Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I The fruit crop is good all over the State remarked State Horticulturist Thomas Judd of Sl George at the Cullen Cul-len yesterday But just at this date I can only speak moro particularly of I the southern part of the State from which I have just come I may be said that the size of Individual fruits I are not large because of the prolific bearing of the trees which are well bent down under a load of Innumerable 1 medium and smallsized fruits Had there been a less general supply the fruits would be larger individually I I do not know that the apricot I crop was so badly hurt by the late frosts there will certainly be a good yield in the Dixie country Of almonds I 1 I there will be a fine yield both in quantity quan-tity and quality The cotton crop promises I prom-ises to be excellent We have 0 mill down in Washington county where the raw material is handled and we make 0 good deal of batting considerable of which is sold to Z C M I In this cityThe The weaiher has not been oppressively oppres-sively hot In the southern tier as It has up this wa rand there is no drought in progress So we will not burn up The general outlook for harvest time Is encouraging We could stand a railroad I rail-road in that country very well and live in hopes that one will some day come that way t 6 There has been a good deal of talk as to whether an antelope is i of the deer or of the goat family remarked William Wil-liam Root of Laramie at the Cullen I 1 and it may be some time before the question is satisfactorily settled The antelope sheds Its horns like the deer but very quickly and they grow again very fast They are an interesting anImal an-imal and their nature and history are being lookod into bystudents of natural history 6 < The moral tone of San Francisco has been raisdd 50 per cent in twenty years remarked Secretary H J McCoy Mc-Coy of the Y f C A there at the Knutsford yesterday and the pace of evangelical l efforts is steadily increasing I increas-ing Great ahd successful efforts were made by the association among the troops while so many of them were quartered at the Presidio and 12000 was expended In this line within three i i months We had nineteen tents and 200 I people actively engaged In the work I The result was quite a religious awakening awak-ening among the soldiers and the good seed was scattered everywhere Then the general moral tone throughout the State Is being Increased and California will before long stand high among the moral commonwealths Why In San Francisco the Y M Chas A C-has a building costing half b million dollars and local Christian work has < been systematized so that there is everything to hope for in the future What the association needs Jn Salt I Lake Is 0 building Much more can be done by an association having a building build-ing than where there is none o o Roosevelt was forced into accepting the VicePresidential nomination against his will and this is the fact whether disputed or not said E A Oliver of the Yonkers N Y Statesman States-man yesterday at the Knutsford He was swept in by popular acclamation and found himself landed there before he was really aware of it But he will be as lively a VIcePresidpnt as the country over had and no one believes that Roosevelt wU be shelved and subjected sub-jected to the usual fate of VicePresi dents He Is a very magnetic man draws every one ho meols right to him There is no danger of Tam manys running up a Democratic majority ma-jority in New York city that will come anywhere near touching the big Republican Re-publican majority that the State will come down to the Harlem river wIho 6 i > 6 Judge McConnell has returned from tho Raven mine and is at the Knuts Lord He says the mine is steadily producing pro-ducing and shipments will shortly begin I be-gin to Chicago Wool shipments In that section aro lively and the ruling price H15 cents Had contracts been mado last fall the growers couRl have got 20 centsandus late as January 17 cents But the offers were not taken advantage of The clip will soon be I I all shipped out The weather has been very hot around Colton Just a In this I city 4 6S Two prominent Alsatian merchants N and E Bernhelm of Shanghai and HOngkong are at the Kenyou en route to Europe Mi Bernhelm of Shanghai Shang-hai remarked last night his disbelief I 1 that tho Chinese would really fight They are not a military people he 1 I I i I j > aid I and there are enough Intorna tloinil troops on Chinese soil now to hAndle the situation when they can gel to Peking I seems to me aa though the Empress had run away and carried tho various legatlonu oi with her to tho new capital but I do not think the row will last very long although al-though there are nom elements of uncertainty I un-certainty about It A protectorate by I I the rowers 13 1 what will be the result j j and the Empress will be deposed JI J I |