The daily sentinel., 1909-04-10

| pected home today from Denver.
2 Archie Wells is still confined t
J, his room but hopes to be out by Mon
day.
Henry Rupert. of Nebraska, is her
looking over the valley with view o
= locating.
a number of Grand Junction peo
pie expect TO spend tomorrow in Glen
wood Springs.
The temperature kept up prett,
well all last night and at no hour wal
the fruit in danger
AT the meeting of the Trades anC
: Labor Assembly last night the charter
{ was discussed at length.
William Weiser, Mesa county's rep
resentative in the general assembly
: returned home last night from Den
| YER
]. A. Lehritter, Gunnison county's
representative in the general assemb-
ly. spent last evening in the city
while en- route home.
1t was reported this morning that
J. II. Lee. the newly elected mayor
and the four anti-saloon aldermen
will caucus today on the matter OF
filling the appointive offices.
Every day new candidates for the
appointive positions in the gift of the
new city council make their appear
| ance. There are now about half a
dozen applicants for every position.
James Burke. pioneer ranchman
and stockman of the Meeker country,
died yesterday in Glenwood Springs.
/ He had resided in Colorado many
years. He was quite well known in
Grand Junction. He leaves a large
estate.
Tomorrow from Salt Lake City
Charles b. Hanford Miss Marie
Drofnah and company will arrive in
the city and will be guests at the st.
Regis Monday night they will be
seen at the Park opera house in 1.-The
Winters Tale"
This morning at 10 O'Clock from
the Methodist church the funeral of
Mrs. George Hendricks was held.
There was a large attendance of the
friends and relatives and there were
many beautiful floral offerings. The
interment took place at Lobaek ceme-
terry.
This afternoon at the fair grounds
the High school athletic meet between
the Grand Junction and Fruit High
school teams is being conducted.
There are quite a number of young
people out to witness the carrying out
of the various events. A baseball
game between the two High school
teams is the star feature of the after
noon.
Thomas ]. Wampler. the well
known carpenter and contractor.
leaves tomorrow morning for Farm
ington, New Mexico. to take charge
of the flume work on the ditch prof.
ect in which w. S. Wallace of this
city, and Colorado Springs capitalists
are interested. Mr.. Wampler will be
out of the city engaged in this work
for several months.
1t is announced that Manager Has
kell, of the Park opera house, has
secured an engagement of one night
for the famous Burns-Johnson NOV
ing pictures, said to be the greatest
pictures of a celebrated prize fight
ever shown in the country. All next
week the pictures are to be shown
at the Tabor Grand in Denver One
night the week following they will be
seen here. The entire fourteen rounds
of the great battle between Johnson
and Burns will be shown in detail.
While on vacation at Palisade,
DR.. Lucius NJ. Barney died Wednes-
day morning at 10 o'clock. The doc
tor was stricken with meningitis two
days before, the disease making such
progress that he died within 4S
hours. DIR. Barney was about 80
years old, and had spent nine years
in active practice in this city |
Most prominent among the young
men of Denver, he had already estab- |
lished himself as man of worth. A
few days ago he concluded to take a |
rest and went to Palisade to visit DR.. |
Larsen. a college classmate. Mrs. |
Barney had been summoned to her !
husbands bedside when telegram |
came announcing his death come to |
her. The body will be brought to |
Denver and cremated, in accordance |
with his wish.-Denver Republican. |
Yesterday Senator Guggenheim in
troduced a large number of bills !
among which was one to grant pen |
sions of S12 monthly to surviving |
members of the Forsythe scouts, |
volunteer organization which took |
part in n battle with the Indians at |
Beecher's Island, Colorado, in 1865. |
Other bills introduced the same day |
by the Colorado senator were as fol- |
lows: Authorizing the secretary of |
the interior to grant patent for a I
quarter section of land to each per-
son who may sink an artesian well
and irrigate 10 acres of such quarter |
section; directly the secretary of the
interior to permit prospecting. min
ing and building of reservoirs and |
canals within forest reserves; provid-
ing for instruction in forestry in state
agricultural colleges; appropriating
100000 for establishment of a gov
ernment fish hatchery in Estes Park.
The special Shakespearean produc-
ton with which Charles B. Hanford
has arranged to follow his magnifi-
cent presentation of Antony and Cleo
patra, has for its subject that fascin-
ating drama THE Winters Tale"
Lacking the catastrophe which would
be essential for its classification as a
tragedy and at the same time too
serious in its main purpose to be re-