The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16
HOTEL GOSSIP.

George LAWYER of Tacoma. stockholder
and director of the Sunset Lumber COM
pany. is at the Wey. Mr.. Lawler said last
night: We deal almost exclusively in
fir spruce and cedar. Red cedar shingles
are turned out by the millions in the
northwest every year, and most of them
find their way to the Atlantic seaboard.
We also ship immense quantities of spruce
clapboards. The lumber resources OF
Washington, in the neighborhood of Pu-
get Sound and along the Columbia river.
are almost inexhaustible. The trees are
sound and of such large girth that We
can get a 24x24 joist out of them without
much difficulty
THE shipping of lumber to South Amer
lean and :; African ports gives eInploymen55
the exports are growing larger each year.
An agent of the British government has
recently appeared in the pine lumber
camps of the east with an order for 500,-
00e.o00 feet of yellow pine. This is the
largest order for lumber ever given, and
it will take all the saw mills in Georgia
and eastern Louisiana two years to fill
the contract. l understand the British
government intends TO send every foot
Of it to South Africa.
Two years ago Tacoma entertained
the Concatented Order of Hoo Hoos. We
took them fishing in Puget Sound and
the Columbia river and showed them how
heard after they reached their homes and
told their fish yarns, that everybody in
the country thought the jovial order of
Hoo Hoos pack Of monumental liars.
S. NJ. Barker of Silver Creek. Neb., ar
rived in town yesterday and is staying
at the White House. Mr.. Barker is we'll
known in sheep circles and back in the
| COS was prominent in New York politics.
| He discoursed on both subjects last even
ing. and said:
s'I am out here with 500 of the choicest
bred ram bouilletts, delaines, and half
| bloods of the same breeds They are from
| Ohio and Michigan. The sheep industry
| prosperous enterprises. Sheep are gold
everywhere these days and will continue
to be as long as we have protective
| tariff.
II was in the New York legislature as
senator from Watkins district and voted
[ for Roscoe Conklin the first time he was
| elected to the United States senate.
i Conklin's election was the outcome of one
of the greatest political fights ever waged.
in the Empire state. He and Noah Davis
! We're both candidates gefore the Repub-
! lfcan caucus. Reuben E. Fenton was gov
-ernor at that time and was invincible to
| Conklin The fight was on to finish and
| the voting so close that two men could
| have switched from either side and given
the victory to the other. Roscoe Conkln
| was finally elected.
/ Governor Fenton was the most mag
netc man l ever met; shaking hands
with him was like taking hold Of an in
! duction coil. Conklin was just the oppo-
site; he had old friends but he was too
cold to make many new ones 1t was
| given out that Conklin died from exposure
| in the great blizzard in 1888, but l know
/ he died of broken heart, due to political
disappointment, the same thing that kill
ed Horace Greeley, James 6. Blaine, and
| ex-Secretary Folger.
Il knew Ezra Cornell and John Nc
Graw, the founders of Cornell university.
intimately. Cornell was one of the best
organizers in the New York legislature
| He took g. daan interest in SciaOfific
| search. and was one of the few men who
had enough faith in the outcome of the
experiments that We're then being con-
Quoted by S. f. B. Morse and others to
warrant his putting thousands of dollars
into 1t. He was one of the organizers of
the, Western Union Telegraph company,
and directed it's movements when it was
just learning to walk.
Horace Greeley, the editor of the New
YORK tribune. was a tremendous power
in politics. He used to visit Albany fire.
| quently and when routine work was be-
! ing transacted in the assembly hall. Gree
ley would put on his white high hat his
white overcoat, sit in a chair and fall
fast asleep for an hour or two. No man
| ever lived that did so much for the labor
| ing man and farmer and they were his
friends: but he was as unpopular with
! the politicians as holy water is with the
devil, because he wouldn't let them
make puDpet of him..
A. l.. Mathews of Galloway. Neb.. was
at the Cullen last night. Speaking of the
| outlook in the cattle trade Mr.. Mathews
said:
+ 1.-TWO and 3-year-old feeders are now
bringing from $40 to SAT- per 100 pounds
( and beef cattle and cents per pound
l5rhe prices are higher than last year and
T the business is more profitable. I came
out TO Utah to look over the cattle
ranges, and II the stock is satisfactory 1
shall make extensive purchases. Nebras
ka ana Kansas are running neck and neck
n hnl fl1ra1 riclH -,
corn crop this year but l reckon Kansas
will pull the race by nose. We haven
been so situated that we could holler
about our crop until this year, and so
we've kept quiet. Kansas has been hoI-
lering ever since the state was settled.
whether they had crops or wind, and
time, but well learn how to do it in
time, and then Kansas will have ito get a
new job"
Mont, are at the Knutsford. . iie'ena'
! E: G. Davis and wife of Colorado
Springs are at the Knutsford
W. H. Nichols of Butte is at the Knuts-
! ford.
Mr.; and Mrs Garry E. Chambers of
| Cortland. n. Y, are at the Knutsford
J. NJ. carrere of carrere & Hastings,
+ prominent architects cf New York, Mrs.
Carrere and Walter Cook of Thomas Cook
& Sons arrived from the Yellowstone in a
+ private car yesterday and lunched at the
Knutsford.
M. W. Baker. the Britisher who was
manned by a limb of the law at the Salt
Palace last week. was removed from the
Knutsford in an ambulance yesterday and
taken to the Holy Cross hospital.
John and Hugh Carlin of Butte are at
! the Cullen.
P. E. Williams, a prominent mining
man of Tfntic, is at the Walker.
Kenyon,-Fred Heath, Denver. Colo; w
It. Holden. Philadelphia, Pa; H. r. Cory
"a Midnight Bell'' Co.; H. R. Perigo,
Omaha, Neb-: Paul ]. Sachs, Arthur
Sachs, New York City; B. p. Billings
Omaha, Neb.; e. E. Parmelee, New York
Alexander Ralph Miss Eleanor r. Ralph
Miss Karelyn Ralph, Philadelphia. Pa; j