The daily sentinel., 1909-12-30

Pueblo, but will give better service
from the east to Salt Lake City, Og-
den and points in the northwest. The
Rio Grande has not arranged its
schedule, but the Santa Fe has prae-
tieally decided upon the manner OF
handling the mail by q special train
from La Junta to Pueblo.
E. X. Whitehead. secretary of the
state bureau of child and animal pro-
lection, yesterday received a telegram
from Hotchkiss, Colo, to the effect
that 1900 cattle are starving on the
| range between that place and Austin.
The snow is to 10 inches deep. The
owners of the cattle are said to be
J. +. Hutchinson and Ballentine a.
Beggs of Denver. The telegram was
referred to the state stock inspection
board, which has the power to feed
the cattle and charge the expense to
the owners.-neuye- News
Musical comedies may come and
musical comedies may go, but 1t is
doubtful If any of them will obtain
the vogue that has been vouchsafed
Little Johnny Jones'" that ringing,
swinging, joyous. jingling musical
comedy from the pen of Geo. NJ. CO.
han, now in the third year of its
highly successful career. which comes
cember 81. There Is a fascinating
something about everything that
young Mr.. Cohan writes that seems
to please all classes. His Running
| for Office first brought him into
prominence The Governors Son"
added more to his popularity. and
! then Little Johnny Jones" placed
/ him on the pinnacle OF success as a
native playwright.
! The commercial organization
/ through its board of directors will
next week begin the circulation of a
| petition to present to the city council
asking for an amendment to the city
charter limiting the number of sa-
| looms in the city OF Denver to 200
and confining them in what is known
as the business district down town.
The movement is started as a COM
promise between the wet and the dry
Lpeople. The local option folks are
preparing to vote on the question of
making the entire city dry at the
spring election and few there are who
| do not believe that the city would go
dry If ii came to a fair and square
vote. There are those who believe
that If the charter was amended so as
| to guarantee the entire residence dis
| trct free from saloons and limiting
the number in the business district.
that this compromise will prevail.
Should such an amendment ever get
into the charter, It will be years he
fore II would be changed
The committee on judiciary, to
which was referred the petition OF
| /, ,465 people of Provo at the last
meeting of the city council, request
Ing that the ordinance making that
town dry be repealed, presented its
| report to the council meeting Tues
day night. The report of the COM
mittee was against the petition being
granted. and several members made
speeches supporting the action of the
committee in turning down the peti
tion. The council voted unanimously
to accept the report of the committee.
and this action on their part makes
( Provo dry after Jnauary l. Some pc
culiar features of the entire prohibi-
tion affair are coming to light. A, NJ.
! Carter, who at the council meeting
held last August when it was voted
to make Provo dry, voted against the
J ordinance. changed his mind and sid
ed with the prohibition forces Tues
day night. At the time of the Au-
gust meeting of the council 1t was
claimed that fully 50 per cent of the
population wanted a dry town, but at
the election later II was conclusively
proven that the town was wet by
more than 60 per cent.