Show HOTEL GOSSIP Senator A 0 Smoot of Provo was at the Walker yesterday The senato saidPolitics Politics Is very dull down our way We are giving our attention to agricul tune nnd the raising of sugar boats The latter Industry is a very profitable one and I think Utah has a great 1w tune in the cultivation of sugar beets We have demonstrated that it Is ai great success and whenever we put water on land we can raise the finest of beets and also fruits What we want now is the demonstration of arto sian water If we can get saUsfactory flows the bench lands that we cannot irrigate now will prove among the best and richest let the state Kvery section of the state that has ever re1 cetved water has demonstratet the fact that no better soil exists than the arid soil of Utah All it wants is wateri with plenty of it We can raise thai finest crops In the world espeeially fruit I I handle a brewery of my ownsaI F Krug of Omaha at the Knutaford yesterday The morning papersgof me as a representative of the Anheu4 serBusch brewery but suchis not thi case I have been engaged in the manufacture man-ufacture of beer about forty yearsbut I am getting old and I leave the details to my sons I first visited Salt Laks City twenty years ago and I notew1tIz interest the vast improvement thtthe city has made since I first saw It Butte is undergoing a new said J T Carroll of that great mining camp at the Kautsford yesterday I am In the lumber business and we havol alt we can do to supply the demand There are no extensive buildings bein erectel but the miner Is beginning to erect his own home and I should judge fully 700 buildings of this character are going up Of course our population is on the iacrease and you can look to Butte as a permanent mining camp Our Chautauqua was a grand success suc-cess said J G Treziso of Boulder Cob at the Knutsford yestenday The attendance was very large and one of the biggests days we had was the day President George Q Cannon of your city addressed us There must have been fully 6000 people to listen to his speech and it was a subject that was of rare interest He spoke of ploaeec days and the tribulations that the plo neers had to undergo in their estward journey It was highly appreciated and the oldtimers present found it very apropos The Chautauqua has been a great success and we shalt build about 100 additional cottages for ness year G G Russell owner of the hotel at Helper who is interested in the variouSt dining rooms and lunch stands of the 1110 Grande Western was at the Kenyon yesterday Helper Is all right and business down there is very good said Mr Russell We have had an excellent excel-lent hotel business and I shall erect several additonal cottages for the corn ins season We are getting to be quite a summer resort In Toklo we have one paper published pub-lished in the English language and I believe that there are three in Yokohama Yokoha-ma said K Oku at the Knutsfordyes terday We are a progressive people in Japan and keep posted with what Is going on Japan deeply interested in the Philippine wan and wants to seethe see-the United States retain the islands China and Japan are very friendly ants we do not look with pleasure upon any encroachment upon Chinese territory As to Russia I dont care to talk or express ex-press myself M Oku is a government official attached at-tached to the department of agricut tune and commerce but denies that bin trip has any official significance audi asserts that It is one of pleasure only E Parker a merchant of Hastings Neb is at the Walker and brags about the tremendous crops of his state James Gebest a prominent merchant and sugar planter of New Iberia La Is a guest at the Kenyon Hon William I Roylaace of Springi ville is at the Kenyon J H Droste of St Louis a pllgnini for the Hamilton Brown Sioe company com-pany is stopping at the Kenyon Swan 0 Nielson a prominent merchant mer-chant of Fairviewis at the Cullen |