The daily sentinel., 1907-04-19
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hShtAuA AFTERNOON Tea yesterday.
This evening Rev. John Hester will
deliver the last of his series of lee
lures, on Twenty Thousand Miles of
Travel" at the Christian church. He
will be heard by large audience.
Reports form the country in the
vicinity of Las Anlmas are to the
effect that Wednesday nights frost
did serious damage to the fruit. If.
Indeed, 1t did not entirely spoil the
crop.
Virgil Mcclellan. for many years
a section boss on the Colorado Mid
land, was drowned in the Grand river
at point near Glenwood Springs on
| Wednesday. He was well known
among railroad employees of western
Colorado.
Beginning on April 3Oth, and con
tinuing for a couple OF weeks two
submarine boats, representing diff
I ferent types of underwater craft. will
/ contest off Newport for the $1,000
600 that has been appropriated by the
/ government for building new sub
marines.
The seat sale for the engagement
! of Miss Laura Frankenfield at the
Park opera house on next Wednesday
! AAbAAt 10 III Blp6ltSh anu Nut
tions are for a large audience. Miss
Frankenfield is one of the cleverest
actresses that visits this city. She
Will be seen in her new play, "a
Daughter of Colorado"
| Secretary Aupperle, of the Cham
Z ber of Commerce, visited Palisade
yesterday in the interest of the fight
that Grand Junction, Fruita and Pal
isade, will make before the inter
state commission for better freight
rates. He met with much encourage
ment at Palisade and the people In
that little city will do their duty In
the matter.
News has reached Valparaiso to the
effect that the Puyehue volcano, in
the province of Valdivia. is In violent
eruption. The eruptlons are accom-
/ panied by awful subterranean rum
/ blings, earthquakes, intense dark
ness, electrical displays. ashes and
boiling water. The flowing lava has
set fire to the surrounding forests
and the inhabitants are fleeing in
terror.
Father Romolo Murri. leader of
l the Catholic democrats in Rome, has
/ been suspended ad divinis by the pope
| for disobeying papal instructions re-
garding the behavior of the clergy
| Father Murri's offense consisted of
severe criticism of the action of the
church in Italy as well as comment
on the French situation. especially
/ the Montagnini document.
Tomorrow will be the last day
that the other paper will appear un-
/ der the present editorship and man
agement,, the new proprletors will
take possession Saturday night and
viii issue their first paper on Monday
morning. the paper being changed
I from an afternoon to n morning pa
| per. Several of the present employees
/ will remain on the paper under the
new management.
The famine relief committee Is
feeding 400 900 people and Will con
tinue TO feed about that number unit
June, says n dispatch from Shanghai
Grain is arriving In Shanghai daily
The Chinese official relief has ceased
/ Official obstruction Is being placed
in the way of the most suitable and
most needed relief work. on the plea
that China herself proposes to un'
dertake these measures.
The first convention of the national
arbitration and peace conference and
congress ended Wednesday night af
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City with two great banquets. The
event of the greatest interest was the
decoration of Andrew Carnegie with
the cross of the legion of honor by
the French government, in apprecia
ton of his work for peace and his
gift of the palace of the Hague.
A dispatch from London states that
fashions in reptiles as pets have
changed again. This time the so.
ciety women favor toads. and hun
dreds of these reptiles have beer
sold during the past week. More OF
them are TO be brought to England
from abroad directly after the hiber'
mating period is over They are ex-
tremely clean and ladies place them
on tables as ornaments. Giant toadf
may be trained to recognize familiar
persons. The varieties mostly In de-
mand come from Italy and are of the
Dalmatian and the green toad, the
latter a pretty bright green reptile.
A dispatch from Manzola, Colo.
states that a very valuable piece OF
railroading and one of great import
ance to that part OF the Arkansas
valley is slated to be built during the
coming summer and fall. While the
road is only a branch of a few miles
length from the main line of the
Santa Fe, yet It will tap what is prob
ably one of the richest sectionc and
will start from Rocky Ford and will
run south and east through Grand
valley. Hundreds of acres of valu'
able farming land will thus be
brought in touch with the markets
and many acres of beets and cantal-
oupes and other paying crops can be
raised. The right of way has already
been secured and 1t will only be q
matter of a short time until actual
work will begin.
The Sentinel doubts If there is q
county jail in the state of Colorado
kept in a more cleanly. sanitary and
/ healthful condition than the Mesa
county Jail is being kept under the di-
1 rection of Sheriff Schrader. From
the furnace room to the top tier OF
cells this air of cleanliness is notice
able. Every department Of the jail
is kept In this condition at all times
the prisoners are made to keep their
cells Strengthened up and attrac-
tive as the regulation prison cell can
be kept. Several improving changes
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