The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-10
RAISE FUNDS FOR A CHURCH.
South Dakota Cowboys to Exhibit Them
selves as Bull Fighters.

South Dakota Cowboys to Exhibit Them
selves as Bull Fighters.
To raise funds with which to build a
Methodist chapel for the worshipers of
Ziebach, Nowlin and Sterling counties, in
South Dakota, the cowboys in that re-
gion will take part in a bull fight ON a
date to be fixed in the coming month. A
number of steers have already been sci
lected to play the star roles. The ami.
mails will not be tortured, it having been
arranged that the fighters shall be armed
only with their quirts, and firearms will
be used only in case of absolute neces,
sity. AS the men will be mounted, it is
unlikely that any such occasion will
arise, and the steers will probably enjoy
the performance quite as much as the
cowboys. When an animal has been in
the ring sufficient length of time it will
be lassooed and dragged aside and an
other brought in to take it's place. A
large attendance is promised from neigh
boring towns.
They were Easy Game.
II was out hunting quail in big vine
yard near Santa Rosa a few days ago"
remarked Superior Judge Dougherty Of
Sonoma county, land ! got the finest
bag Of birds l ever shot in my life.
thought l was shooting at tame quail,
for they wouldn't fly till I came near
stepping on them, and then they would
wobble off through the air in the most
cratic way. They would only fly a short
distance till they would drop into a
grapevine as if their wings had given
out. 49,
"AIy dog kept bringing me live quail
which / thought l had wounded, but
finally, when had three dozen birds and
had fired only about a dozen shots, I
knew there was something wrong some
where. @.,i
FINALLY I came upon a quail lying on
it's back and kicking it's feet in the air in
the most peculiar. way. picked it up
and found it uninjured, SO far as could
see. Then l set it on it's legs and it
went staggering and floundering over the
clods a few feet till it fell on it's back
again and lay kicking helplessly.
"For the first time it occurred to me
that the quail was drunk. They had
been feeding on the frost-b bitten grapes
that had fermented on the vines, and
were enjoying the widest kind of jag.
Some could not move, while the soberest
couldn't fly fast enough to get out of the
way of a clod."-San Francisco Post.
Cable Up the Amazon.
Telegraph wires and cables have done
much toward making the world smaller,
and the work is still going Oh. The
latest movement in that line is the pro-
posed laying of cable from Para to
point 100 miles up the Amazon river,
with the view of ultimately carrying it
into Peru, which is entered by the ANA
zon near the SEVENTEEN meridian. Here
the extensive branches of the great river
reach out west and south to points with
in seventy miles of the Pacific. That
the river so far from it's source is broad
and deep is shown by the fact that twen-
ty years ago the Peruvians hada system
Of gunboats on it which were all sea-
going vessels of about 800 tons and
twelve feet draught. They We're built
in Europe and taken from Callao to the
Amazon through the Straits of Magellan
years steamers will run from the head
waters of the Amazon direct to Europe
This is hint for enterprising Ameri-
cans engaged in the South American
tra1 do.