The daily sentinel., 1903-12-28

MI. anu hTS. ohmutl VI. mCMulllL
will entertain quite large party al
cards. New Years Eve.
Every lady attending the Firemen':
Ball on Thursday night will be pre-.
sented with souvenir.
@. @. Compton. travelling freight
agent of the Rio Grande Ry.. was in
the city today looking up business
for that road.
d. J. Ryan and wife left last night
for their home at Pocatello. Idaho,
after spending almost week with Mr..
Ryan's brothers and sister in this
city.
Do not miss seeing Emma Seigle.
Eva Davenport and Billy A. Ward
who will appear in Happy Hool-
igan.'' which comes to the Park opera
house on Wednesday Dec. 30th.
W. E. Hawkins, one of the rustl-
ing stockmen of the Plateau valley.
was in the city today with a number
of horses for sale. He sold a team
this forenoon to Engineer Hackett.
The last session of the city council
for 1908 will be held tomorrow night
at the city hall. A number of bills
will be presented fol payment and con-
siderable other business will come be-
fore the meeting.
Tonight the Colorado Glee q. and
Mandolin club will give an enter
tainment at the Park opera house for
the benefit of the Epworth League of
this city. A large crowd is anticipa-
ted as seats sold well during the past
several days.
Colorado is known the world over
as the greatest mining state in the
Union. The year Just closing shows.
if the statistics gathered can be relied
upon. that the agricultural products
raised in Colorado brought more mon
ey into the state than the metals taken
from her mines.
Miss Camille Wallace. who has been
the guest of her brother. W.S. Wallace
for the past week, left Saturday for
Pueblo. Miss Wallace will take the
position as librarian at the new public
library in that city and will enter
upon her duties during the coming
Mark Power received a Christmas
present from Governor Peabody which
gave to him his freedom as convict
IN the state penitentiary. Power was
found guilty Nov. Z, 1890, at Mont
rose of murder and was sent up for
life In quarrel over a ditch right
he killed John Baer aud for this crime
he had been confined i'll prison for
thirteen years He has gone to Den
yer to make his home with daugh-
ter.
Keep up the spirit of the holiday
week. Don't imagine that because
Christmas day has passed that you
have to put on an air of righteousness
and fear that some one will criticise
you for taking some pleasures during
the full holiday week. Make your
homes cheerful, be happy yourself
and do something to make other peo
nls feel happy. The entire week is
Justly "A holiday and should be taken
ls such, as far as lies in the power of
every individual.
The several hundred railroad men
in this CITY will be interested in the
fact that during the present year
s62. 600. 900 was expended in car loco
motive building by the various com
panies. There were 3. 1872 locomotives
l52, sol freight cars. 2.007 passenger
cars and SS O.. --~'1 locomotives built.
The locomotives cost on an average of
s12. 600 OF the freight cars l55, 1875
we're used in this country and 1913
we're exported. More railroads were
and planned for during
the year than for many years and IN
the east hundreds of miles of electric
car lines were constructed. 1t has
been great year for the railroad
The Albuquerque Journal. in its
write up of the Colorado Glee and
Club had the following to
say regarding a Grand Junction boy,
who takes leading part in the enter
tainment: 1T is not often that a
first class college organization appears
on the concert stage in this city. but
it is safe to say that it has boen a
long time since a similar musical
company gave such thoroughly en-
ioyable performance in Albuquerque.
There are plenty of good streng mel