Show I WANT NEXT SESSON S Several Cities Laying Wires t for Stock Convention S 4 S i CHICAGO TO MAKE HOT FIGHT wt j t1b iWill Send a Trainload of Delegates Ito iAI I-to Work for the Prize Omaha and i I i 4 St Joe Are Going to Make Special I t Effort Means Big Attendance for J I It Salt Lake Meeting Largest in History His-tory of Association rive Hundred I from Oregon Washington and I ttr Idaho Arc Booked I I S The contest over the place for holding hold-ing the convention of the National I At iilAcStock association in 1002 gives I promise of being as Interesting as the I r14 debates against State Inspection and I the proposed oleomargarine bill or the I arid land question j rit Already there are half a dozen candidates I can-didates for this honor At the convention I vention at Fort Worth last January Chicago Kansas City St Joseph and Salt Lake were the leading citiesin the T contest The contest beureen the three I Eastern cities grew so animated that It became not a question of securing 1 the convention but one of preventing rt the other fellow from getting it It vas then that the convention was t given to Salt Lake City The candidates i candi-dates Avill make no mistakes of this Dhz iSL character this year Each city will present her claim outline the attractions attrac-tions In glowing terms and then make the light upon this showing irrespectiVe LAh Irre-spectiVe of the claims of others So far Kansas City Buffalo New York STIrS Helena Mont Chicago Omaha and St Louis are the candidates I S S while Denver will not object I to taking care of the big meeting if FF offered to her Kansas City Omaha I a5 Chicago St Joseph and St Louis in e15 JnAltlng the convention will lay particular I par-ticular stress upon being tho greatest t llAestock market in the world and i of easy distance from all parts of the Union In addition lo this Kansas VA City will otter as a slue attraction one I i of the greatest combination sales of D purebred live stock ever held In America Amer-ica Chicago will repeat her International ttl Interna-tional estock exposition Omaha and St Joseph will gie fine stock LT shows with a variety of highclass entertainments 4t1 en-tertainments Denver may offer to repent re-pent the famDus barbecue of 189S If DEFr this Is dono Mr E 11 Grubb of Carbondale 1 Car-bondale Cob has ollerod to provide tr from his Mount Sopris ranch free for the occasion one carload ot elk deer z bear mountain sheep and other venison c 5 veni-son and one carload of hard cider The Tj PanAmerican congress will be In progress UASj pro-gress at Buffalo N Y next year and besides this It is one of the great l astern br ast-ern markets She will make the argument argu-ment that tho convention never has B been held in the far East and no bet rd icr place can he selected than Buffalo on this occasion when stockmen from all over the world Avill be there HC That the attendance at the coming Fa convention will be the largest In the history of the association is now an iri5 established fact The secretary of the association has received Information that a special train of delegates will O como from Texas another from Denver Den-ver with the Colorado delegation one Dct from Kansas City and St Joseph with the delegations from several of the purebred associations and the representatives repre-sentatives of the livestock exchanges I I and stockyards A special train will leave Chicago with more than 100 delegates OTf dele-gates from the exchange Stockyards 1 company stock associations and Hon cOhE Mortimer Levering Ipin AVIII B Powell Pow-ell N H Biggs and 11 H West and Dr G Howard Davlson at the head of the Indiana Pennsylvania Ohio and tr New York delegations This train will ia pick up the delegations at Qmaba and Lincoln and run direct to Sail Lake via 1 Denver Another special will beTh be-Th run from the Dakotas over the Bur llngtonB new air line to Denver The champion delegation so far reported Is S the Oregon AVashlngton and Idaho rt special Over 500 cattle and shcapmen have applied for accommodations and Gii It may be necessary to run the special S in iwo or three sections lo accommodate accommo-date the crowd In addltlon the special I spe-cial trains there wilt he a dozen or 4 more special cars of stockmen from Wyoming Montana and elsewhere and I i I of railroad mcials desiring to cultivate I ± the friendship of tho men Avjio make it Elr possible for their directors to meet the I tct regular semiannual dividends I tpi The GoAcrnors of the various States h ritt are taking unusual Interest In the I La meeting and are appointing their delegate t dele-gate J3tl rge and generally calling the attention the appointees to the importance S im-portance of attending the meeting Notices No-tices of the following appointments j were received at headquarters yesterday Fj D day diva tc Pennsylvania Mitchell Harrison of 1 Philadelphia Simon ODonncl I Pitts ii burg Thomas Shrlvcr Philadelphia I Soqth Carolina Col J H Whorton T W Is rWaterlooi Col A AAT Love Chester Maj A T Sm > the CliarlcHtpn St Montana T E Collins Helena M < c R Milncr Malta Conrad Kohrs IlLIr Helena i Hl1cssceHoralio Bprry Hcnder bonvlllc Frank Buford Somcrvlllc j William Pope Plkcvllle j I S tZ Michigan AV H Watson Three J Oak H H A Daniels Alva J H Brown Battle Creek ic Kansas T M Potter Peabody Y Myrcs Sablnl H W McAfee To Iclcn New YorkIsaac V Baker Jr Com I utock Carl S Burr Sr Commack I John Dwight Dryden d t Loul laT1aDr John P Scott Shreveport Shreve-port OrtWcat Virginia C Gist AVellsburg D A Arnold Hldgevllle William Hall Freemansburg There seems to be a slight lack of I Information among stockmen In remote dlbulotfl as to entertainment that will be provided for visitors who como ct1i i to Salt Lake City for the convention The following letter from Mr J C lIE ong a prominent stockman of Al5 Canon City Colo Is one of these letters let-ters of inquiry Dear SlrThcrc are several stockmen iJl stock-men from here figuring on attending 3 tho fourth annual convention ot the I National LiveStock association who would like some Information in regard l5 to what privileges the visitors will get c at the different entertainments the people peo-ple expect to give the visitors As you know It is Impossible for all to go as 0 delegates but when there we do not feel like being left out from our party Any Information you can give me will b kindly received Mr Lan chairman of the arrangements ur arrange-ments I committee and Mr J C ° Maekay chairman of the entertainment its s14 committee have replied to all these I 4rP0 letters to tho effect that so far ns the S pntmainments provided by the citizens Tlfr citi-zens arc concerned all lsltorfl will hoAC the same ontrce as the delegates 1ji The only distinction that will be made ji1 AAlll be In tho seats occupied In the convention hall during the sessions of thf convention On these occasions all tho eutK on the lower floor will be re I Bf i inl for delegates only hut the upperS upper-S floor will be open to visitors These rnmmUtoes desire this Information circulated 1 cir-culated an widely possible AJiothcr important ttcr which per FOOP Inslrlng to sittend the convention flmuld not overlook is I tho necessity ot informing the ticket agent when pur > cc I chasing tickets that they are delegates I I There Mill then bp no MfMouIty In so I curing the reduced rates or confusion I Avhen the Joint agent In his I city is requested I re-quested cate to execute the return certlfl I I |