The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-05

years, when q successor is to be elected
to Hepburn.
As to tho Legislature. ALI eyes will
center upon that body Tho last Legis-
lature had 63 Republican majority on
joint ballot, II majority in the Sen
ate, 46 in the House. There is no ques-
tion but what this will be changed at
is popular with the masses OF Idaho,
regardless of politics. He has always
worked for ono thing while in tho SEN
ate and that has been for the general
good Of Idaho, and for this the people
like him. His position on the great
question in several of the mountain
States, that is the dominating Of politi-
cal affairs by. tho twenty'six men com
posing the Mormon hierarchy, is pro-
stands There will be no compromise
on this matter. Tho fight, therefore,
for Legislative candidates will be the
most bitter of the campaign On this
contest will center the guns. 1t will
be desperate, a fight to the finish, and
no quarter shown by the opposing
forces. The term of the present Legis.
lature expires December l of this year.
Conventions and Tickets.
Talking about conventions and tick
cts and election figures and politics in
general, has it ever occurred to YOU
that in the mountain States, and par
ticularly in Idaho, that men and women
who attend those conventions as dele"
gates must be actuated bv the highest
of motives. 1T costs more for many
delegates TO attend State convention
in Idaho than it would for q resident
Of Illinois to attend National con-
vention in New York, and the distance
necessarily travelled in Idaho to attend
State convention is farther than from
Illinois to Now York.
The Republican State convention was
held at Pocatello, In southeastern Ida
ho. The Democratic State convention
will be held at Occur d 'Alene City, in
the northwestern part of the State.
Many delegates to attend these con
yentions have to travel from 500 to
1000 miles. To reach their destination
or the convention city they travel
through three States by rail and many
have to make long journeys by stage or
other vehicle to reach the railroads.
Statistics Interesting.
In this connection a few statistics
about Idaho Will be Of interest There
are only eleven States and Territories
larger than Idaho, and Utah is one of
them.
In area Idaho contains S4,s00 square
miles. It's extreme breadth is 305 miles
and its extreme length 400 miles. From
border on the southeast corner, where
the Oregon Short Line railway enters
the State, to Port Hill in the northwest
corner, IS 1913 miles.
There are twenty-one counties in the
State and these counties are watered by
10 creeks, sixty-fve rivers and
twenty-three lakes. One Of the rivers,
and the largest one in the State, the
Snake, is crossed five times by the
Short Line railway system. Sixty-one
mountain peaks and ranges have been
named within the borders of the State.
Not an Infant.
It was settled five years before
Brigham Young and his band of pio-
neers came to Utah by emigrants who
had left the State for Oregon. In pop
ulation it grew slow, the census of
1870 showing but 14,999 people in the
State. During the next decade this
population more than doubled, 32,6lO
being the record. 1890 found S4,385
people in the State In 1900 there were
l6l,7T2 persons and this year the popu-
lation is estimated at 100000. 1t is
a wonderful State and has a magnif-
cent future.