Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS It Is fully one mile from the old Lake Point shore to the present lake level said 35 Spray of Tooclo at tho White house yesterday and the shore scene there Is one of desolation It seems only a few years ago when the bathing at Lake Point was excellent and the hotel there was well fre quenled The recent rains have been a great thing for our dry farmers and wheat growers generally Tho critical season with our grain Is In the fall and Jf there Is plenty of rain so that the wheat can get a good start it Is nure to be In fine shape at next harvest time The sheep are In transit from thu summer and early fall ranges but will have to pasture around the foothills foot-hills where they can get water until snow falls when they will go out on I the desert S e > a I Col F J French of Seven Devils Ida who Is at the Kenyon said yesterday yester-day 1 am pretty confident that Washington county will go Republican and have hopes of the Stale There 1 has been a great change of opinion In Idaho within the last four years The Idaho Northern Is now extending extend-ing Its line twentyAvc miles north from Cambridge and will reach Council Coun-cil by iDcccmber This will bring the road within forty miles of our mine and the company promises by another year to have the rails laid to our camp This means a great Impetus to mining in that lowgrade ores can be handled where now such as are taken out havo to be loft on the dump Only the highergrades of oro are at present mined o DI Evans a sailor from the Ben 1 nington and a veteran from the cruiser Brooklyn at the Santiago I fight Is In town from Marc Island en route to his home at Scranton Pa He I says there ls i no trouble In scouring all I the men needed for the navy on the Atlantic const but there is a scarcity of men at the Pacific ports Mr Evans says there was a second death on the Brooklyn besides that of the yeoman yeo-man a fireman who died after the Santiago fight He has been In the navy nine years and was on a merchantman mer-chantman for years before that S S a Bishop J J K Hall of Enterprise Morgan Mor-gan county who has been In Salt Lake attending the fair and conference left for Ogden last evening We have not suffered very much from the drought so prevalent in their sections of the State ho said yesterday but AC have had a particular pest 10 contend with Jn the squirrel which has caused us much worry I shall have to vote the Republican ticket this year said the bishop although I have been a Democrat heretofore T G R Welch a prominent Republican Republi-can of Morgan county congratulated the bishop on his change of heart and quoted a few words about as long as the lamp holds out to burn etc Both are confident that Morgan county will be found in the Republican column this year |