The daily sentinel., 1906-06-18

Fishing tackle at the Postofice
Book store.
Miss Jennie Stevens viii entertain
party Of young people at her hot1e
on North Seventh street Wednesday
evening.
Cherries at 2hc per quart by
wise. At ]. F. Spencer's ranch End
Fruit Ridge
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day. warmer, is the way Observer
Hardlnge's weather forecast read to-
day. The maximum temperature yes
terday was &c debrees. The minimum
temperature this morning was A de-
grees.
Mr.. o. B. Whipple, field horticul-
turist of this section has two inter
esting strawberry pictures in his pos
session which he made in his office
some time ago, of some fruit picked
not far from Grand Junction. One of
the pictures shows seven strawber-
ries in a row on a foot rule, measur-
ing just twelve inches. The other pic
ture is made of a pile of twenty-four
berries heaped upon a small postal
scales, and weighing one pound. Mr..
Whipple says that these are absolute
ly the largest berries he has ever seen
in Grand Junction this season. They
did not all come from one ranch, but
were collected on a trip about week
ago for the purpose of being photo
graphed.
Judge sweeney yesterday received a
souvenir postal card from Mr.. Walter
Walker of the Sentinel who is now on
a vacation trip to his old home in
Kentucky attending the home com
To-. .1a.I.. To-. hn I'D
says it brings good news but which
is Just a little hard to believe. The
card shows a picture of fields of blue
grass and tobacco and bunch of
Kentucky thoroughbreds Under
meath is the statement that the send
er is still on the water wagon. The
Judge says he didn't remember of
ever>having seen any vehicles of that
kind in the state when he lived there
although he admits there might pos
sibly be one or two such carriages
owned by private individuals for
strictly their own use at this later
day.
One of the most interesting visI-
tors of the week in Grand Junction
was little Jap. II. S. Ok
omura by name who says he lives in
Denver where he has an agency for
omura stopped off in Grand juno
tion on his way from Denver to Mont
rose where he has made a contract
for supplying large number of Jap
anese for work on the Denver and
Rio Grande for broadguaging the
road from Grand Junction to Mont
rose. Mr.. Okumura said that his
company so far has already bought
1000 Japanese laborers to the state
of Colorado. A few of these he says
are working in private families in the
larger cities. but most of them come
here to go on the railroads or sugar
beet fields.
Conductor vandeburg of the mar
row guage railroad, well known
trainman In this territory who has
many friends in Grand Junction. came
to town the other day with a good
story of an affectionate little scene
which happened at the Hotchkiss
station the other day, and in which
he played one of the principal parts.
The story is well told in the follow
ing clipping which Hr. Vanderberg
had in his pocket: Conductor Vande-
berg is still blushing over the most
delightful experience jim Hotchkiss
yesterday. AS he was lending his
good offices in assisting passengers
TO al1Bht, nne LOOKING LADY came
tripping down the steps and exclaim-
ed, "Oh, how kind of you to meet
mel" and planted kiss square on
his averted cheek. Some of her
friends called out, "Why that's the
conductor" and she saw her mis-
take. There was considerable con
fusion around the Hotchlxiss depot
for few minutes.-Paonia Gazette.
Mr.. Charles B. Lee, a prominent
mining man of Aspen stopped over
in Grand Junction today on his way
to the LaSalle mining district. Mr.,
Lee is said TO be representing a syn
dicate of Aspen business men who
are going to invest in mining proper
ties in the new mining district. He
started out in wagon with several
friends about nine days ago to drive
over from Aspen. and after consider
able difficulty which he encountered
between DeBBeque and Grand June
tion arrived here last evening. Mr.
Lee says that his troubles arose over
being misdirected at DeBeque. He
was told there that 1t would be i'm
possible for him to get through to
Grand Junction by the valley road on
account of the high water, and acting
upon their advice went clear around
to the south and over Grand Mesa.
While coming over the Mesa his
wagon broke down a number of times
and he was almost forced to abandon
IL entirely and come down on horse