Show I t TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Editor Frank Johnson of the Denver Stockman was at tho Knutsford yesterday yes-terday on route back to Denver from Butte lie said oC his trip Montana Is unlhusinsllo over the holding of the next annual convention in Salt Lake City and as both the Montana Vool Growers association and Iho Montana LiveStock assocIation have recently joIned the National LiveStock association assnca ton largely in consequence of the location lo-cation of the next gemmi convention Ils evident that there Is much Interest in tho meeting There will probably be a special train from Montana Colorado Colo-rado too will have a special train and a large representation is promised from Arizona and Now Mexico There ought I easily to be GOOD visitors In tioii at the convention next January I There will he a meeting in Salt Lake City In August of the special commlllpc appointed d by the last convention to draft a bill relative to leasing the public domain for presentation to Congress It J will Include a proviso allowing he I option to each county us to whether or not the public land within Us llmlla shall bo leased Mr Johnson Is assisting Secretary Martin of the Natlonyl 1 iss9clatlon in I compiling the HvesloJk I census active work on which will shortly be commenced I com-menced i nit Perkins Melville 3 < Landoii was at the Kenyon yesterday en route I for Ogden When naked what his mission mis-sion was in Utah he said My mission Is simply to fulfill and prove the Biblical Idea that the wise men came from the East I simply follow In the footsteps of the other Magi I Speaking or how he lost hi reputation reputa-tion for veracity tho humorest said It was caused by hl3 telling such wonderful wonder-ful truths that the noonlo dOLbfo horn I and then tIn wicked newspapers accused ac-cused him of a lack of veracity and when they found that ho hud told the absolute truth they failed to make a correction For Instance about twentyfive years ago continued Eli r described ecrlec the big trees In California I said theio I was one hollow tree in the Calaveraa grove so big that sixteen oC our party rode through It on horseback Then all the newspapers said Wh il u lie They found out afterward that sixteen d us did fileAbout ride through it but ve rode single About Dcweys candidacy 1311 said Why Dewey Isnt the tlrsl man wh has nominated himself Gen Scot after the Mexican war did the same thing Then Greelcy did It and Geoigo Frances Train foliovod suit Then Coxey marched to Washington with a caravan of tramps and nominated himself him-self on thc steps of the Capitol and Belva Lockwood flung herself into the arms of the people The humorist lectures In Ogden tonight to-night and Logan Saturday nightS nIght-S 4 a There Is ample opportunity for a Inc water power at Halo y remarked W G Page yesterday at the Kenyon With coal delivered there tOW at S5GO per ton It will cost operators after hauling to tho mines and mills H7o per annum per horsepower But with a good power plant driven h l > tIll rrod river al llallcy the power company cOJfzn ought to cut this down onehalt und make money at thau With an cleotrlc plant In operallon all of the mines for a long Mlstanue around could be supplied with SUlplHI wih rower and light and 0 great service performed per-formed There Is a company proposing to build a power plant at llailey und our company has been ask d it sign a contract But we will not tie ourselves our-selves up until we See something tangible accomplished In the I way of n start which carries with It I the ai ptar ance of an assured o permaiiiruy I The expansion principle has given another great boost to Pacific coast industries something that must interest if not actively excite Utahs latent industries dustrie said E A Whit laker of Oakland Oak-land at the Cullen yesterday o I refer to the great 50000000 grct 600O shipbuilding schema which will be located on Oak lands water front I is backed by Eastern capitalists and will build the largest sized warships as well as vessels oC1 smaller size In competition with the Union Iron works oC San Francisco The plant I am Informed 1M I already being forwarded and the work will be hurried a fast as possible There is to be an immense wharf frontage and the docks will bo dredged to accommodate vessels of any draft This ought to turn public attention mOO than toward Utahs great I coal and Iron fields flit accelerate the building of anew railroad through to the t for there coast will be from new on a greater demand than ever for Iron and steel and here will bo this Stales opportunity I t Is all expansion on the coast and people there have no use for Mr Bryan and his untlImpcrlullsm Mr Whittakor is largely Interested In Salt Luke real estate and has great faith In the future of Utah I Hon Tames G Jenkins of Milwaukee r 1 United Slate District Judgeof the Seventh circuit and party were at the Knulaford yesterday en route to Chi cage after a pleasant vacation trip to I the Pacific coast The Judge who has tc not been In this city for eleven yean t said he noticed an Immense chance lI for the bettor here and wan much pleased l with his tour about tdwnj Ho SJs there twentytwo State courts In I Chicago and yet litigation hi I soSheavy that those courts nr two and iliix years behind their dockets The United I I Suites courts nn however up with their hlln u I |