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Show of honor marched, ftur on either side, between the carriage and the curb. Just behind the carriage of the president presi-dent came a carriage with one lone occupant oc-cupant Seth Bullock, an old acquaintance ac-quaintance of the president. He joined the party in Montana and was takea under the president's wing. The stand from which the president presi-dent spoke faced Seventh street, and that street and Jefferson were packed for a block in each direction. A great array of flowers had been presented to the president. At tne conclusion oi the speaking the latter called . up Bishop Funsten and presented the liowers to him for the patients In the two hospitals. During the course of his speech, speaking of irrigation, the president said: "I was greatly struck as I came up this beautiful and fertile valley by what has been done by the application of industry, intelligence and water co the soil, aud inasmuch as for a number num-ber of years I myself passed a large proportion of my life in the mountains and on the plains of this great western west-ern country, I feel a peculiar pride that it was given to me to sign and thereby there-by make into law the act of the national na-tional government, to my mind one of the most important acts ever made into law by the national legislature, the national irrigation act of a year ago. Already experimental work has ' begun here in your own state. During his visit to the capital city, President Roosevelt planted a tree in. the state house grounds, declaring aa he iad finished his labors: "That i3 what I have been preaching." PRESIDENT IN IDAHO. Thursday was presidential day in Idaho, the weather being perfect and not an incident marred the harmony of the trip of the presidential party over the state. The president's two main stops were at Pocatello and Boise, but there were brief stops at American Falls, Kimama, Shoshone, Glenns Ferry, Mountain Home and at Nampa, and at all of these places except ex-cept American Falls he made brief addresses. One of the features' at Pocatello was the unique greeting given President Roosevelt. Advantage was taken of the fact that Pocatello is located just at the southern boundary of the Fort Hall reservation, and arrangements were perfected by Indian Agent Caldwell Cald-well whereby the president was escorted es-corted from his car to the reviewing stand by a body guard of 200 Bannock and Shoshone Indians The president spoke thirty minutes to the people of Pocatello from a pavilion pa-vilion erected for the purpose, his talk being mostly for the railroad men, he also acknowledging the presence of the Indian guards of honor. When the presidential train arrived at Boise a procession was formed, led by the band. In the carriage with the president rode Secretary Loeb, Governor Gov-ernor Morrison and Mayor Alexander. The carriage was preceded by a detachment de-tachment of mounted police and police rode behind it. In addition a guard |