The daily sentinel., 1909-04-16


AS the result of the enactment of
what is known as the Weiser law, the
state land board will not sell land in
large blocks from now on until after
Gov. Shafroth has either approved or
vetoed the bill. The law provides
that the state land upon which filings
have been made can be included in
ditch districts: in other words. that
where irrigation districts are being
formed the state lands can be includ-
ed in these districts if someone has
made filings upon them. The law
previously provided that the owner
ship had to be settled completely be-
fore they could be included in dis
tricts. With the provision that they
can be included in districts as soon
as filed upon it will increase the
value of the land and the board will
not sell any more land in large tracts
until after the governor has acted
upon the measure.
Miss Adelaide Currie, sister of
George A. Currie. leaves Grand June
tion today for New Brunswick, Can
ada, to take up her residence with a
sister. Miss Currie has resided in
Grand Junction for the past six years
and has been very active in church
work and very popular in social cir
cles. The reception given yesterday
afternoon by the ladies of the Bap-
tist church in her honor was largely
attended. The Aid Society presented
Miss Currie with a beautiful brooch
as a token of the appreciation the
society and the church feels for her
faithful work and her loyalty. Miss
Currie has a great host of warm
friends who regret her departure very
sincerely.
Engineer Allan is very impatient
over the delay in the arrival of ma
terial for the street railway. still he
has been able to get in several car
loads of material within the past
few days. His crews placed about
one hundred poles yesterday. This
work is going ahead very rapidly.
The overhead work will move Just as
rapidly as soon as all the material is
at hand. Certainly no construction
work on street railway in the state
ever made better progress than En-
gineer Allan has succeeded in having
made on the Grand Junction road
since the work of laying the tracks
started some four weeks ago.
Bert Baylis. of the Mesa County
National bank. and who is also one
OF the managers and owners of the
Mt. Garfield coal mine, and a party
of his friends are planning q very
delightful outing for Sunday. They
will charter two big automobiles and
will make visit to the Mt. Garfield
mine and Mr.. Baylis has arranged
for ride on the aerial tramway of
the mine to the top of Mt Garfield as
one of the features of the outing. r.
Nj. Hardinge. Sterling Lacy, Dan T.
Hill, Mr. Emerson, and two or three
other young men will accompany Mr..
Baylis on the trip.
A most important announcement
is the Forthcoming engagement of
the Pixley and Luder comic opera
triumph The Burgomaster" with
Harry Hermsen and nearly sixty
others at the Park opera house Fri
day evening. April 90. II. P. Hill. ad-
vance representative Is in town TODAY
completing arrangements. The same
stupendous production as to detail
that has characterized the phenom-
email success of this truly wonderful
musical masterpiece. will be brought
to Grand Junction intact.
Late yesterday afternoon the pre-
liminary hearing of Ed. Mckinney
charged with conspiring to procure
false registrations, was concluded
and the court took the case under
advisement until O'Clock SATURDAY.
afternoon 1t is generally believed
that Mckinney will be discharged as
the evidence offered against him was
not very conclusive or convincing
Grand change of bill at benefit nv
Ladies' Auxiliary to O. r n NJ NJ