The Delta independent., 1921-02-04
IN GENERAL
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The women of Ouray have nomi-
mated a complete city ticket to be
voted on at the April election, even
to the offices Of marshal and night
marshal, the latter being Mrs. This
will insure that at least one Ouray
womans husband won't dare be out
late at night.
The Grand Junction Sentinel notes
that Buel o. Thhorp of Delta, has
bought half interest in the barber
shop of j. T. Faubion, in the former
city. Mr.. Faubion has gone to Cali
fornia to spend a few weeks with his
wife and children, leaving Mr.. Thorp
in charge of the shop.
The Grand Junction Sentinel notes
that the taxpayers of Mesa county
are also kicking about increases in
their taxes. The Sentinel says that the
county commissioners and county as
SCISSOR are not to blame for the in
crease, and that if the tax payers
must kick they must kick to somebody
else.
Register Skinner of the Montrose
land office states that during the past
few weeks there have been over
so. 900 acres of oil and gas filings made
in that office. Most Of these filings
are for land in the vicinity of De Be-
que, where certain interests are pre-
pairing to drill for oil on an extensive
scale.
Federal officials have been busy
over in Alamosa lately and have sue.
ceeded in rounding up large number
of violators of the eighteenth amend
ment Twenty-six stills were captured
in the city, many of them in private
residences, and thirty more in ranch
houses in the vicinity. Forty promi-
ment men of the city and country have
been indicted.
The Grand Junction News speaks In
glowing terms of the newly re1uve-
mated law offices in that city of Fur
man & Hinman, which are in the Mar
gerry block. A partition has been
placed across the hallway and the
room thus made is used by the STEM
ograptier, flanked on one side by the
waiting room and on the
other by the private offices OF the
two members of the firm.
Reports from Vernal tell of further
trouble between the cattle and sheep
men along the Colorado-Utah line to
the northwest of Grand Junction.
Some weeks ago trouble between the
opposing livestock factions resulted
in the killing of sheep herder. the
destruction of camp equipment and
the death of many sheep. Recent re-
ports tell of the destruction of the
Nick Pappas sheep camp, the destruc'
ton being supposedly caused by cat
tlemen.
A Mexican girl, thirteen years OF
age. appeared before County Judge
Sherman at Montrose the other day
and asked his advice as to whether
she should get married or go to the
Reform school. The Judge advised her
to do neither, but to go out on a rancn
and stay there until she is considerao-
ly older. The Judge evidently thought
he ought to protect from competition
the efforts of the large number OF
widows and old maids in that town
to grab husband.
r. L. Eaton and James Boyle, re-
presenting a company operating IN the
oil shale fields on Parachute creek,
in Garfield county, as petitioning the
commissioners of Mesa county Tor a
right OF way for pipe line from the
Mesa county line on Roam creek to the
main line of the Rio Grande railroad
ar De Buuue. The petition also asks
for the right to extend telephone, tel
erraph and power lines along the same
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ted the right to build these lines in
Garfield county, as far as the Mesa
county line.
All public meetings at the town OF
DeBeoue have been suspended for the
present owing to an epidemic or scar
let fever. This includes the schools.
II is reported that the epidemic Is
not in a very virulent form, but II
might develop into that form il al
lowed to spread. Therefore the order
to keep everything closed.
All kinds of robberies are taking
place in Grand Junction and the rob-
bing mania has developed into some
thing of an epidemic. The latest re-
ported from there is the theft OF
gasoline engine Weighing 500 pounds
taken from the rear Of the w. H Aup-
perle carpenter shop. There Is some
talk down there OF placing special
ruard around the Grand Valley Ma
tional Bank building.
lust before his death the other DAY
Chas. Doeltz. prominent ouray couh'
ty rancher told his physician that ne
had buried considerable money on ms
ranch and that he wanted him TO se.
it and keep it, but died before he couio
described the location of the wealth
Ever since then d score of Ouray coun-