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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
FRISCO TO EXAMINE
 COLD STORAGE STOCKS

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7.--1he whcle force of the city adninistra- ton will te enlisted it was apnounce1 yesterday in al attempt to find { exactly what cood stocks are being held here in cold storage. City off cials said last night that they had been i.formed that local cold storage warehouses were packed with the very food products that are being sold at famine prices. on the plea that the supply is short.
 The board of supervisors, depart meEt of health, bureau of weights ard measures and the police department started today a combined survey of the food supply on hand and where ever it is found that accumulation has been made for the purpose of corner ing the market measures will be adopted to force that particular pro- duct into the market at a reasonable price.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

SEATTLE is again in the limelight. It's mayor, chief of police and other officials are arrested and undergoing trial for alleged bootlegging and con- .;piring to evade the prohibition law%. Seattle has been plague spot in the dry column ever since the laws went into effect several years ago. Its ofti- cials undoubtedly have pandered to the whisky ring. for it is inconceiva- ble that so gigantic conspiracy could be formed without the connivance of the officials. Now that the federal government has taken hand in the prosecutions the offenders will un- doubtedly be brought to speedy jus tice. If these men have betrayed the people who elected them to office it is well they should be punished for it. The police of large cities too often ignore the public and use their office to fatten on ill-gotten wealth pried from the malefactors with whom they come in contact. It is high time Se- attle cleaned house.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
This Day in History

Feast day of Sts. Perpetua and Fe- licitas; St. Paul, the Simple; St Thomas Acquinas.
 Constantine l. issued first civil la" for the observance of Sunday in 321
 Henry ", communicated for tho second time in 1080.
 Hannah Dunstan killed ten In, dians and escaped in 1911.
 Providence, R. l., founded ir 163S.
 Pope Innocent XIII. died in 1724
 James Aitkin hanged for treason at Portsmouth. N. H., in TIT.
 Luther Burbank, American hort; culturist, born in 1849.
 Battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Arkansas, in 1862.
 Steamer Navarro wrecked off Nor way with loss of 745 lives in 1883.
 China leased Port Arthur to Rus sia in 1898.
 John Charles Fremont, rear ad' miral of U. S. Navy, died in 1911.
 Monoplane flight made from Lon don to Paris by Henry Salvey, who covered 222 miles in IF minutes, ir 1912.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
BRITISH NAVY KEPT BUSY.

Little is heard of the British navy, the main body of which is negatively bottled up" in a Scottish seaport, but it is an extremely busy arm of lhe British defense service. The big super-dreadnaughts are doing practi- oally nothing except to wait for the German fleet, which is hidden behind Helgoland, but thousands of smaller naval craft are fitting to and fro on the seven seas in the service of the Entente.
 Naturally, the German submarine is the most annoying pest that John Bulls warships have to contend with, and it has been so extremely active that Sir Edward Carson, first lord of the admiralty, admits it has created a situation grave and dangerous" Yet the submarine has not accomplished what Germany expected of it. Accord ing to the British embassy at Wash ington only one per cent of the ships entering and leaving British ports through the German war zone during the first two weeks were sunk. That is one out of every 100 ships.
 The first lord,. in report for the admiralty, presented, some interest ing figures on the accomplishments of the navy. He said the total number of the personnel carried across the seas by the naval forces up to the end of last October was 8,00O,0O0, and up to the same time the naval forces had moved more than 9,000,- 900 tons of explosives; 100000 sick and wounded; more than 100000 horses and mules, and more than 100000 gallons of petrol.
 Something of the navy's job in blockading Germany is shown from the fact that during the war up to October 31, 1916, the British had ex- amined 15,15O neutral ships. In January last, alone in British ports, 1,754 ships were examined and it, expected that the figures for Febru- ary Will De no smdiler thdh thoeo ho' last month.
 Incidentally, Sir Edward Carson said he had record of forty-one en- counters with submarines during the last eighteen days-which may be taken as a hint of the activity of the German U-boats and also of the meas ures employed by the allies to coun- teract them. He made a strong de.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1917
PAYING THE PRICE.

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 gift of giadness and of pain, And whether we pay for pleasure or whether we pay for sin, It is always paying the price for life. no matter where we begin. We say we have had a lot we've enjoyed and we've shared in the best; We sit sometimes with little dream of old content in the breast; And then when we look away and think of the things that were nice It all comes over us, lucky or sad, that we've had to pay the price. The magnate pays it for his. as the pau per pays it, too; And the saint pays just as the sinner coes and the unsaved have to do; In all that we have and hold or in all that we've thrown away, It is sure in the end to come to this. that there was price to pay. We pay it for love and peace. for cheer and comfort and song; We pay for shining and going astray, we pay it for doing wrong; In all that we are or seem, in gladness or grief or pain. We are always paying the price for the things that we lose or gain.
 -Folger McKinsey.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
GREEK TROOPS ARE
 CAUSING MUCH TROUBLE

LONDON, March 7.-According to adyices received by Greek authori- ties here there has been serious trouble among the 5000 Greek troops who surrendered to the Bui- gar-German forces at Kavala and who are now interned at Goeritz. Hunger and discontent over the fail ure of the German authorities to keep repeated promises of repatria- tion had led to frequent mu- tinies and a large number of deaths from disease, exposure and privatio' are also reported.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

fense in favor of arming ships by say ing that the navy's figures show thet 7S per cent of armed vessels escaped after they had been attacked by sub marines while only 24 per cent of un- armed ships escaped.
 The influence of the British navy is being felt in the war even though seemingly it has accomplished little in an offensive way and has suffered much. The task of controlling th seas, notwithstanding that the ene- my's main fleet is bottled up. calls out the greatest naval powers full resources.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

THE King of Greece makes out a case against the Eentente Allies. He denies that there is less pro-German and less anti-Entente sentiment in Greece than there is anti-Hellenic propaganda in England, France and Russia. "The whole feeling of the Greek people toward the entente powers,' he says, lis one of sorrow and disillusionment. They had heard so much about this was for the de- fense of. little nations that it has Leen a very great shock to them to be treated, as they feel, very badly and cruelty" After all there isn't much defense for the Allies actions i'll Greece except such defense as can be advanced on behalf of the strong who disregard the weak to further their own interests.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
POLITICIAN OFFICERS.

NOW that the militia has shown that it is ill-manned, ill-equipped. and unable to stand the hardships of the regular soldiers life, the eyes of the War Department have been opened tC the necessity of having men trained at West Point and in active service to command the United States army.
 The politician officer must go. He has lived his day, and far outlived his usefulness. At the head of Fourth of July parade or at political gath ering he was the exposure of all eyes, the envied of all swains; in the field he was a numbskull, unfit for serv- ice or to command, and unpopular with his men. His worthlessness is not the most serious indictment against him. He is ill the way of better men. and to get rid of him it is often ne. cessary to promote or pension him.
 There are enough trained officers in the United States to officer great army if they were taken from under the thumb of crossroads politicians and ward heelers. In case of war these officials will probably be set aside for politicians. like the Colonel, who will demand and receive rank in which they have had no experience and should have no claim. Of what benefit is it to the country to pay out four or five thousand dollars to make an officer and then place a man over him more familiar with the grip of the blow handles than of the sword.
 To secure a thorough, efficient. sys- tenatized army it will be necessary to place it under the head of a commis- sion of army men. out from under the domination of even the President, who is always a civilian politician. Give army officers command of army af- fairs for ten years and we would have an army of which the nation would be more than proud.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
DYING MAN CONFESSES
 TO KILLING WOMAN

NEW YORK, March - killed Wilhelmina Samoa sixteen years ago in a little town on Long Island. l was jealous of her and shot her. Her husband is now in prison suffering in the place of this poor wretched beast who is dying" This confession was made by Wi...am Herman in the city hospital in Hudson, N. Y. He died of pneumonia without giving more de- tails.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

THAT there undoubtedly is frame up on the part of certain newspapers in the United States to rush the coun- try into war by the publication of false dispatches calculated to infiame the minds of the people is indicated by the news of the past week. Of all the exciting headliners of the past two weeks scarcely an article has proved to be true when investigated.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

"The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion" Is the title of e brochure received in last nights mali. The editor knows very little about the New York stock exchange, but we could be arrested and sentenced to a heavy fine for publishing what we think of it.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

is a good newspaper man, and will
 give his readers a good paper. An-
 chorage needs a good Democratic newspaper and Mir. Stone will furnish one. We wish him success.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
Schumann-Heink Better.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. March 7.-The condition of Mime. Schumann-Heink. the operatic contralto. two of whose ribs were broken in a taxicab accident last week, is reported to be nearly we'll again.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

BERNARD M. STONE. formerly of Seward, has purchased the Forty Ninth Star of it's owner, John Hecky, and will enter the journalistic field
 at the railroad terminal. MT. Stone
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
MINISTER SENTENCED
 TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

HAMMOND, Ind, March Frank Peyton, formerly minister of the gospel, was sentenced to imprison- ment for life in the Superior Court here for killing his sweetheart, Abbie Mills, last September, in fit of jeal- ousy. He was captured in New Or leans.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
Court Opens Tomorrow.

The jury term of the District court called for March 8, will open tomor- row morning at 10 o'clock. A grand and petit jury has been called to re- port tomorrow morning and mum. Der of cases are expected to come be- fore the court for hearing.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07
ARRIVES
 AND SAILS WESTWARD

The steamer Alameda arrived from the south at 1880 this morning and sailed west about two hours later. The passengers for Valdez were C. Tjosevig. L. J. Erickson, F. Dixon, J. s. Reeves, w. s. Newlan, c. c. Keen an, George E. Scott, c. H. Lamfey. $. Erickson, J. D. MacCormac. M. Ker- ney, w. O'Laughlin, Corporal Noakes and Private Fields.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

J. D. MacCormac, well known and popular business man of CordoVa was an arrival on the Alameda. He will attend the session of the District court as 8 grand juror.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

J. Reeves of Cordova, who was drawn on the grand jury. was an ar rival on the Alameda to attend court.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

J. F. Dixon of the Patton Mines Company, arrived on the Alameda after a business trip to the States.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-07

Chris Tjosevig. the well known man, returned on the Alama da from a business trip to the States.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

mobilization OF troops in training
camps will materially change some i'm.
portant trade channels. The Exchange
is in close touch with all these move
ments and prepared instantly to sup
ply any demand that springs up In any
new situation.
The Exchange has received report Of
the attitude of officials at Washington
to the effect that the American people
will be expected to consume large
quantities of fruits and other com
modities that cannot be exported, thus
substituting the home food supply for
those cereals meats, grains, etc. that
will be needed by the allies. Through
its export department the Exchange
will also make various shipments OF
apples and other fruits as conditions
will permit
Fruit growers OF Lower Surface
creek should communicate with the
Surface Creek Fruit Growers associa.
tion and make arrangements with II
for marketing. thus getting the benefit
Of cash orders, F. o. B. sales and most
F., complete service.
There are approximately ten thous.
and carload buyers in the markets of
the United States. You can count the
cash buyers that come to shipping
point on your fingers. The rest are
stay-at-home buyers who depend on
marketing organization like the Ex.
change for their supplies. The North
American Exchange is in daily touch
with this entire demand and obtains
the stay-at-home buyers F. o. b. ord.
ers for the local growers association.
The North American Exchange on
account OF supplying these buyers with
commodities from every fruit growing
section Of the United States naturally
handles an annual volume OF business
that commands the attention of the
best trade throughout the country. A
carload buyer who has been purchas
ing his Florida grapefruit, his Texas
potatoes, his Tennessee strawberries.
his California Asparagus, his Michigan
grapes ETC., from the Exchange sales.
man day in and day out is naturally
gong to want his Colorado fruits
through the same channel.
To sum up. the Colorado fruit grow.
er who works through the local asso.
citation having the Exchange service
Is assured of the best obtainabIe
prices, the least risk. and the greatest
protection.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
The Real Remedy.

The Treasury Department is said to
continued large shipments of gold
from this country to Japan; and steps
have been taken to discourage the
movement These steps consist in in
structing the sub-treasury at San
Francisco not to redeem gold certifi-
Gates, upon the ground that they are
legally redeemable only at Washing
ton This means that shipments of
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

ment proposed by a prominent Dem
ocrat, which, if it had been adopted,
would have relieved hundreds of dis
tillers from the tax. The amendment
provided that liquor in the custody of
court during proceeding in bank
ruptcy should be exempt from the new
revenue tax Mr.. Stafford showed to
his colleagues that the inclusion Of
such language would be simply putting
premium on a dealer or distiller go
ing into bankruptcy. as by so doing he
would avoid payment Of $1.10 on each
gallon of his stock. Representative
Stafford's argument forced the modi-
fication of the amendment SO as to
provide that the tax should be paid by
the person to whom the court deliver
ed the distilled spirits, and in that
form it was adopted by the House.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
War Prices for Colorado Fruits
How the War Will Affect the Market for Colorado Fruits


The question fruit has asking Will the
of the
the will the
fruit have
is interesting Colorado
done by
organizations helping these problems
immediate officials
presented
Agriculture and from Mr. Hoover the food administrator
will
essential
the fruit the
effective handling
during
The North American Fruit Exchange
the
organization with saaried
the
any general fruit marketing
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

gold from Pacific ports to Japan must
be subject to the additional charge for
transportation from Washington to the
Coast and puts gold at a premium
everywhere except at Washington !:
and is indicative of an inflated cur
rency.
No restraints of this kind can check
the flow of American gold to Japan. 1t
is sent there in settlement of a trade
balance which is increasingly to our
detriment because of the constantly
enlarging amount of our purchases
from Japanese manufacturers and pro-
ducers. The real remedy for the loss
of gold to Japan is to raise the tariff
on articles which Japan is selling to us
and which find reader entrance to
our market since the Democratic re-
duction in the production which Re
publican tariff laws gave to American
industries.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
There Is No Hope.

The day before Registration Day
there was a wedding ceremony per-
formed at New Yorks city hall every
three minutes. Whether the groo,ns
were all slackers or not is a matter
of conjecture. The assumption is that
many of them were. They will net so
easily evade the draft; for the author
tiles have made it known that marri-
ages contracted since the declaration
of war will not operate as bar to
service in the ranks. Consequently,
the swift rate of a wedding every three
minutes is not equal to that other rec
ord of a sucker every minute
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

cupies a position of neutrality and i'm
partially that insures fair treatment
to every organization and its members.
According to plans now scheduled,
the service the Exchange will give to
Colorado fruit growers will be a more
intensive and complete marketing SER
vice than they have heretofore enjoy
ed, and in addition to the year round
sales offices of the Exchange in all the
important markets the Exchange has
a team of travelling statesmen who
visit the small markets and thus great
ly increase distribution and consump-
tion of these fruits. This team of sales
men is scheduled to cover thoroughly
the farming districts of the western
states and concentrate for a large con-
sumption of Colorado fruits in western
territory. The Exchange is fully in
formed on the prosperous conditions
existing in many of the grain States
and is skilled in handling this special
trade.
The Western Slope Fruit Growers
association has been doing business
with the North American Exchange
since 1912. Howard Fletcher, formerly
sales manager OF the Grand Junction
association, has for the past two or
three years been the sales manager OF
the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, OF
Seattle, tshippers Of 5000 cars of fruits
per annum). Mr. Fletcher says the
sales machinery of the North American
Exchange. after his three years test
OF 1t, is absolutely the best in the field
He has used 1t in marketing many
thousands of cars of fruits, he ha,
Travelled through the various markets
from Coast to Coast, has met tn,
branch managers and become person
ally acquainted with them.
This year above all others frui
growers in Colorado need to safe-guar,
their investment in fruit orchards b,
marketing their crops through sucl
local organization as has the advant
age OF the Exchange service. Official
OF the North American Exchange sa,
they look for very satisfactory mar
ket for Colorado peaches, also applei
this year. Their knowledge of croI
conditions In the East and elsewhere
put them In position to speak will
authority, and 1t is also believed tina
war conditions, through causing I
great stimulation in general trade. viii
increase the purchasing power OF tn,
people generally. II is realized that
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
Mother and Babe Drown q, p.oo,,,

Paonia. June 20.-The swirling wa
ters Of the North Fork yesterday
claimed two victims. Mrs. Louis Cru
den and her one-year-oid babe.
Mrs. Gruden who resides on ranch
on the south side OF the river near
here had been to Somerset to bring
Mr.. Gruden. who is workman in the
mines. home and the party was passing
over a small bridge three miles west
OF Somerset. When nearly across the
bridge It gave away and threw the
mother and babe in the torren. Mr..
Gruden was thrown across to the bank
in safety. One OF the horses was
drowned.
Searching parties spent the night In
vain effort to recover the bodies.
They have not yet been found.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

anu business ability. They are also
fruit growers on a large scale The
president Of the Exchange is Florida
orange and grape fruit grower whose
shipments exceed those Of any individ-
ual grower in the State. Another Of
the directors Is the owner Of the Hill
crest Orchards Of Medford, Oregon,
one of the largest pear orchards in the
Northwest. The other directors are
interested in the growing of Citrus
fruits cranberries, etc. The Exchange
serves the grower first, last and al
ways.
The Exchange statesmen in all the
markets are men Of unusual ability
and long experience in handling
peaches, apples and other fruits. These
men are under bond and close super
vision. The entire organization Of the
Exchange was voluntarily placed sub
iect to the inspection or supervisor of
government or State representatives
more than a year ago.
Any fruit growers association using
the North American Exchange gets
the most skilled salesmanship, plus
the absolute certainty OF square deal
together with the most scientific dis
tribution and sale to the markets OF
the Country small and large.
There is no organization interested
in marketing Colorado fruits that IL
so close to the market situation as tht
North American Exchange. They are
carefully analizing the effects of thu
war on prices, condition of crops II
competing sections, the effect of thu
canning demand, in fact every elemen
that will enter into making correc
prices for the Colorado crop.
The Exchange has contracted it
services to the Western Slope Frui
Growers association, at Palisade, SUI
face Creek Fruit Growers association
at Austin. the Union Fruit Company
at Paonia, Rogers Mesa Co-Operativ
Fruit association. Lazear. to the Utal
Fruit Growers association, at Sal
Lake City. and others. There has beel
a great deal of talk an dargumen
among growers of the western slop
that central sales agency or fedora
tion OF association would prove o
great benefit to the fruit industry an,
help the selling problems.
The North American Fruit Exchang,
is this very central organization tina
the growers need. 1t is the mos
simple solution of the problem. It oc
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
Leo Flower and Miss Carol Die

Leo Flower and Miss Carol Diemer.
a Montrose couple, were married Sat
moon trip in Denver, Boulder and
other points. They will live at Olathe.
Mr. Flower has been for some time
salesman for the Western Colorado
Power company, and has done consid-
cradle work in Delta, where he has
many friends.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
Some More Graft.

During the consideration in the
House of the liquor tax contained in
gressman William H. Stafford of Wis
consin detected a joker in an amend
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22
Card OF Thanks.

We wish to earnestly thank our
friends and neighbors for their kind
ness and sympathy during the Illness
and at the death OF our little son,
James.
MR. and MRS. JAS. ZANINETTI
and FAMILY.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

Baptist Church.
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching Sunday morning at II.
Children's Day exercises will be
held in the evening. A good program
has been arranged.
ALFRED b. PERRY, Pastor.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

LOST-At E1ks' hall or on Main
street evening OF June IS. silver
pendant with opal inset Reward for
return to Mrs. Crosby Hoar. 74o Main.
street 90
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

suscribe for Independent now,
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

wANTED-Dining room girl at New
Perkins.
The Delta independent., 1917-06-22

Lost Bunch OF keys Return to lis
w. 9Th for reward. 20