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Show i .' 'V:''' " ' .'".' ' '. ' ' "r '";" v 'lt " "" : '" '"' . . ' ' . : : ' '; ; ' , . . :t . :. :.v-':.." 4 Tho Idaho State Penitentiary at Boise, where Orchard, the confessed murderer of ox-Governor Steunenberg, is held. In this Institution Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were held for a time after their arrest. BOOSTERS1 SPECIAL HI I flil FA llS Wonderfully Fertile Valley Challenges Admiration of Salt rako Businessmen. HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM A DESERT PLAIN i Now m a( Empire, Where Nearly All Crops ran Be Easilj Grown, By A F Philips. Special to The Tribune TWIN FALLS, Ida,., May 38.H was 5 o'clock this morning when the booster boost-er special arrive dat Twin Falls, the youngest, the most, bustling city In Idaho. Ida-ho. Early nser on the special and j there are 8 number of them when thev I looked out from the windows of their sleepers saw what? Man of the party lipid visited this section of Idaho in the years gone Many were lierf less than three rears ago. It wa.s thMi a sage brush piain, a part of the grat American deceit But a rhansre oas com. qike Alladin who nhe movpd the g-ui' and bade that gouii to do so and so. i ho wand of t bo Ajnericau capitalist capital-ist has transformed the desert, instead of the mystic personages Who answered the eall of Alladin. As the smoke from th" censer ascended thi American man camo, th Western man. if you jdease, and he did what? Whv, transformed the desert, made it blossom as the rose, created an agricultural paradise where you can grow anything but tobacco and eorn, for the news which make the weed of solace, and comfort do not fall here; noithre caD you raise corn, for the nights are too cool. But everything rdse en be grown. There is field after field of red top clover, acre .titer acre of alfalfa, and the great plain, as far as the eye can see, is one vast field of green. Another Warm Welcome. There was a warm welcome accorded the boosters and the day has been a round of pleasure which this evening rounded up m ball tendered by the good people of thf city. After the parade this morning tho boosters entered en-tered carriage? i'.r B drive to th falls of the Snake river, the great Shoshone I'nllS; the ('qu.nl of which ''an be seen nowhere in America, where the grent-esl grent-esl river in America gorges and plungee over a precipice of 310 Feet The ip IS indescribable. The falls are awaj ' Prom the beaten path Th differ from the Niagara in thai (hero is an awful grandeur in their loneliness. But. they are being harnessed- Two months more and this great water power will drive machinery that in time will not only furnish liht and power for southern Idaho, but will do likewise for Salt Lake and various towns in I'tah. practically prac-tically three hundred miles away, and to various Nevada poiuts. But of this another story ill be written And above the falls, looking to the north from Twin I'alN. a ir&st plain an parent ly extends as far as the oyr ran see Six miles out you romp to a chasm, B Crge. mre royal, more grand, more jn.-i y i r than thr- rntt gu-nc "f the Arkansas, through wnicfa flows ,,nr-of ,,nr-of the gn-al of thfl greatest rivers in the Western Hemisphere. This chasm is lorn) ipt dleey, with walls almost perpendicular One thousand foot below be-low the water in this great river, the Snake plunges over s precipice in a magnificent, a mighty, a majestic torrent tor-rent 810 feel below and then on to Twin Falls, where it again planges , down 187 feel and then flows placidly on to Auger Falls, where.another drop of J lo feel is iiiad" Amid Sublime Scenery It was in this great cfaaSU), this great eleft, this great gorge m tin- onee American desert that i he Boosters spept ; the da. and tonight they are a tired but happy lot of people. And when thv eame out of this great chosni, ascended again to the I plateau. 1,r"0 feet nboe the river bed. past the blue lukes in the canyon where waters are as blue as the sky above them and with a depth of forty-five forty-five feet, they again looked at an area of fertile rields r ith an aggregate ol I nearly half a million a -res', all fgjj ! that it was day well Spent, that it was good to live in n cou;itr with sueh majestic soenery, with sueh fertile soil. with sueh progressive people )iVe within the range of the great Twin Fll3 canal systi ; The party was joined here this even-ing even-ing bv I) S. Bpenoer, Assistant Hen frai Passenger Agent of tii o. i,.. I who was called heme Monday aight by Warden E L. Whitney cf the IdaJio State Penitentiary at BoiEO, who has the custody of Orchard, the confessed murderer of former Governor Steunou- berg. John Q. Critchlow, T,. H. Harding of the Santa Pe, and Gleorgs T OdeTI. ("ieorge Morgan. Miltou Bailey and M II. Walker will join the party at Mmidoka tomorrow afternopn and will continue with the Boosters until the i"l of the journey. Frank Redman left for home this evening, being called bv a telegram. Salt Lakers Are There. There are a number of Salt Lakers here. George Aiken, a former Zinoite now sheriff of Twin Falls county and superintendent of the Twin Falls North smiV Power company, chaperoned the newspaper men in the Boosters par-. y on the trip to Shoshone Falis and rho immense plant which is being put in there. He took the pencil pushers over a romr which few men have ever made, and gave them a view of the Falls such as is accorded but. few. E. S. Darling, a former well-known alt, Lake real estate man, and his charming wife are here. Mr. Darling is manager of the Hotel Perrine- General Gen-eral Pat Benger Agent Burley, of the Short Line, who is now on his farm near Buehl, twenty miles west, from here, was expected by the Boosters, but a message from him this evening Stated thai he was too busy getting his clover and alfalfa in the ground, planting plant-ing his pineapples and sweet, potatoe trees, aud growing carrots fur his Berkshire and Poland hogs to come. He sent his best wisbesj however |