Show I TALKS WITH TRAVELERS Ther was a fine exhibition of true and genuine human sympathy at Frisco the other day said A B Lewis at the Cullen yesterday The little house pf a miner named Taylor burned down at 1 oclock In the mornIng leaving leav-ing himself arid wife and nine children homeless and destitute Taylor In his anxiety to save his belongings would probably have been fatally burned had not he been restrained from rushing I Into the fiamos Messrs Cy Osborne Angus McLeod and 0 citizen named Dunn Immediately went to work and Ii two hours had rnlaed 300 which was afterward increased to 5100 In aid of the sufferers Then the good citizens citi-zens of the town furnished lumber nnd building material and free labor and It was not long beforo the poor miner and his little flock were comfortably housed again Truly one touch of I nature makes the whole world kin and in our far Western communities especially is this generous impulse to help the unfortunate manifested with marked emphasis a a Proprietor C L Miller of the new Thornton hotel at Butte 1sa guest at I the Knutsford en route from an Eastern East-ern trip He said We shall open the hotel In November with accommodations accommoda-tions for 250 people Tim building was erected at a cost of 5175000 and s one of the finest hotel structures in the Northwest Butte is growing right along and demands additional hotel accommodations and business promIses prom-ises to be very good When asked as to the political prospects pros-pects of the State Mr Miller said I the Daly faction see fit to throw their strength over to the Republicans in order to bluff Clark the Republicans will win the day But unless something I some-thing of that kind is done I think the I Democrats will be likely t > to win TerrItorial Treasurer M L Gunn of Oklahoma nnd family are at the Knutsford having come to Utah on an excursion Mr Gunn expressed himself yesterday as delighted with his trip and especially with this city and lake and as It is his first trip this far west he and his family have seen much to interest them Mr Gunn says that Oklahoma Territory Is in high prosperity and that the wheat and corn crops arc going to be something phenomenal b B F Riter the Logan druggist came to the city yesterday He has lately made C tour 0 Cache and Bear I Lake counties and says tho general crop conditions are fully as good as they were a year ago probably better bet-ter The crops will not be up to the average but will be better than was anticipated a couple of months rntclpnted z ago On the whole says Mr filter woof wo-of tho north country have no complaints com-plaints to make |