Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS TILS The dry bencher in Toocle feel pretty good do they not was ai Ucd of L Slrasburg at the White houae yes tertlay Yes they do but hold on come to think of 1 they dont On of them was complaining to me yesterday Says he The grain crop promidus so good nU over on account of the rains that the abundance Is sure to cut the price down and we wont be In It even with successful dry farming to help us outCrops out-Crops are all right In 1 Tooelo except ex-cept the apricots which In exposed places were badly nipped by the late frosts But of apples and peaches there will De > the greatest abunJanes Our grapes look firstrate There Is I quite I a variety of them and o will make some wine this fall that Is It the frosts do not come before the grapes I I are ripe j Our wool men are feeling comfortable 1 comforta-ble I know ono man who only this week sold 1GOOO pounds at IS 1 CPMS But buyers ate getting scarce they 1 ar not Hying around as they usually Iare this time oC year The high prices I demanded by growers appear to be I frightening thorn away I l > 9 II I I Cpl Joseph Van Buron general j I agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship t 1 and two other tranriPaeifie ateamshlp oonipuniOH at lloiiKkmg was at tho I Kenyon yesterday en route Eurtt t uvoKiid the world Col Van BUrN aIn a-In the LIMSM of 7C nt Yale and the I pitcher of its m freshman ball nine but Blnce leaving college has spent moat I j Gf his time In tin Orient where his father Gen Van Buren was United States ConsulX3eneral I at Yokohama He Is well versed In Philippine affairs Our Government and said yesterday Govetl1mcnt mado a mistake in ever stopping at Manila u sinking the Spanish fleet 1anltl after lnldnb 1Ct but now that they fro there there Is no cscauo from tho responsibility assumed In remaining It I does organized opposition As to oppositon exist and In 0 very active form notwithstanding not-withstanding what Gen Otis SaD I This fighting will be carried on anyhow any-how until the Presidential election be 1 J cause the Filipinos firmly believe ilmt I If Bryan is elected the United Stntfs I will withdraw from the islands If Mc Klnley Js I elected it means an end of I organized rebellion but them Is I sun Ito i-to bo desultory lighting for years income in-come I was at Manila In November I hist and for a fact the Fillolnos had the United Stales forces cooped up in l Manila and this continued inUl the new volunteer reinforcements came Del victory has been overrated over-rated The Spanish fleet was a lot of old tubs which the Olympla alone could have cleaned out there were no I mint In Manila harbor and the Spanish Span-ish ships were not In prime condition because the money Intended for these things was stolen by the Spanish ofll daIs At lie I same time Dewey took his chances as he did not know hut there wore mines I there t and It I In hero 1 that ho mndo his reputation Had it been Sampson he would have waited outside the harbor and taken no II chances Dewey also acted in a very diplomatic manner utter the fight Col Van Buron does not think much of the Filipino cither as a citizen or man and brother as ho Is naturally lazy shiftless treacherous and cruel Mrs Van Buren is accompanying her husband on his trip t C t There are very few buyers of wool I in our part of tho State said H AVe A-Ve tmolth o Richfield at the Cullon yesterday and the local market Is I light So there Is an immense amount stacked up near Gunnison until the I growers get the prices they want for they do not seem to care much at prcs i ent whether they hell or not As long as there is no prolonged wet spell the I i wool will keep all right as it Is care fully racked but It will probably be disposed of befoie summer is fairly on The same story as is told elsewhere about tho rains and consequent good I crops can be repeated relative to our county and the farmers are all happy I 13 F1 Rlter the wellknown Logan 1 1 druggist was In the city yesterday on one of his business trips He says all 1 the fears expressed early In the season sea-son as to there1 being t scarcity of water wa-ter In Cache valley this year has been dissipated The dry farmers will do I > as well if I not better than ever before I and the men who have farms down I 1 under the canals will have all the water wa-ter necessary to Insure good crops I i do not know said Mr Rlter whon i i the outlook for good crops in Cache valley were better than they are at I the present time Everybody is happy and contented I have been up through the southern part of Idaho too o late and I am glad to say that 1 found the same conditions there There was a time when there was good reason to become alarmed and this was caused largely by the extraordinarily light fall of snow but this was followed by I i other conditions that more than com I I pensated for the lack of the beautiful I As a result the people of Cache valley j I are roosting on the topmost limb As to politics Youll excuse me That is another story and has 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