The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-29
HOTEL GOSSIP.

we VIII De a lODs, time tedu. anu We
can't help that" said ]. F. Richardson.
a jolly. genial undertaken from Park
City. at The White House yesterday. Il
have followed the business of burrying the
dead for about thirty-two years. said
Mr. Richardson. Like everything else
the business has made progress In the
early days we did not know anything
about embalming, and we used TO make
our own collins. In fact the business of
furniture making and undertaking were
combined. and We followed both pursuits
Yes, | have put away q good many
folks. and when we undertakers have
buried the worlds population. we expect
to be translated to another sphere. None
there would be nobody left to bury us.
Consequently when We plant everybody
else We will move on to glory without the
trouble of dying"
Il have been up in Wyoming and helped
start up a new town. said w. L. II.
Dotson of Minersville at the Cullen yes
terday. The new city is located on the
bench land about five miles east of Fort
Bridger. said he and already has a
good start. We have built one house in
which the postoffice is located and If the
boom continues We expect several more
the postoffice is Bench. but some are in
favor OF calling the town Owen. The
SOIL is very prolific when water is put on
IL. and there is an~abundance of the very
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sheep and cattle country. as the grass is
very fine. Down in Beaver county. We
have suffered from drought; and crops
Will be shy. Potatoes viii only be about
one-third a crop in our section"
Great Falls. Mont. has not improved
much in the last few years. said F..
kiepetka at the Kenyon yesterday. He is
the superintendent of the Boston & Mon
tana smeiters at Great Falls and is in
Salt Lake on a purely personal trip
Butte IS lively. said Mr.. Kiepetka, ''and
everybody is at work. l believe we are at
tne unit OF our development in Butte. but
think the mines are permanent and we
VIII continue as at present for years to
come There is a great deal of build
ing going on in Butte and many of our
miners are building their own homes. 1t
is a condition that will help the city very
materially"
B. ]. Symonds is resident of Denver
who is stopping at the Knutsford He
sells collins and caskets and has a fine
line of samples with him, which he is
wlilirg to show anyone who desires to die
'C2skets, ike everything else have their
styles said Mr.. Symonds yesterday
For awhile the couch was the recherche
thing with the well-to-do, but Just now
the Chancellor has the call. You can
regulate the expense of your funeral TO
suit yourself. and be buried as cheaply or
as extensively as your pocketbook will
crossing every day, and. strange TO say.
there are states in which the pauper dead
are embalmed in the most perfect man
ner.
The process as practiced by most I'M
dertakerS is a very thorough one. and
body properly treated will be preserved
for years. Even the pauper dead in our
city are embalmed and l think it is a
beautiful idea. Friends or relatives who
may later discover the loss of a loved
one. have means of Identification that is
Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine will
go down into history as one of the great
est business years of the century" said
W. B. Main of the firm of c. P. Kellogg &
Co.. wholesale clothiers, of Chicago, who
can do and We are pushed to our utmost
capacity. We have very big trade in
the west. especially in Utah. We have
sold our goods in Utah for thirty years
and have an established trade here. This
season. however. we have fully doubled
our business out here.
Hon. James Andrus of St. George was
at the Cullen yesterday. He said: Poll
tics are very quiet down cur way, but the
cattle business is good. We are getting
good price for our cattle and there wilf
be a good many shipped out from south
ern Utah this fall. Cattle down our way
are doing well, but grass on the ranges is
very poor. II snip. ana prODdDlN Snail.
l will send my cattle into Nebraska or
Kansas to feed up before sending them
into market.
THE export trade of Galveston has
trebled within two years. We now have
twenty-eight feet Of water on the bar.
where two years ago we only had twelve
feet, and we are now the port from which
all western produce is exported said
Of Colu ~ he
Knutsford yesterday. Mr.. Heye is spend
ing a few days in Salt Lake City with his
family. and is very prominent wholesale
grocer and cotton factor of Galveston.
The Southern Pacific railroad makes
its terminus at our port, and is building
tremendous big wharves there. said MIR.
Heye "Of course that traffic only bene
fits Galveston in an indirect way. The
load the ships, amounts to 100000 per
week. all of which finds its way into cir
culation in various channels. and of
course benefits the city to that extent
The Texas cotton crop will be short. The
floods in the Brazos valley and the
drought in northern Texas have curtailed
the yield which will be not over 10000
bales which is about 100000 short of the
average crop.
DR.. H. P Morrey of Mt. Pleasant is at
the Walker.
Senator A o. Smoot of Provo was at
the Walker yesterday.
l.. o. Leonard. travelling passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific railway. is
at the Kenyon.
G. C. Russell. the popular boniface of
the Railway House, Helper, is guest at
the Kenyon.
b. F. coffey of castlegate is at the
Kenyon.
DR.. Edward Howard of Denver is at the
Cullen.
Fred Krug Of Omaha. general Western
agent of the Anheuser-BUsch Brewing
company, is at the Knutsford-
Ike Coleman. very popular railroad
man. well known in Salt Lake City, was
at the White House yesterday.
C. NJ. Stole, well known business man
of Glendive, Mont. is guest at the
Walker.
James Campbell. the st. Louis capitalist.
and L. L. Mum of Colorado. who are in