Show I TALKS WITH TRAVELERS W E Donlan a millionaire Democrat Demo-crat from western West Virginia Js at UK Kenyon with Mrs Donlan on a m trip to San Francisco Mi DonUm Is a candid mini nnd while a supporter of Mr Bryan stated yesterday his belief I that Mr McKlnky will be elected and I that too by I large majority West Virginia will be close but probably I Republican and a l piesent both patties are very active canvassing the State 1 Virginia wi or course go Democratic though the Republicans are working I hard In that Stale also The city ot I Itlchinond however may go Republl I I can1 I cammMr Donlan owns 730 acres of land near Wcston adjoining a field containing I contain-ing the famous Copley oil well which i Is sold to be one of the > greatest gusih 1 ers In the country It began with 12000 barrels u i day Mr Donlan says and I has yielded as high as 20000 barrels In con IUICe o the close proximity of this phenomenon to Mr Donlans property his tract Is Valued at 1000000 I 00 George Y Wallace relurnoil ycstcr Ida I-da morning from his New York and I I 1 Boston trip He said later Boston J people were paying little or no attcn I lion to politics They seemed to < lon pollls sense Ilhe j election was going sure one way I and so did not divert their attention from the regular routine of business to I politics Business appeared to be very good both in Boston and New Yoik and manufacturers had so much to do k that I was told We cannot talC any orders as w e are full of work right up I to the first of the year Ont would hardly believe a Presidential campaign was drawing to a close I C S 0 I L C Reynolds of the Bunker Hill Mining company at Stockton Is at the White house with Mrs Reynolds Mr I Reynolds Is one of the oldest aubscrlb ems of The Tribune and Mrs Reynolds said yesterday that she found not long l t ago in her trunk a copy of The Trlb une dated back In 1S72 Mr Reynolds I brought in twenty tons of lead and I sliver ore from Stockton Monday for I I I which he received 2550 per ton He says that while the camp was unanimously unani-mously for Bryan four years ago the vote will be very close as between the two Presidential candidates this election elec-tion He says the camp Is flourishing and the Hon rine people are about to 1 renew tunnel operations particularly In the I 0 I I i 1 I I doubt very much If the scheme to Incorporate BIngham com s to anything any-thing for some years saRi J T Kauli man at the Walker house yesterday I would be a good thing for the place If it could be Incorpoiated and keep money at homo that ls now paid out to the county At present all license fees aie paid Into the county treasury r but If applied to improvements In BIngham I the change would be n mighty good thing for the town Mr Kauffman expressed his belief that BIngham precinct pre-cinct would turn out a good Republican Republi-can majority on election day 0 0 0 There are a great many McKlnloy men In Texas and Louisiana said F S Dickinson of New York at the Ked yon yesterday Cotton Is now up to 10 cents and there Is more cotton than can be picked The South Is In the same postlon with cotton at Its present figure as Utah would be with silver at 160 Why a negro family ofa man wife and two children made S125 in four weeks picking cotton In Texas and there Is a boom of prosperity In the South much like the business bOOm during the eighties In the North McKInley could get the Southern I vote if white people were assured lat < he would make no more negro political I appointment People as a rule down there are prosperous and well satisfied to have things remain as they are and l there are 0 whole lot of them expansionists expan-sionists A New Orleans man said tome to-me that when the lingwas involved he knew no party but only his country t 0 a George Cheesman of Colorado Springs who has been engaged In ml fling In northeastern Chihuahua Is at the KnutsforcU Mr Chcesman saysthe great Carmen smelter at Bociullias Is reporte to have shut down nnd suspects sus-pects It may be because of failure of ore In the Carmen mines There was some years ago a railroad the Mexican Mexi-can Northern projected from Sierra MoJada In the southern part of the I Stale to Boqulllns on the Rio Grande I river But owing to the Grnr of extensive coal deposits between lerra I MoJada and the International road to the East the Idea of the Northern road seems to have been abandoned aid rail connections wi be made with tho International In-ternational via the new coal fields o Judge J H McGarry of Beaver who has been In Idaho several weeks is In the city en route to his home which he says he will reach In Umo to vote If J it I taT cs a wheel on his wagon The Judge has been selecting a ranch for I his stock which he proposes to move to the north Idaho is a most wonderful country coun-try he said and Idaho Falls ia the Fnl most wonderful shipping town of Its size that I over saw The one great drawback Is that Idaho has not sufficient suffi-cient transportation facilities But that will be obviated In a short time Potatoes Po-tatoes hay and grains generally have done remarkably well this year while lucerne has yielded more heavily than I usual 101 i |