The daily sentinel., 1905-09-06

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Denver is really trying to show
the G. A. r, veterans a good time.
They seem to have forgotten that
for once that. their visitors were
there for other purposes besides to
The Denver press the week past
has had abundant opportunity to
write perferYid patriotic editorials.
The public read them with much
greater pleasure than the stuff usual
ly dished up about Bill Evans, the
tramway and other matters.
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The commercial value of rail
roads operating in the United States
for the year 1904, according to the
bulletin issued by the department of
commerce and labor was s11,244,-
$4,000 This does not include the
value of the Pullman private cars
operated.
Johi d. Rockefeller may have felt
badly over the howl that was rails
ed over the character of the money
he was distributing to the churches.
But If he felt any prickings of CON
science, he certainly found comfort
in the hordes of worthy institutions
who were willing to take his luchre,
tainted or untainted.
The Duke family of tobacco and
cigarette fame. seems to be having
q lot of marital troubles. Brodic
Duke, the old man was caught in the
web of an adventures and now an
other member of the family sues his
rnfF Frts oh ,,r t.,
fidelity Too much money evidently
In the family. Sometimes it brings
corruption in its trail
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That ten-pound fish that the Post
offered $4,000 for has been caught
in the Frying Pan. The Post thought
that money was safe, it had placed
the weight of the fish so high that,
il never imagined that a trout of
that size could he caught There will
be a whole lot of suckers now go to
the Frying Pan to see If they can't
duplicate the catch.
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There is much satisfaction among
the depositors and those who lost
through the thievery of Fidelity"
Johnson that he will have to serve
a term in Jail But it is questionable
If he will not be able to purchase
a pardon in some manner. He got
three years, three times three would
not have been too much for robbing
the many poor people who lost their
money by his treaehery,
Grand Junction should extend a
whole-hearted, spontaneous invita-
tion to the people all over the
county to come into this city during
1 the fair week and have a jolly good
time. There is no reason why week
( of fun and frolic should not be en-
joyed by the farmers and ranchmen
and their good families once n year.
We believe it viii do every farmer a
benefit to come to the city and meet
one another during the fair.
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How long does 1t take a person to
( die out of the public eye. If the news
papers let him alone? This question
Z need not remain long unanswered.
1t viii kill him more quickly than
. any other means ever devised. If
you want to kin man politically
Just keep quiet about him. The same
rule attaches to business. If a man
keeps quiet long enough about his
( business. the public VIII do the rest
! for him. They Will soon forget him
and his business.
There are a great many citizens
A who take a wonderful lot of grace to
themselves and their town, because
! It has natural advantages. Now we
have reached the conclusion long ago
that. natural advantages are worth
something only when they are
pushed forward. We might have
natural advantages to throw away.
i but without we had the nerve to
push such considerations to the at
tention OF the public, they would
avail us little. We have heard the
din of natural advantages for years,
but II fools us little. because we know
that II takes work to secure results
combined with natural.advantages.
A newspaper that has to charge
1 that other papers are worrying about
' that special publication, in an en-
deavor to excite some comment ON
4 its own work, is certainly hard press
ed to secure attention. So far as we
I know we have never commented up
on anything 1t has said. or done, be
i cause we have not discovered that
4 IL has done anything, at least no one
seriously charges the paper with
having accomplished anything worth
4 talking about. The editor says he
is a thorn in the side of the other
\ newspapers of the city, but we have
failed to discover any OF It's prick
ings in our anatomy II is very
old trick, charging up ana down and
wanting to be recognized. but it is
Il forgivable when the public won't
take you seriously any other way.
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We are CHAD that the practice OF
1 asking free advertisings from the
newspapers for the state and county
| fairs is being frowned upon by the
\ newspapers everywhere. You can
not get dozen eggs from grocer
or barrel of oil from the hardware
merchant for nothing and there is
no reason or business in attempting
l o make a publisher do something
FOR nothing. The Mesa Country In
l dustrial & Fruit Fair association has
set a good example by paying for
4 what II asks. So 1t should be in
I every county. We hardly think that
the directors of the state fair or
l the advertising manager will ever
\ asl, favors OF the state press, without
giving something in return. This
thing of handing out sop in the
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