Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Prof and Mrs John J McClcllan returned Salt Lake yesterday after a tour of Europe When seen yesterday day Prof McGldllan said We left SaltLuke for Berlin last August total to-tal c up study with eminent masters I was fortunate secure Xavcr Schar wenka as my professor and continued with him until last March when he i Informed his enthusiastic pupils that his Illness would not permit anymore t any-more Instruction during the season AVe were a sad lotfor he Is a noble master mas-ter Equally fortunate was I In next gettng tho training of the very popular popu-lar Russian professor Jcdllczka who j I I has a tremendous prestige In Germany and Russia having been tho last pupil I j of Rubensteins You can well Imagine t how I value such tutoring My studies were what I had craved for and wcro of the most pleasant order and the treatment of the masters wps lovely July 1th Mrs McClellan and I left for a trip through Germany Switzerland italy France and Belgium We enjoyed en-joyed over four weeks ot splendors and historical features of these old countries coun-tries The Paris exposition we found to be very fine particularly the art exhibit I which was superb In arrangement quantity and quality of exhibits and the laying l out of the grounds our Chicago Chi-cago fair was decidedly superior Some parts of the exposition are yet incomplete incom-plete pleteThe The Misses Ramsey and Gales of Provo were well and making fine progress pro-gress when I left Berlin u A F Searles of the Colorado division divi-sion of the League of American Wheelmen Wheel-men at Denver Is at the White house with Mrs Searles on a recreation trip Mr Searles has been examining lhop Salt Palace bicycle saucer and said of I II I yesterday l Is a very fast track but Jwas surprised to find It In such good condition considering the way J most of It Is put together Other tracks arc built solid and heavy like a bowlIng bowl-Ing alley and the timber bolted But here only part of the track Is built that way But then Mr Sharp tOld me that it Is carefully watched and kept In perfect repair so there Is never any trouble Wo have no saucer In Denver although there are more wheels to the square yard In that city than In any other city of the same size In thq United States But we hope to have a track next year Mr Searles Is a member of the National Na-tional Road Improvement association and said We are preparing for a wheel path from New York to the Pacific Pa-cific There is one now between New York and Chicago via Albany Buffalo Buf-falo Cleveland and Toledo and the main path westward will run via Milwaukee Mil-waukee and Prairie du Chlen to Omaha and then directly to Denver There Is now a good road to Pueblo and we expect ex-pect to reach Grand Junction over the new State road projected by Senator Tabor Whether the line will run over the Green River desert or via Meeker and Ashley Is not sallied yet a e a General business all through southern south-ern Wyoming Is unusually good said James Began a Chicago dry goods man at the Knutsford yesterday This fall especially will see lively times there In nil business circles The sheep men are in high spirits Those who wanted to sell have sold their wool and those who are standfhg out for higher prices are well able to hold onto their goods until such prices are realized and everybody Is going to vote the Republican ticket The Stale will go heavily Republican In the fall Rawllns Is In unusually promising shape this year with the big accession to its trade from the Battle Lake country coun-try and there are so many people In town that rooms have to be spoken for a day In advance of occupancy The FerrlsHaggerty deal Is bringing that section to the front Laramie Is also having a big rush of business Green River Is packed with people In fat there is not a poor town In the whole southern part of the State a S That Idaho will go Republican Is avery a-very fair proposlllon said Col F J French of the Seven Devils at the Kenyon yesterday I believe the LegIslature Leg-islature will be Republican and of course Senator Shoup will succeed himself Een were the Legislature togo to-go Democratic I doubt very much if Dubois would be chosen Senator Dubois Du-bois Is a man without a political country coun-try or party and he Is politically deadM The Indorsement so called at Pocatello Poca-tello will do him no good It was worked through by political pulling and means nothing tangible Washington county is Republican this year and at our Blue Jacket mine where a vote was taken the other day It was twentyfour for McKinley to seven for Bryan There Is going to be a whole lot of sad sorrowful surprises for our Democratic friends In Idaho The Idaho Northern railroad takes afresh a-fresh start northward from Cambridge to Council In two weeks and when that extension Is built our mines will be Ihlrlyelght miles nearer the railroad rail-road James C Abdill who was singing tenor with the Abbott Opera company when the prima donna died at the Templeton hotel In this city Is at the St James hotel the first time he has been In Sail Lake since the sad event Mr Abdill says that Annandale who was for so long a time Abbott contraltO con-traltO is now a grandmother of about 70 years of age and Consequently Is no longer singing Mr Abdill relates very Interesting anecdotes of the popular prlma donna and mentioned among other things how careful she was of her deportment and how strictly she managed man-aged her singers She was a good woman wo-man and left a host of genuine friends to mourn her loss Mr Abdill is at present pres-ent with the Pain llreworks people |