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Show 1 TRUTH. this movement silence and there was not a ripple of and their records for applause until he concluded his go spotless so pure that they remarks. civic cleanliness dt & shifted to this campaign the desire Park City Record: To read the women who and men Are Salt Lake morning papers these days, 'the injection of religious quest- one would think that the Mormon would discour- church has abandoned ions into politcs, and everything of the between contention and an ecclesiastical strife nature and is deage to rest state the of sections its whole different time and attention to voting are things nnder the imputations that they political staying awake nights Mr. Jackson concocting schemes to assist that not good citizens? find much talked of Smoot to land the men raises these issues and he will of the plain, sober, thinking people to he wants in office. It is truly wonderful, judging from these newspaper acall parties and all creeds ready lines. chosen his counts how ceaselessly active the accept battle upon of and honor integrity church has become in politics since the Ibr the before and home at the last. Republican state convention. Idaho, world, should be the slogan of a It gives one horrors, almost, to think inunited opposition to the mad efforts that this terrible, liberty-killinand wreckers state Dubois fluence might not have been discovof the character defamers! ered for years to come had not Cutler been nominated. So in this light, Mr. Cutler is a public benefactor, and as Nampa Herald: Rev. B. P. Clay, of reward for being the means of unCaldwell, delivered an earthing this frightful secret should lecture in the Dewey Palace hall be elected governor. Thursday evening and told the people of Nampa, with apparent seriousness THE GREAT NILE DAM THE BENand sincerity, that they were threateEFIT OF IRRIGATION IN EGYPT. ned with an invasion of Mormon The completion of the dam and the polygamists, who were likely to fill up he Boise, Payette and Snake valleys. Assouan reservoir in the Nile shows The prophecy provoked many broad what benefits will aerrue through irrismiles. gation of the arid lands of the United Rev. Mr. Clay is the Democratic States. When Egypt came under the candidate for congress and the meet-nwas held, under the auspices of the control of Great Britain conditons in mocratic committee, but the polit-ca- l the old land were interesting, but not issues were not once referred to. satisfactory. The British government ven incidentally. The name of the ancient mocratic candidate for president went to work to build up the as mentioned only once during the kingdom and repair the waste places enirig. when the speaker ironically to make the desert blossom as the tated that they were waiting for- a rose. The condition of the fellaheen arker boom, but it had not arrived. and the finances of The Caldwell band was in attend-nc- e was abominable and brought out a good crowd Egypt were worse than bankrupt. ith its lively rag time and patriotic Since 1882 this has been remedied un g rg, fully half of those attending Demo-ratiRepublicans. Fred Davis, committeeman for Nampa in seconding Dubois op-"- L g anti-Morm- on g - der the intelligent control of Lord REPUBLICAN TICKET. Cromer, the British representative One of the first things demanding his For President Theodore Roosevelt attention was the regulation of the For Vice President Charles W. flow of the waters of the Nile, by Fairbanks. which the unproductive land along its banks or contiguous thereto could be STATE TICKET. For Governor John C. Cutler brought under cultivation and made valuable for domestic and economic Salt Lake. For Secretary of State Charles 8. purposes. This has been accomplished by the great dam and the Assouan Tingey of Juab. For Justice of Supreme Court reservoir, costing about $11,500,000. Daniel N. Straup of Salt Lake. The Osyut Barrage is also a dam constructed at a cost of $5,000,000 to For Treasurer James Christiansen raise the level of the water in the Nile of Sevier. without increasing its quantity. These For Auditor J. A. Edwards of Box three works began their service in Elder. October, 1902, when the sluices were For Superintendent of Schools A. colsed, and their opening was not con C. Nelson of Sanpete. sidered desirable until the following For Attorney General M. A. BreedMarch, it having taken until the end en of Weber. of January to fill the dam and the As For Presidential Electors A. W. souan reservoir. The value of the Wade of Weber, H. P. Myton of Salt Asyut Barrage to the crops in 1902 is estimated at more than $3,000,000 Lake, James A. Miner of Salt Lake. For Congress Joseph Howell of The normal discharge of the Nile in Cache. was June estimated at twenty million tons a day, and the vast Assouan resFor Judges of the Third Judicial Disin which the waters had been trict C. W. Morse, M. L. Ritchie, Geo. ervoir, G. Armstrong, T. D. Lewis. stored since the previous October, was able to furnish twenty millions more For District Attorney F. C. in this way supplying through the ir rigation canals immense fields that had never before grown anything, and COUNTY TICKET. were practically barren and desolate. Through these great works Middle and Commissioners Long Term,' John Lower Egypt received their water supC. Mackey; Short Term, D. Miller. ; ' ply a month earlier than usual, to the Sheriff C. Frank Emery. great benefit of the rice and cotton Parley P. Christensen. crops the cotton crop being valued at Attorney U. Clerk J. Eldredge, Jr. over $110,000,000. P. O. Perkins. Recorder In Middle Egypt, by means of these Auditor I. M. Fisher. works, 350,000 acres will be restored W. O. Carbis. Treasurer to cultivation, of which 170,000 acres M. Brown. C. Assessor were reclaimed last year, the value beSurveyor J. B. Swenson. ing placed at $25,000,000. The irrigation works cost $20 per acre and the REPUBLICAN CITY NOMINEES!value of the land has been increased - be-n- City Judges Christopher B. Diehl ' and Joseph J. Whitaker. Justice of the Peace Dana" T. c pre-ne- t, presided and opened the exer-se-s with a fervid address. Rev. Mr. Clays lecture was along recisely the same lines followed by her lecturers and writ-rs- . He depicted the horrors of poly-amreferred to the Danites and Deanti-Morm- on y, laying Angels and righam Young was in that the habit of declared rning his recalcitrant wives over to lese destroyers. He ormon authorities asserted that the were still teach-polygamy, conveying the impres-on.thnew marriages were being infracted and the practice was flour-hinthe same as in he early days, mgressman French ,he said, had ated that there were only ten or Jive polygamists in Idaho. How did he learn that? the speaker. Did he learn at from his Mormon private secre-ris not better informed an that he is not fit to represent u in congress." Later on Mr. Clay that there were artn y men practicing polygamy Idaho. If the did not as theselves, he people said, the Boise. g at Smith. Constable C Jc FIRE SALE c OF lKOES FOR THE W. F. Hills. LEGISLATURE, 8ALT LAKE COUNTY. For State Senators Stephen H. Love, Samuel C. Park, George N. Law- rence. For Representatives William Pan-te- r, C. E. Marks, A. V. Anderson, 8. J. Stookey, H. B Cramer, C. 8. Kinney Thomas Hull, William T. Edward, H. S. Joseph, William M. McCrea. g We continue selling shoes at very low prices. The goods are slightly damaged by fire, water and smoke. in-lire- d y 1 an nae an 'immirts. valleys would soon 0Ter wlth Mormon Mr. Clay also touched upon church In politics. referring to and Eberts cases and plarin11, Gvernr Wells wap fPnt ffw? Jthatnomination row nac.aP8f 1 Mormon be vefed -- So 33 xs: polygamy fa1 legislature. kj beassert his seW8Mflref,S1Sonfesgea le of c $4.15. Misses, Boys, and Infante shoes at actual cost. for a third rtouutic8 a of ,uro for a. Political but they loved liberty ich as any other people. The he icemen?01, rted, was ,awthf remedy he dw : ertv c We must close out the entire stock of shoes on hand. Bargains are offered to all. We invite your attention to our Bargain Tables. We sell shoes at 20 per cent to 40 The per cent less than factory cost now sells best shoe made for ladies for $2.85. . in $2.85 to $1.35 from Bargains ladies shoes. Mens shoes, $6.00 and $7.00 grade Sr thig and his strongly Thrcftighout is audience listened in dead PHONE 548. 120 MAIN ST. to $150 per acre, making the value of the 350,000 acres about $52,500,000, at a cost of $7,000,000 for irrigation facilities. A comprehensive system of irrigation of our arid lands per acre need not cost anything like as much as the waste lands of Egypt They will be just as productive, and their nearness to large cities and home markets will make these lands valuable and desirable. Omaha Examiner. o Cotton Growing in Paraguay. Cotton has been cultivated in Paraguay for many years, but hitherto little or no attempt has been made to export it In the last year, however, considerable Interest has been manifested in this product by cotton dealers and experts who have visited tffe country. Samples forwarded to the United Kingdom have met with considerable approval, and one shipment to Manchester was pronounced very good standard quality. Paraguayan cotton is said to resemble the Egypt ian variety. Besides the white variety, there is also a colored cotton. The prices obtained for Paraguayan cotton In Europe are 5d a pound for the white variety and 6d for the red. London Engineer. |