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Show BANCROFT IS BACK FROM HAWAII HEAD OF OREGON - SHORT LINE ENJOYED THE TRIP. . i Returns Looking Refreshed and Youthful Youth-ful Speaks of , Improvements Going Go-ing on In the islands. - - General Manager W. H. Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived from the west in his private car over the Southern Pacific at 6:20 this morning, and was slated to have gone south on the passenger train" from the' north at 7:10, but was overlooked by the conductor con-ductor and train crew and hail to wait in Ogden for a local Salt Lake train which left at D o'clock. General Manager Bancroft has a healthy, vigorous and even ; youthful appearance since his ocean voyage to the Hawaiian -Islands. He expressed himself as thoroughly rested up and recuperated as a result of his vacation from official harness. He smilingly denied that either he or General Managed Man-aged Calvin of the Southern Faclflc had been summoned to New York for a conference with President Harrlman, Harrl-man, but admitted that the intter was now in Mexico en route to California and would .probably, return east from the coast over the Southern Pacific and through Ogden within the next few weeks. Speaking of Honolulu and the Islands, Is-lands, General Manager Bancroft said climatic conditions there were ideal and that the maximum and minimum temperature records were 84 and 62 degrees. He added that modern Improvements Im-provements of every dscriptiop were In progress in the more Important ltles, and that the federal . government govern-ment was erecting an impregnable defense de-fense at Pearl harbor and equipping the fortress with' modern and Improved guns as fast as the great work could be accomplished. The native Hawaiian population, Mr. Bancroft said, was fast disappearing and aa influx of Americans, Japanese, and other foreigners was gradually crowding the natives out and engaging in pursuits ol every character. |