Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS of agent Leonard E Tlldcn special the United States Department of La from Cullcn bor Is a guest at the yeblerday 1 am Washington He saId In Salt Lake to gather local statiStiCS thc report of for tho forthcoming Carrol D Commissioner of Labor Wright These statistics are collected i and i from all cities of 30000 Inhabitants form in pamphlet over and complied this If all cities kept books alike easy matter would be a comparatively from culled out but the data has to be uniformly rearranged the local records and here from Pueblo formly 1 camo be and may Colo after doing Denver over two day or here for a week or a fAVo secure statistics covering the I principal features in tho police depart I dc health tie meat fire department parlment streets and parks charities public ivories ties schools libraries municipal debt valuation of property etc There assets income expenditures questions in arc about 200 tabulated 1s mentioned and detail under the heads relative to labor all facts and statistics bor arc carefully looked after formerly a reporter Mr Tilden was Cormer I on the Boston Glcbe under Col Taylor Tay-lor and has a wide acquaintance among the profeslson Times ought to bo lively at Boise Tribune observed a Just at present Harry to representative I yesterday I Watkins ford of that city at S the Knuts I fordThey are decidedly was lilt I The Inauguration of prompt response the Midland has construcllon on started things wonderfully There arc I working on the 500 now Japanese I grade with a probability of more Is curious sight to coming and It a I see these little brown fellows around and so many of them Work has begun about eight miles from the city where there Is a gap to be lined I understand so as to shut other parties out Then the grade will S be built to the city where some ties and steel will be laid and the grade pushed northeast toward Butte Contracts have been let for delivery of lies at points along the line so it I appears as though the scheme were now a go The city Is enjoying a boom Inconsequence I Hocking consequence now people arc in lo engage In various enterprises more orflcss related to the Midland I road real uKtate IB taking a flight upwards up-wards and houses are scarce Everybody Every-body seems to have bomethlng to do I Business is brisk and promising in I Omaha said Superintendent F C I Gcnlsch of the Western department of the Pacific Express company at the Kenyon yesterday and our business is fully 110 per rent better than It was The Illinois Central Is I the a year ago latest addition to our railroad family coming into Omaha from a cutoff on the line to Sioux City and It is already al-ready doing a good business Our new Union depot is now a crys tnlixetl reality When I came West In 1S7J the Union depot was the talk then S In Omaha and It was the talk for thirty years before the srheme was carried out In the meantime Omaha got along us best it could with an old I wooden shanty for a Union depot I i There have been line rains all through our part of the Missouri river valley so that abundant crops arc I promised and the season is considerably consider-ably earlier than usual The only drawback at all Is the unsellled con I dlllon of the labor market which has affected Omaha though on a much I smaller scalo than In Chicago Outbuilding Out-building trades workmen have struck for higher wages and less hours and the contest is now on Mr Gentsch was formerly stationed In this city where he made many friends for his company a o P General Agent PI O Wilson of the Short Line at Butte wAs in town yesterday yes-terday He was glad of a chance to run down to Salt Lake and remarked There is no vegetation to speak of in Butte and It seems like getting into Paradise to be In Salt Lake again It Is a great thing to see nature In her green dress as she is arrayed in this valley Business Is lively In Butte and so Is pneumonia at present A wimile ago it was smallpox and now we have recovered from that and It Is pneumonia pneu-monia It seems surprising the number num-ber of fatalities that arc occurring I did think only drinking men were the sufferers but have found this is not entirely true and that many women die of the disease You may see a man alive and apparently well one day and the next day he Is down with pneumonia and the following day he Is carried out onto the hlllsldo When asked as lo the Idaho Mild land which will run between Boise and Putt Mr Wilson said There are no signs of any building as yet from the Butte end of the line Dont know vho Is behind the scheme do you It Is pretty hard to ascertain who ore the moving spirits behind these schemes as they manage to keep very shady and work openly only through parties who are careful never to give anything away Mr Wilson returned north last night |