Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS MaJ It P Myton agent of the Uin tah Indian agency arrived from Du chosnc yesterday afternoon and rogla tcrcd at the Kmltsford Capt Gull foylo and a number of citizens and Indians In-dians will be In from the post shortly In niA idance on the United States court This leaves First Lieut Clmrlen Young the only commissioned negro officer In the regular army in command com-mand of thp post There are two other First Lied ll ICII I there bin t us IhMr l I commissions dale later ihun Lieut Youngs he Is their superior oUlcei These with two Second Lieutenants makn four white commissioned olllcers subject to orders from the colored officer oCm have had an abundance of rain and snov Raid MaJ Mylon I Even the superllncly dried road between Du cluvsnc and Price hrs become muddy The farmers have finished their planting plant-ing and tie confident of an abundance of crops the coming season The Major Ma-jor is III be In town for a week or two f before returning lie says Olsen the t shcepherder who did up an Indian In a quarrel Ole months since will bo brought to this oily In a few days S Manager O J1 Young of the Dalton mine says that there Is I more snow on tho I mountains back of MarysValo than ho ever saw before Con l qnly there In not much fear of a shortage of water In that part of the country The railroad grade has been completed to Marysvale and trains ought to be running In there by June 1st w 4 Such affairs as happened on the Islands of Samar and Panay lately are likely to occur for some lime to come remarked Capl AVren o the Seventeenth Seven-teenth Infantry at the Knutsford yesterday yes-terday At the same time the Insur rectos may conclude they have had enough of the lighting and quit In the course of the next few weeks We could If I the Government were so disposed dis-posed wipe out all of the rebels In a short time but that is not the pole of the United States Wo are waging n humane war and prefer to bring the natives under OUt control to killing them ofr As to there being enough troops orf the Islands to garrison all of the towns people dont stop to think that from the necessities of the sItuatIon there must bo a large number of sick soldiers The climate Is very hard on a man especially where he Is easily affected by i malaria That is what has laid me out t and I had to return to the United Stales and strike for a colder climate for a while l has ben frequently necessary to send recruits out onto the firing line immediately on their arrival on the transports without giving them n little lit-tle lime in camp and that is asking a good deal of a man There Is no difference dif-ference between the regular and the volunteer on the islands now as far as the enlisted men are concerned Many of the younger volunteer l ofllcers have not the experience of the older heads and they are not placed where any of them would be likely to rank experienced officers a a Chief Examiner A R Serven of the tTnltc States Civil Service commission commis-sion arrhod yesterday from San Francisco Fran-cisco and Is at the Knulsford en route to Denver and eastern points on his way back to Washington He was closetod part of the afternoon at the postofllce with Secretary Williams of the local Civil Service board and gave the boards books a careful overhauling overhaul-ing and seemed satisfied that everything every-thing was In good shape I Col Serven Is n Hamilton college graduate of the class of S7 and has for his special field the mints and assay offices He said that the Seattle and San Francisco offices are preparing for C great rush this season On receiving a miners gold tho assayer melts It into bars and then chips off pieces from the upper edge of one end and I the lower edge of the other end the analysis of the two pieces determining the value of the metal The Government Govern-ment gold is sent to the various mints Before lea Ins San Francisco the Merchants association got up a civil service social the first thing of the kind that has been attempted and there were present most of the civil service employees and officials In the city The affair was C marked success |