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Show SIX HUNDRED ELKS OFF FORCAIIFINIA Three Special Trains Carry Away .lolly Crowd ot Travelers Travel-ers i'or Sunny Climes. LARGE PARTY TO PROCEED TO BEAUTIFUL HONOLULU Los Angeles and Southern California Cali-fornia to Entertain Larger Portion of Junketers. More than six hundred Klks and their friends and relatives left Salt Lake City Saturday. They loft in thrco special trains, the first steaming out of the union station at II o'clock and the third at noon. Tho number included many Klks .from tho Salt Lake lodge and the remainder camo from nil parts of the state, and some from Idaho, Wyoming Wy-oming and Montana. The special trains will reach Sacramento Sacra-mento at noon Sunday, where a big re-coption re-coption will bo given Iho travelers. There the- trains will separate, one pari of the crowd going southward to Los Angeles aud the other to San Francisco. Fran-cisco. From San Francisco about fifty will sail for the Hawaiian islands, where the Iunui'v of the tropical scenery and other joys of midwinter , in a "summery''' "sum-mery''' clime will bo investigated. Tho band that goes to Los Angolcs will hnvo all of the delights of tho famed winter pastimes of southern California. Cali-fornia. There will be innumerable side trips both from JjOS Angolcs aud San Fraliciseo. Between the time on J'Viday night when the lists for the dav had been completed, until the l rain time Saturday Satur-day forenoon sevenfy-fivo additional Elks J'onnd out that I hey wanted to make 1ho trip. In order that they might, be accommodated more Pullmans were needed. A brief stop was made at Ogden, aud at Sparks the train that left here as the second section, carrying J. "W. Colli Col-li us, tho exalted ruler of lodge No. So the official train will pass section No. I, and in lhat order will proceed westward. west-ward. The Iravelers who left Salt Lake Saturday Sat-urday arc probably as representative a crowd as over departed from this city. They are all "high-class citizens" nnd 'go"od J'cJlows" to the last one of them. The committee which arranged for this year's excursion was composed of J. W! Collins, exullfd ruler: A. W. IJav-bould. IJav-bould. secretary; A. .1. Davis, F. T. Collins. Col-lins. C. J-'. "Warren and E. B. Erwin. |