The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-09
WILD WEST WAITS.

Il fad in Berkeley, CAL, is to have
telephone wires run tp the church and
hear the SERMON at home.
Bicycles have reached the Arizona
Indians and people of Phoenix recently
noted Il Pima riding his wheel along the
Tempe road, p ~ e 4 sa 49,
A thrifty farmer who lives 100 miles
from the nearest railroad brought 4 wag-
Unload of eggs. chickens and cabbage
into Eddy, n. A. ~,
The arsesian~ well in, Andes lake, n,
d., is now completed at q depth OF 725
feet. 1t is a 6-inch pipe and throws
1900 gallons Il minute. H. j.
1t is estimated that 10000 cattle
were harllled in the roundup. in the
nakotas HIfis fall. Thess at $50 a
head. woum amount to $4,000, 900. f*&e
-George: Q. Cannon says the new
Utah Il California will huild 400 miles
from Milford to Los Angeles as soon as
the Oregon Short line is foreclosed.
The Santa Fe trains are so run that
it takes two days to get from Las Cruces
to Deming, n. H., only fifty miles apart.
\ stage line is seriously urged.
Abe Shellenberger, a pioneer of Osce-
ola New, took to Salt lake a nugget of
gold weighing siXty-one OUNCES. and
worth $1o64. making $500 they haye
picked up: this season, < ~ ssss
Near the foothills south sof Butte,
Mont. Il band of Indians numbering for
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. men and twenty
three women and ehildrtn-,is reported to
be starving to death.
Ono firm recently bought all the
Reno, New. amounting Ito about $4,000
head The prices paid ranged from
81 ~ to 1910 per head.
"A conluany has been organized to
conduct Blue canyon water to Sacra-
u,nto for drinking purposes. The eff
fort will be applauded by any person who
has ever visited the capital
Mr. Kane of Fort Collins, Col. is the
po>sesSrr of gray volt which is sup
ON, of Mr.. kane's children "Wednesday
bit off two of the ehild's fingers.
-Custa. the big lnjun'' of the Occur
d-\lenes. is dead. IIe had the finest
horses and cquipase in the. Ealouse re-
y!on anu a splendid 400-acre farm in
cn!tivation. "Firewater'' Killed him.
Over loo carloads of Sonora oranges
have been shipped at Nogales, Ariz., for
the United States up to January |, 1897.
1t is estimated that this seasons ship
.ltnts will aggregate 300 carloads, and
next season.
While on camping trip with her
husband three weeks ago in tho Crandall
creek country i'll Montana, AIre. E. Z.
Van Dyke shot and killed Il black bear
weighing about 700 pounds and I, large
ull elk She also brought down seven
grouse without missing Il shot.
There arr, 5000 Indians in Arizona
who occupy FIVE reservations, lggrcgat-
ing 61S937 acres. The governor in his
report recommends this land should be
allotted in severalty and the Indians be
ncouragru to cultivate the soil so rs to
enable them to become sclf-supporting.
The Mexican interna ticnal boundary
line Of 100 miles from the Rio Grande
to the Pacific has been marked by iron
monuments and stone monuments II
feet high. averaging two and Il half miles
apart and always i'll sight of each other
They are inscribed in English on the
north and Spanish on the southern side
-t:eod horses must be drug on the
market in Washington when 11O0-pound
matched teams sell for $3.50 team and
lMWround horses broken to ride or
drive bring $3.50 head. These were
the prices eighteen head of horses
brought the other day ct an auction sale
of horses of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company at Tacoma.
a new and decidedly original method
Of catching wolves is reported from
Wyoming. Small wires arc attached to
tishhooks haited with meat and attached
to some object just heavy enough SO that
his woifshiD can drag it around. after
swallowing the bait. and still be ham,
pcreI with the weight so escape is impos-
sible. Mr.. Allen then makes the rounds
OH horseback, followed by number of
dogs, and puts on the finishing touches