Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I 7 Mcssre T W Bates Bell and other capltallsta interested In the Idaho Midland Mid-land railroad wore In our country just I before I came down said Chris Peter 1 < hen of Bay Horse yesterday at the Walker and from expressions they I 1 gave out It wart plain that they are I pleased with the pro pects ot raffle L along the proposed line In fact this wus so marked that our people are now I I firmly convinced that the road will be a sure go Tho successful pUon oC the Mid i land scheme will doa great deal for I Cuater county for t means SG per tonI ton-I on orolnto Butte wlidreas there Is a great deal of ore wo cannot do any I I ihinrr with now but leave alone for want of means of liaullns it to the Ism I-sm lters There ia a greatdeal ot copper cop-per ore In our district but the parent mass of It will not smelt under processes pro-cesses now known and only the higher grades can be prollliibly handled at I present Wt have lilghgrade sliver ores running run-ning up to SCOO and 700 and In particular I partic-ular instances even higher and there I are also silverlead ores assaying 5SO In i silver and 10 per cent lead The agricultural j agri-cultural and Block interests of the 1 country are In excellent shape and tho country Is going to be pretty well sot I tied u > > I > O A i The Increase In bicycle manufactures i iTor the current year will bo about 10 I i per cent over last years production remarked George M Scott oC Waltham yesterday at the Kenyon There are some lifts manufacturers In this country coun-try and tho total output for 1S99 could bardly have been less than a million wheels making tho total number in the country about G000000 Tho export trade Is becoming quite an Item In American manufacture You might not think It hut South Africans one of the foreign points whore most of our exports go rio American wheel Is a great improvement upon the foreign for-eign make It Is lighter and stronger and runs better More wheels are being sold In the Intermountain country limn ever before i E C McCullough Government printer at Manila Is at the Kenyon with Mrs McCullough en route East on a visit Mr McCullough is ill oldtime printer and was formerly foreman of the com posingroom of the Los Angeles Herald Ho came directly from the inlands and when shown yesterdays Associated I Press dispatches announcing renewed lighting Mr McCullough expressed sur pilse and said the outbreak was spor I radlc and of no permanency Gen Plo del Filar leader of the Insurrectos Is brother of Gen Grcgorlo del Pllnr and tho brains and lighting spirit of the remnants of the Insurrection When Mr McCullough left Manila all vestiges of fighting had apparently dlsappcaicd except guerrilla forays and they were being abbreviated I As to tho story that a war with Turkey Tur-key would Involve also the Suluesc Mr McCullough laughed and said Why lie people of the Sulu Islands never heard of the Sultan of Turkey ando and-o lld not in any event rise against the United States They are very friendly land l-and their Sultan does as the American military administration tells him IJo Is given 500 a year In the way of salary sal-ary and when he does something that doesnt suit ho is advised to do the other thing and he does It The Maca buebcs aro our best friends among the natives and In Lawtons advance their scouts led the way doing Invaluable service A full squadron of Macabecbe cavalry has been organized with Lieut Bm com as their Major and as soon us practicable the battalion will be increased in-creased to a full regiment of twelve troops all equipped I and mounted the I same as regular troops They will or COUlSC have American olllccrs C W OOh O-Oh we arc the Jays Ihat aro given awuy With a half IL pound of tea This is the refrain that the New York Sevenlyllrat sang with gay aban don as they came swinging uji to where our regiment was camped after their falldown caused by thr cowardlqc of their Held officers said Lieut S B Pearson of the Ninth cavalry at the Kenyon yesterday They realized their oflleers had given them away and had made time regiment the butt of ridicule of the entire corps but were disposed to be philosophical about It They were as hard a looking otiUH as I ever saw The men had thrown away their blan kets also their rations because It was hot and the load wa too heavy to pack and although the regiment had really scvn no service the men looked an hough they had been through a dozen campaigns Tho Soventyrtrsts troops wove as good men of themselves as could be found anywhere but some of their ofllcera had no business on a flqld of battle and the Sixth Massachusetts had a similar experience In Porto Rico resulting In an enforced change of Colonels |