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The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
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Walter Walker
DITOR
THE WANING SEVENTY.
L ID 1T o X

IRON all indications, plan the Committee of Seventy
has decided upon-the plan early adjournment If
does adjourn pretty there will time when the at
tendance will be confined the pitcher the
electric fan and dulcoored collection of benches
has been committee of seventy far attendance
has been concerned There have been fifty members
attendance tme-are thirty and recently the
has been twenty-five At least of appointed
that have attended single
All of which goes prove that there has been general
sentiment this favor of agitation of municipal owner
ship other of the questions that have been
brought before this body Furthermore all of which show
that the actions of the poorly attended and constantly waning
be taken the sentiments desires OF
considerable portion of the citizenship of Grand Junction
The Committee of Seventy has lived up been entitled
its name, for has been of SEVENTY
anywhere SEVENTY. We constrained think that
the numera selected form part of the bod title should have
been "23' instead of 10"
That there crying need, urgent necessity for the
calling of such committee has been proven concusvey by the
committee itself.
It's the wane is this Committee of Seventy
So, let it adjourn while the adjourning is good
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Cars Re- Iced at
Mnturn is New 8
Rio Grande Edict

The re-icing of loaded fruit cars at
Minturn-a feature that local fruit
growers associations have been striv-
ing to get the Rio Grande to do for
several years-has at last been Or
dered and the cars will be re-iced
after a seven or eight-hour run from
the valley. The Rio Grande and its
connecting lines have never been. in
such good shape to handle the fruit
crop as at the present time. The
company has close to 500 empty re-
frigerator cars on the western slope
now, ready to be used in handling
fruit at any time.
The service will be faster this year
than ever and trains leaving the val
ley will reach Pueblo in from 20 to
"a hours, not much slower than pas
senger schedule. The fruit situa-
tion is fast coming to climax, in
regards to the perishable stuff and
it is stated by those in command that
within week there will be 10 car
loads of peaches leaving Palisade
daily, perhaps more than that.
In commenting on the fast freight
service east of Pueblo, the st. Louis
Globe-Demoerat says:
THE management of the Missouri
mountain
that a fast freight schedule will be
inaugursted over that line for the
summer and fall months from Pueblo
and other Colorado points to Kansas
City and st. Louis. This service is
being put into effect to take care of.
the heavy traffic which it is antici
pated will soon be moving from the
fruit and vegetable fields of Colorado.
N fhfG tnnnaCh tho Mis-
souri, Pacific will be handled in the
American Refrigerator Transit COM
pany equipment, number of the new
refrigerator cars ordered last fall
having already been forwarded to
Colorado for this service. The new
schedule will go into effect as soon
as the movement become sufficiently
heavy to justify it, probably about
August 20. The time from Pueblo to
Kansas City will be thirty-three hours
and to St. Louis, fifty-one hours.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Cattle Shipments
Began Nth an Is
Car Train Monday

The cattle shipping season was
opened at Rifle Monday with the
shipment OF is cars of fine stock
from the Meeker section, bound to
eastern markets. The movement was
reported here yesterday by Roy e.
Vickery of the Midland. This marks
the beginning of one of the best sea-
sons this western territory has ever
known in regard to cattle shipment.
The stock looks well and it is believ-
ed that they will top the market.
The cattle will begin to move from
Mesa county within the next few
weeks and in spite of some range
losses early in the year. due to poi
son, will be well up to standard.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
zELIE IN BAD WITH SUFFS.

Associated Press.
Stockholm, Sweden, August 10
fine by Miss Zelie Emerson, when
she was arrested for assaulting the
police in connection with Sylvia
Pankhurst's Downing street riot. has
caused the American suffragette to
lose caste with some of the ruling
powers, and it is said that only her
close friendship with the Pank-
hursts saved her from being disciplin-
ed by the war cabinet of the w. S.
p. U.
A number of the militants asserted
that in refusing to go to Jail, Miss
Emerson gave the impression to the
public that the morale of the fore
front of the fighting line of the Or
ganization was weakening at the very
moment it is straining every effort,
to nullify the effects of the Cat and
Mouse" bill. The Michigan girls:
first term in Jail, when she was for
chilly fed, was the result of a raid she
made with Sylvia Pankhurst on the
windows of Bow and Bromley, since
which time she has enjoyed close
friendship with the Pankhurst fam
lily. Shortly after here release after
prolonged hunger strike, Miss En-
erson was operated on for appendi-
citis, and she defends her course in
paying fine by asserting that even
brief stay in Jail at this time wouk
so impair her health that she woI 4!
be unable to take her place on
firing line for many months to coz
She feels that she can be of more as
sistance out of rather than in Jail.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
EVERYTHING FREE"

speech alone the desire of the Industrial Workers of
the World might endure them with equaninmity. But
free and unlimited right talk only part of their desdatum
they everything freeec speech free food free clothing
and free shelter They for free trade with all barriers
moved Their platform work of and their members would
long ago have sucmbed paranoa for their of
humor The genius that conferred upon the organization the
Industrial Workers of the World have been sad
wit for the fanes suggestion that they go work would
make of them violently i'll.
These remarks apply mostly the leaders of the w w. As
the with agtato they have followers who sincere
loyal and industrious American How these
their membership they observe the antics OF their leaders,
nexpcabe; of those that habit the limbo of the
oed The dexterity with which their nfammatoy ceftans
avoid work their mpuden subversion of law order
disturbances they constantly foment should long ago have dscou
aged and dsgused respectable members they might have had
Salt Lake Herald Republican.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Mrs. Lansdon is
Victim OF Death

Mrs. Jennie Lansdon of 33S ouray
avenue, wife of ]. V. Lansdon passed
away last evening at O'Clock follow
ing long illness. through which she
bore her sufferinss bravely. She
was 6S years of age and had been a
resident of this city TO rthree years.
coming from the east to this city.
Mrs. Lansdon was member of the
Order of the Eastern Star and a val
ued friend to good many local peo-
pie, who had liked her as soon as
they became acquainted with her life.
Mrs. Bennicke, a sister, lives in the
city and the deceased also leaves a
husband.
The funeral will he beld at the
funker & Callahan parlors tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock with interment
in Orchard Mesa cemetery.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
4 Bad Lot.

When charged with being drunk
and disorderly and asked what he had
to say for himself the prisoner gazed
pensiyely at the magistrate. smooth
ed down a remnant Of gray hair, and
said:
Your honor, mans inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands
mourn. I'm not as debased as Swift,
as profligate as Byron. as dissipated
as Poe, as debauched as"
THAT will do" thundered the
magistrate. Ten days. And. officer
take a list of those names and run
'em in. They're as bad lot as he
is London Mail.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
"A TRUE FABLE"

frown scowlng down the pleasant May
And, boysw you believe it t?-every he that day,
Man woman lad and lase-t is queer but it is true
As they him. off a-frowning, too
Next day smile baming down that seame street.
And every single person that it winsomey did meet
Man. woman, lad and lasse,-and it for many mile
logged homewlrd all ahappy wearing each pleasant sne
Now from this little fah is very plain to see
here's one but has influence, whoever he may be-
And you're and Grabbed you make others Grabbed too
And, if you smile Others they will likewise smile on you
-Adelbert T. Caldwell in 1885,
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
The Daily Sentinel
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1913.
OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM

\Y1iILE are talking here in Grand Junction of
w municipal ownership, the Midland trail, industrial
ems The Sentinel believes it is well enough pause
and give consideration to what consider the biggest
and vital problem this city and this valley is facing
today.
Compared with the Importance and the seriousness
of this problem The Sentinel here and contends that
all of the problems and questions have been
sivey discussing for time sink into insgnficance
This is the problem of drainage of the lands of this
valley the prevention of seepage damage and the reca
nation of lands already damaged by seepage
Perhaps you have not heard great deal about this
problem. If not make few inquiries.
The problem can be solved. 1t should be solved
and it be solved.
We repeat The drainage problem is the biggest
thing confronting
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Don Carlos Goes Calling.

This morning The Sentinel office
was favored with a call from Don
Carlos, proprietor of the dog, mon
key and pony show, now at the Park
opera house for a three days stand.
Don Carlos and his wife brought
their dog family with them and the
well-trained little animals ranging
from a cute little bunch of rags
Weighing II pounds to a powerful
stag hound. Wilson" of splendid
lines. The dogs did some tricks at
their masters command and the little
band Of 2 animals then contentedly
ambled down Main street in charge
OF their master and mistress.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Giants and So3
May Play Here

A committee was appointed last
evening at the chamber of commerce
board meeting to investigate the
feasibility of staging game between
the New York Giants and the Chi
cago White Sox in this city shortly
after the close of the worlds series.
These two teams Will make a trip
around tho world and will be offered
good proposition to play here.
Mathewson, Marquard, Cicotte,
Chase. Archer and other famous ball
players will be in the lineup.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

number of ago, when Kentucky presented spea-
Gle of two governors each contendng for supremacy holding
forth in heavily guarded headquarters the north and east pre-
tended be earu shocked and many northern papers
that such thing could only the south and particularly
the dark and bloody ground We waiting for comment
OF nature similar to that made Kentucky directed the great
and Sad old state of New York where governors today
dong business arenas Heaven forbid however that New
orks dsgracefu controversy should end tragic manner the
memorable contest in Kentucky ended
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
WHAT MIGHT HAVE been.

uow fortunate for society that the girls who
IL burned death the Bnghamton Clothing Company
building inmates of fashionable seminary Being only
factory girls and receiving the ordinary which factory girls
and doing presumably the ordinary and duties
which factory girls supposed do their significance unm
portant
also fortunately happens that their places easily be taken
by other factory girls presumably higher than these
girls received for the shufng of fifty would
such increased demand the wages the
But if this fire had burned down fashionable female
and fifty society young ladies had been burned death what
difference that would have The Bulgarian the tariff
discussion the Mexican ebrogo would have faded into
significance in comparison with such national calam-fe
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Miss Mildred Lurvey of the Fair
store has returned from Glenwood
and resumed her duties in the store.
after delightful vacation during
which she visited Glenwood friends
and made many trips to the noun
tains. Miss Martha Mathers of the
same establishment has returned to
work after two weeks rest, spent
very enjoyably.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
SULzER WON'T ABIDE BY
ATTORNEY GENERAL IS EDICT
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Albany, N. Y, Aug. 19.-That
Governor Sulzer will decline to abide
by the opinion of Attorney General
Carmody. declaring Lieutenant Gov
ernor Glynn to be the acting COVER
nor, and will seek a court decision
to test the legality of his impeach-
ment was the general opinion today.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Miss Madge Heron of the Fair
store is enjoying her annual vaca-
tion, and Miss Myrtle Shadow, who
spent two weeks at her home near
De Beque, has returned to her duties
in the suit department. Miss Nell
Stover and Miss Sophia Bohn of the
Fair have also started on their vaca-
tions and anticipate nice time.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Notwithstanding the action of the less than twenty people
voting aye at the Committee of Seventy meeting last night which
acton put the organization on record avorng the propositions
do not believe the citizens of Grand Junction will vote bond
issue for jail this fall
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Distance makes lot of difference the manner in which
great ames tragedies received Five thousand people
killed in riot in Shanghai China, few days ago. and
yet wager the dispatch given moments thought by
than every hundred readers Ten thousand people
pershed recently in the from tidal wave and yet
got but small display in American papers We all have be
brought close the great caame of life before shocked
impressed by them.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Mayor Thomas NJ Todd declared last night at the meeting
ut the court house that he did believe is to spend
$500 annually have the affairs this CITY managed IF The
Sentinel had made such this at any time during
the past four years if had said did not believe if was
necessary to spend much 5000 this purpose
Mayor odd and whole lot of other people would have yelled
knocAet! knocker 1t Just depends on who's saving what
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Two OF the abes eloquent and best delivered speeches
we have heard delivered before the Seventy were
those delivered last night by Mrs Fisk Mrs Hinton If there
had been more talks by these ladies and less talk by of the
they did prove
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
To go East Soon.

Mrs A. b. Cornish. mother Of Mrs
Charles f. SETTER, will leave soon
for Ralston, Nebr., near Omaha. to
spend the fall and winter with her
son, Rev. Harold Cornish, who was a
recent visitor in the city.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
shncklcford in Gnnnison.

Judge Sprigg Shackleford, is in
Gunnison this week to act as counsel
in several cases to be tried in court
here. He is one of the most able
jurists on the western slope.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Mrs. Talbert to Denver.
Mrs. V. C. Talbert left last evening
for Denver to visit friends and rela-
tives for few days
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Home Tonight.

Homo TOnlRht.
Mrs. A. C. Newton, daughter Miss
Ruth Newton, and Harold Aupperle
will be home this evening from their
weeks stay on Pinon mesa. A. c..
Newton went up yesterday to bring
them down.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Mrs. A. =. Wadsworth, who has
been in St Mary's hospital for short
time was able to be taken home yes
terday.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Mother of Mis-. Smith.

Mrs. Phoebe C. Potts, mother of
Mrs. Charles A. Smith arrived today
at noon from the east to visit the
Smith family for short time. She
stopped off on her way to the Pacific
coast.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

The killing of the United Mine Workers organizer at Trim
dad Saturday likely precptae bitter and long
coal miners strike in the southern Colorado coal fields Let us
hope that every effort will be avoid such strike Colo
RADIO has already had too many.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

That Richard Dowrey of the effective and en-
husasc boosters Grand Junction has by the fine
work he did behalf of the Midland trail his travels
through the east, north and middle
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

The last foreght hours have witnessed the coming heavy
and life giving rains the drought stricken portions of Kansas
Never rains more welcome.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Mr.. and Mrs. L. r.. Heflin and fam
lily returned this noon from De Beque
where they have been for short
time.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

From reports just received the congressman and have
given up the idea of adjournment have the
conclusion that President Wilson when he declared
that the soons had remain Washington and wood and
they sending home for their winter clothes.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Chambers Here.

Chambers Here.
L. Z. Chambers, a prominent PuF-
dy mesa rancher is in the city on
business matters. He is a school di-
rector in his district.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

The escape of Harry Thaw from the Maeawan asylum for
the criminal the sensational of the week
and naturally has attracted international attention We be-
eved Thaw but the other hand believe he has
been punished sufficiently by his years imprisonment and
do believe justice will have been defeated he is
captured.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
Going Northwest. u.

Going Northwest.
l., p. Nissen, prominent and we'll
liked rancher of the Pomona section,
leaves tomorrow for the Pacific north
west to make his home. He will be
greatly missed.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Russell Welch, well known local
youth has gone to Pallsade TO work
for the Grand Junction Fruit Grow
ers' association.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Securing the setting aside of the Hannah Greek watershed
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

The recently issued by the three Grand Junction
banks and convincing index the sodness
and strength of those three fine banking houses
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19
SENTIMENT OLD and new

Things Worth While Picked Along the Way Pens
lLong Ago Laid Down Prom Days.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Things looking much brighter for the Midland trail just
now than they looked a few weeks ago.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Kerp flies out OF thslr eyes at cost.
.Frcd Mantey.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-19

Sentinel wsnt-ads Get Results.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-10-06
MORE TO BE FASHIONABLE.

MORE silks will be used a great
deal this Fall and Winter. Moire
effects are applied not only to such
lightweight fabrics as chiffon tai
fetas-w which, by the way, are show
ing more l'fe-but also to medium
weights suitable for combination
with other expensive silks. and to
heavier weights for separate skirts,
coats and tailor-made suits.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-10-06
GENERAL NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH
MUST CLEAR HIMSELF.

- ''t ~ =.'- "a
ID. t.eem" OF The Impeachment
H.a. H..a Is now in progress in thu
state senate Is u.iaNorao.e To 6 "
'rnor s"']rr 'h,r- thr arona.
hG'E thai ho TH. lit addition n
losing his Once. H" charged with
PERJURY. This Has mad" lain todaE
ty aHe e; .hs Murphy faction. Who
ma+o Oh" boast that tn, governor
RuH.# find himself in the peurcn-
tiary i he failed - clear himself Of
the charge ues pending AGAINST him
Suffers enemies are determined t,
s.ar, criminal proceedings The mo-
a.e.. The Hr. s.,- case is term mated
sut some y.ry inter, s-ing disclosures
ave promised.
The attorneys for Governor Sui
-. scored g5Ia' This Afternoon
whom Chic. Justice fuellau ruled
aza.ass .he admission of evidence
which would ima3iea.c the defendant
zz say r-ssvg.ls II, .rado al
sectional LEGISLATION in return for
y - on ne #ira-r urinary h.H
NEARING a CLOSE.
LOS ANGELES. Cal Sent. %
The trial ef Millionaire Bixbv. on
~ cahreg Of contributing to the
delinquency a. numerous Young
Girls was concluded late tn : after.
rooH. the greater part of the day
-atrr ,5kFn Nh with fbp final ar
sgUsa'z- tha attorneys OIL both sides
naaHg2 as4H4.. addresses to the
Jury.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-10-06

.fsn i Indicated hy tho issuance If
order. for the r7nys,,,,,t ,f s.,..r,I
-.,,,.,4vi.. ~ fo,an,r,. md r,,-,f~y
ill.,. r,,rl..- ,.-,,.r,,t. rs -.
~. No.. ,,,r,,,,, -, ri p,.,, -, H.,
.I....,f .rains and =, ur ~, ',,,,
~. -, In - if.,rs,.,,..i a,,,,,.
H.. ,..'.,t,r,' -. -, l,,,,. a.
I'M, ,n 'La ,r,,ns ,irc.fy o ~ 49,
-
Win ecenr At CLOSING
-.
HAN h.'\' i9''' sep ne
. losing oil iH' resorts on 'h' hdF"a'I
'dS' last ''-". "a> accom- h''i'u
ny on on the "'l'">' scenes o. dis
oFdeT and IaNi'sShe~s Witnessed n
MS CITY Sih,e me iheilioi ,I' eaflh-
Quake ana ire oil I'''- me ponce
We're utterly fo"e'l,,s 10 Cone win
the situation. tn" holdHPS. iIIhtS ana
other NoiatloAs oil me Ia" occur,
lug IN sue" huI"n'F that "d'h eon'"
"'- ~ KEEP ol 5he"''
me diS'r 81 was GRO" u"d Win
'1oaS"'tdN oil curious RESIDENTS OF
other portions q. me CITY, ana the
Jr""a"i streets aAd resorts supplied
he opportunity Tor IaWlesshess
Nhlrh The tarharE Coast habItles
&c no. SO" 10 taNf ADVANTAGE OF
All ot the oJee'iohahie dlVes are
apN closed. anu ofdeF ms pseh
res ORE. although IL was early morn
= hefore he orgy came to an end.
sIXBY NOT GUILTY.
Los ANGELES Cal, Sept 60
The jury in the case of Millionaire
Rixhy, charged with contributing 70
the delinquency of young girls. re,
turned a verdict of not guilty AGAINST
the prominent defendant today AMI
The prisoner was discharged from
custody.
As 4 sequel 70 what probably vas
enc of The most seasat onal trials
ever he'd in This city. the charges
Il hlaekmail khich have been pre-
rrei against his arcusers by BiXby
viii lie taken mp by the grand jury
and thorough investigation will he
made Bixbv has anaousced thar he
VII also do little detective work
Oh his own account. and startling
exposures are promised.
DON'T WANT JEROME.
ALBANY. y. Y. Scpr. au.-Dfs=
satisfaction over the employment of
former District ATTORNEY Jerome as
special attorney for the state in the
Thaw case found expression today
in ,ormal demand upon Acting
& vernon G1ynn 10 cgmpcl the al
sornev-genpral to take pers nal
charge Of the proceedings.
Gfynn stated tbs afternoon that
The Alaska citizen., 1913-10-06
ONE ON THE LAWYER,

There are some legal quest oua
that witness cannot answer by a
simple yes or no. and a browbeating
lawyer will sometimes take adyan-
tage of this fact One of tn S class
was once demanding that a witness
answer certain question in the
negative or affirmative.
Il cann-t do it" said the witness.
There are some questions that
cannot be answered by a yes or
no, as any one knows.
Il defy you to give an example
to the court Numbered the law
yer.
The retort came in a flash Are
you still beating your wife,"
A sickly grin spread over the law
yers face and he sat down.