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The daily sentinel., 1907-07-03

81 A peculiar situation prevails II
4 Salt Lake City that is attracting con
siderable attention throughout the
country. The prices on lumber are
failing in that city and as result
1.-THE retail men refuse to stock up, de
lclaring that they believe prices will
20 still lower and If they buy now
they can sell at a profit but not at
such a profit as they can sell If an
other decrease comes. Some very in
| teresting circumstances have arisen
! and Salt Lake is having lumber
problem just little different from
any that ever confronted any western
city.
The Salt Lake Herald tells of the
state of affairs, in part, as follows;
Lumber prices in Salt Lake have
decreased in the past three weeks
from 81 to S2.GO on all grades OF
lumber and a larger volume of lum-
Der Is arriving in the valley than has
been brought in for months past.
The price has gone down for both
the wholesalers and the retailers and
the consumer is getting the benefit
at present. In spite of the decrease
a most peculiar situation prevails
here and one that is causing the
wholesalers and lumber manufactur-
ers any amount of worry
The retailers. or yardmen, expect
the prices on all lumber to go still
lower this summer and they are re
fusing to replenish their stocks for
the present season or stock up forl
the winter at the present prices. not |
withstanding the reduction of the
past three weeks. The buyers for
the retailers fear that If they buy in !
heavily now the rates will take am
other slump and even though they
cannot lose any money, they will not
make as much as they would if they
waited for the anticipated decrease |
The wholesalers and manufacture
ers admit the prices may go still /
lower this summer, late in the sea-
son probably, but declare that by
the time another decrease in prices
comes, the western roads will be SO
busy with the movement of fall traf-
hc they will be unable to give the
lumber cars and the situation for the
local yard men will be fully as bad |
as that of last winter.
Wholesalers Stocking Up
The manager of one of the larg
sst wholesale firms here yesterday
stated that he had twelve cars of
lumber in transit to Salt Lake at
present, and that not a foot of 1t is
sold as yet, a thing he has not eN-
perlenced in months past. Like con-
ditions prevail with the other whole
salers and with the manufacturers.
Both of the latter, however. as dis
covered yesterday by inquiry, areI
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owns a place on any chart. Yes il
trelk who does not recognize the
Turkish government. can call togeth-
er 100000 fighting men, most of
them armed with modern rifles. Ter
rible fighters they are, too, and some
of the worst scoundrels on earth.
pirates, slavers, and contraband ira
ders.
The Home of the Slave Trade.
The channel leading into the port
of Midi is three and a half miles
long, twisty, narrow, and almost i'm
passable for anything larger than
dhows. The inner stretches are quad
ed by cannon. Even If a warship did
get in and hammer the forts she
could do little harm to the town. for
that lies at the head of a creek three
miles inland. Midi is the headquar-
ters of the modern slave trade.
Another city of similar nature, but
even more ccessible-indeed, not
half a dozen Europeans have ever
seen it's Aziat, the capital of those
savage Moslem fanatics, the Senussi.
The oasis, in the center of which this
city lies, is reported to be as large
as Essex. surprisingly fertile and
well watered, and near it lies another
oasis called. Nejila. Those two sup
port nearly half a million people who
protected from all incursions by hun
dreds of miles of blazing waterless
| desert, are arming and drilling to
head a huge iehad or holy war
against the infidel powers OF the
north.
Japan, thiokly populated as her ISL
ands are has a town which is al
most unknown to people living only
n few miles away. This Is a little
place of 1000 inhabitants, some thir-
ty miles north from the city of Ko-
namato. The town lies in a huge pit.
which is nothing else but the erater
of an extinct volcano. All around
tower cliffs Of 800 to 900 feet high.
and there the village rests.
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CITIES IN HIDING.
Great Towns Not Marked on Any
Map Remain Hidden From the
Known World for Many Years.


Australians are most anxious to ]
keep their continent exclusively for I
white settlers and for that reason |
have passed various laws prohibiting |
the landing of Asiatics, especially |
Chinese. So it has come as a severe
shock to the advocates of a white |
Australia, that Mr.. Hansford. n Mel |
bourne gentleman, who has been eX- i
plorlng in northern Queensland, has |
discovered a large town Of China |
men on the shores of the gulf of Car
pentaria.
This is no colony of shipwrecked |
sailors. but n great settlement con-
tanning three of four thousand yel
low men who live along the river
flats and grow opium, which appar-
entity they ship duty free, to the Phil
ippines and to China itself. The
press is clamoring that the govern
ment shall turn the Chinese. out, but
IL will be an awkward business.
This is not the first time that Aus
tralians have been startled by a dis
coyery of similar kind. Six or seven
years ago party of gold miners eX-
ploring in the desert far beyond the
Leopold range happened on n tribe
of blacks of very different type
from the ordinary Australian abort
gines. They We're taller and better
built, they were clean in their habits,
they offered the travellers fruit and
goats milk, and had a distinct civili-
cation OF their own.
Most wonderful. for the Australian
blackfellow never has a settled hab-
! itation; this tribe had a town built
of wood and sun-dried clay, cluster
ing round n sort of temple. They
| kept Saturday as a holiday, and, in
/ the opinion of their discoverers,
showed traces of having at one time
! been instructed in the Jewish reli-
I gion. Naturally it was suggested
Il that they were the remnants of the
!, Lost Ten Tribes.
! Hidden for n thousand Years.
4 There are other cities. too, whose
existence was hidden from civiliza.
tion until recently.
Only the other day a St. Petrs
burg paper announced that. deep IN
8 tho forests of the Ural had beer
I discovered tlourlshing city. the in.
( habitants of which speak a language
Of their own, and form sort of idea
commonwealth. They had never pait
s taxes, and knew very little of wha.
{ went ON in the great world abou
them.
! This story may or may not b,
) true, but tt Is beyond all doubt tha
: n British officer travelling in Arabi,
5 some years ago discovered" a towI
Z which, except to the surroundin,
I tribes, was previously unknown. Tn,
. place. which is called Sheraizl. is sit
uated on the summit OF great rocl
l plateau. tns the heart of the Gree,
mountains, and is cut on from III.
surrounding country by enormous
perpendicular cliffs. Its people ar,
lighter in color than those of tn,
Arabs IN the plains below. and abso
luteY refuse to mix or intermarr,
with these.
Their discoverers found that the,
We're descendants of the survivors n
a Persian army which invaded Omar
nearly n thousand years ago.
some of these little known elite.
contain the germs Of danger to otbei
countries. There Is. for Instance ,
town called Midi on the Arabiar
! shore of the Red sea. which hardi,
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LUMBER TAKES
DROP THERE
Peculiar Situation in Utah May Affect Grand
Junction Retail Dealers Quit Buying
Believing That Prices Will Con-
tinue to Fall---Wholesalers
Stock up.

taking all the lumber they can ge
and making preparations for storing
it here, believing that before fall has
advanced very far the local retailers
will be glad to get it at any price
! Altogether indications point to the
same if not lower prices than pre-
vailed here last year in the lumber
market. No dealers. retailer, whole
saler or manufacturer, will say there
J is a possibility of prices going high
er than they are.
The cause of the drop in prices
the past three weeks is due to the
fact that the Oregon manufacturers
and wholesalers who supply Salt
Lake dealers with lumber, have
been shut off from their California
market, and with Hartman in better
shape than he has been for some
months to handle lumber shipments,
they are sending their stocks this
way and have lowered the prices in
an effort to get the trade to stock up
before fall The retailers think they
viii reduce rates even more to get
their lumber into the territory and
that is why they refuse to stock upI
heavily.
For two years past California has
been an immense market for the
Oregon lumber. The state has been
flooded with shipments at a high
price and with stocks away up the
California lumbermen have sudden
ly stopped buying. Much of the
lumber sent from Oregon to Califor-
mia goes down the coast by water.
A year ago and less the steamship
companies charged $40 a thousand
for carrying lumber from the Port
land mills to California points.
Today the rate is $3.50 a thou
sand. The Oregon manufacturers |
prevailed on the steamship men to !
lower the water rates to induce the |
to keep on buying, but
the lumbermen of the latter state |
have all the lumber they want for a .
time. With the California market
in sucn poor shape the Oregon men
turned their attention toward the in
termountain country and the local |
wholesalers can get lumber without
much trouble now.
Sure to BE Car Shortage.
The most serious aspect of the case
at present is the refusal of the re-
tailers to stock up at the lower
prices. 1t is estimated that while /
the Hartman line from Portland to |
Salt Lake is in better shape for cars |
now and win be this fall than it was
last year. there is certain to be a |
big shortage in the equipment |
again, for traffic has increased faster
than the cars have been added.
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Heavy moving and piano moving
are made specialties by Barton and
TeFriell who conduct a first class
livery barn and transfer business at
Fifth and Colorado. The old reli-
able firm. Youu always get high
class service.
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On account OF the races atoverland
Park June 18th to July 18Th. 1907
the Denver and Rio Grande will make
a rate OF one fare for the round trip
TO Denver and return. Tickets on
sale June 18th, 21st. 2Sth, July 5th
ana l2th. Return limit July 18th.
For particulars inquire of D. & R, G.
local agent.
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Mayor Wentworth's order compeu-
ing the night police officers to don
legulauon uniforms has been com.
Piled with to the letter in spite of tho
objections from some 1uarteds. Mai.
Wharton and Officer Patterson make
a hne appearance in their uniforms OF
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Very low round trip rates have
been authorized by the Colorado Mid
land to Kansas City. st. Louis. Min
neapolis. st. Paul and Intermediates
points. Tickets on sale commencing
June 18th. with final return iimit
October 31st.
For full particulars see the Colo
rado Midland City ticket agent.
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When you want to take a drive
these fine days go to Barton and Ter
rlell, Fifth and Colorado, best equip
ped livery barn in the city. Good SER
vice at all times.
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For the best bread ootainable 20 to
t1e Progress. IT grows in popularity
an the time Fresh vegetables and
the Progress.
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your steam heating apparatus until
the last minute and then expect us
to be able to rush to your assistance
THERE ARE OTHERS
who will do that and our services
will be in pretty lively demand about
the first real cold day. But we hope
you will display better judgment
Send for us now and save us putting
the steam pipes in working order lat
er on. Then you can snap your finger
at Jack Frost. And also smile at the
other fellows who have let things go
too long.
LEWIS a SAI.EIl
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There is no better whiskey on the
market than the Golden Glow pure
rye and "Cedarbrook' sold In Grand
Junction at the Royalty. Ranch and
Mason bars.
The daily sentinel., 1907-07-03

Golden Glow pure rye whiskey and
the famous "Cedarbrook" sold at the
Royalty. Ranch and Mason bars.
The daily sentinel., 1907-07-03

The great Chautauqua opens the
Fourth of July at Boulder. Very low
rates, including admission, via Colo
RADIO & Southern.
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Patriotic celebration and opening
Chautauqua at Boulder, July 4th.
Colorado e Southern offers very low
rates, including admission.
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Get your fresh meats at Hilbert
Rettiss. We kill nothing but
young steers. The Leader grocery
and market
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See Post e Boyds big transfer
wagon, hauls anything at any time.
Phone Red 1921.
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A large number of second hand
buggies and wagons in first class
condition at c. p McCary's,
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Heavy hauling is made a special
ty by Barton and TERRELL. corner of
Fifth street and Colorado Avenue.
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Hay, feed and grain at the Grand
Junction Feed and Implement COM
pany.
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All kinds of harness repairing done
while you wait at Harry L. Hiatt's
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The Star bakery bread is oil sale
at nearly every grocery house in
Grand Junction.
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If you buy your bread try loaf of
the Star bakery bread. Order it from
your grocer.
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Children's plain signet and set rings
so cents at Primrose's the jeweler
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Boys knee pants. soc and up, Loef-
1ers.
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LOW RATES no THE EAsT

Tomorrow is the Glorious Fourth.
DO. your part Of the celebrating.
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walk-over shoes. s8.5O-LOffler's
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LEWIS n SALEE
416 Main Street.
INVEST YOUR MONEY
AT HONE.

Al sHUmE.
Get in on the ground floor where
you are acquainted with conditions.
Remember that Grand Valley real
estate can never be purchased to
better advantage than today. Here are
some opportunities.
Nine and one-half acres near Cliff
ton full water right, only $4,000, Neat
5-room modern cottage good barn
splendid location on Rood avenue.
easy terms for $2,7OO.
A six-room modern house on White
avenue, only $1,7OO.
Some bargains in high line land.
Also few good ranches to trade
for city property.
How about that insurance. no man
should neglect fully insuring his
property any more than he should ne
glect locking his doors at night. SEE
Van, the Realty Man,
Phone Black 669 400 Main st.
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Buy of Fred Mantey if he is right
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trick and be had no doubt that his
father was at the back OF It. So his
mind now was fully made up. He
would 90 away at once where they
could not make HE life a burden with
this odious marriage which was fast
becoming a nightmare to him. He
would close up his studio and leave
Immediately for Europe. He would
show his father once for all that he
was a man and expected 70 be treated
He wondered What Shirley was do
ing. Where had she gone what was
this mysterious work OF which she
had spoken? He only realized now.
when She seemed entirely beyond his
reach, how much he loved her and
how empty his life would be without
her He would know no happiness
until she vas his wife. Her words
on the porch did not discourage him.
Under the circumstances he could not
expect her to have said anything else.
She could not marry into John Ryder
family with such a charge hanging
when the trial was over, no matter
how II turned out, he would go to her
again and ask her TO be his wife.
On arriving home the first person he
saw was the ubiquitous Mr.. Bagley,
who stood ar the top Of the first stair
case giving some letters to the butler.
Jefferson cornered him at once, hold
ing out the newspaper containing the
SAY, Bagley," he cried, what does
this mean? Is this any or your
The English secretary gave his en-
ployer.s son a naughty stare, and
them without deigning TO reply or even
glance at the newspaper, continued his
instructions TO the servant:
Here. Jorklns. get stamps for all
these letters and see they are mailed
at once. They are very important"
Very good, SIR"
The man took the letters and dis
appeared, while Jefferson, impatient
repeated his question:
MY doingT' sneered Mr.. Bagiey
Really. Jefferson. you 20 too far!
Do you suppose for one instant that I
would cOndescend to trouble myself
with your affaiTs?"
Jefferson was in no mood to put Up
from a man whom he heartily de-
spised, so advancing menacingly he
Numbered:
''I uneau-were you. in the discharge
OF your meniaI-lke duties. instructed
by my father 20 send that paragraph
20 the newspapers regarding my al
legged betrothal TO Miss Roberts? Yes
or No?"
The man WINGED and made a step
backward. There was CLEAN IN the
Ryder eye which he knew by expert
ence boded no good.
Really, Jefferson" he said in
more c0nciliatOry tone. I know alb
solutely nothing about the paragraph.
This IS the first I hear Of II. Why not
ask your father2'
II will" replied Jefferson grimly.
He was turning 10 go IN the direc-
ton Of the library when Bagley
stopped him.
You cannot possibly see him now
he said Sergeant Ellison, OF the
Secret Service is IN there with him,
and your father told me not to dis
turb him on any account. He has an
other appointment st three o'clock
with some woman who writes books
Seeing that the fellow was in earn
est. Jefferson did not insist. He could
see his father a little later or send him
a message through his mother. Pro-
Ceeding upstairs he found Mrs. Ryder
in her room, and fl a few energetic
words he explained the situation to his
mother. They had gone too far with
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said, had been back from Europe some
time. He insisted on knowing what his
attitude was toward his daughter. If
they were engaged to be married, he
said. there should be a public an
nouncement Of the fact. IT was I'M
fair TO him and a slight TO his daugh-
ter to let matters hang fire in this
unsatisfactory way, and he limited that
both himself and mis- daughter might
demand their passports from the
Ryder mansion unless some eXplana-
ton were forthcoming.
Ryder was in q Quandary He had
no wish TO quarrel with his useful
Washington ally; he recognized the
reasonableness of his complaint. Yet
what could he do2 Much as he him
self desired the marriage. his son was
obstinate and showed little inclination
to settle down. He even limited at
attractions IN another quarter He did
not tell the Senator of his recent inter
view with his son. when the latter
made IL very plain that the marriage
could never take place. Ryder. ST.,
had his own reasons for wishing 20
temporize. 1t was quite possible that
Jefferson might change his mind and
abandon his idea of going abroad, and
he suggested TO the Senator that per-
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Mr.. Ryder's son. Jefferson, was
here. We crossed on the same ship.
introduced him to Judge Stott on
the dock"
The judge looked surprised. but he
merely said:
It hope for his sake that he Is a
different man from his father"
He Is" replied Shirley simply, and
nothing more was said.
Two days went by, during which
Shirley went on completing the prepa-
rations for her visit to New York.
Ii was arranged that Stott should
escort her TO the city Shortly before
they started for the train a letter ar
rived for Shirley. Like the first one
Il had been forwarded by her publish
ers, It read as follows:
Miss Shirley Green.
Dear Madam shall be happy TO
see you at my residence-Fffth avenue
any afternoon that you will mention
Yours very truly,
JOHN BURKHTT RYDER,
per b.
Shirley smiled in triumph as. unseen
by her father and mother, she passed
It over TO St0tt. She at once sat down
and wrote this reply:
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CHAPTER II.

The Hon. F1tZrOy Bagley had every
reason to feel satisfied with himself.
HIS affa1re de occur with the Senator
daughter was progressing more
smoothly than ever, and nothing now
seemed likely to interfere with his
carefully prepared plans TO capture
an American heiress. The interview
with Kate Roberts in the library, so
awkwardly disturbed by Jefferson s
unexpected intrusion. had been fol
lowed by other interviews more secret
and more successful, and the plausible
secretary had contrfved so well to
peTs uade the girl that he really
thought the world Of her, and that a
brilliant future awaited her as his
wife, that il was not long before he
found her in a mood TO refuse him
Bagiey urged immediate marriage;
he insinuated that Jefferson had treat
ed her shamefully and that she owed IL
to herself to show the world that
there were other men as good
He argued that in view OF the
Senator being bent on the match
with RydeT's son it would be
worse than useless for him,
Bagley, to make formal application
for her hand. so. as he explained. the
only thing which remained was a run
away marriage. Confronted with the
fat accOmpH. papa Roberts would bow
to the inevitable. They could get mar
red quietly in town, go away for a
short trip, and when the Senator had
gotten over his first disappointment
they would be welcomed back with
open arms
Kate listened willingly enough to this
specious reaS 0ning. In her heart she
was piqued & Jefferson's Indifference
and she was foolish enough to be-
lieve that this marriage with a British
nobleman. twice removed, would be in
the nature of a triumph over him.
Besides. this project Of an elOpement
appealed strangely to her frivolous
ims SiRatiou; il put her in the same
class as all her favorite novel hero
ines And it would be capital fun
Meantime, Senator Roberts, in bliss
ful Ignorance of this little plot against
his domestic peace. was growing impa-
tient. and he approached his friend
Ryder once more on the subject OF his
son Jefferson. The young man, he
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until she had tried. And as the car
sped along Madison avenue, gradually
drawing nearer to the house which
she was going to enter disguised as it
We're, like a burglar, she felt cold
chiTs run up and down her spine-the
same sensation that one experiences
when one rings the bell Of a dentists
where one has gone to have a tooth
extracted. IN fact. she felt so nervous
and frightened that if she had not
seen ashamed before herself she
would have turned back. In about
twenty minutes the car stopped at the
corner of Seventy-fourth street Shir-
ley descended and with q Quickened
pulse walked towards the Ryder man
sion, which she knew well by sight.
There was one other person in New
York who. that same morning. had
read the newspaper item regarding the
Ryder Roberts betrothal, and he did
not take the matter so calmly as
Shirley had done On the contrary fl
had the effect OF putting him into a
violent rage. This was Jefferson. He
was working in his studio when he
read 1t and I've minutes later he was
tearing uptown TO seek the author or
il. He understood its object. of
course; they wanted TO force his hand,
TO shame him into this marriage, to so
entangle him with the girl that no
other alternative would be possible to
honorable man. II was a despicable