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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-09-24
Texas Damaged by Water.

Rain has ceased to fall at Laredo,
Texas, The waters of the Rio
Grande, however, are still on the ram
page, and a marked decrease in the
high stage is looked for for several
days. Reports from Eagle Pass state
that the rains have ceased in that vi
cinity. and the river, which had
reached tweuty-four feet, is slowly re-
ceding While much damage has been
done by the washing away Of innumer
able shacks of the poorer classes, no
loss Of life, so far as known, has re-
suited
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-09-24
RUSSIANS HAVE DOUBTS.
Deny That Japs Are Concentrating on
Russian Flank Near Mukden.

Russian Flank Near Mukden.
Statements that the Japanese army
Is concentrating upon the tanks OIL
the Russian forces in the vicinity of
Mukden, are met at the Russian war
office with expressions Of incredulity.
It is the opinion at st. Petersburg that
q much longer time must elapse be-
fore oyama can put his army, which
was so sorely tried in the battle Of
Lao Yang, in condition to effect a for
ward movement. Russias recession
from her early position on the ques-
ton of contraband is regarded as the
occasion Of the probable retirement Of
Vice Admiral Avellan from his post as
the head of the Russian admiralty de-
partment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

witch tie honor 81 beius u b .a country
station Of W K Wand rbil 81 and
where Howard Gould mod ernS counter
felt of Barney Castle will be built iftever
the disputes with architect and work
men are over. Mr.. Brokaw has q beauti-
full estate which he is trying to fiji out
into mile square of land by buying up
all one side of villagestreet and tear
ing down the houses. AZ Vanderbilt did
this at Success Lake, which was pop
ular summer resort before the revolu-
ton. Payne Whitney is doing it at Man
hassett. Why not Brokaw?
You can shut your eyes and see the
kind of people Brokaw is driving out by
the list: Johnny Higgins blacksmith
shop; Jake Fuehrstein's house and lot;
Ed. Scheck's two houses; and so on. Of
course, Jim and Jake and Ed get more
than good prices for their holdings
$4,000 for the blacksmith shop and an
acre, for instance. But it makes the town
authorities uneasy. When the houses
are destroyed at rich mans whim they
will have to tax the place on the land
only. And even millionaire's great es-
tate pays less taxes than the same space
would if divided, as this would have been
in time and already in part, into several
hundreds of modest homes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
Roof Fairgrounds.

The UNDETERMINED Boston idea of
roof Fairgrounds for the children of a
city taught Chicago nothing new. 1T
is an idea that has been in vogue here
for years both with the residents Of
high-priced apartments and low
priced tenements.
In the Ghetto district entire families
one might say entire communities. find
the roof a desirable breathing place.
To the roofs they carry their work ami
their pleasures. They use them as
sleeping places during the heated
months, and the wash women cleanse
and dry the clothes entrusted to them
in the same place. ''~S."
One enterprising west side youth 1iv-
ing in fiat building filled with fair
salarfed tenants has found it profitable
to provide a summer garden on the ton
of the building. There he 1ispenses
soft cooling drinks every pleasant eve-
ming, and utilizes phonograph AZ q
means OF attracting patronage.
The attendants at Hull House utiliz.
the roof and a high, fenced-in balcony
as play ground for the 80 or mora
babies left there each day by working
mothers. =
Chicago does not disdain the use of
these breathing places, and thew are
growing more and more in popular
1aVOI: &EtEf{ t.=t ss1..$t = n *$ j essss +,
r. WRIGHT A, PATTERSON
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

til our tariff laws brought over some
younger Fabers to establish an Ameri-
can branch. They are very wealthy.
]. Eberhardt Faber, who had splenc
did estate on Staten Island and fam
lily of young, unmothered children, went
into Riker's drug store to get his finger
nails polished, a practice of growing
usualness with men in New York. Per-
haps the custom grows just as the flow
er buying habit does, and just as the
habit of accompanying "witey" to GER
tain milliners' shops grows-because OF
the also increasing custom OF employ
ing in these establishments only girls
of exceeding beauty. Upon my word, !
do not know where they all come from;
but if anyone gets from the stage the
idea that New York girls are plain he
can lose that impression in five minutes
by buying a bouquet, looking at hat
for his wife and getting his nails pol
ished, all within ten blocks.
At any rate Mr.. Faber came, saw was
beautified as to his shining finger tips
and promptly fell victim to Cupid's
darts Mrs Faber's success in 'get-
ting an excellent husband still ypung
enough for romance simply follows an
extraordinarily long list of such Sases.
Telephone girls have been partict larly
favored in this respect, a recent case in
Poughkeepsie pointing the moral Of "a
pleasant voice. And the process isn't of
recent beginnings. The leader of New
York society not so very long ago was
welded from the humblest surroundings
and occupation. And Mrs. George Gould
Mrs. Paul Cravath and quite a few Of the
notable matrons of New York of to-day
came from the professional stage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
Elliott Suicides.

His disordered mind overpowered by
the knowledge that he was thought to
have attempted the life of the: presi-
dent and by the prosecutions he be-
lieyed he had suffered, PeterO Elliott,
the Minneapolis man who sprang into
prominence last fall when arrested in
the White House with loaded 3s-ca1i-
Der revolver in his pocket, committed
suicide. His lifeless body was found
dangling at the end of 3-foot rope
from the Short Line bridge near St.
Paul.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
Two Sides of State Street.

What Selfridge paid s., OO0, 900 for on
the east side of State street would have
been worth considerable less on tho
west side of the street. The two sides
of State street south of Washington
are as different as the sections of the
city inhabited by the working classes
and the residence district of the rich.
The east side of the street is the rich
mans emporium, the west side the
marketing place of the poor
There is but one large store on the
west side that may be said to be pat
ronized extensively by the rich, while
it is not until one gets as far. south as
Van Buren, street on the east side that
one may find large store which de-
ponds upon the middle or poorer class
es for it's patronage.
This difference in patronage is re-
Elected in the price of real estate, that
on the west side of the street selling
for practically one-fourth less per
square foot than if situated on the or
posite side. The stocks carried by the
merchants on the different sides of the
street are also in striking contrast.
Some time ago looked at Navajo blan-
kets in store On tie west side. They
were selling for $26, and were not
worth more. The same day looked at
others on the east side. they were
selling for 1925, and were worth all of
it. The first were limitations; the Sec
ond were the genuine article.
The east side of the street is cosmo.
politan in the elegance of dress of the
people; the west side is cosmopolitan
in the variety of the people. Patrons
on the east side ride to and from the
shops in automobiles and fashionable
carriages; patrons of the stores on the
west side are pedestrians. A high
priced florist would find poor picking
on the west side of the street, but they
grow wealthy on the east side.
Such is State street, the greatest re-
tail mart in the world.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

Workers take it quite for granted, and 60
or stay away unmarveling.
After all, Coney is the biggest thing
of it's kind in the world. You can 20
there for ten cents, or on bicycle Lon
don is an hour by train from Brighton
The late fashion of preparing great spec
tacles adds the last touch of splendor
Where a hundred thousand people go
almost any day to be amused, and twice
or thrice as many on Sunday, it pays to
invest money.
Accordingly, you can see staff palaces
as pretty in their way as those at Chi
cago and very festive. You can see the
North Pole, or watch man try to break
his neck looping the loop. You can see
an elephant shoot the chutes. Another
elephant comes up behind the brute. as
it stands shivering on the brink, and
butts the huge beast, and away he goes
down the incline, splash" into the big
tank, with Greek temple on one side
and a medieval village house in a cor
ner and Venetian palace on the other
side and Florentine campanile in the
middle.
All the devices at Coney, from the
chute-shooting elephant to the leap
frog trolley cars, either are or will be
shown in other places. Coney is where
they are all seen at once, and the good
old one-ring chestnuts as well, with the
breath of the immortal and unstainable
sea, and the picturesque merrymakers to
watch. The Chicago man was right. ~.
OWEN LANGDON
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

much larger than many that make a
much greater noise. 1t is safely invested
on loan with good collateral and in the
most conservative stocks and bonds, and
1t grows by it's own weight. And poor
Uncle Russell has no interest in life ex-
cept to watch it grow. The doctors have
decided that Mr.. Sage cannot even leave
New York for the summer with safety;
his health is in pitiable condition. He
cannot move step without the protec-
ton of lusty body guard, who keeps
away the reporters and aids and guides
him.
Pious as he is, Mr.. Sage has run
through some pretty sporty propositions
in his day, so that he could hardly be ex-
pected now to blanch at being accused
OF running poolrooms by deputy. And
he doesn't. The puts" and "calls" and
"privileges' he used to sell upon Wall
street provided the most concentrated
essence OF gambling that the street even
in those careless days permitted. TWAS
about as much legitimate business as bet
ting on the turn Of the card. There was
MOuey IN II.
OF late years Mr.. Sage has confined
himself to the less active pursuit of lend
ing money on good security. In this ca
pacity he recently unwittingly perpe-
trated joke which had all Wall street
laughing. 1t was to decline loan we'll
secured by deprecated "industrials; 4"
not because the security wasn't good
enough-they were just as good as any
thing else for loan collateral, since you
can always sell 'em for something-but
because the shares were so bulky he
hadn't room for them in his safe.
Mrs. Sage is some years younger than
her husband and lady of lively charac-
ter. devoted in her quiet way to prac-
tical charities and to the education of
women, which she has greatly aided.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

one 81 these State street chi ,olriums.
fSchlessfng as the Chicago public
knew the store. was w no means the
largest establishment on the street.
There are at least two larger ones that
are exclusively dry goods stores, and
three others that are general depart
ment stores. It IS safe to say that the.
largest OF the State street esabnsh-ss
q ep1ts representssa n investment of not
less than SIS, 100000. have been in5
one little eight4by ten room in this
store in which was stored goods to lae
value of nearly 100000. .-.
The majority of the stores have out
grown Individual ownership. They are
big corporations, the stock of which is
bought and sold in the open market
So it is that Rothschild's and Siegel-
Cooper & Co., supposedly the strongest
kind of competitors, are said to be
owned by the same people. Rothschild.
the man who gave that store it's name,
died by his own hand. His death had
no effect on the business of the store
other than the necessity of electing@
new president for the company. >,
The amount of business done by the
big stores is enormous: One of them
passed 100000 worth of merchan-
disc over the counters of it's basement
salesroom alone last year. Any of
them will turn over their working cap
ltal easily five times in a year. The
amount of merchandise sold does not
determine the amount of profits. That
depends upon the buying and the store
management, and close check is
Kept upon every department manager.
There is money in State street mer-
chandising for the man who knows
how, but it is an easy road to failure
for the man who knows not.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
The New Way.

This year the small boy will cele-
brate the nations natal day by proxy
He will sit on bench and watch A
man, hired for the occasion, explode
the firecrackers and the torpedoes. It
promises to be day of mental agony
to him, but at it's close the bodily pain
will be on the mans fingers and not on
the boys.
The Chicago Amusement association
is corporation-a trust with a capital
stock of 81, 00,000-and it has a corner
on Fourth of July noise 1t is trust
authorized by the municipal council,
whose franchise gives it a monopoly of
all the noise making on that day of all
days to the small boy.
This is how it will dispense it's prod
uct. After breakfast on the morning
of the Fourth the children of the city
will be assembled at the school play
grounds. at the parks, and at certain
specified vacant lots throughout lie
city. At these places there will be on
duty policemen, firemen and doctors.
The duty of the first is to shoot the
f1recrackers, and to give lessons to the
children in how they may be exploded
with safety to themselves and the pub
lie. Under this official tutelage some
of the older boys may be permitted to
hold the punk. The duty of the fire.
men will be to suppress any incipien,
blazes which the inexperienced police
men may start, and the doctors are to
be on hand to bind up the policemen's
wounds.
The noise-producing Implements Of
this occasion will be the small-sized
f1recrackers and the penny bunch tor
pedoes. One other feature of the day
will be presentation to4each young
ster of a copy of the Declaration of In
dependence, and in the evening there
will be display of fireworks on tho
lake front.
Cannon crackers, toy pistols, revol-
vers, all that has made the celebrations
of the past worthy of the occasion in
the mind of the small boy. have been
tabooed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

Were it not for the tremendous ca
pac1ty of the modern paper-making
machine, the newspaper of to-day
would have been unable to attain it's
present size. Some of the largest mills
run at a speed of 500 feet of paper a
minute, or about as fast as a horse
travelling six miles an hour The width
OF newspaper varies from 60 to 100
inches. One roll of paper from the
mill Of the International Paper Co.,
which was exhibited at Buffalo, and
which was said to be the largest ever
made, measured 152 incnes in length.
weighed two tons, and, if unrolled,
would reach distance of some six
miles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
FOR oRowN-UPs THIsaYEAi a
In the Hands Of Municipal Trust
Business Changes on State
80 street-0ddities of That ...
Retail Mart. 81
The Old Way.

ChicagO.-NO. one who has, spent 2
Fourth of July in this city would ever
accuse the place of lacking in that spe-
cies of patriotism which manifests it.
self in noise. On that one day, il on
no others, the city has been allowed to
run wild, and burn powder enough to
supply the Russian army with much
needed ammunition.
On that one day the small boy has
found the city paradise. The au-
thorities have offered no restraints 10
curb his noisy enthusiasm. He has
been privileged to tie cannon crackers
to the neighbors' dogs, to frighten the
horses as he pleased, to set fire to
buildings, and mutilate his own and
other bodies as he saw fit. The police
and fire departments were merely held
in reserve to effect such remedies as
were possible when the fun was over.
Revolvers, toy pistols, young can
mons, cannon crackers, and, in fact,
every form of dangerous implement
They were sold in the stores to anyone
who had the price to purchase, regard
less of his age. The result has been
almost countless cases of injury and
many deaths.
1t is said that toy pistols alone were
responsible for 20 deaths from lock-
jaw following last Fourth of July Of
ficials estimate that there are not less
than $4,000 people in Chicago carrying
scars as result of Fourth of July &C.
cidents. Many thousands of dollars
worth of property is destroyed every
year as a direct result of the uncon-
trolled use of powder in the celebra-
ton.
But, with all these faults, the small
boy has approved of the occasion just
DIS Chicago has known it in the past
The scars have been to him but me-
mentoes of glorious occasions. The
Fourth has been his ideal holiday, 10
be compared with no other in the cal
endar of the year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

Central Asia now puts in a claim for
the most remarkable of all the Dubious
plants. 1t bears the imperial title of
Monarch of the East" In color and
appearance the bulb resembles, a large
potato, and it's extraordinary property
is that it flowers without the aid Of
earth, sand, stones, water or anything
else. The disc0verer of this phenor,e-
non says: 1.-The flower sheath sore
times reaches length of nearly tro
feet, is of a red-brown color, tipped
with red and yellow, while the inner
parts of the flower are equally bril-
liant"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

No extinct land animal of former
ages has a bigger body that has the
biggest African elephant of today, and
not one, so far as is known, exceeds
or even equaled in bulk the existing
great whales, which sometimes are all
OF 100 feet long. AS elephants, horses
and similar animals are traced back
ward through the various strata they
are found to get smaller and smaller.
Some extinct elephants were no bigger
than Shetland ponies, while the horses
of prehistoric times were about tie
size of large dogs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

One of the most beautiful uses to
which wood fiber has been put is the
manufacture of artificial flowers
They are new thing and are OILY
to be had in one shop in New York
city that makes a business of SELLING
novelties. Thus far the only flowers
made of this material are pink roses
Vlolets and white and purple lilacs
with the necessary leaves. violets are
made in Philadelphia and sell for 81
a bunch, while the other blooms
come from Japan, the roses selling fol-
dollar each. The imitation is close
both in color. form and texture.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
MI les OF NEWS
Cattle Showing.

80 81
The cattle department Of the statA
fair, according to Secretary E. w Ran
dali, will thisy De better and big
ger than ever. sa .3 .=s + :s.:...
Mnchsof the success Of the cattle do.
partment Of the fair has been acquired
because the larger breeders associa-
lions of4the country have made this
fair one of regular official exhi bits, and
have donated regular premiums in adj
dltlon to those offered by the society.
For the national shorthorn show to-
tai OF 81 500 in premiums is offered.
This is open to the breeders of the
world, and in addition there is spec
ial $500 premium to BE distributed
among Minnesota breeders, besides
several small premiums offered by pat
rons of the fair: j
Premiums offered by the American
Hereford Breeders association are as
liberal and comprehensive as those of
the other association
The cattle department has for many
years been in charge Of Col. VIM. M.
Liggett, whose assistants this year will
be George A. Cobb and Robert B. Lig-
gett. Entries for the general cattle
division close on August Is, but for
the shorthorn exhibition on Aug. /.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

The recent discovery of Mr.. Allen,
Dublin veterinary surgeon, that or
binary turpentine is an antidote to
&arbolic acid is one of the many ;yu-
portant discoveries which have result
ed more or less from accident. Mr.,
Allen had in his establishment some
horses which were suffering from var
bolic poisoning, and he asked for oil
to be given as an antidote. 1t was
only the unexpected success of the
treatment that caused it to be discov.
cred that happy mistake had heen
made, and that turpentine had been ad-
ministered instead of oil.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
Money Received.

The state board Of control turned in
to the state treasury the following
April receipts from state institutions:
State prison, 81, 142. &c; Rochester hos
pital, 81, 091.63; school for the feeble
minded, $947. 49,. state. reformatory,
$777.23; Fergus Falls hospital, $3.50. 6s;
training school, $317.42; Mankato nor
NAL, $215.22; Hastings asylum; 5000;
school for the deaf; $4,000; Winona
normal, $173.3o; St. Cloud normal,
$15s.45; St. Peter hospital, $1o7.4 Al; Du-
luth normal, $1,000; school for the
blind, $5s.11; state public school, $32;
Anoka asylum, $2s. so; Moorhead nor
NAL, 500 10.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

1t is estimated that only about
eighty-five million dollars, which is ap-
proximately five per cent. of the annual
income of our railways goes to foreign
investors. OF the remaining ninety
five per cent, 1854. 447, 408, forty per
cent. is divided among the owners of
the stocks and bonds, numbering about
one million, and sixty per cent. among
1,189,315 employees. Counting the fam
lilies supported by the holders of securi.
ties and employees, over ten million
people share in the railroad earnings.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10

Henry hewitt, a Jefferson guard,
stationed at the administration build.
ing of the Worlds fair, believes that
he has made worlds record in an.
swering 1875 questions between a.
m. and 5 p m. He knows, because he
counted them, using an indicator held
in his hand. He thinks it altogether
probable that he may have answered
many questions that he did not record,
they came so fast.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-10
News Notes.

{ Prominent musicians from all parts
of the state will be in Duluth June 16,
17,and 10 to attend the Minnesota State
Music Teachers, association. -.
A young. man by the name of Sven
Haugland, employed by Hoken Bruns-
ven, q farmer near Cottonwood, was,
kicked by horse, and as a result died
Of lockjaw. t. n @Ss&2@%as~E$ SS& g.,
The body of a newly born girl baby
was found in the Cannon river. The
body was lying on the bottom and to
all appearances had not been long in
the water. -fsm-.- :. 4
Judge Gray, sitting at Mankato, has
declared the Amboy Elevator company.
. farmers organization Of Amboy, in:
solvent. -. i ( @<r,} r:
A fire at Shevlin destroyed one side
of Main street. The buildings burned
were the City drug store, loss s.. 600.
insurance, $500. =
At a meeting of the business men a
commercial club was formed for the
promotion of business and social inter
ests at Howard Lake.
The state superintendent Of banks
has authorized the Osseo State bank to.
begin business With : capitol Of $40, 900.
Citizens Of Winona are planning to.
operate an independent ice oompany.,
It is said that = close organization will
be formed among : large number Of
..itizens. OH .s 81