Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS J3utt is evidently deslined lo become be-come one of the greatest camps on I earth said T v Rhodes of Dallas I Tex yesterday at the Cullen Why J only a stones throw from the MiDor molt house a 5300000 mining property Is i I bclns developed and It u 111 not be long I before time entire Hly IS undermined H Is only a few steps from the hotel t I > mining oBlabllshments employing 8COO hands Ihrc Is an Immense payroll pay-roll in Butte and time ton is run on the wide open principle The smallpox does not seem to abate any and I could nee the pesthouse wagon raveling I ravel-ing through the streets several times a day They must have at least sixty cases of the disease In the oily As I came away I was Informed that Helena Hel-ena had quarantined against Butte and people coming from there must anew a clean bill of health But Im glad to got back In Salt Lake This Is one of the most attractive places In the country lo live In and do you know there aro lotH of pretty women and pretty girls In Salt Lake I dont know of 5u city where there arc more pretly school girls limn here and It I hi a pleasure to watch thorn on their way to and from school How is the political pot simmering In Montana was asked I belIeve the State will go Republican Republi-can nt the next election Tho next Democratic State convention Is sure In be caplured cither by the Clark or the Daly factions and the losing faction will then turn In and help the Republicans Republi-cans win the ekcllon just to spite the other fellows Everything in Montana is i either Clark or Daly there is no neutral position livery man Is on ono side or the other and tile feeling has even got Into social and church circles Invitations for evening parties are made out on a Clark or Daly basis and If a man makes any remark deprecatory depreca-tory of one of tin financial giants It IB i Immediately assumed that ho belongs to the opposite faction There Is a big copper combination hatching In Montana and when the eggshell breaks It will be found that the Standard OH company has time copper cop-per Interests of the country corraled In fact It wont be very long before the general financial InlercstB of the country coun-try are in the hands of the Standard people They arc destined to be the Rothschilds of the United States t > a i > The action of time tin trust in putting that machinery at Ogden means a good deal for this part of the country Jn the way of canning facilities said F D McCunc of Denver nt the Krnyon yesterday yes-terday That can plant will be ca pablo of turning out GOOOO cans in ten hours with only half a dozen boys needed to watch il As there Is no scarcity In tin plate or likely to be there need be no throwing away of fruit or vegetables this next seapon because be-cause of Inability lo get cans The tin ware business Is booming as well as many oilIer llnts of business and in November last we did 10000 more business busi-ness than In time sumo month of the previous year S rIme engineer of lust nights No 1 evidently knew how to handle his air said A L Johnson of Ogdon yesterday at the White house After tho collision col-lision I dont think any nf the passengers pas-sengers realized that there had been an accident so effectively was the train handled The engine lost Its stack headlight and bad its front end smashed In so that It was knocked out for the time as a steamer and the freight engine pulled the passenger train Into the city But no one was I Hurt aa far as I could ace although the caboose of the freight and a boxcar box-car were sheaved into one The fog was to blame and the passenger engineer engi-neer ailed lo see time signals It was lilts most lorlunatc accident I ever was In u o T i was on the Yorklown when Lieut Glllinorcj t i i went ushore on his illfated nritind said Seaman Charles McPhcc of Portland at the Cullon yesterday I did I not know ut the time what he went ashore for beyond the Impression Impres-sion that It was foi scouting duty as the officers do not tell the men what their plans are in starting out on any expedition But it appears that the Filipinos were lying In ambush for the detail when they struck the beach ami only one man inunagod to get back to the vessel with the boats That was the lust wo saw of the Lieutenant and his men and I never knew what became be-came of them until T noted In the recent re-cent dispatches that Col Hare with the Thirtythird Infantry has overtaken and rescued them The war over there will bo a good deal like our Indian wars until the in Ktirrectos are iped out This will lake time The Philippines are a valuable properly for the United States and if there was no war in progress it would bo a desirable country to live In and engage In business 1 would like to bft there myself If peace was on But there is not much satisfaction in trying It now while Gen Otis Is In command There are enough war vessels in Philippine Phil-ippine waters for any emergency that may arise M C I wag with Dewey all Ihrough the little racket with Montljo in Manila bay said Seaman George Summers of the Olvmpia now on route to Portland at the Cullon yesterday I also came home with him via tile Sue canal and the Atlantic and look part In the parade In New York whore wo had a grout time and tile boys had all the fine wine they wanted at the WaldorfAstorlu It was a great turnout turn-out and we will never forget It But I hen tile papers have rove red time Incident Inci-dent fully and 1 dont know as I can add anything lo it beyond saying that the men all appreciate the attentions shown them Mr McPhoe and myself arc on route home to Portland after being discharged at New York The Olympia has gone out oC commission and Is tied up at the Boston navy yard for an overhauling We have had enough of service for a while anyhow U 0 O The Union Pacific has profited by tbo return of good times as well as other hues remarked W C Hussey of the Denver olllcos at the Kenyon yesterday The parent line bus regained re-gained control of the Kansas Pacific and all of the connecting lines In Nebraska Ne-braska and Kansas while the Short Line Is owned by h tile same parties us own lie t Union Pacific so thai although operalcd as separate systems they act In harmony There Is n marked movement move-ment among railroads for the absorption absorp-tion of smaller properties by the larger ones thus carrying out it seems the principle of the survival of the llltost The work of double tracking the mainline main-line Is likely to be especially pushed west of Cheyenne whore th t work Is heavy und two trucks are greatly needed In the way of general gossip I hear that tile San la Fe Is about to absorb the Colorado Southern This will be an Importjintacrrulsillon lo tile Santa Fe and goes to Illustrate what I have just been saying S o Mrs Laura G Flxen manager of lie Working Womens home In Chicago und conductor of a panor called DLi mond Dust printed In the Interest of working women was nt tho Kenyan yesterday en route from a California rip I back East Mrs Flxen said Wo have a home for girls and working wunum who come as so many of thorn do from the rural dlslrlclK Inlo the great city In hopes of bettering their condition by securing employment Un less they can have a friendly hand ox tended to them they are In many eases likely to be Imposed upon nnd per haps led astray The Working Wo mens homo takes care of these women with all the protectIon possible thrown around thorn at u merely nominal charge of 2GO per week until they can ascertain whether they can remain In Chicago or what they wish to do The homo has cared for thousands of women having been lu operutlpn for the last twelve years and the home fro has also proved fruitful field J a for ths work of the W C T U of which 1 ant am n member S giv Mrs Flxen spent yesterday looking tha over tile city and visiting institutions scli and having talks with prominent women poi wo-men whom she was able to meoL Mrs Flxon expressed herself veii pleased with her short stay In Zion and leaves for the East entertaining only kindly Yn A recollections M Tll |