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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06
By Telephone from hovbrook

waiter CalHlns mas purchased 30 acres
Of j. M. McMasters. and moved thereon a
house which was on his ranch. occupied
by his father, who will live on the newly
acquired premises.
Ed. Rich has moved the Carter house
from the David Richards place to Hon
W. N. Randall's ranch.
The facilities of the Enterprise for
reaching the public is appreciated and
those who make known their wants
through our columns are almost always
rewarded by being brought into contact
with the people they want to find. If you
have anything you want to sell, wish tc
buy anything. have farm to rent OF
want to rent farm. or if you have los,
anything. few lines in the Enterprise
will do the business for you. The serv-
ice constantly being rendered by our COL
umns is causing steadily increasing
number of these small ads. Money in
vested in the advertising columns of the
Enterprise brings good returns.
A foundry is one of the new enterprises
to be shortly established in Rocky Ford
Two Pueblo men have bought ground and
will at once build a foundry of sufficient
capacity to handle all ordinary jobbing
business and repairs, and will enlarge as
business jvstifes,
We last week mentioned that a new
rural route was proposed, to serve the
many citizens southeast of Rocky Ford
Before the route will be authorized by
the department the territory will be ex-
amined by an inspector to see if the gen
eral conditiQns will warrant the estab-
shment Of the service. Among the
conditions required Will be adequate road
facilities and the roads in good condition
In the section to be served by this new
route a new road must be opened. Those
interested should at once begin to dc
their part in regard to the roads, that al
may be in readiness for the inspector
when he arrives, Failure to comply with
the conditions laid down by the govern
mept will postpone the establishment q
the proposed route,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

FOR SALE E--Good team young Mares,
weight ABOUT 1900. Will take saddle
horse in trade,-=J, M. Shaulis, mile
south Of State Farm. 4O-4lp
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

Ramsay & Byars are receiving asw
goods daily.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

Seed Potatoes. late and early varieties;
also few choice Cantaloupe Seed.
59-tf j. j. Guthrie.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

Fresh Celery. Lettuce and Radishes
every Wednesday and Saturday at Dar-
ing g. Young's.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

Go to Shelton's Gallery over Hilfiker's
for the most life-like Of photos
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

FOR SALE-Two Horses for cash or
time. Inquire at 7. j, Hil's Music Store.
4O-tf
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

Shelton's Gallery can please you in
photos and no mistake
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

= CALVES WANTED am in the mar
ket for calves. If not convenient TO call
on me, drop me card and | will call on
you. Q. 3. Stauffer
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

BOYS Hair shingled for 10 cents
my residence, 400 South 9Th Street.
33-AOp
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-03-06

Leave orders for Fancy Ice Cream and
Ices at Blair G. Wiswell's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
Has Married Many Courles.

A former marrying justice who
has not been in the business for a
good many years, but who made
many couples one while he was in it,
is Levi R. Johnson, of Lincoln town
ship, Nodaway county, Mo. Mr..
johnson has lived in Nodaway coun-
ty 81 years. He has been married
81 years, ard he and his wife, who
is still living, have had ,12~ children,
of whom nine are living, and haye
20 grandchildren and two great
grandchildren. For 30 years he wa
a Justice of she peace in his town
ship, and in that time married 1,446
couples. He did most of his marry
ing q good many years ago, and the
township in which lives is now very.
largely populated with the children.
and grandchildren of couples at
whose weddings he dictated
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
wonderful Alpine Railway.

A wonderful mountain railway is
being constructed at present in the
Iyrol, and when completed next sum-
mer it will be the steepest line in
the world. The railway, which will
be two and a half kilometers :,
length, will join the village of Kali
tern to the summit of the Col de
Mendel at a height of 1850 feet.
This distance will be covered in ex-
actly ~ minutes, while by road ii
takes four hours to reach the ton
The force is electricity, and the cog
: (middle) rail system has been EN-,
ployed. The maximum grade is Ga
in 100, surprising that of the Stanser-
horn line, which formerly held the
European record. The coaches will
hold so persons and baggage, and
special precautions have been taken
to enable the tourist. to view the
wonderful scenery through which
the line pDsses. NJ. Strubb, a Swiss
engineer of Clarens, is carrying on
this remarkable enterprise. ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

astonishes his fellow veterans at the
G.. A. r. campfires and the young people
at the old-time country dances where
he performs.
His repertory includes all the old
time favorites, such as "The Arkansaw
Traveller, "Turkey in the Straw,""Old
Dan Tucker" "Fisher's Hornpipe'" and
"Pop, Goes the Weasel" In addition to
his musical accomplishments Riley
dances lively jigs with all the nimble
grace of an Irishman, and, though IS,
he challenges any man.in Pennsylvania
over so to>a ~jig-dancing contest.
'"And I'll do me own fiddlin', sure,'
says Riley, for he can fiddle and at the
same time dance to his own music.
Riley is a native of Lancaster county.
He served in the First Pennsylvania re-
serves and in the Two Hundred and
Third Pennsylvania volunteers and was
twice dangerously wounded in battle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
AN EDISON FAILURE.
Once He Designed an Invention
That Didn't Work.
Automatic Horse Fecder Was Operat-
ed just Once, with Results That
Discouraged the Wizard
and His FactOtum.

"The world has seen a variety of
achievements wrought by man, but no
| other has made such strides toward
the perfection of industry and prog
ress, toward the advancement of the
whole world, as the application OF
electricity"
Thus spoke Lord Kelvin, and in JUS
tice he might have supplemented the
same by stating that the Yankee wiz
ard, Thomas A. Edison, has ever been
! the leader in the advance guard which
has with such signal success explored
that mystical electrical field. How
ever, the public prints have long been
surfeited with stories of Edison's bril-
liant coups; and here, for variety's
sake, is given the record of a failure.
When Edison first established his
laboratory and electrical works over
in New Jersey, he had in his employ an
lrishman named Barney Gilhoo]y.
Barney was engineer and fireman-in
short, he was general utility man
around the entire Edison plant. He
lived back of the meadows, some four
miles from the factory, II 1t was his
custom to drive daily back and forth.
Now, like all the rest of mankind,
Barney liked to sleep in the morning
as long as possible, and he conjured
his brain as to how to feed his horse
in the morning without a personal
visit to the barn. Finally he enlist
ed the services of his illustrious en-
ployer, explaining that it would be
a great convenience if by some button
and wire arrangement the morning ra-
ton of oats could be doled out to the
horse. In hat way he claimed that
when he had prepared and eaten his
W breakfast Dobbin also would be
ready for the road.
Mr.. Edison readily grasped the idea,
says the New York Times, and that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
ACROSS THE SAHARA.
Wonderful Aerial Trip Attempted
by Three Frenchmsn.
Adventures Hnd q Narrow Escape,
But Have Already Begun Ex-
tensive Preparations for :
Another Trip.

Capt. Debureaux, who with Count de
Castillon Saint-Neter and NJ. Legrand,
has just returned to Paris from the
great African desert, reports that his
aerial voyage would have succeeded
but for a sand hurricane, which
wrecked their balloon. The party had
a narrow escape. The principle upon
which the balloons were built was
found to be correct, except that no
adequate provision had been made for
sudden and violent sandstorms.
The aeronauts will Immediately be-
gin preparations for another attempt
Of a similar character.
M. Emmanuel Anne, the well-known
aeronautic authority, that
their third balloon, to be used in. an
attempt to cross Africa from the east
to the west, will have a capacity of
1000 cubic meters and will be inflated
with pure hydrogen.
The point Of departure will be an
oasis to the south Of Gales. Capt.
DebureauX, in no degree discouraged
by the failure of the recent attempts,
hopes that the new balloon, favored
by the spring winds, will, in a weeks
voyage, reach the French territory Of
Senegal.
The new balloon, as in the case of the
preceding ones, will be provided with
a heavy guide rope trailing on the
ground for regulating the altitude Of
the balloon. and the 1OsSes Of bvGro-
gen will be compensated by means of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS quantities of
ballast.
The a%eronauts, exhibiting great per-
severance and prudence, are DESTROYS
of continuing the trials by means of
non-occupied balloons until it is shown
that they can with safety undertake
to manage a balloon themselves in an
attempt to cross the Sahara.
The Importance of the success of
their enterprise lies in the colonial ex-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

pansion which France is at present
contemplating in the dark continent in
competition with Britain.
NJ. Jacques Balsan, the balloonist,
has also returned to France and has
furnished a short account of his aerial
voyage from Paris to a small town in
Hungary beyond Lake Balaton, which
is IS miles southwest of Buda-Pesth.
lie accomplished this sky trip with
N. Abel Corot, the distance trayersed
being estimated at something over
1900 kilometers, OF 807 miles. The
time taken was 80 hours. This voyage
does not beat the record made by MN.
DE la VauiX and de Saint-Victor, who
went to kieff, in Russia-a distance
IF 1900 kilometers, or 1,179 miles-in
56 miles.
The leader Of this daring aerial ex-
petition, accomplished in midwinter,
and without fear of frost, fog or snow,
NJ. jacques Balsan, is IS years old, and
descends on the maternal side from the
famous Surgeon D%upuytren. He is
rich, and has had many adventures bv
1ouu anu Sed. he once q
Gillian gunboat, and made several voy-
ages of exploration for the Gillian
government. After having travelled all
over the world NJ. Balsan returned to
Paris and took part in the aeronautic
competitions organized in connection
with the exhibition ia 1900.
He was in the long-distance trip in
which NM De la Nauix and De Saint
Victor distinguished Themselves, but
he had to descend in Prussia, near the
Muscovite frontier. The failure did
not discourage NJ. Ralsan in the least,
and he seems determined to go on bal
looming until he achieved something
wonderful in the line. His present
aerostat, the St. Louis, was construct
ed for him in 1900 by Louis GODDARD,
and he has already made 10 trips in it
and received many prizes. Last year,
for instance, NJ. Balsan won the L.
baudy prize al Bordeaux.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
IAPAN'S NEW PREMIER.
Gen. Count Katsura. 1to's Successor,
80 IL the ideal Of the Conserva-~
tive Party.

That there is a reaction in Japan
from the progressive energy which has
characterized the nation for the past
80 years, is proven by the fact that Mar
quis Ito, the Bismarck of the orient,
has been succeeded as prime minister
by Gen. Count Katsura, a member of
the conservative party. The new prime
minister, however. has always taken a
large part in the affairs of his country,
and has won distinction as a diplomat
and a soldier, if not as an originator of
progress.
To Marquis Ito more than to any one
nan or to any score of men, is due the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
lie concurrent resolution of Rep

sCG:
resentative Galloway is as follows:
Whereas, The blockhouse built at
old Fort Yamhih in 1856 is fast de-
caying; and,
Whereas, Several of our most IA
nous soldiers, Including Gen. w. B.
Hazen, then a colonel; Gen. A. J.
Smith, then a captain, and Gen. Jo-
seph Wheeler, David A. Russell and
the hero of Winchester, Gen. Phil
Sheridan, then lieutenan*s, were at
different times stationed Mere; and,
Whereas, Gems. Orc Augur and
Grant visited this forc ca special
duty; and,
Whereas, This blockhouse is the
only one of its kind now extant in
Oregon, if not in the northwe1t, a
solitary reminder of great mer, and
stirring deeds and incidents of the
pioneer era; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the house, the senate
c%oncurring;, That the Oregon State
Historical society be instructed and
it is hereby authorized to take steps
to Sc cure said blockhouse, and to pre-
serve the same as one of the impor-
tant historical ments of the
early pioneer history of Oregon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

very day, accompanied by an assist
ant, he repaired to Barney's place and
installed an electrical appliance which
he anticipated would fill the bill. It
was SO arranged that if the oats were
placed in a receptacle at the top of
a chute, the pressing of a button at
the house would put machinery in mo-
ton to do the rest.
And SO it came to pass that on the
morning of the automatic o~atfeeder's
debut Barney pushed the magical but
ton, serene in the belief that the Wiz
Yards mechanism would fulfill it's mis-
sion.
But, alas! the best laid plans of cleo
trlclans, as we'll as those of other folk,
aft gang aglee." Dobbin had not
been initiated into the mysteries of
the new-fangled arrangement. and, in
still watches of the morning. when ne
was dreaming of the millennium
OF automobilism and blue: grass
pastures, the Internal creaking
OF wires, followed by an avalanche
OF oats, convinced the good steed that
the our of fate had struck. In fact.
he was so frightened he reared back
with violence and crashed through the
sid OF the barn; and when inquiring
Barney arrived on the scene Dobbin
was complacently picking up apples
under a tree in the garden.
since hat memorable morning Mr..
EQlSOnS automatic feeder has novor
oeen operated, and Barney is still
feeding his horse in the "old-fashioned
way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
AS a result of the intrOductior

AS a result of the Introduction of the
Bertillon system by the Zurich police
the town has practically cleared out
all it's bad characters. Even tramps
give the place a wide berth, for as soon
as a person is arrested he is photo.
graphed and his measurements taken,
even if the charge is not serious. OF
late the police have had so little tn do
that there is talk of reducing the
number of the force. So few crime,
are committed in the town that Hu.
rich is considered to be the most NOR
al town in Switzerland.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

DR.. Robert Il. Dorsey, who died in
Los Angeles some days ago, came of
a long line Of medical practitioners
high in the profession. His father,
grandfather and great-grandfather
spent the greater part of their lives
at Hagerstown, Md. At the marriage
of Dr.. Dorsey's parents the above
three generations were in partnership
and all in active practice. This family
held the remarkable record of 1875
years continuous %doctoring in Hagers-
town.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
News Notes.

The water in the river at Winona
is commencing to fall, after having
reached a stage of about seven feet.
Unless there are spring rains it is
believed this fall will continue.
A monument on the grounds of the
new state capitol, in commemoration
of-thes Minnesota soldiers killed in the
Philippines and of those that died Of
wounds or disease contracted in the
Philippines, is provided for in a bill
introduced in the house by Represen-
tatiye J.&J. McGregor of Benton coun-
ty. .
The newly elected council of Fer
tile met and fixed the saloon license
at $3.50. E~x-county Treasurer NJ. G..
Peterson has entered into partner
ship with TIL. Nesseth.
Frederick ". Hill of st. Paul was
discharged from bankruptcy in the
United States district court.
DR.. A. A. Ames, successfully MAYOR.
fugitive and prisoner, is now in Gus
tody in Minneapolis and within the
jurisdiction Of the Hennepin district.
court.
v. H.zGriffin, a switchman, residing
in st. Anthony Park, and EMPLOYEES
az the Minnesota Transfer, was Tilt
cd By falling from . gondola car
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
A Bio Meetfno.

One of the greatest labor mass
meetings ever held in Minneapolis is
now being planned by the Interna,
tional Union of Flour and Cereal Mill
Employees, which has headquarters in
Minneapolis. 5
The international union will hold
its second convention in this city be-
ginning June Is, and it. is proposed to
wind up. the weeks sessions with a
mass meeting Friday night, at which
either John Mitchell, president of the
Mine Workers Union, or Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, will be the chief
speaker.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

A letter addressed in a round, girl
ish hand to "Our Lord in Heaven"
has just passed through the hands of
the postal officials in Ost-Gothland,
Sweden. On being opened at the re.
turned letter office the letter proved to
be a touching prayer emanating from
an eight-year-old child, who had Sc
lected this means to secure a musical
Instruments guitar. Her appeal
has been answered, philanthropic per.
sons having subscribed the amount
necessary to accomplish the child's
desire.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
WAS BORN IN CHICAGO.
GFaeme Stewart, Republican CnLdi.
date for Mayor, Is a True Son
s>1 the Windy City. I. .

Graeme Stewart, republican NOM
ipee for mayor, is a native of Chicago
and is 40 years old. He was born
August 80, 1853, at Franklin and Mon
roe streets. He received his educa-
ton in the Skinner school, then at
Aberdeen and Jackson streets; the
University of Chicago and Dyren-
furth's Handle Schulz, which stood
at Randolph street and Fifth avenue,
then Wells street.
His first employment was as err
rand boy for G. W. Flanders & Co.,
for which firm he subsequently
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

The Russian government has set
about regulating the age at which
girls shall marry in Turkestan. 1t has
been customary for Mohammedan
girls to marry between the ages of 10
and II years, but orders have been is
sued now that no Mohammedan shall
marry under IA. The Tartar and Tur-
conan chiefs are much incensed, as all
seek to obtain brides as young as pos
sible. Russian officials report that Is
per cent of the girls who marry under
IL die before they are 20.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

Ex-Police Commissioner Murphy, of
New York, who died recently, under
went an operation Is years ago on &C.
count Of an almost impossible stric-
ture Of the gullet, and for the last ten
years Of his life he was unable to
swallow any food. Nutriment was in
troduced into his stomach through q
silver tube, and the patient was re-
stricted to foods which could be di-
gested without the aid of saliva. The
immediate of Col. MurphSs
death was heart failure from slow
starvation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

A new series of postage stamps IS
projected for Cuba which will include
other denominations than those
which now exist, up to and including
81 denomination. 1t is said that the
new series will depict various Cuban
views, and the drawings, color, paper
and other details will be considered.
A committee from the Cuban Phlla-
telic society has been requested to
appear before the bureau at engrav-
ing and printing at Washington to as
s1st in determining what views shall
be placed upon the new series of
stamps. = - .:.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

worked as shipping clerk. He was
next employed by Stewart, Aldrich &
Co. as salesman. In 1880 he entered
the service of the w. NJ. Hoyt COM
pany, and by untiring and efficient
work finally became a director and
partner in the firm.
On the night of the great fire in
1871 Mr.. Stewart was the last person
to ross the Rush street bridge. He
drove across the structure in a bug
gy, hauling the books of his employ
ers which he had saved from the
flames.
In 1874 MI. Stewart was one of the
organizers of the First Illinois regi-
ment and captain of company A. In
1882 Mayor Harrison appointed him
a member of the board of education
and he served in that capacity six
years.
AS a successor to T. N. Jameson
Mr.. Stewart was elected a member
of the national republican committee
in 1000 and was associated with Mark
Hanna, Henry G. Payne, Harry New
and r. C. Kerens in the financial
management Of the campaign of
that year.
Two years ago Mr.. Stewart was
mentioned for the mayoral nominal
ton, but did not sanction the use of
his name in that connection.
Mr.. Stewart married Nellie Pull
man in 1879. Two children add to
the happiness of the Stewart home
at 1S1 Lincoln Park boulevard.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

In a certain London office a club
has been formed Of smokers who have
pledged themselves not to use tobacco
in any form till after office hours. The
club is called the after Six Smok-
ers,' that being the hour fixed for a
general %light-up. Members may alb
stain till later if they like, but it has
been observed so far that the striking
of the hour is the signal for the strik-
ing of matches. No exception is made
of Saturday or Sunday.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
Business at the Stock Yards.

The increase in the business of the
St. Paul Union Stock Yards company
is shown in the following report for
the month of February:
Receipts-Cattles, 10000; calves, g.
1863: hogs, 61,799; sheep, 5s,s26;
horses, IS. Last Year-Cattle. 49,
u.s., calves, 2,029; hogs, 56,656; sheep,
4,774; horses, 1875.
Shipments-Cattle, 1925; calves, t.
1913; hogs, 1907; sheep, $4,000;
horses, 80.
Since the first of January POI, 1914
snima's have been slaughtered at
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
OLD OREGON FORT.
Monument of the States Pioneer His
tory to- Be Preserved by Leg ). Il
islative Action. @ 4

Representative Galloway, Of Yam
hill, says the Portland eoregonian, is
anxious to a to posterify,, as near
" intact as possible, the old Fort
Yamhill blockhouse, which has been
the scene of many interesting events
in Oregon's history. The b4ockhouse,
which was once the fort proper, was
removed some years ago to the
Grand Ronde agency, and for a. time
the lower story was converted into a
JAIL and the upper story into a. band
hall. Unless the building is cared
for, the entire structure will soon be
in ruins.
The concurrent resolution of Rep
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27

In March, 65 years ago, was born
in a village Of Somersetshire, En-.
gland, John Henry Brodribb, better
known to the world as Sir Henry 1rv.
ing. His native place is a little out.
of-the-world hamlet six miles from
the nearest railway and the house of
his nativity, with an advertisement
for somebody's teas, is pointed out to
the visitor. The last Irvingite relic
disappeared from the village a few
years ago, when a gentleman pur.
chased robes in which the actor was
christened.