The daily sentinel., 1906-02-24

Who's got the Banner? Do you
know?
I The mystery of the Banner Who
can solve It?
r. H. Bancroft anl j. l.. oliver,
of Palisade are In the city today.
c. f. Steyn, the electric railway
promoter, was an arrival in the city
last night from Denver.
Mrs. Frank Mclaughlin will arrive
tonight from Salida to be at the bed
side of her brother, Don Nixon who
is dangerously i'll. Mr.. Nixon has
many friends here who viii regret
to learn of his Illness.
If you don't believe that The SEN
tinel publishes more want" ads than
all the other papers of the county
combined. just take a glance at the
column today. II is about the normal
size today, probably little more. per
haps less.
With the new folding machine add
ed to the equipment of the Office the
past week, nearly 1000 papers can
be folded an hour and done in hand
some shape too. OF course the SEN
tinel always heads the procession in
everything new.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Charles
Clark won the beautiful gold watch
and chatelaine pin given, away at the
Moody auction and last nlgbt Mrs.
J Gleason won the prize. an elegant and
costly jewel box. Tonight at the
last sale the $500 punch bowl will
be given away.
The concensus of opinion is that
the Stag from the furnaces of the
Grand Junction Smelling company is
going TO be the correct thing for road
building. The city viii make a thor
ough test of the material and if It
proves satisfactory. viii undoubtedly
use lots of 1t on the public thorough
fares.
Observer Hardinge of the local
weather bureau informed the Sentin-
el this morning that the tempera-
ture all this month has been twelve
degrees above normal. This is an
Interesting and remarkable fact and
is another evidence of the mild wea-
ther that has prevailed In the val
ley this winter.
Tuesday afternoon the Woman's
club will meet with Mrs. James I.
Hamilton. corner of Fifth and White
the meeting Will he held with Mrs. |
chester but a change in the meeting
place is necessary as Mrs. Chester |
Will be out OF the citl. 1.-The Couse
of Poverty will be discussed and it
is hoped that every member of the !
club Will be present prepared to par-
Charles Clark the popular district
manager of the Capital Life insurance /
company, arrived home last night 1
from successful trip up the narrow I
guage He visited a number of points
and was out OF the city two weeks /
Mr. Clark made q thorough inspec-
ton OF the GunnisOn tunnel while [
he was gone and states that there is I
much interest attached to visit to /
the tunnel and that the progress |
made ON the great project is remark /.
able.
This morning at an early hour
someone knocked at the front ent-
rance of the residence of Il. $. Steele
on West Main street. The house
keeper thinking perhaps that It was
Mr. steel or some other member of
the family who had been ont. return
ing home, arose and unlocked the /
door and returned to her room. Short /
lN afterwards one of the children
aroused the housekceper stating that
a strange man was in the house. Mr..
Steele was awakened and ordered the
man out Of the house. The fellow
was evidently of unbalanced mind
He was barefooted and wore only his
night clothes and after leaving the
house he climbed over two wire fences
and hurried down the street. He wa
a complete stranger to Mr.. Steele and
would make no explanation OF why
he was in the house. The house
keeper and children were badly