Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS i The west sido of the Snake River r valley In eastern Idaho Is being rap I Idly peopled up said W K Young oc Blackfoot at the White house yesterday I I yester-day At present the newcomers aro I i nearly all Mormons who are locating 1 under the Peoples ditch The east sldo j of the rivor Includes all the older settlements I I set-tlements which have been there a goou many years Our section of the valley I IH a sagebrush rather than a sod or timbered I soil but with aid of Irrlga I Hon It It readily got under grass or other crops and made to yield abundantly abund-antly Then Is J little live stock in our valley val-ley and the mines are at Home distance dis-tance so that agriculture and fruit raising are tho principal things with us There has been no snow of any account this winter but then that does not occasion any apprehension as there is plenty of snow In the country at the headwaters of the Snake and so all the water needed for Irragtlon Is guaranteed guar-anteed A i Patrick Phelan owner of the White I house corner has returned from an extended ex-tended California trip He remarked yesterday in speaking of It About the only thing In southern California h 1 climate and you get that in something some-thing more than carload lots It Is of course a great fruit country but as all the best and selected fruit Is J shipped out of the State but little else than the I culls or small stuff remain and that Is served up tu guisls at tahe Them Were HO many visitors In Los Angeles I that I could not get a room until a a hotel proprietor whom I knew aald 1 should have a place to sleep anyhow and he made room for me The harbor of San Pedro Is belli deepened by tho Government and thousands and thousands of tons or rock liavo been dumped in to make a I breakwater hut the t rock Is not above I the surface yet I dont think It Is such a line harbor as It Is claimed to be 3 4 I The fruit trust Is likely to prove the undoing of southern California paid 1 W Mccarty a a Minncbotaii tourist at the While house yesterday Th trust has the grower sign a contract In whIch hi practically binds himself to pay all the CXOCIISCH while the trust I people clean up the profits The president > i presi-dent of the trust or syndicate draws SoOO a month salary and the secretary I SIC to say nothing of other grabs all of which have to be met by tin grower The Hvndlcatc has the latter skinned down now to he cant make a profit and there Is no telling what will be demanded de-manded next t We have a trust of another kind In Minnesota the lumber trust It has the situation so well corraled there that it can add a slight adance anytime any-time It likes to the price of lumber and clean up a respectable fortune I HUpoose this programme will be continued con-tinued up to the point Where a general kick may be expected and then it will stop The white pine forests are by no means cut on In Minnesota on the contrary they ought to last for the next twentylive years At the same time the saw mills are busy and Immense Im-mense quantities of fine pine timber i arc being made up for the everIncreas ing market S Thomas B Tom a prominent Kansas Kan-sas City man Is I at the Kenyan en routo home from the coast lie said yesterday In response to questions The reports that Kansas City hotel and boardinghouse keepers have prac tleally entered Into a conspiracy to rob visitors by extortionate charges during the meeting of the Democratic national convention sire not baaed on fact There will be nothing of the kind attempted At the same time the choice of that date July 4th by the national executive committee was unfortunate for It might much better have been made earlier when the heat is not so Intense and when there would not be that rush to town from the country I that always marks the Nations blrth I day However Kansas City may be relied I re-lied upon to do the square thing by VH I itors notwithstanding the threatened 1 Jam i S S j I Secretary E P Snow of the Wyo I mlng State Hoard of Sheep Comnils I slonirs la at tIne Kenyon from Chpy dine He says the sheep in his State ire in igood health owing to the very strlet ateh kept by the board on Importations Im-portations All herda brought Into Wyoming are dipped on entrance quarantined fifteen days and dipped again and then kept under surveillance or quarantine for sixty days more before be-fore being fInally turned loose These rigorous measures keep many sheep out of thu State to which the board does not object aa H Is considered Wyoming how now about as many iihe M > l5 It can care for I |