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THE DELTA INDEPENDENT.
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. SJ7
A Warning to Evil Doers.
The ••sensational gambling raid”
made recently by Night Mrrshal Price
has earned for him a name and he is
being commonly called around town,
•‘Billy Pinkerton.** While he could
not produce evidence sufficient for
prosecution it still remains that he
made the raid and from the information
he evidently has been giving out to a
local paper, more properly known as
the * ‘yellow peril*’ it is his opinion that
the city attorney does not know as much
about prosecution as he does. If the
city} council could only be made to
recognise his real worth and appoint
him city attorney and also police judge
he might be able to accomplish what
he seemingly desires.
The “yellow peril” has insinuated
that the officers had known that gamb
ling had been going on in this room for
some time (Mist, when as a matter of
fact the room was not rented until one
day before the “sensatio;ial raid” oc
curred, which of course only adds
another feather to the cap of the ever
alert night marshal, but also brands the
insinuations of the “yellow peril” as
false. This room, w’hich is a small one
was rented for a sleeping room and the
occupant claims he invited friends to
his room where they were playing a
frienly game of “sluff” and that the
door was not even locked. This should
at least be a warning to the evil doer
for there was nothing lacking in this
case but the evidence.
The night marshal had no right to
make an arrest of this kind without a
warrans, as there was no disturbance
and it is generally believed that the
town would have been liable had the
men submitted to arrest and been
locked up. An officer should be vigilant,
but when it comes to making arrests
that are themselves unlawful, and with
put evidence to sustain him he is cer
tainly going off **balf cocked.”
Cattle Market Shows Improvement
Denver Slock Yar'sO;t. 16. —A I
markets noted a s.ight improvement
last week, although the advance was
not very material. Eastern markets
were quoted steady to strong with
instances of u ten cent advance. There
was a good many cattle here, but any
thing desirable sold readily as there was
a good demand. The market closed
steady to a shade higher on good stulT
and barely steady on the common kinds.
Very few beef steers were included in
the week's supply and packers were
unable to get what they wanted. The
ilemand, therefore for light weight
steers carrying plenty of fat is excellent.
I'ows were plentiful, but choice ones
rather scarce. The best on sale were
only good enough to bring 82.70 with
the bulk of the fair to good at $2.35 to
$2.65 and medium cows around $2.00 to
$2.30. Sales below #2.00 were numcr- 1
ous on account of poor quality. Bulls j
sold well as the demand is very good.
$2.20 represents top for the week. ]
Veals were also higher with the best at
$4.00 and one bunch of light veals this
morning at $4.50.
It was the same old story in the
feeler and Stocker market. There
were a good many steers here, but
plenty of buyers for all of them. A
number of the big eastern feeders now
have buyers stationed here and are
buying all they can get. The small
feeder is also well represented and a
large number have been here from the
eastern states during the last week
buying all the way from one to a doxen
loads each. Dealers also had plenty of
orders and the result was a good, active
market for anything at all desirable at
rather better than river prices. Best
atoers sold around #3.65, freight paid,
and #3.65 Hat with the bulk of the
pretty good at $8.25 to #8.46 and medium
to fair at #2.90 to $3.25. Trade today
was active here at prices fully a dime
higher than last week’s close notwith
standing the fact that river markets
were reported weak.
THE TOWN COUNCIL
Gets Busy and Transacts Some
Important Business.
Regular meeting of the Board of
Trustees was held last night with the
mayor and all trustees present.
Mr. Landry and Mr. Morgan were
present and protested against the water
rate on barber shops, the matter, with
other complaints, if any, was referred
to Ordinance and License committee,
to be reported on at next meeting.
Judge Welch, representing Joe Rol
lins, was present and stated that Mr.
Rollins would stand by his proposition
made some months ago, for settlement
of hia claim for water at coal mine.
On motion his proposition was accepted
provided large enough pipe be laid to
conduct water from spring for both
Rollins & Kuhnley mine and one-half
interest be quit-claimed to the town.
Waterworks committee reported that
in their judgment seperate tap was not
necessary at lot 18, block 10, in Crotser
building. Two motions to put in seper
ate tap were lost.
The Hose company was represented
and presented a new nozzle they had
tested end found all right, which they
desired the board to purchase at $35.
The matter was referred to the Fire
committee with power to act.
Aggrcment between town and Mrs.
Anna Hopkins settling all differences
relating to tap and use of water pre
sented and accepted.
Ordinance making levy of 20 mills for
town tax for next year passed.
The lumber purchased for repair of
old tank, was turned back to the Grand
Mesa Lumber company to dispose of
for town.
Question of settlement of amount due
W. R. Johnson am loan refereed 4? the
financial committee.
1 Bills to the amount of £434,63 were
1 allowed.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
KumUbrd hr Ih-I'h Cutmir Atmmrl Coin: Any.
Real estate transfers fur week end-
I ing October 17.1905.
U Sto John A. Jamison, patent to
nw' 4 se 1 , sec 26. Tp. 15 SR 92 W,
6th P M
Smiley M Carter to Harriet R Jamison.
W D nw> , sc* | sec 26, Tp 15 S R 92
Con. *135
Prank C Hcpworth to Eliza J. Womack
QC D to Howard reservoir. Con. *1
J A Rovaart to Wm Smail W D to lots
21, 22, 23 and fraction of 24, block
4, Rovaarts add., Paonia. Con. *ll3
Charles J. I,ippcrt to Anthony Bruton,
W D part of sec. 12-15-96, n 4 acres.
Con. *SOO
Equitable-Securities Co. ct nl to Daniel
P. Cook, daed s l , ne’ 4 and so 1 A nw> 4
21-15-96. Con. *1,400
Daniel P. Cook to Frank V. Bean W D
st» ne‘ 4 nnd se‘.| nw> 4 21-15:96.
Con. *I,OOO
Mary W. Charlton to Catherine E.
Springer, W D lots, block 1 plat “A"
Cedaredge. Con. *l5O
Delta Investment company to Jennie
Bear, W D lot 15, block 8, plat “B”
Delta. Con. *ls
William S. Butterbaugh to T. J. Wyatt,
W D part of sec. 26-15-95; 52 acres.
Con. J3.6C0
Arthur B. Ellison to Albert N. Myers,
W D uwX nw>s 29-14-92. Con. 15,000
John N. Lance to Mary E. A. Lance,
W D se.lt swJt 1-15-95. Con. *1
Wilson B. Stockham et al to Mary M.
Blanchard, W D lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7 and 8, block 5, Stockham Bros.
Add. to town of Ccdrrcdge. Cou. *2OO
lasts Crew al II |k Altitadt.
Sugar beets grown at an altitude of
7,800 feet took the prize at the Glen
wood fair for containing the greatest
amount of saccharine matter. Investi
gations have boon made in that section
which proves conclusively that beets
are the very beat crop for high altitudes.
THE UFFICIAIi PAFSIR OF DELTA COI’NTY
DELTA. COLOBADO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1005
Overland Canal Completely
The Overland canal which is tvjHter
land* in the vicinity of Payns'S
is at last being finished up. This
was begun some six years ago sad i.s
owned mostly by those having Jpul
under it, which amonnts to some iOO
acres. It will add many new and wK>f
perous homes to that section of Btltu
county.
Womans’ Club Meeting. |
The first regular meeting of the
Woman's Club will he held at the) me
of Mrs. Will H- Mathers Monday ■ jfht (
October 23, at 7:30. The Club hat de
cided to spend the year in the stud r of
the history, geography and liters ure
of Colorado.
•* '
All ladies interested in literary #ork
are cordially invited to join the d|ub.
A large attendance is urged for Mon
day evening, that the work may fcfcgin
auspiciously and some important IP*-*
ness be successfully transacted.
Following is the program to begfrec:
“Geography of Colorado"—Mr*. C.
E. Gray.
“History of City and County of
Delta’’ —Mrs. George Stephan.
“Agricultural Products of the state
-Mrs. N. E. Clack.
Music—Mrs G. C. Wilson.
Mun fiscs Is the “Fes.”
E. M. Johnson, president of- the
defunct Fidelity Savings associated of
Denver, was taken to the peniteraary
Monday to serve a three-year sentence
He was convicted for making falM^re
ports of the financial condition of Ae
institution and therebv swindling 'de
positors out of many thousandfe* 4>f
dollars.
SduaMlsp Trial Bcfias.
The irtal of Helen SchmSAftp
gun in Denver Monday for the killing
of her husband on July 9th. Mrs.
Schmidlap sent for her husband to
come to her room and after a quarrel
shot him dead. It is claimed that she
went to Denver with the avow*ed pur
pose of killing her husband, who had
failed to support her and had tried to
induce her to lead a life of shame in
order to support him.
Advertise* Letter List.
Letters remaining uncalled for in the
postoffice at Delta. Colo., for the week
ending Oct. 20. 1905.
Ralph Butler.
R. ForriBter.
Mrs. G. Q. Wallace.
Miss T. H. Williams.
Yeargin, J. M.
In calling for above letters please say
"advertised.”
ELLA NEW. P. M.
Hyde Will Tell.
Janies Hazen Hyde, the deposed vice ;
president of the Equitable Life Insur
ance company, has agreed to return to i
New York City and tell what he knows
about the misuse of the company's
funds. It is thought that some very*
startling disclosures will be made when •
Hyde goes on the witness stsnd.
The Lvxury of the Bath
®ls wholly wanting unless the
Bath Room is supplied with cer
tain necessary articles. Ourstock
of Bath Room essentials are as
complete as the alphabet.
Bsth Brashes Soaps Toilet Water
Violet Oouoooia and Coiopnes
form a list from which nothing
canbe missed without discom-
THE SEATON DRUQ COMPANY,
Delta,a Progroaslve Praacrlpilon Druggist'a.
The Brand Law.
I In view of the fact that many stock
men are still using unrecorded brands
on their stock, thus being deprived ol
the benefits of the present stock laws,
( it is deemed advisable to call attention
to the following synopsis of some of
the provisions of the present stock
laws:
Section 2 of the bresent Brand Law
provides that, in all suits at law* or in
equity, or in any criminal proceeding,
when the title to animals is involved,
or property to be proved, a certified
copy of the record of the brand shall be
prima facie evidence of the ownership
of such animal by the person whose
brand it may be.
Section 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the present
Estray Laws provide that, when any
person shall take up an estray, a writ- j
ten description of 3uch animal shall be
mailed to the Secretary of State Board
of Stock Inspection Commissioners at
Denver. If the name of the owner can
be determined from the state Brand
Records, he shall notify him of the tak
ing up. In case the owner can not be
determined, a description of the estray
shall be published etc. If said estray
is not claimed within ten days after the
last publication of the advertisement,
it shall be sold and a bill of sale given
to the purchaser. Such bill of sale
shall be a legal and valid title to said
estray.
JAMES COWIE;
Secretary of State.
Redaction Sale.
To reduce my large stock of fall and
winter hats I will give a ten per cent
discount on each hat and will give a
fancy pin with each hat. Have human
hair goods, band bags, collars, hairpins.
; garters. Remember! the Delta Millinery
in the New Brick, opposite the Golden
Town Ataaost Wiped tat By Hre.
The entire business section of Neder
1 land, Colorado, was almost wiped out
by fire last Friday morning. The fire
! started in a rooming house and spread
, so rapidly that it was soon beyond
1 control.
Exposition Mill Pay Dividends.
| It is now stated that the Portland
exposition will pay its stockholders a
dividend amounting to nearly forty per
1 cent. This is. perhaps the first in
! stance where an enterprise of this kind
| has ever paid out.
National League Wins ChawpiouslUp.
In a series of baseball games played
between the New York National and
the Philadelphia American League
teams for the championship of the
world the Philadelphians failed to score
for four straight games.
Yellow Fever Gradually Decreasing.
; The yellow fever at New Orlears
has gradually dwindled down until the
' total number of new cases per day is
| less than a dozen.
TAKES BOTH GAMES.
High School Defeats Grand June
tion in Football Game—Girls
Win at Basket Ball.
The crowd of rooters that came up
from Grand Junction last Saturday saw
both their high school football and
basket ball teams go down to defeat.
The football game began promptly
at 2:15 and hardly five minutes had.
elapsed before the Deltaites had by
snappy end plays succeeded in making
a touch-down, by kicking goal they had
six points the best of the playing.
When the team lined up again from the
kick-off, the Delta boys gradually took
fhe ball down the field, but this time j
every inch of ground was stubbornly
fought for, but Anally a Delta man got i
around the right end, ran thirty yards j
for a touch-down, but failed to kick off, !
After the ball was put in play again the
two teams swayed to and fro in the
center of the field until the first half
ended.
The Grand Junction team seemed to
play better in the second half and took
the ball to Delta territory from the
beginning and after fifteen minutes of
play had the ball on the five-yard line.
Here the home team took a brace and
held the visitors for downs "and carried
the ball back towards the center of the
held when time was called, neither side
making anything in the second half.
The contest ended with the score stand
ing 10 to 0 in Delta’s favor.
At half past four the girls represent
ing the Grand Junction and Delta high
schools faced one another and the
basket ball game began, it being agreed
that the game was to be played in U r
minute quarters, In the first qaaxxei
the visiting team made a basket fnm
in the second quarter neither team
made anything, but the third proved
lucky for Delta and a basket was made
from the field, which gave them 2 to 1.
Another basket was made in the same
manner just as time was called, but
was not allowed. In the fourth quarter
both sides made a place basket which
made the final score 3 to 2in favor of
Delta.
A reception was given at the K. P.
hall in the evening in honor of the visi
tors and all announced that they had
had a good time even if they did get
scooped in the high school contests.
Twtuty-Oae Injured iu a Wreck.
Twenty-one persons were injured,
two seriously, in a wreck on the Mis
souri Pacific near Kibum. sixty-eight
miles east of Pueblo at 6:30 Monday
morning. Train No. 7 from Kansas
City encountered a broken rail and the
chair car, tourist car and sleeper *'Ne
pcsta” were overturned, rolling on
their sides.
Stele Tax Four Mills.
At a meeting, in Denver this week, .
of the state Board of equalization a tax !
against all property in the state was
placed at four mills. The railroad
comapnies recently requested that
property values be raised in certain |
counties where they were paying from
sixty-five to eighty-five per cent of the j
taxes. This the board did, but also
raised the valuation of the railroad
property in the same proportion. Dell a
is not one of these counties.
Sumner Excursion Balts via Dates Pacific.
To all Missouri river points, Kansas
City, St. Joseph, Omaha, etc., and in
termediate points east thefeof to and
including Memphis, St. Louis, Peoria,
Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, St. Paul
and Minneapolis. May 26, 28; June 2,
4,5, 9, II and 12 and July Ito 10 in-,
elusive at One Fare Phis 2 for round
trip. Final limit October SI.
J. C. Ferguson,
Gen'L Agt., 941. 17th St. Denver. 1
PRIC E FIVE CENTS.
Fight at Olathe Dance.
Charles Sewell, who went to Olathe
last Friday night to attend a dance,
got into a difficulty which culminated
in something like a rough house. Ben
Gaines, whose wife Mr. Sewell danced
with several times, it seems became
jealous and attacked Sewell on the floor
while dancing, striking him on the back
of the head and again as he turned.
Sewell pulled a gun and struck at
Gaines, who caught the blow on his
hand, which was quite severely cut and
bruised, when friends interfered and
stopped the melee. Both parties Were
fined for the disturbance to the amount
of about $30.00. ;
High Five Party.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kistler entetained
the High FJve club last Wednesday
evening a dainty lunch was served and
a very pleasant evening spent by those
present. Those there were Mr. and
Mrs. Will Chiles, Mr. and Mrs. M. R.
Welch. Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Gale, Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Mathers; Mesdamea J. F. Sanders, C.
E. Mower J. W. Sanders, and Miss New.
Argument in Burton Case.
The hearing of arguments by Judge
Vandevanter of the United States cir
cuit conrt on the demurrer of United
States Senator Burton of Kansas, to
the indicement charging him with hav
ing used his influence in behalf of the
Rialto Grain and Securities company of
St Louis, before the postoffice depart
ment, was begun Monday at St. Louis.
Mr. Burton was remanded last spring
after his case had been sent back by
tne Supreme court, and the indictment
charges him with knowingly receiving
compensation vrhile a United States
senator for services rendered in a rsso
cnen pending an which the govern mat
1 wiiT InterestXt!5gnkg
Chicago, counsel for Burton declared
that the indictment fails to charge that
Burton knew or the case then pending
against the Rialto company. He con
tended that the word “knowingly'* in
the indictment only extends to the qu
estion of his having accepted compen
sation, and that it connot be extended
i to be an allegation that Burton knew
of the case pending -
Attorney Haynes argued further that
while the indictment alleges that Sen
! ator Burton agreed to receive compen
! sation for his services, it does not set
: out with whom he agreed. The indict
| ment, he argued does not specify as to
* the services rendered or when services
were to be rendered.
It Is alleged by the indictment. Hay*
nes stated that the question being in
vestigated by the postoffice depart
ment was whether the Rialto company
I had violated section 5480 of the crim
j inal statues. The only power that
makes such an investigation is a court
and if the postoffice department was
making such an investigation it was
without right.
Senator Burton was present in court
and sat quietly beside his counsel.
HOUSE OF COMMONS ATTACKED.
English Journal Declares It Does Net
Do Its Duty.
It is commonplace to-day that the
House of Coiroirr.s Is degraded. It
has lost Its authority and Its frcstlsc.
It has suffered itseli year alter year
to be bamboosled. deceived, hood
winked. It has voted away enormous
sums without adequate inquiry or
guarantees for their return. It has
allowed huge peculations to be made
under its very nose and it has col
luded with the official efforts to screen
the criminals. It plays into the hands
of ministers who for years are carry
ing on a game of equivocation, evasion
or. to speak plainly, of falsehood. The
House of Commons does not do Ite
duty, does not want to do Its duty and
does not care how long ministers may
wriggle and maneuver so long as thej
will stave off the dissolution. When
the majority have got to that state of
hardened selfishness It Is not easy to
find a remedy for that which U car*
rles in the bones. Whether n new
house and a new speaker can care Iff
resales to be seen.—The Positivist.