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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
Will Meet the Trust.

Stil1water.-Thes state board of con-
troll and Warden Wolfer of the peni-
Tertiary are ready to meet the compe-
tition of the binding Irvine trust,
which is about to start fax Irvine
plant in St Paul, and run the prison
Irvine plant out of business by under
selling it in the state.
If the trust plant cuts into the mar
lzet for prison Irvine, the state will
carry the war outside, and force the
trust to meet competition in the sur
rounding states.
Under the present law, the prison
authorities may go outside the state
to sell any of the products left on hand
after July 1. That is late in the day
to sell Irvine, but if the state has any
trouble next season in disposing of it's
output, the legislature will be asked
to change the law so the state can go
outside and sell the prison output any
time after May 1. That would give
the trust some trouble, The present
plan is to break the market only in
Minnesota, in order to kill off the
prison plant. The trust is not looking
for competition all over the northwest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

BY the treaty of Portsmouth Japan
was virtually granted a free hand in
Korea, and she has taken advantage of
this power by practically transferring
the seat of Korea's government from
Seoul to Toxic. Thus, a country which
has had Theoretical or actual indie
rendence for nearly thirty centuries is
stricken from the map of nations.
Japan's conqnests, social or political,
or both, which are permitted in Man.
churia under the Portsmouth conven-
ton, may turn out to be UNNECESSARILY
more important, for Manchuria is a
far richer country than Korea.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

noldlng company. 1t had to be that
way, as the Ryan company is not earn
ing it's guaranteed dividends and the
Belmont company, not so ruinously
capitalized, is needed to make the
whole business solvent. But so far as
ownership is concerned-trust Tom
Ryan not to drop that just when it
bids fair to be the greatest plum in
the traction world! Ownership of the
stock OF the holding company and of
the held company has doubtless been
snapped to some extent. And this
brings Standard Oil and the Roths-
ch1lds in close connection for the ex-
ploitation of New York, with J. P.
Morgan. Four hundred millions of un-
earned value have been squeezed out Of
the people already. AS much more of
future developable value may be
squeezed out in the next term of Nav
or Mcclellan. There is only the legis-
lature to stand in the way. But in
the legislature Odell, the corrupt, but
powerful, foe of Ryan, has had his
paws clipped. The municipal owner
ship mem bers may stand by him: but
the reform crowd, the Roosevelt Hig-
gins-Root- Wadsworth faction, is rightly
or wrongly held to be financially allied
with Ryan, of course Indirectly. No
one supposes that Ryan can influence
the president-though he did strangely
succeed in getting an ex-president to
"stand for" his capture of the EQuita-
BILE insurance company.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
News Notes.

St. Panl-The Commercial club began
the new year with family dinner and
social gathering at the club. About
400 guests were present, including
men, women and children.
St Paul-Lizzie Stephenson, who
was employed as maid in the wom-
ems ward at ST. Luke's hospital, was
instantly killed while trying to operate
the freight elevator at the hospital.
Duluth--Nine draft horses, said to
have belonged to E. E. Townsend, "a
transfer man of Minneapolis, were shot
on account of CHAMBERS. .>.#
MISUNDERSTANDING shelter in the
ruins Of . burned lodging house on
Seventh street south, and huddling un-
der few scorched quilts for warmth,
Mrs James Carmichael was founl by
Salvation Army officers and taken to q
place Of shelter. 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

met in each generation who should
bear the name of Robert Thomas Ad~
dis Emmett, only brother of the dyins:
man, has numerous progeny, practi-
cally all of whom are Americans. His
son Robert wore the ring. 1t is now
held by Col. Robert T. Emmett. Rich
ard Stockton Emmett, named after the
American admiral, who was an ances-
tor also of Charles Stewart Parnell,
died a short time ago, aged 81. Will
liam Jenkins Emmett died last week
at 80. He was the father of the pres
ent Robert and grandson of Thomas
Adds. There has always been Rob-
ert and Thomas Adds in the New
York family. There is Richard
Stockton in the present generation, a
William and a. Devereaux
Every Emmett in America but one
| has entered the professions. The late
William Jenkins Emmett was in trade.
All the others have been physicians,
lawyers and the like. The three daugh-
tiers of the latest Emmett to die are
all artists and excellent ones: Mrs.
Sherwood, Miss Emmett and Mrs. Won
Glehn.' .-.s."0
! ~, e.
What wonderful grist of talent the
folly of kings has ground out for the
benefit of the new world-the Emmets
4 and their. like from Ireland, the HUI
guenots from France, the Schurzes and
Slgels from Germany, the sGaribaldis
from Italy; for was not Garibaldi once
/ the most illustrious resident of Staten
j island? Where is the royal family,
! too, whose blood has not been borne to
America by some adventurous f,,yi-
! I've LIVE #.s OWEN LANGDON.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
NEWS OF MINNESOTA.
A Clean aWaen.

st. Paul = Governor johnson has
made clean sweep with the state
board of equalization.
One-half of the members of tho
board go out this year and the gov
ernor announced their successors The
only one of the nine retained is w. R.
Hodges of Sleepy Eye, democratic
editor whom Governor johnson select
ed last fall to fill vacancy.
The appointments are as follows:
First judicial district. John Heinen,
banker, of Hastings, succeeding F. I.
johnson of Cannon Falls.
Third district, A. D. French, farmer,
of Plainview, succeeding j. G. Law
renee of Wabasha.
Fifth district, William Gausewitz,
druggist, of Owatonna, succeeding
Captain L. G: Nelson Of Owatonna.
Seventh district, c. E.. Vasaly, edi.
tor, of Little Falls, succeeding C. NJ.
Sprague, of Sank Center, chairman of
the board and a. probable candidate
for lieutenant governor
Ninth district, w. r Hodges, Sleepy
Eve, reappointed.
Eleventh district, Henry Nolte, real
estate, Duluth, succeeding J. E. Cooley
of Duluth.
! Thirteenth district, Samuel Nelson,
merchant, Luverne, succeeding A. II.
Fowler of Fulda,
Fifteenth district, Con O'Brien of
Brainard, wholesale merchant and
1umoerman, succeeding George w.
Knox, Aitkin.
Seventeenth district, Fred B. Brown,
banker and former secretary of state,
Blue Eearth City.
Mr.. Brown is the only republican in
the list. The board as it now stands
has only three republicans out of twen-
ty one.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
Silver For the Governor.

A.. johnson enjoyed a silver Christmas
The governors appointees in the capt.
tol joined in giving them full dinner
set of silver in the Paul Revere pat
tern, enclosed in a rosewood box with
silver plate, carrying the inscriptions:
'Presented to Governor and Mrs. John
A. johnson, Christmas, 1902. The
Official Family"
The governors staff waited on hi m
New Years Day with present of
silver tea service, matching the dinner
set. The presentation was made by
the chaplain, Father James Lawler of
this city, and the governor responded
in short speech of thanks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

bought that to get control of it's assets
to dig new subways with. He bought
McClellan's reelection because Tam
many was necessary to his plans for
getting the subway contracts. He
made peace with Belmont, whom he
had Whipsawed in politics. He cloaked
his designs with sham of respecta-
bility by getting three trustees of ma
tional reputation to stand st the head
of the Equitable-after he had chosen
it's president. He landed that presi-
dent in the inner circle Of New York
society. old members Of that society
gasped when Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Nor
ton we're included in "the little list
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

cutionarX standpoint. He las made a
great reputation as a debater and an
Orator, but in addition has added
greatly to his fame by his writings.
He knows now that his articles are
real because unique experience the
other day demonstrated this fact.
He was asked in very gentle,
though somewhat dictative, manner to
assist a constituent of one of his COL
leagues in securing an assistant secre-
taryship to the president of the Chica-
go, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
This applicant was not a bit back
ward He stated his qualifications for
the place very minutely, and his letter
was written in good hand and was
we'll composed. The young man wrote
that he had read one of the senator's
articles on the, subject of a young
mans chance in the world Mr.. Bev-
eridge in this article, which was writ
ten at least year ago, said that the
president of the c. r. l. & P. railroad
was looking for bright young high
school gradute to fill a vacancy in his
office as assistant private secretary.
The young man in his letter to the
senator expressed himself as satisfied
with the job, and he enclosed a formal
application for the position, which he
asked Mr.. Beveridge to forward to the
right person. The senator was rather
taken back by the thought that his
purely academic discussion of an alb
stracu subject should have been inter-
preted as an advertisement, but he
wrote very kind letter to the young
mao expressing regret that the latter
had not applied for the position a
year ago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

behalf $l2O annually invested IN
traction companies. Its share of the
total cost of replacing every tie, tun-
mel, wire and car could be paid by that
sum. But each family is actually pay
ing interest upon 1925 to the different
lines. 1t is paying interest unneces-
sarily, wrongfully, upon $500 of wa
tered stock and getting a wretched
service for the money. The plants, in
Guiding the subway, are worth a hun
dred millions. They are paying inter-
est upon $500,000,00O. The 100000, 900
difference is the value of the franchises
away for relatively small brides in the
past and are with difficulty restrained
from giving away in the present.
This merger of the Ryan-Belmont
interests explains what l said in my
letter OF comment upon the election
frauds in which Hearst was counted
out of the Office to which plurality
of the citizens desired his election. For
New York is only at the beginning of
its rapid transit system. Privileges as
valuable as all the existing rights, are
to be given out within the next few
years in completing the projected sub
ways. There will be but one bidder
now for those upon Manhattan, prac-
tically but one bidder in the entire
city. This stake was so enormous that
Ryan simply had to win, through his
tools, Murphy and the other local
bosses of the Tammany faction. His
political record with Belmont was ap-
parent before election. This disclosure
will greatly increase municipal owner
ship sentiment in the city. 1t should
make it practically irresistible.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

The principle Of municipal owner
ship has been carried to an extreme
limit in London, where a Turkish bath,
the first to be established under mu-
nicipal control, has just been opened
up. The charge of admission to the
bath, which is admirably fitted up, is
two shillings, and the superintendent
declares that he expects to make a
goou profit for the city. There is also
Russian vapor bath, two large swim
mlng-baths, warm baths for men and
women and a public Westinghouse.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

the ''kids" free rein and allowed IN
limited debate on any subject. This
was the opportunity that Fhed Lam
dis had been waiting for, and he made
his first speech on the floor in an at
tack upon the insurance system of the
country. His success was instantane-
Gus. . r.
Mr.. Lands is one of four brothers
who have all achieved high reputa-
ton. His brother Charlie has been
a representative from Indiana for sew
eral terms and is fine orator and a
popular public speaker. Another bro
Their, Kensaw Mountain Lands, who
was private secretary to Mr.. Gresham
when the latter was secretary of state.
is now a United States judge in 1lli-
nois, and still another brother is in
charge of the postal service in Porto
kico. Young Fred was at one time his
Sbrother Charities secretary and did
newspaper, work as an assistant on
one of the western newspapers. He
read law and was admitted to the bar,
but suddenly one day in the spring of
1902 he told his brother that he was
tired of the job of private secretary
and was going out to Indiana to beat
George Steele for denomination for
congress.
Charlie laughed at the nervy young
fellow, but the latter meant what he
said He went into Steele's district
and, although the latter had been a
representative OF it in Washington for
many years, Lands defeated him, Sc
cured the nomination himself and
took his seat in the last congress. He
was reelected to the present congress
by largely increased majority, and
his brilliant speech on the insurance
question has fixed his fame as one Of
the leading orators of the house.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

The material of which imitation
stones are made is known as "strass. "
This is made according to different
recipes, but usually includes red lead,
rock crystal, potassium carbonate,
boraX and white arsenic. The greater
the amount of lead used in the produc-
ton of the paste" the greater will be
the brilliancy and play of prismatic
colors in the finished stone, and at the
same time the higher will be it's spe.
cific gravity. On the other hand. the
stone loses in hardness what it gains
in brilliance.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

D. o. McCahey, ~'e!lknown physi.
clan of st. Louis, has discovered 3
mechanical process by which air can
be extracted from water beneath the
surface. Not only can he, or any one
else for that matter, extract the suba-
queous air from the surrounding wa
ter, but he can store it beneath the
surface. The possibilities of the dis.
coveries are patent. In it's applica-
ton, which is entirely practical, it will
solve the question of submarine navi-
cation; that is, supply submarine
boats with air without the trouble of
the coming to the surface for it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
In Prison.

Stillwater-Mrs. Stella Brennan of
Minneapolis. who was sent to the state
prison in this city for life for the MUIR
der of three of her stepchildren, ar
rived here in charge of Sheriff Dreger,
Jailer Nels Clausen and Mrs. Mary
WOODBURY., matron of the Jail. The
prisoner was smiling when she alighted
from the car and maintained her cheer
full expression when she entered the
prison doors. The work she will be re-
quired to do while in confinement has
not yet been determined by the prison
authorities.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

mlngs of New York, the one time
printer friend of Charles A. Dana and
Horace Greeley, was accorded the first
place in congress circles as an expert
fisherman. Amos loved fishing as
well as he did good story, and that
meant great deal. He had a lodge
on the upper branch of the Susque-
hama, where he used to spend most of
his vacation fishing for the small
mouth black bass, or earlier in the
season going into the mountains of
Pennsylvania and Turing the wily.
brook trout.
No man has exactly taken Amos
Cummings place as the fisherman par
excellence of congress, but Mr.. Albert
Burleson, of Texas, comes very near
it. He is born fisherman. In his
opinion fishing is the finest sport and
recreation on the top of the earth. He
has the finest collection of fishing
tackle of anyone either in the house
or senate, and that is saying a good
deal. He is not a carpet fisherman by
any means, one who can tell how fish
ing should be done while seated be-
fore the fire, but he is an active SPORTS
man who has tackled pretty nearly
every sort Of game fish in the country.
He tells some mighty interesting stor-
les and, unlike the proverbial fish
story. they are true and backed up
with snapshots. p
Mr.. Burleson is great believer in
fishing and he asserts that no man can
be very far wrong who is fond of this
quiet, gentle sport, He is great ad-
m 1nl' OF ex-President Cleveland, as
much on account Of the latter's fond
ness for rod and line as for any Of bis
! achievements in craftsmanship. "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

! We certainly have no reason to be
proud of the record we are making in
matter so vital as that Of railroad &C.
cidents. The list of, killed and in
jured due to casualties of this sort, as
presented in the recent annual report
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, reads like the returns from a
Manchurian battlefield. According to
this showing 537 passengers were
killed on the railroads during the 6s-
cal year ending June list, and 10,O4O
injured, while the number of railway
employees killed reached the enormous
total Of 3,o6i and the injured 45.426.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

ate constituent this more or less use
full government institution is known
as Smiths Onion A few days ago
the senator received request to pro.
cure for one of his constituents re-
port on "Smith's Onion" His clerk
applied to the agricultural department
for a list Of publications emanating
there, and although that department
is the most prolific in official litera-
ture, it's comprehensive index did not
contain any work or report on
"Smith's Onion"
The senator then applied to the az
ricultural congressman in the house
and senate without results. His clerk
sat up with the letter one night and
finally came to the conclusion that the
reading gentleman down in the Old
Dominion wanted a report on the
Smithsonian" A report of the Smith
sonian institution was secured and
sent to the gentleman and it proved to
be just what ne wanted, and he has
written an acknowledgements of the re-
ceipt Of very handsome volume con-
tanning highly interesting facts" He
is satisfied now that Uncle Sam is a
most obliging old fellow and the peo-
pie throughout the country can get
almost any sort of reading matter.
This assumption that the national
governments: will afford the citizens of
the country all the reading matter
they want is pretty we'll founded. for,
aside from works of actuel fiction,
there is scarcely line of literature
that the government has not invaded.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
Freight Shipments.

Minneapolis. -Minneapolis freight
shipments and receipts for the year
just passed show up we'll with the ad-
vances made by the city in every other
line. The advance in total CARROTS re-
ceived in 1905 is about l, 500 cars. The
advance in shipments, however, is
much greater-12, 900 cars.
There were LOG, AL cars of wheat re-
ceived and 24,635 shipped. There were
Is, 1854, 1877 barrels of -four shipped out.
Timber filed 21, 300 cars
To keep people warm there were
627,7 75 cars of coal received.
Wool shipments amount TO 1873 1854
pounds.
OF merchant Sc there were AS, 371.-
53S pounds received and 753, 723
shipped.
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months of the present year he has
bought over $25.000,O0O worth >of cut
and uncut diamonds. He has not con-
fined his taste to diamonds, but his
plethoric pocketbook has included all
sorts of precious stones in it's purchas-
ing power. Ten years ago his total
outlay Of precious stones of all kinds
abroad was less than 100000. This
year it will probably be $35, 900, 900
worth, as for ten months the importa-
tions have reached the value of $751;
359.1 57.
To a certain degree these tremen-
dously increased imports of diamonds
and precious stones are an indication
OF prosperous times, plenty of money,
and also, to some extent, they are a
new form of investment, as many peo-
pie consider the investment of money
in diamonds about the safest that can
be made. This expenditure of wealth
aOroad for precious stones has been
productive of work and consequently
money to the workmen of the United
States. This is shown in the rapid
growth OF the importatiOns of uncut
diamonds.
A few years ago there was estab-
lished in this country diamond cut
ting industry, and it has increased
very rapidly in the last decade. In
1896 there were but $78,815 worth OF
uncut diamonds brought into this
country, but since the passage of the
present tariff law, giving a preferen-
tial to this class of diamonds, their
importation has increased until this
year over $1O,000,0OO worth will be i'm
ported. For tho decade ending with
1905 the value of uncut diamonds i'm
ported will reach $60,OO0,000, and of
cut diamonds about $1OO,O00,000, and
OF other precious stones imported
enough to bring the total value for the
ten years up to $20O,O00,000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
Robert Enmet's Ring.

HEN ROBERT En-
met, whose one re-
greet upon the scat
fold was that he
had but one life
to lose for his
country, n e a r e d
that high place
of historic mar
tyrdom he took
from his finger a
ring which he de-
sired should be
worn by that EN-,
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Jimmy" Wadsworth.

gu N G jill NJ Y
Wadsworth is only
20 - rather young
to be chosen as
leader in a revolt
against bOssism in
a boss-ridden leg
islature. Still, he
is a WadswOrth,
which means q
fighter. His great
grandfather was a
pioneer in western
New York and q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

A professor in Northwestern univer-
sity has laid it down as an imperative
rule for the students in his classes
that they shall read the newspapers
every day and thus acquaint them
selves with curr~'1t events. II shall
consider this" he told them, fully as
important as the daily lessons a.
signed from the textbooks"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
Who Has Swallowed Whom?

dE papers nave
roughly said that
Ryan, lord of the
surface Of the
streets. has sold to
Belmont, lord OF
the upper air and
the under earth,
the elevated and
S Il b W ay line S,
Technically that is
the fact; the Bel.
mont company is
the absorbing OF
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

The campaign for pure food prod
ucts has gained a powerful ally in the
wholesale grocery interests, which are
proposing to combine in the detection
and prosecution Of all manufacturers
guilty of imposing unwholesome and
poisonous authorizations upon the mar
ket. The wholesale grocerymen are
in position to do more effective serv-
ice in this line than any other class.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

The annual report of Herbert Put
nam, librarian of congress, shows that
the library contains 1,344,618 books,
S2,744 maps and charts, 1924 ar
tistic prints and 410,352 pieces of mu-
sic. The manuscripts, which form a
valuable collection, have not been emu
merated pending their grouping into
volumes. Many OF these are Of great
interest and of permanent value.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19

Within the last few months Ger
man capitalists have started banks
for the promotion of German trade in
East Africa, West Africa, Asia Minor,
Argentina, Bulgaria and Central
America.