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The daily sentinel., 1907-03-08
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1t was shortly after eight O'Clock
last night when the democratic city
convention erconvened in the new city
hall after a recess of several hours.
There was a large attendance of
delegates and spectators. the room
being crowded to overflowing.
A few moments after the conven-
ton had been called to order by
Chairman Joe Rozzelle Secretary
Aupperle of the Chamber of Com
merce secured recognition and an
nounced that he had just been ofTlc-
ially notified by Representative A. B.
Hoyt of the signing by the governor
and present effectiveness of a bill
which provides that In cities of the
second class only a mayor. a city
clerk. a city treasurer and the var
ious aldermen shall be voted for at
the regular municipal election, the
other officers to be appointed by the
new council. Mr.. Aupperle announc-
ed that Representative Hoyt request
ed all local conventions to be notified
so that they could govern themselves
accordingly.
A. N. Bucklin, as one of the dele
gates moved that the convention by
a vote condemn the action of the leg
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LIST OF WINNERS
Full Ticket Named at Lively but Har-
mOniOus Convention Last Night.
Interesting Fight in First Ward Delegationhuch Con-
tention of New Law Regulating City Elections.

islature in cutting off from the peo-
pie the right to elect a city attor-
ney, street commissioner and other
officers. The motion carried by an
overwhelming majority.
1t was then announced that Mr.. j..
c. Plant selected as a nominee for
mayor at the afternoon session. had,
after due consideration decided to
accept the nomination and he hoped
that the convention would surround
him with a strong aldermanic ticket.
The motion to re-caucus on alder
manic candidates prevailed and re-
cess for twenty minutes was taken.
On reconvening nominations for
aldermen were declared in order and
it was announced that the delegates
from each ward should present to the
convention for its consideration the
names of men nominated by the eau
Gus of each delation.
1t was announced that there was
tie vote prevailing in the caucus
of the first ward delegates and here
developed the prettiest and livliest
fight of the convention. 1t seems that
DR.. C. F. Hudson had been unani-
mously- agreed upon as one of the
candidates to be submitted to the
convention by these delegates but
when it came to presenting another
name then came the tug of war. A
nortfon of the dalegation headed byi
Dave Kane wanted Sam WaldroupI
while the other half of the delega-
tion wanted NJ Hertz. The delega-I
ton was willing to leave the matter
to the convention. Then came an
animated discussion among the dele
gates of the entire convention as to
whether the whole convention had
a right to meddle in a factional fight
between the delegates of the first
ward. NJ. Hertz. as a member of
the first ward delegation addressed
the convention. He stated that there
was no question but what the Craw
ford addition was entitled to repre-
sentation on the council and that the
convention would make a mistake If
it failed to nominate gentleman
from that section, therefore, the dele
CATION from his ward had decided up-l
ON C. f. Hudson, as one of the alder
manic nominees from the first ward
Then, he declared 1t was up to the
CONTINUED on Firth Page.)
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d MUST HELP IF VICTORY CROWNS THE Y NJ c 4 CAMPAYSl
MIR. PLANK WONT RUN

Mr.. j. c. Plank. who has been NOM
mated for mayor of Grand Junction
by the Democratic city convention
announces positively that he cannot
make the nce.. Mr.. PInnk's nm
nouncement is received with reo,,et
throughout the city,. When nomInat-
ed yesterday he stated that he did
not see how he could possibly ac-
cept but agreed to consider the mat
ter for time. His nomination was
ratified last night without his knowI-
edge.
MIR. Plank, as Is generally known.
came 10 the city several years ago
suffering from wretched health but
by great care has practically regain-
ed his strength, still. he declares,
that he fears that the strain at
tending the Office of mayor i'm such n
growing city as Grand Junction might
result disastrously to his health. He
also states that he has just purchased
several ranches to the improvement
of which he must give his attention.
For these reasons he feels that he
would not be doing justice to himself
or to his party and to make the race
With the very best wishes for the
party's success and feeling greatly
honored by the nomination he re-
spectfully declines.
The executive committee has the
power to fill the vacancy on the tick
ct and this will be done shortly. Many
are mentioned and there is no doubt
but what strong man will be Sc
lected.
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THIS CITY
GETS IT

Denver, Menrch s.-(SpeciaD-
on good authority it is announced TO.
day that Grand junction will get an
appropriation of S25.OOO for a nor
NAL school.
The committee has decided TO let,
Grand Junction, Durango and TrinI.
dad each have S25, 900 for Il normal
school.
Senator DeLong yesterday after.
noon made n hard fight for Grand
junction I'm opposition to strong
fight put up by Glenwood Springs.
Grand junction has undoubtedly
won out i'm the fight for the western
slope for the school.
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GREAT PROJECT.

Denver. March s. -(SpeciaD -
Easily the most momentous enter
prise that has come to Colorado since
the entry of the transcontinental lin
es is the Colorado Central Power
company, with Ex-Governor Herrick
of Ohio. David H. Mofit and Thos.
Walsh at it's head 1t was announc-
ed today that all of the concessions
desired had been secured from the
state and government The company
will expend over s25.O0O.OOO.
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The Sentinel is in receipt of a com
munication from John NJ. Bullock,
who is now in the county jail, await
ing a hearing on the lunacy charge
Bullock was arrested. as announced
some days ago in the Sentinel at the
of ]. H. Sayles. of Pals
ade. The letter is sensibly written
and the old gentleman explains in de-
tail his connection with the Sayles
family. He declares that he is in
nocent of any attempt to injure the
Sayles family.
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Dinner at Cady's.

Sunday dinner from p. m. until
s D. IN. at Cady's.
Cream of Giblet Soup
Calerv Young onions
Roast Spring Chicken with
Drowned Sweet Potatoes, Dressing
Bana Fritters
stewed Corn Mashed Potatoes
Steamed fruit pudding Brandy sauce
Lemon Pie
Coffee Delicious Green and Black lea
Sweet Milk Cocoa.
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GIVES IT BACK.

New York City. March s.-(spec-
iaD-John w. Perkins. former presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
has refunded to the com
pany the sum of s54,O19.19. distrib-
uted by him to the Republican cam
paign fund in 1904.
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BIG REWARD.

Dover, Del. March -(speciaD
The Legislature has authorized Gov
Lea to offer a reward of $4,000 for
the arrest of the man who kidnapped
little Harris Morgan from his ia
theirs home some days ago
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ONLY TEDDY.

Washington. March s.-(SpeciaD
Senator Depew declared that no.
body is in sight for the Republican
for president next year
but President Roosevelt, that he is
the strongest man in the country and
the country knows it."
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DISOWNs BILL.

Denver. March -(SpeciaD -
Senator Thomas H. Mccarthy this
morning announced that he would
now allow HIS name to be attached to
the makeshift railroad bill unless
it was radically amended. He dcclar-
es that the bill is a rank fake and af-
fords no protection for the people of
Colorado.
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CRITICAL.

Washington, March (speciaD
The condition of Archie Roosevelt
who is suffering from diphtheria is
really very critical.
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THE TICKET.

a Mayor. c. Plank.
a City Clerk-John NJ. Conley.
A City Treasurer-Frank H. [
q Haskell. I
q City Marshal-C. C. o'Neil. /
a Street Commissioner-J, o. (
q Platt [
a City Attorney-Wm. Welser [
a City Engineer-No nomina- [
q ton. 1
a Police Magistrate-Frank n. [
q Welch. (
a FOR ALDERMEN [
a First Ward-M. Hertz and [
q DR.. c. F. Hudson. {
a Second Ward-Matt Flynn (
a and James Menafee. {
a Third Ward-Frank Dean [
a and J. B. Matthews. (
a Fourth Ward-W. d. Davies [
a and George Toupaine, (
q {
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THE CITY WILL CLEAN.

! Mayor Bunting has author :,
+ lied Street Commissioner Arm :,
: strong to allow the city teams :,
+ to be used tomorrow in the :,
: work of cleaning from the al :,
: leys all refuse. paper, etc, >,
+ everything except manure. The :,
+ citizens are urged to clean up :
|. their premises and the city will :,
7 clean the alleys in this manner. :,
: :.
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skl0us and so popular with
Elpgng alike.
|sls The price dosen't tell
II nod It IS. You've got to
li-lnt there's a big sur
| sore for you.
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=. . invite you to Wet.
a N. Today and inspect
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establishment needs another footman and l think
can introduce one without violating the dramatic
unities."
Phoebe Aver and Eliot Dunbar were promoted after
while to parts of three four sentences not be
either OF them exhibited the slightest spark
talent but because Cousin William wished to
his worst fears This Maine boy. with his bright
conquered look hat always sottened when his eyes
were turned upen Phoebe might make a philosopher
farmer. but he would make an actor And
the little herself was with her best efforts
equally inadequate.
They came hand in hand one night to his dressing
room to tell him they engaged to be married.
Cousin William heard the in gloomy silence.
Would he have to go indefinitely moving them up
and up through parts they ever less abb. to
handle just to preserve their happiness?
Rolleston calling on Ottilie Page one Sunday after
in the early spring time found her in sprgged
muslin and pink ribbons. Her hair was braided in
two paits
Are you going to gather while you may?"
he asked mschievously
Oh don't be satrical, she begged, laughing. I'm
really tired of makeup and curtain calls and Broad
way restaurants. want to go into the country the
first of May and make hay and pick apples, What's
become of that farm of yours up in Connecticut"
Il still have it
why can't you let me have it for the summer"
He shook his head.
The daisy, short-skirt mood would last about a
week. Then you'd break loose and import champagne
and sections OF Broadway up there and scandalize
the countryside. Besides. the house isn't furnished"
Furnish it, then. 1t wouldn't cost you much-just
chintzes and few pieces of mahogany and gilt
framed mirrors and old prints. Come, you
never do anything for me- and saved your play this
from going the little bow-wows"
Rolleston. everybody knew could always be
bullied by the sex and the upshot of it all
order to an interior decorator Fifth Avenue to
put the farm house in proper shape for habi-
tation Everything to be rural and old-fashioned
and simple.
The first week in May RolIeston went up TO see it.
1t quaint house hundred years DID,
perched high amid rugged hills, with cleaning view
of the Sound fifteen miles away. The decorator had
understood the requirements Of his task and had met
them and gone beyond them to filing the pot
pourr jars the high mantels with dried lavender
and mint. In the bedrooms dimity reigned and most
innocent chintzes; and pots OF flowers already
on the broad stills of the latticed windows.
Roeston found himself treadiug softly through
the pretty while rush of memories swept over
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miration How graceful and pretty this leading lady
and how she ordered Cousin William about seem
ing all the while, however, than half in love
with him!
Phoebe got through without letting the tray fall
and for this Cousin William felt inclined to thank
her publicly. Then he forgot all about her until he
was getting into motor to join supper party At
that moment he esped his small cousin at the stage
door. He turned addressed her.
Cousin Phoebe, you have no one take you
home?"
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ironical warnings rendered imperative bysthe
memory Of Cousin William, whose gentleness felt
through his thunders increased not only his own
fascination but delicate fringes of magic light
about the players art.
After dinner the Maine boy sought her out in the
dull little parlor where she sat trying to read AS
You Like 1t" by the light OF remote gas-et. He told
her that his name Eliot Dunbar that he
oelns supplemented by the practical study OF agri
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But he could them-the two young peop.-
still hopeful and still untarnished. When he ross
he knew what he meant to do.
The following Sunday he invited TWO astonishes
and overwhelmed young people to inspect a farm
which he had purchased in Connecticut
Phoebe's cry delight when she saw the auain,
she introduced interior even superIatfves
failed her. Eliot followed her patiently but be e1-
pressed desire farmers son to inspect the barns
at the earliest opportunity.
They ate their lunch, which they had brought with
them, from china ornamented with sprgs OF rosea.
Then Cousin William set himself TO his task
I've made myself as agreeable as I can BECAUSE
my children, have taken upon me a heavy duty-no
less than to reveal to youth enthusiasm the full
fallacy of their mistaken ambitions"
Phoebe glanced at Eliot who blushed and averte5
his eyes.
I've observed you both closely continued the
iconoclast. during this winter Of your contentmeni
and my exceeding disturbance, and long ago came
to the conclusion that"
He paused and looked at them appealingly
My children. do help OUT Do say. dears that,
nice you both are you can't act and never will
learn Please say it for the sake of battered gen.
tleman who wishes that he could remain in this
cottage in a dream OF love and innocence and send
you back to be Hamlet and Portia"
They might have wanted to cry for one instant
but instead the sunlight sudden irresistible laugh
ter swept them. Eliot looked at Phoebe Joy.
ously
Dear. suspected this about myself as much a.
months ago"
Isn't it relief to know we haven't destiny" sh.
exclaimed.
Yes, but you have" Interrupted Cousin William.
You're going TO stay here and keep this beaut-
full for me, as long ye both shall live"
They gazed at him astoaished then each other!
Each hoated that message back again to the heav.
emily source OF both tears and laughter.
Cousin Eliot. think | can anticipate by a week or
two relationship give and bequeath TO you this
farm with all the tools and cattle thereon Cousin
Phoebe, give to you this house and all that therein
is even to the Dutch silver spoons And intend
within the month to marry you to Eliot and place
you here. Your mother arrives to see to
the laceand-ribbons end of the proposition"
The two ex-geniuses sat in entranced silence He
saw that they wanted to speak and couldn't that
two hands stole towards other under the table.
Cousin William rose and drew a pansy from a bowl
Of flowers by and put il in his buttonhoI Then
he smiled griny and went into the garden.
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little old village that was plated in
1874? AS mysteriously as if in the
night the earth had suddenly opened
and engulfed it in its capacious NAV,
Taylorville disappeared
Although many of the old records in
the county recorders office contain
positive proof that such town did ex-
ist once upon a time, the oldest in
habitant' is stumped when the ques-
ton is put to him: Where did the
village of Taylorville go:'
According to records It was located
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him. He sat down at last TO a long bordering, and
he knew that even in that deep solitude he not
alone The boy he had been stood beside him with
eager eyes and fair ideals. undimmed by the after
years OF stress and disuson. That boy dead
but his spirit seemed to dwell in two young people
before whom there stretched a road harder be-
cause -chosen. Mediocrty would inevitably breed
encouragement; and encouragement. in Rollestons
experience, the nursing mother of many evila
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minister was praying that she might
be firsiven for the crime she had COM
mitted, at the funeral OF the murder
ed child Friday afternoon. Mrs. Fran
ces Cooper paced her cell in restless
remorse. She weeps continually and
for the first time has asked for her
mother. A letter has been written to
her mother at Jonesboro, Ark, and the
imprisoned woman says she is conf
dent that he parent will come if
enough money can be procured TO pay
the railroad fare.
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The funeral Of the drowned child
was held at o'clock Friday afternoon
at the parlors of the J. D. Emmons
undertaking establishment. AS sever
al members OF his congregation object
ed TO his preaching the sermon the
Rev. S. S. Offut secured an evangelist,
the Rev William Chapple. to conduct
the service.
Because OF the many confessions
which she has made (she has told at
least six stories of the murder of her
child Sheriff Cox has decided To kean
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on the section line between Section
- and Is, which is southwest of thh
city. But there nor any place else il
the county is there such place know
as "TaylorviIle" The first plat, tha
records show, was made in 1874. ant
the village was then evidently flourish
ing. The advent of the railroad ant
the change of topography Of the coun
try, worked the destruction Of thii
Blackford county town.
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culture his fathers farm to which pastoral re-
been expected to return after his g,adu
alton. He had returned and for two years had sown
crops and regarded the clouds
Il had visions in those fields he ended dramaticsI
ly. And that's why I'm here"
Did Cousin William receive you anablvo" she
ventured TO inquire after telling him that she too
farmers child and had heard her call" among
the pne-woods.
Eliot Dunbar looked thoughtful then ne smiled
He declined to take me at my own valuation and
he seemed strangely to hearing me recite"
Are you discouraged?" she asked gently
oh very, but l going right on"
He questioned her in his about her ambitions
He found them sweet and vague so before long thew
came to nearer interests-her favorte poets and his
pet philosophy Being just twenty-five he was strong
for Schopenhauer. Phoebe "adored" Tennyson
William RolIeston by the tragic and comic
masks and by all the gods the stage his little
kinswoman should not be granted her dearest wish
to become member of his company Re wrote 10
her mother that Phoebe was too sweet flower for
such setting, but Janet Ayers only reply was that
she mad perfect faith in her daughters and
strength of character. He pleaded with Phoebe her
self but without avail and when he discovered that
she applying to other managers he decided to
take her into his company. He told her the great
day.
Il only do it to you from possible troubles"
he said sternly, and because your mothers pre-
serves however obtained among the sweetest
memories Of my boyhood days. Well now let's see
DO you think, my child, that you could carry tray
without dropping it, and say three words without
voice quavering? So I'll cast you for the maid
Suzette in my new play, Diana in Town.
Phoebe went dancing home to write her mother Of
her good fortune and tell Eliot dunbar He heard
her announcement with genuine generous pleasure
and he prophesied the brilliant future.
At the first rehearsal Phoebe lowered timdly in
the wings, wondering whether that despairng,
gloomy, dicatorial and halfexasperang person CIV
ing his orders from the of the stage could
her gentle Cousin William She half parayzed
~,7ht when her turn a state which
ii subsequent rehearsa!e. and from which
fHd relief ~ the fasc-
Iie hair dark
. last high
of superb unGi. Phoebe with
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the woman in solitary confinement
Speaking Of the drunken scene at her
home last week. she told Sheriff Cox
Friday afternoon that they civilian
kollmeyer and Clifford Grove and her
self were all so drunk that they knew
little of what they were doing. The
men, she said. poured most of the con-
tents of the flask down her throat.
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TOWN DISAPPEARS
FROM MAP OF INDIANA

Hartford City, Ind. Dec. 14.-How
and why was the town of Taylorville
wiped off the map of Indiana and
Blachford county:
Where did it go and who is Hhere in
the state who remembers the quaint,
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But must my living" she pleaded, and
l would rather go the stage than anything else"
Just then as if in answer to his prayers there was
knock
Come in, o deliverer' was his unspoken reply.
His man presented card.
He said lie had an appointment with you sir"
Does he look like truthful young man, Thomas?,
He looks like he came from the country"
Not unusual Well, show him in-in about Eve
minutes"
1t was noble opportunity to waive unwelcome
issue. Phoebe had risen her dismissal. He gave
it blandy.
Il shall come to you in day or two Mean
while enjoy yourself. You have complexion which
forbids ambitions"
AS she was hurrying along the dark passages alb
sorbed in the wonder of having really met her dis
tinguished kinsman she came into collision with a
tall young man. evidently the lately announced visitor
When they had mutually begged pardon thew recog
nzed each other. Phoebe had sat opposite to him at
the table for two days. and it had been whispered
to her by her right hand neighbor over the prunes
that he was genius and that he had come from a
New England farm to go on the stage Evidently he
had heard similar account of herself for he bushed
and smiled and looked interested that she spoke
impusively
1T strange to meet you here"
Il believe we're both from Maine and both seeking
the same thing. Excuse if 1 take out my watch
told to knock on the great mans door in five
minutes
II hope my cousin will give you something" she
said cordially.
Your cousin," He stared at her in wonder
William Rolleston is my mothers first cousin"
why, your fortunes madet' he CALCULATED
She shook her head in emphatic negative HE
doesn't to believe in peoples going on the stage
He gave pamphlet containing his veiws"-she
held it out hope he will not give you one"
Hes to!-my time is up. I'll tell you I
Jared this evening after dinner"
She went to her little hall bedroom and
Of the sheep-nose apples her mother had
her trunk and carefully read the pamphlet.
ing nothing in it to her purpose for