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The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

O. Peterson of Cedaredge was in
the city yesterday being enroute to
Cascade. Colorado, near Colorado
Springs, where he is to resume his
work for the Midland Railroad com
pany. For number of years Mr.
Peterson was in the service of this
company near Leadville and when
taken sick at that point few months
ago he came to Cedaredge where his
family resides for a needed rest and
restoration to former healthful con.
ditions. He proceeded on his way
to Cascade on the evening train.
Quite n delegation of the Delta
baseball fans went to Paonia last Sun
day to witness two contests between
the Somerset and Olathe teams for
western slope championship honors
1t will doubtless be remembered that
Olathe took the place this season in
IA series at Montrose where Telluride
contested them but Somerset was not
in the doings at that time. At Paonia
the coal diggers took first game of
the afternoon by score of . to l.
and the second game went to Olathe
15 to 9. And now third game will
be necessary to decide the champion.
ship. and why not pull Off this game
in Delta?
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

VACANT-First time in two years
furnished rooms for rent in Captain
Bragg's ideal home, 3O4 East Seventh
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

Percival f.. Coombe. of Delta. has
been honored by the appointment of
District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler.
Colorado, West, h. p. o. T.. he having
received his appointment officially on
Tuesday of this week. Mr.. Coombe
is an enthusiastic Elk and served as
Grand Exalted Ruler of his lodge in
this city. His study of the work and
along with his general popularity
were justifiable marks for his present
honorable promotion. The selection
will prove good one.
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

There is strong suggestion among
lawmakers and writer's, that the sys-
TEN of military training in this coun-
try be changed to mild compulsory
form. including the feature of all mill
tia being handled by the government
instead of the state, and giving each
boy a years training. with parole
subject to future call il needed for
service. 1t is argued that this would
inspire respect for the martial element
and do away with the use of state
militia in connection with local labor
troubles, relieving state executives in
measure of the more or less odous
responsibilities now developing upon
them. and cutting out the antagonism
which has existed between the labor
bodies and the local armed order
forces.
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

NJ. l.. Stewart of Phoenix. Arizona.
was in the city two or three days the
latter part of last week on business
and incidentally met George Seabourn
and family and w. A. Davis and fam
lily all of whom he had known several
years ago when they were residents
of Missouri. MIR. Stewart had not
seen any one of the persons above
mentioned since they were very young
people and was very pleased to have
found them in Delta. He was in the
city some seventeen or eighteen years
ago on a brief business visit and was
not little surprised at the growth
of the town and development of sur
rounding country.
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

f. ]. Mathews, J. B. Killian and L.
r. Wigram went up to Twenty-Five
Mile ranch Tuesday to look after
cattle.
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

Fred Jacobs and wife arrived home
Saturday morning from their few
weeks sojourn on the Pacific coast.
They took in both expositions. spent
an hour going through and inspect
ing the U. S. battleship. Oregon. and
saw many other sights well worth
seeing. They were glad to get back.
however. and Mr.. Jacobs states that
he saw no country when away that
looked as good to him as Delta county
The Delta independent., 1915-09-24

H. X. Gibbs made a business trip
to his ranch in the Cedaredge district
Wednesday evening and returned
home the following morning.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
BANK is ROBBED IN DAYLIGHT
BANDITS HOLD-UP OFFICERS IN
PRESENCE OF CUSTOMERS.
Daring Outlaws Utilize Delivery Wag.
on to Escape With $500 Loot
Plans Carefully Laid.

Minneapolis.-Three armed desper.
ADDE'S held up the Camden Park State
bank while three employees and four
depositors were in the place, obtained
$1,000 in a search of the teller's cage
and the vault, imprisoned the banks
employees in the vault and then es-
capped to Anoka county in a delivery
wagon they commandeered in the mid
die of the Camden bridge over the
Mississippi river. The robbers wore
no masks. The bank is at 414S Wash
ington avenue N.
The robbery took place according to
such carefully laid plans that no one
passed the bank while it was being
plundered and the men were nearly
across the bridge before word could
be sent to the police. They cut the
telephone wires outside the building
before entering the bank, so that it
was necessary for the victims to go
next door to telephone the police after
the robbery.
The robbers were within a foot of
$4,000 more than they obtained, but
missed it in their hurried search of the
bank vault.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
SEVEN WORkMEN FATALLY IN.
JURED IN WORST ACCIDENT
IN coMPANYS MILLS IN
rs YEARS.
ORIGIN PROBABLY ALWAYS
WILL REMAIN A MYSTERY
Searching Inquiry Is Instituted and
Every EmpIoye Who Was Near
Building, Blown to Pieces, Will
Be Put Through Examina- III.
tion-AII Young Men. ~

Wilmington, DEL, Dec. 2. = Thirty
workmen were killed and seven ia
tally injured in a terrible explosion
at the Upper Hagley yard of the Du
Pont Powder company 1t was the
worst accident that has occurred in
any of the company's plants in quar-.
ter of century. The cause of the
blast was not learned. According to
statement issued by the company
the origin probably always will re.
main mystery" Nevertheless, a
most searching investigation has been
instituted and every employe who was
near the building blown to pieces
will be put through thorough exam
ination.
There was the usual rumor af1oat
that some outside agency may have
caused the explosion, but Du Pont Of
ficials said there was not a shred of
evidence upon which to hang any the
ory.
Victims Are Young Men.
Nearly all the victims were young
men between 16 and 21 years of age.
The greater number of them lived in
and about Wilmington.
The explosion occurred in a packing
house where the black powder pellets
are prepared for shipment. Much Of
the powder, If not all, was intended
for the warning nations. The packing
house was situated in valley along
the historic Brandywine creek and
was one of large group of small
buildings.
First slight explosion was heard
in the neighborhood, followed by an
other one a trifle heavier which was
quickly succeeded by terrific blast
that not only locked the whole valley
but shook and startled Wilmington.
A great column of smoke rose from
the spot where the packing house
stood and when the cloud disappeared
there was only a big hole left in the
ground.
Only One is Identified.
Twenty-six men were in the pack
ing house when the powder went off
and not enough of any of them was
left for Identification, with the excep-
tion of Allan A. Thaxter, the fore
man, whose home is given as Port
land, Maine. The body found across
the creek was identified by shreds Of
clothing that still clung to it.
Four of the 80 men killed were
blown to pieces while at work out
side the packing house.
The pellet packing house was q
one-story frame building, 1Sx20 feet.
Not single part of it was to be found.
Company officials said there were
about 5000 pounds of powder in the
building at the time.
The property loss, Du Pont officials
said, was small.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
NORTHROP URGES ARMAMENT
Minnesota Leader Declares President
Right In limiting Time Not Ripe
for American Proposals.

Minneapolis, MINI. = Armament
for defense instead of a peace trip
tc Europe, was advocated by Dr. Cyrus
Northrop, president of the Minnesota
Peace society, and recently elected
honorary president of the National Sc
curity leagpe.} DR.. Northrop does not
believe Henry M Ford's plan is prac-
tical. Neither former Governor John
Lind nor Governor Hammond will ac-
cept Mr.. Ford's invitation to accom-
pany him on the trip to Stockholm.
II believe the president was right
In limiting that the time has not come
for American proposals for peace"
said Dr.. Northrop. Some nation has
to be whipped do not think there
are any indications of a peace until
some nation is defeated.
Wants to Be Prepared.
There is nothing inconsistent in
my holding Offices in both the Mime
sofa Peace society and the National
Security league. l believe in arbitra-
tion rather than war, but l do not be-
lieve in the nations being defenseless.
Il do not believe il time to be
scared to death, but a reasonable view
leads to apprehension of possible dan.
ger in the future, and we want tc be
prepared.
I'VE don't want to be ermed to
such an extent that other Ma ons will
fear we are bent on conquest, but we
do want to be we'll enough prepared
to inspire in them a healthy respect
for our ability and cause them to hest.
tate before forcing us into war;"
DR.. Northrop became honorary head
of the National Security league when
a local branch of the organization was
formed in Minneapolis few weeks
ago.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
BALLOON FOUND At
BEM|DJ, CLAIMED
BAG DISCOVERED BY HUNTERS
MAY BE PROPERTY OF
CHICAGO AERoNAUT.
DESCRIBES AIR RACE IN 1908
Or. y. J. Fielding of Chicago Tells of
Accident When Attempting to Land
After Being in Air % Hours
Writes For Information.

Bemidji.-Dr. Frederick j. Fielding
OF Chicago, believes the balloon found
by hunters in this vicinity recently, be-
longs to him.
In letter received here from DR..
Fielding, he says:
MY attention has been called to an
article giving an account of balloon
found near Bemidji, and am writing
Tor information. won the Internation-
al balloon race from Chicago in 1908,
landing near West Shefford, Quebec,
July B, S95 miles from the starting
point, having been in the air twenty
three hours and fifteen minutes.
In landing l trusted the ripcord to
my aide, who broke it or let go of it
when we were near the ground, leav-
ing us and the balloon to the mercy
OF the wind, nothing but the valve
cord left to land the balloon with.
I'VE were dragged through barbed
wire fences, over stumps and trees,
and dipped into the Broom river, as
we had landed in a 35-mile wind
storm
I'VE were travelling at terrific
speed, during which time the netting
OF the balloon had become sadly torn,
and as the basket in which we were
was caught under the limb of log
the bag made it's escape through the
netting, leaving us sore and bleeding.
THE last saw of the bag was that
1t had risen to lofty height and was
apparently making a bee-line for the
Atlantic ocean.
IF it is my balloon, and no doubt
1t is, it must have reached a cross
current of air that changed it's direc-
ton toward where it was found. The
bag will hold about $4,000 cubic feet
of gas. l don't think the bag had
a name on it; the name of the bal
loon was The Fielding, San Antonio" :"
The bag is being held for DR.. Field
ing.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
BISHOPS ASSAILANT TRIED
Father Lesches, Who Shot Rt. Rev.
p. r. Heffron, Is Expected to
Plead Insanity.

Winona. - The trial of Rev. Father
L. M. Lesches on the charge of shoot
ing Right Rev. P. r. Heffron, bishop
OF the diocese of Winona, on Aug. 27
last with intent to kill, was started on
Tuesday before Judge George w.
Granger in district court.
County Attorney Earl Simpson and
j. c. Nethaway of the attorney gen.
erals office, will prosecute the case
for the state, and H. M. Lambertson,
senior counsel; Edward Lees and J.
j. Fitzpatrick will conduct the de-
fense.
The state will not make an applica-
tion for the court to appoint a COM
mission to examine into the sanity of
Father Lesches, but will proceed with
the trial on the theory that he is sane.
If the question of sanity is passed
upon it will be by the jury.
The defense will be insanity, and
persons who talked to Father Lesches
soon after the shooting will be called
as witnesses. Bishop Heffron, who
was shot twice, will be called as a
witness for the state.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
SWAMP ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE

When your back aches, and your blad-
der and kidneys seem to be disordered. re-
member it is needless to suffer-go to your
nearest drug store and get bottle of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. 1t is a phS sician's
prescription for diseases of the kidneys
and bladder.
1t has stood the test of years snd has
a reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by DR.. Kill
mer in his private practice and was so
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get a bottle, SOC and
Sl.00, at your nearest druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for .
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03

Wilson Gives Dinner at White House
in Honor Of Princeton Class
of '79.

Washington, Dec. 1. = President
Wilson gave dinner at the White
House in honor of the Princeton class
of 70, of which he was member. For
the evening the president was again
Tommy" the name by which all his
classmates knew him when they were
students. Fifty-nine members of the
class, including Cyrus Mccormick,
Cleveland H. Dodge and Robert
Bridges, attended the dinner.
A number of informal addresses
were made. The president was con-
graduated on his coming marriage
and many stories of college days were
told.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Hunters Find Human Skeleton.

Duluth. = Hunters found a small
pile of human bones, skull with two
bullet holes in it and some charred
pieces of cloth and shoes about mile
east of Lester river, at the extreme
eastern end of the city. Coroner Nc
Comb is investigating what he be-
lieves to be a murder of about year
ago. Indications are that the MUIR
derer shot his victim through the
forehead, then dragged the body some
distance and hid it under slanting
tree trunk. The police found, 200
feet from the skeleton, small heap
of charred clothing, indicating that
after the killing the murderer strip
ped the body and burned the clothing
to prevent Identification.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
For Municipal Power Plant.

Rochester.--A municipal water pow
er plant that will give to Rochester
the opportunity to supply electric cur
rent to the consumer at less price
than anywhere in the country is a
project that has been launched by the
Rochester Commercial club, and prob
ably will be presented to the voters
c. the city as soon as the legal phase
of the question has been settled. The
roposition is to bond The city for
ltEcie,.. % purchase nearby power
sc SCI &c buili a plant.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
"Treated" Potatoes Yield Well.

GAINESVILLE. = So-called treated po-
tato plots in Clay county, celebrated
the country over for its potatoes,
made a wonderful showing the past sea-
son. On the A. w. and C. j. Berg land,
the treated plot, with selected seed,
ran 244 bushels an acre, while the
field run was 100 bushels. The treated
plot had no culls, while the field run
showed at least per cent. The
treated plot showed lilo per cent dis
eased, while the field run showed 2
per cent of disease. The stand on
the field run was only So per cent of
the treated plot.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Meets Death. Locked to Pole.

Minneapolis, Dec. L. Unable to
loosen his hold upon falling tele-
phone r3le upon which he was work
ing at Twenty-ninth and Lyndale ave
nues north, Carl Schold, 81 years old,
a lineman employed by the M;nneapo-
lis General Electric company, was
crushed 20 death Schold lived at 629
Van Buren street northeast, and was
not married.
Schold's feet were gripped to the
pole by climbers" and his safety belt
was buckled around the pole. He
triad fraAtically to free himself.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Serbs Battle BuIgars at Calumet.

Calumet. = Peter Nanoff is dead,
Joe Radosovitche is stabbed through
the shoulder and one unknown man is
injured by a knife wound in the back
as the result of miniature war waged
here with the utmost fury between
Bulgarians and Serbians. Sheriff Gun
derson of Itasca county and party Of
deputies have surrounded a deep
swaDp near Calumet, where Paul
Keceman an. Mic Broncin, Serbians,
wanted for the killing, are supposed
to be in hiding.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
School to Try Gary Idea.

Minneapolis, Mimi. = An expert
ment which embodies the Gary idea OF
double use of school property and
which, Doctor Spaulding says, will in
crease the capacity Of the first four
grades so per cent without increasing
the 'ength of the school day, will be
put IL operation at the George Ban
croft school, Thirty-eighth street and
Fourteenth avenue south. BY the plan
five class rooms will be made to ac-
commodate eight classes and allow
opportunity for special work in the
regular session.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03

Henry Ford. the Detroit manufnctur
er and philanthropist. announced al
New York that he would take a peace
expedition to Europe to attempt to
end the war. He said that he had
chartered the Scandinavian liner Os
car ii. which will sail on December
4. Mr.. Ford will invite leading Amer
ican pacifists to join the expedition.
Upon his conviction by twelve mem.
bers of his own conference held at
Lexington, KY, on charges of indis-
cretion with prominent woman OF
Middleboro, KY, Rev. B. P. Chatham,
a prominent minister of central Ken
lucky. was expelled from the Ken
lucky Methodist conference and min
istry.
Brand Whitlock, American minister
to Belgium, arrived at New York on
the steamship Ryndam. 81 am going
back to Brussels" he said, land have
engaged my passage on the Rotter,
dam. sailing December 28."
The matrimonial difficulties of Will
liam Street, assistant chief of police
of Madison, ILL.,, eliminated at st.
Louis, Mo-, in the murder of his wife,
Mrs. Catherine Street, and the death
of Patrolman Charles F. Barmeier,
who attempted to save her.
Captain Boyd. naval attache to TIA
German embassy. was accused in fed
eral court at New York of being the
dispenser of German funds in this
country and riding roughshod over
the laws of the land. The accusation
was made by Assistant United States
District Attorney Roger Wood at the
opening of the trial of four officials OF
the Hamburg-American line.
Five so-called night riders and two
private detectives were wounded in a
pitched battle fought in the center of a
marsh mile southwest of Clarkton,
Mo. Seven of the night riders were
captured. The night riders are ten
ants and farm laborers who demand
higher wages and lower food prices.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
EurODedr, War News

LOrC hltcneuer, Lno bTltlSn SeCrc
tary of state for war, visited General
Cadorna, commander in chief Of the
Italian armies, to whom he delivered
in the name of King George, the Great
Cross of the Order of Bath.
Main headquarters of the German
army issued the following official
statement: with the flight of the
Serbian army into the Albanian noun.
tains our great operations against this
army are brought to close. Our OBJ,
ject of establishing communication
with Bulgaria and the Turkish empire
has been accomplished. Thirty-six
thousand and seventy Serbians have
been taken prisoners and 627 cannon
and SO machine guns captured.
Reports issued by the war office at
Paris chronicle a continuous series of
victories for the aerial corps of the
allied troops. Five German aeroplanes
were brought down in as many engage
mentS.
An allied submarine has sunk the
German protected cruiser Frauenlob.
according to a semiofficial announce
ment at Petrograd, says Central
News agency dispatch to London.
Lord Kitchener arrived at Rome
from Naples He conferred with Pre-
Cal4 To-, Nf fhn oil facb
anxiety to secure Italian aid in their
Balkan campaign. the greatest impor-
tance was attached to his presence.
A victory for the French forces in
Serbia in an offensive movement un-
dertaken on Tuesday last is reported
in a dispatch from Saloniki to the
Havas agency at Paris. The French
captured the town of Brousnik, west
OF Krivolak.
Austrian troops evacuated the forti-
fed towns of Rovereto and Mori in the
Tyrol, which form the southern de-
fenses of Trent, gays dispatch from
Rome.
Mitrovitza, to which city the Serbian
capital was moved from Nish, has
been captured by Austro-H Hungarian
troops and Pristina has been occupied
by the Germans, is was officially an
nounced at Berlin.
Greece has satisfied the allies that
there will be no Greek interference
with their Balkan campaign under any
circumstances, according to an Athens
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company at London.
A Petrograd dispatch to the London
Morning Post says: "The Germans
have commenced the evacuation OF
Mitau, their forward base in the Riga
Dvina region. They are preparing to
withdraw from the now hopeless task
of capturing Riga and the Dvina line.
Janopol has been captured by the Rus
sians."
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Gives JeweIry to Art Society.

Minneapolis, Mimi. B. Walker
has presented to the Minneapolis So
ciety of Fine Arts collection of 40
pieces of Egyptian jewelry and another
collection of 40 Greek terra Gotta
statuettes known as Tanagra figures.
The accessions committee of the So
ciety announced the gift following a
meeting at which the collections were
formally accepted. The Egyptian jew
elry is of the same type as the large
collection that forms one of the fea-
lures of the art collection in the Walk
er gallery.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
ST. PauI's First White Boy.

st. Paul, Minn.-BaZille Gervais,
the first white man born in st. Paul,
76 years ago, and his wife, Margaret,
celebrated the fifty-second anniver-
sary of their wedding at the Gervais
home. The old folks gave a recep-
ton that was attended by many
pioneers of Hennepin and Ramsey
counties. Mr.. Gervias donated the
site for the first Catholic church in
ST. Paul, where the City hall now
stands. He was born in a log house
at the location now called Seven
Corners"
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Lane May Go On Supreme Bench.

Washington, Nov. 29.-Franklin K.
Lane, secretary of the interior, prob
ably will be appointed to the United
States supreme court bench if Con-
gress passes ap act retiring Associate
Justice Lamar because of i'll health.
In case Mr.. Lane is raised to the
bench. Secretary of Agriculture Hous-
ton will go to the interior depart
ment as his successor, ard Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture Vrooman Will
succeed Mr.. Houston as head of that
department, according to reliable re-
ports from administration circles.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
punwoody School to Cost Million.

Minneapolis, MINI. = That the
plan of the trustees of the William H.
Dunwoody estate for the erection of
new industrial school to cost approx
mately $1,000,000 on property oppo-
site the Parade has assumed definite
proportions was the statement made
in the city council by Alderman Kis-
tier
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Icheap and big canBalkingP do not
Save you money. Calumet Pure
and far superior to sour milk and soda.
Not Guilty.

DO you know that that young man
who is going to marry your daughter
Is an inveterate gambler?'
Nothing of the sort. He merely
thinks he u.s. Why, trimmed him out
of SIS myself at stud poker the other
night"
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Foreign

twenty-five lives were lost when
: Chilean full-rigged steamship Carel
Mapu went on the rocks on the west
coast of Vancouver island Not a soul
on board survived. The ship was bat
tered to pieces.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-03
Boat Grounded; Barge Lost in Storm

Boat Grounded; Barge Lost IN Storm.
Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich, Dec. L.
The steamer Ireland, downbound with
a cargo of wheat for Buffalo, is
aground in a snowstorm at Sweets
Point, st. Mary's river. A tug and
lighter have gone to her assistance.
The barge Connolley Brothers, in tow of
the tug Illinois, broke away while
coming down the river from Emerson.
near rarisan Island. The tug was un-
able to pick her up and she was lost
in the snowstorm. The tug is back
at the 500 and will return to look
her up. She has not been reported.