Show FLORAL PARTY RETURNS the party that piloted stabs second expedition this season to a age costs cess that far surpassed any similar nevious serious undertaking returned from montana antana that state of marvelous marve loua copter mines mammoth reduction mills and nd appreciative and enterprising people way may 11 not an incident occurred during the whole journey to mar the pleasure of the party or impede the enterprise everywhere every where through idaho and montana the pilgrims were received with hearty welcome especially was this thin true ol of montana the objective point of the tour flowers are re very rare in that state at least in the great mining sections whither the utah party went and therefore the more appreciated when the flower car ar was opened at anaconda and butte when its beauty was revealed and when sweet scented odor barot bur forth and filled the air the mighty bouta about of mighty multitudes actuate i y an desire of posses slon alon went up in praise of utah and her people the writer has bee witnessed but one that exceeded in In intense ty of demonstration the episodes at mutts and anaconda and that was the great chicago convention conventi or ade A ue description would not dot convey any adequate idea and therefore it will not be attempted but a word mst be said in behalf of the inhabitants of those otelea they were generous and appreciative to a fault they peak speak ot of sah ball lake as the prettiest and most desirable of all home cities they are are advertising semi coddon nial dial better lo in some respects than our own people they will be here during the great jubilee in large providing the oregon short lino line makes a proper rate and that to Is already assured of course butte will the largest delegation as it is the largest olty it to is also a busy city and the manner in which money launey is spent there indicates the open hearted if not spendthrift character of 01 the be people they make money easy and easy it goes the pay rolls oi of the eama amount to more mere than a million dollars a month and the city is very prosperous notwithstanding the depreciation of silver its very foundations are with underground workings and ore ere of some quality can be struck close to the surface almost anywhere within its corporate limits white while good wages wagers are paid in butte living is high and life itself lost fast faster it to Is claimed ciul med that in any other american city certainly the pace set aset is more rapid than that of any municipality ever visited by the NEWS representative the two wo lead ing hotels are the butte slid and mcdermott both of chion are presided over toy by gentle manwell known to in salt bolt lake the rates are lq in keeping with sho he condition of the camp As to the utah party every thing was theirs to command coa manu As an illustration of what some things cost theme low few site are cited the hack back ride to the depot costs coats fifty cents where in salt bait lake twenty five cents Is ia the rule but it dian didn 91 stop atop at fifty cents in ia all cases as aa some of the salt bait lakers were unblushingly informed by an aa enterprising john jehu that a dollar was the proper suin bum and anthe the old saying baying of cheti yu yiu are in rome bame do as the romans do Is had bad been found a good one it was waa adhered to without much murmur then as aa to bir aud and facial adornment A shave above costs twenty five cents a hair bair out a halt half dollar a shine fifteen cents cente a good breakfast a dollar sad and other things in proportion conditions reminiscent of mining days in other big western camps the butte miner in addition to devoting a large amount of local space to the visit of ef the utah party has the following editorial under the heading salt balt lake courtesy the menage from salt lake arrived yesterday yeat erday after afternoon it came in the form of a oar car load of lilacs sod and gadess and beautiful plants no pless anter greeting could be received nor could a more enthusiastic community oum be the recipient of a graceful token that the people appreciated the compliment was most forcibly demonstrated at the depot where a vast vass multitude awaited the arrival of the expected train the comm committee ittes sent bent from salt lake was waa unable to stem atom the tide as the crowd moved upon the oar and took posses ion of f the flowers in fact but lor jor the timely appearance of the mayor and police the flowers would have bave been distributed on the spot by the eager and almost irresistible condo condouret ures itis it is said that the visiting committee was wag somewhat disappointed appointed dia at the informal manner in which the multitude took possession of the ft flaral ral tributes as an it disarranged plans and iuteri interfered ered with the be program but it Is to be hoped that the monotone will return to 10 their homes feeling hat the eagerness eager nesa of the crowd was the most moat conclusive proof ji it the appreciation of the courtesy which salt lake extended large numbers number of the flowers were taken to the hospitals where their fragrance and beauty brought smiles of ei gratitude gratl tude to the faces of the afflicted throughout the city last there was a sweet sweat transporting odor which carried the citizens ol of the busiest city in the world back to the pleasant glens glean and slumbering valleys of days gone by salt lake has won the hearts of the peo keople ale of butte and anaconda and these communities will return the compliment when sem oen tennial exposition Is i opened the anaconda stand standard ard gave sev oral eral columns to a treatment of the flower offering and the approaching jul jubilee alles and made the following editorial comment utah s generous donations of two carloads of flowers to butte and ana an a aonda will long be a theme of grateful remembrance they arrived on schedule time crowds of people peaple were awaiting them hom and many hundred homes ahmea wore were made sweeter and happier for their presence full many a flower sang bang gray is burn to blush unseen and waste its if sweetness on the desert air but nothing of that kind can be said of yesterday yesterdays s flower arrivals in butte and anaconda they were more than appreciated they WON admired and loved gift was w as an unique as it was unexpected the TB salt lake man or er woman who conceived the idea possesses an element of that ought to labure insure is Buco aeiful career it was wai an ai brilliant IS piece of advertising as aa could be dg besides the gratitude of ef the people of butte and anaconda the standard desires to tender tended personal pe thanks to te the managers of the tn enterprise for their flowery comel menu ments |