Show CATTLEMENS CONGRESS It Will Open Today In the Grant Opera House General Gleanings The great Cattlemens congress will convene to day in the Grand opera hoase Every passenger pas-senger train that ari ed yesterday brought in delegates to what promises to be the greatest I meeting of cattlemen over held in the west Iho Union Pacific passenger from tho east which arrived at 1115 a m brought In fully thirty delegates mostly from Omaha and Kan gas City The Rio Grande Western did fully as well and brought in a large number last evening even-ing Tho attendance is going to far overreach the anticipations ol the committee on arrangements arrange-ments W E Skinner of the South Omaha Union Stock Yards company arrived a tUy in adVance Vance of the delegates from his city and at once fitted up elegant headquarters in the Reed hotel and across the entrance to the room is seen in broad glittering letters let-ters South Omaha Headquarters Colonel SUinncr is the cher or the delegation and Tery efficiently does ho officiate in that capacity Ho is a rustler from the word go and takes upon himself to see that none of the boys suffer for the want of any luxury ihe only fault the members of the delegation could find wth him was that he had on hand a larger supply of Ogden river water than any thing else unless it was cigars The colonel assured them however as soon as the cigars and water were exhausted he would see that stimulants of a different color would be coming forthwith Among the South Omaha delegation are W E Skinner A H Lee and P K Short of the Union Stock Yards company William Under word If M Carpenter R W Carey Sol hopper hop-per F H Babbitt James Foley R Gilchrist Colonel Savage and Ab Waggoner commission merchants The headquarters of the Kansas City delegation delega-tion were net fully established last evening but by this morning arrangements will be com pie Among the Kansas City crowd aro > Eugene Bust J R Staller Frank Graybill Franc Cooper Lylo Lannon J H Waite Charles IV Black J D Tough L S Jones J C Scroggin O B Tower and L P Luther the majority vbom are commission merchants The committees on reception met in the majors office yesterday afttrnoon and partially dec ded upon a programme for today The meeting will be called to order at 11 a m and a temporary organization effected Judco J H MacMillan will deliver the ai dress of welcome The numerous committees will be appointed and an adjournment tat en until 130 p mOn m-On cfm enlnc in the afternoon the committees will render their report and a permanent organization effected After which Governor A L Thomas will deliver an address At 3 oclock p m an adjournment will betaken be-taken and the delegate1 will go on an excur son to the Hot spnngs where they will remain until after dinner in the evening and return to the city In tho meantime the programme for Saturday Satur-day will bo made up XOTES Governor A L Thomas will arrive from Salt Lake over the Rio Grande Western at 10 oclock this morning Several delegates went to Salt Lake last evening a 1 will return this morning Delcga J from Oregon Montana Idaho Nevada Wnshington Wyoming Colorado South Dakota Kansas and Nebraska have arrived The Rio Grande Western and the Burlington l Missouri have offered the South Omoha delegation dele-gation the choice of their routes The Colorado Midland will coney the Kansas City delegation to Denver The visitors attended the theatre last evening even-ing and witnessed The Power of the Press A Captain B M Spivey superintendent of the jf Ogden Street railway tendered the visitors the usa of special cars and gave them a ride overall over-all the electric lines At the end of the journey the guests gave the efficient superintendent three cheers of thanks for his hospitality Chief H W Rhodes will give an exhibition run of the fire department at 1030 oclock today to-day to be witnessed by delegates to tho cattle mens congress At 1 oclock an exhibition of the water works will be given at the corner of the Reed hotel lie Didnt Pav His Board Late Wednesday night W P McCoy was arrested ar-rested on complaint of Messrs Heath Best proprietors of tho Broom hotel charging him with obtainng board and lodging with Intent to cheat and defraud He was given a hearing but the prosecution failing to prove any of the charges preferred against the defendant he Tas discharged He is owing the proprietors of the hotel about len months in arrearages Probate Orders In tho estate of Ellen Goodell deceased a decree de-cree was issued for the final discharge of C Bert Goodell administrator In the estate and guardianship of Evert T Goodell a decree was made for the settlement of the annual account of the guardian C Bert Goodell A Masonic Meeting k The Masons of Ogden held the largest meetIng 54 meet-Ing ever held of tho members of the order last evening The members of tho grand lodge of Utah were presenVand the Master Masons de I i I gree was bestowed upon George V Schratnm the ceremonies being conducted by Grand eect fnco gt g I Lecturer Clem Schramm AboutIifty came up I from Salt Lake on a special train that left the I capital at 615 and arrived forty five minutes later They returnedhome by a special train after the work had been performed I General G1eanh irs I Real estate transfers yesterday were 5255103 In the absence of Mayor Turner in Denver Major J R Elliott is officiating as mayor Kents military nand will give a Mayday ball in Lester Park pavilion next Monday evening The ladies of the Presbyterian church will open up a bazar in the Grand opera house building build-ing today Ben E Rich returned yesterday from Fort Bridger Wyoming where he Is interested in a canal scheme W A e McMillen went to Evanston last evening eve-ning to meet delegates coming to todays convention con-vention on the morning train A large cattlemens congress streamer was placed across the btrest from the opera house to the city hall yesterday afternoon The Power of the Press was played td a large house at the Grand last evening The I play cave general satisfaction It wfil co acain tonight The delegates to the cattlemens congress con-gress attended in a body eighty seven tickets were furnished them by the reception committee commit-tee C E Brainard oNtbe firm of Bralnard Bitter returned jesterday from Iowa where ho went to induce settlers to come west and settle on lands watered by the Cache Valley canal in Idaho Another excursion of land seekers wilt leave Ogden on Monday for Ban croft the new town recently located in that vicinity Mr Bralnard reports a large delegation delega-tion to be here by that time from the east Iho contract for the building of the ditch was let to Messrs Corey Brothers of this city who sublet sub-let part of their contract to parties at Spanish Fork The latter passed through the city with teams and seventyfive menyesierday |