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Show TEXAS IS "BLOWN UP" Not the Battleship but the "lone star" state. J. M. Blair returns and Is Enthusiastic. Mr. J. M. Hlalr leturned Monday evening from a thiee weeks business trip through Texas and is more than enthusiastic over what he saw and the many com testes extended to lilm while in the Lone Star state. He "blows up", the newspaper men to a finish and insists that hu never met a finer lot of fellows in his life, In their treatment of himself, every couitesy deslied was extended, and in regard tothcSmoot matter they exhibit a most admirable fairness. Not only are the newspaper men unprejudiced in the matter, but Mr. Hlalr sajs the cntlic people of Texas are inclined to feel filendly tovvaid the Moimon people peo-ple and arc of the belief that Mr. Smoot should be peimltted to retain his seat In the Senate unless it can be proved that lie is a poljgamlst. Mr. lllau's til si Impression upon entering en-tering the state was gained from Its immense Industries, and, with the people of Texas, ho believes that that state is an empire within Itself. The people aic united for Texas, Hist, last and alvvajs and aie developing the natiual lesourecs In such a substantial way and such lapidlty that the state must necessailly lead befoie a great while. The cotton Industry In Texas Is so laigc as to be almost beyond comprehension com-prehension and it Is the intention of Texas to make Galveston the greatest cotton maiket in the vvoild. Sugar cane raising is another industry of Immense piopoitlons. Mr. lllair visited most ofj the largo cities: Galveston, San Antonio, Houston Hous-ton and Dallas. Was pleased with Galveston and sajs the great sea wall theie Is a wonder. Was sin prised at the wealth In San Antonio, and sajs Houston is on a great boom, a substantial sub-stantial one, however. Mi. lllair was pleased with the location of Dallas, but not with the city Itself, although It Is all hustle and energy and the great distributing point of noitlicrn Texas. One of the things that made a deep impression upon Mr. Hlalr was the gieat number of big schools, and the thst class court houses ho saw. He took plcasuie in visiting many of the iriinnls :iml was suiuilscd at their scnoois aim was smpiiscu ui uu-u magnificence. The Catholics, he sajs, aro pushing education for all there Is In it. Nor Is Texas without depots, and Mr. Hlalr warms up thoioughly when he talks of conditions in Utah and tho west geneially Incompailson with the tieatment ralhoads accord tho eastern and southern towns. Practl-callv Practl-callv evcij town has an excel lent station sta-tion and the larger towns have magnificent mag-nificent depots. He sajs theso things have been secured by tlie united ef-foits ef-foits of the people who have demanded demand-ed their needs bo acceded to. In speaking of his uncle, Capt. Fiank Hlalr, "Jed" said that the peo-people peo-people of that state honor him Highly. Tho gentleman fought under thiee flags, that of tho Lone Star state, the Confederate and the Stars and Stripes. He Is at piesent a most indent and enthusiastic suppoiter or the Stais and Stripes, as aie all Texans. They are all Americans through and through, bioad minded, Hospitable, gcnetals to a fault, rugged hustlcis whom advcisltj can not and will not down. Mr. Hlalr was moru than pleased with his trip and feels that he Is bigger, big-ger, bioader and better for having nibbed up against the Texans. |