The daily sentinel., 1909-10-19
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The woodmen OF the World had "A
very busy meeting last night at ODD
/ Fellows hail
Have you been hiirglarized yet2 is
getting to he common question in
/ Grand Junction these days
Walter Robb has arrived In town to
spend the winter. He formerly lived
here
Mr. and Mrs. H. j. Rose left for Den
| yer sunday night to make their future
J. z. Sawyer. agent for the Pacific
/ Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of Denver. Is
al the Y. NJ. G \. to spend some time.
Lucy Kriss, who has been visiting
| Mrs. Fred RAIDER and others in the. city
Grove Kansas.
ped out of this valley last night and
night
Bert Phillips who died SUNDAY night
Of tuberculosis at 427 Chipeta avenue.
Will be buried Wednesday afteruoon at
2:3o from the undertaking parlors OF
Hattie g. Pearson.
Mrs. w. w. Livingston and son Rob
ert. left last night for Grand Junction
after spending week in Glenwood.-
Gleuwood Avalanche.
The enrolment In the public schools
Is growing RAPIDLY. Yesterday Supt,
Alien enrolled eighteen new ones max
ing grand total Of all in the public
schools 1900 one Of the eighteen en-
tered the high school making their en-
rollmcut 39f
Twelve arrests for drunkennsss In %
period OF 90 hours l. pretty interest
ing record for "a dry town In fact
the police dockets show that this rec
ord has not been exceeded In many
years Of the city's history The only
wonder is that the police force would
dare make 50 many arrests.
Yesterday afternoon at a late hour
a. point near the city pump house. on
the railroad an Italian section hand
hand car was knocked down. run over
by the ear and painfully Injured lie
was brought to the city and given at
tenttou 10y surgeon. He is recovering
This morning at l0;30 O'Clock. from
lhe residence on South Fifth street the
funeral of Hans G, Olsen. whose death
~" services We're largely attended by
Old time friends Of the deceased. There
were humorous beautiful floral tri-
butes The intermcnt took place at
orchard Mesa cemetery
w. g McCurdy leaves today for am
extended visit in California lie viii
where ne VIII attend to the affairs of a
lorge mine in which he is Interested
On the way out he viii stop in san
Francisco to attend the PortoIa festfvl-
Ties which are now being held
very interesting and urgent call
10 attend the first meeting, In Grand
Junction, on November llth Of the
western slope Stockgrowers asSocia-
ton; has been issued to the various
stockBroWers associations and to the
individual stocl<mcn by J. - Ellian
temporary president and Willis Hudg-
son, temporary secretary Of the organ
zation.
william a, .Fix, aged 20 years. only
son OF Mr and Mrs. 4. a. Fix. died last
evening about 10 o'clock at the family
home ut i4S Ute avenue. He suffered
from cancer. He was 4 young man OF
sincerely mourncd by MANY friends
The funeral took place this afternoon
nt $50 from the residence. lnterment
al orchard Mesa cemetery in charge OF
underutker Hattie q. Pearson. Rev. j
W. Gluzicr had charge of the services
The funeral was largely attended
\ very distressing accident occurred
in Dry Gulch Monday in which the two
year old child of Mr., and Mrs. David
HouselSeeper was instantly killed, The
family was moving to their homestead
aud sudden jolt of the wagon threw
the child from its seat to the ground
and the wagon wheels passing over it
held Thursday and interment made in
the Myton cemetery The parents have
the sympathy Of the entire community
In their sorrow.-Cintah Chicftain.
Mr. Miller OF Grand Junctlor. former
ly financial clerk ut the Whiterocks
Agency. was here last week and in
company with Supt. Elliott Of the gov
ernment fhrm spent sometime in look
ing over various tracts OF Indian land
with a view to leasing the same 1t is
understood that Mr. Miller represents
a large company which proposes to
lease several sections of this. land aud
Iurm il upon very large scale. Mr.
Miller visited some of the fine bottom
land on the Lakcfork and WIS greHtly
pleased with IT aud II is quite probable
that his company Will locate in that
section.-titnah Chieftain.
Geo Smith and Fred Burher of the
orchard Mesa Irrigation district and
their attorney. Strnud NJ Logan left
Grand junction last evening Tor u con
! ference with General Manager Clarke
of the Rio Grande which viii probabl
terminate today or tomorrow In the
signing Of a contract between the irri-
CATION district aud the railroad which
settles the controversy over the build
ing OF the division dam and permit
work to go ON at once The result of
the recent conference held In this clty
between the officials and attorney Of
the district With Engineer Gwynn OF
the RIO Grande was very favorable for
a settlement
We have the program for the Western
slope Development Congress cnllcd at
Grand Junction NOV. 10 and IL The
letter received with the call asks us To
crluctsv 50 we begin by saying that il
would be better to Keep the convention
within the bounds or the stute rather
thtn 10 reach Into 50 many as the call
seems To cover There is uulte a lot to
be done FOR western Colorado which Tho.
citizens should get together and try To
accomplish but when we call in dele
EnteS from other states, II seems to as
ike trying TO drown ourselves How
VIII boost all we can and we advise
our local board of trade to take action