Show LONGSTREET HERE S Veteran of the Civil War Is In Salt Lake IDS PRESENT POSITION l 4 SUCCEEDED WADE APTON AZ COMMISSIONER OF RAILWAYS Making n Tour of the Bonds of the WcstRcro of tile Confederacy Is I Now a Rep blicanThe Party Will Proceed On a Tour of Inspection In-spection Over the Central Pacific General James Longstreet is touring in a special car the country which 40 years ago as almost beyond the civilized civil-ized world There now there are railroads rail-roads and evidences of thrift there were formerly only trails leading from the sHeut and forbidden frontier region It was then that General Longstreet as a military otlicer of the United States was familiar with the characteristics of the intermountain and coast region and the Mexican frontier What the general is now observing is a revelation revela-tion to hIm He had no prevIous com prehEmsion of the Immensity of the great west Its wonderful development and the boundless posibUities of the future fu-ture To hIm the transition Is phenomenal phenom-enal THE GENERALS PARTY General Longstreet as the United States commissioner of railways Is I making an extended tour or the trans Mississippi region He arrived in the city last evening over the RIo Grande Western In enion Pacific special car 014 whIch formerly did duty for the Of ftcials of the Utuh division In General Gen-eral Longstrects party are his charming charm-ing young wIfe Colonel C C Sanders I wife daughter and mother and Mrs A 2 1 I t 1 p a i I p 1 I r I GENEBL 3LES LONGSTRET Jt H Hunt all of Gainesville Gal Ga-l mer Shannon of Elbezton Ga and Luis V Heskell of South Carolina Mr Haslell is the generals assistant THE TRIP or INSPECTION The party left Washington on July 30 and hrts been journeying leisurely over the landgrant and ndaided railroads west of the Iisissippi river as far JS Cheyenne From the latter point the generals party went to Denver Den-ver and for the past ten days they have beEn visIting Colorados delightful peasure resorts and observing the lines of the Denver Rio Gande railroad From GJenwood Springs they came direct di-rect to alt Iale General Longstreets part will devote de-vote torlay to seeing thc sights of Salt Lale City and indulging in the novel experience of bathing in the Dead sea of America On Tuesday the journey westward will hC resumed by special train From Ogden to San FrancIsco the inspection trip will be made by daylight Two of the Central Pacific ffidals will accompany the general on the trip From San Francisco the southern route will be taken on the return re-turn te Washington THE CENTRAL PACIFIC SETTLEMENT SETTLE-MENT The Central Pacific railroad from Ogden Og-den to San Francisco is the only remaining re-maining one of the bondaided and landTlnted roads which have not been cciuir d to discharge their long stioding obligations to the government The eiOl Pacific and other road vllcsk relations with the government jarc similar hare effected satisfactory Fttlcmcts and are now operated on acrganized basis A sale of the Cen tra Pacific under foreclosure proceedings proceed-ings is pending but It is difficult to definitely forecast the result because of the many and conflicting Interests involvEd General Longstreets inspection inspec-tion of the Central Pacific will he carefully I care-fully made and his report of the roads physic condition the resources and poSsibilities of the tributary country will be anxiously awaited by those most directly teristed The generals rec ommtnclations as to what ppicy the gocrnmc1t should pursue with respect to a settlement of the debt owing by the I railroad will have great weight with the adminIstrathn at WashIngton THE DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER I General Longstre is a national character char-acter He is one of the few Republicans I lIcans of the southern confederacy I President McKinley appointed hIm to the position of government commissioner I commis-sioner of railroads succeeding Wade I Hampton The distinguished soldIer ad statesman although 77 years of age Is a wonderfully wen preserved I man He is as robust and active as many an ordinary man Is at 50 The ImttIescarred veteran Is the hero of two Wars In the war with Mexico he as severely wounded and while sta toned at Fort Defiance New Mexico the war or the rebellion broke out He joined the confederacy and was Gen elal Robert E Lees righthand man hi tact he was lieutenant general 1n rhe confederate army At the battle Df Gettysburg General Longstreet was I to i fl I the central figure on the southern sIde r HE GLORIES OF THE LATE WAR i I General Lon street Is one of those I i patriotic Americans who glories In the I achievements of the Unie States In the ate war with Spain He sees new i glory added to the hag and rejoIces In I 7 the knowledge that this nation has I rIsen in the estimation of all the powI ers and at the same time the spirIt of I patrIotism was rekIndled at home The I i general believes the war will rove a I henefudlon to ourselves and to the tm tire vor1d now that the destiny yr this i natIon is soon to be unfolded for the I good of all mankind on thIs globe V r |