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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-14
APPLICATION FOR LICENSE
To Sell Intoxicating L quors.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. !
G %31F,1, OF ar ST. IT, LG fSaS; S.
Notice is hereby given that application
has been made in writing to the Village Coun-
Gil OF said Village Ut Mt. Iron and filed id my
Office, praying for License to Sell Intoxicating
Liquors for the term commencing on Aug
II. 1909 and terminating on Aug is, 1904 by
the following person, and at the following
place, respectively, to-wit:
JOHN FERGUSON,
in that certain two story frame building, with
lean-to addition, commonly known as the
Exchange Building, situate and being on
lots and 10, block 49, village of Mt. Iron,
county and state aforesaid.
Said application will be heard and deter
mined by said Village Council of the Village
of Mt. Iron, in the council chamber in said vii
lage of Mt. iron, county of St. Louis and state
of MIMI, Saturday, Aug. 15 1903 at 1870
o'clock p m. of that day. -
Witness my hand and seal of the Village
of Mt. Iron, this 3rd day of August, 1903.
FRED R. MOTT,
lSeal] Aug Ills Village Recorder.
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kESABA ExPl GRAFTON COMPAh
Duluth and Virginia Parties Organize
for Exploration Purposes.

Articles Of Incorporation of the
Mesaba Exploration Company were
filed on Saturday last, the incorpor-
ators Of the new concern being +. B.
Rossoln, of this city, and Edward
Wenzel and Hansen Smith, of Du-
luth. -
The capital stock of the new COM
pany is to be 100000, of which $780,
600 is to be preferred and $4,000
common stock. The profits of the
company are to be devoted to the
repayment to the holders of the pre-
ferred stock of their investment,
with Z per cent interest thereon, and
not until this is done are the hold
ers of the common stock to have
any dividends. After that the pro.
fits are to be divided equally be-
tween the holders of the preferred
and the common stock in dividends
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Duluth, hissabe 4 Northern Ry
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.

For rates and information call on
T. w. LUSK, Agent.
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TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1878
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
United States Land Office,
Duluth, Minn., Aug 8, 1908
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of Congress of
June 8. 1878, entitled AN act for the sale of
timber lands in the States of California, Ore
gon, Nevada, and Washington Territory" as
extended to al! the Public Land States by
act of August 4, 1892,
WILLIAM j. IBBOTsON,
of Virginia, county of St. Louis, State
Of Minnesota, has this day fled in this Office
his sworn statement No. 8341, for the pur-
chase of the sen OF SEA of Sec. No. g. in
Township No. 50. N, Range No. II w. 4th P.
NJ, and will offer proof to show that the land
sought is more valuable for it's timber or
stone than for agricultural purposes, and to
establish his claim to said land before the
Register and Receiver of this Office at Duluth,
Mlnn, on Monday, the 7th day of Dec. 1908.
He names as witnesses:
William Prince, of Mt. Iron. MINI.
Andrew Olson, of Virginia, q
Oscar Rafvalstrom, "
Eli Dubrey, "
Any and all persons claiming adversely
the above-described lands are requested to
file their claims in this Office on or before said
IN cay of December, 1903.
WIN. CULK1N
Aug. oct. 8 Register.
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John Podluipec has commenced
action in district court against the
Oliver Mining company for $4,000
for alleged personal injuries. He
claims that while employed in shaft
No. 6 at the Adams mine he was in
jured by crawling through a hole
in a ladder by the counterweight OF
the cage descending without warn.
ing and catching him, resulting in
the loss of a leg.
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Duluth 4 Iron Range Railway.

Trains run to- and from Drummond on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only All
other trains daily except Sunday.
f.. 8. WETHERBY. Agent
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To Whom It May Concern.

My wife, Annie Campbell, having
left my bed and board, 1 shall no.
be responsible for debts she may
contract after this date.
| Tuly %, 1903. LOUIS CAMPBELL.
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Notice to Contractors.

Virginia, Mimi, Aug. l. 1903.
Sealed bids will be received by the Trus-
tees of School District No. %. Virginia, St.
Louis county, Minnesota, until IL o'clock a.
M. August 18th, 1903, for the erection and
completion of a three story brick school
house at Virginia, Mimi, as per plans and
specifications furnished by F. E. Parmelee
architect, Iron Mountain, Mich. and found
at the following places: r. f. Bailie's store
Virginia, MIMI; Builders Exchange, Du-
luth, Mimi; No. 1893 James Avenue SOUTH
Minneapolis, and F. E. Parmelee's office, Iron
Mountain, Mich.
Parties bidding upon the work will be re-
quired to enclose with the bid certified
check, payable to the school clerk, for ten
per cent of the amount of his bid. as guar
antee that the bidder will enter into contract
with said Trustees Of School District No. ~
for the erection and completion OF said school
house.
The successful bidder will be required to
give security bonds to the full amount of his
bid before signing the contract with the
Trustees of said School District.
On the above named date and time the said
Trustees will receive plans, specifications
and bids for a heating and ventilating plant
for the school house to be erected Each bid
der will be required to-; enclose a certified
check with his bid equal to ten per cent of
the amount Of his bid.
The successful bidder will be required to
give permanent bonds that the heating plant
will properly perform it's work.
The said Trustees will also receive on the
above named date'and time. plaus. specitica-
lions and bids for the plumbing and wiring
and furnishing of same in above school house
to be erected, - - =.
Each bidder will enclose certified check
equal to ten per cent of amount of bidA
| The Trustees of School District No. n re-
serve the right to reject any and all bids. :
|: All bids to he sent to G. C!Butler, Box 33,77,
Virginia. Mimi. 49, 49, ~
BY order OF Trustees Of School District No.
q. K " &C. BUTLER, ~"
+ AnR. 7-15- ..' -. -aS ~ Clerk
=. H. -
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TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1873
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. =.
United States Land Office. =
Duluth. Minn., April /, 1903: :
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions OF the act of Congress of
June 3, 1878, entitled IAN act for the sale of
timber lands in the States of California. Ore
gon, Nevada, and Washington Territory" as
extended to all the Public Land States by act.
Of Augusta 1892, r4"
EDWARD J. WHALEN, =
of Duluth, county OF st. Louis State of Mimi
esota, has this dav filed in this Office his
sworn statement No. 7767, for the purchase of
the NWA NWA. Sec. No. rs and EX MEX, OF
Section No. q, in Township No. go NJ,
Range No. 10 W., 4th P. NJ, and will Of
fer proof to show that the land sought is
more valuable for its timber or stone than
for agricultural purposes, and to establish
bis claim to said land before the Register and
Receiver Of this Office at Duluth, Mimi. on
Tuesday, the 18th day of Oct, 1903. $ss5 ~.
He names as witnesses: = L,
Frank Bellingar. of Duluth. Hinn. .s55..zzsss
John Cameron, of :"
VIM. Gutenberg, of 6" -.
IA II. II. Bartlett, of =. If s;l5s
t. Any and all persons Claiming adversely
the above-described lands are requested. Is
their claims in this Office on or before said
18th day of Oct, 1908 s.
B .: sz as VIZ. E. CuLK1n. 81 ~;
smallWood . SEM l=.s Register.
q & ssz.5 Attorneys. june s aug { zi;sss
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Trained Nurse.

I am prepared to do professional
nursing. Prices reasonable and ref!
erences furnished. Inquire at Hotel
Northern. LEONA LUCEY.
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TIMBER LAND, -ACTJUNE 8, 1873
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. y
. ~ TInitoA STAGES a M OhHco

:: United States Land Once. 0
-" { - Duluth. Mimi, April 1. 1908.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of Congress Of
June 3, 1875 entitled IAN act for the sale OF
timber lands IN the states Of California. Ore
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office inspector gets some of them int O
court and prosecutes. Occasionally
the federal court sends culprit to the
penitentiary, but the ma ority of them
escape in the fines that do not repre-
sent ten per cent. of the money they
have made in their schemes.
Here's an advertisements:
YOUR LIES FATE in love, business
and marriage. Photo of future husband or
wife. Birthstone pin and life's chart for 10
cents and birth date
This is the advertisement, with the
name omitted, as it appeared this
week in many of the mail order pa ers.
1showed the clipping to an employe of
the Chicago bureau of post office in
spection.
us this fraud or isn't to" I asked.
"That remains to be proven" was the
calm reply. "The way to do is to send
the ten cents in reply to the ad and then
file your complaint here if you think
you have been defrauded.''
'Will you prosecute them?"
The explanation was that it required
five such complaints to establish one
cause for an investiga ton. And finally
the official came out with the bold
statement:
These ten-cent schemes don't
amount to much" he said. "We are
tremendously busy here on big cases,
trying to put stop to thousand-dol-
lar swindles. Better save your ten
cents by not writing for the photo of
your future wife"
The task of the post office inspec-
tiers is indeed very difficult one and
the path to prosecution is more than
devious. A strict law prevents the
opening of any private mail by in
spectors or others. No matter how
certain the government may be that a
firm is swindNng, letters are not
tampered with under any circum-
stances. So the inspectors must re-
sort to many tricks to get proof.
Sometimes they go out into the
country, and send in their money to
the fraudulent firms until they have
enough letters to establish posit;ve
proof. If the swindlers get an ink
ling that post Office inspector is try-
ing to lead them on" they may hide
their schemes and throw the inspec-
tor off the track. Girls are often used
in the guise of stenographers to get
evidence. Sometimes the detectives
themselves get positions in a firm
suspected of frauds. Many other
methods, know, are used, but the
post Office department is very secre-
tive. Their inspectors work more
quietly than any other detectives
and when they finish their case, they
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-19
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Excessive Rains Throughout the
South Have Caused Great DAM
age to Growing Grains

Washington June 10.-The weather
bureaus weekly summary of crop con-
ditions is as follows:
Excessive rains in the lower Mis-
souri,, central Mississippi and Ohio val
legs, Tennessee, the Carolinas and
Georgia have interrupted farm work
and caused great damage to crops, es-
pecially in the central Mississippi and
lower Missouri valleys, the food stage
in the Mississippi river at ST. Louis be-
ing the highest since 1858, and that in
the Missouri river at Kansas City since
1914. The protracted and probably un-
precedented spring drought continues
unbroken in northern New England
and in eastern New York (the weather
map of June shows light rains have
fallen over much of this drought area
in the "a hours ending eight a. m. of
this date). Portions of the upper lake
region, central and west gulf states,
North Dakota and Montana are in need
of rain.
Much corn remains to be planted in
the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio val
leys, where the early planted is great
ly in need of cultivati ton, and much had
drowned Planting was resumed in
Nebraska and Iowa during the latter
part of the week, where under the m ost
favorable future conditions the acre
age will be reduced. Under more ia
vorable conditions planting in the mid
die and Atlantic states has been fin
ished.
Spring wheat continues in very
promising condition in the Dakotas
and generally III Minnesota. On the
North Pacific coast spring wheat
while needing rain, is doing well in
portions of Washington.
The general outlook for apples in
New England and the middle Allan
tic states, except in Pennsylvania, is
promising, and favorable reports are
also received from Tennessee, Iowa
and Wisconsin. Excessive falling has
impaired the outlook in Ohio, Indiana
and Missouri and short crop is in
dicated in Arkansas and Nebraska.
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MISS HANNA A BRIDE.
Ohio Senator's Daughter United to
Joseph Medill Mccormick
at Cleveland.

Cleveland, O., June LIN intrinsic
beauty and interest the wedding on
Wednesday at high noon of Miss Ruth
Hanna and Mr.. Joseph Medill McCor-
mick, of Chicago, excelled any similar
function ever held in Cleveland. St.
Paul's church was decorated with the
utmost magnifcence.
Just before the Lohengrin wedding
march was played to herald the APP
preach of the bridal party, President
Roosevelt entered with Mrs. Hanna on
his arm, followed by Miss Alice Roose-
velt with other members of the brides
family.
Among the out-of-town guests at the
wedding breakfast were the following:
President Roosevelt, Miss Alice Roose-
welt, Postmaster General and Mrs.
Payne, with their niece; Miss Jones,
Adit. Gen. and Mrs. Corbin, Senator
and Miss Kane, his sister; Senator's
Beveridge and Hale, Senator and Mrs.
Wetmore. and Senator and Mrs. Aid
rich.
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their money by mail to be cured by any
process they choose.
Have you seen in recent issues of a
Chicago mail order paper an advertise
ment of magic gold dip needle that
finds hidden treasures for ten cents?
Possibly thisreminds one of the ''lucky
box" scheme of Lynn, Mass. Francis
Parker manufactured little wooden
box with brass ring in which were
stamped three stars. 1t cost him from
one to five cents, and he sold it for 80
cents. Everybody who bought the box
became lucky, said Parker's advertise
ments; zone broker made ST, 1000 in
one hour after buying the lucky box;
a spinster won a lover; woman was
cured of rheumatism; gentleman hob
bled in on crutches; got box; walked
off with crutches under his arm
The advertisements ran in glaring
headlines, and nobody interfered with
ParkCr's business until the authorities
noticed his enormous mail. When the
post Office inspector appeared at the
lucky box factory Parker fed. Twenty
seven thousand letters were waiting
for him at the Boston post Office with
1000 money orders that day.
E. T. GUNDLACH
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LYNCHING IN ILLINOIS.
Negro Taken from Jail at Bellevil1e,
Hanged to a Telegraph Pole
and Then Burned.

Belleville, ILL.,, June Sc. H.
Wyatt, negro who Saturday after
noon shot Superintendent of Schools
Hertel because the latter had refused
to renew his certificate as a teacher,
was taken from the Jail at 1880
o'clock Saturday night by mob of
more than 1000 furious men and
lynched. Wyatt was probably beaten
to death in the fight at the Jail, but
the limp body, terribly disfigured,
was dragged through the streets, the
recipient of kicks and blows, to the
public square, where it was strung
uprto q telegraph pole.
Meanwhile some one in the party
suggested burning the body, and oil
was hastily brought. The corpse was
cut down, placed on pile of inffam-
mable material, thoroughly saturat-
ed with oil. and set on fire. When it
had burned to an unrecognizable
crisp the mob quietly dispersed.
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PASSING OF THE ALLIGATOR.
It's Former Abundance in Florida De.
sc:ibed by One Who Has
Hunted 1t.

''In July, 1879, near my home in Polk
county, Fla" said Cyrus Balcher, &C.
cording to the New York Sun, II was
one of party of nine men who Joined
in an alligator hunt on what was
known as the Hooker Prairie, but in
reality was chain OF bayous. Within
an area of less than one mile around
we dispatched 224 alligators. They
ranged in size from three feet to II,
the average length being seven feet.
II came north 20 years ago and did
not go back to Florida until last win
ter, when visited my old home. When
l expressed wish to go out and bag
few alligators folks looked at me in
surprise, and told me there hadn't been
an alligator on Hooker Prairie in ten
years, and people around there had
almost forgotten what an alligator
looked like.
Hunting the reptiles for the leather
market had caused them to become ex-
tinct where they had once been almost
as plentiful as the f1ies~that covered
them as they basked in the sun. And
with the departure of the alligators,
they told me, the flies had also almost
entirely disappeared.
Il remember once, in those good old
alligator days, party of us were out
deer hunting. Our dogs started deer
and took it to the river, into which il
plunged, to swim across.
1T never got across, though. 1t was
captured by big alligator and logged
back to the river bank. When we fol-
lowed the dogs to the spot we found
that the alligator had whipped them
off and had the deer half devoured. We
lost the deer, but got the alligator.
"Once another man and myself pulled
ten-foot alligator from a burrow in
the bank by running a longhandled
boat hook into the hole, which the al
ligator seized in it's jaws and held on
to. This was the same alligator that
had come out of the bayou the day
before where an old darby named
Gabe DOan had fallen asleep while
fishing, and bitten the old chaps leg
off at the knee.
~ would no doubt have had the rest
of old Gabe, too, if two other fisher
men hadn't heard his yells and hast
ened to the spot. When they APP
preached, the alligator slidinto the wa
ter, taking Gabe's leg along with it.
The men carried the darby home and
he got well, and I saw him stumping
around on the wooden leg that took
the place of the one the alligator bit
off.
''On one alligatoring trip along Hook
err Prairie I myself killed 16 big alliga-
tors and destroyed more than two bar
rels of alligator eggs"
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BOAT CAPSIZED.
Five Persons Plunged Into the Des
MOines River at Frazer, Ia,
and Drowned.

Fraser, Ia, June give persons
lost their lives here Monday in the
Des Moines river. The victims were:
Thomas Coleman, Andrew Marchona,
Steve Cormadine, Carria Megatia and
Nicholas Grometine. All but Cole
man are Italians and were employed
in the Fraser coal mines. Shortly be-
fore the noon hour Monday they
crowded into a small boat to row
across to Fraser. The boat reached
the middle of the stream safely, but
there it was caught in the current,
whirled around and capsized. The
men struggled in the water for a
few seconds and then all disappeared.
Coleman, who is also an employe of
the mines, short time later at
tempted to swim the river. He had
gotten part of the way across when
he sank from sight.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC THE DEAF.
A Task That the Operator breads
and Is Seldom Satisfactory
in Results.

If deaf people had the same dread of
photographers that photographers
have of them, they would not often
have their pictures taken. The artist
dislikes them, not because of their in
trinity, but because they take poor
pictures, says the New York Times.
''Why do they show up so badly in
a photograph" asked the visitor in
whose presence such complaint had
just been made.
Il don't know why" was the reply,
''but they do. Judging by their express
sion at that time they must be expect
ing the camera to go off at the critical
moment with Fourth-of-July racket,
and they are all on edge to hear it.
Their eyes never look like other peo-
pies eyes, nor their noses like other
peoples noses, nor their mouths like
other peoples mouths. l suppose that
is partly due to the difficulty in making
them understand instructions. l may
pose a deaf man before the camera
ever so artistically, but before I get
five feet away he is dropping over again
in the most detected attitude.
Hold your head up I shout at
him.
He opens his mouth wide and en-
circles his ear with his palm.
What's that2' he says.
Il go back and jerk him into shape.
We repeat that performance half a
dozen times. By the time the poor fell
low gets an linking of the require
ments of Photographic subject, he is
in a state of nervous collapse that does
not add to his physical attractiveness.
But after all that preparatory tussle
we do not Like to postpone the great
event, so we take picture. Naturally,
it is not good one. The man is not
satisfied; neither am I, but it is not
much use to repeat the performance,
for he is not likely to get better one.
Altogether, there is a strained,
tense look on the pictured face of a
deaf person which not even the pencil
of the retoucher can soften, and if the
photographers art were to be judged
by that small portion of his work he
would soon suffer so in reputation that
he would have to shut up shop"
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"AD." THAT CAUGHT THOUSANDS
paid to thousands OF Gus
toners weekly.

the thousands. Of course he pays the
interest out of the capital. When he
has accumulated enough the crash
comes. The financier disappears, the
money is gone.
''Fully 100000 was sent to Chicago
in the last IL months in get-rich-quick
schemes of this character. The VIC
Tins have been of all classes, city peo-
pie no less than villagers and farmers,
women as well as men, rich and poor
alike.
Land and improvement swindles are
being worked to-day on an enormous
scale. Do you remember the U. S.
Land Co.? We hunted that scheme
down and punished it. This company
owned some practically worthless land
in Tennessee, way up in the noun
tains, where we could hardly get at it..
The fake oil, rubber and gold-mining
companies have secured millions-yes.
millions of dollars-for land not worth
a dollar an acre.
Lottery and gambling schemes are
brought to our notice month after
month. There are hundreds of thou.
sands of people ready to give up their
cash again and again when lottery
of some kind is advertised, and we
can't always nip these fakes in the
bud"
In the last year something has been
done to put a stop to ''divine healing"
absent treatment by mail and one of
the most successful quacks in the lot
Francis Truth, of Boston,-who it was
said was doing a business of $4,000
a week, was stopped by the law. Mean
while others who do only $4,000 a
month continue to flourish, and by
court decision recently made, nothing
can be done to prevent people sending
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ViqiIant Motorman.

George paine, young man resid-
ing with his uncle in st. Paul en-
ployed by the Northern Pacific rail-
way, was seriously injured by falling
off a bicycle in front of street car.
When picked up his neck was within
a few inches of one of the front
wheels of the car and his whole body
under the car fender. Had not Motor
man Anderson been vigilant and
prompt to act Paine would have been
killed instantly. His nose was broken
and his face and head badly cut. AS
soon as he regained consciousness he
complained of pain in his abdomen
and is is feared that he was injured
internally