The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

vantage of an election holiday a
the new town on Tuesday and came
over for short visit at home. Mr.
Sapero expects to remove his family
to Chisholm in the near future. 81
III. Nichols and sons, John ant
Henry Nichols, F. r. Eastman anc
C. p. Stone, of Burt, Iowa, arrived il
the city Saturday, Mr.. Nichols ant
son returning to Iowa Tuesday, tn.
other members of the party remain
ing at Franklin, where they have
accepted permanent positions.
HOP M. l.. FAY STACK OIL.
The fact that NJ. L. Fay has jus,
struck new ore deposit north O,
Virginia on one of the several piec
es of land controlled by him, led tc
some amusing results in Duluth
yesterday, says the News Tribune
About noon a report was quite gen
eral over the city that NJ. L. Fay
while drilling for iron ore, had tap
ped robust we'll of oil. This con.
struction of the report concerning
the ore find was due to the fact that
somebody, referring to the new dis.
covery of ore, made the remark Gay
has struck oil this time for sure"
This figurative expression was &C.
cepted literally by somebody who
passed it along, and soon the gossip
about the hotels and on the street
was that Mr.. Fay had struck oil on
the Mesaba.
The reporters took the trail of the
oil report and followed it back as
far as possible. From the St. Louis
hotel the back trail zigzagged from
the Providence building to the
Board of Trade building, and grew
fresher every minute, until at last
it was followed into the maze of Of
fees of the United States Steel Co.
in the American Exchange build
ing, and there it was lost. But it
was an interesting and attractive
rumor while it lasted. Several per-
sons suggested that it would be a
great thing for Duluth, as the oil
could be piped to the city cheaply,
it being down hill all the way. Var
ious people began to speculate as
to the probable result of the oil dis
covery on the Mesaba on the sale of
gas and electricity for lighting pur-
poses in Duluth. Another man said
that if they had found oil on the
Mesaba soft coal surely was near at
hand. If somebody had had the
presence of mind to organize stock
company before the report was tru-
1y interpreted the certificates for
shares would have enjoyed brisk
demand among the people who like
to get in on the ground floor.
Mr.. Fay, if all accounts be true,
has struck oil, but not in the sense
that the news was accepted in Du-
luth.
MINSLA UGBTER IN SOME DEGREE.
In conversation with a reporter
on the News Tribune staff relative
to the accidental shooting of John
Peterson near Bull, as noted else
where in this issue, Coroner Boyer
said
"When l was elected gave notice
that this all too common shooting
of men in the woods by careless
hunters would not be winked at by
me. AS I understand it man who
shoots and kills another under the
impression that he is deer or some
other animal, is guilty of man.
slaughter in some one of the de-
grees, depending upon the circum-
stances. 1t is a case of a man using
a dangerous weapon in careless
manner. Such cases are aggravat-
ed when the man thus handling a
weapon is engaged in some unlaw-
full proceeding, as in the case of
Ahlstrand, who l am informed shot
at Peterson with the intention of
killing a deer, and this is the closed
season for game of that kind. 1t
shall be my purpose to bring about
the prosecution of all such hunters
as shoot other men in the woods.
There is no excuse for it. No man
has a right to shoot at anything un-
less he knows what it is"
KILLED At AUBURN.
Victor Hill, a Finnish miner at
the Auburn, was caught in a cave
of ore on Friday last, being suffo-
Gated before workmen could extri-
cate him. Deceased leaves wife
and four children to mourn his un-
timely demise.
Deputy Coroner Christopher held
an inquest over the remains on Sat
urday.
INCREASING SHIPMhNTS
The Sharon mine at Buhl is at
present sending 800 tons of ore daily