| Show A TRIP TO WASHINGTON Inlcrrslln oles halo I bjr a Pw CB5cr ou Hie Way WASIIISOTOK D C Dec CO ISIS Special Correspondence ol the DESEHET JffewsJ left your beautiful on the morning of the IStlilnsL and changeU cars at Ogden Og-den where we took train on the U P Railway for Omaha My great nephew W U Illtcr was with me Viu suv but little now on passIng tip Welr and Echo canyons and tile farther we pro ceuled cast the less we found till reaching the rlgh plains at Sherman Sher-man where the ground was barer bare-r noticed signs of drouth all acrofs the plains but little gras for Flock to feed upon during the winter At 7 am of the IStli we arrived at Omaha having had a pleasant Joutney Here we laid off till 3 pm and spent > the time Iu doing the town Omaha b a live place and has made rapid growth during the past twentyone years The streets are loved with three kinds of Material cedar blocks phaltum and little pieces of granite rock a trifle larger than ordinary brick brought from Sioux City about hundred miles up the river The last mentioned gives tie greatest satisfactIon Omaha today appears to me as largo as New York did Iu my toy d The city has nx jiuded large gums of money in grading the streets I sass some 111I1111 fn 1 r hll ft r lnent grade oomeot the l locksare twelve tories high built ofa sort of variegated stone which shines and glitters In the sun giving a very beautiful appearance Council Jilulli Is not making much progress The jicople there have constructed a line bridge during dur-ing the Ot year Just above the Union PacIfic Railway bridge for wagons and electric car raiSe At the east end of the bridge is a handsome hand-some boulevard broad and straight ass line for six miles We left Council 1IIuff at 5 pm on the Rock Island route ou board the Flyer The speed at times was tern lie reaching nearly sixty miles an hour The trip to Chicago was made in little less tItan fifteen hours the distance being 500 miles across the State of Iowa From Chicago 7e look the PanHandle Pan-Handle route through the centre of Indiana a low flat level country with water very near the surface 1 noticed as we IMv along but little to interest the eye corn in shocks and hay In stack from last seasons crop looking as much weather bcaten as they would in Ito fair sunny climate of Utah In five years I observed very few real improvements im-provements in tliis part of theStatc The houses are mostly one story franifanduokaslhough they Iiad nil been designed and built by the same person Occasionally the monotony was relieved by groves of timber chiefly of the second grouth The land was nearly covered with water for many miles Now anti again a small knoll or low hill was seen and these were Invariably Invar-iably covered either with hay stacks or tombstones It made me shivver to look at tliedrearydlsmalcountry Iu this part of theStatearcagrent many kilns or furnaces where tiles arc manufactured for the lminiiig of the laud This would surely be a rather profitable liusliiess for the pltiitiil to get rid thelrsurplu watir We crossed ito Wabasli Illvcrat Ixigauport The country here looks well and there are signs of thrift Winter wheat looks green and nice aud there Li Mime line stock with good Improvement Ato10 p in the 15th Imt wear rived at Jtradfurd Junction Ohio Here we passed through a beautiful country AlSMwu changed cars at Columbus Ohio for Harrhlurg Pennsylvania but were delayed two hours during thin night ou account ac-count of a train wreck obstruction Daylight ou Monday lie llitli fund uswimuihng our way up the Conemaugh River below Johns town where the great flood of last May occurred Men are still at work clearing away the debrIs reiniring the railroad and conducting con-ducting a new railroad bridge The curves OH the road are very sharp here and the Iced at which the train run makes it ignite unsafe for a iasMiigvr to leave hit svat 1 was introduced on the train to Mr Anderson wife of the liilcij who was on a vKlt to New York We reached Washington at 5 p in on the 16th Instant Next morning we had a stroll tip to the Capitol Delegate Calne took us through Clue different rooms describing des-cribing each to us in a very Interesting Inter-esting manner tatcrou we went with him nn the floor of the House amid he pal ited cut the most con spicuius members He kindly uid Inc same for us in the Senate lie next escorted us to the Supreme Court room Delegate Dele-gate Cainc is earnestly engaged looking after the interest and welfare wel-fare of all the citizens of Utah and he is highly respected by the members mem-bers of Congress Jie will do all In his power to assist me in the matter of the removal of the Southern Utcs into Utah Through letters of Introduction I t had received from the Hon George i J Cannon I had a very pleasant I tervicw wlUi Senator Morgan of i Alabama He is a member of Ito I committee ou Indian iillairs and asked me many pertinent questions iu relation to the Utes the nature of the present reservation at Los Pines Its situation area soil climate water etc the game was i asked concerning the proposed res ervaUon IlepromUcd to FCC that I a hearing should be had for me be I fore ills committee after the loll days The manifesto of the first Presidency Presi-dency and Council of the Twelve was well received here and favorably favor-ably commented upon to far as I have learned I called on Rev T S Chiid Secretary of the Southern I Ute Commission who received me very kindly and manifested much Interest in the Southern Utc removal bill Senator Teller sent word to me by Delegate flame that he would see me after the holidays He submitted sub-mitted a new bill iu relaUoh to Uie removal of the Ulcs Into Utah In this he asked foran appropriation of W000 to be applied in settlIng squatters claims and says he is willing to have It Increased on good cause being shown We laid a vIsit to the Xational Museum on the 15th where we spent a few pleasant hour Yisterday we visited Mount Vernon time home for many years of General George Washington Washing-ton The mansion Is situated on a beautiful hill a little removed from Use Potomac litter and commands an excellent view of the opposite heights en the Maryland shore Today the 21st we took a trip to the Washington Monument We ascended 500 feet and had agranJ view of Washington City and Its suburbs This is thu negroes para disc Wherever you go the negro turns up Thu weather is mostly foggy a kind of a Scotch mist which nearly near-ly chokes one As to the matter which called medown here the removal re-moval of the Utcs into UtahI cannot say much There arc so many persons interested In tile subject sub-ject that It puzzles me to tell how to tight without injuring our own cause After the holidays It will develop de-velop more fully K A HAJJUOND |
