Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Somo men think an Indians cvl deuce in court IH no good and that particularly par-ticularly where It dashes with a white mans It ought to by thrown out remarked re-marked Judge T J McCunnell ut the Knutsford yesterday But my experience experi-ence Is that 1C you let un Indian witness wit-ness alone and allow him to tell his unvarnished talc in his own way he will tell time truth But go to cross qiiesllonlng and asking leading questions ques-tions and ho gets all mixed up and he Is liable to say yes lo anything you ask him There were arrests made nomo time ago at the post for stealing commissary storey An Indian pollceman WSLJ put on the trail he successfully worked up the case and deluded in court his examination ex-amination of the tracks of th thieves and of a ruse to examine the contents of their wagon which brought to light tho stolen properly But ho had to tell It In his own way Crosaquestlonlng would only have made the witness con Irudlct himself a dozen times The Ulntahs are becoming civilized at a fair rato of progress Many of them live In wellconstructed houses most of these people are able lo take a reaper from the crates or packing and set It up ready for use and can operate anything In the line of agricultural machinery However the Indians living liv-ing away from the centers of communication communi-cation are behind I the others in I civilization I civiliza-tion There has been no systematic or studied attempt to Investigate ethno logically the Indians massed in the northeastern part of the State remarked re-marked A J Mead at the Knutsford yesterday Perhaps It Is because but little of an historical value can be gleaned from them and ethnologically because their differences from other Indian tribes that have been carefully studied arc not sufficiently nronounced to make their special examination worth while These Indians have ny traditions to speak of and beyond two generations back they can give no history of their people while other tribes arc rich in historical lore for hundreds of years bnck However omit old fellow ChiefS Chief-S Tubby uf the reservation who claims ability to remember back 100 years says thai in his fathers time the cliff dwellers were In existence little short saucdofC people who lived in the canyons can-yons and made their homes high In the rocks They were reported to have dawn like a squirrel which enabled them lo scalo any rough eminence no mailer how precipitous Moreover this aged Indian claims that In his fathers tIme the canyons were filled with water There arc evidences on the Green liver desert of an escape of waters from that country In a comparatively recent time but the chances are that this Indian Is one of the very few to whom tradition has handed down fragments of the history of Ibis part of the coun Iry and the times ho has located as during his fathers life may be many generations buck several centuries before be-fore Lewis and Clark started across the crest of the continent 00 All kinds of farming machinery implements im-plements and vehicles are finding a ready sale this spring and particularly since the April storms set In said A C Whitman of Denver at the Walker yesterday The cautious granger held back during March because it seamed us though the country was bound to burn UD under u protracted drought But with the recent rain amid snowfalls snow-falls the soli has been soaked all nature na-ture refreshed and not only has the change proven of Incalculable value to the farmer In assured crops but lo allied interests us well especially the farm vehicle and Implement manufactures manufac-tures There Is a steady demand for wagons wa-gons now and dealers tell me tjicy l have Inquiries from all over this farmIng farm-Ing country The beetsugar men are happy and investing extensively In biet pluughs Then ploughs and harrows har-rows an selling readily and farm harnesses har-nesses ale In steady demand The hara Units past made farnui8 Omng onto their harnesses until there Is no more hang to them and they wont hung together to-gether So new ones are being bought with the advent of better limes a C S D Davis and L 13 Evans of Sa muria Oneida county Ida are guests ut the Cullen In referring to local conditions con-ditions in that part of Dm State Mr Davis said Shearing will begin about the middle of May with ub Quite a number of woolgrowers contracted last fall with Eastern buyers for this springs clip at 17 to 20 cents and In a few instances over the latter figure Where enough money was advanced to muke the bargains secure the growers ure all right But In a good many cases but little advances were made and In these 11 I Js lie belief In I Onelda county that the contracts will be repudiated The ranges arcovercrowded and 1C more sheet ure driven in there will bo hard scraping to get along I minor think there will have lo be pome feedIng feed-Ing dono tIlls summer ullhough the ground Is In good condition from the spring snows and rains CO There Is an unusually small amount of snow at Alia said William Green at the White houso last night Why on the Cth of February I wmi able lo do what was never done before at that time of year I am suro I went over to the Twin lakes and crossed beyond them II C Wallace come down last night from Alia without any difficulty ami In a few days the tramway ought to be able lo resume operations Tin snow that has fa Hun lately way very wet and melted pretty fust I do not think there vhli be uny snowslides this spring The mining outlook at Alta appears ap-pears to be more promising than ever and some mighty good ore is being got out of tho old properties there u O The soil all through southern Wyoming Wyo-ming seems to have had a groat drink wild J B Congrlff last night ut the Kenyon All around Fort Sleole time snows that fell this month were wet and soaked slowly into the earth and did not run oft The result Is that i he full amount of good has been derived from the precipitation and there willie will-ie an Immense amount of fine range grasses In that part of the State all summer Shearing began yesterday and growers grow-ers seem determined to hold out for a good price 20 and 22 cents In Instances But I think 17 cents will bo the prevailing prevail-ing figure That certainly Is enough The Saratoga country Is looking up better bet-ter Luau ever and five cars of ore are being shipped lo the smellers from lint section every week It will be larger by and by < > 4 I am pinning my faith to Deep Creqk and Its ores more than ever said Col 1 II Iluvorly last night at the Knuts ford And besides investing a little wad of my own I rather believe 51 number num-ber of my friends will be doing the same thing There are gold silver lead and copper ores In thai district many uf the ore bodies growing rich and richer as the deplh Increases The railroads have nol extended into that district because be-cause they could not see an Immediate prospect of profit But I can see that the day extended operations begin In the district there will be plenty for the railroads lo do and there would have been plenty for them had they gone into the country before this Col Ilaverly will ne In Zion several days longer before leaving Cor the East |