I. M. Yost, father of E. D. Yost, of the Yost, Temple and West End theaters, today was expecting todepart Tuesday of next week for hishome in Denver. The visitor has been here for several days on business and pleasure.He is very favorably impressed with Santa Ana and is anticipating the day when he and his wife cancome here to locate permanently.ost sr. is leading a more or less retired life. He is interesed in oilin Wyoming, Kentucky and Texas. The visitor was closely associatedwith the development of Kansas inthe early days. He was at one time : representative from, Ellis countv in | the state legislature, and is said to have erected the first flour mills west of Topeka, Kansas. At onetime he had four mills and thirty-seven elevators, distributed along the main= line of the Union Pacific.I The United States Portland Cement company, having one of the largest plants of this character, was founded by him. It is now operating jat Yocemento, Kansas the city having been named after 1iim. He is not _ ■ now identified with the company.B | Yost is a man of large financial11 influence and it is possible that heI will soon become financially inter-I ested in enterprises in this city.