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The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19
Big Electric Plant.

That irrepressible hustler and pro-
moter. Hon. George Smith, is again to
the front with great scheme to benefit
the inhabitants OF Mesa county and the
Grand valley. The scheme is prac-
tical one and il it can secure the back
ing necessary to make it go, would be
OF inestimable benefit to every inhabitant
OF Mesa county and especially to the cit
izsns of Grand Junction.
The scheme as presented by Mr.. Smith
includes the building at Cameo, whore
the mines with which Mr.. Smith is con-
nected as manager, are located, Of an i'm
mense plant for the generation OF cleo
trcity and to transmit the same to this
city for any purpose desired.
He outlines his plan as follows:
"At our mines we every day produce
from rs to 100 tons Of slack and small
nut coal. This immense amount OF coal
we would be only too glad to sell at the
mines for the small sum OF fifty cents
per ton. This would make the cost OF
production OF electricity very small
sum, in fact 80 small that no one could
possibly compete with US.
"This electric fluid could be made 10
furnish power for the pumping Of water
at the city water plant, the coal for
which, at the present time, understand
costs about SITS per month. 1t could
furnish power for the running of all
kinds of machinery and it would be the
propelling force which would drive line
OF cars from Palisades to Grand juno
ton bringing beets to the factory and
also supplying means whereby fruit
could be brought to this city for ship
ment at the minimum.
II cannot enumerate nearly all the
uses 60 which this power could be trans
mitted, but it would create a new order
OF things in this city and be the opening
wedge toward making a city of Grand
Junction.
at would be the purpose to make this
great plant one owned entirely by the
public. Stock would be issued in email
amounts 30 that even the children could
become possessors of same and which
| would grow more valuable each year the
power was used. Upon this stock the
company when organized would guaran-
tee dividend Of four per cent yearly,
which would make the investment a
good one.
"f have been studying this scheme for
quite while and can see no reason
whatever why it cannot be accomplished.
There would always be a revenue COM
ing from it and thus the security would
be guilt edged"
There is hardly a question from the
plan proposed by Mr.. Smith that the
benefits to this city and in fact to the
whole Grand valley would be immeasur
able 1t is not considered at the rres
ent time impracticable at all to transmit
power ten to twenty miles and the dis
tancs from here to Cameo is Of no conse
queuce whatever.
MIR. Smith is proposing in the next
few weeks to get his plans in shape and
$40 what capital can be counted on te
build the plant Everyone knows thai
Mr.. Smith is not afraid of big projects
and it is to be hoped that in pushing hil
scheme he will receive the very greatest
encouragement from all the people whs
will b. bsuedttsd IL his plans carry.
The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19

than any man in Colorado"-which
may explain Mr.. Thomas nom
success in the senatorial fight
Had he been less Jealous to become
senator his chances to reach the
senatorial goal would doubtless
have been materially heightened.
AS between Governor Thomas
and Tom Maloney. The Sentinel
did not hesitate to take the side OF
Governor Thomas, and SO did most
all decent democrats. But all the
same Governor Thomas made a
serious political mistake in this
matter which more diplomatic
leader would have avoided. This
tended to his undoing and cost the
fusion ticket many votes at the last
election. Its effect on the Denver
election the coming spring remains
to be seen.
This was one of his mistakes -
and a fearful one for his party as
well as himself. There are others,
but it is not necessary to enumerate
them here.
In the game Of politics little
sympathy is wasted on the loser.
He who plays his cards best wins
the game. If Governor Thomas
failed to make the best Of his ops
portunitiesAhe should not bewail his
fate or upbraid ungrateful friends.
If he shows himself cheerful loser
and gets into the harness and pulls
for a united and triumphant demo-
cracy. as we doubt not he will do,
there is yet good prospect of his
senatorial dream becoming reality.
The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19
Notice of Sheriffs Foreclosure
Sale.

Public notice is hereby given that by virtue
of a certain order, judgment and decree of
foreclosure made and entered by the county
court OF Mesa County, Colorado, the third
day of January, A. d. 1901, and by virtue of
a special execution lien, issued out of said
court and to me directed in said suit wherein
Orson Adams, Jr., WIS plaintiff, and Benja-
min F. kiefer and Frank ID. Kiefer, ct al,
were defendants, wherein and whereby am
commanded to make the sum of sixteen
hundred and sixty dollars and nine cents
Isl, ,66O.O9), the amount of certain judg-
ment and decree recovered against the said
Benjamin f. Kiefer and Frank ID. Kiefer and
in favor of the said OrsOn Adams, Jr., in a
certain action of foreclosure pending in said
county court, out of the lands, tenements,
goods and chattels of the said Benjamin F.
kiefer and Frank d. Kiefer, which said
judgment, interest and costs were by said
court declared lien upon the following
described property, towit:-
East one-half (e1-2) of the north. east
quarter (n e1-D of the southwest quarter
Is w1-4) of Section Six (6) in Township One
U, north of Range Two (2), west of the Ute
meridian in the County of Mesa and State of
rigation company representing and equiv
alent to six and one-fourth (6 1-4) statute
inches of water attached to and used upon
said land for irrigation purposes.
Therefore, according to the command of said
writ 80 issued to me by the said clerk of the
county court of Mesa Co., Colorado, l have
levied upon the above described property
and water rights and shall expose for sale at
public auction, for cash, to the highest bid
der, all the right, title and interest of the
above named Benjamin F. Kiefer and Frank
d. Kiefer in and to the above described
lands and water rights, on Saturday, the
ninth (9th) day of February, A. D. 1901, at
ten (10) O'Clock a. IN. of said day at the east
front door of the court house in the city of
Grand Junction, in the County of Mesa and
State of Colorado, for the purpose of paying
said debt and costs as above set forth.
Witness my hand this fourteenth day of
January, A. ID. 1901.
CHARLES H. WALLIS.
Sheriff of Mesa County.
The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19
Notice of Sheriffs Foreclosure
Sale.

Public notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue of certain order, Judgment and decree
of foreclosure, made and entered by the
county court of Mesa county, Colorado,
D., 1901. and by virtue of a special execution
lien, issued out of said court and to me dir
ected in said suit, wherein Orson Adams, Jr,
was plaintiff, and Benjamin F. Kiefer and
Frank B. Kiefer, ct al, were defendants,
wherein and whereby l am commanded to
make the sum of sixteen hundred and fifty
Six dollars and seventy five cents II .656.75),
including costs and expenses of suit, the
| amount of a certain judgment and decree
recoveIed against the said Benjamin +.
Kiefer and Frank d. Kiefer, and in favor. of
| the said Orson Adams, Jr., in certain action
of foreclosure pending in said county court,
out of the lands, tenements, goods and chat
tells of the said Benjamin F. klefer and
Frank ID. Kiefer, which said judgment, in
terest and costs were by said court declared
a lien upon the following described property,
towit:-
East half (e1-2j of the south east quarter
Is e1-D of the southwest quarter Is w1aD
and the northwest quarter In wl,4 OF the
south west quarter Is wild of the south
west quarter Is w14), all in Section Six l6),
in Township One, O, north of Range Two
(2), west of the Ute meridian, in the County
of Mesa and the State of Colorado, contain
ing thirty (3O) acres of land, with stock of
the Grand Valley Irrigation company, repre-
senting an equivalent to nine and three
eighths 20 3-8) statute inches of water at
tached to and used upon said land for irri-
gaSlon purposes.
Therefore, according to the command of
said writ so issued to me by the said clerk of
the county court of Mesa county, Colorado,
have levied upon the above described
property and water rights, and shall expose
,or sale at public auction, for cash, to the
highest bidder, all the right. title and inter
est of the above named Benjamin F. Kiefer
and Frank d. Kiefer in and to the above
described lands and water rights, on Satur-
day, the ninth (9th) day of February, A. ID.
1901, at ten (lO) o'clock a. M, of said day,
at the east front door of the court house, in
the city Of Grand Junction, County of
Mesa and State of Colorado, for the purpose
of paying said debt and costs above set forth.
Witness my hand this fouiteentl, Q4th)
day of January, A. ID. 1901.
CHARLES H. WALLIS,
Sheriff of Mesa County
The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19
THE NEW UNITED STATES
SENATOR.

The election of Thomas M. Pat
terson as United States senator does
not please everybody. That is to
be expected. Neither would the
selection of Thomas, or Adams, or
Hughes, or even Eddie Wolcott,
have met with universal applause.
Mr.. Patterson is of the positive
temperament "a hard hitter, who
fights for a cause as patriot strikes
for liberty. Men OF this mould
make enemies-also friends.
When all has been said, however,
it will be found in the summing up
that the thirteenth general assembly
has picked out about the ablest and
most deserving candidate to be had.
Mr.. Patterson's name is indissolubly
linked with Colorado's history. He
has been a great factor in her up
building. He is devotedly interes
ted in her well>being, and no more
fearless, able and ardent champion
has in the past or will in the future
appear in the Centennial States
lists.
1t is idle to prate about Mr.. Pats
terson not being a democrat. Dem>
ocracy is bred in the bone and sinew
of men of his stamp. He worked
for time with the populist party
because that party came nearer to
true democracy, in many OF its
tenets, than did the debased democ-
racy Of Grover Cleveland. Mr..
Patterson was liberal enough and
manly enough to voice and vote
his protest, and time has proved
him right.
Neither Senator Teller nor Sena
tor Patterson will be on the MAJ
jority side of the senate, as would
Wolcott were he senator But both
will be fortified by the confidence
and esteem of their constituents.
They will be free to vote as duty to
Colorado and the nation dictates
And maybe this may count for
more in the long run than to be
voted, hit or miss, good or bad, ins
to the majority monopolistic muck.
The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19
Notice Of Sheriffs Foreclosure
Sale.

Public notice is hereby given that by virtue
of certain order, Judgment and decree of
foreclosure made and entered by the county
court of Mesa county, Colorado, on the third
of a special execution lien, issued out of said
court and to me directed in SAID suit wherein
Orson Adams, Jr., was plaintiff, and Benja-
min F. Kiefer and Frank d. Kiefer, ct al,
were defendants, wherein and whereby am
commanded to make the sum of sixteen
hundred and eighty Ave dollars and seventy
cents ($1 ,6s570), including costs and ex-
penses of suit, the amount of certain judg-
Benjamin F. Kiefer and Frank d. Kiefer
and in favor of the said Orson Adams, Jr.,
in certain action of foreclosure pending in
said county court. out of the lands, tene-
ments, goods and chattels of the said Benja
min F. Kiefer and Frank ID. Kiefer, which
said Judgment, interest and costs were by
| said court declared a hen upon the following
described property, towit:-
The west half (w1-2) of the north east
quarter In e1-4) and the north half (n1-2) of
the north west quarter (I w1-4), both being
in the south west quarter (s Will of Section
Six (6) in Township One a., north of Range
Two (2), west of the Ute meridian in the
County of Mesa and State of Colorado, to-
| gether with stock of the Grand Valley 1rri-
| CATION company representing an equivalent
to twelve and half t12 1-2) statute inches
of water attached to and to be used upon
| said land.
said writ so issued to me by the said clerk of
the county court of Mesa County, Colorado,
l have levied upon the above described
property and water rights, and shall expose
highest bidder, all the right, title and inter-
est of the above named Benjamin F. Kiefer
and Frank D. Kiefer in and to the above de-
scribed lands and water rights, on Saturday,
the ninth (9th) day of February, A. D., 1901
at ten u0) O'Clock a. m. OF said day, at the
east front door of the court heuse in the city
of Grand Junction, in the County of Mesa
and State of Colorado. for the purpose OF
paying said debt and costs above set forth.
Witness my hand this fourteenth day OF
January, A. D., 1901.
CHARLES II. WALLIS,
Sheriff Of Neea County
The daily sentinel., 1901-01-19
THE EX-GOVERNOR.

The Sentinel had something to
say about Governor Thomas fort
night or so ago. 1t was not written
in an unkind spirit. We said we
thought it improbable he would be
elected United States senator, and
gave few reasons why we thought
so.
The Sentinel believed, and now
believes, that Governor Thomas, as
much as anyone else, was entitled
to represent Colorado in the United
States senate. We know his splen-
did ability and his devotion to the
state Of his adoption. He strove
hard to make good governor, and
we feel confident he would have
make an admirable senator
There was no thought Of harshly
criticising Governor Thomas. for
The Sentinel was desirous of his
success until Governor Thomas
himself, along with certain too Off
cious friends, made success jmpos>
sible.
If Mr.. Thomas had never been
governor, it is quite possible his
election as United States senator
would have been a walkaway. But
Bob Ingersoll has told OF the mis-
takes of Moses, and it is possible
that some chronicler will rise some
day to tell of the political mistakes
of Thomas, and then everybody
will know why Thomas was no,
elected United States senator, il
everybody doesn't already know
A friend OF Mr.. Thomas once re-
marked that " Charlie Thomas has
more brains and less political sense
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this murder We do not read that the MUIR
derers were ever tried, or indicted, or ar
rested, or bothered in any way. The dago's
idea seems here to have been borne out
wildly and impressively-" Me no think it
harm to kill mig in Miss sip! The murderers
of that negro boy knew-as we'll as they knew
anything on this: earth-that, If. there was
producible tho thinnest reasonab Bile evidence
that he had poisoned the water jugs he could
be indicted, tried, convicted and punished
according to law But they chose to murder
him. The relatives of that murdered boy.
unable to invoke the laws ayenginE arm.
themselves. resolve upon an awful crime
following the example of the white murder
ers; resolve upon it. and commit it. They
murder the parents Of the leader of the band
who had shown them how easily a murder
might be committed. Immediately q lynch
ing mob is formed. and they are not going
to be overparticular, not at all squeamish,
as to whom they lynch! And lynch they do
a helpless old woman and young girl. not
KNOWN, as far as-authentic reports show. to.
have had anything whatever to do with the
murder Of the aged couple. And lynch they
do-after the Governors visit and plea for
law and order-a negro man, not known to
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Clergymans Mastery ~Lynchne Evil

produced from year to year by negro labor.
; No, we, don't want to get rid Of the negro.
He tried to- get rid of us, I have been told,
some years ago, by getting away from us
in this county,, and steamboats, were not
allowed to land,in front of this town to take
him away. L have been told that shotguns
Ia the hands of white men forbade him to
leave Washington County to seek re
congenial: environment in Kansas! -. ..'
i We don't want to- get rid Of the negro; he
Is our wealth producer; yet we lynch him ;
murder him, with as little sense of the laws
offended majesty as would possess US If we
were killfnga RAJ tlesnake or asrabid, doE!ez5;.
.25fD DO; we lynch him because we@are trying
to get even with him for coming here In the
first instance; for coming here and thriving.
here, and getting us SO accustomed to him
that we cannot now do without him In spite
of our dislike for him? Nay, for we all know
his coming here IN the first instance was.not
through any choice OF his; our ancestors
wanted him to come, and he thought of COM
Ing only when the coming was forced upon
hims only when he was in the pow err of white
men whose business it was to buy him or steal
him In Africa, and see that he did come.
here in salable condition! doubt if you or
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Nearly All the Victims Negroes
and Great Majority Of
Crimes Occur in the
Southern States.

tortures. 1t will not be surprising If tho
mobs next take to drawing and quartering
their helpless victims. That seems to be
about the only device of savagery so far
overlooked
Many people openly predict a serious race
war within the next few years. They point
to such Instances as the deplorable affair
at FIERCE City, Mo-, week ago. to bear
out their predictions. Here the white peo-
pie OF the town-presumably the lower classes
declared that no colored man. woman; or
child siiotld again make his home in that
place, and, ,suiting the action to the word,
they drove out every inhabitant whose skin
was not white. III, n. H. L.. -.
. The year 1901 has still four months to run,
yet the total number of lynchnss and burr
lngs at the stake already numr-- W..
hundred. Hardly day passes but that some
poor colored man is denied what Americans
are brought up to believe is their 1nalienable
right, trial by jury. In fact it is seldom
that a man is even allowed to show any
reason why he should not be made to pay
the extreme penalty.
Inc growing frequency of lynchngs and
similar crimes by mobs has led THE TRIB-
UNE to make an exhaustive research into the
statistics Of the evil.
1T was found that during the twenty wears
ending with Dec. 81. 1900. there had been a
total of 1929 cases where the law had not
peen allowed to take it's course During the
years 1881, 1882, 1888 and 1884 no detailed
statistics were to be found. Beginning with
1885, however, THE TRIBUNE files furnish all
details of interest
The following table gives the totals by
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ever; saw a single negro whose ancestors
came to this country of their own will and
not rather by the will of some of our an
cestors. .~s '' e.. - ~.
Do we lynch the negro because he has
invented some new; stupendous crime that
white men have no taste for, or: because
ne Is prone to indulge in many crimes that
civilized white men have quite outgrown?
Nay the negro has not invented any new
crime; he is not lynched for any one crime
only; he is lynched, again and again, for
crimes that white men have not outgrown
and do frequently commit. We are likely
TO pick up q paper any day and read, with
out any emotion OF great surprise, that q
negro has been lynched in Mississippi for
assault and battery or some offense less than
assault and battery! Look at that affair in
the@County@of Carroll-that affair with its
mob that couldn't be restrained In Its mad
, thirst for blood by the Governor of the, State,
the District Attorney 1.-The Circuit Judge, and
the Z leading citizens
"A white man suspects q negro. Toy OF put
ting rough-on-rats in his rdrinking water.
He gets up party. of his friends, and goes.
with them to the house OF that boy and
murders him. There is no mob to ayenge
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nave had anything to do with the murder.
and described In the press report as" one
sol the most trusted negroes in the county -:
NOBODY In sCarrollton, it seems, had heard
any charge whispered against him of COM
picity 1n>the horrible crime-but the mob is
at work-and order comes to Carrolton
for his coffin! His crime seems to have been
that heswas "a servant -ors the aged people
and occupied cabin two hundred yards
from their residence. He. Of course, should
have prevented the'murder Of his employers,
even II he was quietly in his bed asleep and
had no dream that murder threatened them!
And while the mob is engaged In this delecta-;
bic. raInpa &c of bntchery the actual perpe-
traitors Of the bloody deed, escape The ring
leaders Of the mob know that they are put
ting to death the only witnesses who could
help them to knowledge, of the murderers
at large, the number of them and possibly
their whereabouts; yet the lynching orgy
goes on-proving we'll enough that the mob
was not moved so much by the desire to serve
Justice In rude and barbarous way, as by
the utterly despicable, brutal impulse to go
out and kill slot o. niggers," because q
white man and woman had been murdered
by negroes!
Is the negro lynched In Mississippi because
when he has committed g crime 1t is hard
to convict him of it-hard to convict him in a
Mississippi court, before q Mississippi Judge,
and Mississippi jury, compost for the most
part IL not altogether sof Mississippi white
men? Hard In Mississippi 70 convict negro
accused Of crime, and send him to the farm,
the penitentary, or the gallows! Why, to
think the thought even humorously were to
trench upon the borderland of absurdity
Do we lynch negroes or Eanction the lynch
last fla1, n
get the upper hand of VI; lest they should
negroize our politics aaf our government;
lest they should forge te the front ahead
of us, and thrust US into the backward place
now occupied by them? Do we lynch them
in order to keep them down and backward?
Do We lynch them because we fear them?
II that is the reason. what becomes Of our
Oft-repeated boast Of race superiority, our
oft-uttered conviction that the white man.
by virtue of the natural, inherent superiority
of his intellect and character, is destined to
lead and rule, and the black man, by reason
Of the natural inferiority of his intellect and
character, to follow and serve?
Il cannot bring myself to believe that the
dominant white speeplet OF Mississippi enter
cain any such puerile fear!
8 For none Of the reasons suggested is the
negro iynched In Mississippi HE'S lynched
for the simple reason that In race he is an
alien. to the people who lynch him, and by
reason of the law. as respected and admins
tered. their underling, pcweriess to appeal 10
the law for protection Replace the negro
IN NJ sissippi by any other race of aliens.
make them also underlings and as' certain
AZ the gun shines they would be iynched just
~ the negro Ii. And this means that the
same essential spirit Il dominant in Missss-
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Betsy McCray, Ida McCray. Bellfielt
McCray, colored. implicated in murder,
Carrollton, Miss.
2-Charles. Davis, white, rape, smithville,
Tenn.
: : Charles Bentley, colored, murder, Leeds,
- Ala
4-William Price, colored, alleged completely
in murder, Carrollton, Miss.
William steen, white, murder, Moscow,
Idaho.
John w. Pennington, eolored, rape,
Enterprise, Ala.
10-Unknown negro, rape, Ways Station, Ga.
19-William Cooley, French Cooley, colored.
suspected murder, Pierce City, Mo.
2o-Peter Hampton. colored, suspected mur-
der, Pierce City, Mo.
20-Abe Wilder, colored, murder, Dexter,
d.. Tex.
21-Luke Hough. colored, murderous assault,
Wadesboro, N. c.
25-Henry Noles, colored, murder near
Winchester, Tenn.
26-Henry Stewart, colored, insulting white
woman. near Macon. Ga.