The daily sentinel., 1909-06-11
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

Ralph Rice. son of Mr.. and Mrs
p. A. Rice. is expected home tomor-
row from Colorado College to spend
his summer vacation.
Mrs. j.. II. Brinkerhoff of Grand
Junction. wife of the superintendent
of the Rio Grande Western, is visit
ing Mrs. Fred Ewing. Mrs. Ewing
entertained the whist club in her
honor yesterday afternoon.
Peace officers of Wyoming are TO
be congratulated on bringing to a
conclusion the war on the Sundance
range between cattle and sheep grow
ers. Officers of Mesa and Garfield
counties might well take lesson
from their ok.=Denver Republic
can.
E. A. Keys. whose arrival here was
announced by The Sentinel yesterday
and who comes as a special repre-
sentative of Secretary Ballinger, of
the interior department. is already
at work on his investigation. He will
be shown over the entire project by
local officials of the reclamation ser
vice. Mr. Keys will be in the city
about ten days.
Sensational story of a life of dis
sipation and the transforming power
big tent. corner Seventh and Main.
Evangelist ID. A. Hill. of Columbus.
Ohio. win give the story of his life
Saturday night, June 12. Everybody
cordially invited to listen to this won
derful story. Evangelist w II. Lee,
of Colorado Springs. also assists in
the services over Sunday.
Beginning Monday night the ia
nous Nat Reiss Carnival company
will exhibit in Grand Junction for
six nights. 1t will be the biggest
thing in the carnival line ever seen
in Grand Junction. There will be
twelve startling big shows, several
fine free acts and good time for
everybody. Nat Reiss has the repu-
tation of carrying the best. the clean
est, the most orderly and respectable
carnival attractions in the country
No hold up games are tolerated
Due to the heavy snowfall of last
winter. II is feared by Director
Brandenburg of the local weather
bureau that the western slope is in
danger of having some serious floods
this year. The basin of the Platte
river and the eastern slope is not
considered to be in a dangerous con
dition. The snow above the $500
foot mark has not begun to melt and
lIOn All ItlOllS lhtlt Is al BItdl
quantity of snow embarked there
and if the next two weeks are warm.
the director of the weather bureau
states that all of the streams of the
western slope will be raging torrents.
Denver Republican.
NJ Strouse, the pioneer merchant.
yesterday received message an
nouncing the death of Joseph Haly-
man, a brother-in-law, at Helena
City, Mont. The announcement came
as a great shock to Mr.. Strouse who
supposed Mr.. Halyman to be in good
health. The death occurred on the
ninth and only the day before Mr..
Halyman had attended the wedding
of his son. Many Grand Junction
people knew Mr.. Halyman in the
early days when he conducted a big
grocery business in Denver, Only
about twenty days ago Mr. Strouse
received a message announcing the
death of the late Mrs. Strouse's only
sister. Naturally Mr.. Strouse hopes
that he may be spared any more sad
news such as these two messages.
coming within a few weeks of each
other, have brought him.
Secretary Ballinger has withdrawn
temporarily from entry as a power
site four hundred acres of land on
Gray Bull river, Wyoming. in aid of
proposed legislation. This with
drawal is in accordance with the
policy which Secretary Ballinger has
adopted of Withdrawing for power
site purposes, pending legislation |
making the withdrawal permanent
the minimum acreage required. II |
is in noticeable contrast to the policy
pursued by Secretary Garfield who |
withdrew the entire area for several |
miles bordering streams on which /
power sites were supposed to exist, in |
some instances these Withdrawals |
along one stream aggregating five |
hundred thousand acres.
Claiming that negligence of the
Golden Cycle Mining company and |
the Colorado Midland railroad at the |
Golden Cycle mill in Colorado City, |
resulted on December II, 1908, in |
injuries that have manned and dis
abled him for life. James A. Edwards |
yesterday filed suit in the district
court for $20.675 damages from the |
two companies. Edwards. who gave |
his occupation as that of an ore
shoveler. states that he was caught /
by car from a platform on the chute
and dragged beneath the wheels He
claims that his right foot was ampu-
tated as a result and that he was
internally injured COLORADO Springs
Gazette.
Gray Johnson, a motor cyclist of
Denver, is lying at st. Luke's hospital
probably fatally injured as result
of having collided with COW yes
terday afternoon. The COW was in
stantly killed. Johnson, who is an
usher at the Broadway theater, was
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