The daily sentinel., 1908-11-23

ment on April IL, 1908. announced
that after the Fruit Belt Power plant
was completed that plant would fur
nish the power for the local electric !
light system and this systems plant /
will be shut down.
On November 18th the morning !
Yellow under flaring headlines came
out with story regarding the cleo !
tric street railway that was, with the
exception of the fact that a contract
for furnishing power for the electric
road had ON the night before been
entered into by the local electric light
company, to furnish the power until
the big plant of the Fruit Belt people
was completed, and with the eNcep-
ton of II lot of wild assertions and
fake statements that were not auth
orized by MIR. Adams or anybody con-
nected with the company. embraced
many of the facts that had previously
been published by The Sentinel in
some of the articles in months that
have passed.
The Daily Sentinel had made the
first announcement of the organiza-
tion of the company. of the fact that
they would build street railway.
that they would ask for IA franchise.
that they secured the franchise, that
they would start work this fall and
have much of the line completed by
the middle of peNt year, that the
funds Were ready, and yet the Yellow
taking facts already published by The
Sentinel and with the single new fact
about the temporary power ar
rangement and lot OF hot air, have
hoastcd from day today of their great
and exclusive story. IL is really
shame To spoil their dream and To
show them up.
But that is not all. On Nov. 10Th
the morning Yellow had another wild
story lead off by an elaborately dis
played telegram supposed to have
been sent to The News by MIR. Eugene
A. Sunderlin of the company. That
telegram was never sent by MIR. sun
dcriin, or authorized or dictated by
I him. IL was II fake and the fact that
Mr.. Sunderlin's name. attached to the
| fake telegram was misspelled Is
enough to show up that yellow piece
! of work. On November goth the
Yellow declared that orders had been
I placed for $1,000 ties, which was an
other fake story, that construction
work had started, which was still an
other fake.
on Friday afternoon, November
I21st, after conference with Mr..
/ Curtain and the other gentlemen who
| reached the city at noon that day.
The Sentinel made the exclusive an
nounccment of the organization OF
the Grand junction Electric Hallway
company, capitalized at 100000,
made the first announcement of the
incorporators. first announcement
that Charles VI. Neil, the millionaire
mining man. was Interested in the
Droposition. that the road was to be
\ built by units, that the company eN-
Dected To live up to every provision
of its franchise. The gentlemen in
formed The Sentinel that construc-
ton work had not begun and that
the construction force was yet to he
organized, that no orders for ties
or supplies had yet been placed but
would soon he placed and that cars
would be in operation within the
time set by the franchise as had been
announced more than once by The
Sentinel. These announcements con-
tanned all of the new developments
that had not already been reported
by The Sentinel, and these announce
ments appeared first in The Sentinel,
with the exception of that about the
temporary arrangement for power.
''rhe next morning the Yellow re-
| produces all of these facts from The
Sentinel.
/ The Sentinel was given to under
stand that the company wanted to
discourage wild assertions and stories
about their movements for they want
ed to play fair with the people.
These facts The Sentinel simply
gives to the public to showup the
emptiness and fallacy of the Yellow's
claim to be always in the field first.
rhe Sentinel and not the Yellow,
gave to the world the first announce
ment of the building of the electric
! railway and the details thereof.
Simply 10 turn back over the files
of The Sentinel show which paper
has given 95 per cent of the big
stories first and the big happenings
exclusively, Mr.. Bickel and Mr.. Mul-
ligan will have to go back to the big
fake SCOOPS" like the $4,000 villa,
the $2.5O0.00O Grand Canal ditch
and a few other stories like that.
/ They will have to turn back to the
! files like they had TO do in the
Redlands" case and be sure that they
are really giving something new or
I true.