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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-14
THAN MAY BE OUT OF
I0nBS IN A FEW DAYS
IhaWs Attorneys viii Make Application 70 Have Harry
Released Relatives Will Offer Bail in ANY
Amount JerOne VIII Oppose Strongly
Associated Press 10 Bismarck Tribune

New York, April 10 Setting at
rest all rumors as to their present
intention ]. RI Peabody, associated
with Dolphin N. Delmas, chief coun-
sci for Harry *. ThaW, said today
after AS minutes conference with the /
prisoner, that an application forJ
Thaw's release on bail would be made,
hut he declined to go into details re-
garding this action.
There were various rumors during !
the day that habeas corpus proceed
ings might be brought, and II was re-
ported that Thaw family stands ready
to furnish bail In almost any amount
to secure the young mans release.
B District Attorney Jerome announced
that he would make strong tight
against the granting Of bail to the
prisoner, and added to this statement
that he intended to prosecute him for
murder In hrst degree, this latter as-
sertion coming In reply to q sugges-
ton that he had compromised with
the defendants council on a plea OF
insanity and. would agree to send
Thaw to Matteawan. $50 1: 4, 4
The next interesting Development
Of the day came when Mr.. Peabody
left Thaw after q visit, and said in
reply to questions as to the stories
that Thaw had changed his counsel.
sMr. Thaw authorizes me TO say that
up to the present time he has made
no change Of council You may say
that al emphatically as you please
/ OF course, we don't know what will
happen next week. =
How does Thaw take the situa-
tion?' the lawyer was asked.
HE is very much distressed and
feels badly about i, Mr.. Peabody re-
piled.
When asked as to the program for
next week he said:
1--WE have not fixed any program.
On Monday we shall get together and
decide what is best to be done.
Mr. Delmas had a long conference
with Thaw today, and Mrs. Thaw saw
a her husband during visiting hours.
a somewhat neaton development OF
\ the day was the publication Of letters
said to have been written by Howard
Nesbit, Evelyn Thaw's brother. Ell;
planning his position IN the case, and
/ asking for money from Thaw.
Altogether ThaW spent quiet day
! In the Tombs. The Influx Of mail at
! all deliveries which has kept him busy
since he first went TO cell, was
diminished somewhat today. Instead
Of a one hundred letters which he
read every morning up to the day Of
\ the verdict, only twenty came
Id this afternoon and other deliveries
4 had also fallen of.
Mrs. Harry K ThaW was somewhat
wan and worn when she appeared al
the Tombs today, but seemed In good
spirits. Other members Of the Traw
family remained at their hotel.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

nifcance, both to the race and to the
country as a whole, the purpose being
to correlate the negro's economic his.
tory with that of the American people
along broad lines, as, for example,
through the cotton industry and in the
creation of national wealth and favor
able trade balances as affected by
products closely identified with negro
labor.
Mr.. Stone will treat of the condition
of laboring classes during the Amer
lean colonial period-the introduction
of negro slavery into America as an
economic factor. He will also investi-
gate the efforts to utilize slave labor
in manufacturing and other industrial
enterprises. His work will constitute
an exceedingly important and novel
feature in American economic history.
He will also treat of the negro as a
free man, the result and development
of the negro Industrial school, their
effect with reference to local economic
conditions, the negro land owner and
all such topics as will bring out clearly
and fully the whole industrial relation
of the negro to economic conditions.
This investigation will be compre-
hensive in it's scope, and it will be at
least a year before such progress has
been made as will justify report or
this important subject.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
Washington Day: by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
QUITTING THE SENATE
NOT A POPULAR HABIT

WASH1NGTON-P do die in
" public Office, of course, but resig
nations are so rare that the retire
ment of Senator John c. Spooner of
Wisconsin continues to be topic of
interest where the politicians gather.
The old-timers have brought to mind
the fact that voluntary leaving the
senate in ate'years is far more in
frequent than it was in the earlier
history of our country.
The last resignation from the SEN
ate OF a member who retired to 20
into business was that of George F..
Edmunds of Vermont, who in 1891 re-
signed to practice law. He is still at
it in the city of Philadelphia. Mr..
Edmunds had served continuously in
the senate for little over 25 years
and retired to seek his fortune at the
age of Sc.
Mr.. Spooner retires for the same
reason, declaring that he goes into
private life without engagement as
counsel for any person or corpora
ton. He and Mr.. Edmunds served
long as members of the judiciary
committee of the senate. Both are
great lawyers and both were states,
men of the first class.
Statistics applied to present condi-
tions are not dull. In fact, they are
filled with interest. Out of the SO
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
SUBWAYS MEAN A SAVING
OF MILLIONS TO WORKERS

The $35, 100000 which will be saved
each year in carfare, rent and time
is a definite quantity. 1t will be d.
vided among the persons who read
just their residential surroundings to
the new transit conditions. 1t will
affect 100000 people directly, because
they will travel over the new express
600 indirectly, because they are de-
pendent on the first 100000. The
total number of persons affected will
be 100000.
New Jersey will get the largest
benefits from this years new tunnels,
because the suburban sections in that
quarter of the rapid transit zone are
more advanced than those in north
ern and eastern sections
New Jersey has 100000 commuters
who travel back and forth between
Manhattan and the Jersey suburbs
each business day. Long Island has
100000. The north Bronx and West
chester have 100000.
New Jersey has more towns than
the other two sections combined. The
New Jersey rapid transit zone con-
tains a population of 100000, while
that of Long Island, the north Bronx
and Westchester contains 100000,
not including the south Bronx and
those parts of Brooklyn which are too
near Manhattan to be regarded as a
section of the committing zone.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
STUDY OF THE NEGRO
AS SLAVE AND FREEMAN
N important investigation of the

A N important investigation of the
IA negro in slavery and freedom is
now being made by the department of
economics and sociology of the Car
negie Institution of Washington, which
was founded by Andrew Carnegie.
This investigation will be of great i'm
portance to the negro as we'll as the
white race, as it will show what the
negro has done and what he is capable
of doing. The work is being con-
Quoted by Alfred Holt Stone, an edu-
Gated business man from Mississippi,
who is a thorough, impartial and can
did student of the economic develop
ment growing out of negro slavery
and the work of the negro under con-
ditions of freedom.
Mr.. Stone has outlined treatment,
which is reasonably exhaustive, relat-
ing to the economic life of the Ameri-
can negro, without trespassing on
either the political or social aspects of
the topics. He recognizes the diff
Guilty of treating the one as separated
from the other two topics, but the de-
STABILITY of such a method is believed
to more than outweigh the difficulties
involved in it's execution.
Mr.. Stone will make an effort to in
terpret the salient features of negro
life in relation to their economic sig
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
STATESMEN SEEM FOND
OF JUVENILE READING
Sleuth with Dottie Dimple stories and
tales of Indian adventure.

Sleuth with Dottie Dimple stories and
tales of Indian adventure.
DR.. Conan Doyle's account of the
wonderful adventures of the redoubt-
able Brig. Girard and the exploits of
Sherlock Holmes appear to have
caught Mr.. Allison's fancy.
Uncle Shelby Cullom apparently is
devoted to Oliver Optic. Nov or
Never and Jack Hazard and His
Fortunes are on his list.
Uncle Joe" Cannon, the speaker of
the house, evidently is fond of detec-
tive stories, having called for The
Clique of Gold" and several of
Gaboriau's works.
1t would appear from circumstan-
tial evidence that nearly every mem
Der of both houses of congress and
most of the learned judges Of the su-
preme court are confirmed readers of
juvenile literature, but such in real
ity is not the case. The pages and
messengers are the ones who read
this class of books. They get a SEN
ator or member to sign an order and
then fill it out for the book they want.
An official record is kept, however,
of all books drawn out of the con-
gressional library and some future
historian, it was pointed out, might
obtain queer notions of the class of
reading matter that found most favor
with the statesmen of the present
day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
Women and Smoke,

A young Chicago woman aspires to
be smoke inspector. She says the
smoke nuisance is serious, and she
does not see why women should not
be useful in checking it, The pay
does not attract her, but the oppor-
tunity to do good. If she can pass a
civil service examination, and there is
no reason to doubt her ability, there
will be no legal obstacle in the way of
her appointment. The average wom-
an as smoke inspector would put into
her work a degree of devotion and
zeal which man is incapable of, says
the Chicago Tribune Where men dis
like smoke, women hate it. 1t dirties
their clothes. 1t smuts their faces
1t nullifies the labor of the washer
woman. 1t is abhorrent to them in
hundred different ways An inspec-
tor of any kind who is not full of en-
thusiasm for his work, and who goes
on with it merely to draw his month
ly pay, never accomplishes much. 1t
is because women have enthusiasm
that they make the best kind of in
spectors in certain fields of labor.
They are able to see shortcomings to
which the average man is blind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

UST of the rotunda of the capitol
- is a little nook that Is an espe-
cial object of interest to visiting tour
lists when congress is in session. It
is the capitol terminus of the under
ground railway to the congressional
library. Books are constantly arriv-
ing over this subway line for sena-
tors, representatives and supreme
court judges. They are delivered on
their written order.
One would get rather startling
impression of the class of books the
statesmen on Capitol hill are partial
to from casual inspection of the list
Of books that are drawn out in their
names. For instance, the scholarly
Henry Cabot Lodge of the old bay
state, according to the record, recent
ly took out such instructive and
thrilling productions as Jimmy the
Bootblack," "The Boy Captain" and
Little joe" by James Otis. Mr..
Foraker of Ohio is charged with sew
eral volumes by "Old Sleuth" and
1.-The Starry Flag" by Oliver Optic.
Mr.. Tillman, if the card tells the
truth, has been perusing Thomas
Bailey Aldrich's "Story of Bad Boy"
and some of w. Clark Russell's thrill
ing sea tales, including 1.-THE Frozen
Pirate"
Mr.. Aldrich, the tactical leader of
the Republicans, has been mixing Old
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

congresses to date there have been
but five in which there We're no resig.
| nations of senators. These were at a
comparatively early age. The rule of
these designations was that the sena.
tors needed more money than the
government pays, or that they might
accept some office with a larger sal
airy and greater distinction.
1t is nice enough to be a senator,
if one has the income of private
fortune of few millions, judiciously
invested. 1t is different thing when
keeping up the dignity of the Office
means dunning tradesmen and good
wives dressed in the style of the year
ago. And so it is as a natural con-
sequence that the United States SEN
ate is not inappropriately termed
'"The Millionaires' Club" In the first
so years of the senate's history there
were 124 designations.
In the first so years of the senate's
history there were 124 designations.
In the next so years but ~ re-
signed. Since the end of the 100
years of senate history, emitting the
southern senators retiring to join the
secession movement, there have been
"a senators to lay aside their togas.
OF these Withdrawals Is were to en-
able the resigning senator to accept
other Office.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

NEW YORK wageearners will save
~ $35,000,0O a. year by means OF the
rapid transit subways which are to
be opened next summer.
This total represents only by saw
ing in rent, carfare and time. They
will save much more in the matter
of health and in general peace of
mind.
But such savings cannot be reduced
to a cash basis, although they will
represent large cash gain in the de-
crease of doctors bills, drug bills and
other expenses. which accompany con-
gested residential conditions in Man
haitian.
Another item of saving might be
calculated from the reduction of So
cial extravagances when there is a
wider distribution of Manhattan's
population throughout suburban dis
tricts. And still another gain will
come from the increased business
which can be transacted by quicker
communication between all parts of
the metropolis. Thousands of per-
sons will be able to do more business
in the same time. They will make
more money. Then money will circu-
late more rapidly and general bust
ness will be stimulated.
Such savings in the abstract can
not be estimated even approximately.
1t is known in general, however, that
the total must be many millions a year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
THE ENTERPRISE.
w. e. HANNAFoRD, Publisher
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA
Electricity a. a Deadener.


1T would be q foolish man who
should run on ahead of present devel-
opment in electricity and plant
stake to mark the limit of its growth.
Before he had swung his maui score
of times, progress would have passed
him and he would be erecting sign
post instead of a barrier. Electricity
spurts in this neutrality-suspicious. way
because so many minds are interest
ed in it. The men of brains, whatever
their calling, recognize its potentiali-
ties and work toward them. 1t Is
used in commerce and manufactures
quite as much as in science. Domes-
tic life claims it as powerful and
willing slave, it aids the arts in many
ways, and medicine has found good
in it. DR.. Stephen Leduc leading
physician IF Paris, has Whitfield down
the destructive properties of electro
cution to beneficent powers. He has
made the death-chair over into an
operating table for the surgeon. He
destroys sensibility all over the body
by sending mild alternating current
of electricity through the brain. In
this way the patient loses conscious
ness but it is not the old stupor of
anesthetics. There is no nausea, Ian
guor or weakness and absolutely no
effect on the heart. The patient be-
comes conscious the moment the cur
rent is shut off and with decidedly
invigorated sensation. This will be as
great boon to the doctors as to the
patient, says the Cleveland Leader.
1t will, or at least should, do away
with the old apologize remark that
the "operation was a success but the
patient didn't rally" as if the mere
technical part of carving man up
with butcher-like skill was the end of
the surgeons duty.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

a sum as will allow the company, TAX
ing all the other patrons together, to
put up magnificent $15,000,000
building and pay big salaries, divi-
dends and all that? The Sage founda-
ton trustees could, if they choose.
give insurance at reasonable cost.
Again, here is decent young fel-
low, say Is years old, with wife and
children. He develops tuberculosis.
The trustees Of the Sage foundation.
under their charter, would send that
man away and take care of his fam
lily until he got we'll.
''Still another field of activity that
might be found is seeing that the
poor get as much for their money as
the rich do for theirs. Take the man
who buys his coal by the pail. Every
one knows he pays twice as much
for it as the man who buys it by the
ton. The trustees of the Sage founda-
ton might decide to establish coal
yards where coal by the pail could be
purchased as cheaply as by the ton.
Many other ways of practical charity
stand open to the trustees
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
SCULPTOR'S WORK OF Is
YEARS is REJECTED

not consider it good and destroyed it..
Meanwhile the statues of Hancock
and Logan, provided for in 1891, are
standing here in public squares. Both
were completed years ago. Sheridan
died in 1888. In 1889 congress author
lied q statue, appropriated $4,000 and
created commission to take charge.
In March, 1891, congress made a
further appropriation of $4,000 for the
statue, making the total $4,000. The
Army of the Cumberland raised about
$4,000. In April, 1892, the commission
contracted with Mr.. Ward to make the
statue for $4,000, making an advance
payment of 81 500. .,...- .<<a# 81
Two of Mr.. Wards statues already
ornament the city. They are those Of
Garfield and Thomas and are generally
regarded as among the finest 81 the
many statues Of the nations heroes in
the capital city.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

A THOUGH nearly 10 years have
"a elapsed since the project for a
statue to Gen. Philip H. Sheridan in
the national capital was proposed by
the Army of the Cumberland, the
statue is as far away as ever. The
statue committee has rejected the
work of J. Q. A. Ward, Cancelled it's
contract with him and will begin all
over again. ~
This action was taken by the COM
mittee some time ago, but did not be-
come public until recently. -, Mr.. Ward
has been at work on the statue for
nearly Is of the 10 years, and has
made models, none of which has been
approved by both the artist and the
committee. A similar fact about it is
that he did make one model which sat
isfied the committee and was approved
BY them, but Mr.. Ward himself did
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

ruled from No. 300 Mulberry street.
is William Murray, also said to be be-
yond the reach of the gaunt and hum
cry wolf, which he was able to shoe
so far from his bungalow that, unlike
the cat, it never came back. The
pension funds contribution to his ex-
chequer is the same as Byrnes'-
$4,000 year.
The other of the trio of $4,000 pen
sioners is John McCullagh. McCul-
lagh, while never such a figure in
police affairs, so far as notoriety goes.
was counted a tiptop man, and one
of whom the department has no rea-
son to be ashamed. These three
Byrnes, Murray and McCullagh-
draw the highest pensions paid out of
the fund, the total disbursements of
which were $1,400,242.10, great sum
for even this rich municipality to dis
burse in charity, if such it may be
called.
During the year pensions were
granted to 305 policemen and the
pensions of four others were in
creased by $758. One matron and 81
widows and % children were added
to the pension roll, while eight
widows had their pensions increased
in the total sum of $500, making the
grand total of new pensions for the
year $23O,5O3.
Elghty-five policemen's pensions
closed because of death, So police
men were restored to the force and
ceased to draw money from the fund
coincident with their reinstatement.
One widow lost her pension by TAX
ing to herself a second husband and
rs children attained age at which
their pensions ceased.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

A dozen of more women's colleges
including Barnard, Wellesley, Vassal
and Bryn Mawr, have formed an inter.
collegiate association of students
whose purpose it is to establish
student government instead of facul
ty control in all the institutions repre-
sented. Barnard is already practicing
this system and students have almost
everything under their own charge ex.
cept instruction. The plan is said to
be great success, the girls being
more observant of rules and regula.
tons made by the faculty. And yet
conservative folk will continue to feel
some preference for the old plan of
putting experienced and mature per-
sons in authority over these young
women
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
STATE SOCIETIES PLAN
PERMANENT FAIR HERE

and believe they can carry it through.
Robert c. Aud, a member of the
Michigan society. is one of the advo-
Gates of the plan. He said recently:
'The building not only will serve the
business interests of the state, but
will be an enduring monument to the
idea of statehood as conceived by
the trainers OF the constitution. Once
1T is completed, no American citizen
will die content without seeing it. It
will advertise the existence of our
commonwealth, too often B forgotten
beyond the metropolitan limit,
William J. Worden Of Michigan IS.
the father OF the project. It was dis
cussed briefly at a recent dinner Of.
the Michigan society at the Hotel
sAstor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

Whales are considerably in evidence
of late. A number have been caught
off the Long Island coast, and now
comes announcement of the finding of
one, of the sperm variety, on the
sandy shore of Florida In the latter
case the cetacean has produced many
barrels of oil, and the ambergris con-
tanned in the carcass will bring a
small fortune to the finders. A few
more experiences like this may lead
to marked revival in the whale hunt
ing industry.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12
Round About New York
Gossip of People and Things
in the Great Metropolis !.
SAGE FUND TO BE USED
IN FIGHT ON POVERTY

NEW YORK.-It is announced by
~ one of the group of men who will
have much to do with expenditure of
the income of the $10,0O0,00O fund
Mrs. Russell Sage has given to char
ity that the money will be spent
largely in a practical struggle with
poverty. The purpose is to improve
the social and living conditions
and high-browed Missionaries need not
apply. In speaking of Mrs. Sage's
purpose, this authority said:
I'VE used to think poverty arose
largely from defects of character.
Now we know it may arise from vast
ly different causes and that an up
right, average citizen may find him
self up against it, He needs boost.
Here is poor scrubwoman, middle
aged. She makes five or six dollars
week. She has a horror of an I'M
known grave. She takes out some
insurance the real purpose of which
is to provide decent burial for her.
1t is good thing. But why should
this woman be compelled to pay such
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-12

A PERMANENT national fair to con-
~ tain exhibits from every state in
the union and to be housed in $14,-
900 900 building in this city is planned
by some Of the state societies having
headquarters here. The. project con
templates continuous exposition, in
Guiding the best features of worlds
fairs of the past and luxurious club
rooms for the state societies. 9t
! Congress will be asked at its next
session to appropriate $4,000 600 to-
ward this enterprise, and each Of the
state legislatures will be asked for
$2O0, 900. The leaders in the move
iment which began with the Michigan
society, say they have been assured
sof support BY many members of CON
grsss and ~ several state legislators,