunn & Co.. reached
a total of 1879, being an increase
of 32S over July. 1914 and $40 more
than in July. 1918. This seems to
indicate that war export orders are
not helping the general business of
the country. and in spite of war Or
ders and the decrease of competition
imports because of the war. Free
Trade depression and bankruptcy
continue. The close of the war will
make things worse, not better Things
will be better after the elections of
1916 and after Protectionist Con-
gress shall have enacted and Pro-
tectionist president signed Protec-
tive Tariff law. That is the thing to
look forward to and to work for.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20

high for cultivation before the rains
ceased, and corn fields are full of
crab grass and weeds. The contin-
ued seasonable weather will result in
reasonable large crop of corn. but
a drought would be serious as the
weeds and grass would soon exhaust
the moisture and the corn would be
unable to mature properly.
The final yield of rye is estimated
at bushels, that of oats at % bu-
shells. The condition of hemp is 81
per cent. The potato crop is unus-
ually large and the yield and quality
OF the potatoes excellent; the prices
are very low. Garden conditions
continue good at 50 per cent. The
condition of COW peas is put at Sc
per cent and soy beans at 81 per
cent. All pasture grasses are in
splendid condition. Bluegrass stands
at 80 per cent, clover at 81 per cent.
alfalfa 90 per cent and orchard grass
90 per cent.
Fruits have suffered more or less
as a result of the rains. storms etc.
The condition of apples is biven at
SO per cent, peaches II per cent and
pears at SO per cent.
The condition of poultry sums up
as follows: Chickens 80 per cent,
turkeys 80 per cent and ducks 81
per cent.
The condition of livestock is as
follows: Horses "a per cent. cat
tie 95 per cent, hogs 80 per cent and
sheep "a per cent.
Kentucky is finally free from all
quarantine regulations as far as foot
and mouth disease is concerned. A
few cases of hog cholera and black
leg are reported.
Taken as a whole the crops during
the month of July have held their
own. With favorable weather corn
and tobacco, the two largest money
crops of the state. will be equal to,
If not above the. average. for the
state.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20
Corn Report of Kentucky.

The report of crop conditions for
August LIST shows a continuation of
favorable weather for the develop
ment of the crops with the exception
of scattered points throughout the
state.
The final estimates of the wheat
yield in the state for 1915 is 1917
bushels per acre. This is short of
last years yield by approximately
two bushels. The continued rains OF
the last month damaged the quality
of the wheat a great deal, and the
average estimated damage through
out the states is cents per bushel.
The average price on the farm is APP
proximately 95c per bushel This is
about csc per bushel higher than the
farmers obtained who sold their
wheat from the threshers in 1914.
The acreage of Burley tobacco is
given at rs per cent and that of Dark
tobacco at 80 per cent. Burnley shows
a condition of rs per cent and Dark
tobacco condition of IT per cent.
The corn crop shows a condition
of 81 per cent. Much corn got too
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20
KEYNOTE TO THE
next CAMPAIGN
Enforcement of the Fact that
Tariff Protection Is an Alb.
solute Necessity.

Eliminate the war brides" from
the stock trade and the European
contracts for munitions of war from
the industrial plants of the country
the business situation. The fact is
so obvious that il scarcely needs
statement and yet it is important that
it should be adequately realized in
order that the situation which is to
follow when The war orders shall
cease may be anticipated.
When the war ends, which it must
sometime, United States industry will
be dependent chiefly on it's home
market for business to give employ
ment to the millions of wage workers.
Not merely will there be a cessation
of orders for guns and schrapnel and
other munitions of war but there will
a shifting of the war embargo on the
manufactures of Europe. which will
re-enter the American market in
more dangerous competition than
ever unless some barrier shall be in
terposed.
An intimate and familiar example
for Philadelphia is the hosiery and
knit goods industry. the local plants
of which are now enjoying rush of
orders to meet the demands of local
trade. Every manufacturer and
every buyer in the trade knows, how
ever, that this condition is abnormal
great factories of northern France
and Belgium, which under ordinary
conditions ship their products into
the United States at prices with
which the American manufacturer.
paying the American standard of wa
ges and subject to American labor
laws cannot compete. are out of COM
mission on account of the war. And
it is an equally simple matter of ap- |
probation that when the war is over |
and the work of rehabilitation be- |
gins-which will not be difficult be- |
cause the actual industrial destruc- |
ton has been comparatively small
these goods will again pour into the |
United States and take away the de- |
mand for home labor.
The knit goods industry is but one
The glass industry is another. The |
prospective dye industry and other |
developments of coal-tar products !
another. And the list might be con-
tinued at great length. Nothing but
a Protective Tariff barrier can avert !
such an invasion of foreign products. |
and it is none to early to emphasize |
that fact in anticipation of the next
campaign for the election of presi-
dent and Congress. and even as an |
indirect consideration of importance |
earlier campaigns. Whether the
war shall end this year or next. the
interest of American industry must |
be the keynote of the next campaign. |
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20
EUROPEAN WAR
and PROTECTION
Protection Sentiment Will lnevi-
tab'y be Strengthened Through
out The World.

That Protective sentiment the
world over should be strengthened
by this war is inevitable. II nation:
are to fight they must have within
themselves all-round sources of sup
ply. 1t has been said that If Mis-
souri, were an island nation it could
produce nearly everything that il
needed. Massachusetts,. on the other
hand, would make a very poor fist
of it," We should produce an over
supply of shoes and textiles and 9TH
or manufactured goods, while suffer
ing a great deficiency in food prod
ucts. AS it is we find it cheaper to
sell one line and buy the other. rath-
er than try to meet home needs in
both. So il is with nations. Some
are self-contained and some are not.
Had the sections of this country de-
veloped as independent powers they
would, under the lessons of this war,
be preparing rigid systems of Pro-
lection so that each might supply its
own needs in the event of obstruc-
ton of foreign trade. The United
States, large as it is, has suffered in
this war. to which it was not a party.
from the lack of dyestuffs and cotton
outlets. 1t has been seriously handi
capped from its lack of oceanship-
ping, fundamentally a Protective
question. since that is one of the few
industries which we ever allowed to
remain a; the mercy of the world
wide competition. This is mors sur
prising in view of the industry's close
relation to defense.
VIC pcordingly look to see n ma
terial modification of Britain's Free
Trade policy with the end of the war
Unless the Germans triumph, and
thus are able to dictate terms to their
opponents. Great Britain will not.
within the next generation, admit to
her own or to her colonial ports Ger
man products on terms or equality.
Relations have long been strained.
In Hongkong. for example, one of the
freest cities in the woodland in
Consequence one of the most mex
pensive in which to do business-the
Germans have been close rivals with
the English. This has led to ser
inns iaalOuSieS We should eXpect
if when this war is over Hongkong
still flies the British flag, that the
Teutonic allies would find their bust
ness opportunities there greatly re-
stricted. That may mean a closer
British imperial federation, or
closer federation of the allied powers.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-20
district have cost him and his friends
at least ten dollars each.

district have cost him and his friends
at least ten dollars each.
Tanners race was taken away
from him with money and whiskey,
so his friends claim. Men who were
strong for him and Judge Glenn two
or three weeks ago have for the last
ten days been riding in automobiles
and working like beavers for Judge
Birkhead and Mr.. Ringo. We won
der IL the matter will be brought be-
'ore the Daviess County Grand Jury
by either Judge Birkhead or Mr..
Ringo, Can Judge Birkhead. taxi
ing the oath that he does. or Mr.. Rim
go. let things so fragrant go by with
out Grand Jury investigation? II
they do. those people who pay taxes
to make up their salaries should look
elsewhere for protection. The News
will wait and see what is going to be
done, but if Judge Birkhead or Mr..
Ringo want any proof the News will
gladly furnish list of witnesses,
and. in addition, a representative of
the News will willingly assist with
out charge in prosecuting those gull
ty of spending money and whiskey
to corrupt the ballot.
We want to warn those in autho-
rity now that il anything like Sat-
urday's primary is attempted in the
general election in November that
there will be something doing. No
doubt the Democratic nominee for
Governor will be willing to defend
those guilty of corrupting the ballot,
as he is an expert in that line. hav-
ing practiced on the Terre Haute
gang who are now in the penitentiary
but if he does not have any better
success here than he did there. he
will not be able to prevent some
people from changing their places of
residence. Those people in Terre
Haute thought that they were i'm
mune because they had the Court
with them. but the Court and all are
now in the Leavenworth penitentiary
where McChesney said they were long
past due.
Kentucky is one of the greatest
States in the Union. and Greensboro
is one of the best cities in the State.
teeming full of churches and Chris
trian people who practice what they
preach, and we do not believe that
they will indorse the Saturday pri-
mary or the way it was conducted.
We will give those in authority
time TO act, and upon their failure
to take some steps looking to the
publication of the ballot, then we
shall take the matter up in earnest. !
We believe that every honest man in
Daviess county-Democrat or Repub- /,
ican-will stand by us in an effort :
10 prevent the use of money and
in elections. We are at
least willing to take a chance.-Ow- [,
snsboro News.