The daily sentinel., 1909-01-30
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Germain Isl COMING.

German is coming.
Senator Horace T DeLong will re-
| turn to Denver tomorrow after
| spending three days in the city.
Tonight the city council Will meet
in adjourned session for the purpose
of taking final action on the amend
ment to the street railway franchise.
Mrs. E. Il. Taus, of Grand juno
ton, has been in the city for the past
week, visiting friends. She leaves
for Pueblo shortly and will then re-
turn to her home in Grand Junction.
| -Salida Mail.
Experts who have been carefully
examining the buds and bark of fruit
| trees in Green River valley report
that no damage was done by the re-
cent cold weather and every indica-
| tion points to a bumper crop this
year.-Price (Utah) Advocate.
! The article in The Sentinel last
night on the question of the use of
smudse pots affecting land values in
| this valley was read with keen inter-
est. has created much comment and
has given many people new sight
into the proposition.
: The family of w. w Livingston
are moving to a ten acre fruit farm
| two miles east of Grand Junction
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyde. Mrs. Livingston's
parents will remain as manager of
the Farmers Mill and will have his
office at his residence.-Glenwoo
Avalanche.
Today is the last day of the session
OF the Farmers Short Course being
| held in this city. There is a large
audience present this afternoon. The
Short Course has been very success
full in spite of the fact that the at
tendance has not been as large as it
should have been.
There was no meeting of the board
of directors of the Chamber of Com
merce owing to the unavoidable alb
sence of several directors and com
bination of other circumstances a
quorum was not available. However.
during the week effective committee
work has been done by the committee
| having the smudging proposition in
hand and by other committees.
The new magician. Mr.. Karl Ger
main. now appearing at Maskelyne
and Devant's Hall of Mysteries, is n
most attractive coniuror of remark
able. originality who has his own
particular way of delightful decep-
ton. his schemes and guises come so
near perfection that il is difficult TO
imagine his black art aught but real.
London Times. Germain comes
here Tuesday night
Forty-six thousand acres of the
Everglade lands in Dade county.
Florida, were sold yesterday by r. p.
Davie and J. r. McKinnie, Colorado
Springs capitalists. widely known and
largely interested here. to a group OF
Colorado Springs and Kansas City
capitalists. for 100000. The pur-
chasers are H. Fl. Barbee and e. H.
Every, both of Colorado Springs: J.
nf q
S. Delaney. of Kansas City; Edward
Van Asmus. of Denver, and J. c. Me
han, of Des Moines. Ia.
Charles NJ. Bishop, a wealthy Trim
idad merchant was acquitted of the
charge of arson in district court yes
terday His release came as big
surprise to the prosecution and the
packed court room. Bishops release
was granted upon a motion by coun-
sci for the defense following the com
pletion OF the states evidence He
was alleged TO have set fire to his
wall paper store in Trinidad and later
to have collected insurance. John
Stirling, a witness. told the jury that
Bishop had made full confession to
him concerning the manner in VII y
he had set fire TO the building
JEFF. Hampson and brother Che cf
expect to leave the first of IT, Wig .
" toidbiiSi Stoito lol ii.' N'' o. ~
Rifle and Grand Juncti"u ull b
go to Grand Junction witl i-tol- I
est in an establishmeu, srHe has |
been purchased. and Chester viii be |
the manager of an entirely new store |
at Rifle. By this chain of three stores |
il is the plan of the company to be !
better able to handle fruit from the |
Grand valley proving beneficial both |
to the firm and the producer, The !
two young men and their families !
have many friends who will regret |
to see them leave Salida.-Salida
Record
Some seven or eight trainmen of
the Denver and Rio Grande, in the
freight service between Helper and
Grand Junction, have been run down
by the secret service department of
the road Wholesale robbery of cars
containing merchandise in transit
was the game worked. Most of those
guilty have quit their jobs and left
for parts unknown. The majority of
the accused are conductors Price
merchants and those in the Vernal !
country and in Emery county are the |
losers, though claims for the stolen |
goods in almost every case have been |
filed with the company No arrests |
have yet been made. The stolen |
goods Were generally disposed of |
around Grand Junction-Price |