The Virginia enterprise., 1903-08-14

EDITOR QUINN of the Cloque In
dependent, has our sincere SYM
pathy in the loss of his estimable
wife, who died after short illness
at St. Luke's Hospital, Duluth, on
Thursday last. "a: -
The city of Ely has decided by
vote of 115 to 18 to bond in the sum
of $4,000 for municipal light and
water plant improvements. 1t is
evident that the city of Ely must
have started right, and that in time
the municipality will have some
thing to show for it's expenditures
in this line. y
Bob DUNN says he has no money
to throw away to be made governor,
and does not care enough for the
place to wear any mans collar. But
if the people of Minnesota have an
eye to their own interests it ought
not take "bar'" to elect any man
with such decisive views on the
"collar" proposition.
WE note by a squib in the Eveleth
Mining News that it is rumored that
Fred Boorman, for several years
past in the employ of the Eveleth
STAR is to start a newspaper in Bi-
wabik. The~article goes on to aver
that Biwablk "has already a first
class representative paper" While
we have been in the newspap per bus
mess on the Mesaba several years
longer than any other man on the
range we must confess that this
latter statement, if true, is some
thing of revelation to us. We
have heard of Biwa blk paper in
very indirect way, but from not hav-
ing seen one for some months past,
together with the fact that search
warrant would fail to reveal so much
as type louise in the village to our
east, we had supposed that thesheet
had either gone the way it's founder
had figured it was headed when
selling out or that the publ bication
had come to be considered, even by
its editor, as an imposition .un-
worthy of even fraternal courtesies.
The ruthless and continued de-
struction of game and the utte1 dis
regard for the game laws or any
adequate provision for the enforce
ment of same in this section of the
state, is destined to practically de-
nude our forests and streams in a
very few years. The excuse that
the commission is not provided
with funds enough to properly con
troll the state may have been good
once but has lost it's force through
the act of the last Legislature, which
not only passed an admira BILE and
complete set of game laws but pro-
vided ample means with which to
carry out its provisions. Two years
ago the commission was allowed
$25,OOO year for it's work, which al
lowance was increased by the last
Legislature to $4,000, the additional
provision being made that all fees
and receipts of the commission
should be used in carrying out the
provisions of the game law instead
of going to the state treasury, as
had heretofore been the case. But
despite this liberal addition to the
allowance of the commission, the
northern portion of the state, the
natural game preserves, are left az
entirely alone as under the old re-
gime, while the southern and CEN
trail portions of the commonwealth.
where the only remaining game is
of the feathered variety, receive a
full quota of appointees. These
fowls are not permanent residents
of any locality, and should one
years supply in particular locali-
ty be destroyed more would come
back another season. It is not so
with the big game of this section,
which has to stay where it is winter
and summer aud which is not re-
plenished from other localities, and
for the protection of which the com.
mission, in the goodness of their
souls, have single deputy to care
tor the enormous territory sur
rounding the head of the lakes. It
is little wonder, therefore, that our
trout streams are being denuded,
that our lakes are being dynamited
and that big game, moose and deer,
are diminishing at rapid rate as
the result of promiscuous and un-
regulated slaughter. Perhaps the
State Fish and Game ommission
may have mission to perform, but
the lover Of the chase in this north
ern section will have to be "shown"