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The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

Removal sale now on at the G. Y
Store.
Frank d. MeCune was an arrival
today from Denver.
c. e. Neil. if Gillette Grove. Ia.
is a new arrival in the city.
Cigars and tobaccos. candy and
nuts at the Sultorium, 1875 S. 5th st.
They will treat you right. will the
corcoran grocery firm on Colorado.
Excellent service assured.
Chairs recaned and tents and avn
lngs made and repaired by Rice the
new upholsterer. Phone black 2241.
Our new car of buggies has not ar
rived yet but notice the price on
what we have in stock.-Fred Man
tey.
A marriage license was issued to-
day to Frank a Rees, of Grand June
tion. and Miss Gertrude Asman Of
Gage. Oklahoma.
1t is strange to hear the kind of
remarks made about horse as they
pass by. Even If It is only a wooden
display horse.-Fred Mantey.
You had better see some of the auc-
tion bills advertising the sale at the
corner of 3rd and Colorado on Tues
day, Feb. 26.
]. r.. Love, advance agent of "old
Arkansas" is in town today confer
ring with Manager Haskell, of the
Park opera house.
One Fare Plus 81 to Fort Worth
and Return via the Colorado and
Southern will sell tickets on March
9, 10, and II with limit 80 days from
date of sale, at one fare plus 50 to
Fort Worth and Return.
1t is reported that the large and
residence of NJ. A. Elldns
located at 737 Gunnison avenue. has
been sold to gentleman who recent
ly came to the city from Utah. The
deal involved n consideration, 1t is
reported. of over $1,000.
Why Not Il Trip to Havana?-No
more delightful rail and water trip
is to be had than that from Colorado
to Havana. via the Colorado and
and Galveston or New Or
leans. Write for particulars. T. E.
FISHER, General Passenger Agent
Denver Colorado.
A letter received this morning
from Walter Merrill. for years con
neeted with the other daily paper.
states that he and his family expect
to return to Grand Junction just as
soon as he can dispose of his bust
ness interests in Seattle. Washing
ton, where the family has resided for
the past four months. Mr. and Mrs.
Merrill have found that the climate
of the northwest does not agree with
them ms they thought it would do and
decided that after all there is no
place to equal the Grand Valley they
will returR They will receive
hearty welcome from their old friends
1t is said that MIR. Merrill will again
take position on the other paper.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23
GEO. A. CURRIE & SON
Real Estate, Loans
and Insurance
Ill South Fifth Street
FOR SALE

lGo acres of land and so inches OF
water near the town of Fruita.
Price $4,000.
10 81 acres Of land under the stub
ditch. Price 50 500.
so acres of high line land I-2 miles
from town.
broom house modern. on Grand ave
nue. between Srd and 18th sts. for
$4,000.
Groom house on White avenue, cor
ner. Price $4,000.
choice lots on upper Main street.
Price $500.
20 acres OF land and in water in
Pomona. $1,000.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23
Nerve

Yes, sai4 the warden. he was the
coolest and most thoughtful convict
who ever broke Jail"
You don't sayi" exclaimed tba
visitor
Yes; he left behind him a note to
the governor Of the state beginning:
4 hopo You will pardon me for the
liberty I'm taking"
Candy at the c. V. store.
Smoke the El socorro cigar.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23
MANY WENT FROM HERE

Quite a number of Grand Junction
Woodmen OF the World and their
ladies attended the big dance and ban
Quet given last night in Palisade by
the Woodmen of that place. All re-
port Il good time
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23
ORGANIZATION PERFECTED
Officers Elected at the Meeting OF
Stockholders in Electric
a Gns. Go.


Stockholders in Electric
q Gas. Co.
The final details Of the organization
of the Grand Junction Electric ~ Gas
Manufacturing company, proprietorS
of the electric light plant, the gas
plant and the ice and storage plant,
were completed this morning when n
meeting of the stockholders was held
in this city aud "A board of directors
chosen and officers elected.
Orson Adams, Jr., was elected
president and general manager.
William f. White was chosen as
secretary and treasurer.
J.. l.. stcarns, of Denver, John Ew-
ing, OF Icadvillc, and A. II. Wells,
and w. Il. white, of Grand junction,
are the directors.
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\ bargain If sold in ten days. s
acres. one and one-fourth miles form
Palisade. Price 5000 per acre. Gail
at COZ Teller
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

HoUsEKEEPER- Would like posi-
tion in family. no objection to
children. Address Mrs York, 91s
White.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR SALE-Five room house. two
lots. 5ox135, Price $3.50 and n
bargain. Apply at 1903 n. eth.
FOR RENT-Nicely furnished room.
bath room adjoining. Heat and
electric lights, 1886 Grand avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR sALE-Am leaving town and
viii sell cottage, 1049 White, with
range. shades. etc. Cheap for cash
before March /.
h. NJ. HARDINGE.
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SHADE TREES have 1000 n. c.
Poplars for sale. Phone Black
1915. Deliveries free in the city.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23
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J. matter in the Sentinel tonight I
:. than in any other local paper !
). ever put out in this city as !
:. regular daily edition. There are !
!. thirteen full columns of pure :
>. fresh local matter and over two :.
:. columns of latest telegraphic :.
:. dispatches. or in all over fifteen !
). full columns of new, fresh and !
>. intensely interesting reading ..
). matter. The Sentinel is con- !
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The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

WANTED-Young girl to take care
of children from 8 to eight Call
at GA ouray avenue. Friday or
evenings.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR SALE-Two new five room mod
ern cottages on Hill Ave. Price
$4,000 each. Currie and Son.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

wANTED-Girl for general house
work Apply to Mrs. A. r. sam
pliner. SIS n. 9TH street.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR SALE-S0 acres. rs acres in
alfalfa, acres winter apples, 5
room house. good barn. 40 inches
of water 1-2 miles from City.
SIPS per acre. This viii pay 45
per cent on the Investment. ]. E.
Baggott. 43i South Avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR SALE am leaving the city, II
offer my new home on North 5th
street for sale very cheap. Easy
terms. ]. H. Whittemore.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR sALE-By owner 4 room house
On ouray for $3.50. Terms. Beck
500 Grand avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FO RRENT-Three rooms for house
keeping at 1871 Rood. Enquire at
303 South avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR SALE-Team of gentle work
horses, 627 White.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23
WANT COLUMN

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 40 fsr kind
ling wood.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR RENTING modern rooms.
Best table board, 241 Grand avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR T-Housckeeping rooms at
437, Pitkin.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR RENT-Two rooms for light
housekeeping. Apply at ss4 Colorado
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

WANTED-House. VIII buy a house
and move TT W. Sawyer.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

WANTED-old cast iron at Weir's
Foundry, South Eighth Street.
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

WANTED-A loan on first class Sc
curity Enquire of ~ this Office
The daily sentinel., 1907-02-23

FOR RENT-Five room house. In
quire 3I3 n. Seventh street.
The independent., 1907-02-21
LAWYERS FEES.

That is not at all bad suggestion
of a correspondent writing as con-
stituent of Senator Burns and asking
that a law be enacted limiting attor-
ney fees to five dollars a day. Perhaps
the lawyers will hardly see the merit
of the proposition, but about everyone
else who has ever become tangled up
in the courts will be able to discern
them with half an eye.
AS matters now stand it takes
marvellous degree of courage for one
TO get into the courts, and unfortu-
nately courage is not all it takes by
any means. No man has any right TO
think of voluntarily going to law ui-
less he has a good balance on the
credit side Of his bank account But
he who goes voluntarily to law is
prize winner when compared to the
man who gets in through the choice
of some one else.
The volunteer itigant has time to
frame up a bargain with his lawyer,
and If the prospect doesn't look good
TO him, he can drop the scheme. But
it is not SO with the Involuntary liti-
grant There is a story of man
who said he liked pie. and that he
always cut pic in two and ate both
halves. The average lawyer knows
Law and the services of attorneys
are something OF necessity. The
most timid and peaceable persons are
sometimes forced into The courts. When
such necessities arise they must have
lawyers. Most or us can recall cases
wherein litigants have been compelled
TO pay fees that were scandalously
high The members of the bar doubt
less invented the system so long pur-
sued by the railways Of exacting all tie
traffic will bear. They proceed upon
the theory that the person who has a
Just cause would rather give them the
lions share Of il than lose it all for
lack Of their services.
| What is said of the lawyer in this
connection may be said of the m M
bers of several other professions,
though perhaps not SO aptly. The doc
tor often measures his fee by the
! ability Of the patient to pay. lie takes
all the traffic will bear.
So that, as an abstract proposition.
the law has as much right to regulate
the fee of the lawyer and the doctor
as 1T has to regulate public service
charges. But when the day comes that
our lawyer can only mulct us for SIS a
day, it will pay us even better than
1t does now not to have any lawyer.
The independent., 1907-02-21
BAD HABITS.

In legislation, as III other affairs of
fife, bad habits are extremely hard to
shed. Here at home we have the wolf
bounty and a few other less marked
old fads of legislators which come
along biennialy to disclose the frail-
ties of our lawmakers and refuse to be
ignored.
In congress we have the free seed
distribution graft, which is even more
persistent. 1t is now more than
dozen years since j. Sterling Morton,
then secretary of agriculture, startled
congress by denouncing free seed dis
tribution as a graft, and each recurr-
ing two years period has seen it come
up with a smiling face and refuse TO
be knocked down.
Even the present session of congress,
which has manifested an impulse to
ward reform in many directions, was
unable to deny this antique abuse of
official power, although nowhere in the
United States could there be detected
a shadow of a demand for free seeds.
There is hardly a newspaper in the
country which, if it has mentioned the
subject at all, has not either denounced
this free seed graft or made sport of
it as something too cheap for counten-
ance.
Yet it is not cheap for the govern
ment. Congress spends annually large
sums for seeds, paying extravagant
prices for an article that is not always
reliable, to serve no other purpose
whatever than to send few people in
each district who do not want them
and are merely sent as a reminder by
the congressman to his constituent that
the great man in Washington has not
forgotten his friends. The congress
man might just as well send comic
valentine 1T would cost the govern
ment less money and do the constitu-
ent and the congressman just exactly
as much real good.
Speaker Cannon seems to have
realized the popular contempt for the
free seed graft for when the measure
came up in the house he managed to
be busy elsewhere. Other members
were not so careful of their record,
probably because they believed that
the matter was too small a graft to
excite much popular resentment. Ev-
cry recipient of these seeds ought to
send them right back with an express
sion of disapproval of the graft.
The independent., 1907-02-21
THE PRIMARY BILL.

Under the direct primary planks of
the republican, democratic and popu
list platforms there We're left u the
legislature two main points in a pri-
mary bill to be settled. These were
the questions of whether the state
wide direct primary should make
plurality or majority nominations, and
whether the open primary or he
''closed" primary should be provided.
The open primary permits the voter to
choose in secret the party whose pri-
mary ticket he votes. The closed prI-
mary requires him to state publicly
his party affiliations as a condition OF
voting the primary ticket Of his party.
There is something to be said on
both sides OF these questions The ideal
would be majority nominations under
2 system of voting first and second
choice, but this so complicates the vot-
ing and counting as to make it seem
impracticable to many of the best
friends of the primary. Likewise the
ideal would be the open primary. But
the open primary has its possible
drawbacks and so long as people arc
welded to the idea of close party or
ganzation, will have its bitter cppo-
nents. The difference in either case
is by no means sufficient to justify
Givis ion among the friends of the direct
primary.
The bill drafted by the special com
mittee on direct primary conforms with
the platform promises. Except i'm one
respect Ii follows closely the Wiscon-
sin and Oregon laws. both now in sue
cessful operation. Ii provides plurality
nominations. as do the laws of these
states, and improves upon these laws
by providing rotation of names upon
the ballot where there are many can
didates. Unlike the Wisconsin law,
however the Nebraska bin calls fos
the closed primary.
Except OH one point the closed pri-
mary provisions OF the bill are inadp
as unobjcctionahle as could he even
TO those who favor the open primary.
In order 20 vote primary ticket the
intending voter has only to answer
the general question. what political
party do YOU desire 10 aiiillate with?"
The independent., 1907-02-21
A. VETERAN CORRESPONDENT.

In the large number of biographies
dealing with the civil war period that
have made their appearance in the last
ten years, especially in the south. fire.
quent references are found to Bull
Rum Russell, the English correspond
ent who won his title by his merciless
criticism of the northern troops after
their first important engagement. He
was also as frank as the typical Brit
on in dealing with the south, and both
sections were well enough pleased
when he was recalled by the London
Times a year or so after the beginning
of the war. 1t is now known that Rus
sell wrote good history, but the fact
could not be admitted at the time be-
cause neither side was then in a mood
to have It's deficiencies pointed out.
While this visit is the thing that will
naturally rise in the minds of Ameri-
cans when they read Of the death of
Sir William Howard Russell of London.
in his eighty-seventh year, it was a
small episode in the life of a famous
war correspondent and military au-
thority. He was sent to the United
States at the opening of the civil war
not TO make a reputation but because
he had already won fame in the Cri-
mea. During the last sixty years. until
the Spanish American war; in fact he
was an observer of virtually all import
ant armed conflicts. The result of mis-
life work is dozen volumes of well
written, vivid history, to say nothing
OF a great collection of war trophies
and decorations.
The independent., 1907-02-21

the work is commenced i'll time. Better
yet is his prescription for civilization
intended as a preventive of these fun
gold tissue developments. Back to
nature is the full Interpretation of
his remarks along that line. Lead the
simple life Avoid the excesses and dis
sipations common to our social COM
munion Eat to live. Exercise to give
the muscles healthful tonicity Drink
in the sunlight and the air and keep
the body clean and the mind free from
worry In thus making yourself inn
mune from cancer and other formid
able and fatal maladies, you dodge the
thousand and one petty distempers
that send you to the drug store for
condition powders or to the boozery
for something to make you feel better.
The independent., 1907-02-21
BUILDERS TOO SLOW.

Vice President Worthington Of tho
Wabash railway has come 20 the front
with n new assignment Of the respon-
sibility for the shortage Of rolling
stock He says that III the railways
have not kept pace with the general
industrial advancement of the coun-
try. " Is due much to The failure III "a
part Of the manufacturing industry To
develop as rapidly as has been needed.
This railway official states that Ii
has been impossible 70 secure 1000
additional ears In an order from any
car builder for amy one road or nifty
locomotives from an engine builder
for one road Hi any single time ia the
past ten years Another executive
railroad officer has stated that Ii has
heen impossible 20 secure steel rails
20 build the trackage that has been
The independent., 1907-02-21

A department store for the exclusive
patronage Of colored people is being
fitted up at considerable expense IN a
favorable location in New York. me
building has been secured by corpof-
alton owned by colored men, and a
mercantile company similarly financed
will be in charge of the business This
is a reminder that cool headed stu
dents of the race problem of the south
are beginning to hold out the hope
that as soon as the colored people ad-
vance a step or two economically their
patronage will be sought by the white
business men, and then they will have
the strongest sort of club to use III
winning for themselves political rights.
Perhaps this six story department
store-in case it prove a financial sue
cess-will offer a needed demonstration
of the value of the trade of the col
ored people.
The independent., 1907-02-21
FEBRUA..Y 81, 1907

With straight face ard earnest mien
the railroad representatives assure the
legislature that TO make the railroads
pay the city taxes which they now
escape would rob the country people
President Lincoln once asked a
friend: IF you call Sleeps tail a
leg. now many legs would a sheep
have?"
Five" replied the listener.
NO. said Lincoln, calling sheep s
tail leg does not make it one
Evidently the railroads hope that the
legislature and the people of Nebraska
are ready. like Lipcon's friend, to
count the sheep's tail as leg because
tie railroads choose to call it one.
The independent., 1907-02-21

needed. Mr.. Worthington says that
James J. Hill struck the keynote of
the situation when he declared re-
Gently that what the railroads needed
was more trackage and equipment. 1t
was Worthington's expressed opinion
that the railroads of the country need
just twice their present equipment and
four times their present trackage, but
that development along that line is
being held back by the disability of
car and locomotive builders and steel
rail manufacturers to produce the ma
terials
This handicap TO the efficiency of
the railroads is not limited to the
lesser lines, but the most comprehen-
sive and wealthiest roads of the coun-
try feel the condition sharply.
The independent., 1907-02-21

Naval warfare is becoming so COM
plicated as well as costly that the ma
tions of the world may soon be COM
pelled to resort to The Hague for per-
petual guarantee Of theirrights in order
to save themselves from bankruptcy
Besides building Dreadnaughts, the
British admiralty is now planning for
fleets of air ships and submarines to
work in connection with them. The
airships are able to detect The pres
ence Of hostile submarines, and to give
warning of their presence by means
of wireless telegraphy. The battle
ships are to keep in touch with the
submarines by signal bells that are
easily heard through the water When
an attack is contemplated the air ships
give notice to the battle ships of the
location and movements Of the enemy.
the battle ship signals to it's own sub
marines, and the attack is made un-
der water with eyes that are located
at a distance and far up in the air.
All of this is given in the most matter
of fact manner bv the London Express.
The British public pays the biils OF
all these expensive experiments be-
cause it is supposed to be necessary
for the salvation of the empire to
have strong enough fleet to whip
any two or three nations that could
combine against the lady who rules
the wave
The independent., 1907-02-21
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

This covers the claim OF the advocates
of The closed primary. and yet it is not
Extensively inquisitorial, since the gem
cral party Affiliations of most voters
are not only no secret but matter of
more or less pride. The provisions
for challenging voters may contain
elements of danger, and need careful
scrutiny from the members of both
houses
The independent., 1907-02-21

French human nature would have to
be very different from the sort found
in other countries if French financial
interests tamely submitted to the pas
sage of the proposed income tax Ew
in France The news that they are ex-
erting every effort to defeat the bill,
even though it involve a ministerial
crisis. is not at all unexpected. Rus
sia the United States, Belgium, Hun
gary and Portugal are the only I'M
portant countries besides France where
the income tax is not firmly estab-
Hshed, and the French financiers do not
want to forsake this company. The
reason is not far to seek. They can
dodge their other taxes directly by
raising rents or interest, as money
lenders do when mortgages are taxed.
But a tax on their incomes they have
no way of making anybody else pay.
Moreover, incomes below $1,000 are eX-
empt. so that the poorer people not
only cannot have the rich mems taxes
shifted to their shoulders, but do not
even share in the tax proportionately
to their own little incomes. The present
government in France is not particu-
larly responsible to pressure from n
nancial interests however, and the
chances are strongly in favor of the
final success of the bill.
The independent., 1907-02-21

Be of good cheer. with all of their
absurdities of theory and practice, the
great medical men of the world are
slowly but surely emerging ont of the
woods and coming TO exercise vast
deal Of sense. They are beginning to
look for the needle over the territory
where 1t was lost.
The famous surgeon DIR. Nicholas
Sem has OF late years taken deep in
terest I'm the cancer problem and after
visiting the primitive peoples of the
far north and of darkest Africa, he
makes the statement that there is no
cancer among the Eskimo. and so little
of it among the natives of the dark
continent that he feels safe In saying
that the primitive races are immune.
that IL Is a disease of civilization. duo
To overindulgence Cancer" lie says,
.'is nothing more or less than the ex-
traordinary development of tissue duo
to oysrnutrition.n Look out there, you
fat man leading a sedentary life and
eating enough 10 nourish horse The
doctor says the only way 10 curc a
cancer i "a starvo these eXuberant
tissues This may readily bc done II
The independent., 1907-02-21
W ant Column

II you want to buy, sell or ex.
change anything; il you have
a farm to rent or want to rent
a farm. a small advertisement
in this column will bring about
the desired result. Try it,
only 2 cents a word. No ad-
vertiscment for less than 30
cents first insertion. All mi.
tiaIs and numbers counted as
words. Cash with order. Adj
dress
THE INDEPENDENT.
The independent., 1907-02-21

The man who accepts a situation
usually gets less out of it than the
man who takes job.
The independent., 1907-02-21

The boy who is fond of Good Liter
ature is never very popular with any
one but his aunt.
The independent., 1907-02-21

The surest sign of olda age is wller
comfort begins to count for more !. an
appearances
The independent., 1907-02-21

The trouble is, so many women ac-
cept the estimate of women in the
magazine stories
The independent., 1907-02-21
TuE ISpErENDrSr.

Advertisers write me quick and gel our
Special offer. W. " Wakefield "a
Agents I.enolr. North Carolina
FOR SALE a nne aico acre ranch and
farm land In Wheeler aud Garfield eogr-
ties =. Harris Bartlett. Neh
WANrED-~Men each state to diuirihuts
9uinples of our goods ANA tack nffvcr.
taiNg rnrdA. SalafF Nl per week 1 a
dag expenses ailowan Saunders Co.
Dept 7. Chicago.
The independent., 1907-02-21

1t is said of an Atchison brag that
any one can be as smart and as rich
as he is simply by being as big a
story teller.
The independent., 1907-02-21

The owner of a fierce dog is sure II
never bites except under great provo
cation