The daily sentinel., 1909-10-12
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

This evening the city council will
meet in regular session and give at
tention to much business.
Tonight c. H. Enrich of the Board
/ of Trade. will serve seventy-ffye
Knights of Columbus in the Elk's
| hall.
Fred {. Mckee and wife departed
for Grand Junction. Sunday. where a
good position was in awaiting for
him.-Meeker Herald
Mr.. Rakestraw will soon be op-
Grated upon at the St. Mary's hos
pital for stomach trouble Drs. Day,
Henderson and Hanson have charge
of the case.
About forty of the public school
teachers were shown through the Y
NJ. C.. A. building YESTERDAY They
spent some time watching the gym
nasium class.
The board OF manager at the St.
Matthews hospital wish TO thank
those who have contributed vege-
tables and fruits so generously this
summer
c. W. Stevens. who has been con
fined in the St Matthew'S hospital.
will leave in a few days. Mr.. Stevens
has just had an operation performed
on his knee.
1t is announced that in Grand
junction on October 20 and 30. the
state board of barber examiners will
hold meeting for the purpose of
examining applicants.
Still at large are the men who car
ried out the numerous burglaries in
this city Saturday and Sunday night.
Nf l..Vss TIs.t.
this city as far as can be ascertained.
The Eagles have rented the up
stairs of the Board of Trade building
for their lodge rooms and will take
possession Immediately, cquipping
the rooms in such shape that they
will make ideal lodge rooms.
The funeral of IL. d. Smith oc-
CURED this afternoon from the resi-
dence in Fruitvale and wds very
largely attended, The Masons were
in charge of the funeral The inter
ment took place at Orchard Mesa.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. T.. Jaynes of Fruit
Ridge, left Sunday for a trip through
the West and South to be gone until
the holidays. Some time will be
spent in Texas, some in New Mexico
and the remainder in California.
DR.. A. p. Drew, whose return from
the west was announced yesterday.
states That he spent several weeks in
Idaho and that he would not give the
Grand valley for the whole state of
Idaho. Dr. Drews horses pulled
down many splendid purses on Idaho
tracks and tracks of one or two other
states, including the Utah state fair
track at Salt Lake City last week.
1t is said the Hugus company have
100000 pounds of freight at Rifle
awaiting transportation to Meeker.
/ II is certain the other Meeker bust
ness houses have vast quantities of
goods also awaiting shipment to this
point. all of which shows the need
of railroad between Meeker and
Grand river. Meeker Herald
No announcement mads In the city
in months was received with greater
pleasure and satisfaction than the an
tnouncement in The Sentinel yesterday
to the effect that Orson Adams. gem
eral manager of the electric light
plant. had signed contract for 500
600 worth of new machinery to be
installed in order TO furnish power
! for the interurban lines.
! James II. Rankin. director of the
Chamber of Commerce who has been
in the Rio Blanco county. and at
Meeker, returned Sunday evening.
| lie declares he found Meeker en-
thusiastic over the Western Slope
Development Congress. Both Meek
er and Rio Blanco county will send
large delegations TO the congress in
November
This afternoon conference is be
ing held between the officials of the
orchard Mesa Construction COMPANY
and the railway officials relative to a
settlement of the right-of-way dis
pute.' 1t is hoped that a settlement
viii he reached and that ii will not
be necessary to take up the fight in
the district cour tomorrow over the
Injunction proceedings started by the
railroads TO prevent the Orchard
Mesa people from proceeding with
the work on the dam and on the
railroads right-of-way
Mr.. e. +. Sands. project engineer
in charge of the High Line canal has
been in Palisade on business con-
nected with the turning over of the
rights-of-way of the Stub and Price
bitches to the government to be used
by the High Line canal. At meet
ing or the directors of the two dis
tricts Mr. Sands submitted a form of
nN'i'iVii " pf siSheu DN land owners
in each ditch, requesting elections to
be called at which the question re-
garding the turning over of the
bitches TO the government will be
decided
Last night man who evidently
needed complete new outfit of
clothing. broke into the Loefler
clothing store AT Palisade. went into
the dressing room of the store. took
off his old clothes even to his under
wear and sox, and then selected a
complete outfit of underwear, sox.
shirt, collar. tie. trousers. vest. coat.
collar buttons and cuff buttons. Don
ming his purloined outfit he left his
old clothes In the dressing room and
hiked out. No trace of the thief
has been found, after he left the
store, He gained entrance by break