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Show THE STOCKMEN IN DENVER. An Ovation and the Freedom of the City Tendered Them Faust makes a Speech. The Salt Lake express over the Union Pacific railway pulled into Denver Friday at 3 o'clock p. m., says the Denver Netvs, with three special Pullman - sleepers attached. at-tached. The cars were elegantly decorated deco-rated with canvas, landscape 'and .cattle scenes, United States bunting and emblematic em-blematic flags. The occasion of so large a train is accounted for by the fact that 120 Utah, Idaho, Nevada, "Wyoming and California stockmen, delegates to the National Horse and Cattle Growers, at St. Louis, were on the train. Seventy of these representative stockmen are from Utah, and represent over 272,000 head of cattle and 140,000 head of horses. Dr. H. J. Faust, vice-president of the National Nation-al and president of the Utah convention, headed the party. Since the jolly party oi stocicmen and cowboys left Salt Lake city on Thursday morning, at 8 o'clock, a continual ovation of courtesies were meted out at Ogden, Evanston, Cheyenne and Denver. The Idaho delegates dele-gates represent 1,000,000 head of cattle, and the other Territories a proportionate amount. Several single individuals have shipped East over the Union Pacific from 100 to 200 cars of cattle during the past season, in consideration of which the Union Pacific kindly tendered free fare to the respective delegates; Every attention atten-tion and comfort is provided for the stockmen, stock-men, who are loud in their praise of the hospitality of the road. - - On their arrival here the party was met by Mayor Bates and General Cook and escorted, about the city, and shown through the public buildings .of the city. A. formal vote of thanks was extended to Messrs Bates and Cook for their courtesies. court-esies. Fifty of the delegates from TTtah Idaho, Nevada and California, visited various objects of interest in Denver among them the county court house. As it was twilight, Chairman Gird caused all the gas burners to be lighted and the different dif-ferent rooms thrown open. The visitors were loud in their praise of the beauty of the building: When thev entered the district court room, Mr. Faust, of Utah or as he is called, "Bishop" Faust, took the judge's seat and called the meetin- to order. After a short and very complimentary compli-mentary address whose subject was Denver," a delegate moved that all those present should vote at St. Louis for Denver as the next place for -holding the National, convention. This was promptly seconded and carried unanimously, unani-mously, when the chairman, amid considerable con-siderable laughter, said: "You are now all excused." After visiting other portions por-tions of the building, the guests departed for the Chamber of Commerce and other buildings. |