Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS TIme Kansas wheat crop this year Is estimated at 00000000 to 100000000 bushels tho greatest the State has ever produced said John R McKIm of Pltlshurg Kan yesterday The J hear iest harvest heretofore has been about 85000000 bushels so you will see that the State has a good deal to feel proud I I of Thort ban bMi plenty of rain in I central and eastern Kansas Whatever drought lioa occurred IIUH been in the i 5 western coUnties Crop conditions gen i orally are very good In the Sunflower S S state S A S j The Wcstinghouso Jnt rents Include three treat plants In flill operation at and neat Plttsburpr Pa paid L M Cargo at the Kcnyqn yesterday the Jlcctrieal l works machine shops and air brake plant The electrical vorkn I are putting outabout 100000 worth of goods I Dcf month at resent and in some dpparlmcnts are eight months be hind their orders The big copper mines I in southern Arizona belonging to Mr TVcstlngnonao have bren closed down for the present I and deiiiTiil Manager Tcbbetts has hcen i tninHfemd to New Hampshire where I Mr Westinghouse hOt opened up cop S pei properties Mr Tebbetts you I know was formerly general passenger agent of the Union Pacific road under President Adams and he has made a good manager for Mr VofitlnghoUsc He WOK once located In Salt Lake In connottlon with the Union Pdclflc freight department before going Into I tho passenger depttrtmcnl 1a S Suporintendent C Co Norwood Of timeS I time-S public schools at Evanston is a guest at the Walker having come to this I city to study featuierf of bookkeeping which he proposes Introducing Into thkA Evansion schools In ansuer IIT S quoHtlons ytstfrday he said We have two school buildings In fivanston with sixteen teacheifl and 700 pupils The accommodations aro fnsuniclcnt and as tho board l1Uiln hand for the next school yeai 0500 an addition of four rooms will be made to one of the build ings already In use This will greatly j relieve the congestion Last year we hud to utilize cellars and the damp ness I had an unhealthy effect both Upon I teachers and children Our highschool course has just been incicabid from three to four yearn which will prepare pupils for college I in thO highest grades the girls greatly outnumber the boys In the last high school graduating class of ton t hut two were boys and in the previous graduating gradu-ating class of seventeen only four of the gradual were boys The boys drop out oCtet reaching tile eighth and I ninth grades as many dont seem to care for books after leachniK 1 a 1 certain period preferring to go to work or to turn their attention to something else Jlowevor we aio striving all the time to raise the standard and make the schools better and niore effective each I yean or S SS I Manager George T Odcll l of the Coop wagon and IMaehlno 1 company has re turned from a I rip through northern Utah and southern Idaho gratified at the crop outlook hI traveled lie Said yesterday from Logan to Mon tpeller via lInk Creek ninety miles and with the exception of places wherethe squirrels squir-rels hud done considerable damage the I harvest l prospects were found to bu excellent ex-cellent especially Cache valley and I tho north end of Bear Lake valley There is 25 to 33 13 per cent moic grain potatoes and barley in the Snake River Valley than ever before A correspondent cor-respondent from Idaho Falls reports the wheat crop there 25 per cent increased over that ot 1898 A hich was a great year the oat crop Is 25 per cent better bet-ter than lu 1S9D and the hay crop Is I the same us last year which was a great season for bay Barjcy and potatoes po-tatoes have a 50perccnt increase over last year Montpelier will show double the groin crop If there is no frost At the same time IMr Odell has reports re-ports from Wasatch Utah Juab 3M1I lard Beaver Iron and Washington counties showing a fallng off in crops due to drought SS For Instance in Fillmore the crops are onethird less than last year and there will be no second or third crops of lucerne without there Is rain Audi In Milliard the lucerne outlook is not encouraging en-couraging But In Tooele the shortage Is not as bad as was expected Mr Odoll believes from a general survey of the field that taken all In all Utah and Idaho hard together 15 to 25 percent per-cent better crops than last year a e k Have you heard the latest Chinese bon mot asked James F Shields yes terday at the Knutsford It was got off by a Celestial philosopher recently who commented on the scrap in China as follows Five hundred Chinaman killed today and twentyfive white sol dier 500 Chinaman killed tomorrow and twentyfive white soldier day af tom 500 Chinaman killed and l twenty five white soldier And so every day and by and by white soldier all dead and plenty Chinaman left 4 0 John C Mackay of Granger was hi Limo city yesterday Ills latest advices from the ranges in western Wyoming are that while the season has been an exceptionally dry one the sheep haveS have-S not as yet suffered In the slightest degree He is however rather doubt ful as to the future There is a glimpse of hope In the fact that a rather heavy rainfall fell a few days ago but if the hot weather of the present keeps up for a couple of weeks longer feed will become quite scarce The causes of the present low prices of wool are a source of speculation to all the sheepmen There are many who were at first jn dined to hold their clips for advanced prices who have come to believe that It is Just as well that the wool should be In Boston as here and as a result they have parted with their wool on consignment and In consideration of an S advance payment There are some however who have refused to listen to the seductive voice of the buyer and I these have stored their wool at points I near the railroads and Insured the same where It will remain until prices I reach somewhere near the point that woolmen think they should stand Mr Mackay says there Is a great need of S water In the western part of his county coun-ty and the CIODS are liable to be short as a consequence S |