The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

even though it was a dead issue.
Call at the dye works and get
q bottle OF the lightning grease
and paint remover.
There will be rattling of bones
in st: Paul shortly after Cover
nor elect Lind takes charge.
Virginia was figured by the
conservative ones as a close pre-.
clnct, and the returns corrobor-
ate their estimates.
Rough Rider Roosevelt was
elected by a rousing majority
and the Tammany tiger will
take it out in growing for
another term.
r r. Waldo Murphy made an
enviaole showing in Stuntz
township, where he received III
votes, but he still lacked a few.
! Every place touched by the
D. M. & N. line, except Virginia
and Mt. Iron, returned a Fusion
majority.
Jehu Baker Middlecoff will
succeed Phineas Aver as Judge
of Probate. Mr.. Middlecoff !had
hard run for his money, but
! landed safely.
Safe blowers tapped the safe
at the Duluth & Iron Range de-
pot at Biwahik last night, the
JOB being done in much the same
manner as have all the safe
blowing jobs on that line. A
small amount of money was in
the. safe, but as the door was
locked after finishing it is not
yet known how much was secur-
ed.
And did a vote for Aver really
mean vote for. Middlecoff?
Nay.
Did you see the promised
"roorback"on the eve of election?
Alfred Merritt addressed a. let
ter to the voters in Mondays
Herald, alleging that if the re-
publican legislative ticket from
the range were elected move
would be- made to cut royalties
on state lands from Is to 10 cents
per ton. The people will have
an eye to the next legislature,
however, and such an act would
raiR q howl of indignation that
would mean the political doom
of anv party attempting it.
The City of Duluth, which the
News Tribune averred would re-
turn Morris majority, gave
Towne 1343 plurality, andTowne
carried the county by over 900.
We trust no one will ask
whether Or not the voters of St.
Louis county, where the return
of prosperity has been most pro-
nounced, are satisfied with ex-
isting conditions, as in the face
of a majority of 1873 for Morris in
'96 and $40 for Towne in '98 it
would be a hard query to satis-
factorily answer.
The state legislature is safely
republican, add the re election
of Senator Davis is assured.
That Ely postoftice appointment
came near being an expensive
experience for Judge Morris. If
any democrats still hold Office in
his district he will doubtless
allow them to remain, rather
than run the risk of jeopardizing
republican party interests
further.
Towne carried every ward and
almost every precinct in the city
of Duluth. And still the N. T.
promises to warm up the range
traitors.
The people of the ranges de.
mand an act by the state legisla.
ture providing for a vote upon
county division within Two years.
The range stood we'll by E. B.
Hawkins. He had hard run
for his money. and Morris was
not in it as a sprinter in his dis
trict.
When the returns become CON-
plete, the knowing ones may be
enabled to tell how it happened.
The procine proclivities of Du
luth were made the more ap
parent on Tuesday, when the
only range candidate on the re >
publican ticket was turned down
in Duluth by the largest ma
jority accorded any Fusion can
didate. But no has yet accused
the Duluth republicans of being
TRAITORS"
After sizino IN tho score of