The daily sentinel., 1904-04-29


ship. Will place such boy in good
position on large city paper when ap-
premiership is completed with The
Daily Sentinel.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Christian church will give cake sale
at Bancroft and Pitts store Saturday
afternoon.
Congressman Brooks is sending his
constituents garden seeds. Many Mesa
county republicans are receiving pack
ages these DAYS.
Assessor Bradbury and his able as
sistants are working hard to get the
property of Mesa county assessed with
in the required time according to law.
The weather conditions for Western
Colorado, Grand Junction and Viein
ity are probably showers this after
noon or tonight; colder tonight. with
frost. Saturday, fair and warmer.
Harry Yantz has taken lease on
the Revere house and that hotel will
hereafter be known as the Lincoln
house. Mr.. Yantz is aD old time bon
ifaoe and will attempt to build that
place up into first class hostlery.
Jack Grady shippd a thorough
bred setter to Ed Fist of Pueblo yes
terday. Jack 'has been making IA
specially of breeding settlers for the
past few years and has made great
uuccass of the husiness
H. c. Bucklin, C. II. Covey. Jack
Walling and r. B. Cassels, will leave
tonight ON train No . Tor San Fran
cisco and other points in California.
Mr.. Csssels goes to attend the session |
OF the National Grocers association. |
while Messrs Covey and Bucklin will
Join their families now in California.
A horse race that is deeply interest
ing large number of local sportsmen |
has been arranged for and the money |
is up. The race is for purse of 5000
betwene Dell Newell S Sleepy Bob and /
the broncho of the long haired man !
who has been around the city Ter the |
past two weeks. It will he a scratch |
start although the strangers horse is
given thirty feet in a handicap.
The famous Georgia Minstrels gave
good entertainment at the Auditori-
um last night tc a fair sized audience /
Owing to the train ON the narrow
guage being late the street parade and
band concert did not take place unit
about six O'Clock in the evening and
was well received by the crowds on
the streets waiting to hear the music.
Richards and Pringle's artists with
the bones and tambourinc are all col
ored men and it is natural for them
to sing and dance The specialists of
this company are rare artists and the
sleight of hand performances were
equal to Hermann, in fact the gentle
man with the minstrels claims to have
been an understudy of Hermann
There was plenty to laugh and the
crowd was not backward in giving
applause to the deserving company
The Sunday San Francisco Examin-
er contained n full page article with
illustrations of the seedless apple the
seedless grape, tho seedless tomatoe,
the seedless orange aud also the eed-
less watermelon, and yet the bIainy
editor of the Field and Farm of Den
ver saws that the seedtes apple is only
"A freak Of nature and is impossible
Mr.. j. Il. Spencer the fruit grow er of
the Grand valley who has proven to
the world that he is growing seedless
apples. has Just been in receipt of a
letter from high authority in France,
concentrating him upon his wonder
full work of growing tha seedless apple
Other parties from Montreal. Canada.
have been correspondence with Mr..
Spencer regarding the growing Of the
seedless apple trees in that country.
1t is reliably reported that the Dem
er aud Rio Grande Railroad company
is preparing to expend several hum
dred thousand dollars on the narrow
guage division extending from Salida
to Grand Junction General Superin-
tendent w IL. Coughlin Of the Denver
ana Rio Grand, in company with sew
eral of the officials are on the narrow
| guage ON special train for the purpose
] of making thorough inspection OF the
road. In order to handle the immense
increase in traffic from the San Iuau
and San Luis valley 500 new narrow
guage freight cars have been placed
IN commission on the division within
the past three months. This phenom-
4 enal increase in traffic is said to be duG
to the rapid development of the ricl