The daily sentinel., 1910-01-28
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

H. n. Coe, of Cedarsville, O.. uncle
to Messrs. Clarence and Fred Coe, of
this city. is visiting with the families
of the brothers in this city. He will
make an extended visit in the Grand
valley.
The Sentinel is in receipt of a
most interesting and important bull
letin issued by the United States
Geological Survey, from Congress
man Ed. T. Taylor, entitled, The
Valuation of Public Coal Lands"
Carl Washburn, who has been
quite Ill at his Ophir home for sew
eral days of ptomaine poisoning, is
practically recovered and with his
fornia for the winter.-Telluride
Journal.
For fifty cents you get n reserved
seat for Damon and Pythias." On
sale at Wohlfort's drug store, Qutst
Drug store, Loeffler's, Ross and
Kraft & Emerson's.
The Y NJ. C. A. officials report
that the new method of conducting
the peel games is proving very salts
factory and that the business men
are taking advantage of tao oppor-
tunity to use the tables evenings.
Another monthly periodical de-
voted to the fruit growing interests
has been launched at Grand Junction.
Fruit growing magazines are getting
to be almost as numerous down in
the fruit country as the varieties of
smudge pots.--Telluride Journal.
Grand Junction, which ,fathered
In pra H. L.
out statement that the blowout"
came through with a deficit of s4,-
$50, and it is likely the effort for
another show next year will be aban-
doned. d.-Telluride Journal.
Mike Rokas, a Greek section hand
employed on the Denver and Rio
Grande at Mounds while attempting
to cross between two cars of the
Sunnyside train fell under the train
which started to move, and had his
right leg cut off last Friday after
noon. He was removed to St Marks
hospital at Salt Lake City. where he
died last Saturday.-Price Advocate.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. b. Hill, of Toron-
TO, Canada, where the former is the
president of the Canada-American
Savings Co., and also the head OF
big grain elevator company in that
city, are visiting friends in Grand
Junction today Mr.. Hill was ex-
tensively interested at one time
around DeBeque during the time of
the oil boom.
Bishop Matz and the Sisters of st.
Francis are planning consumptives'
hospital to be conducted as a branch
of st, Anthony's hospital. 1t is
planned to purchase land in Edge
water and erect a building to cost
about 100000. The patients who
are able will till the land. The hos
pital will be opened to those who
have no money to pay for their care
as well as those who have. If the
hospital is built the Brotherhood
Tent Relief colony in Edgewater
probably will be merged with it
Denver Republican.
Parties who enjoy the excitement
that comes with a hazardous occupa-
tion should apply to Il. n. Lavender
for job driving one of those mons
ter 6-horse freight outfits to and
from the Tomboy. The narrow grades
along the mountain-side is a glare of
ice from the melting, frozen snow;
in places filled by drifts and slides
packed as solid as rock; the massive
wagons under brake and rough lock
sliding first one way and then anoth-
er, threatening to go down over pre-
cipitous cliffs from 100 to 1000 feet
perpendicular. Plenty of excitement
in that job just at present-Tellur-
ide Journal.
Patrick Riley. general manager of
the Green River Gypsum company,
has been in Salt Lake City for sew
eral days purchasing machinery for
the extensive development of the
gypsum deposits located about three
miles south of Green River, and con-
trolled by himself and associates.
Riley states that the demands for
gypsum are increasing rapidly since
the product is being used for build
Ing purposes, and he Is satisfied that
the Utah material can be placed on
the market at satisfactory profit.
The deposits are great in extent,
there being whole mountains of it,"
according to Riley. and 1t is COM
paratively easily mined Near the
surface the material is quite hard,
though it could be mined with steam
shovels, 1t is said, and at depth il
loses It's brittleness and can be sawed
out or cut out with knife. It's re-
duction is simple, heat reducing it to
a powder, and is worth about twenty
dollars ton-price AdvIcate