The Delta independent., 1920-10-08
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. OF GENERAL INTEREST
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/ Breaking all previous records. the
state of Wyoming received 100000
last month from state owned lands.
According TO President Gay of the
Independent Oil Mems association
the United States controls So per
cent of the worlds petroleum pro-
duction The association held their
convention in Denver last week.
The University of Colorado at
Boulder has closed its doors to new
students because Of lack OF facilities.
The records showed that 1868 stu
dents have been enrolled at the un-
iversity.
Joshua Greens. a radical, was ar
rested in New York last Friday, and
police state that he knows the iden-
uty of the persons responsible for
the bomb explosions in Wall street
Claiming that the public refused to
Captain Paul j. Rainey. famous
millionaire bachelor, stopped in Dem
yer last week. and stated that his
hunting party had shot seven brown
and black bears along the south
fork of the White river. -
f. L. Kempton. 81 years old, weigh
ing 247 pounds. and A. ]. Pinkerton,
% years OF age. weighing 225 pounds
have been appointed by Manager of
Safety Frank NJ. Downer to the police
force of Denver
The city of Denver has won in its
negotiations carried on for some time
to establish another mountain park.
and n 600 acre tract of land on Cub
creek. one mile southwest of Ever
green. will invite the tourist to that
section next summer.
build with prices of material and
labor that have prevailed for the
past few years. several prominent
| Denver lumber dealers declare that
prices have been reduced at least 80
per cent in the past few months,
reductions in materials having been
general since last spring.
According to Dame Fashion whose
edicts as to what the fashion will be
emanates from that thoroughfare OF
style. Fifth avenue. New York. has
decreei that the color scheme will be
pearl gray According to the latest
| fashion hint, n piece of lingerie or a
string of beads will meet the approval
of the smart set for evening gowns
; The Colorado tax commission re-
/ ported to the state board of equali-
zation last Friday that the property
value in the state for 1920 is 1882, :
| 0O7. 100. showing an increase over
| 1919 of S96.794,131. The board of
equalization met Monday to consider
/ the report of the commission and to
fix the levy for 1870. The value of
Delta county is given as s19.071,1S5.
! w. Murry Crane, former United
| States Senator, died Mt his home near
| Dalton. Mass. last Saturday death
being due to sleeping sickness which
set in after an illness of several
months. He was a power in the Re-
publican party. and It is said that
national politics in which he was
deeply interested were closely con
nected with the illness which was
presursor of the end.
Twenty-Five persons were injured,
none of them seriously, and many
other narrowly escaped death last
Sunday night when passenger train
on the Rio Grande Southern railroad
was wrecked near Valley View, nine
miles south of Ridgway, Colo, Five
cars left the track and plunged down
an embankment when the trucks OF
the first baggage car were derailed.
A conference of the justices OF the
supreme court will be held in Wash
ington this week to take action on
the petition of Elihu Root and VIII
| liam Guthrie for n rehearing on all
of tho decisions affecting the pro-
hibition act and the Volstead act.
The decision of the court on this Pc
tition may bring an end to the coli
troversy over the legality Of prohibi-
tion. Wayne b. Wheeler, general
counsel for the AntiSaloon league,