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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
HEARTLESSNESS or
A MEXICAN MAIDEN
FOUR TILTED LOVERS COMMIT
SUICIDE AT HER REQUEST.
SEND HER HEARTS AS PROOF
Tickle Girl Preserved Tokens in Jars
Of Alcohol-Father Learns Awful
Story and Banishes Her
to a Convent.

Mexico City, MexicO-SenOra 1nez
Mendoza y Aguillo, Spanish-Mex-
lean beauty of Chihuahua. the daugh-
ter of the wealthiest coffee planter in
Mexico, and heiress in her own right
to an estate Of more than $7,OO0,OOO,
has been banished from her home and
immured in convent, almost as
prisoner, because her heartlessness and
tlck1eness have cost the lives of four
men.
Not only have four men killed them
selves for her sake, but each of the
four, by strange compact with close
personal friends, arranged that after
death his heart should be removed
from his body and sent to the Sonora
lnez Mendoza y Aguillo as a token.
The Sonora lnez gleefully accepted
the hearts of the lovers who had died
because Of the hopelessness of their
passion. She kept the hearts. each in
jar Of alcohol. in a little shrine she
had built in the corner of her boudoir.
Ordinarily the jars containing the four
hearts were hidden behind what ap-
Deared to be a triple glass mirror,
but on touching a spring the three sill
ver-framed mirrors swung back and
disclosed recess in which rested the
four jars, each containing a mans
heart.
Before this little shrine the Sonora
lnez always kept burning. day and
night, four small wax candles.
Her father. of course, knew nothing
of it, but one day the Sonora lnez fell
i'll of fever. She was i'll for many
weeks. 50 i'll that her life was de-
SPARED of. 1t was during this time
that her father, who spent the most Of
his time in his daughters boudoir in
order that he might be near her, dis
covered the four hearts almost by ac-
cident.
The discovery shocked the Senior
Mendosa Aguillo beyond measure.
BY threats and persuasion he learned,
gradually. the whole story from Inez' 8
maid-how Inaz had flirted desperate
~ with each of the four young men
in turn, how she encouraged each OF
them to declare their passion, how she
led each of them to believe shA would
elope with them to the priest and
when each in turn in despair at her
fickleness had declared his purpose to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
News Notes.

The senate votes to abolish grand
juries.
The house seems inclined to favor
the tax ferret bill
The Volk painting for the govern
or's room is nearly ready.
James Maland of Rushford was
thrown from horse and sustained the
fracture of three ribs and serious in
ternal injuries 49,. .-~.&
Slot machines have been removed
from almost every cigar stand and bar
in Minneapolis. - 9.
The blacksmith shop of Thomas
O'Halloran, South ST Paul was de-
stroyed by fire of incendiary origin. n
Bonds Of the Empire elevator COM
pany, the new grain terminal concern
at Fort Williams, Ont, have been all
taken by the Minneapolis Loan &
Trust company F. II
: The following staff appointments
were made by the governor: r. H.
Mcclellan of Glencoe, major and quar-
termaster general, and NJ. Gaser of
Duluth, commissionary general. Al
fred 3. Colling was appointed first
lieutenant of Company &, Second in
fantry. ri If .s. >zs. s@... s z. ~.
Henry Terence of Avoca shot him
self with a,hotgun. the charge entered
below the lower jaw and coming ont
above the eye. =, - ~ IS: -ss= =
Mrs. Charles Trampe, widow
about forty years of age, wa killed
today by being thrown from a wagon
ii ssNanvil le, SIS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
CAPTAIN SLEiGHT
D.. HAS TRAINED cow.
I: Nudges Him to Promptness at Neal
time and Drags Boys sleds
Up Steep Hills. =

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Mark Twain's
educated frog and Pike county's hoop
snakes are discounted by Capt. Ike
Sleight's trained COW. which is attract
ing attention to and earning fame for
Sleightsburg little hamlet near
Kingston. The cow is Capt. Sleight's
faithful companion and follows him
through the village wherever he goes.
from snowy morn to frosty eve. She
would crowd through the door of the
village store it the opening was wide
enough.
When the captain takes a trip to the
dock on the Hudson the faithful cow is
sure to be close behind, and no gift OF
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
THE DESERT TRANSFORMED
Twice the Size of the State
,. Of Connecticut. J.. 81

Writing in the Worlds Work On
Building a Wonderful Community, X <.
French Strother tells the story Of a re-
markable western county:
Thirty-two years ago there was but
one house in the town of Fresno, in the
central desert of California. A hole
was dug under it, 40 feet Deep into
which the inmates lowered themselves
by bucket and windlass, to escape
the heat of the day. Around it, as far
as the eye could see, stretched the glar-
ing desert, unbroken by any cultivated
spot of green. The whole country seemed
a hopeless Waste-dead and profit
less.
To-day this spot is the center of a
cheerful community Of 5000 homes, in
land made fertile by irrigation. Ten
thousand children attend it's public
schools. The industries there yield $14,-
100000 annually. The raisin crop of 1902
put into the farmers bank accounts
$2.3O0,0O0. All the raisins imported into
the United States in 1902 amounted in
value to only 100000. In 1902 the oil
wells of Fresno county yielded $4,000
barrels of crude petroleum, worth $780,
900 before refining. .Eighty-nine thou
sand head of cattle Craze on it's rich al
falfa 49, q q: = - ~ 8.
When few struggling fortune hunt
ers came to5the country late in the '6Os
they were welcomed by this sign, hung
over Fresno's one building: Bring
your horses. Water, one bit; water and
feed, three bits Fresno was water
ing station only. In 1872, however,
Mr.. M. J. Church conceived the idea of
bringing the water in bitches from
Kings river, 20 miles away, to irrigata
the land. His proposal was laughed at
as dreamer's scheme. But persistence
won; in 1876 he had water on land within
three miles of the town of Fresno, and
the first years crop proved the soil to
be fertile. The area of watered ground
was rapidly extended. To-day there are
100000 acres under irrigation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24

end his misery by ending his life, Inez
had with sneering laughter urged each
to commit suicide and send his heart
10 her as token that he had kept his
word.
The Senior Mendosa y Aguillo was
stricken with horror He was ever a
stern parent. lenient to his daughter,
but just.
When the Sonora IneZ recovered and
was again her own self her father
taxed her with her heartlessnrss and
she confessed it all.
The Senior Mendosa Agull.o con-
suited first with the priest and later
with the bishop. They all agreed that
the Sonora Inez must be punished. and
punished severely. AS her four adj
mirers had committed suicide Inez
could not be charged with a crime.
Therefore the church must punish her.
In Chihuahua, far from the railroad,
far from the towns. far from the plan
tation lands. there stands a convent.
built of hewn stone Quarried from the
mountains around it. 1t is a huge,
gray stone building. covering with it's
wall-inclosed yards, gardens and CON-
pounds, several acres. 1t looks more
ike prison than convent.
It was to this convent that Inez
.Iendosa y Aguillo was taken IN order
that she might do penance for her sins.
IN this convent the Sonora Inez must
::emain for four years. One month in
each of the four years must be spent
in solitary confinement. Or four
nights of each week of this month she
must do penance-four hours on each
of the four nights.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Will Use Water.

Water from Minnehaha Falls will be
used in christening the battleship Min
nesOta.
Miss Rose Marie .Schaller, the univer-
sity student, who is to christen the
battl.ship, called on the governor and
discussed the subject. Both had re-
ceived numerous letters from temper
ance advocates, urging that water in
stead of wine be used for the christen-
ing. - 90
They decided that unless there is too
strenuous objection from the shipbuild-
ers, who will be In; charge of the cere-
mony, bottle will be broken contain
ing pure water from the historic Min
nehaha
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Man Banks Like a Dog.

Hammond Ind.-Snapping and bark
ing like a dog, Fred Reiger, of Hege-
wisch, is laboring under the delusion
imagines that he was bitten by deg
belonging to Fred Johnson, who died
from rabies two months ago. Since the
death of his friend Reiger has run from
every dog that CHANGED TO come near
him. Several days ago he became vio-
lent. and would growl at anyone who
approached him. Physicians declare
that he will die of prostration unless his
hallucination is dissipated.. = -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24

the Bangs sisters. carry on thriving
trade in spiritualism among people Of
high commercial and social standing;
that people you wouldn't have believed
it Of consult them as Oracles. believe in
their utterances, in the pictures they be-
stow upon those favored by the spirit
artists
AS understand it. the Bangs sisters
are supposed to be in communion with
departed artists. and these shades of
painters once dwelling on this mundane
sphere obligingly reproduce, without
paint or brush. the desired portraits. 1t
is said spitit-painting and spirit-photog-
taphy is tiourishing business in this
city
Who buys them. or rather who pleads
for them and. incidentally, pays for the
mediums troubles? Well. such as these:
doctors. lawyers. and women of course.
What do they pay for these works OF art I?
we do not say whether the art is black
or white-Anywhere from SIS to $780,
We saw one of the spirit pictures once
and really it was quite shivery looking
could never have been otherwise than a
very crude worker. We remember in
spite of ourselves, we were much i'm.
pressed with the intangible quality of the
portrait: which seemed to appear and re-
appear in decidedly uncanny way.
1t is reported that one of the patrons
in the picture line of the Bangs sisters is
Dr.. Funk of Brooklyn; in fact, it was be-
cause of the connection of this WE'LL
known man with their spirit portraits
that the Bangs sisters are again brought
topublic notice. Our lake sailors are said
t. be addicted to class to spiritualism,
the men frequently consulting medium
before starting out on the rough waters
Of Michigan. We wonder if she ever tells
them the probabilities are they wilKnot
return; or does she confine herself to
words of cheer?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Killed bv Cars,

Fred Rackow, a deaf and dumb man,
" as run down and instantly killed in
Winona, by a Milwaukee switch train.
Olaf Hovelson, one of the trainmen,
tried to pull the man from the track
but was unable to do so and Hovelson
had difficulty in saving his own life.
Rackow was struck by the drawbar
and his neck fell ACROSS the rail The
wheels passed over it, severing his
head srom his trunk. Once before he
had a narrow escape from death in the
same place and almost the same man
ner. He was a laborer and is sur
vived by wife and a number of grown
children
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Electricity in the Orient.

The introduction of electrical ap-
paratus in China and in other coun-
tries of the far east, cannot but have
some effect upon the lives of the ma
tives :. The people there change slow
y, but probably nothing could have
a greater effect than the trolley ia
bringing about this change, unless we
except the telephone. Is it not pos
sible that these two agents will play.
an important part in bringing about
a better understanding between the
Chinese empire and the western ma
lions ?-Electrical Review.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
IncendiarY.

The citizens of Owatonna are in
oensed lover the alleged attempt to
burn the Metropolitan theater in that
city. Smoke was discovered issuing
from the doors and the windows and
the alarm was given just in time to
save the building from destruction.
Chief NJ. Twiford of the fire depart
ment in statement declares that the
work is that of incendiaries who have
some motive destroying the building.
He states that when he arrived at the
building he discovered a quantity of
kerosene sprinkled about the floor I'M
derneath the stage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24


fering by them; but the difficulties seem
insurmountable in the way of carrying
out the work.
TIE school authorities refuse to have
anything to do with the matter, and. lack
ing their assistance, the Army finds itself
at loss how to proceed. 1t was thought
the teachers better than anybody else
would be able to point out the needy ones.
those too poor to help themselves; be-
cause of lack of this aid on the part Of
those informed, the Army has been feed
ing children whose parents are perfectly
able to ia Ike care of them themselves.
But, in addition to the impostors, there
have been many worthy cases.
At the Army headquarters, in the lower
part OF the business portion OF State
street, in the heart of congested dis
trict, the Army has been entertaining at
ing, and have allowed the guests to eat
as long and as much as they wished. One
boy-the place is carried on on the
cafeteria plan-was noticed to take to his
end of a table coffee, doughnuts, rolls
and frankfurters; an officer noticed he
drank the coffee. but stuffed the food into
his pockets. He was asked if he was not
hungry. and replied that the coffee was
enough for him, he was going to take the
rest home to his mother and sisters, who
has no breakfast. The family was visit
ed and found lacking both coal and food
But this is one instance; the unworthy
cases are said to be of such numbers as
to discourage the work until some suita-
BILE system for Aealing with the matter
of feeding the really needy children can
be worked out
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
MINNESOI VIA NEWS,
z. s. - n, 81 s5s-z ..
Cou:nterfeiters.

: Three men charged with counter
feiting rs cent pieces were brought to.
Duluth and were. incarcerated in the
county Jail, where they will be held
to the next United States grand jury.
There names are Phillip Corners, Har-
ry Burton and Warran w. Moore.
The men were arrested at Deer riv-
er, in ltasca county, and a large guam
tity of the bogus money was found in
the premises they are said to have
been occupying. A complete outfit Of
molds and dies also were found. When
confronted by the officers who have
been on the trail of the alleged coun-
terfeiters operating in the northern
part of the state, they protested their
innocence.
The arrest was effected by Deputy
United States Marshal Tufts assisted
by secret service men. s..,-
Pheasants. ?
S. T. Fullerton, executive agent az
the game and fish commission: began
to make preparations for the establish
ment of pheasant hatchery at VIII
low Brook fish hatchery, St Paul.
Orders were placed for the purchase
of fifty ring-necl< pheasants~ with
which to start the hatchery. :
This is the first venture that the
commission has made in attempting to
stock the woods of Minnesota with
game birds, and should it prove sue
successful, other species may be added.
The pheasant is very prolific, laying
over sixty eggs year, and it is thought
that at the end of the first year some
of them may be placed in the woods. 4
G. A. r. $3.50.
At the final session of. the Grand
Army of the Republic in the old CAPT
tol building in st. Paul the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year. ~
C. F.. Mcdonald, st. Cloud, command
err: James O. Pierce, Minneapolis, sem
Tor vice commanders; f. r. Barrett, LIE
Sueur, junior vice commander; d. A.
Tawney, St. Paul, chaplain; J. F.
Locke, Long Prairie, surgeon; council
of administration, E. F. Kenrick, St.
Paul; j. O. Milne, Duluth; A. w.
Guild. Minneapolis; C. F. Greening.
Grand Meadow; J. A. Norris, Sank
Center; O. S. Clark and +. N. Leavens
were appointed by the new command
or to succeed themselves as adjutant
and Quartermastcr generals.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Spirit Pictures.

HlCAGOANO q T e
supposed to be
hard : head1ed, ma.
terialistic to a de-
gree. 1t turns out
that. it not spiritu-
al. they are spiritu-
alistic; if material
istic, they long for
the sO-called ma
terializations."
1t has just come
to general notice
[ hat two women.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
A CitV Clean.

CITY clean and q
city beautiful is in
teresting m ny
earnest people in
Chicago, in spite OF
the fact that these
that know us say we
are more lacking in
civic pride than any
of the large cities.
Just at present
there is being car
ried on an active
war upon persons
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
For Hungry School Children.

HE Salvation Army
has about conclud-
ed that it's plan to
give a good break
fast to lilly nour-
ished children at
certain Chica go
public schools has
not proved a sue
cess. It maintains
that there is utmost
need of such a char
ity. to @t better
work from the pu-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
A WEEK IN. CHICAGO.
VARIED MATTERS THAT CALL
FOR PUBLIC CONSIDERATION.
LITTLE ITALY RESTRAINED
The Prospective Child=Wife Must Go
to School-An Ambitious Youth
The Little Ones-More
Civic Pride,

aICAGO. Our SUI
eri n t endent of
compulsory educa-
ton has discovered
a rather startling
condition of affairs
in the italian quar-
ter of the city, and
immediate s t ps
have been taken to
change conditions
obtaining ere.
The superinte;nd-
emf Mr. ROdine re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Arrested for Indiscriminate Kissing

Columbus. O.-Because. it is said, he
made practice of kissing nearly every
girl he met. Ike Senft. a boy of H. has
been arrested. He was held pending in
vestigation. Neighbors mode COM
plant Of the boys actions. 1t was said
that often lie kissed and Rugged girls
indiscriminareiy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24

ports that in the last six months he has
been called upon to stop three child mar
r;ages, the prospective bride in each case
school childunder 14years of age.
Investigation has brought to light
that there is carried on in the Dante and
Dore school districts what may be called
wholesale traffic in child wives. Girls
are brought from southern Italy and
Sicily by fathers who act as matrimonial
agents. In explanation Of the child mar
riages, the Italian colony say they are
customary in the home land In reply to
this naive excuse, Superintendent Bodine
remarks that this is America and not
Italy; the girls must stop work on the
trOusseau and go to school,
The fathers literally sellthe girls to men
the children have never seen; the pros
transportation, for her wedding finery,
and pays the wedding expenses-a no in
considerable sum, for the Italians make a
great show of marrying and funerals:
We wonder what the little tossed-about
maid thinks of all this; whether she pre-
fers the schoolbooks or the husband?
Whatever her choice, she is not to in
dulge it; this strange new government
under which she has come is looking af-
ter her with different paternal care
than that naturally hers; very carefully
Is little Rosina Montini and her sisters to
be watched hereafter. Superintendent
Bodine has detailed an officer to investi-
gate every child marriage. Fathers are
apt to give the age of the little brides
rather carelessly when the marriage Ii
cense is asked for, and to Offset this the
Italian consul will be asked to have the
birth records forwarded from Italy OF
girls whose youthful appearance brings
age into question.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24
Aspiring Young Men.

ERHAPS as popular
a romance as any in
the present day is
that with a hero
handsome. athletic,
possessed Of an al
m ost : impossible
sum of2man1y viz
tues. falling in love
with a fair lady
much his superior.
in st:stioa- In days.
gone By we had
King ,CODhet
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-24

STOPPING to the beggar maid; now it is
the poor but worthy youth, winning
the affections OF a great princess. In.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-04-28
SHARES OF PAR VALUE OF
500 AT is CENTS
March S, 1905.

hhs class is heg great Contmatonn mine at ohhIl which is paying dvh9Nst the ate :" %toNW
property was tunNlo over by LMnn L. Patrick hhec company which Is now further developing IT. Shansh
pngo ore had been blocked out. Thes men may be said Of heg great FLORENCE mine of Gohfed out wmc
ore are hgt aiken before company had been organized to ake over
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-04-28

Best bread. best batter. hest tea, hr>; coffee
"a Il The best ~ervic"fn Goidfeld at the Frisco
cafe. tt
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-04-28
The Story of The Hearst=JaggerS

The HenrN-JagsHs Gold Mining Company takes its name from the locator OF 1.-THE oIer.
Ihartc claim in the canagr' the group so named by Mr. Jawpr wen he Located 1.-THE same tn
The poprtyb Situated 33 miles rhw~t OF Gollfld, in Th Canon 1t consists OF St
The claims are named as follows: W. R Hearst, Polar STA, Valley View. Crescent La
Tom Jagmu+t the dNcNrrr after an arluouSc career in tee early mining days OF Coora
travelled to California; over the nomamna and thew went to Nevada. In 1895 he rad been pr
he hl uavHsd" over 100 miles in which he spent seven months, and had prsp@cted thonoug
road, he lpatNl the Hearst grl. now possessed by teI eartJag"r Gold Mining COMPANY
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-07-07
BIG JAM IN THE MISSISSIPPI.

Brainerd Dispatch 3: An immense
jams of logs has been formed in the
Mississippi river beginning about two
miles this side Of Little Falls and ex.
tending this way for about five miles
and in the opinion of old river men it
is the biggest that has ever been seen
In this vicinity.
George F. Cosn, q photographer of
st. Paul, was In the city for q short
time today having come up purposely
to get views of the jam and he says
In all his experience as photographer
he never saw anything ike this. In
some places the logs are piled up from
twenty to thirty feet. He stated that
he had talk with man by the name
of Murphy, foreman for the MiesiE.
sippi and Rum River Boom company.
and he was told. that there are ap'
proximately 1900. 600 feet of logs tied
up in the jam. This naturally has had
much do with the rise in the rive,
here.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-07-07
CIRCUS EMPLOYE HURT.

VIM. Smith, an. employe Of the
Forepaugh:sells Bros. circus, was bad
ly injured Friday evening. He had
hold of the tongue Of a wagon as it
was being pulled along by team Of
horses on the ground, in the manner
in which circuses load their wagons
on the car, when q jolt of the wagon
threw Smith down, one of the wheels
passing over his leg between the ankle
and the knee. The muscles and liga-
ments were terribly torn and tho bones
of the leg were 20 badly broken that
they mad to be wired. DR.. A. o.
Carmack, . physician who travels
with the circus. attended the man q
wounds at once, after which he waa
removed to st. 0sbriel's. hospital,
where the operation was performed by
Dr.. Millspaugh. The man was very
weak put stood tho operation we'll.
He win be laid up for q couple ot
months.