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The Delta independent., 1917-05-25
Instantly Killed
BY Land Slide

w. E. Pears. SO, road master for
the Rio Grande Southern, with head
quarters at Vance Junction. was in
stantly killed Sunday morning at IL: 80
o'clock when caught in the Black Slide
at Aimes and carried 800 feet down
the hillside in a mass of mud. rocks
and trees. The body was buried in
tons OF debris and was not recovere'
until Sis o'clock Sunday afternoon.
after a force Of 16 section men had
worked all day.
Pears was in charge of a gang OF
section men working at the Black
Slide. The track had been cleared Sat
urday and the south bound train went
thru Sunday morning about s o'clock.
Following 1t, the stub train. carrying
q section crew and supplies, crossed
the slide and parked at the water
tank. The ditcher was then brot up
and work OF digging away the upper
bank and dumping the earth over the
lower side began. Pears was in the
cut with the section men, who were
balla5ting the track.
With a roar that could be heard two
miles away the slide broke loose and
hundreds OF tons of mud and rock
started from up the hillside about 100
yards. The men fled with the first
warning from man stationed on the
bank and Pears also started for safe
ty. Weak from a recent illness he
was unable to get away fast enough
and was caught in the flood and
carried over the cliff Rocks weighing
a ton or more were washed down the
hill. trees were snapped off like
matches and hundreds OF tons OF mud
followed.-Grand Junction News.
Mrs. Pears and two daughters. Ra.
chel nnd Bessie. arrived from Tellu-
ride Wednesday evening. and the son.
Ray, came In on the morning train
from Portland. Dragon to be in at
tendance upon the last sad rites.
The fl neral services will occur from
the Presbyterian church this after
noon. Rev. J. II. Cramps having
charge.
The deceased was a splendid man,
citizen and friend. devoted father.
During the past few months consid-
erable time was spent by him in the
hospital at Salida and but recently re-
covered sufficiently to enable him to
return TO work. only to be cut down
in the vigor of life. His untimely end
is sad blow to his family. but despite
this. having all lived in the Christian
faith. that at that great day when tn ,
Heavens are rolled away all heart
breaks will be forgotten in the blessed
reunion that will be theirs.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

A very pretty wedding service was
performed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Meyers Saturday morning at
9 o'clock, when their daughter Miss
Ethel became the bride of Mr.. Hugh
Dickerson, second son of Mrs. Fred n.
Dickerson.
SONS and these were arranged about
the fire place in heart shape, before
which the wedding party stood.
Rev. ]. H. Cramps performed the
ceremony. the beautiful ring service
being employed. Following the nup-
tials dainty wedding breakfast was
served and the happy young couple
departed at once for Denver. showered
with congratulations of their friends.
The groom will be employed in that
city.
The bride was very attractive in
gown of Copenhagen blue trimmed in
Paisley embroidery and the groom
wore a suit of midnight blue. Mr.. Fred
Dickerson and Miss Grace Powers
were the attending couple.
While this union is somewhat of
surprise to their friends, they have
many. all of whom will wish them
much felicity on their voyage through
life
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25
Places for Req
iStratiOn Named

delta, c. E. Blaine, City Hall.
2.-Hotchkiss, E. S. Bobbitt, Bobbitt's s
Office.
3.-Crawford. H. E. welborn. Post
Office.
4.-Eckert.. Lawrence King, Eckert
fall.
5.-Paonia, Wallace DeWoody, Bruce
Hall.
6.-Delta, w. @. Cook, Court House
7.-Cedaredge, j. C. Rowbotham
Hotel
S.-Read, j. F. Whiteside. Post Office
9.-Delta, l. B. Raichart, North Delta
School
1O.-Paonia, E. E. Whitney, Midway
Packing House.
1.-Paonia, !. w. Carson, 126 Grand
Avenue.
12.-Cedaredge, ]. w. McCune, Log
School House.
13.-Delta. L. w. Sweitzer, Residence
F. Willoughby. Hotel
15.-Paonia, C. C. Hawkins. Hawkins
Office.
16.-Cedaredge, Jesse Patterson, l. o
OF Building.
17.-Bowie, Wallace Bowie, Company
Bank House.
Guy Merritt, Vernon House
1s.-Austin. ]. C. Watts, Drug Store.
20.-Lazear, A. e Busey, Post Office
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

On Monday evening. following the
regular meeting of Garnet Chapter No.
80. o. f. s., the members presented
Mrs. S. Porges with handsome souve-
the handle. This was given that lady
as souvenir, she leaving within a
few days with her family for her new
home in Denver.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

On Wednesday occurred the annual
election of officers of the Delta Wo
mans club. as follows: Mrs. Harry G.
Stockham. president (reelected); Mrs.
b. o. Windle, vice president; Miss
Eveline Nutter. secretary (re-elected)
Mrs. II. J. Baird. treasurer; Mrs. w.
II. Fluallen. chairman program com
mittee.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Ernest Englehardt, who has been
suffering from an attack of rheumatic
troubles, left yesterday afternoon for
Glenwood Springs, where he expects
10 remain for ten days taking baths
and recuperating.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Mrs. A. C. Remington was a most
charming hostess to the Mothers club
last Friday afternoon. About thirty
ladies enjoyed very excellent pro-
gram arranged by Mrs. Oliver Nc
Gully. At the close of the afternoon
dainty refreshments were served.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

There are a good many slips scatter
ed about the city partly or entirely
filled with pennies for the purchase
of new books. An persons holding
such slips are urgently requested to
fill them and return to the Delta
Public library without delay.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25
State Inheritance
Taxes Collected

Inheritance taxes. as announced by
Attorney General Hubbard, have been
collected during the first four and a
half months of this year. amounting to
$4,000 those during the first two
weeks OF the present month amounting
to s2s.235.73. The amount estimated
by the general assembly for two years
was 100000. The following collec
tions were made during May:
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

The morning train yesterday carrie,
with it Misses Bess Mcbride and Edith
Coleman, charming high school teacf-
ers of Cedaredge. Miss Mcbride goes
to her home in Pennsylvania and Miss
Coleman to Denver.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Stockham Hardware Co. report the
following sales of autos this week:
Mr.. Scullon, of Scullon Cattle Co.
Cory, Overland; n. G. Rodine, Over
land; Clarence Peterson, Ash mesa
Maxwell
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Ray Calkins and Miss Bessie Hotch-
kiss were married at Montrose We'd
nesday and came to Delta that even
ing by auto for few days visit. They
were accompanied by Mrs. w. r.
Hotchkiss (nee Miss Bertha Trippl
who will visit several days with her
parents. The bridal couple will con-
tinue their honeymoon trip to Ouray
today.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Mrs. Harry Stockham will entertain
the Baptist Missionary society, Friday
afternoon, May 25th, at her home on
Garnet mesa.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

yesterday morning for Prescott, Ari-
zona, in response to a message an
nouncing the grave Hines of her
daughter, Mrs. NJ A. Harp, of that
city.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Mrs. S. Porges entertained the mem
day afternoon.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Mrs. T. H. Gale and son, Ted viii
cox, were arrivals Sunday from Sar
Diego, California, where they have
spen. the past four months.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25
Program For
Memorial Day

Memorial Day will be fittingly OBJ
served in Delta on next Wednesday.
Those who wish to take part in the
parade will assemble at Odd Fellows
hall before 10 o'clock, at which time
the line of march will be formed as
folio IS: Boy Scouts and Grand Daugh-
ters of Veterans; G. A. R Post; Wo-
mans Relief Corps; citizens. March
to cemetery.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas G. Crauel
motored over from Montrose on a
brief business visit yesterday.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Announcement is made in a Flor
ence paper of the death of Uncle
Billy" Smith. a pioneer of the Wet
more section, at Pueblo, at the age
of 9S years. Mr. Smith at one time
owned fine fruit ranch on Surface
Creek mesa and was an active worker
in the Baptist church at Eckert for
years. He leaves five sons and five
daughters. Mrs. Charley Smith, of
Delta, is a daughter-in-law His burial
was beside his wife, in Good Hope
cemetery, at Wetmore.
Mrs. Adam Wishart was called to
Denver the latter part of last week by
the serious illness of her daughter,
Miss Rose, who was a student at the
Denver University. Mrs. F. F.. Frasier.
sister OF Mrs. Wishart. accompanied
her to Denver from Montrose. Miss
Rose Wishart had undergone an op-
eratien for appendicitis from which
she was thought to be nicely recov-
ering, but she suffered a relapse and
her conCition was considered serious.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25

Mrs. Theo. A. Douglas was hostes:
to the Bide-a-wee club yesterday after
noon.
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Born TO Mr. and Mrs. Geo. C. stock
er, Garnet mesa, May II. son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. w. r. Wool
ever. May 10Th daughter.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Leavitt.
Garnet mesa. May 18th. n son.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. James 5.
Dowd. of Delta, May 22nd. son.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Hotchkiss have
rented the Joe Ingram residence on
Palmer street and moved there this
week.
The Delta independent., 1917-05-25
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS .
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Clarence Carlson went to Salida yes
terday on short pleasure trip.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Plans for Send-Of Dinner
9th Armory Named as Base
for Soldiers Eatables

Robert s. Maffitt, chairman of the
transportation committee for the send
of dinner to the soldiers, announced
last night that the 9th Coast COM
mand's armory, on Fourteenth Street,
between Sixth and Seventh avenues,
will be the place where all the sup
plies necessary for the dinner Will be
assembled.
Captain Marsh, in charge of the
armory, told the committee that he
would be glad to have them collect
provisions there. -.
"Now that we have central base"
said Mr.. Mafitt, 81 wish that all the
contributors would begin sending their
provisions in from IL o'clock Monday
morning. Headquarters will be put in
shape by 10:30 o'clock, and from then
on we will be ready to handle all the
supplies that are brought. It is
especially urged that contributors of
cigars, cigarettes, cheese and the like
see that these provisions begin NOV
ing toward the armory not later than
noon Monday"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Draft a Hard Blow
To Medical Students
journal" Warns u. 5. OF
Error Made by England
Early in War

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-An article con-
troverting statements made by Provost
Marshal General Crowder to the effect
| that only about one-fourteenth Of the
country's medical students can be
taken into military service on the hrst
draft appears Ia the current issue OF
"The Journal of the American Medical
| Association"
, 1t is the claim Of "The Journal" SIS
well as MANY leading physicians. that
students can best serve their country
i by completing their medical educatlons
and going into the army as physicians
To draft them as fighters for the
[ trenches would be to repeat an error
made by England at the beginning OF
the war, resulting in a dearth OF medi-
cal officers for the army, it is pointed
out.
"Is it possible that these officials
(the provost marshal and Secretary OF
War Baker, imagine that medical
science and medical education have
made no progress since our Civil war!
asks "The Journal"
Figures compiled by "The Journal"
estimate that s5.5 per cent Of the medi-
cal students of the country have regis.
tered for military service. part OF
the reply to General Crowder is as fol-
lows:
at may be true that one-fourteenth
of the total number Of all persons reg
istered will be drafted and placed IN
the National Army on this first call.
But how many OF the total number
registered will it be necessary 20 ex-
anime TO secure this one-fourteenth;
the 100000 for the first call! General
Crowder says that 60 per cent OF those
called will be exempted. If this is
true then it will require l,IoOOOO OF
those registered to supply the 100000;
that is, it will take 18 per cent, or near
Is one-ffth of the total number reg
istered, to supply the first call, using
General Crowder's figures.
LET us apply these facts TO the medl-
, cal student problem. Our estimate was
that $50 per cent of medical students
(s,S79) were within the draft age.
Eighteen per cent of the total number
of medical students registered is 1,o96;
this number would be subject TO the
| first call.
General Crowder, however, would
| have us deduct 60 per cent of this
number for exemption. But the 60 per
cent exemption is based on the total
registrations; it applies 70 and includes
| all classes Of the male population be-
tween twenty-one and thirty-one years
old; the lame, the halt, the blind, pris-
oners, insane, those who are engaged in
( occupations necessary to the conduct
Of the war-every male person in the
/ United States between twenty-one and
/ thirty-one years old.
at is extremely rare that a medical
student is a married man; extremely
| few arc supporting dependents. Obvi-
| ously those who are have independent
incomes, or they would not be in the
medical schools.
"As to physical defects. there is prob
/ ably no group of men who. as class,
are physically better qualified than
/ medical students. As TO aliens, our in
vestigation shows that the rumbcr of
aliens is a minor quantity, one-half Of
/ per cent.
ave unhesitatingly assert that in
stead of there being 60 per cent Of ex-
emptions a,long medical students,
there will be less than 10 per cent"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Plattsburg Men
Now All in Camp
Entire Student Body Equip
ped and Will Start Train
ing Tomorrow
lstan Correspondence

PLATTSBURG. Aug. 25.-The entire
student body Of the second officers
training camp, three thousand strong,
slept tonight in the unpainted bar
racks which will be their homes for the
next three months.
All this morning the second incre-
ment poured into camp. and practically
the entire roster had been filled and
each Of its members equipped, in so far
as the authorities were able to outfit
them, by early afternoon.
The men who have come here TO be
hammered and tempered into efficient
fighting machines are oil from the New
, England states and New York. Until
Monday morning they will be con-
cerned chiefly with getting their bear
ings and preparing their equipment for
the three gruelling months ahead.
So far the discipline has been light
and the work of an extremely mild
character. At $3.50 Monday morning
the work will change entirely for the
candidates. From then on they will
be run through one of the hardest
courses of training ever devised by
men, anu Oo uhhOic
10 stand up beneath the work which
will be piled upon them. But those
who emerge with the coveted strips
Of brown braid about their blouse
sleeves will be men that the nation
may trust.
Already many OF tho candidates who
nave had no previous military expert
ence arc working hard in the attempt
to gain some rudimentsry knowledge
before the real work sets in.
Groups of men gather about the pa
rade grounds and stumble through the
manual of arms under the direction Of
some more experienced company mate.
Others squat in a semi-circle and try 70
guess the words one OF their fellowG
spells out with the red semsphore
flags. Still others spend much time in
their barracks poring over books Of
military lore.
Tomorrow the work Of inoculating
all the newcomers against typhoid and
smallpox will begin. Those who have
returned from the first camp will not
be forced to go through this ordeal.
The men to-day were ordered 10 re-
main in camp until dates for the in
oculations were given out. Because of
this the usual Saturday half holiday
and Sunday off will be omitted this
week
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
n MObiliZinQ Draft Arny-PrOgreSS IC

pressed to the breaking point to keep
up her supply of aviators. Therefore
she has forced them through the avia-
tion schools often in less than four
weeks. England is little less pressed:
but still realizes the great necessity OF
haste. Hence her slightly lower per-
centage Of fatalities.
In the Canadian camps, where the
young American was killed. the ayia-
tors are turned loose in the air after
forty minutes of instruction.
1t is predicted by some aviation off,
GERS that the American slow but surer
method will be abandoned once this
country has aviators fighting. Then
there will be more eagerness to turn
the aviators out rapidly and less desire
to spend weeks making sure that the
would-be aviators can be trusted alone.
This they fear will be followed by a
rise IN the percentage Of fatalities in
the aviation schools.
At present, however, those schools
are about the safest place young man
can be-
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
America Leads
Allies in Safety
OF Student Fliers
Only Six Deaths in United
States Aviation Service
This Year
None Killed Training
In England One Per Cent Die
in Learning; in France
One and a Half
None Killed Training
From The Tribune Bureau

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-America is
training her aviators with an aston
ishingly small percentage of accidents
and with practically no fatalities. This
is because of the extraordinary care
used and the sacrifice of haste where it
iiterferes with the maximum safe
guards.
Reports on the desk of George o.
Squier, head Of the Signal Service of
the army, which includes aviation, show
that since the first Of the year there
have been only six deaths in the SER
wee. One of these occurred in Cana
dian aviation training camp, and with
Canadian officers in charge, so that this
is properly chargeable not to the
American aviation service, but to the
Canadian, despite the fact. that the
young man was training to be an
American army aviator.
The only other death of a man in
training for an aviator's commission
was that of Sergeant Carruthers, who
was struck by propeller while on the
ground. Lieutenant Eberts was killed
while flying, but ne was an army
aviator and was not in training.
Captain Ralph Taylor was killed at
Mineola, but he, also, was an army
aviator, and was an instructor. The
other two deaths were those of Pri-
Yates Merritt and Speleno, who were
killed on an unauthorized fight. AS a
mGtter Of fact, the men slipped off with
the machine without the permission of
their officers. They were not flying
students.
So that, actually, of the large num-
ber of young men who have been
trained as aviators not one can be said
to have been killed in the United States
while learning to fly. Sergeant Eberts,
the only man in training who has been
killed in an American aviation camp,
was killed by an accident which might
be compared to man cranking an au
tomobile, when backfire in the motor
breaks his arm or causes the crank to
cut his head.
II il were permitted to print the
number of men who have gone through
American aviation training camps since
January / last the low percentage of
deaths would be startling. 1t has been
little less than amazing TO aviation
officers from England and France who
have visited the War Department. In
England one man in every hundred
who attempted to learn to fly has been
killed. In France the rate is three out
of every two hundred-and this in each
case before they are taken near the
enemy. The casualties result entirely
from accidents in flying
One big reason is given for the low
percentage of deaths in America. and
while this reason may be comforting
to American mothers it is not so fiat
tering to American superiority as may
have been assumed. France has been
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26

the exemption scandal involving DR..
Albert Fritz, volunteer examining ply
sician for Board So in Brooklyn, by
the discovery that wealthy young man
of Jersey City had not been able to
get discharge in his home town had
jockeyed transfer to the jurisdiction
of the Brooklyn board and had been
pronounced physically unfit by Fritz.
The Jersey City man-Harry Goldfarb,
son of a merchant of prominence-is
under arrest. So also is Julius Wolge-
muth, of 1941 Eighty-frst Street,
Brooklyn, who is alleged to have made
affidavit that Goldfarb was resident
of Brooklyn.
The district board had no meeting
Yesterday, but its seven committees
spent most of the day passing on in
dustrial exemption claims and appeals
from the decisions Of the local boards.
The findings will be announced to-mor-
row, after they have been ratified by
the full board.
Colonel William Ives Washburn, as
sistant secretary of the board, held his
usual daily hearing in Room 323, IN
the Federal Building. Two of the men
who came to him for advice were ne
groes. by name Albert Jackson and
Henry Morse.
eve wants a exemption. sah," Morse
told the colonel.
"0n what grounds ?"
"You see, sah," continued the spokes-
man, "we'se Germans. Yessuh, we was
both bon in Germany"
prove it," invited the colonel.
Thereupon both Jackson and Morse
spoke many sentences in German that
was pronounced fawless by exports
whom Colonel Washburn called in.
However, they will be required to sub
nit affidavits explaining just how they
happened to have been born enemy
aliens"
Another accident of birth brought
George Murphy, Of 1873 West Sixty
third Street, to Colonel Washburn's
desk.
81 niver," said Mr.. Murphy, "have
availed meself of the opportunity 10
take out me first papers as citizen
of the United States" >.
"But YOU want to fight, anyhow, don's
YOU ?" ventured the colonel.
81 do not" answered Murphy, with
emphasis.
az man born in Err
erin nothingl" snapped Mr.. Muir
phy. I'm a Toork by birth"
And he had the papers to prove that
ne wasn't the same sort of "Turk" that
numerous other Murphys are some
times slangily called, but real Toork,
and for that mather subject av IN
Sultan"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-26
Services To Be Held at
7:3O and 9-Benedic-
ton at Night
Camp Now Completed
21,OOO Additional Men of the
Rainbow Division" Will Ar
rive During the Week

CAMP MILLS, Long Island, Aug. 25.
Tomorrow will be the 165th Infan-
try's first Sunday in camp here, and at
1880 and again at in the morning
religious services will be held in the
open. An altar has been erected at
the edge of the camp, and Father Fran
els Patrick Duffy, chaplain of the old
69th, will celebrate mass.
At 1880 tomorrow evening, after the
camp has been cleared of the thou
sands of visitors who are expected TO
take advantage OF Colonel Illness
order throwing the camp open to the
public from to in the afternoon,
benediction will be sung.
Services will be held in the field,
rain or shine, Father Duffy said to-
night. "You know the Irish like their
religion with just little touch Of
hardship" he added "And so, even #
it rains, services will be held with the
men in their ponchos."
Ready for Additional Men
Camp Mills is now ready for the
21,O0O additional men who are to
come here within the next week to
bring the First Rainbow" division up
to its full strength of $4,000 officers
and men. With the arrival of $50 men
from the 14th Infantry of Brooklyn
to-day, the 165th was brought to
within about 90 commissioned officers
of its full war strength. Word came
from the War Department at Washing
ton to-day that these officers would be
supplied shortly from the Plattsburs
men who won their commissions in the
first officers training camp.
One hundred and twenty men ard
five commissioned officers, comprising
the 1st Ambulance Corps Of New Jer-
sey, arrived in camp from Sea Girt
this afternoon. Tomorrow the Sd
Battalion of the 4th Pennsylvania In
fantry and the Sd and 4th companies
of Maryland Coast Artillery are due.
Monday will bring the Virginia Coast
Artillery.
Camp Mills will soon be taking on
more warlike appearance. The men
will shake their old regulation army
shoes Monday and don the new trench
shoes which reached camp to-day. The
new shoes are twice as heavy as the
old ones, and the soles are studded
with nails. They are of the type which
has proved most efficient in the Allied
armies.
As soon as they get new shoes the
men have been instructed 20 lace them
on tightly and then stand for twenty