The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-22
HOTEL GOSSIP.

HOTEL GOSSIP.
after all is said and done" quoth
Major Thomas H. Cavenaugh at the
Knutsford last night. salt Lake is
hard TO discount whichever way you
I look at it, and l am glad to get back
again" The old-time newspaper man
has just returned from trip TO Wash
| ington, where he has been endeavoring
to transact some business in connec-
| tien with the big irrigation scheme in
| which he is interested, and which in
wolves the reclamation of a vast area
Of arid lands in the, vicinity OF Mount
Nebo.
The doughty major stated that he
was unable to report that as yet he had
accomplished anything definite further
| than what had been already done IN
that direction, but he had hopes of Ill
timately being in a position TO throw
open those lands TO the farmer and
thereby make the desert blossom as the
rose. Since Major Cavenaugh last Wis
tied this city he has been up TO Seat
! tie. In speaking Of the outlook in that
| city last night he said: Seattle is to-
day one of the liveliest cities in Amer
lea for its size. The town is full to
overlooking with Cape Nome travellers,
many of whom viii not be able TO get
l
june 1t IS estimated that there are
$4,000 men in the town who will pro-
coed to the gold fields just as soon as
they can get away, but l think that
that number is perhaps oYerstated by
10000 or SO. At any rate, one cannot
talk anything else than Cape Nome up
there at the present time. The ma
jorfty Of the men there are buying their
outfits right in the stores and business
/ in
quence."
DR.. A. L. Castleman of Mercur is
numbered among the guests registered
at the Kenyon. In course of CONVEX
sation last night he said, in regard to
the smallpox situation in the mining
camp, that the scourge was we'll in
hand, and that at the present time
there was but one case in Mercur.
and that patient had been Isolated
without practically any exposures. Ia
ken all IN all he said that there had
been over fifty cases in the town, half
q dozen Of which had been touch and
go with those stricken and had lea
them pitted in a fashion that indicated
that they had passed through a severe
visitation of the disease.
c. NJ. Hicklin of Denver, when seen
at the Knutsford yesterday, urbanely
noated that the Queen CITY of the
Plains wes still on the map when he
left Colorado in the binding blizzard.
The moving topic Of the hour there
JUST at present ne said, lis the Ander-
son shooting case, which, if you re-
member, occurred in the Office of the
Denver Pest some time ago" After 60
Ing into detail in regard to the affair.
he said; THE Pest had spent a lot of
money IN exposing his methods. and he
naturally did not like the nOtoriety
Denver is proud of her evening paper
and Eas reason to be, when the force
IL employs is taken into consideration
together with the salaries it pays. How
ever, some Of the society people there
are not particularly in love with the
paper, from the manner it has of
handling them without gloves after
the fashion Of the New York dailies. It
| makes good reading for the average
public, but, then, perhaps after all Den
yer is a little too small for that stvIe
OF journalism, at least from the society
mans standpoint
This season for oranges in Califor-
MIA has been, perhaps, the best that
6tate has ever seem" said G. ". Ruth
erford of Centerville, Mich, at the
. White House last night In the neigh
borhOod Of Redlands, where 1 have
been staying for the last few months,
the entire district is given over pTdc-
! tically to the cultivation of citrus
: fruits, and the orange crop is a source
OF general income TO the farmers in
that vicinity. The groves, which vary
all the way from five acres and up, are
under irrigation from a system of ar
teSian wells with never ending flow
or water. This has the effect of making
the fruit grown in the vicinity to be
much sought after, and TO command
good prices the world over where it is
shipped in special cars and steamers.
TIE growers have long since sensed the
superiority of the navel orange over
any other seed fruit, with the cOnse-
Quence that one can traverse the
length of the oranges growing districts
or California without finding scarcely
any seed oranges in cultivation, where,
a few years ago, they were universally
grown. The man who introduced the
navel orange to the world, in the end
lost all he had, and died in poverty,
while others have resped the beneft
Of his discovery and acquired wealth"
Rutherford stated during the course Of
further conversation that, for the ma
jor portion, the manual labor upon the
, plantations was performed by China
men. The returns from the groves
averaged in the neignborhoOd of 5000
per acre profits but, he said, as was the
case in every walk OF life, the middle
man got away with the bigger share.
The Kenyon.-W. c. MetcaIf, Pull
man, H.; Gregory Jones, BlackfOOt,
Ida; NJ. L. Meehan, Denver, Colo. /:
James Swan and wife, Butte; s. B.
Hamill, Chicago; Harry P Potter.
Omaha, Neb.; f A Num-, Rochester,
= n. Y; j. c. Mcdonald, Denver; Will
liam P. Bigl0w. Baltimore, Nd; T. P.
Elliott, New York; S. L. Meiniger.
New York: W. T. GOnell and wife. Chi
cago; George S. Chase, Mrs. B. W.
Chase, Detroit, Mich; E. II. Rand,
Cincinnati, o.; May z. FELTON, and one,
: Ogden; W. H. Webster, Cincinnati:
George. D. Blood, Park City: Victor
Nell, St. Louis; J. E Cute, Chicago;
F. d. McCune, Denver; r. c. Han
mond, Tampa, Fla; Joe Watson and
Y wife, Eureka; W. H. White, Ogden:
: Howard Lawson, Dana c. McCready.
London, England; W. S. McGinnis.
Washington, D. c.; Joseph Ruse and
L wife. Victor, Colo; Mr.. and Mrs. S. W.
!. Flower, Toledo, O.; NJ Gurckel, Chi
cago; Laura Barnes, Cora Barnes, Co
: rhine; ". E. Travis, Pocatello, Ida: R.
I English, Helper; S. II. Stinson, Provo;
4 W. ]. Piatt, Denver; B. B. Johnston,
= Chicago.
= sister, Kalamazoo, Mich: George
f Smith, Milwaukee; c. A. Ru-
4 dolph, Wilmington, Del; r. c. Porter
!, and family, Pittsburg; Miss Shapleigh.
s Boston; Miss Balls, Boston; ]. c. Guth-
S RE, Chicago; Robert J. Craig, Roosevelt
Parish, jr.. Philadelphia; ". E. Wheel
CT and wife COp0radO- q Ra-teS a