Show II I TALKS WITH TRAVELERS OC 1120 employees of Marshall Field Co In Chicago 800 will vote for McKinley and oC SCO employees of J V Parell Co 720 will vote the Republican Re-publican ticket said Herman Gotts chalk of Chicago at the Kcnyon yesterday yes-terday I have 700 people working for mo In my American glove factories and I dont know of any who will vote for Mr Bryan And that la the way It appears all through tHe best parts of this Nation where I have been Mr Gottschalk Is the fortunate possessor pos-sessor of one of the only twoholy golden gold-en shekels known to exist These coins were not current for commercial pur nnsrvd hut if > r < > tllMl ifnr fnlrone In I Jewish temple service The other shekel is in the British museum The Intrinsic value of the coin Is 970 but Mr Gottschalk says he has been offered 5COOO for his shekel which he has refused re-fused and the coin is In a safe deposit vault in Chicago It is claimed to be the oldest coin on earth and he was left it In 1878 by a Jewish rabbi It was not until the other companion coin was noted In the British museum that Mr Gottftohalk became aware of the value of his treasureR 04 R II Jones of Brigham City is at the Waker Mr Jones Is a Democrat but says that Box Elder county will be close this election Box Elder county has had a pretty dry time of It I this season largely owing to the breaking of the Bear river dam which deprived irrigators of so much of the water necessary to mature their crops particularly par-ticularly the fruit Mr Jones believes the scheme to divert di-vert part of tho Snake into the Bear river to revive Great Salt lake may not be feasible in that he believes the Snake IK lower than the Bear but that it would be feasible to divert the Green river In Wyoming over into the Bear and also Hamms fork George W Edglngton of Coalville I who is at the Kenyon remarked last night that the coal trade between the mines and Park City was very heavy and the Park City branch was kept buoy with coal trains He also says that Summit county Instead of being a certainly in the Democratic column snow s-now not merely doubtful hut likely to roll up a Republican majority next month A C Hatch of lIe cr Is a guest at the White house He stated last oven ing in c cpnvcrsatlon that this had been a great sheepshipping1 year for his part of the State and that now several trainloads of cattle were being shipped to Eastern markets A good deal of the wool clip was being held over ror higher prices A number of growers had contracted last fall at high prices and not a few others re fused IS to 17 cents hoping to realize as high prices as the contract men and failing declined to sell o August Peterson of Kimberley South Africa Is a guest at the Ken on Mr Peterson remarked last night Now that the war IB over In the Transvaal both that and the Orange Free State are regular dependencies of the British empire and now outsiders can go in there Avllhput any fear The Boers will all returned to their homes anjl told to reengage In their usual occupations as British subjects The gold and diamand mines arc all being reopened and It will not be Jong before South Africa will be a rapidlygrowing coun try Everything looks favorable over there |