The daily sentinel., 1903-11-19

Rio Grande Western passenger No.
4 was three hours late this morning
The county commissioners did little
business yesterday except to allow a
few bills.
A R. Sampliner denies the soft
impeachment that. he ,as the author
of the poetry read by him at the
Elks social session.
The sale of the NJ L. Roberts prop
erty on Main street, between Ninth
and Tenth to Henrietta Sieber was
confirmed this morning.
Martin Connel. the man who has
been at the city hall under the
charge of the city physician has been
removed to St. Mary's hospital.
The members of Daughters of POGO
honras will give an entertainment for
| the Redmen and their wives only.
Friday night. Admission 10 GEMS.
Gilbert McClurg. of Colorado
SpI ings. secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce of that city. was visitor
to the city yesterday leaving for the
west last night
Undertaken A. L. Gourley went to
Palisade this morning on No. to
take charge of the funeral of Patrick,
the man who was killed b. the pow
der explosion at that place Yesterday.
Clifford Adams, a cattleman of the
Westwater country is in this city to
day. Mr.. Adams is figuring en- pur-
chasing the old Owens hotel property
in Fruita and conducting a hotel at
that place.
A. D. Kahn of Calcutta India. a
native Mohammedan but who has
been converted spoke at the Court
house last night to an appreciative
audience. He will talk again tonight
at the Christian church.
We have changed drivers and in
case there should be any neglect in
calling or deIive-ing bundles we
would consider it an accommodation
if you would report same to our office.
Excelsior Steam Laundry.
The ball given at the Turner's hall
last night by the ladies of the Catho-
lie church was not so well attended as
was expected The crowd enjoyed
themselves immensely. The supper
served by the ladies at the hall was
greatly enjoyed.
Railroad men report that the
weather is much more severe along
tba I;ras l., oil J;-oo+;o,, .I,,,, !. .,-,,.
at this time last year. The tempera-
ture fell to Z below zero at Minturn a
few days ago and about ten inches of
snow fell.
Workmen begun tearing out the
partition in the rear of NJ. Q. Della
plains office this morning to enlarge
the room. He will occupy the room
formerly used by the Sentinel as a
press room. which is directly in the
rear of his present office.
City Marshal JEFF Watson found a
man down Mt the foot of Colorado av-
enue in a freezing condition. He had
been so drunk that he had fallen
asleep on the cold ground and was
nearly frozen when found He is at
the city Jail today and is still in a
vrey serious condition.
The basket ball team of the Fruita
high school has accepted the chal-
lenge of he girls of the school of this
city and they will play game here
at the meeting of the teachers associ-
alton ON Friday November 27th Our
team should look we'll to their prac-
tice as Fruita has fine team and one
of the best coaches in this state and
is practicing regularly for the con
| test.
TO THE CHILDREN OF MESA
60. My headquarters for good
many years have been at the Bargain
House and this year have sent them
nicer and better lot of toys and fam
cy goods than they have ever had be-
fore and about twice as many of them.
l want all of YOU little people and
your parents to wait for my grand
opening next week, SANTA CLAUS.
A new time schedule will go into
effect ON the Rio Grande road on No
vember goth. This schedule took con-
siderable time to prepare. 1t is known
as the winter schedule of the road
and quite a number of branch trains
are cut off from daily running and the
time of running is lergthened ont
considerably. The trains known as
10 and Is which ran to Glenwood will
be taken off. The narrow guage will
not run between this city and Salida