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The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

Richmond Pearson Hobson, con-
gressman from Alabama. distin-
guished southerner, the man who
with a small number of associates
risked his life to sink the Merrimac
in the harbor of Santiago and thus
pen in the fleet of Cervera, the Span
ish admiral. the man who has from
time to time urged an enlargement
of the United States navy and who
delivered a remarkable speech In
congress only a few days ago. will
arrive in Grand Junction next Mon
day at noon, and in the evening will
be heard in a great lecture at the
Congregational church.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

A most novel and humorous write
up of last Sundays base ball game in
this city between the Grand Junction
and Fruita teams appeared today in
the Fruita Telegram. The article is
illustrated with cartoons of the To-
cal base ball celebrities.
Bryson p. Blair. register of the
land office at Montrose. arrived last
night to be in attendance at the
republican convention and banquet.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

U. v. Walker of Owen county, KY,
arrived in the city yesterday, and
expects to remain here permanently
If conditions suit him. The young
man is already most favorably i'm
pressed with this valley. This is his
first trip to Colorado. He is an old
time friend of Mr.. Lancaster, the
young gentleman who came out here
recently from Grant county. Ky.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

A flock OF one hundred or more
dainty Leghorn chickens from Chas
A. Smiths big poultry yard are on
display today in windows of the
grocery and have at
tracted much attention. 1t IL 4
most appropriate and interesting
Easter window display.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

With a splendid showing. of new
spring styles in clothing, artistical-
ly displayed, and with beautiful and
blossoming potted plants placed
here and there in each window, the
Red Trunk store has one of the pret-
test pairs of Easter windows to be
seen on Main street today.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18
Real Estate
BARGAINS

800 acres red sandy soil with wat
ter go inches); in good location
and close to railroad, for $50 per
acre. This is cheap.
120 acres High Line land near
Fruita at s45 per acre
16O acres High Line; level and
hne red soil; northwest of Fruita,
at $50 per acre. This is fancy.
Choice income property in Den
yer. Colorado Springs and Pueblo to
trade for $4,000 to $4,000 in i'm
proved orchard lands or High Line.
Tell us what you have.
Good 10-room rooming house, well
furnished; for sale for few days
only at $4,000. $1,000 cash will
handle 1t. Rents for $40 per month.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18
The Caldwell Walker Co.
UNION BLOCK

We are now located in our new
building at 545 Colorado avenue, and
are better prepared than ever to fix
you up In anything IL the plumbing
line. Your bath room will be free
from sewer gas II l do your Job.
J. q. Mckenzie.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18
BARGAINS
1t is worth your while to
investigate these
6-acres near the city.
IA lots, best part of the city.

b-acres near the city.
l let's, best part of the city.
New modern 5-room house close
In.
choice 7-room residence on
North Seventh.
Choice lots on Ouray and Grand
between Ninth and Tenth.
l20-acres of choice High Line
real fruit land.
Line, 2 to miles north of city.
10-acres. best fruit land, Ga In
S-year old trees, miles from city.
55-acres, all in alfalfa, Z room
house, 40 minutes drive from city.
40 and 90-acre tracts, fine land
under G. v. canal, good for fruit or
general farming.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

We are reliable. You can depend
on us. Our work is the very best
Phone US your wants.-The Suitor-
ium.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

We want some of your trade IL we
are right. Fred Mantey.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

Call US up wnen You want q
plumber on that rush job. ]. q. Nc
Kenzie. phone Red 151: s4S Colo
rRdo.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

We've gotten into rne habit OF do
ing high plumbing at low grade prt
80. Call and see. !. =. Mckenzie,
t4t Colorado avenue: Vhsas Red
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

Our hose is the best in town fol
the money!. e. Mckenzie.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

Get your order for that awning in
early and avoid the rush. ]. H. Lane.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-18

Walkoveg $3.50 shoes. Loef-
fier's.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17

Convention Hall, Denver-T obey
the command of my state and the
mandate of the Democracy of the ma
ton, when l offer the name of Amer
ica's greatest commoner, Nebraskas
gifted son, William Jennings Bryan"
1t was an eloquent climax in the NOM
ination speech by Ignatius j. Dunn,
and although the mass of people had
expected it for hours and hours, it
came like fash of lightning on the
azure skies, and the thunder of ap,
plause was the unmistakable sanction.
For over an hour the cheers, the cries
and yells were incessant. If the out
burst of the previous day had been
indescribable, this one was unthihk-
able.
1t was a Bryan convention from
start to finish; no other human being
could have filled the bill. Gov John
sons name was presented, but it
would not take.
He was good man, but the people
wanted Bryan, and Bryan they would
have, and did have.
There was never another convention
In the world like this one. All others
were tame affairs in comparison. Great
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
PERSONAL.

Bishop Potter of New York was so
much better that he was able to sit up
for brief time.
John l.. Sullivan, pugilist, actor,
philosopher, lecturer and temperance
talker, has begun an action for d.
vorce against his wife Annie, whom he
married % years ago in Boston, and
from whom he separated a few years
later.
Walter R. Ceperly of Chicago was
chosen president of the Illinois Chris
tan Endeavor union at the business
meeting in Urbana.
Charles E. Brown, 35 years OF age,
an attorney of Danville, ILL.,, prominent
socially and professionally, was ar
rested by secret service agents on the
charge of counterfeiting. An elaborate
outfit was found in the cellar OF his
residence.
James S. Sherman, Republican vice.
presidential candidate, announced that
he would retire from the Republican
congressional committee, of which he
is chairman.
Thomas E. Watson was formally
notified of his nomination for presi-
dent by the Populists of the United
States at a mass meeting in Atlanta,
Ga.
Gov. Sanders of Louisiana decided
to appoint a permanent state board
of arbitration to handle labor trou-
bleS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Hobson Gets a Frost.

How different from the demonstra
ton at the afternoon session was that
at the night session. Another man
was upon the platform.
Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama--he
of Spanish bravery and kissing popu
larity-was invited to the rostrum.
Hobson had some good ideas but he
was too long in getting to them. He
predicted war with Japan, and his
prediction was met with vigorous dis.
approval. He wanted to talk about
better navy, but the altitude was toe
dry for the audience to listen to it
They were too far from water-and, in
their minds, too far from war. But
Hobson is persistent. He would not
down. The climax came when Hobson
said he had talked with President
Roosevelt a week ago and that the
president expressed his belief that the
United States would have war With
Japan.
There were cries of NO." mo-" all
over the convention hall. Hobson tried
to go on, but they wouldn't let him.
He lifted his clinched hands above his
lead in defiance, but the frost was on
the convention and there was no
chance for the captain. Kisses began
buzzing over the great hall, and not
until Chairman Bell threatened to
clear the balconies was peace restored.
Hobson soon closed. 1t was cruelty
pathetic. Brave, noble Hobson-hero
of a war-hissed and insulted in his
partys convention. Maybe the audi
ence is not to be judged. 1t was there
to hear of the commoner, and not Of
war. 1t perhaps loved Hobson for the
heroic deeds he had done, but it didn't
want him now. Bryan was the one
mantle one theme-and courtesy
was thrown to the winds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
A Wonderful Demonstration.

taft waged war against our con-
stitution, and asked us to give up our
right to liberty and self-government.
But the greatest apostle of human lib
erty advised us to accept it, and by
majority of over 100000 Oklahoma
rejected the advice of Taft and &C.
copied the advice of Bryant"
1t was enough.
The pent up sentiment of the wait
ing audience had burst from it's bonds.
The storm cloud that had been gath
ering was upon the multitude. Like
the rush of many waters came the
torrent Oh applause. 1t was spontane-
Gus, mighty and unceasing!
Before the storm-burst the humming
and the buzzing of the opening session
paled into insignificance. This was
a powerful tumult that shook the very
walls of the auditorium, and echoed
and re-echoed blocks away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
ENTHUSIASTIC DEMOCRACY
Stirring Scenes at the Denver Con-
VentiOn Described.
The Big Gathering Will Go Down Into History Rec
ord Breaker for Enthusiasm -The Interesting
Incidents and Side Lights.
BY A. U. MAYFlELD.

men from Europe had come to see It.
They riarveled. They were astound-
ed. They cheered, they sang, they
wept with emotional enthusiasm as
did the loyal thousands. 1t was
mighty to behold. American to the
core, and the cheers were heard
around the world.
The selection of John w. Kern of
Indiana, Bryan's running mate, was
more commonplace in comparison, al
though it showed the lung power
and the enthusiasm of the convention
had not exhausted.
AS l write the story here, crowds
in upon my mind myriads of
incidents that ordinarily would be
worth reading, 6ut so paramount
is the impression made by the un-
precedented exhibition of relenting
enthusiasm that mere incidents appear
insignificant 1t was what might best
of all success be called a bowling sue.
cess. The cohorts came to name
man, and they named him. They
came with tributes TO twice defeated
his feet They crowned him with lau-
rels, and if the leaven which was
stirred into a riot of fermentation
in Denver loses not it's SAVIOR, there
will be something doing next Novem-
Der. Bryan was selected by acclama-
ton after few rounds of strong sup
port for Johnson. Kern met hard OPP
position in Towne of New York, John
Mitchell of Illinois and other candi-
dates; but by TONNES own act he
threw the support that was standing
by him over to Kern, and the conven-
ton was at an end.
A Sea of sureing Humanity.
Like the great waves of the restless
ocean, now dashing against the rocks
and shoals of the shore; now reflux-
ing in subdued tides; now roaring and
surging in the strong winds of
mighty storm, rocked and pulsated
with human animation, sat the great
sea of humanity in Convention hall at
the opening of the convention. Voices
of 10000 souls buzzed and hummed
and groaned. 1t was a spectacle,
fraught with enthusiasm and expec-
fancy, that one would long remember.
They were waiting-those thousands
| of joyous, yet sanguine spectators
waiting to hear the gavel fall upon
the marble slab at the chairman's
stand.
And then at last it came-rap, rap,
| rap-but no heed was given. The
chairman of the national committee
stern and determined in features, held
aloft his hands and would have quiet
ude But none came. The band in
the balcony struck up tune, but the
! humming and buzzing of voices ceased
not The tension of anticipation OF
what would or would not happen was
too tightly drawn, and the handspring
that impelled the human tongue to
wag was not yet run down.
Thus it was for nearly an hour
not an obstreperous audience, wild
and hilarious, but an audience that
was getting acquainted with itself
buzizng, humming, .swaying, and good
natured. But it was to have it's visit
out, and the time came for restoration
of order-and it was had.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
NEWS OF A WEEK
IN
TENTED FORM
Epitome Of the Most
Important Events
Gathered From All
Points of the Globe.
CONVENTION NOTES.

For the third time, William Jen-
nings Bryan was nominated for the
presidency by the Democrats. Only
one ballot was needed in the Denver
convention to reach this result, which
came after a day and night of tumultu,
GUS enthusiasm and wild disorder.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota and Judge
Gray of Delaware also were put In
nomination. Before balloting the con-
vention unanimously adopted the plat
form.
The Democratic national convention
at Denver concluded its labor by the
nomination of John Worth Kern OF In
diana for vice-president. The nomina-
ton was made by reclamation.
Charles A. Towne, Archibald MCNEIL
and Clark Howell, whose names had
been presented, withdrew before q
ballot was reached.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.

The opening day of the Olympic
games in London was marred some
what by rain. Americans did well in
preliminaries. In the evening the lord
mayor entertained the athletes.
Standing within few feet of the
spot where, little more than two
years ago, he shot and killed his IA
ther-in-law, DIR. James Weddell Simp-
son, a dentist of New York, was shot
and perhaps MORALLY wounded at
Northport, N Y, by his mother-in-law,
Mrs BARLEY T. Horner, the woman he
made a widow.
John Bruhn, a farmer living near
Donnybrook, N. D., went insane, killed
his sister, Miss Rose Bruhn, and then
committed suicide.
The annual conclave of the Mystic
Shrine opened in st. Paul, Mimi, and
the annual convention of the Elks in
Dallas, Tex.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor (and
inferentially the head of 100000
voters of organized labor affiliated
with the federation) promised to sup
port William J. Bryan in the presi-
Dental campaign.
Mr.. Taft and Chairman Hitchcock
and Treasurer Sheldon of the Repub-
lican national committee declared that
publicity of campaign funds would be
observed strictly by the Republicans
Martz Martini, % years old, shot
his wife to death in their home in St.
Louis and then ended his own life with
the revolver.
Homer L. Castle of Pittsburg, Pa, a
former Prohibition candidate for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania; Charles Hunt
err. Philadelphia; D. c. Washington,
Collingswood, N. j.; Arthur F. Will
liams, Chicago, and H. F. Aspinwall,
Freeport, ILL.,, were indicted at Phila-
delphia on a charge of conspiracy in
connection with a title and trust com
pany they promoted.
An uprising of Navajos was reported
to have occurred in New Mexico.
Seven trainmen were killed and
four injured in collision on the
Canadian Pacific near Medicine Hat.
Three little girls tried to wreck the
Pennsylvania flyer near Hazleton, Pa.
by piling stones on the track.
The Petoskey Fiber Paper company
indicted at New York for violating the
Sherman antitrust law, pleaded
guilty and was fined $4,000.
Mrs. Grace Goodsell of New Yorl
declared her six-year-old son was the
Messiah and branded him on the fore
head and throat
Charles Taylor, Missouri Pacific
operator at Lamonte, Mo-, was arrest
ed on charge of manslaughter on &C
count of the wreck near Knobnoster.
A Russian torpedo boat was wrecked
in the Gulf of Finland by running OF
the rocks off Reval. The crew were
saved.
Forest fires in Maine burned owe
large areas and threatened severa
towns with destruction.
A loss estimated at nearly $200,O0'
was suffered at College Point. L. l., b!
a fire which destroyed Zehden's hote
and casino. Dondera's casino and /,
number of small buildings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17

would swell and rice bulge and burst
when anointed with the liquid of in
spring waters. When the great COM
moner, in his workshop at Fairview,
quartered, sliced and laid the bits upon
the drying board he knew those quar-
tiers and slices were impregnated with
the germ of enthusiasm, only waiting
the touch of a finger or the breath of
suggestion.
If anyone ever tells you this was a
gathering of chilly propensities, you
tell them different. Who ever heard
of a long and delirious applause fol-
lowing the solemn invocation of a man
of God on such an occasion as this!
But that is what happened here. The
good man from Wyoming, who asked
divine guidance for the men who were
here to deliberate and act upon the
surest and best means of making a
president of these United States, had
no sooner closed his lips than burst
of applause and hearty "Amens" came
from every section of the auditorium.
Theodore Bell Sounds Keynote.
WuSu lSulpOIdly SudlI udu uSO-
dore Bell of California took the reins
of the convention in his hands he soon
came to the realization that he was
not pulling the ribbons over any tame
steed He smiled and looked solemn
in quick succession. His speech was
the keynote of the campaign that is to
come. Of this speech Col. Bob Taylor
of Tennessee said:
ut was the grandest portrayal of
Democratic principles I ever heard"
Rap after rap was handed the presi-
dent, and then he said: 'The people
built the White House and elected one
man at a time. Under the law no man
can transfer his personal property"
He went after the tariff with hammer
and claws. "The tariff must not be
made the accomplish of the great mo-
nopoles in robbing the American peo-
ple," he said, and the audience said
amen He said the Republicans had
promised many things that they had
forgotten after the votes were counted.
They had promised the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people, but that ''the long dis
lance between the ballot box and the
senate gave the promised relief too
long time to daily with the cor
porate powers" and it was reduced to
a phantom when it reached the White
House. Bell wanted an exclusion act
that would not only keep the China
men out, but one that would exclude
other Asiatic immigrants"
He closed amid a storm of applause.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
The Close.

But there must come a time of end.
ing to all things earthly. Even Bryan
enthusiasm, aided by the sustaining
atmosphere of Colorado, could not last
en- masse forever.
"Sine die" must be written at the
end of the page. Finis must appear.
The curtain must fall and the lights
must go out
Thus ended one of the greatest gath
erings this country has ever known
Thus closed a convention that has in
duced more genuine enthusiasm than
any like gathering in America.
Copyright, by Wright A. Patterson.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
A Little One Grown Up.

So far the convention had not
shown any material difference from
the ordinary country convention, ex-
cept that it was grown up. Enthusi-
asm was always on tap; but even that
is found in the back districts where
the road supervisor is to be named.
There was the routine of business
the appointing of committees, the
drafting of resolutions, the settling
of contests, the lobbying and the but
tonholing- just like you see in your
little home conventions; but it was
all good-naturedly. The first day
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17

Friends in Need,

What need we have any friends. If
we should ne'er have need of them?
They were the most needless creatures
living, should we ne'er have use for
them, and would most resemble sweet
instruments hung up in cases that
keep their sounds to themselves
Shakespeare.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
The First outburst.

Dry, statistical-like reports of con-
vention like this would be impossible.
They said it was cut-and-dried af-
fair. Maybe it was; but the man who
did the cutting and drying knew the
contracting and expanding qualities of
the slices. He knew that dried apples
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Content to Do Little

Let us be content to do little, If
God sets us at little tasks. 1t is but
pride and self-will which says: "Give
ne something huge to fight, and /
should enjoy that; but why make me
sweep the dust ?"-Charles Kinsley.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Naturalization REQUISITE.

A residence of at least five years is
required to qualify an alien for
naturalization. No matter how long
man may have been in the United
States, two years must elapse between
the date of his declaration of intention
and his admittance to full citizenship.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
A soporific.

Miss Gusher (whc has just been in
reduced to the great author)-Oh, Mr..
Lyon, l am SO enchanted with your
dear, delightful novels. / fall asleep
with one in my hand. every night
Sunday Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
The Strong Thought of Self.

The strong thought of self is in
evitably insulting-it is as restrictive
of human contact as live wire
Mary Stewart Cutting, in "The Way
farers"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Appropriate to the Occasion.

During the singing of hymn thaa
starts Happy biraJ that sing and fly"
q thrush few 10wn from the roof or
st. Peters church at Rickmanworth,
England, and settled on the hymn
book held by one of the congregation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Our Wife saws

The most sour-faced old Billy can
crack smile when he's trying to at
tract the attention of pretty girl
Chicago Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Practical Economy.

If you would succeed in business,
never spend a cent more than you
earn. No matter how small your earn
ings, you should master this art. 1
use the word Fart" advisedly, as so
many young men appear to fritter
away without so much as a thought,
all their earnings.-Marshall Field.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
Her Constant WatchfuIness.

For mercy's sake, Johnny" ex-
claimed Mrs. Lapsling. take that
match out of baby's mouth. Don't
you know match heads are poisonous?
They contain ever so much Bos-
phorus!"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
To Care for English cathedraIs.

A proposed organization in England
is the Guild of the House of God.
whose sole duty 1t shall be to care for
the English cathedrals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
It was inspiring!
It was dramatic!
It was pathetic!

IL was dramatic!
1t was patbetici
A mana man without the sight OF
eyes-had pressed the button.
He came from the youngest state in
the union. He was proud that his COO
ing state had been given a place with
the grown-ups at the first table. He
rejoiced that the advice of Bryan had
been taken. There he stood, calm,
Observation-Disclosures.
The mighty enthusiasm went on. It
was growing into screams! Men and
women were climbing upon their seats
and crying aloud with approval. Halt
an hour had passed. There was no
abate.
Directly opposite the chairman's
stand hung the enlarged portrait OF
Grover Cleveland About the gilt
frame Grape was resting softly. In
that silent face there seemed to be
animation. 1t looked down upon the
seething mass of wild humanity, and
| seemed to say:
What manner of man is this?"
| 1t was impressive! 1t was grand!
| 1t was solemn! 1t was strange!
The cheering continued
What manner of man is this~
There must have been something akin
to supernatural in the mention of the
name-Bryan. No one could stay the
storm, and no one tried.
| For one hour and % minutes there
was no abate. The bands played
everything from Dixie" to "Auld Lang
Syne,' and the chairman made no in
reference. He had no show. One
could hardly imagine human beings
raising such rumpus. But it was
| American-it was Democracy turned
loose.
When quiet came there was no re
Eonstrance to the motion to adjourn
and it was so.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-17
The name of the great sommoner

The name of the great ~ommonef
had been mentioned.
At first the applause was ordinary.
Then it grew in proportions and
strength. The flood-gates of enthusi-
asm had been crushed to earth and
the roar of voices, the hammering
upon seats, the waving of flags and
the tossing Of hats and coats in the
air added to the most clamorous, deliri-
Gus demonstration this world has ever
seen or heard.