Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Capt Joseph M Callff of light battery C Third United States artillery Is at the Kenyon from the Presidio with I Arctcrinary Surgeon Crceley of the army and C Grllfin of San Francisco I for the purchase of artillery horses at this point The Captain was on duty at the Presidio when the Utah batteries were there and spoke highly of their appearance and general soldierly bearIng bear-Ing AVc are after a different class of horses from those required for cavalry service said the Captain yesterday AVc do not want longlimbed or long I backed animals Ours is a blackhorse battery and we want black horses I weighing 1100 to 1200 pounds fifteen to sIxteen hands hlch short coupled and of solid build AVe have already secured twenty horses but as the market here appears to have been pretty well cleaned out we will go up Into Cache valley for the rest My battery has 1G2 men which will be the size of the llsrht batteries for a I I long time lo come Leaving out rank I I and pay J would rather bo n Captain of artillery than a Colonel of infantry I Light batteries have their own drill their own separate command at army posts and they do pretty much as they I please being subject only to general garrison regulallons When asked as to the future of the artillery arm of the I service Capt Call replied I prefer the continuance of the regimental organization or-ganization but fear hInt the basis of organization Under the army reorganization reorgan-ization will be the corps rather than the regiment There will surely be a I large Increase In the artillery strength of the army because as It Is now we have not a squad lo a gun Cant Callff Is a veteran of the Civil war having entered the service in 18C3 as a Lieutenant in the Seventh United States Colored Infanlry he was promoted pro-moted to a Captaincy and was made a Lieutenant of artillery la the regular establishment at the close of tile war He graduated with honor at the Ar lillerj school in 1871 One million people can be easily ac commodatcd In the Snake River valley said Col M W Jones of Blackfoot yesterday yes-terday at the Kenyon hotel and tile southeastern part of the Slate has enough land and water to easily support sup-port twice as many people as are now in the entire State Our fruits are a marvel and grains and other products would be a credit to any State In the Union AVe are expecting considerable from the proposed extension of the Short Line from Blackfoot to Arco and the Houston mining country This will make Blackfoot a junction city and a terminal and give it a good commercial boost The surveyors are laying tho lines I and we look for grading opera lions to begin before long Col Jones was asked If he expected many of the Idaho volunteers to attend next summers meeting In thin city but he feared thai there would not he many You sec he said four companies of my regiment came from time northern part of the State and the cost of travel to Salt Lake Is high AAre were only a twobattalion regiment or 800 men one battalion coming from time southern part of the State Of these hatter four companies very likely tIle greater part will be present at next summers reunion re-union 4 0 4 Business has taken a Jump with me since the election said J H Bryar representing a large Chicago house at the Knutsford yesterday My sample room has been visited by 1 many purchasers pur-chasers who say that the election suits them exactly that li was a business proposition and It had to come around that way But what strikes mo as singular now Is that there does not ap pear to be any political aftermath There Is no postelection excitement People seem to have taken the result as a matter of course as the expected outcome of a foregone conclusion mid dismiss the matter from fhelr minds as past history and thats all there Is toiL |