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Discovered, in Athletic World
Two great athletic events have been won In the past two weeks by
men from this city.
Grand Junction hasjaeen discovered, so to speak, in the athletic* world.
One woman writes to one of the great Marathon runners t Erxleben ) .
“Don't come home until you beat the Indian boys.”
Denver athletes say to themselves: ‘‘Anything to beat Barber.
So. it can readily lie seen, with the eyes of the people of the country on
the great athletic and track events that have been occurring in Denver,
that Grand Junction, the winner of both, has come before the people as
;t never did before, taking space on more than ten thousand sporting pages
throughout the country, telling of the events won by Grand Junction men.
Does any one doubt for a half minute that this is advertising of the
sort that cannot be purchased with money: or. if it could, would cost
enough to bankrupt the Chamber of Commerce for the next ten years?
And the spirit of the contests were wrought to some extent, we may
say with pardonable pride, by the Marathon running in a modified form
that was undertaken and carried to a successful issue by The Sentinel.
Both of these young men- one an American boy and the other an Amer
ican Indian boy—ran in The Sentinel's event. *
We speak of this matter, not so much in self gratulation. as in a desire
that our people would not look upon athletic- events as foolish and that there
is no monetary retuVn from them. The Sentinel believes that, through the
winning of these two events in the athletic world. Grand Junction has re
ceived more advertising than through any other means employed lately.
A little encouragement from all classes on the lines of athletics may
produce for us such advertising as we might never have received.
The Washington Post says ‘‘lt will be a rare June day when congress
adjourns.” There* is abundance of truth in that line.
There was many an amen corner vacant during yesterday afternoon s
ball game.
Caldwell Idaho
Vhm eantsr of on* of tha U. 8. government's largest Irriga
tion projects. The mammoth reservoir is now completed, water
ing s large acreage of fine fruit land, and now Is the time to
lr.vest for quick returns. This valley won first prizes on winter
apples at the Chicago, Paris, St. Louis and Portland expositions.
The altitude ranging frem 2,300 to 2.500 feet, fruit failures are
■ snknown here.
For further information and descriptive literature, address,
I Banks ® Walker c idfh. ell.
J. G. CAMPBELL
BUILDER AND ARCHITECT
PHONE BLACK 3891
Estimates and Plans
Furnished.
C/iss±Ca \
/ SHOES~~r
436 Main St.
The Pioneer Boiler
and Iron Works
TANKS HADE TO ORDER.
Steel Stairwayi, Fire Escapes. Xs
pairs of all Kinds. Machinery Bought
sad Sold.
■hop 914 and 916 S. Fifth Street.
Black 3293.
Cali at the tin Bhop for all kinds
»f tin. Hhect metal and furnace work
and you will be sure to get the best
at reasonable prices. The Grand
Junction Cornice £ Heating Cone
fany. 724 Main.
IPIXA, THE TAILOR.
Have your Spring suit made by Spike
The Tailor. Style and perfect fit
guaranteed. Suits 820.00 and up.
Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing
Under G. V. Nat’l Bank.
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Regular 35c Value 1
S 3
For This Week
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DP-TO-DATE DRUGGISTS.
Canon Block. Phone Junction S7O
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J. B. BOYER
ARCHITECT. C. C. A. I. A.
I Rooms 229-2.10 Fair Building
Phone Junction 65
i' i
Insure with the
Rich, Hutchinson
Realty Company
...Dest Lompanys...
1 Prompt and careful j
attention
533 Main Street
For the convenient-* of our cus
tomers. we have put in a cigar case,
with a new line of cigars.—Greig
Mercantile Co.
HAVE YOU SEEN OUR
WINDOW
Manufacturers,
SALE of POCKET KNIVES
By the Bushel.
Greatest Cutlery Sale Grand Junction Ever Saw
50 varieties worth 75c to
your choice for
Every Knife Fully Warranted
SALE BEGINS TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15
L. Schmidt & Sons f n u XtL
THE DAILY SENTINEL, GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO.
THE DAILY SENTINEL
Published every day in the year, except Sunday.
Office of Publication, Sentinel Hnildi ng. 5-47 Main, (band Junction, Colo.
Entered at the Postoffice in Grand Junction, Colo., as Second-Class Matter
I. N. BUNTING, Editor and Owner.
WALTER WALKER. City and News Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Mail or Carrier, one year in advance 35.00
Mail or Carrier, one month in advance 50
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION
A man who raises a lawn—successfully so—in this country is entitled
to lie down in green fields of elysium all the balance of his life.
There is considerable satisfaction in contemplating the fact that the
present council will not remain long in power. So far as the charter makes
for their removal, we shall commend the charter.
John J. Barkhausen of the Denver Democrat says that Patterson Is
Icn reform, when it don't cost anything. This is a cruel thing to say of
i contemporary who poses as the father of all reforms.
Throughout the press of Colorado there is being republished the joke
recently perpetrated by a young and silly ninny that John Vivian was a
representative of the people. Vivian as a patriot is too funny to conceive.
Aside from the injury that comes from a high protective tariff, it is
amusing to note how the broadsides are shot against Mr. Aldrich and how
ilandly he responds by carrying his schedule on all commodities. It is
admirable, if it is damnable.
And we have heard nothing more from that new party of Ikey Stevens.
The Pueblo Chieftain threw out the political bomb, but It failed to explode.
It was reported that the socialist organ of this city was to follow up with
an endorsement; but there was no echo, and the plan was abandoned for
the time being. .
No one has ascertained what preparations Teddy Ims made to cele
brate the Fourth of July in Africa. With the materials that Kermit has
with him—something more or less than six million cigarettes—and with
the ammunition that the colonel has in Ills baggage, there ought to he
things doing there.
The screaming morning screecher says that the editor of this paper is
:i back number (which all of his ilk of parapatetic carpet-baggers have said
before him), but at the same time devotes a whole editorial page to us. We
are, indeed, flattered, and know at once that he is simply barking at our
heels, the wish being father to the thought that we should be laid away.
No party of reform ever came into power that was not ten times more
arbitrary and autocratic than any of the parties which they deposed. A
very good reason rfiay be given for this: all the freebooters who cannot at
tain prominence in any other party get a show in the reform movement.
All the barnacles that ever hung to a political party rush for place and
power. They illustrate the old saw of putting a beggar on horseback he’ll
ride the horse to death.
The follies and foibles of the rich are now on parade in the public
press through the suit of Catharine Clemons Gould against her husband,
Howard Gould, and in the tragic death of Mine. Ruiz (otherwise known
as Mary Alice OBrien Ruiz), the mistress of Alfred GWynne Vanderbilt,
in Ixindon. So powerful was the wealth of Vanderbilt that he strangled
the whole British police force by bribery. It is not an appealing spectacle
to witness these two great families in the courts; but it is the beginning
of that transition which makes it possible here in America to change
conditions in three decades from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.
Some time (a nuinbei of years) ago the London Times said that an
editorial writer who wrote steadily for a period of three years began to
repeat himself and his usefulness ended. At the time. Watterson. whose
powers increased with his years, as did Dana, McClure, Greeley and all the
cld-time writers of note, took Issue with the Times. The Sentinel would
hardly take issue with such distinguished leaders in the profession of the
fourth estate, as we have been in the harness many times the three-year
period; but we rise to note that we have known alleged editors who re
peated themselves about every three clays. From the manner in which the
writer attracts knocks, roasts and is given whole pages and columns of
editorial notice, he knows that he has not repeated himself much lately,
and is certainly not arrived at the Oslerlzation period yet, or even the
three-year limit of repetition.
The democratic party of Mesa county went on record at the last county
convention that every effort of the party should be bent toward securing
the erection of a court house. The Sentinel, in advance of the convention,
took the position that the party should demand that the commissioners
take steps looking to the erection of a courthouse in Mesa county befitting
the size and importance- of this county. The demand of The Sentinel was
a reflection of the demand of the people. The first step has been taken,
and The Sentinel feels proud that all things look favorable to the ad
vancement of the work. So far as the question of endorsement by the
people is concerned, there need be no concern at all over their entire
acquiescence in the preliimnary work for the building of that structure.
We can almost hazzard the guess that the people are a unit upon the
question and will so express themselves at the polls. The erection of the
courthouse is not a party question in the least. The republican members
of the board, as well as the democratic member, are favorable to the project,
and. with the backing of the people, we may expect to see the work com
mence following the endorsement at the next general election.
What a great pity it is to attack the poor little city attorney—such
a nice little man. don't you know! And this is how The Sentinel is
attacking him (let the taxpayers be the judges if it is cruel to attack a
public officer): The Sentinel charges that an ordinance, according to law,
shall be published twice-—the first time immediately following its first
reading in council; the second and last time following its passage, when
it shall have attached to it, in addition to the first publication, the affi
davit of the <-ity clerk. A number of ordinances have been given publication
ten times. This is eight times more than the law requires. If the law
is fulfilled by publishing an ordinance twice, why should it be published
ten times, the taxpayers paying for the graft of the extra eight publica
tions? That is all there is to the attack The Sentinel js making upon the
city attorney. Is it not our right to make protest against a man sticking
his hand into the* public till and taking out money thnt does not belong
to hint and giving it to another or keeping it himself? It is robbing the
people—no more, no less. If that graft continues, the people will have
been robbed of a big amount of,money during the present term of office of
the city attorney. The Sentinel proposes to continue to protest. If pro
testing is not sufficient, the law will be asked to protect the public funds.
REPORTS SENT FROM HERE
ARE VIGOROUSLY DENOUNCED
4* Several times of late citizens 4*
4* of various sections of the valley 4*
+ have been angered at sensation- 4*
4* al and untruthful reports sent 4*
4* by the Grand Junction corres- +
4* pondent to papers In Denver. 4*
4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*
Thp following dispatch in Satur
day's Denver Post tells its own story.
The strawberry story was given pub
lication in the local morning paper
before being sent to Denver.
Fruita. Colo.. June 12.—Contrary
to statements printed in a certain
Denver morning paper that there
would only be from 1,00 to 5,000
crates of strawberries shipped from
the Grand valley this year, and that
the prices were very low, the citizens
wish to state that there will be over
50,000 crates of strawberries shipped
from the Grand valley this season
and that the prices are high, the ber
ries bringing $3.20 per crate net.
The cherry crop is also very good
and the price high, cherries selling at
$5 per crate.
The report printed that the Red
lands ditch is in great danger of be
ing washed out is not true. The
Redlands is not now, nor has it been,
in any danger of a washout.
One of the best equipped livery
and transfer stables in Colorado—
Barton & Terril. Fifth and Colorado.
Every From Rank or Boynton fur
nace installed by us, is guaranteed.
—J. H. Lane.
Special Siie of
Sample Panamas
Just Landed—They are
$7.50 Hats
$5.00 Panamas
Get One While They Last
$5.00
See Them in Our Window
SAVES V W1 « SAVES
s Loeffler s
3—STORES—3
Lumsden-Barkuloo Lumber Co.
Office and Yards on Sonth Seventh Street.
LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH,
AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MAi ERLAL
MILL WORK
Estimate! Mads g >ne Janetioa ill
SEE US
For everything
niceinfurniture
—prices right.
We have the
famous WHITE
FROST REFRIGERA
TORS.
COSGROVE & STOUGH
Furniture Men and Undertakers
845 MAIN STRBHT.
NOW IS THE TIME
that the farmer needs a telephone
Pays for itself, many times over in
securing help, ordering supplies from
town, getting weather reports, etc
GET THE TELEPHONE HABIT.
THE COLORADO TELEPHONE
COMPANY
Caldwell & BlaisdeO
Realty Company
520 Main St. Phone Red 134
J ' A SNAP. * j
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We have for sale the best ini
proved 10 acres in the Grand
4- valley. Close in. $6,800. $4,- 4.
4. 000 cash. This is a beautiful
•J- suburban home. ijl
SMITH & GORMLEY
•x* Real Estate ¥
•J- 105 Sentinel Building
For a few days we offer a snap in
a 2f-aere tract of fine raw laid, with
full water right. Will exchange for
Graad Junction property «r good
■•tea.—Goa Investment Ooaapawy.
MONDAY. JUNE 14. 1909
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| HATTIE 0. PEARSON. ’ ■
•fr FUNERAL DIRECTOR AN* ■ •
[LICENSED EMBALMER. • •
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Special Attention Given to the • •
Care of Ladies and Children. • •
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Hi North Fifth Street.
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Phone Red 861. p (
Residence Phone Red 814. ■ «
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Gentleman Assistant. • •
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The best is none too good. That's
the reason we are selling so many
furnaces. —The Grand Junction Cer
■ ice & Heating Company, 724 Main.
When you have furniture to move
call up the Blue Barn, Junction 228.
J. G. Marner,
Lawyer and Notary Public
Reliable Fire Insurance
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