The daily sentinel., 1906-08-07


The Elks met last evening in regu-
lar session. There was a large at
tendance.
Samuel G. McMulHn leaves tonight
for a business trip of several days TO
Salt Lake City.
The Mesa Dry Goods company has
started the work of moving to its new
quarters in the old stand of Lyons &
Son.
The Primrose Jewelry and Music
company has dissolved and C. w.
Primrose is now sole proprietor of
the business.
Nothing pays better than the want
column" in the Sentinel. Have you
ever tried it? Hundreds have and
found 1t satisfactory.
The sales of one real estate firm in
Palisade amounted in the month of
July to $3.50 Several of the con-
siderations that went to make up
this total amounted to 5000 and
$4,000 each and were for Palisade
Orchards.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Brown. of Hani-
bal, Mo. left the city last night for the
east after a pleasant but short visit
with James II. Hill and family Mr..
Brown is manager of the Journal
Printing company at Hannibal, and
one of the best known newspaper men
of that city. He was pleasant call
er at the local newspaper offices.
1t is announced that Ex-Governor
Peabody is a possible candidate for
congress from the second district.
This information was given out yes
terday by State Chairman d. B. Fair
ley. 81 have heard" said Mr. Fair
ley, that Mr. Peabody will be a can
didate for congress from the second
district. I do not state this as a
certainty, understand, but merely as
a rumor.'
A good deal of discussion has been
going on in the Junction lately as to
the relative amounts of water in Mesa
creek and Hannah creek. According
to. all authorities 1t seems certain that
there is about twice as much the year
around in the latter creek. At low
water Mesa creek runs about 220
inches of water and at a like period
Hannah creek runs at least 500. That
being true it would not pay the June
tion to go after Mesa creek water
The city now uses 100000 gallons
day and 220 inches of water is
only about 100000 gallons a day.
When the population doubles there
would hardly be enough water And
no one doubts for a moment that the
Besides it is 20 miles to Hannah
creek and 35 miles to Mesa creek
Plateau Voice.
Mrs. Anna Falkner, of Colorado
Springs, who left the city last night
for Glenwood Springs after spending
few days in the city with her cousin
Mrs. S. b. Hutchinson, is one of the
pioneer women of Colorado. 1t is
said that Mrs. Falkner was the first
white woman ever to enter the Grip
pie Creek mining district and she en-
tered 1t long before 1t became known
as a mining section. Hereafter and
brother carried freight from Kansas
City to Denver overland before the
railroads came and their cabin was
the first one ever erected on the site
of the present city of Cripple creek.
Mrs. Falllner has made her home in
Colorado Springs for a number of
years. For the past month she has
been at Glenwood Springs seeking re-
lief from rheumatism and returned
to that city from here. She enjoyed
her visit TO this city very much
The booster edition of the Palisade
Tribune issued on Saturday is one of
the best advertising mediums ever
sent out of the valley and 1t is bound
to do world of good. The four pages
of handsome Illustrations and solid
facts will reach thousands of eastern
people and will bring returns not
only to the Palisade district but to
the entire valley. Scores of inter-
views with fruit growers of the Pail
sade country, showing how success
full they have been and what rich
returns are always to be had from
a rightly managed fruit orchard in
the Grand valley, are given along
with a large amount of general infor-
nation regarding the fruit raising
industry and the town of Palisade,
etc. The statements are all reliable,
and the facts are all Interestingly
told by Mr.. Dean. the editor of the
Tribune, who gave his personal at
tention to compiling the matter.
Photographs of fruit growers resi-
dences, Pallsade business houses, or
chard scenes, clusters of fruit and
reproductions of many other interest
ing scenes illustrate the edition.
Eight thousand copies of this issue
of the Tribune We're published. The
Tribune is great booster, its ever
lastingly at II and the efforts of Mr..
Dean should be and doubtless are. ap-
preciated by the people of the upper
end of the valley