The daily sentinel., 1909-11-30
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

| a l." sotNtll ~ acres or land and
three lots in the city of Grand juno
ton for consideration of $4,000.
A number of cases of whooping
cough have been reported among the
smaller school children but 1t is
thought that it can be controlled be-
fore an epidemic besieges.
Grand Junction is a dry town and
has column of police court drunks.
Routed in from Glenwood. Durango
also has splendid jug trade-Du-
range Democrat
Grand Junction is steadily taking
on metropolitan ways. Tuesday there
was collision of street cars which
implies that the city has more than
one street car.-Telluride Journal.
According to a Grand Junction pa
per tmorning paper) the people of
Glenwood are in one of the hottest
water and light fights you ever heard
tell of. If there is such fight on
we are all asleep and enjoying it.
Glenwood Avalanche.
j. F. Slinkard is making his mark
at Grand Junction. He is now in full
charge OF the City Barber Shop at
that place. Mr.. S. still holds his bus
mess here, but Grand junction gets
his full time AS an artist he cam
not be beat in his line, and what is
Glenwood's loss is Algill's gain
Glenwood Avalanche.
Rumor has 1t that H. X. Deveraux
viii take charge of the management
of the Glenwood Light & Water COM
pany and the Hot Springs company.
No one puts any confidence in the
statement that he will close up the
baths on account of the purposed
purchase of the water plant by the
citizens. Mr. Deveraux is not quite
as narrow as that.--Glenwood Ava
lanche.
The United States circuit court has
declared the Standard Oil company to
be an Illegal corporation and ordered
that it be dissolved. The rest is easy
OF course the Standard Oil people
will Immediately quit business, as
they usually do when a judge or two
| gets busy like that. John ID. and his
fellow sufferers have always had a
hard time of 1t, but thus far have
managed to make the dear public
foot the bills.-Palisade Tribune
A typographical error in The Tri-
bune last week made the paper TO
say that the East Palisade irrigation
district would soon be bonded for
about SIC per acre when it should
have been about $64 per acre. There
are nearly $40 acres under that ditch
and the indebtedness Is now S26.-
600. Two weeks ago additional bonds
to the amount of SIS, 900 were un-
animously voted for some needed i'm
Observation-Disclosures Tribune
A meeting of Grand junction city
council Tuesday evening according to
the News. was principally given over
to discussion of the violations of the
anti-liquor laws and the bootlegglng
situation, it finally being resolved
that lit is serious municipal prob
lem, and that the present attempt to
enforce the law is farce" New
legislation intended to meet the pro-
voking question. but which in all
likelihood will complicate the situa-
tion further is contemplated .-Tellu-
ride Journal.
| The Denver election board has been
investigating the recent preferential
| election at Grand Junction and its
workings. and in the course of rather
an extended report on the subject
says: 1t seems to have been as
| clear case of thwarting the will of
the majority of the people, as could
be found anywhere" Commenting
editorially on the report the Repub-
| ing which has been adopted in sew
eral cities of the country, is complex
and it promises to be a short-lived
institution in the opinion of local
| politicians" Telluride Journal
witness in a railroad case at
| Fort Worth, asked to tell in his own
way how the accident happened,
said: We'll, Ole and ] was walking
\ down the track. and | heard a
whistle, and | got off the track, and
the train went by, and | got back on
the track, and | didn't see Ole; but
| walked along. and pretty soon |
seen Ole's hat. and walked on, and
seen one of Ole's legs, and then !
seen one of Oles arms, and then an
other leg, and then over one side
Ole's head, and ] says My God
Something muster happen TO Ole,"-
| Everybody's Magazine.
| The publishers of The American
Boy have every reason to be salts
fled with the December number of
the magazine. From the handsome
Christmassy picture tin colorsJ which
adorns the front cover page to the
last item. the magazine is filled with
entertaining stories and instructive
matter. Two of the larger serials,
The Queens Molesiin Cloak and The
Young Continentals at Lexington are
concluded in this number; Red
Treasure is continued four more
chapters. and a new serial entitled
Bobs Prize Wolf is begun. Among
the many short stories are: The Boy
Who Wanted to Belong. first-class
Christmas story; The Liar, a fine
story of a boys SHINING and manly
repentance; The Tenth Question, tell
ing of boys sense of honor; The
Man With the Meat Axe. describing
how boy found his level; His Colors
! Honorable, inculcating true modesty.
and Tim Finnegan, Hero. The larg-
er articles include: The Story of
Glass Rush and Arctic Animals and
Birds. Teachers will be delighted
with the splendid page of reproduc-