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THE DELTA INDEPENDENT.
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. :*T
Public Invited to Attend.
Stockholders Meeting of the Delta
Dressed Meat Company will
be Open.
While the meeting of the stockhold
er* of the Delta Dressed Meat company
is ostensibly for the purpose of electing
officers there will be many matters of
much importance to the enterprising
citizens of Delta transacted- This is
purely a Delta county enterprise and all
who are in any way interested in the
packing plant or its welfare arc request
ed to attend. Delta people, especially
should turn out to this meeting which
will be held Tuesday, October 31st, and
leam for themselves the true status af
fairs. The plant is one of the best
equipped in the state for its size und?
we understand, is all payed and rerdy
for operation.
Delta is so situated that it can ship
to all points of the western slo|>e with
ease —being almost the center. Even if
for awhile the plant only supplied this
section of the state this alone should be
a good foundation uiion which to build
up a business that will extend to the
surrounding states.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Furttlfthed hr llslu Coumy C«.n>i«iijr (
Heal estate transfers for week end- •
ing October 24.1906.
Charles V. Nutter et al to Hamilton V. ,
Hinton, W. D. part of Delta townsite. ,
acres Con. 12.500 ,
Joseph Hogrefe to J. P. Treat. W D
nw! 4 se>i 34-13-94. Con. SI,OOO
Joshua O. Maddux to Daniel S. Bald
win OCD eH »w’ 4 and sw» 4 hw> 4
and ne l 4 ne‘ 4 21-51-11. Con. SI.OO ,
DanMS. Baldwin to Hannah
ram. W D,ne' 4 nw> 4 21 and eX sw» 4
and hw' 4 se* 4 16-51-11. Con. SI,OOO
William C. May to E. F. DeC. raff edreid !
W D »w’» ae«, 22-14-93. Con. $1,200
Edward DeGraffenreid to Stark Bros,
QC D part nw' t se* » 22-14-I*3. ('on. 1 !
S2O
Jtweph Meek to Alice W. Fridricy W '
D nw' * nw*4 24-14-93. Con. $1.200'
U. 3. to Marthu A. Vaucken, R R nw» 4 «
n^‘ 4 16-13-94. Con. S4O
JJg. Beck ley, county trcaMiror to M.
yFairlamb, treasurer's deed, se. I .* **w‘ 4 -
&nd s-t sc 1 * 29 and sw' 4 sw 1-4 22-15-95.
¥ Con. sl2
W James C. Peterson to James A. Langs
ton, et nl Q C Dswl-4 swl-4 24, nwl-4 >
nwl-4 25-14-92. Con. SI.OO ■
William F. Duke et al to Martha .1.
Pace, W D iota 23. 24 and 25 block 3, <
Hotchkiss. Con. SI.OO '
Annie Hutchinson to Charles W. Pace,
et al W D lots 2,3, 4 and 5 feet lot 5, (
block 11, Hotchkiss. Con. S3OO J
Charles W. Puce to Martha J. Pace. W
I) lota 2,3, 4, und 5 feet of lot 5 blk. 1
11, Hotchkiss. Con. sl.oo' *
Martha J. Pace to B. F. WoodrinK. et '
ul W D, lots 2. 3, 4 and 5 feet, block
11, Hotchkiss. Con. sl.oo'
James M. Haley to.lames W. Moroford.
W D lots 16 and 17, block 3, Haley’s |
addition to Paonin. Con. S3OO
Howard G. Fletcher et al to Emma B. (
Archer, W D, swl-4 sol-4, 36-14 95. .
Ccn. $4,000 '
Suiter P.ilcrus Wimi Cue Qsuhtd. 1
'
Senator T. M. i’nttorson, owner of 1 1
the News-Times Publishing company,, 1
appeared before Chief Justice (iabbert 1 1
in Denver Monday morning attended : 1
by counsel, and (llml a motion to quash
the informations which are standing
against him in the supreme court
charging him with contempt of that (
court by reason of certain articles and ,
cartoons which were published In one
of his papers last spring. The date for
ths arguments on the motion to quash
was Axed for next Monday at lOo'clock.
The state will be represented by At
torney General N. C. Miller. Each
aide will be given two hours and a half. •
Hriefs must be A led at the same time.
Shooting ’Em Up.
The Shooting: Tournament of the
Western Slope Rod and Gun club began
yesterday morning and some fairly good
shooting is being done.
In the novice shoot Dr. Macomber
won out after shooting off a tie with
W. A. Laurie.
The club members event of 15 targets
#1.00 entrance for sweep—stakes was
won by W. A. Cloud 14 birds,with Fred
King second with 13.
Fred King won the go’d medal pre
s*ntedbythe Hunter Arms Co., and
did the best shooting of the day and
made the phenominal record of 18 out
of 20doublets.
On the rifle shoot W. A. Cloud won
the first shoot and Harry Mathers the
second.
In next week’s issue will appear a
full account of the tournament and the
winners as the shoot is continued today.
A New Rival.
“The Standard Oil Co. has a new
rival in California a competitor which
is said to be backed by millions with
connections in Europe and the advan
tags of water transportations. The
transaction which brought a competitor
of the Standard Oil into the field was
the sale of the controle of the Western
Oil refiining and Manufacturing com
pany’s plant at Ricleo, Coasta county
totheLiebes brothers and Henery J.
Crocker, who comprises the new concern.
The plant cost $75,000, but it is to be
enlarged to more than double its cap
acity, the new owners contemplating
an expenditure of as much as $250,000
on the works.
“It is believed that the new plant
will be erected in the oil fields of Santa
Barbara county, where the Liebcs own
between six and eight thousand acres
of producing oil lands. These fields
;*lV'*eer the coast whither oil will be
piped in largo quanities.
(Mt Express Csapaay Meetiap.
The cnnual meeting of the Globe Ex
press company was held October 18th
in the office of the Denver 4 Rio
Grande Railroad, Denver, and the fol
! lowing directors were elected for the
ensuing year:
Gecrge J. Gould, E. T. Jeffery. C. H.
Schlacks. Jesse White, J. W. Gilluly,
J. F. Vaile and J. B. Andrews. It is
announced that the Globe Express com
pany has signed contracts with the
new Western Pacific whereby it will
have the exclusive franchise to operate
over that road. The same company
will succeed the Wells Fargo company
on the Rio Grande Western as soon as
the latter's franchise expires:
Cslsrado Wins 410 Prizes.
Commissioner-in-Chief White of the
Lewis and Clark exposition was re
cently informed that in the mining de
partment Colorado had won 29 gold. 18
silver. 11 bronze medals and and had re
ceived 103 honorable mentions making
a total of 161 prizes. The state re
ceive! 1 249 medals in the agricultural
department making a grand total of
medals received at the Oregon exposi-1
tion of 410. Mr White also received
information that the Colorado exhibit
would be shipped tomorrow morning.
He also stated that the $15,000 which
was appropriated would pay all the ex
penses incurred by thejeomission during
the life of the fair and would also pay
the expense of returning the exhibits
to the state.
Advertised Letter Utt.
Letters remaining uncalled for in the
poetofflee at Delta, Colo., for the week
ending Oct. 27, 1906.
Albrecht, Mr. and Mrs. Carl.
Brown, Arthur, (2).
Ensign, F. O.
Smith, C. P.
Wier, Mrs., 921 S 18th.
In calling for above letters please say
"advertised.”
ELLA NEW. P. M.
the official paper of delta county
DELTA. COLORADO. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1905
SO THAT PEOPLE MAY KNOW
Something About the County Printing and Why the Commissioners
Have Refused to Send the Tax List Abroad to be Printed.
COUNTY RECORDS WILL DISPROVE STATEMENT OF LYING NEWSPAPERS
Last week’s North Fork Tim®* con
tained one of thfc most senseless tirades
against the county commissioners that
ever disgraced the columns of the
rankest of yellow journals. The arti
cle is so devoid of common sense that
one could only imagine such rot as
coming from a badly cracked Wad
This attack is made simply bmuse
they have learned by experience that
it does not pay to send the tax list
away from the county seat to be pub
lished.
An experiment of this kind was tried
three years ago when the tax list pra.'
given to the Times at a very low bid.
While the Times did the best they ceu’d
the list contained so many errors that
it had to be run over and the county
lost several hundred dollars.
This delay alone cost almost as much
as it would have cost to have had it
printed here at the county seat at the
full legal rates. This is not all—the
county officials made a big roar on
account of the extra work thrown
upon them by the inconvenience of hav
ing the work done twenty-five miles
from the county seat considerable extra
expense was incurred in their offices.
The Times man says that when the
tax list was printed three years ago in
that office that they held the
(ready set) which could be used lo
advantage at this time as the deMwfrfrJ
ents will be practically the same. In !
excusing the editor of the Times we j
will say that he was not the editor of j
that paper three years ago ami has,
never set a tax list and does not know j
anything about it or else he would not |
make such a ridiculous statement for ]
in fact it is about three to five time- as
much work in ••re-hashing” a thing of,
that kind over as it would be to set it up.
In claiming that the tax payers are
being robbed the article states that the
Times could publish the tax list for
a great deal less than this paper has
offered to do the work for, yet th- bid
put in by that paper last January was
twenty per cent more than the rate at
which the tax list will be printed by
the Independent. By the time ex- \
penscs similar to those incurred hen I
the Times last did this work, is counted
in, it would have cost the taxpayer' i>e- i
tween 60 and 100 per cent more to have j
had the Times do this work at Hotch
kiss, at his own bid, than it will ’ ere
at the county seat. Now, this is the
way the taxpayers are being robbed.
The editor of the Times does not care s
“tinkers d— ” for the taxpayers, but
would like to secure the county printing
and it is what he would get and not
what it would cost the “dear people**
that he is kicking about.
Mr. Getts is the only commissioner
The Luxury of the Bath
((X .• s/r 7} Is wholly wanting unless the
, %y '■ Bath Room is supplied with cer
tain necessary articles. Our stock
A pf Bath Room essentials are as
bjS < complete as the alphabet.
/ggr~L/ \ lath Brashes Soaps Toilet Water
Violet Oaannto and CoJojoes
form a list from which nothing
c>l,^e m * BBe< l without discom-
THE SEATON DRUQ COMPANY,
MtM Prograaalva Proacrlpiloa UranM'i.
on the board who occupied the position
i when the printing was awarded to the
Times three years ago (although the
Times man says he wasn’t) consequ
ently he is the only one on the board
that knows from actual experience the
, money and inconvenience that it cost
Delta county.
Many states have laws which provide
that work of this kind shall not be tak
en away from the county seat, and the
framers of such laws hold that it would
be much easier for a county officer to
j take his records and books away from
the county seat and do the work per
taining thereto than it would be to send
I the legal printing away to outside
towns
According to the size of the delin
quent tax list of Delta county this pap
er printed it last year in less dimension
than it has ever been set and we have
contracted to do the work the present
year for 20 per cent. less.
The fact is that every paper in the
( county wants this printing, and al
! though to send it away trom the county
( would mean an expense to the tax
t payers they are condemning the com
missioners. • when what they have
, done in regard to this matter is to the
very best interest of the taxpaying cit
izens of Delta county. If those who
disbelieve this statement will only look
ijip the records and see the way thye
J cheap bidders have swelled the tax list
f j in years past they cannot help but be
I' convinced.
Now, about the present tax list in re-
I gard to which so much fraud and graft
* has been charged this paper will agree
Ito do this work free if it cannot be
I shown that it is the cheapest that it
, '■ was ever before printed in Delta county. '
' If this is true, then the present board
has has acted more ecomonical. in this
' matter than any previous board of
county commissioners, and yet they are :
• j
villified and charged with being dishonest
|. simply because they have had the cour- j
age and honesty to act in the interest
;of the whole people instead of these
abusive newspapers.
The taxpayers have paid over 100 per
cent, more for this work than is being
: paid this time and then there were no
I charges of f raud and dishonesty.
MO.OM Increase in Farm Products.
It is claimed that the farm products
'of Colorado for the present year will
be *BOO,OOO more than last year.
Canal Worked By Contract.
The Panama canal work may. in a
great measure, be let to private co-ope J
at ion and individual contractors. It is
understood that the United States gov
ernment favors a portion of the work,
at least, being contracted.
Town Attorney Denies Statement.
Town Attorney Stewart came into
this office last Friday and emphatically
denied the statement that he had said
there was no doubt but that gambling
was going on in rooms situated immed
iately back of this office and says it is a
lie of the whole cloth. Mr. Stewart
made this statement without so much
as being asked about the matter. In
fact the owner and publisher of this pa
per did not believe that Mr. Stewart
had made such a statement when it was
read in the “yellow peril”—that itself
wasproof concinving. An editor and
publishers who owns no interests in a
paper can afford to say things others
would not.
Work at Leon Lake Progressing.
Champion. Cm la red ui*.
E. F. Graham, president of the Leon
Lake Ditch & Reservoir company, was
down from the lake Monday of this
week and states that the work of re
pairing the damage caused by the cave
in last summer, is getting along nicely
and the timber is to be put in substan
tially. The weight of the ground over
the cave-in is being taken off by making
an open cut which will prove beneficial
to the company for years to come and
the expense of excavation is very light.
The tunnel inside the timbers will be
three feet two inches by six feet two
inches and the timbers used will be no
smaller than ten inches square with six
inch lagging, sets three feet apart.
The present aim is to get all the timber
hauling done before snow bothers.
Eight men are now employed or. this
work.
Beaver 6 Kio Graide Molds An boo I Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Denver &
Rio Grande was held in Denver on
Tuesday. October 17th. Only one
<rf tfnvs 1
tors, Edwin Gould succeeding William *
H. Taylor, who filled the office last
year while Mr. Gould was abroad.
Following is the personnel of the
board as elected:
George J. Gould, Edward T. Jeffery.
Winslow S. Pierce. Arthur Coppell.
Mortimer L. Schiff. Edwin Gould A. H.
Calef, Charles H. Schlacks. and Joel
F. Yaile.
Officers of the company will be
elected at the forthcoming meeting of
the board in New York.
Mother's Meeting.
A very interesting Mother’s Meeting
was held last Friday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Gibbs on north Meeker
street. The subject “Shall we have a
Double Standard of Morals forour Boys
and Girls?.’ was discussed and papers
read by Mrs. Mary Shepard. Mrs. Hast-1
ings and Dr. Cushman and Mrs. Gibbs
gave an instrumental solo and Margaret
Little recited “How Mrs. Hennessy
Saved Her Boy.” Refreshments were j
served and a very enthusiastic meeting
reported.
Jerry Simpson Dend.
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson, of
Kansas, died at Wichita. Kansas, Mon
day morning. He had been in very bad
health for several years and for the
past ten days the end had been expected
at any moment. His death was brought
about by a complication of diseases, the
most severe of which was lung trouble.
From Const to Const in tS Honrs.
The Harriman special bearing Miss
Alice Roosevelt and party left San
Francisco Monday afternoon with h
schedule of 65 hours to New York City,
which is the fastest time ever attempt
ed across the continent.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CHARGES OF GRAFT.
On Gunnison Tnnnel Work Dis-
Proven by Chief Engineer.
“The report in an afternoon paper'
several days ago that a gigantic steal
is in process in the boring of the Gun
nison tunnel at Montrose and that fla
grant extravagance exists on the part
of the engineers in charge, is so mani
festly unjust, and the ignorance of the
writer is so apparent that it is unworthy
of serious notice.”
This is the reply that was madj by
I. W. McCounel, the enginesr in charge
of the Uncompahgre project, more com
monly known as the Gunnison tunnel.
The article claimed that the engineers
were exaravagant and that Orman and
Crook were awarded the contract for
excavating and completing the south
canal, although a farmer named Samuel
Treals bid **2,300 less than the contrac
tors.
“Every step thit we have taken has
been under the examination and ap
proval of the chief engin *er at Wash
ington, the finest expert in the country,
so that any attack on the intergrity of
the engineers is an attack upon him,”
said Mr. McConnell. That is not worth
consideration at all.
“In the bids for the south canal work
the government called for bids for the
canal completed, or from the mouth of
the tunnel to the mouth of the canal.
Treals b.d on both the excavation of
tiie tunnel and the concrete work and
afterward filed a written statement say
ing that he expected to be paid extra
for the concrete work. This made his
bid amount to over $24,000 more than
Orman and Crook.s. It showed that he
was even ignorant of the meaning of
|the specifications and it was partly on
score* that his bid was rejected.
“It is also claimed that the tunnel
will cost $81,340 a mile for its twelve
m:les of length. Even if this was so it
would not be an eveessive price as the
tunnel will turn a streame larger than
manny rivers into the agricultural dis
tricts and in doing this we have to over
come a grade of 274 fee: fxo n the
mouth of the tunnel to the mouth of
cancl. Such stupendous work of course
costs enormously. We expect the ca
nal to cost about $650,000. Divide this
by twelve and it makes the cost of tha
canal per mile a little over $54,000.
“The writer also says two-thirds of
the Gunnison head 1,300 feet should
have been diverted into Cedar creek.
This creek is merely a little ditch al
most dry and the water, if turned in
would wash out the whole valley.”
Mr McConnel is in Denver to pur
chase machinery for opening another
head in the construction of the tunnel
itself. He has arranged for the ship
| ment of between $6,000 and 67.000 worth
l of air compressors, pupms, tracks and
dars next week.
i There is now about 5.000 linear feet
|of the tunnel completed. The west
tunnel, or Montrose side, is in 1,500
feet. The east tunnel, or river side, is
in 2,000 feet, while the tunnel being
driven eastward from the shaft on the
Montrose side is in 1.400 feet. When
the new machinery arrives an exten
sion will be commenced from the shaft
westward.
Mr. McConnel says that he expects
the tunnel to be done in time for fall
irrigation in 1908. The government
expects to complete the project for
several thousand dollars less than the
lowest of the bids which it recently
rejected. This was #1.541,000.
Jury Mu|nu.
Mrs. Helen Schmid lap, who was on
trial in Denver laet week for the kilUiy
of her hueband last July, has been tent
back to jail to await another trial.
Thia was brought about by the jury
not agreeing on a verdict. A majority
of the jurors favored acquits!.