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The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
U. s. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau.

= February %, 6 Pm.
= Temperature, AZ.
= Relative humidity, TO-
2 Direction of wind. southeast.
= Velocity of wind. miles.
= Precipitation, .01 inch.
= Weather, raining.
= February "a, 9 am.
= Temperature. %.
= Relative humidity, 81.
T Direction of wind, northwest.
= Velocity of wind, 4 miles. I
+ Precipitation, .04 inch.
. Weather, foggy. I
{ Maximum temperature. 43; I
Z minimum, 20; mean, So; de- I
= parture from the normal, plus I
+ 3. I
= Forecast for Grand Junction I
= and vicinity (issued at Denver):
z Fair tonight and tomorrow;
= cooler tonight.
= LEON ]. GUTHRIE,
= Observer. I
. = = = = = = = = = = = 49, = {
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

On account of the Farmers con-
vention. to be held at Glenwood Feb
ruary 1929. the Rio Grande will
make a rate of one fare for the
round trip. Tickets on sale Febru-
airy 2S and 20. Return limit March
1. Detailed information furnishe ed
at city ticket ofiice, lis South Fourth
street
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK
GETS TRIAL DELAYED

New York. Feb. 24.-The trial of
Redmond Hitchcock. the comedian,
on charges preferred by a little girl,
was today postponed for one week
Justice Bowling in announcing the
postponement said that no further
delays would be permitted
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

We guarantee every garment we
clean OF both ladies and gents, to be
neatly and thoroughly done. Inspect
the work before you pay. Work
~Allaa for and delivered at your ne
@uagt.-TAe SuiDoEiuR.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
A DRUNKEN NEGRO
KILLED POLICE CHIEF

Fayetteville, N. c., Feb. "a
Chief of Police Benton of this city
was shot dead in front of his home
here yesterday just after the church
es had been let out, by negro, San
Murchison, who was crazed with
drink.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Saturday evening at her home on
North Fifth street Miss Pearl Os-
born entertained small company of
young ladies' at a prettily appointed
dinner.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Lee & Shores today sold 10 acres
of orchard, which was set to fruit
one year ago last spring, for $4,000.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

WANTED-To rent a g. or 7-room
house; furnished or partly fur
nished. Phone Black 1342.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24
The Market.

(By Associated Press.)
Chicago. Feb. 24.-May wheai
closed today at ,94%.
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Call Us up when you wait .
plumber on tAat rush Job. ]. 3. Nc
Kenzie. phone Red ISL: S4S Colo
RADIO.
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WANTED-To rent g. to 7-room
furnished cottage; modern con-
veniences. State price. Address
]. Sentinel.
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A large number of Grand Junction
people were in Palisade Saturday
night to take in the home talent min
strel show.
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ELKs' BALL.-CUT FLOWERS.

American Beauties, Liberty, White
and Pink Roses; ViOlets; all cOl0rs
Carnations; Fern Leaves; Smilax.
Telephone Junction 100 or call at
Carpenters old stand, 1927 Main
street. a-fr
GRAND JUNCTION FRUIT GROW
Frs ASSOCIATION STORE.
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Harry HATS norsesnosing = see.
md to none in this country. A
horse II shod whom Harry Hiatt 4
through with II. Try him.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

The most reliable place to get your
clothes cleaned and pressed.-Ths
Suitorium.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

We Install complete path room
equipment. ]. E. Mckenzie, b46 Col
orado avenue. Phone Red ISL.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Why do you trade with Harry HI
att? Because he makes good.
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Read The Daily Sentinel's "Want ADJ"

You and Fred Mantey will both
lose If he don't show Joe Moon bug
gies.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Tomorrow might the city council
will meet in regular semi-monthly
session.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

LOST-Smal package of dry goods
in blue paper of the Fair. Finder
return to this ofiice.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Smoke the La cadisa. It Is the
best of the newest make Of cigar.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

LOST-On Third between Colorado
and Main. a small brown fur. Re-
turn to PAL Chipeta. Reward.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1908-02-24

Sentinel want ads brings rich har-
vests. People are finding this out
every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

pretty thoroughly. There was no evil
dence against Red-face in this case He
was villain. but in strict justice they
must pronounce him innocent at this
time.
After banging a long time on the
poker room door-the town was full of
noise and excitement-the jurymen were
let out. They found themselves in the
bar amid a crowd of boisterous citizens.
What's yer verdict, gents? Judge
Townsend asked.
Not guilty said the foreman.
AN ominouS, growing sound arose.
browning glances were exchanged.
Bronzed hands fingered pistol-butts nerv-
ously.
mot guilty. eh?' said the judge He
bit his lip and hestated in puzzled way.
Then he smiled and said:
Gents, you'll have to go back to the
poker room and reconsider that there
verdict O. yourn.'
That's right. Back with 'em! The
fools! roared the crowd.
And the jury was thrust unceremoni-
ously back into the poker room again.
'They knew now what was expected of
them. and they soon came forth and de-
clared that they found Red-face Leary
guilty.
"At this a murmur OF relief passed
round the bar, and the judge said con-
tentedly:
Guilty, Ell? Well. that's more like it.
Gentlemen of the jury, you can now dis
perse. We hanged the prisoner two hours
ago."
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Rather a Vulgar Turn.

<<VOU know Walter Crane. the English
artist?' said an illustrator well.
dined with him in London last year, and
he talked about the old-fashioned London
music halls.
1T seems that in his youth he worked
for an engraver named Linton, and now
and then he would be sent to music hail
to make sketches for some one or other
of the weekly papers. Music halls have
been refined greatly since those Victorian
DAYS. Back in the COS they were pretty
coarse. For instance:
young Crane heard the lion comiQue.
Bill Brown, one night. Brown sang a
song, and the encore, being enthusiastic.
brought him out again. He then bowed
and said:
Ladies and gentlemen. I don't know
another song, so l can't sing you one.
Put In response to your kind encore. I've
got a rat in my pocket and I'll skin 1t
with my teeth!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

to a perilous sporting skate on wheels
amid the crazy. dancing lights of fifty
other skidders like yourself who put on
speed, catch up. by luck. or smash into
each other and dart on their skating
course again. No anti-skidder in the
world is sure against the Paris "verglas. p"
Moderate speed is the one safety. And
moderate speed is what you cannot get
in Paris.
Anglo-Saxon delegates to the road con-
gress could not understand the moderated
pride of all Parisians in their wood-paved
or asphalted streets. They had not seen
the streets in winter. nor paid their re-
pairs all through the year.
You who have heard how Paris is torn
I'D may think it due to the works of the
METROPOLITAN Underground. Of many
branches Yet most of its digging is quite
subterranean, with infrequent holes for
hosting up the dirt. No. the real tear
ing I'D of Paris is the tearing up of streets
and their repaving!
Crowded Paris! Ten years ago no other
city had so many public cabs and pri-
vate carriages, SO few street car lines and
such confusing omnibuses. 1t was crowded
Paris then: but now!
Have you seen an auto-omnibus?
Doubtless yes. in your own city; but
they become domineering monsters in pro-
portion to their number: 800 of them run
ming from Place Pigalle to the Halle
aux-Vins; 760 daily trips between the
Batienolles and Odeon: 100 between the
Place Glichy and the Feuillantines-and sc
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1t got repeated giving a false impress
sion. while the general really fell a VIC
tim to improvement-slipped on the then
new bitumen of the Madeleine flower
market.
Slippery bitumen came and went.
Boulevard and Rue Royale are paved in
expensive wood but the flower market
block is slippery asphalt. where a dray
horse. yesterday In the rain. fell upon a
boy and broke his leg. Neither was ar
rection-but. though hundreds slip upon
1t daily. asphalt must pave streets round
Paris markets
Ny photograph Of the Halles Central
Markets. tells the story; see the water
sprinkler in the lower right-hand corner
and the roller sweeper just beyond it.
Before daylight the asphalted streets
monium of wholesale auction sales. BY
am. the mess has been flushed off. the
asphalt scrubbed and retail barrows,
wagons. stands and piles of produce SIM
ply spread on the clean asphalt overflow
the two blocks of the covered market. and
their mess must be washed up by noon!
See the pile of sand in the center of
slipping horses. falling pedestrians. skid
ding auto delivery wagons and great
auto buses whose wheels turn without
advancing. Paris is a rainy town in
autumn. winter spring Hear the screams
of pain and fear, street quarrels. crowds
around a broken legal slippery asphalt
accidents; for every ward-division has
its asphalt stretches for the country mar
ket twice week or more!
AS applied to swell avenueS-alWayS or
moderate traffic-asphalt is delightfully."-
clean. noiseless and smooth rolling. The
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but the automobile circulation threatens
all that gentle dignity.
These macadam streets are those OF the
road congress 'tar-controverSy." The
road congress Endorsed tar. oilnY.
westrumittinG. or whatever you prefer In
call il. They must be tarred-or good
by. macadam! The new traffic ri Ms IL
with holes, not ruts; and the dust be-
comes insuppo: tab e. The avenue OF the
Bots de BoulOCna tsee rhnto" rapm a'on ,
was costing 5000 annually in repairs To
its macadam. Since it has been tarred
the annual expense is but Sl.5OU
On the other hand inhabitants OF tarred
maCa' am streets in Pfri.-- 90 IT, Ne
Montaigne already acknowledgements
of it's periodic blocking VIII lie the stun
is spread, and Of tar dust and mud. So.
In this conflict of consideration. you now
see why the Parisans did not whoop UP
their paving to the foreign delegation To
III. rod congress.
The Partisan attitude is that OF humble.
patient inquiry They think that they
have found the paving of the future. IL
the splendid highways of all France-to-
day ruined macadam, ruined In ten
years.
This new paving will be of small. nat
stones. round or hexagonal. 1t may he
cut prophyry for city streets. though
special SITS are favoring an artificial stone
much less expensive.
Every one agrees upon the small stone
paving. The vast automobile interest,
while it abhors large stones. welcomes
IL enthusiastically. You see, the pneu-
matte tire rests tor an instan' 81 rely
on one large stone before it jolts on to
its neiShbor: while with very small, fiat
stones the tire will always rest on sew
eral at time, so there will be no jolt
ing
I can give you no example of this new
Partisan stone paving. No street has
been laid with il. 1t is the paving of the
fin Of CT ly
crowded Paris. blocked by street repairs
and dangerous with slippery skiddng.
cannot wait long!
STERLING HEILl9.
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Place Vendome shining after a rain.
clean dustless n the sunshine.
seems an ideal paving: but the skidding
autos. dashing-crashing.-u to the Ritz
tea. alone, give cause for thought 1t is
a fact that numerous Paris streets laid
recently in asphalt had to he torn UP and
changed to wood. Automobiles skid on as
phaIt IN all seasons. The Place of the Trim
ito is a good example. Side by side it
is in wood and asphalt. Well. in the thin
layer of Shiny mud brought to II by the
heavy traffic of wet day. the asphalt
half of the Tr.nite has to be served by
three men throwing sand!
Without these refugees" or islands
Paris streets would be impossible, today,
for pedestrians. One little street. the Rue
LIE Peetier-a few books from the Trinite
has 1210 JugSernaut autobuses pass
ing over it daily. More than an autobus
a minute.
The island in the Rue de Rivoli at the
Concorde (photo) has saved my life sew
eral times. The large one in front of
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A Real Conversion.
MEMBER OF the Union lie

A MEMBER OF the Union League of
New York was praising the char
acter Of the late Oliver Hazard Perry.
He said:
Here was a man of sincerity. He was
talking one day, l remember, of a maid
servant who had got religion; and it
seemed to me, as L listened, that his own
character was of the same thorough
going sort as that which followed the
maids change of heart.
$50 you are converted. Maggie?' this
maids mistress said to her.
~ don't know. ma'am.' said the maid.
seriously; but I seem to be. A great
change has come over me-
How great a changes? said the lady.
well, ma'am replied the maid, since
that there revival l always sweep under
the mats now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

the Care Montparnasse is daily refuge
for American art student girls. That
around the Column Vendome Will be
gratefully remembered by a thousand
tourists The Grand Boulevard has
four such islands 10 the block while other
streets of intense circulation-like the Rue
Royale-are crossed by pedestrians only
at the corners. A chance group of ten or
more collect: they wa CHI their chance;
they make a quick dash to the island.
huddIe on tin the middle of the street
and dash across the second half when a
chance offers.
Touris. seldom learn the true distress
and danger of pedestrians in Paris They
arrive in summer, when the fine wood
pavements that predominant in the march
of Improvement are dry. very clean and
almost rec from dust.
These famous Paris pavements are not
altogether wood. Above the elaborate
carpeting of upright stones. sand, broken
stones and pebbles and cement spread
thick, the brick-shaped wood blocks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14
ONLY a Couch.

ttIIART O. BERG, the Wrights' man.
IL ager. was talking at Le Mans
about the Wrights' skill said a returned
tourist in New York. Hart told me how
Wilbur Wright got rather impatient
with the aerial pilots he was teaching
to run his machine.
"One afternoon according to Hart. a
French count the most promising of the
learners. had a slip-up and fell NO
harm was done and the count excused
himself on account of the high wind and
so forth. Wright smiled sarcastically as
he overhauled the damaged machine.
Hart said it was just like tenderfoot
he once saw in Texas.
This tenderfoot thought he could
ride, and in front of a lot Of cowboys
mounted Il pony. The pony soon threw
him. cowboy. helping him up, said:
Hello! What threw you?'
what threw me? Why, she bucked
something fearful, Didn't you see her
buck?" cried the tenderfoOt.
Buck said the cowboy, rats! She's
only cOughed.'"
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stepped in tar and creosote-are laid on
edSe-yeS.
But these tar and creoso.e treated wood
bricks have thrown over them layer OF
fine gravel. Now passes the steam roller.
1t incrusts the gravel into the wood.
soaked already with its tar and creosote-
and traffic does the rest
This light 'gravel-plating' of Partisan
wood pavements ought in theory to pre-
vent horses slipping and automobiles skid
ding. while it hardens and increases the
life of the paving. In fact, It does the
work well--in summer. Even in the rains
of spring and autumn it makes an ideal
street, even for pedestrians. panic-strick-
en-. to dash across in scared punches.
But with the first freezing comes the
''verglas.''
If you want to know what 'verglas' Is.
put down wood pavementS.
1t is a paper-thin ice coating Of the
wooden surface.
See a winter afternoon upon the splen-
did wood-paved Paris backyard! A dozen
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horses all around you lie, refusing to get
up. with broken shafts and cursing
drivers; others founder. cut their knees
trail blood slip. fall and rise again. Reck-
less auto-taxis swiftly thread their way
like skaters. crash into cab. dring!
broken glass. screams of ladies'! Look
out! there are three men down! What
IS that rush? Mon Dieu, the auto-bus
the Juggernaut of Paris streets. 1t is
skidding straight into the blockade!
Smash Il goes into the woodwork of an
innocent delivery wagon A horse shrieks
with palma shaft jabbed between two of
his ribs! Hear the drivers curse the
chauffeurs! Crash. the private auto has
cut the wheel off a cab! The wide boule
ward is blocked up with a slipping mass
of vehicles. Police! Police!
Before the day of auto-taXis cabs-two
years ago-I have seen troupes of tender
ladies, hundreds upon hundreds, forced to
walk home from the theater in flimsy
slippers and smart wraps because no cab
man dared to take them in the 'verglas."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

so. They are like an elderly fat man
whom 1 saw at my tailor's the other
day.
LET me see. SIR said the tailor:
you haven't been in for two or three
years. Perhaps I had better remeasure
YOU
"'An right said the fat man. "YoIll
find no change in my figure, though
1.-The tailor got to work with his tape.
The measurements were called out and
iotted down. The fat man said at the
end:
well. the measurements are about
the same as they used to be, en-?
"'Yes. sir, about the same was the
reply. Chest a trif1e lower down, that's
all, sir"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14
About the Same-Nit.

LARRY KELLAR, the retired magi-
clan. was talking in Philadelphia
about stage magic.
1T is not" he said, 80 good as 1t
used to be. The younger nagicians do
not study and practice we of the pre-
vious generation did. Hence nowadays
stage magic appears rather tame.
But the young magicians don't think
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

would take 10000 or 100000 negroes, SUI
posing each man worked only four
months. to equal the steady work of the
Chinese, who are now to be shipped back
home"
During my visit to the various mines
have gone through many of the Chinese
compounds and have watched the men
both at work and at play. They are
notwithstanding fellows. taller and more
muscular than the Chinese of the United
States. and as a rule. better citizens.
The compounds are walled Enclosures. en-
tered only through turnstiles, so that
every man who comes in or goes out
leaves record. Each Chinaman has his
number, and this is taken when he comes
in. He is paid by his number and by
1t he gets his food and supplies. In
fact the 4OOO-odd celestialS in the Simmer
and Jack mine are not known to their
employers by name. Each Individual is
only number He may have been Wun
Lung before he came in but now he IS
1875 or something el~e. 1t is by these
that he gets his bed. his clothes, and.
strange for a Chinese. his bath.
In the Bathrooms.
understand that many CT these Celes-
tials never had bath until they were
stripped naked and secured at Tien-Tsin
before they took ship for South Africa.
Since then they have enjoyed this luxury
regularly, and they now wash them
selves quite as much as the whites. The
bathroom of the Simmer and Jack must
cover about a quarter of an acre. 1t
is filled with great tubs and watts, and
during my visit to 1t I saw at least fifty
of these yelow-skinned men splashing
about in the water
I then went on to the Kitchen where
hundreds of great kettles Of steaming
beef stew were ready for distribution. Each
kettle contained about as much as a
cider barrel and the aroma was appe
tizing. There were also great pots of
rice and vegetables, the whole compris-
ing the rations for about 1900 men.
As l looked the Chinese came in to
get their food. They marched In in reg
ular order. each being known by his
number. 1 saw many of them eating
and observed that they used knives and
forks AT first they would eat with
nothing but chop-sticks. Now many
are adopting western clothes and west
ern ways. The rations allowed each
man are one and one-half pounds of
rice, one pound of meat, one pound of
white bread and one-half pound of vege-
tables per day. They drink a great
deal of tea and the managers supply
them with all the lime juice they will
consume.
The men sleep in hunks. in rooms about
forty feet square and twenty feet high,
with nothing but zinc roof overhead.
Such a room is supposed to accommodate
sixty Chinese. although it has seldom
more than forty-eight.
Daily Life Of a Chinese Miner.
The daily life of one of these Chinese
may interest you. He wakes about
o'clock in the morning at the sound Of
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ten years ago! Where do they get the
money for it? Even in retail business it
is a Partisan mystery how innumerable
small shops make their smart autodeliv-
cry wagons pay!
Old-fashioned stone stands this intense
circulation best The blocks of the Pont-
Neuf two centuries old (see photography.
continue to resist, with all their edges
clipped
Streets and avenues not forbidden to
the heavier vehicles OF private trade. as
are the Boulevard, Champs Elysees, &c,
are paved with neat-cut brick-shaped
stone laid in cement, Of which the Boule-
ward MalesherbeS, besides the Pare Mon
ceau, is an example. The Boulevard
Haussman is for most its length aid in
such stones Around railway stations you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

see nothing else. And il you want to
learn how even it requires continual re-
pair. observe the repairing shanty with
front of the Care Mont-Parnasse.
Passing from wood pavement to stone
you feel the unpleasant jolting strongly:
No pneumatic tire can smooth it; and all
automobile owners, from Juggernaut
buses to motor bikes. hate and avoid
stone paving when not driven to use 1t.
And the only other style of Paris paw
ing is macadam. You would be surprised
to know how much macadam exis's in the
very center of the city. Short aristncratic
side streets like the rue Narignan and
the rue Montaigne in the Oh amps Elysees
have been kept in macadam by house
owners for it's Softness and its Quietness;
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The Trial of Leary.

Joseph NJ. PATTERSON. Chicago's
] millionaire novelist, was discussing a
fudge whom he believed to be corrupt
1.-THE way he conducted that trial" said
Mr. Patterson. bitterly. reminded me OF
the trial of Red-face Leary. the Tomb
stone horse thief.
There was tremendous excitement in
Tombstone when Red-face was captured.
A dozen men were hustled into the poker
room of the Lone Dog. and commanded
to consider themselves a jury, and to pass
a verdict on the notorious thief
1.-The men went into the accusations