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The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
) CONVICTION OF sToEssEL.
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The conviction of General Stoessel.
at the close of a long-drawn-out
court martial, was not surprise to
people who have been following the
proceedings. A sentence of death
was imposed, but it was accompanied
by a recommendation that it be COM
muted to ten years Imprisonment.
1t is likely that the czar will assent
to the milder punishment. That
Stoessel surrendered Port Arthur
long before there was any actual
necessity for surrendering was album
dainty proven, If the witnesses
against him told the truth.
According to their testimony, the
garrison was in excellent condition
to further withstand the Japanese as
saults. Instead of being nearly out
of ammunition, as Stoessel claimed
at the time, there were hundre DIS of
thousands of cartridges for the rifles,
great stores of shells for the artillery
and an abundance of small arms.
Also the supply of provisions of every
necessary description was ample. The
health of the garrison had been I'M
dermined, it is true. by long hours of
harassing duty, but the men were not
in such shape that they could not
fight.
Without in the least desiring to
minimize the brilliant work of the
Japanese-for it was brilliant-the
fact remains that Stoessel should
have held out longer. And many of
the higher Officers under his COM
mand urged him to hold out. AS
subsequent events showed, Stoessel
could have gained little for his coun-
try by holding out longer. But this
fact is not to his credit, because he
did not know there was no hope of
relief from any source. Kuropatkin
could have reached him, but if he
had held Els ground Nogi's army
could not have been released to go to
the aid of Oyama and hurry the
crushing of Kuropatkin. 4.
There might. indeed, have been
some chance for Kuropatkin to rally
his forces or to receive reinforce
ments from home. Stoessel's early
surrender made this impossible. Still
theme will be not a little sympathy
for him. The Russo-Japanese war
showed that the Russians are the
poorest fighters in the world. The
men both in the army and navy. man
fested no patriotism. Most of the
time they were mutinous. and always
they performed their duties grudg-
ingly. Stoessels working tools were
OF a very poor quality.
If Americans or Englishmen had
earrisoned Port Arthur, Japan would
never have captured 1t. We say this
with all confidence. for Americans or
Englishmen would have fought as
long as one of them was left alive,
and then their shades would have
gone out against the Japs. But
Stoessel couldn't have won with an
American or an English garrison. be-
sause he did not have the qualities
o. leadership Lake Herald
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
HOMESTEAD
BILL OFFERED
Persons Who Have Filed on l6O Acres May Increase
Holdings to 800 Acres Other
Changes Suggested

In making final proof entrymen
must show that one-eighth of the
entry has been continuously cultivat-
ed and that improvements have been
made to the extent of S1.25 for each
acre embraced in the entry.
Entrymen making $40 acre home
steads may commute at the end of
two years. but they must take oath
that the entry is made for their own
benefit and not for speculation.
Senator Hepburn and Representa-
tive French of Idaho today introduce
ed in the senate and house the bill
prepared by Idaho sheepmen amend
ing the 2S-hour law by providing that
railroad trains containing 10 or more
cars of live stock, going from one
state to another, shall maintain an
average minimum speed of 16 miles
per hour from the time the stock is
loaded onto cars until the destination
is reached, deductfng reasonable time
for stops made for feed and water.
One bill provides a fine of 800 to
$500 for failure to maintain this
speed.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

DR.. Tyler of Peru, Neb., who was
to have assisted DR.. Forsyth in the
revival services at the Methodist
church in this city, finds that he will
be unable to be present at any time
during the meetings. DR.. Forsyth
will carry on the meetings without
the assistance of any outside minis
ter Considerable interest Is being
manifested in the services and large
congregations are attending. DR..
Forsyth's sermon yesterday morning
on 1.-The Power of Custom" was one
of the strongest, most effective, most
thoughtful and thought-inspiri ,g of
the sermons that have been heard in
the city in many months.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
; PROHIBITION IN THE SOUTH !
; + + + - + + + + +++ + !

BY the year 1912 one of the chief
planks of one of the great parties
will be prohibition, if the signs of
the times are worth anything. The
South is going to be for prohibition,
the days of saloon Hceases are swift
ly passing away there. The churches
are all at work and public men are
joining them. BY actual test it has
been found that where promiscuous
liquor-drinking has stopped. the jails
are empty, there are no more street
brawls. even race-differences no long
er lead to violence. 1t was begun to
stop the troubles in the low sections
where the lower class of negroes
with the degraded class of whites
met and clashed. Now they meet
and there are no clashings. Could
the whole negro population be sud
denly transported to some other
country, the movement might stop,
but now it is growing and spreading
and at the present momentum the
whole South will, in four years more.
unite in a demand for national pro-
hibition. 1t is a marvellous change
and 1t is in the hands of a cool and
brave race that wAen it thinks it is
it becomes a reproach. to be seen
drinking, men will give it up. Then
Southern people always work togeth-
er when a certain class approves of
anything, it is but step to suspend
the rules and make it unanimous
Goodwin's Weekly.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
THE NATIONALLY TALKED OF
PLAY TO BE SEEN HERE SOON

+ At the Park opera house, on +
I. Wednesday, February 90, will +
+ be presented George Bernard +
+ Shaws greatest play, Mrs. +
+ Warrens Profession" which is +
!. brought direct from its long +
+ and successful run at the Man +
+ haitian theater, New York City. +
I. + +f+ - + + +
This Shaw play has provoked more
comment than any other literary or
theatrical event in recent years. The
reading public has been familiar for
many years with Mrs. Warren,s
Profession" in book form; but, be-
cause of strong puritanical opposi-
ton, the play was not presented on
the stage until its well favored pro-
duction at the Manhattan theater, in
New York City.
Mrs. Warren's Profession" is
composed of live wire material which
no other playwright has ever had the
courage to handle in dramatic form.
1t deals with "a social problem of tire
mendous force, but offers no preach
ments or sermons.
Miss Mary Shaw, who needs no in
PRODUCTION to the American public
will appear as Mrs. Warren, and a
company. that is adequate in every
detail will support her.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

The Ballantine & Beggs outfit
shipped from Rifle last Saturday
nine cars of the best feeders which
have gone out this season. Norman
Ballatine, William Porter and
Charles Clayton who had bought the
steers, accompanied them. Leland
Crosier shipped one car and Link
Higgins two cars in the same train,
and accompanied them to Denver.
Norman Ballatine and Mr.. Clayton
returned to the valley Wednesday,
Plateau Valley Voice.
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lected were as follows:

elected were as follows:
Thomas, Hushlett, Illustrious Pro-
tector; Earl Fry. Chief Councillor;
S. A. Booth, Secretary-Treasurer
Evelyn Tage, Worthy Evangel; HON.
err Hoggsett, Warden: Chas. Donnie.
Sentry: DR.. Kett, G. ]. Claypool, Jas
per johnson, Managers; Mrs. s. Al
Booth, First Censor; Mrs. Nellie
Claypool, Second Censor, Mrs. Helen
Dorothy, Chief Archer; Frank Fan
cher, Chief Spearman.
S. A. Booth, state deputy. was
largely instrumental in perfecting
the organization.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

The coolest day in Colorado
Springs during the past year, accord
ing to the statement of the Evening
Telegraph of that city, was in Deem
Der, when for few hours the Their
mometer went down to zero. The
warmest day was in July, when the
Thermometer climbed to 90 for a few
minutes. That's boosting for you,
Times.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
THE THRILL OF
ESCAPING DEATH.


. to be called the most hazardous +
= undertaking In which men en- =
= gage. In the preparation of the =
= nitroglycerine at one point in =
= the process the slightest waver +
= of the hand of the stirrer can +
. set off the whole compound and +
blow to bits the factory and all =
. employed in it. 1t is a work +
= that requires the closest atten- +
= ton, the steadiest nerve and Z
= clearest head. Those engaged +
= in it play with death every +
. instant. =
= + = + = = = Z
In comparison with the risks in
volved it is rarely an accident occurs,
yet when one does it amounts prac-
of the plant and heavy loss of life, as
in the one at Berkeley, California,
last Thursday. There is next to no
salvage. One would naturally think
that under such conditions it would
be impossible for manufacturers to
secure help in the factories. On the
contrary dynamite makers say that
they always have a lengthy waiting
list and that whenever an explosion
Is reported by the newspapers, letters
begin to come from all corners of the
land applying for the positions of the
men killed in the disaster.
There must be thrill in escaping
death that man gets in no other way.
The nitro-glycerine maker intent on
his task, every nerve and every mu-
ole strained, the mind centered,
watching for the crucial stage in tho
process, must find in the work some
keen delight else he could not toy
with death day after day. When
the night comes and he is able to go
home, he must know some thrill that
recompenses him for the chances
taken during the day else he would
not return to invite the same expert
ences next morning. Such a man
could find employment anywhere; he
does not need to stir nitro-glycerine
unless 1t appeals to him as the thing
in all the range of toll he likes best
to do.
Steeplejacks are said to be in love
with their profession. One who
stumbled on the street a few days
ago, fell and broke his neck, had for
rs years invited death from great
heights. 1t is said that when the
Colorado Board of Capitol Commits
sioners decided to cover the dome of
the state house with gold leaf, scores
applied for the job because it prom
ised to be accompanied by heavy
risks and proportionate pay. Now
and then the pay may look to be the
whole incentive, yet as dollars are no
good to a dead man it must be true
that the love of taking chances must
be the stronger prompting that sends
men into such undertakings. There
must be good fun in giving old death
the laugh after he has reached out
his bony hand and had one all but
In his grasp.-Denver Republican.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

State Manager w. E. Freeman was
present and made a strong talk. Fol-
lowing the business meeting de-
lightful banquet was served in the
basement of the building. The new
lodge starts out under most favor
able circumstances. The officers
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

1.-The only way for woman to
provide for herself decently is to be
good to some man that can afford to
be good to her. Mrs. Warren s
Profession, opera house, Wednesday
night. s.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
GRAND JUNCTION
HAS new LODGE
Saturday Night Organization Of Royal Hghanders Perfected
Officers Elected and Banquet Enjoyed

= Saturday night there was per- :
: pected In this city lodge of :
= the Royal Highlanders. The .
Z meeting was held at Odd Eel :
+ lows hall. Thirty-five members
z were enrolled.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

This morning there was a busy
meeting of the Grand Junction Min
isterial Alliance.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Persons who have made homestead
entries under the present law may
acquire additional land up to an
aggregate of $40 acres, and resi-
dence on the first entry shall be
deemed sufficient to cover the addi-
ton.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

w. H. Hamm of Mack, Colo, Is
a guest at the st. Regis for few
days.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

There will be meeting of the
Elks this evening.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

+ Washington. Feb. 24.-Rep-
+ resentative Mondell Saturday
+ introduced new 800 acre
+ homestead bill. somewhat diff
4 ferent from the Smoot bill re-
+ ported to the senate last week,
+ which applies only to Colorado,
+ Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North
+ and South Dakota, Oregon. New
+ Mexico, Utah. Wyoming and
+ Arizona. and permits persons
+ qualified to make homesteajs
+ to take up under the homestead
+ law $50 acres of non-mineral,
+ non-irrigable, unreserved and
+ unappropriated surveyed public
+ lands which do not contain mer-
+ charitable timber.
Z, Z, Z, &. = + =
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

They all try to beat Fred Mantsy
In the harness line.
New-York tribune., 1908-10-20
CHANLER AND HEARST.
ical rules

Mr. Chanler once drew good picture OF NM
self "as a man" 1t was before he had added
to this important qualification for office his lliu
minative record as Lieutenant Governor
namely on October II, 1906, at a dinner to MI.
Hearst the defeated Democratic candidate Tor
Governor. Speaking for the successful candl-
dates on the Hearst ticket, he said;
knowing Mr.. Hearst. believing in Mr.: Hearst,
T felt nv own election of Infinitely small impor-
tance We are men, most of us. with
comparatively little experience in state AFFAIRS
There is only one thing we can do
When we do not know where to go for guidance
turn back to the principles as enunc1ated by nlHi
THearst1 and say to one another, What
would he have had US do were he here?
That is not the language of man with q
mind of his own who had thought deeply upon
questions of government and who as result
had settled convictions. He "knew Hearst,
that was all; and If any doubt arose he could ask
himself what Hearst would do Doing that'
he could not "go far astray
OF course in the last two years the Lieuten-
ant Governor has got over believing in Hearst
as he did in 1906, but who has taken the place
of the Independence League leader as his guide
and inspiration? He now knows Ryan and
Murphy and Conners, and he owes his noml-
nation to them as he owed it TO Hearst In 1905.
VIII he now ask himself when in doubt, what
would Ryan or Murphy or Conners do II he
were here?
Mr. Chanlers loyalty to principles does not
seem to be any more enduring than his loyalty
10 men, He was Just as strong in the same
speech in his professions of adherence. to the
Hearst brand of radicalism in his professions
of devotion to Hearst himself He believed he
said that the future of Democracy In this state
depended upon how far he and his associates
could make good TO the people of this state the
promises made to them by Mr.. Hearst" And
now he is running on platform drawn by
Ryan's attorneys in the interest of those VINO
wish to exploit the public He criticises the
"hysterfa," unnecessary noise" and excite
ment' of Governor Hughes's administration,
and is the chosen instrument of those who are
opposed TO what two years ago he called the
great popular demand which Mr.. Hearst repre-
'sents"
Mr.. Chanler's shift from a Hearst man TO 81
Ryan man in the interval of two years called
for very little intellectual agility compared to
his present exploit Of being on all sides OF every
question at one and the same tme-both rad
ical and a reactionary, the representative Of the
people and of the bosses, of the conscience of
the state and of the racetrack gamblers No
one can find in all this twisting and turning any
guiding principle except ambition for office 1t
is perhaps Just as well that he refuses to tell
the people what he intends TO do if elected for
what reason is there for believing that he would
continue to intend TO do it?
New-York tribune., 1908-10-20
ALEXANDER TSWOLSKT.

The present controversy in the Balkans may
have no Sudden making of splendid names
but il seems likely 10 add something TO the dis
ttnction of at least one name which the world
has already learned TO regard with sincere es-
teem Thirty years ago Prince Alexander
Michael Gortschakoff was Chancellor or The
Russian Empire and senior representative or
Russia at the Congress of Berlin. though Lord
Beaconsfield paid much more attention to Count
Peter A Schouvaloff and insisted on regarding
him as the real exponent of Russian affairs.
Gortschakoff and Schouvaiof were both typical
of the traditional oldtme Russian diplomacy
the characteristics of which We're mystery and
tortuouSness. In the present crisis the one
supreme Russian leader i'll diplomacy is Alex
ander Iswolsl1y. who may be described as sub
stantialIy everything which his predecessors
were not and nothing which they we're
1t is interesting to recall that Mr.. Iswolsky
began his diplomatic career as member Of the
Eastern Rumeiian Commission sitting at Phil
ippopoiS and then became Minister at Bucha
rest. thus gaining a most valuable acquaintance
at their inception with some of the very prob
lens with which he has now To deal. Next he
was Russia's representative at the Vatican
where he had 10 deaf with the delicate but i'm
portant question of the Roman Catholic Church
IN Poland Thence he went TO Munich. and
thence to Toxic. He WAS ii the latter capital
when the disastrous AleXiefT- -Ha2obrazoff policy
Was begun. and he opposed it with all his might
declaring that Il would surely lead 10 war in
which Russia would be the loser. He was re-
placed there by Baron ROsen, but was not dis
credited in his removal, being sent to Copen-
hagen as Il mark of special imperial favor
Finally, he succeeded Count LaTn5dorff For
eign Minister, in Il career every step OF which
has been singslarly successful and has won the
approval Of his imperial chiefs
When he became Foreign Minister the bureau
Gratis and reactiOnarios in despair. He
was q modern man, and he would Introduce
modern" methods and utterly ruin Russian
diplomacy lie has introduced modern" meth
ods but instead of running II he has raised
Russian diplomacy TO higher plane and a II are
Influential status than il has ever before en-
loved Mystery has been dispelled. Instead Of
duplicity there are sincerity and good faith
The Douma has been recognized and taken into
the confidence OF and into consultation with the
Foreign Office. In brief, the Imperial Chan
CELERY has been made modern instead of n
medieval and European instead of an Ori-
entail office II is an incalculable gain for Rus
sia, and for all nations which have dealings
with her It is true, they say, that Mr.. Iswol-
New-York tribune., 1908-10-20
4 DESERVING CANDIDATE.

The Republicans of the 21st Congress Dis
trict are to be congra tulated on having put in
the field an exceptionally we'll qualified candi-
date for Representative. Mr.. Hamilton Fish
has had such training and experience as fit him
for playing an important part in legislation and
extending New York's influence in the lower
house of Congress. He was for many years an
ASsemhlyman from Putnam County and for two
terms Speaker of the Assembly. For the last
of the United States iii this city. His conduct
of that office won him the hearty commenda-
ton Of the financial and commercial world, ana
his familiarity with financial and currency
problems would make him most useful repre-
sentative not only of the interests of his con
stituency. but of this citys commercial and
business interests as well.
Tammany Halls OdiouS policy Of distributing
seats in Congress as consolation prizes in local
politics has cost this city immensely in Influence
and prestige: for the leaders in Congress have
small consideration for a community which al
lows itself TO be so cheaply represented The
members of the House from this part of the state
who really count in Washington have been few
and far between, although conditions have
been bettered since the new apporuonment
which allows the Republican minority to fill
six or seven seats from Kings and New York
counties We need more high grade New York
ers in the House. and Mr.. Fish would be a wei
come addition to the number of effective and
influential Representatives from this end of the
e4o{a
New-York tribune., 1908-10-20

The real crux of the Chinese opium question
lies in the poppy fields of the Flowery King
dom. Everything depends upon the good faith
and efficiency with which the Chinese govern
ment general and provincial, fulfils its promise
and executes it's laws for the abolition of the
domestic production Of the noxious drug. For.
after all, the great bulk of opium consumed in
China Is of Chinese growth and manufacture.
That has always been the case since opium
smoking and eating replaced alcoholic intOxi-
cation as the national vice of China. For
some years past only about One-seventh Of the
supply has been imported. SiX-Sevenths nave
been home grown and home made The historic
protests of the Chinese government against the
enforced entry & opium from British India were
really not directed against the opium habit it
self on moral grounds but We're meant for the
protection of II native industry against foreign
competition.
If is now about six years since Great Britain
took the initiative in helping China 10 rid her
self of the opium curse by making treaty pro
yidnC for the decrease of expectations of opium
To China at the rate of 10 per cent a year, 50
that the trade would be eXtinguished in ten
wears. provided China would at the same rate
extingush the domestic production Of opium for
other than medicinal purposes. \ year later the
United States made a similar arrangement, and
from time To time other powers have done the
The United States has also taken the lead III
calling an international conference on the sub
tect which is TO meet at Shanghai January
! next There is no question that all the powers
have entered this movement in good faith,
though some Of them have been reluctant and
dilstory. But there Is no question, either, that
all have entered it In reliance upon China's own
good faith and efficiency in carrying out her
part of the compact
There some gratifying indications that
such reliance is justihable. We have taken
great pleasure in reporting and In dwelling upon
certain practical achievements Of the Chinese
government for the suppression of the domestic
opium traffic. Unhappily, however, there
other reports of a different character 1t is
said that in Sze-Chuan, which Is by far the
greatest opium using province IN the empire,
and which produces all of its supply and
more too, the edicC for Abandonment OF poppy
cultivation is practically ignored In Ho-Nan,
also, the law is said TO be evaded and the acre
age OF opium bearing popples to be maintained
undiminished. OF course, II the growing OF
peoples continues the manufacture and use OF