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Douglas Island news., 1906-11-07

Ex-Commissioner of Pensions Ware tellsthis story in the American Spec tator: The first account of a special examiner of the bureau, when exam ined at the end of the month, was found to contain the item: '.Porter, 50 cents" The auditing office promptly notified the examiner that the govern ment did not pay for the malt refresh ments of its servants; whereupon the examiner carefully explained that the 50 cents had been given to the porter on the train for helping with his bag gage. He was then informed thst the item would be allowed, but in the fu- ture in similar eases he would use the form 'portsrage." When the account for the following month was received the auditor was astonished to find charge of s2.oo for 'eabbege.r ~Ee must be running boarding house or rabbit farm, was the officers comment. It was only after another exchange of letters that it developed that 1t had been for local transportation and not for vegetables that the expenditure had heen made.
Douglas Island news., 1906-11-07

The plans of the promotion commit tee of the Lacey street bridge have been brought to a state of complete ness which leaves no doubt that early in the spring Fairbanks will have fine new suspension bridge across the river at some point further up than the pres ent structure is located. The specifi- cations call for span of 250 feet, with a 50 foot draw. The draw will be placed on the town side of the river, in the deep water, which will permit of boats passing through and proceeding up the river if the necessity arises for water transportation further up the river. The larger part of the SS,000 subscribed by the citizens of Fairbanks is now in escrow in the Washington Alaska bank, and that part which has not been paid over is just as good as in the bank, being pledged by substantial citizens, who are ready to make good with their money as soon as the necessity arises for more funds with which to prosecute the work. Two large cables have been ordered. Each cable will be 500 feet long, and the breaking strain of each will be POS tons of 5000 pounds to the ton. The diameter of the cables will each be 21l inches 1t has not been de- cided just where the bridge will be built, but it will be at Lacey street, in all probability. In fact, that is the only logical location, according to engineers who have looked over the ground- Panama Daily Miner
Douglas Island news., 1906-11-07

Alaska will never have more stable population than it has now until the people who come here can come, as came the millions across the Alleghan- ies, the Mississippi aud the Rockies, with the knowledge that the country and the government is theirs. The idea of building up a stable American com munity in a country governed from without by those having pull" at the national capital, is ridiculous. To think men would call "home" community where taxes are levied and expended by those who arrange the matters without She advice or consent of the people is not to think of those men as desirable Americans. A man who looks with eomplacency upon casting his lot with a country where the government is ar ranged by self-appointed selectmen, at back office meetings or around table at some social club or saloon would not make a good citizen under any circum- stance. As long as it shall not be nee essary to appeal to the people of country for the final decision in matters of government-the levying of taxes, the expenditure of the same, the con- duct of the schools and all the other multitudinous details-as long as a "good-fellow7 has more influence in a community than the masses of those who are doing the development, so long will men scorn to call that country home.-Skagway Alaskan.
Douglas Island news., 1906-11-07

More than s5O,O00 is to be expended in repairs to the steamers Santa Ana, Excelsior and Santa Clara, in the fleet of the Northwestern Steamship Com pany. The vessels have been in the Northern trade for the past few years, says the Seattle P.-I. The Santa Ana is now on the dry dock at the shipyards of the Moran Company, where she is receiving extensive repairs to the hull as a result of stranding on the beach at Clallam Bay more than month ago. The Excelsior and Santa Clara returned from the North leaking aud it was de- eided to retire the two steamers for an overhauling. The United States ma rine inspectors ordered repairs to the Excelsior which will cost the company about sl5,OOO. The question of the eX- tent of the repairs to the Santa Ana is in the hands of the marine underwriters It will require about 815,O00 to put the vessel iu seaworthy condition. The San- ts Clara will also have about S15,000 in repairs. The three vessels were former ly on the Southwestern Alaska route, but have now been replaced by the steamers Saratoga, Northwestern and Pennsylvania.
Douglas Island news., 1906-11-07
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
DISTRICT OF ALASKA,
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

In accordance with the proclamation of the President of the United States, and following time-honored custom and usage of our country, l, Milford B.. Hoggatt, Governor of the District of Alaska, do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day of November, 1903, as day of public thanksgiving and praise, and recommend that, upon that day, all the people of the District abstain from their usual avocations, and repairing to their respective places of worship, do give thanks to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the blessings vouch- safed us during the past year, not for getting to contribute to the relief of those who have not enjoyed the pros perity we celebrate,
 In testimony whereof, have hereun. to set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the District to be affixed at Ju- neau, the Capital, this first day of No- vember. A. D. 1906, and the Indepen- dence of the United States the One Hundred and Thirty First Year.
 MILFORD B. HOGGATT,
 Governor of Alaska. By the Governor. Attest:
 WM. L.. DIsTrN,
 Ex-oftlcio Secretary of Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1906-11-07

4 Dawson correspondent of the P.-l. writes: P. A. Gustafsen, famous as one of the "mysterious Swedes" who dis. covered Duncan creek gold and worked the creek at the falls for several sea sons before the public got the clue and stampeded the stream from end to end is in Dawson again. This particular member of the band of mysterious Swedesn is better known as August, one of the cubs, one of the younger sons of the father who headed the strange little Swiss Family Robinson colony on the Duncan. This is the lad who later did intrepid work carrying the Dawson Weekly News to Heuder- sen creek during the severe winters of 19O2-3 and 19O3-4, when there were 200 to 300 men working on the main fork on Sixty Pup, Eleven Pup and the left fork. In those days every claim on the main fork was worked from about sixty below to the mouth of Sixty Pup, and then up Sixty Pup several claims. On the left fork, which recently has been relocated, claims were held for several seasons, cabins built and many dumps taken out. Young Gustavsen has been in Panama two years, and is bound for the outside for the winter. He has been working on Gold King creek, in the Bounefeld district. He reports that fifty men are working in the Bonnefield district this winter. The diggings are shallow. Some aye taking out dumps.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
Need of Conscientious Work,

g Il. Chester says that mighty little
inspiration comes from grumbling, and
further notes that grumblers seem to
be the everyday affair. The laun-
dress, coming ito help"-paid by the
day, not by the piece-must have her
fling: You alls got a mighty big
wash dis week." The carter, bring
ing out your box of books-not
large box, either-and charging what
ne pleases, bitterly exclaims when he
finally lands it in your study: THE
man what packed that box oughter
be made to handle it!' Odd, isn't it?
And perhaps there is no commoner
expression than You don't catch me
doing more'n I'm paid for!" Boys or
men, IN low positions or high-to their
employers they may not be actually
worthless; but assuredly they arc
worth less, far less, than they might
BE- Apparently they have not learned
that IN every case of successful work
there is an employer that towers
above the employer, an inner con-
science that is higher than "the boss"
Every man or boy who does anything
worth while, does more than he is
paid for, or ever will be paid for, in
cold dollars. However, it is we'll to
remember that conscience is a good
paymaster as we'll as a rigid taskmas-
ter, even if the rewards do not come
in pay envelopes. Vastly more work
in which hearty conscience is boss is
what the world needs to-day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
After 35, What?

According to a Philad elphia author
ity, girl ceases to be a girl when
she becomes 35. This decision at first
blush appears to be just and equit-
able one. If girl reaches IS and
admits it, she is not girl, at least
not one of the girls that it has been
my pleasure and comfort to meet.
This decision commences, but it
does not go anywhere. 1t starts out
we'll, but is left at the post, says the
Detroit Free Press. For instance, it
fails to define the standing of the
girl who is not a girl because She has
passed the thirty-6fth anniversary of
her birth. If she is not girl, what
is she? I ask you ALL what is she?
I knew street car conductor who
once called middle-aged woman
female, and when she left the car
the conductors eye decorated one Of
the spokes of her umbrella. l main
tain that it is unfair to rule that
girl of 36 is no longer a girl. If it
does not go further and tell US what
she is. Is she young lady? To
too'hless man of 70 she is, undoubted-
ly, but the budding man of prom
Use, the man with future before him
and dark past behind, what is she?
Young? Well, not exactly Be she
ma .ried, she may be called a
Slrt, and even some matrOns of IS
will stand for the title. Unmarried,
and the problem is one to vex. Again,
we are at sea. Granting that girl
OF SO is no longer girl, is it prop
or for us to term her a dame? 1t
may be proper, but l am sure it would
not be safe. Again, l ask you how
are, we to tell? Do we not all know
women who have been lowering at
"a for the last II years? This brings
us to the most perpleXing situation.
Experience has taught us that no girl
ever passes IS. The transition from
girlhOOd to grandmotherhood unlike
day. I find that | have wandered
from my point. The girl who passes
IS is no longer girl in Philadelphia.
And since no girl passes IS, it must
follow that girls are girls until they
are grandmothers. Hence an unmar-
ried woman remains a girl until her
brothers or her sisters have children,
when she is suddenly transformed to
the joys and sacred privileges con-
ferred upon old-maid aunts. This
Philadelphia authority, l repeat,
started out we'll, but he failed to ar
rive. He took but one straw from
the sheaf but one card from the deck,
leaving the problem in a more tan
gled condition than when he began.
AS we see it now, a girl who passes
50 is no longer girl, but no sirl ever
passes IS. But after all, what is the
use?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
Shortage of subsidiary coinage"

Shortage of subsidiary coinage" in
other words lack of small change.
has been giving the treasury officials
some trouble. One of them suggests
that the reason is that the people are
prosperous, and when they are pros
porous they carry loose change in
their pockets. "They like to hear it
jingle Yet when people are pros,
porous they spend their coins freely.
Perhaps the total spending increases
faster than the number of coins to
spend.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
Killing the Animals.

Minneapolis-By order of members
of the park board the smallest Of the
three bears at Minnehaha Park was
shot yesterday morning. This bear
had been sick for some time and all
hope of curing it of it's malady had
been given up.
The fate of the other animals in the
ZOO at Minnehaha will remain unde-
cided until after the conference be-
tween the park board and the Mime
apolis Humane society to be held to-
morrow, but it is generally believed
that the decision will be in favor of
disposing of the remaining bears and
all Of the smaller beasts and abandon
ment Of the zoo. Most of the members
OF the board desire to retain the deer,
elk and buffalo, and it is believed that
this will be found to be practicable
although the bear pit and the quarters
OF the smaller animals have been pro-
nounced insufficient in size and other
wise unsuitable.
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able
seeking
welfare o
and
hospital
help O her
1900 she became
Chaner % in the hospia work..
No
n
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dag his reputation Wash
ington is unequaled.
Of followed by
Marine barracks the White
House.
Beau Brummel getting married. what official
Washington
ington, and deservedly,
The distinguished position
Third
aide
the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28

mentioned
the IA of H. of
Father ~ 7D' ~ A"1"ueipna' "ahe hlnl
lie
-o''o0' VI a!S more
No honor will come to De Almond premiership unless
administer the a M
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
VETERAN coNGREssMEN BEING RETIRED.

" OOIN0nc00"GN
This has been hard summer for the veterans
OF congress. Early in the old Gen. Grosven-
rival.
few months later Representative Bankhead,
OF Alabama, the Democratic Father of the House.
was endorsed by Richmond Pearson Hobson, he
who would like to have fleet of ''5,00O-ton bat
tleships.'
Now comes Samuel Matthews Robertson of
the Slxa district of Louisiana, who is now serving
his tenth term. He lost out at the primaries held
recently He was elected to fill vacancy in the
tiftleth congress and stood next to Bankhead
in years of service IN the house. His defeat leaves
De Almond, OF Missouri, the Democratic Father
of the House, although, in comparison with Gen.
ketcham Gen. Bingham, Hitt of Illinois, and
Speaker Cannon. he is only a. neWco1nar rho
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
CARRY BUSINESS TO LUNCHEON TABLE.

Those who take a casual view of the great
restaurants in the lower part of the city at mid
day likely to think that New York business
men live in sybaritic luxury The appointments
of the tables. the excellence of the food and the
leisurely daying over coffee and cigars which
have of late become concomtants OF luncheon
might be taken to mean that the "quick lunch
habit had entirely disappeared and that men had
taken to rational ways of eating.
All of this looks we'll, but matter of fact
the luncheon has become business Junction. as
much any other duty connected with office or
counting Over the tables where napery
and silver CLEAN, are discussed contracts and
deals and margins. The restaurant for the time
becomes mart or rendezvous and everything
is seasoned with shop.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
GROWTH IN OUTPUT OF COAL MINES.

According to the report of Edward W. Parker
statistcian of the United States geological survey
1905 amounted to 392,919,341 short tons, having
value at the mines of $476, 1868, SURPRISING
in both quantity and value all previous records
in the history of the country. Compared with
1904 the output in 1905 exhibits an increase of
41,1O2,943 short tons over II per cent in guam
tity, and of $32,3S5,942, or over seven per cent,
in value.
Of the total production in 1905 Y, $50 $50 short
tons were Pennsylvania anthracite with value
at the mines of $141,879,0 00 The total produc-
ton of hituminous coal and Ignite 315,2594 91
ton of anthracite coal in PENNSYLVANIA in 1905
was 4,5O3, ISL short tons than that of 1904
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
HEiRESS TO WE'D POOR MAN,

Speaking of weddings recalls the recent an
nouncement of the engagement of Miss Margaret
Chanler, the Astor heiress, to Richard Aldrich, OF
the editorial staff of the Times. Miss Chanler is
following the lead of several other young women
of fortune and social position in promising her
hand in marriage to man of no MEANS but pos
sessed of brains. In the pursuit of his newspaper
work Mr.. Adrich met and became acquainted with
Miss Chaner
The news of the engagement is somewhat Of
a surprise to many of Miss Chambers friends, who
had supposed that matrimony thought far
remote from the mind of the active young woman
who always declared that she welded to
philanthropy.
Miss Chanler worth several millions in her
own right, a great-great granddaughter of the
original John Jacob Aston, daughter of the late
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
"AUTo POKER" NEW FORM OF GAMBLING.

Automobile POKER form of gambling
in public, has struck this city and is spreading
from the sea to the Yonkers line. Along the
avenues approaching the Sheepshead Bay race
track men and boys in groups are playing "auto-
mobile POKER On Fifth avenue Broadway, MaG
son avenue, and all auto favored thoroughfares
automobile poker is INDUCED in, evidencng that
the bug" has taken hold, for the time being
at least.
The game is played thus: Stationing them
selves auto haunted thoroughfare the "book-
maker and the players lay bets the highest
possible hand to be found in the next devil wagon
which may come honking along. The auto comes
and passes in cloud of dust The number say
is IT, $751; One equals an ace, so the hand showed
is three aces. Those who guessed nearest to the
value of that hand win If the auto number is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28

A Yale professor advises US all to
eat horse for economy and safety. A
Georgia judge has been eating crow
because he bet against Hoke Smith.
Dried meat 80 years old is being eaten
in Dakota as proof of what the local
air can do in buffalo-beef curing.
There is no lack of texts on the diet
as it could be, should be, or is not.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
Burglars and tricycle..


Crookston-It is now believed that
the gang of burglars and safecracke
who have been operating in this part
OF the state go from town to town by
means of railroad tricycle. which
they have gained possession of in
some manner. This would completely
throw off the scent of the bloodhounds
which have been used in a number of
instances in an attempt to trace the
robbers. Two men who were seen in
mentor just before the robbery Of the
bank there are said to have been seen
later going down the railroad tracks
on a tricycle. which looked as if it
might have been homemade. Chief
Eek Of this place states that it is his
opinion that the robbers have a con-
tlrvance of this sort which can be
taken apart and set up again with
little trouble. and that they thus 20
back and forth on the railroad with
little fear of pursuit,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
OUR SOLDIERS WEAR GOOD SHOES

{. ~Onc!e Sam keeps we'll in mind the saving
AT "A man an IS not well dressed unless he wears a.
Tor ne takes care that the army is fitted ont viii
the most comfortable and nattiest of footwaa,
s o De sn1es ne does not go in for
vides the finest of leather and insists ths+ ~
boots for his soldiers shall be we'll made His
inspectors look after the shoes at every process
IN their manufacture and any short cut of leather
or neggently placed nails that meht ros',t 81
corns or sore feet are pointed out with condemn.
Ing ringers and the boots are thrown aside
once in awhile the style in army shoes
thrown on the market, which merchants eauo,1,
gobble up. The man who buys those shoes viii
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II
and Ignite 36599S82
both anthracite and btuminous
suspension April 1906
organized
in the anthracite region of
decade
doubled
in coal mining the United
The larger
activity
front unac
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
UP THE White HOUSE.

When President Roosevelt and his family come
back to Washington they will find the White
House as bright and clean as the proverbial pin.
For weeks the executive mansion has been
closed to visitors and in the hands Of workmen
repairing and renovating the interior
Congress at the last session appropriated over
$5e:eoo for this work, and under the supervision
OF Col. Bromwell, superintendent of public build
ings and grounds, every defect, inside and out
side, has been noted and remeded.
The contractors have guaranteed the work
for at least ten years. A new roof has been put
and Office building have been stopped The state
parlors on the ground floor have been redecorated
but the welknown Blue, Green and Red parlors
still retain their colors, while in the East Room
the prevailing tints are ivory and gold
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28


four
of highest 800 ' ~ ~
friends
vsendth
a ~ ~pr~NOA' NA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
MOTOR BOATING BECOMING POPULAR.

Motor boat enthusiasts are constantly increas
ing. Hundreds of the little crafts may be seen
Swimming the waters of the sound and harbor
There are so many of them now that all aquatic
sports are undergoing a change.
Some motorboatiacs get the disease by first
acquiring catboat and others again are pos
sessed with mania for speed, acquired on land
in an ordinary automobile. Few enthusiasts have
started out deliberately to submit themselves to
this strange fascination. They begin by spending
fastens the motor boat habit on them seizes them
about the time they buy small auxiliary gaso-
line engine for their sailing craft The sensation
OF going hve or SIX miles an hour is exhiarating,
and when the wind dies down and the canvas
flaps the spell of going without the aid of Aeolus
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28
Round About Nelu York
Information and Gossip Gathered by Our Correspondents Plate
Masnate WEEDS Stage OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Man Wins Heess
New Form of GAMBLING

NEW YORK.-Another stage beauty has cap
tured the heart of a Gotham millionaire and
tired from the glare of the footghts to the
quietude of domestic life. This time it is MISS
Mabel Carrier, who won the admiration of theater
goers last season in "A Chinese Honeymoon
playing minor part. Miss Carrier is now the
wife OF Daniel G. Reid, of the prominent
figures in New Yorks financial world tin plate
and railroad magnate, whose wealth is estimated
at between $25, 900 and $40 100000
No formal announcement has been made by
Mr.. Reid of his marriage and the date on which
the ceremony was performed has not been made
public, but it is known that the wedding took
place several weeks ago.
Mr.. Reid's has been linked with that
of Miss Carter for the last year, but with char
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girl of marked
died within a
S
tail and skngy Her has
She role in 1.-The Runaways her
stheater in York.
and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28

European writer's bewail the pass.
ing of picturesque national costumes.
The Kaftirs and the Igorrotes are
about the only well-known people who
are true to their simple ancestral ira,
ditions.