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The Delta independent., 1915-02-19

81 he served term in congress. at
age 40. in 1S49 he was defeated for
the U. S. Senate by Gen. Shields in
connection with which defeat Shields
challenged him to a duel: He there
after practiced law until 1853 when
he ran against Douglas for the U. S.
Senate and lost again: In 1860 he
was elected to the Presidency by a
plurality of 100000 votes.
How shall we account for the won
derful rise of this man from the hum
blest of births to this exalted station?
He was not only not college bred
but. on the contrary, only went to
school six months in all his life:
Wealth was so rigidly denied him that
his early years we're spent in extreme
poverty: Tarbell writes that on his
arrival in Springfield to practice law
as related by Jno. Speed-"having
ridden into town on a borrowed horse,
with no earthly property save a pair
of saddle bags containing clothing,
ne dSheu " Sec luTHiSuinBS IOT Bill
gle bed. found the cost to be sew
enteen dollars: He said that was
cheap enough but small as was the
price he was unable to pay It. But,
III | would trust him till Christmas
and his experiment as lawyer should
prove a success he would pay, then;
saying, in the saddest tone "If fail in
this may never be able to pay you"
replied you seem so much panied
at contracting a small debt. have a
large room with double bed which
you are welcome to share with me-"
Where is your room?" "Upstairs"
said l. pointing to winding stairway.
He took his saddlebags on his arm.
went to my room and returned with
a most changed expression saying,
,"Well, Speed, ! am moved"
While theorists in eugenics ponder
my inquiry let me answer 1t.
God made man: He makes history
and writes It with mans finger; some-
times with even that Of bad man:
He gave Grant a military education
and placed him on truck farm until
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19
Osborne Williamson Drug Go.
Registered and Ora duate Pharmacists

side. fairly gasped. President Lincoln
was assassinated last night" and burst
into tears. The whole nation vented
its grief In tears, either of sorrow or
OF rage. at the terrible calamity.
was quickly ordered to my ship on
that all naval officers wear Grape on
their left coat sleeve during six
months as a badge OF mourning.
still keep as a precious souvenir the
service.
What about the Flag? Lincoln
was of and for the common people.
He lived and died for the Flag. But
he was only one of Ss5. 900 other men
of the north who did the same thing
during that great struggle. In storm
ing an earthwork. eight officers and
men of a Michigan regiment were sue
the flag over the breastwork. The
last man when relieved of the flag
exclaimed. Boys. It never touched the
ground" and died.
Are you as careful of the honor of
the Flag as that? ask not that II
be made fetish. to be worshipped:
do ask that 1t be regarded as to its
value in the light OF the blood and
treasure that II has cost. and be res
pected In view of the mighty nation
and the vast interests over which II
presides. It required the English to
teach Americans to stand up when the
National air. is played and to toll the
ships bell when passing Mount Yer
non.
We are proud and thank God that
In the present horrible carnage in
Europe land not as in time OF our
civil war; all nations honor the Stars
and Stripes which flag has never
lost star. and to which all nations
now successfully look for every civ.
ilized comfort
Today we salute our Flag. above
price In cost of blood and treasure
and humbly thank God for Abraham
Lincoln. whose blood. under God.
united North and South and emblaz-
oned Liberty on our glorious ensign
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19

physical and nerve raeking strain in
review, and with an uncertain future
in prospect, we hear him trustfully
saying "Fondly do we hope-fervently
do We pray that this mighty scourge
of war may speedily pass away. Yet
the wealth piled up by the bondsmans s
two hundred and fifty years of unre-
Quilted toll shall be sunk, and until
every drop of blood drawn from the
back of the slave with the lash shall
be paid by another drawn from the
nations heart by the sword; as was
said three thousand years ago SO still
it must be said THE judgments of the
Lord are true and righteous alto
gether."
He had endured the crushing cares
of state during a four-years' war, un-
precedented in its sacrifice of treas
ure and of blood. carrying. like ten
der parent, the sufferings of the
north upon his heart, and yearning
day and night for the return of the
wayward children of the South to al
legiance under the flag. How was it
possible for mere man to endure such
strain?
A word about the man-Born Feb.
12, 1909 in Kentucky, he removed, in
his sth year to Indiana; at the age of
q years he removed to Illinois: at
age % he was elected to the legisla-
ture and served three terms; at age
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19

1t occurs to this paper that our
legislatures and congress might do
much better if they would take good
study to do some beneficial construc-
tive work. If the day of undertaking
sensationalism is not past it should be-
The disturbing tendency of legisla-
tion along so-called reform lines has
accomplished little aside from busi-
ness distress and the loading of the
statute books with intricate and con-
flicting laws, most of which are un-
just and unconstitutional, but which
hold their place merely because most
of those whom they affect are too
poor to fight them. Aside from all
other damaging effects, they open up
an almost unlimited field for graft.
Thousands of measures have been
passed merely to make positions for
party men wanting jobs, and every
thing within their departments taxed
and fees made collectable, ostensibly
for revenue, but purely and simply
to create a fund out of which these
job-seekers may be paid. One good
law would be a measure for the pro-
lection of counties from the burden
of court expenses. Under our Grim
inal laws anyone with a grievance can
swear out complaint and have some
one prosecuted for alleged criminal
misconduct, while the records prove
that only about so per cent of such
cases result in conviction. Many of
these cases cost the county a hundred
dollars or more where the charge is
flimsy and the amount involved but
just a few dollars. The law should
be changed to make the parties pros
ecuting pay all the expenses of the
prosecution, unless the case is unmis.
takeably one in which the people are
interested. The taxpayers of Delta
county can place much of their bur.
den of taxation upon the costs of run.
ming their courts, in whose proceed
ings lawyers and sometimes judges
appear to combine in delaying and
continuing cases, Intentionally OF
thoughtlessly, to the increasing un
necessarily of these grevious tax bur
dens. Any law calculated to decrease
court expenses should and would be
heartily applauded.
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19

Independent notes that most of the
ence come from the particular sources
where money is wanted from the
state or government. One of these
sources is the certain colleges that al
ways have a hand out for help when
a legislature is in session, and an
other is something which alludes to
itself as an immigration Bureau, and
which has a demand in for fund of
$4,000. If this paper had it's way, it
would be more in favor of throttling
all immigration bureaus than of sub
sidizing them. That our colonizing
wants will be more than supplied by
our own citizenship in an all-too-short
period, should be patent, even to the
blind. The different states, includ-
ing Colorado, have some government
land yet, it is true, but nothing COM
pared with that which afforded op-
portunities for homes just few years
ago. For centuries almost, the Euro
pean and Asiatic countries have been
overcrowded to condition breeding
discomfort, disease, poverty and star
vation. Our own population has
grown from a few millions to hun
dred millions and is increasing at the
rate of about five millions year. 1t
will not be so very many years until
our own people will be crowding
each other for homes. To the laxity
of our immigration laws is due the
larger part of our undesirable class
of population today What matters
it if we do not have a rush of home
seekers to our vacant lands? We
have a satisfactory lot of people as it
is and it is better to conserve the OPP
portunities for settlement than to
rush the filling of them regardless of
quality and to their future exclusion
What the European countries had to
have was fewer people and more op-
portunities, and that is a condition
into which this country will drift, all
too soon. of it's own accord, and with
out the aid of paid bureaus to help |
bring it about. Save the money and |
cut down taxes, or spend it on the
roads.
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19
We Are Prepared To
Serve You Well

A WISE FARMER ALWAYS KEEPS
ON HAND AT THIS SEASON A
GOOD SUPPLY OF SUCH DRUGS
AND REMEDIES AS ARE LIABLE
TO BE NEEDED At A MOMENTS
NOTICE. SICKNESS Is APT TO
COME TO HIS FAMILY OR TO HIS
STOCK AND SAFETY LIES IN
HAVING SUITABLE REMEDIES AT
HAND.
WE MAKE A SPECIALITY OF MAIL
ORDERS TO THE FARMER. OUR
STOCK IS COMPLETE AND WE
CAN ALWAYS SUPPLY WHAT Is
WANTED IN ANY QUANTITY DE-
SIRED. WE GUARANTEE QUALITY
AND OUR PRICES CANNOT BE
BEATEN. SEND YOUR ORDER BY
MAIL OR PHONE
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19
TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
New Book on Press

A new telephone directory is now
being prepared for Delta and the
Montrose district. Over $500 names
will appear in the new list, which
will be consulted every day by thou
sands of people.
Your name should be in the book for
your own good. Copy closes evening
of February 13. Telephone or call on
our manager.
THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELE-
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH
COMPANY
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19

Juanita coal. Orders promptly fill
ed. Phone Guy Blair.
Now is the time to have your coal
bins filled. Leave your orders with
Guy Blair. II you want the best.
The Delta independent., 1915-02-19

Cedar posts for sale. See L. A.
Cook.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
WYominQ.

Four natural gas wells have been
tapped in the Little Buffalo basin and
the more productive Oregon basin gas
fields. twenty miles southeast OF Cody.
the wells pouring for-h more than
65,000,000 cubic feet Cay.
The Midwest OIL Company directors
have declared the regular quarterly
dividend of per cent on $2.000.000
preferred stock. The dividend, amount
ing to 100000. will be payable Febru-
ary | to all stockholders OF record
January 20.
A treasure chamber" which may be
as rich as that In the Cresson mine has
been broken into in the Comstock
mine. twenty miles southeast OF Chey-
enne, in the Silver Crown district. A
message from the mine says the cham
ber. the extent of which is as yet un-
known, is lined with silver. Chunks OF
apparently solid silver larger than
mans fist have been broken off and
will be sent to Cheyenne for testing.
The strike was made at depth of 256
feet, while the ore body, which has av-
eraged $50 in copper, silver and gold.
was being crosscut.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
New Mexico.

The beginning of the year 1915 wit
messed the resumption OF mining by
several properties that have been idle
for some time. The urst to open up
was the Animas Peak Gold Mining
Company. formerly known as the
Hillsboro Consolidated. This com
pany started the sinking of n double
compartment shaft on its property op-
posite the Old O'Kelley shaft about
200 feet up the hillside near HiIlsboro.
1T is beginning to dawn on the peo-
pie OF New Mexico that mining Is the
chief industry of the state" says the
biennial report of the board of regents
of the New Mexico School of Mines at
Socorro, on file with Governor McDon-
aid. "The production In 1913. accord
ing to the United States geological
survey. was $17,S62 1863, and had It not
been for the European war the produc-
tion for 1914 would have exceeded
S20,000000. Mining is thus seen to be
the leading industry and means an ac-
'iual cash output greater than all the
other industries OF the state. including
both agriculture and stock raising"
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
DRY FARM PROGRESS
DETAILED IN REPORT MADE BY
W. n. LAUCk.
terestina Work Accomplished
During Past Year.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-The work
OF County Agriculturist w. II. Lauck
for the year, as detailed in a report
made to the commissioners, shows in
teresting features in the development
Of the dry farming section east of
here. The report goes into detail of
the work.
During the year Lauck travelled 49,
323 miles, of which more than 10000
miles were covered by automobile.
More than / 900 farms were visited,
seventy-five meetings for the promo
ton of farm activity were held and
the attendance of farmers and their
wives at these gatherings totals 5000.
The organization of eighteen boys
and girls clubs was accomplished and
the value of this work was exempli-
fled in the exhibits at the recent farm
product and poultry show.
One boy. living in the Monument
district, made remarkable showing
in potato culture by overcoming OBJ
stacles that were considered a draw
back to the cultivation of the product
In that particular area.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
Senators Alter workmen's Act.

Denyer-Important and far reach.
ing alterations in the proposed indus
trial commission act to be presented
to the Twentieth General Assembly
and originally drafted by a committee
of attorneys working under direct in.
structions from Gov. Geo. A. Carlson
have been made in redraft OF the
measure by the Senate industrial com.
mittee, of which Senator William X.
Eaton of Denver is chairman. The re.
draft was made after the Senate com.
mittee had considered the administra.
tion measure from all angles: had
considered communications and criti.
cisms submitted by employers and ep
ployes. and had made n careful study
of possibly conflicting constitutional
provisions and statutes and similar
laws in force in other states of the
Union. These changes modify the
measure to a considerable extent.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
BUDGET CUT
GOVERNORS CONFERENCE TO
SAVE TAXPAYERS $t4,sss.
In Making Reductions.-Short
Appropriation Bill Passed.

Western Newspaper urIon News Service
Denver.-A conference held be-
tween Governor Carlson and the
heads OF different state departments
saved Colorado $14,633.
II am more than pleased with the
ready response the state officers and
department heads gave to my request
for general cut In expenses" said
Governor Carlson. II hope they may
be given full credit for the manner in
which they have met the situation.
And l especially wish to give credit to
w. b. Fraser. fish and game commits
sioner. who has materially aided US In
our effort to reduce expenses to the
minimum"
The cut of sl4.63s is made in the
short appropriation bill passed by the
Assembly. The total amount provided
for in the measure was about $4O0, 900.
Among the reductions made were:
81 .250 from the governors contingent
fund of $1,000 made for the benefit
of Governor Ammons during the last
six weeks of his term $500 from
Governor Carlson's contingent fund of
$1,000 for the period from Jan. 12 to
April 1; $700 from the travelling ex-
pense fund of s2.400 for the public
examiner In the state auditors office: :
$500 from the salary list and 5000
from the travelling expense fund for
license inspectors in the state treas
urer's office; $333.33 from the 81 .333.-
80 travelling expense fund of the bu-
reau of mines; $500. or the elimination
OF one clerk in the state engineers
office; 5000 from the travelling ex-
pense fund of deputy state engineers; !;
$500 from the $1,000 travelling expense
find of the state tax commission ;
$40 from the travelling expense and
incidental fund of the secretary OF the
state board of charities and correc-
tions; s266.66 from the travelling ex.
pense fund of the bank commissioner /:
1900 from the game and fish depart
ment; $333.33 from the minimum wage
commission travelling expense fund
$3.50 from the state board of health
$3.50 from the meat and slaughter
plant inspectors travelling fund; $3.50
from the oil inspectors travelling ex.
pense fund; $4,000 from the 1000
fund appropriated for the payment OF
costs of publishing departmental bien-
nial reports for the last two years.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
TRIUMPH
COMPLETE CIRCUIT FROM NEW
YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO.
FIRST MESSAGE BY INVENTOR
Line Officially Opened Jan. rs, 1915.
s,4oo Miles in Length. Trans
mission Clear and Distinct.

New York.-From the fifteenth
floor OF New York skyscraper, In the
office OF Theodore n. Vail, president
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company. Alexander Graham
Bell Monday afternoon teIephoned to
Thomas A. Watson in San Francisco.
sending the first message ever tele-
phoned across the continent.
Although engineers and scientists
have worked for nearly forty years
perfecting transmitters, receivers,
telephone apparatus that all COM
bined made transcontinental tele-
phoning possible, John ]. Carly, chief
engineer of the Bell Telephone Sys-
TEN, insisted that the inventor of the
telephone should have the honor Sf
sending the first ocean to ocean mes
sage. and thus 1t was that DR.. Bell and
Mr.. Watson were at either end of the
line Monday afternoon.
In little workshop in Boston. June
2, 1875. it was Alexander Graham Bell
who spoke and Thomas A. Watson
who heard the first message ever sent
by telephone Come here Watson,
want you" were the first words ever
conveyed over a wire. That wire was
only sixty feet in length. The line
used Monday is 3,400 miles long.
A bit OF sentiment that entered into
the celebration OF the opening of the
transcontinental line was that the
sixty feet of wire used in the first
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
Colorado.

Predictions are freely made that the
Cresson output for 1915 will aggregate
over $3.000.00O.
Work is progressing rapidly at the
old shaft OF the El Paso Company, but
1t probably will be March before ore
can be hoisted with the new plant.
G. w. Hobert G. Co., leasing on the
10 Dandy mine, are shipping over 1000
tons per month OF meIium-grade or
from Cripple Creek. the screening run
ming about $50 per ton and the coarse
ore from $40 to s12.
A rich strike of smelter grade ore.
yielding $3.50 in gold-silver values to
the ton. has been developed In the
Monarch Madonna group OF mines in
Chaffee County which has the distinc-
tion of being the first group in Colo
RADIO to ship silicate of zinc.
A good body of milling ore has been
opened on the third level of the Six
Points mine, belonging to the Stratton
estate at Cripple Creek. Leod C Polly,
the successful lessees. are maintaining
a heavy production of ore carrying
values around ss and $40 ton
Work has been started in the sink
ing of the FL ORC shaft at Cripple
treek an additional $50 feet. The
present depth of the shaft is coo feet.
During the first thirty days after the
Inauguration of the leasing system at
Alma, shipments aggregating 100 tons
of high-grade ore were made to the
Denver smalters.
Leadyille opens the new year with
an estimated output OF $4,000 tons o;
ore for the month of January. com
pared with an average output OF AZ
900 tons per month In 1914.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
Cripple Mine output over $4,000 900

Cripple Creek-With the news that
the Vindicator Consolidated Gold Min
ing Company had in 1914 the most
prosperous year in its history, and
that the new strike in the Cresson
mine had brought the value OF the
recent strikes there at the time the
report was prepared up to $3,000000,
Cripple Creek miners were exultant in
the revival of activities in the district
The annual report of the Vindicator
company, just made public. shows that
the company's production for the year
had been 39.9S1 tons of an assay value
OF s1,036. 6.067.07. The gross proceeds
from the ore were $500, ,279.S0, the
largest in sixteen years. The company
paid out s270,0OO in dividends during
the year and had cash balance of
$20S,269 Jan. !. The report that the
second rich strike in the Cresson
would raise the output Of the two
strikes in the mine to s3,300.000 came
apparently from authentic sources.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29

talk in Boston was spliced into the
line Monday. thirty feet of it at New
York and thirty feet at San Francisco.
Ever since the telephone was dis.
covered, America, the land of its
birth, has kept the lead, using more
telephones than all the rest Of the
world. More than twenty-one million
miles of wire in this country now
unite nine million telephones in 10000
cities, towns and villages. All the rest
of the world has less than five million
telephones.
In 1876 the longest telephone line in
the world was from Boston to Cam.
bridge, two miles: in 1884 1t was ex.
tended to New York, 235 miles. Chi
cago and New York were connected in
1895, and in 1911 New York could say
Hello" to Denver.
In the forty years since the tele
phone was invented nearly hundred
types of transmitters, and numerous
repeating instruments and other de
vices have been used and discarded
for something better. but 1t is asserted
that no single new discovery has been
responsible for this latest and great
est achievement in the telephone art
In the two circuits OF the transcon.
tinental line there are approximately
six pnllion pounds of copper wire, or
about two hundred carloads. This
wire is stretched on 10000 poles
which il they were loaded on railroad
cars would make twenty trains OF
thirty cars each.
The route of the transcontinental
telephone line is from New York to
Pittsburgh, thence to Chicago. Daven.
port, Des Moines, Omaha. Lincoln,
Denver, Salt Lake City and to San
Francisco.
1t is understood that the rate will
be about s2i.0O for three-minute talk
from New York to San Francisco.
Stationed along this great stretch
OF telephone line the day 1t was open
ed were repairmen every few miles
in hhe big centers. in the little towns
on the prairies, in the mountains. and
out Nn the desert, ready to splice the
wires in case they were torn down by
sleet or wind. to solder a break or re
place an insulator broken by a storm
or a mischievous boy. Like soldiers
on picket duty. these repairmen viii
be kept OH constant vigil. night and
day. in good weather and in bad. fol
II is advertised that this line Is soon
TO be opened to the public for con
slant use.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
Arizona.

Work on the Pittsburg mine. below
Gold Road is showing up better orc
bodies every day.
The mine yield of gold In Arizona
increased from $4.o23.9l1 in 1918 TO
about $4.570.000 in 1914.
Work Is going on at the Bradford.
in the Patagonia district. the shaft OF
which was recently sunk 200 feet.
S. II. Reeves was in Kingman from
the Tom Reed mill with five bars OF
bullion, the total value OF which was
Sl15,00O, the cleanup for the month
OF December.
The sale of the Green Flower and
Greenup mines, which are located on
the hogback range OF Jerome has been
confirmed by j. w. Hubbard. The con-
sideration is stated to be S25,000, with
n payment in cash OF $1,000.
A report comes from blackberry that
work on the old blackberry mine has
been suspended for the present. but
that IL VIII be resumed as soon as the
Qualey brothers have gotten their
Mexican properties in good shape.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
Offer $50 for Each Wolf.

Rifle.--At meeting of the Grand
River stockmen held here 1t was voted
to supplement the bounty OF s25 on
wolves offered by the commissioners
of Garfield county by the payment of
an additional s25, making total OF
$50 for each wolf killed. In addition
to the above the county will also pay
$3.50 for each cayote killed and 81
cor bobcats, SO that good source of
revenue is opened up to hunters and
trappers in this section during the re-
mainder of 1915.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-29
Dairy cattIemen Elect OFFICERS.

Fort Collins-The following Off
GERS were elected by the Colorado
Dairy Cattlemen's Association at its
annual meeting held here: President,
B. G. d. Bishopp. Virginia Dale; vice
president, w. A. Groom, Boulder; sec
retary, George T. Sinton. Colorado
Springs; treasurer. II. d. Parker,
Greeley. The above officers, with c..
R. Sherrod of Timnath, constitute the
executive committee.