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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-10
G0tD BRICKS FROM SHAKESPEARE.
Great Showing Made at first Clean Up
of the New Ontario Property.

The following from the 500 News
of the 28th will be of much interest
to many Virginians who are lucky
stockholders in the Shakespeare
gold mine near Webbwood, Ontario,
which as noted in our last issue was
making its first cleanup last week.
The results would indicate the
mine as winner:
"Secretary Hoffman of the Shakes,
peare Gold company, arrived in
the 500 last evening, bringing with
him the first gold bricks from the
Shakespeare mine at Webbwood.
They were three in number and
valued at $942 each, being the re.
suit of the first test run of the five
stamp mill recently installed.
"Such sum is considered almost
phenomenal. 1t shows total
average value for the ore crushed
of $23.65 per ton. The free or native
gold saved by anlalgamation
was 1890 per ton. The first run of
Is days of "a hours each with four
stamps crushed 1852 tons of rock,
which yielded 1877 ounces of gold
bullion, valued at $1S per ounce, and
three tons of concentrates, valued
at 500 per ton. In addition to that
it is estimated that the battery and
outside places during the first week
absorbed $500 or more.
! "The run was commenced with
five stamps, but the head of one of
the stamps was broken in the
second days run, so that only four
stamps could be used.
"The average result of $2l.15 per
ton of rock treated is most extraor.
binary and will be very gratifying
TO the shareholders, as it will now
be only a question of increasing the
mill capacity until 40 stamps are
in commission, which will increase
the product tenfold. For the past
two weeks 500 shareholders have
been looking anxiously forward to
the first cleanup, and there has
been much speculation as to what
the yield would be. The results are
made all the more satisfactory by
reason of the fact that the mill was
iistssrtest1 fu~cuie1 yveatffer;r anz1- mi
first two or three weeks run could
hardly be expected to give good
returns, as it will later when every.
thing is in good running order. II
can also be said that as only four
miners were working, and as the
ore could not be sorted necessarily
! much low grade went into the mill
After the first weeks run five addi
tional stamps were ordered and
will be put in operation during
! March.
"On the 1OO-foot level of the
Shakespeare mine the ore body is
35 feet wide, and Thursday y last I'M
usually rich ore was encountered in
drifting west. On the 1jO-foot level
the cross cut, 18 feet long, going
south, is in rich ore. This gives
$50. foot back, that is to surface, and
a continuous body of ore that will
supply the mill for long time
The rich parallel vein 15O-foot level
will be reached in the near future.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-10
Appreciate v;rq;nnia tiolso;tal;ty.

The teachers all returned from
Virginia: Saturday evening where
they had attended the meeting of
the Range Teachers Association.
They report a very instructive ses-
sion and our Mesaba neighbors the;
the limit of hospitaIity.-kly Miner.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-10
BuiIdinq fer Rent,

The Macaroni Plant building. Is
suitable for warehouse purposes:
Enquire OF VIM. d. Beslow, Mgr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
A BATTLE OF SPEED.

A great deal has been said recently
about the fast time made between
New York and Chicago by the Penn
sylvania and New York Central rail-
roads. A few years ago from New
York to Chicago in twenty-four hours
was considered very good time. Then
it was cut to twenty. Two or three
weeks ago the New York Central an
.nouneed a regular schedule of nine
teen hours. The Pennsylvania estab-
lished a schedule of eighteen hours,
and a few days since it actually made
the time in fourteen and a half hours,
running about sixty-three miles an
hour for the entire distance.
This is no spontaneous burst of
speed. 1t is the beginning of a battle
for supremacy between these two
great roads, and speed is one of the
points on which the battle is to be
fought
These roads have been preparing
for this battle for more than year.
They have gone into It as carefully as
a nation goes into a war which it sees
years ahead, and they have spent as
much money as a nation would spend
in preparing for war.
The Pennsylvania spent one hun
dred million dollars in securing its
New York terminals. The New York
Central is spending like sum in
electrifying its terminals and extend
ing them. The Pennsylvania has fur
ther spent millions more III straight
ening curves and reducing grades
Now it has cut the tops off of noun
tains, burrowed under the East ane
North rivers, and is ready for the
battle.
This is probably only the beginning
The Goulds are Just starting a plan
for an ocean-to-ocean system, an6
other magnates have been looking
forward to the same thing.
The race between the New YorI
Central and the Pennsylvania to lower
the time between Chicago and New
York is just the beginning of an efforr
to bring the West as near the Atlanti,
seaboard as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t takes lot Of luck to push man up
hill.
A woman fears nothing if she knows she
is well dressed.
Borrow trouble and it will take life
time to pay it back.
The truth may be mighty. for it's mighty
scarce on tombstoneS.
Success is often the result Of one-card
draw in the game of life.
The man who is puffed up with pride
generally does the putting himself.
He-"And you don't believe in heroes?'
She-"'No, I'm married.
Wigg-"How does Scribbler rank IS a
poet2' Wagg-"Among the rankest.'
Faith and hope don't accomplish much
without certain amount of hustle.
Never tell a girl you love her" says the
Cynical Bachelor. f'She might take you
at your word"
The men who look before they leap
Are rated above par;
They often simply take a peep,
And then stay where they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16

which Is already extensive. Mr.. Eai sel
is one of the best known literary men
in Kansas and indeed in the west, MS
stories and articles on general subjects
appearing regularly in the best PUBL
cations in America Probably no ap-
continent of the university has received
such unanimous Endorsement as the ap-
pointment of Mr.. HaFger."
Practical Journalistic work will mere
after be expected from the university
school of journalism. There is no more
versatile writer in Kansas, or IN the
west, than Mr.. Harger- He is thorough
" acquainted with the subject journal
ism from the writing of the country
local about John Jones whitewashing
his hen house to poems expressing the
finest sentiment
As the State Journal recently suggest
ed. however, it is to be hoped that Mr..
Harger will conduct the school of jour
nalism as he does his magazine and out
side newspaper work, and not as he does
his newspaper, the Abilene Reflector.
As a newspaper correspondent, MI
Harger is known all over the country,
and his magazine work has appeared IN
the best of the monthly periodicals. but
a strict regard for the truth compeis
the statement that any number of coun-
try editors in Kansas get out better
newspapers in towns Of half the size Of
Abilene. The reason is that Mr.. Harger
has devoted his talents to his outside
work.
Nevertheless the new professor Of
journalism knows all about the practical
side of the little country weekly and
small town daily, as we'll as the higher
lines of journalism, and for that reason
he Is competent to direct the work along
all lines. a..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The papers are now talking about
the statement of Lieutenant Governor
Sherman that congressman dOesn't
amount to much. He was evidently
thinking about Bowersock and not
Phil Campbell.
How Webb McNal will laugh when
he hears that Judge FoOte is making
a fuss about the price Of water in To-
peka! Water. mind you. water.
Ever hear "Old Van" roar about
promoters? And now "Old Van" is
in the promoting business himself!
To anxious inquirer: No, Mr.. Henry
LOOMS Nelson, the writer, is not d
brother of Mr.. Nelson H. LOOMS.
The Norwegian revolution is also
bringing Mr. Bjorstjerne Bjornson
into the ljimeljightt agjain.
Scientists say that the ice in the
Arctic regions is gradually melting.
but it is to be hoped that the Topeka
ice trust will not take this as an ex-
cuse for raising the price.
There is dog in Topeka that is
just fool enough to think it can run as
fast as that new Pennsylvania flyer,
and some men are Just as bad.
Luther Burbank evidently intends
to fool the potato bug by making pota-
toes grow on tomato vines. Bugville
will probably pass some red-hot reso-
lutions denouncing Mr.. Burbank.
What makes me Disconnected %
said Deacon Twogood in a pessimistic
mood today, "is that before my feet
get over hurting from frostbites 7 have
to look out for sunstrokes.''
Now that the Union Pacific intends
to install telephones on it's trains, the
woman whose husband is travelling on
that road can call him up and ask him
what train he will get home on.
There have been no riots among the
rooters at the Kansas State Chess
Tournament this week. A chess
tournament is just about as exciting
for the spectators as is a paper on the
nebular hypothesis in the Kansas
Academy of Science.
If It wants a good ruler why doesn' t
Norway offer the crown to a member
of the House of Roosevelt?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
.JAYHA WKER JOTS

c. NJ. White of the Salina Union
suggests that pop be used to christen
the battleshiD Kansas.
Mcpherson is swelling with pride.
The Rock Island will hereafter stop
its Golden State Limited there.
Atwood, which is away out in the
short grass country, nearly to the
Colorado line, has the street fair fever.
The gumbO ballasting gang on the
Rock Island is almost to Mcpherson
on its way from Harrington to Bucklin.
Speaking of Clay Center's intention
to bore for gas, Conner Davies says it
IS going to explore the lower regions.
A new automobile arrived in En-
poria few days ago, and Bill White
says 1t attra cted more attention than
a new preacher.
The Norton News says the manu-
facture of cyclone cellars is an i'm
portant industry there at present. A
half dozen We're put in in a single
week.
This doesn't look just right: The
BeleYllle Freeman says Fred Wolf
there has caught two swarms of bees
this spring A wolf usually catches
something else.
Robert Lewis of Natoma has lust
had prickly pear thorn extracted
from his hand, where he has been
carrying it for three years. It formed
a lump the size of a walnut.
4HSI6 was a morse back party in FL
| Dorado few evenings ago, and in the
list of names as given in the Times
are .Ow, Crabtree, Frymire, Schu-
macher and Cyrus Leland.
/ A member of the engineer cOrps
on the Orient was bitten by a copper
/ head near Matfeld Green, in Chase
county, the other day, and it required
/ two quarts and a half of snake medi-
/ cine to cure him.
The railroads out in the short grass
country are now running special
trains to the country bali games.
There was game between Plevna
and Macksville at the latter town
/ Wednesday, and the Santa Fe ran a
special from Hutchinson to carry the
people who wanted to go.
Don't step on a snakes head. even
II there is no body attached to it. A
Few days ago a dog in Franklin coun-
" stepped on the head of a ratfler
that had Just been severed from the
body of the snake, and the fanps
were instantly fastened in the doess
foot causing the animal to die in =
very short time.
Henry Honey. the PopuIist editor of
the. Mankato Advocate, who wouId
have SHE'D three or four years ago al
the bare mention of a millionaire
seems to be in a good way to become
one himself He took $1,000 that mis-
subscribers had paid him wear agC
put It into Rawlins county land. Las
week ne went out to Atwood and sold
the land for double what he maid for
1T ana invested the proceeds again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
mQRE SIGHT,.


TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
An Atchison drunkard, instead Of WANT
ing to fight, quotes poetry.
When a person has d mean streak. ever
notice how often it shows?
If we had Bill Womack's family we be-
lieve we'd drink to excess, too, just as ne
does.
There is a funny combination in Atchi-
son: A woman named Pearl is taking
A man who behaves himself and is In
dustrious can get along with mighty little
Little girls legs in white stockings look
as funny as mems hands do IN pail bear
ers' gloves.
knows: about some things. Rheumatism,
what a fool habit carrying a pistol isl
A pistol is always in the way. and always
Hear Heard all over town about every night:
This bed feels as if it had had hot irons
on it all day
Some people, when the Fourth of July
rolls round. demand a frecracker as big
as neckyoke.
An Atchison man has a queer distinc-
tom not only his wife talks about him,
but his three daughters
An Atehison county farmer has a team
Of mules so fine that he hates to work
them and spoil their beauty
A girl clerk in a store always sneak5s
over to the opposition store at noon 10 look
at the stuff on special sale.
We claim that if all Of mans children
turns out well, he is better of than If he
were president Of the Equitable
sT~ rather like that Mrs. B. a man
said to his wife the other night; she has
sense enough to know when to go home"
Between worrying that they will have
more children. and worrying for fear they
will lose those they have, the Woman's lot
isn't really a happy one.
The pictures OF girls in bathing suits
do not make US long for the seashore.
we do not claim to be good, but VIC 10
claim we are modest
one of the signs that man has at last
a few rights in mis- house is when he SIS
on the front porch Of an evening with ais
stocking feet on the railing
We asked a farmer today. Anything
new?' He replied. mo, I don't know
anything: I haven't been mingling much
here lately. 7 have been too busy
Nearly every man thinks that while
there never was q good lecture, he could
deliver one; but every man thinks he could
deliver q good Fourth Of July Grafton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
PROFESSOR HARGER

The official announcement is made
this week concerning the selection of
Charles NJ. Harger to have charge of
the course in journalism in the Uni
versity Of Kansas. The announcement
appears in the University Bulletin
which says:
THE University of Kansas has had
the great good fortune to get the SER
vices of Mr.. Charles Moreau Harger for
the course in journalism offered by the
university. Mr.. Harger win give two
or three hours week to the work dur
ing the coming year. and it is hoped
that in the near future he will be able
to give his whole time to residence Of
the university. In case this is done. the
university will become more than ever
the center of literary work in Kansas
and Mr.. Harger viii act as the editor
and manager Of university publications.
He viii also be given fun opportunity
for continuing his own literary WORK
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
A NJ. HARVEY. REPUBLICAN.

sraio, A. M. Harvey, one time lieu
tenant governor OF Kansas by the
grace of the Populists, and late Popu-
Iist-Democratfc candidate for congress
in the First district, is now an avowed
Republican.
There is nothing very startling in
Major Harvey's hop. The election re-
turns last fall show that most Of his
Populist brethren beat him to 1t. He
stayed by the POpulist ship as long as
there was anything to stay by, but now
he gives up and joins the Republicans.
His reasons for so doing are the
striking feature of his change. He
virtually declares that the Republicans
have come to him. He says the Re
publicans have stolen the Populist
thunder and that they are doing nearly
everything the old-time Populist adj
vocated, so why shouldn't he be a
Republican?
There is a great deal of force in his
argument. It recalls William Allen
Whites. recent story about picking up
pamphlet on the regulation Of rail-
roads. It sounded just like the doc
trine preached by a lot OF Republicans
last winter during the Kansas legis-
lature. yet the title page showed that
it was written away back in 1891 by
Percy Daniels. a Populist war horse.
Major Harvey naturally points to
Theodore Roosevelt as the embodiment
of modern good government. He says
that Roosevelt's fight for square
deal is all that the Populists ever con-
tended for.
Incidentally it might be remarked
that Major Harvey was hobnobbing in
Washington with Congressman Curtis,
D. w. Mulvane, Phil Campbell and
other Kansas Republican notables a
few weeks ago. Possibly there is a
fatted calf tied out in the timber
som ewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
Lawson's Encounter Win Wind C,IocE

Lawson's Encounter With Wind Clock.
Thomas W. Lawson, himself an adept
in unconventional tactics, recently re-
ceived a shock at his own speciality. He
was driving a spirited horse to a light
vehicle. Having occasion to leave it in
order to enter an office building. he
called to a street urchin:
Sonny, hold my horse2"
Cert, was the pert reply; what do
I git?''
"A dollar an hour" said Mr.. Lawson.
laughing.
by that clock?'' continued the lad,
pointing to a street clock in front of a
yes, said the nnancier. much
amused.
'An right" assented the boy, with a
sudden alacrity in contrast with his
previous hesitation.
Mr.. Lawson performed his errand
and emerged again from the Office
building.
How much do I owe you?' he asked
the boy.
Two hundred and seven dollars
> "What?''
by the clock, mister"
Mr.. Lawson glanced at the cloek-an
advertisement. 1t contained no works,
but was operated by currents of air,
and the hands were revolving with the
rapidity of a pin wheel.
Il thought Wall streeters could do
more business on wind than anybody
else gasped Mr.. Lawson, but this
takes my time!''-Success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16

Prussia doubtless has the same feel
ing about paying an indemnity TO Japan
that the grain trust has about that one
cent a busheI which the members OF
the farmers elevator companies pay to
their organizations when they sell grain
to the trust. II Russia pays a big in
demnity 1t win simply be paying Jap
ans expenses in whipping her and will
establish Japan's credit more firmly
than ever. In the grain trust instance,
the trust pays the expenses of the or
CARNATIONS which put it out Of bust
ness.
In the case of the grain trust, how
ever. the farmers simply start the bust
ness. and the trust either keeps 1t gong
or gives up trying to compete with It
If the trust bids up the price Of grain
to more than it is really worth on the
market in an EFFORT to run the farmer S
elevator out of business, the members
simply sell to the trust and turn a cent
a busheI of their extra profits in to the
treasury Of their elevator. So the trust,
instead of running its competitor out
Of business, actually pays its expenses
in running.
Russia is now facing a similar pro
position in negotiating for peace. japan
has been to a great expense in this war.
She has borrowed several hundred mil
lions. But she comes out of it with
splendid navy. and she VIII probably
make Russia pay her all she has Dor
rowed and more besides. Japan viii
therefore have a first class navy IN
hand and in addition she win be in good
shane financially, ready to carry out
any policy she desires in the far east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IRON the New York Pre-.

IFrom the New York Press.1
It is surprising the way your wife VIII
let you have your own way when II Is
hers
The average man would be. content 70
forego more pleasure If he could nave less
pain.
It is better to trust something to be mis-
trusted than to mistrust something TO De
trusted
Women are very good card players, con-
sidering what good conversationalists they
are at the same time.
A woman imagines she would be very
girlish looking if she weren, t so unoeceie-
ful about the way she dresses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the chicago News.J

II IUHI lIIe NIIICasO 4NoWa'J
Spinsters are not partial to ad-ages.
Howevz-, the early boom doesn't always
catch the nomination.
A friend in need always has hard-Iuck
story on tap.
Never judge a patent medicine by the
almanac that goes with it
A man can get used to anything except
the fool actions of his relatives
People should at least make q blum at
believing everything they say.
A bachelor doesn't consider a girl baby
worth kissing until she is sweet 16.
After man has lived in one neighbor-
hood 20 years you can't tell him anything:
If 3 man has a wife who is capable 81
making. him shake in his shoes he ism
to be blamed for snealzing upstairs IN MS
stocking feet occasionally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16

Col. Charles ". Larned was talking at
West Point about a famous and ven@'a-
BILE army chaplain.
"a drawer and more upright man
never lived" Col. Larned said. Dur
ing the civil war he was in the thick
of many a fierce engagement. He com
forted the wounded, cheered on the
brave, and put new spirit into the faint
hearted.
He was once distributing cartridges
in the midst of hot fight. AS he ap-
preached a certain company he heard a
black bearded private swearing at the
"'Blank them,' the man was saying
Dash blank the
But the chaplain INTERRUPTED this
stream of blasDhemy.
You shouldn't speak like that,
friend . Then he handed the man a
packet of cartridges, adding:
q Don't curse them. Shoot them,
shoot them. Los Angeles Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
MR.. COLEMAN.

Harry Pestana has resigned his job
as special assistant attorney general,
and John Dawson another Sixth dis
trict man, is given the place. Il is
suggested that Pestana is preparing
to get into the congressional race next
year. and does not want to be confined
at Topeka Coleman's son is ad-
vanced to Dawson's job as chief clerk
in the office. BY the way: The Off
GERS who are threatened with removal
from office if they do not enforce the
prohibitory law needn't worry. Even
If Coleman should begin on them now
he couldn't get them out before his
term expires. He never accompanies
anything-Beloit Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
NELSON FOR SENATOR.

Frank Nelson has been speaking in
Nebraska and Kansas the last few
weeks. Some of the papers have
started a boom" for him for United
States senator. One of the papers
says among other things: I'VE hope
the Kansas people will make use of
Prof Nelson's ability. He would sure
~ be a credit to himself In the United
States senate" The News is in a
position to know that a number of
party leaders in the state have dis
cussed the senatorship with Mr. Mel
son and have urged him to enter the
race. Mr.. Nelson, however. is not
saying anything. News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
Sherman and TeFerson.

Joseph Jefferson, the actor, and Gen.
Sherman were great friends. Upon a
certain occasion Jefferson called upon
the general After a pleasant chat JEFF
ferson rose to go, and Gen. Sherman
caught sight of sheet of paper under
the chair where the actor had been sit
ting.
Jefferson" he called, picking up the
paper and carrying it to the door, you
dropped this, 1 think"
Jefferson took the sheet with an eff
fusion of thanks that was astonishing.
My dear general" he exclaimed,
you have saved my lifei"
TT seems to me you're rather care
less to carry such valuable papers
around SO loosely" replied the general
in surprise.
Jefferson laughed and unfolding the
paper revealed its contents. It was the
manuscript OF the opening pages of the
great actors graphy.-Lippin-
colts Magazine.