The Delta independent., 1916-02-18

The Empire Zinc company at Can
on City has doubled its force of work
men inside the last two months, the
number now being $50 men. Opera
tions at this plant are said to be large,
ly with the electric process
From Grand Junction comes the re-
port that Mesa county will spend s16,-
200 on the Midland trail this year
$1.150, according to the report is to be
expended on the Rainbow Route be-
tween Grand Junction and the Delta
county line.
The famous Glitch gardens in Den
yer are to be sold at auction according
to reports coming from that city this
week. Mrs. o. L. Malo holds a mort
gage for $4,000 and interest against
the property. Her total claim is $685.
96692.
The Progressive state convention
will be held in Denver, May goth, to
select delegates to the national party
gathering in Chicago in June. This
was decided at a meeting of the state
central committee attended by repre-
sentatives from all but three counties
in the state.
Orson Adams, former president OF
the Mesa County National bank at
Grand Junction, who is now serving
a six-year term in the Federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth, will be eligible
for parole on July 1st, and his friends
are now busy in the effort to have
him released. He will present petit
tion asking for parole. Adams has been
an assistant in the commisary depart
ment of the penitentiary.
John F. Campion, millionaire Lead
vile and Denver mining man and bank
er, is critically sick at Hot Springs,
Ark. according to reports. and grave
fears are entertained by his friends
and family. The mining man is II
years old. and his condition has be-
come so serious that Mrs. Campion.
who is with him. wired to Denver for
the family physician. DIR. William c.
Bagot. DR.. Bagot started for Hot
Springs Saturday afternoon.
Announcement was made last Mon
day that petitions to initiate a change
in the city government of Denver by
substituting a mayor. treasurer. asses
sor and nine councilmen, for the pres
ent five commissioners. has been plac-
ed with the printers. The names of
]. T. Macy, ]. T. Clapp and A. A.
johnson were placed in the petition as
representatives of the signers. The
petition requests the city commission
ers to call special election within 80
or 60 days after it is filed
A shipment of linen ordered by the
Denver people from Germany just on
the eve OF the declaration of war in
August. 1914. and manufactured in that
country within three months after the
beginning OF hostilities. reached Den
yer Monday. /. B. Allen manager of
the Shirley hotel. who received the
shipment says that apparently no one
knows how it reached this country The
order was for $4,000 worth of linen for
the hotel. The advance of prices of
linen since the order was placed has
given the hotel company a saving Of
more than $1,000 on the deal.
The industrial commission has be-
fore IL now notices of desired raise
in wages from nine different crafts
These include the machinists OF the
Rio Grande, Colorado and Southern
and Midland. bricklayers. painters and
carpenters. steam filters and local
Denver machinists not in railway
shops. The commission is entering ac-
lively into the negotiations in some
instances and reports progress toward
an amicable settlement In other cases
the unions are negotiating directly
with the employers and have asked
the commission to withhold any eaer-
else of its powers until they have ex-
hausted their own efforts.
Governor Carlson is making every
possible effort to remove Warden
Capp from the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. but up to the present