The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-04-19
Terms, g Per Year, in advance
LOCAL NOTES AND COMMENT,

There has just been formed.
under the laws of West Virginia
the G. M. Hill Lumber company
Of Duluth, with saw and planning
mills at Mesaba, Mimi. The
capital stock is 100000. The
stockholders are: President, C.
M. Htfl and s. r. Hill, of Sagi.
nav vice president; D. G. Pelton
of Cheboygan, secretary and
general manager; j. G. Healy,
of Mesaba, and G. w. Mann, OF
Duluth.
Petroleum has been on a ram
page the past week, and Rookie.
Teller and the Standard Oil com.
pany can take a comfortable
fishing trip on their winnings.
The Village of Hibbing will
vote on the Goth on q PROPOSE.
ton to bond for IS, 600 for nun.
nicipal improvements. -:
An oil we'll has been struck
within the corporate limits OF
San Antonio, Texas.
D. K. Pearson, of Duluth, one
of the promoters of the telegraph
line from Grand Rapids to Koo.
chiching was a caller on Thurs
day. Owing to the delay in Sc
curing the state appropriation
for the new summer road, Mr.
Pearson thinks his company will
not be able to do anything this
spring towards building the line.
If the appropriation is secured
the road would be cut out and
widened, which would interfere
with the line this season. Their
franchise gives them until an.
other summer to build the line,~
FIT. Francis News. ..
Parties are seeking a franchise
for the construction of a tele
graph and telephone line between
Two Harbors and Grand Marais
If granted, they will commence
work Immediately. The linking
thus of the isolated hamlets O:
the North Shore with the QUITE,
world would possess many ad
vantages. Then it would prove
agreeable to occasionally call VI
friend Mathew during the winter
months and receive few items
of Grand Marais new. If the
projectors don't insist on a too
exclusive franchise, they should
be encouraged.-1ron News.
Patrick Fogerty, a laborer or
the reconstruction of the North
western ore docks at Ashland,
was killed on Friday last by
falling from the trestle work
down a chute, so feet into thu
bay. His skull was crushed il
the fall.
Judge Scott, of Omaha, Great
ed a sensation in the court rocn
by discharging prostitute who
was arrested for non.paymen
of the monthly fine levied by tht
city, by declaring that this wo
man was not rs bad and low as
officials who inaugurated this
system of fines, which, he said
were licenses to sell virtue. HI
declared the system was one O:
blackmail and said that he woulc
permit no such illegal, unconsti
tutional and damnable practice
to prevail in his court. The eff
feet of this decision will be tt
free prostitutes from these fines
and any obligation to pay them.
In all probability Judge Scott
will order the arrest of any Off
GERS hereafter collecting such
fines.
The Enterprise wou Id respect
fully jog the minds of our broth.
ers of the Crystal Falls Diamond
Drill in particular, and other ex
changes in general, that any
item from an exchange worth
clipping and reproducing should
also merit being credited. Pleas
remember this when swiping {
half column a mining no ties at :
crack. ~
John T. Mcbride, of Everett,
Washington, will succeed to the
position held by A. D. Allibone
as secretary and treasurer of the
Duluth, Missabe & Northern
railway. Mr.. Mcbride was over
the line the first of the week.
| The Hlbbing News has been
designated as the official pape,
of Hibbing.
J. J. Sullivan has resumed
management of the Skinner