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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

J. II. FLEMING, licensed embalm-
er and undertaken. Call phone 228K.
WANTED.-An unfinished room,
by March 18th. At the ENTERPRISE
Office.
When you want your plumbing
repaired call Smith, the plumber,
'phone ~ X.
Now is the time to get your
pictures framed at Levin's 5 and 10
Cent Store.
George Smith, of this city, has
disposed of his interest in the Nor.
them Plumbing and Heating Co.,
Eveleth, to his partner, J. S. Cherne.
DR.. Spoffard is at the Hotel
" Fay, Virginia., the 22nd day
of every month. Latest scientific
methods in examining eyes and fit
ting glasses.
Miss Lucy Doyle is reported to
have undergone an operation for
appendicitis at the Mayo Hospital,
Rochester, Wednesday, and to be
getting along nicely.
d. NJ. Mouser and P. ]. Foley were
over from Sparta Sunday. Doing
little missionary work in this end
of the township, probably, just
prior to election day.
Oscar Moberg, of Biwabik, was in
attendance at the meeting of Vir-
ginia Grove No: 46, U. A. o. D., on
Wednesday evening. He returned
home yesterday morning.
"The Country Kid" will amuse an
audience at the Finnish Temper
ance Hall Sunday evening. And if
you would enjoy an evening of solid
fun you should be in attendance.
We would again remind you of
the Green Luncheon at the home of
Capt. Roskilly Saturday, March 16,
from 3 to p. NJ, under the auspices
of Mrs. Smiths Sunday School class.
Dan LeBeau, who has been en-
gagged in steam shovel work in the
state of Virginia for several months
past, returned to the range the last
of the week and will again settle
down here for the season.
President Ed. Olson, of Mckinley,
was business visitor to the city
Saturday. Mr.. Olson has recently
disposed of his hotel property at
Mckinley and intends removing to
Duluth in the near future. He il
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

WANTED.-An unfurnished room.
by March 18th. At the Enterprise
Office.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

DR.. Spoffard is at the Hotel
~ Fay, Virginia, the 22nd day
of every month. Latest scientific
methods in examining eyes and fit
ting glasses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

Miss Lucy Doyle is reported to
have undergone an operation for
appendicitis at the Mayo Hospital,
Rochester, Wednesday, and to be
getting along nicely.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

D. NJ. Mouser and P. J. Foley were
over from Sparta Sunday. Doing a
little missionary work in this end
of the township, probably, just
prior to election day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

For SALE.-Six room house and
lot on Maple street. Waterworks in
house. Enquire at 107 Maple street.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

does all kinds of dental work, which
he guarantees. Office in Sodergren
Block.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

For SALE--House and property,
$500. Inquire of John A. Barton,
2O5 Poplar street. Must be sold i'm
mediately. 3-w
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

others. What is is that has made the
streets valuable? The improvements
made upon them, which in many, even
most, instances represent the work of
owners for their lifetime. But for the
improvements on these streets the
land would have no more value than it
had in it's original state.
Ii will be said, of course that it is
the growth of population that has
created the values; yet without the
builders there would have been no
growth of population. Recognition of
the work of the builders is the moral
basis of their right to the larger values.
as against the argument that these
owners have done nothing to create
them.
The legal right of those who make
no improvements, but hold merely for
growing values, is of course unassail-
able; for laws and the administration
thereof must follow broad lines or prin-
ciples. The only practicable way
therefore, of dealing with the useless
landowner is to assess his property
each year at the fullest value that can
be placed upon it. There can be no in
justice in collecting taxes upon such
lands al about the rate the owner him.
self places upon them when approached
with an offer to buy them. The evil
of holding lands out of use, for higher
| values is one not easily exaggerated.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
FREE BALL GAMES.
Philadelphia Team Invites Ladies Who
Are Coming to EIk's Convention.

NORFOLK. Va, May 2S.-Riding a
the many treats in store for the Ia
dies who are coming to the annual
convention and reunion of the B. P. O.
Eks, which is to be held in this city
during the week of July Is, is an in
vitation 20 attend all of the ball games
played that week by the Philadelphia
team of the national league.
The officers of the Philadelphia Ball
company have informed the committee
in charge of the convention, that as a
com pliment to the Elks they will admit
all ladies, wearing the official badge.
free of charge, and no limit is placed
as to the number. The park at which
the Phillies play is reputed to be the
finest in the country and is in itself
worth a visit.
In arranging the schedule for the
session the national league took into
consideration the Elks' reunion with
the result that an interesting series
was reserved for the home team for
that week. On then first day of the
convention Chicago will be the visiting
team, on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday the Quakers will have as
their opponents the boys from Gin
cinnati and on Friday st. Louis will
be the attraction.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

the cities that gives high value to lana,
bu+ there are causes that give rise to
the concentra ton of population. Inc
energy that erects buildings, starts
promotes and supports industries
nushes mercantile effort, concentrates
trade and expands it, attracts the
working classes to the centers ana
makes it possible for them to OBTAIN
EMPLOYMENT, is the underlying prln-
ciple of all growth and progress at the
centers of population, says the Orego-
MAN. In all this movement the land
owners take the chief part; for unless
they owned the land they would not
build upon it, and great cities would
not exist, nor consequently, Would
there be the concentration of popula-
ton to which it is so often said land
values are due.
The landowner therefore is entitled
primarily to the credit of creating or
of enhancing land values. We mean. of
course, the enterprising landowner;
not the drone, who is holding, without
improvement, for the higher values
created through the spirit and energy
of others. Every community, however,
has its drones; but the men and women
who erect buildings, push the improve
ments and activities that make a city
should not be told that, as lanj-hold-
ers, they are robbers, because they
have appropriated values created by
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

finite regarding the action of the grand
jury will be made public for several
days or until the usual course of red
tape has been followed. The strictest
secrecy is being observed by United
States Attorney Bristol and Assistant
James Cole.
The Investigations conducted extend
ed through wide and labyrlnthlan
ramification of schemes and alleged
conspiracies. Wheels within wheels are
said to have been found, plot within
plot exposed, and conspiracy within
conspiracy laid bare in the workings
of the system. All tend, 1t is shown,
to eXtinguish the dealer who refused to
take programme, and one device and
another was employed to keep the
members of the trust in fear of the iron
wheel.
Through the Earring of the combine
part of the system has come to light.
This has to do with the method en-
ployed in keeping local members of the
trust from cutting prices. 1t was showD
that emissarieS were employed by the
managing officer of the Northwest Re-
tail Furniture Dealers Protective as
sociation, as an example, to visit the
various retail furniture stores. These
| "spotters'' usually went in the guise
of shoppers. And this is the way it was
| done.
| A woman would be seen leaving the
| office of a furniture trust official ant
| entering retail furniture store. She
| would probably ask for bed spring
the card price list of which might be
| So. A hard-luck story by the shop
per- would acquaint the dealer thai
! she was poor woman with fam1l!
! on her hands to support, and Wouldn
he give her a little better rate thar
that? Maybe he would, and the care
price might be cut down so cents. She
would ask for and receive bill show
ing the sale, and would inform the
dealer that she would send around FOL
the bed spring next day.
Then followed a return visit to th'
Office of trust official, delivery of tn
bill of sale. And then-reprimand o
the dealer, whose sympathies had LEI
to the reduction, and imposition of ;
fine as penalty.
Surprising he refused to pay it? NO
: tify the wholesalers and jobbers of hi
case, and not long afterward a sigl
store for Rent" told the tale of the Sc
quel.
! The investigation disclosed the exist
ence of four interviewer furniture or
CARNATIONS in Portland. These are tn
; Portland Retail Furniture Dealers as
ISOLATION. composed. generally, of tn
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
TAKES A WISE MAN.
1T takes brains to play the fool"

1T takes brains to play the fool"
So the equestrian director of the
Sells-Floto Shows said when asked
concerning clowns and Glowing.
II have been in the circus business
all my life and during that interesting
period, have, like an actor, played many
parts. l have made a close study of the
profession and particularly the clown
department. for there is nothing to a
circus without a clown.
TT has come under my observation
that the brainiest performers always
make the best clowns and produce fun
that is not only wholesome. but makes
the man. no matter how discontinued
with the world, forget his troubles tenn
porarily and dissolve his hardened
features into a grin. When you COM
pare the actor with the clown the lat
ter has handicap regarding his meth
DDS and his facilities of bringing forth
laughs.
The other has the author to thank
nine times out of ten for some fat
part. Then, too, he is enabled to say
things that produce fun and which are
not his own. But take the man behinj
the whitened face and he has nothing tc
! help him but his gestures, his nimble
legs and his art of so comforting his
face as to bring forth mirth. It's rea
work to make them laugh without any
aid whatsoever excepting the few items
| have mentioned. Furthermore,
clown must be born he is not made O.
manufactured.
For instance, take Alonzo, the pre-
mier joey of the Sells-Flo Shows
and he would be the last person in tn
world you would pick out as profes
s1onal jester. He is the soberest-ap
pearing cuss you ever saw on tn
street. Yet he has but to walk fror
the dressing top to the big show an
laugh. There is something about tina
stride that is funny, and when he al
lows the toy balloon to get away fror
him and sail through the air, cryin
after it. l have seen the spectators al
most fall off their seats with laughter
Out in Ogden 1 remember one old lad
could hardly be stopped. Now you le
some one else try that little trick an
Its not funny at ALL
All the funny clowns will be her
with Sells-Floto Shows Monday, Jun
8.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
ADJUSTMENTS
HERE TOMORROW NIGHT.

Mrs. Warren's Profession" has had
the distinction of being the most dis
cussed theatrical work of many years.
1t was undeservedly condemned by a
number of prominent citizens of both
sexes who had not read it, and by civic
authorities who could not understand
even if they had. 1t may be said that
if contains one of the most moral les
sons ever prepared for the theater. No
man or woman can read it or see 1t
without feeling that it has accom-
p!ished it's manifest purpose of driving
home the real responsibility for the
existence of Mrs. Warren's Profess
sion" Polyndry. Always much more
unnatural than polygamy, in its strict
sense, never exists to any great ex-
tent save where economic conditions
compel it. Those who palter with the
evil and profess a desire more or less
sincere for it's extinction, must seek
the explanation Of its existence else
where than in passion or vice. 1t Is the
most conventional profession in the
world, and Mrs. Warren is the one re-
ally conventional person in the play.
Her standards Of conduct, her belief
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
.|ND|cT FURNITURE TRUST
Over $50 Members TO be Arraign'
ed In Coast Cities

PORTLAND, Ore, May 2S.-There is
reason to believe that the federal grand
jury has voted an indictment against
more than $50 members of the furni-
ture trust throughout the states of
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Cali
fornia. The names of the defendants
are not obtainable, for the indictment
has not been returned into court.
1t is not likely that the return will be
made for several days, owing to the
size Of the Indictment. and the fact
that much time will be necessary for
it's preparation. In scope and the num-
Der of persons involved, the Oregon
furniture trust case gives promise OF
being one of the most colossal aggre-
cations Of defendants ever brought I'M
der the ban Of the law by one swoop of
a grand jury, and its Importance will
be felt over the whole northwest.
1t is not probable that ANYTHING de-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
My Best Friend.

Alexander Benton, who lives on
Rural Route 1, Fort Edward, n. Y.
says: DR. Kings New Discovery is
my best earthly friend. 1t cured me
of asthma six years ago. 1t has also
performed a wonderful cure of Incl
pient consumption for my sons wife
The first bottle ended the terrible
cough, and this accomplished, the 9th
er symptoms left one by one, until she
was perfectly well. DR.. Kings New
Discovery's power over coughs and
colds is simply marvellous" No other
remedy has ever equalled it. Fully
guaranteed by E. L. Smalley, druggist
soc and $1.00. Trial bottle free
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
LANDS AND VALUES.

There is an evil in holding land out
of use. for speculative purposes. which
could be and ought to be diminished;
but society or government has no
means of doing it other than by taxa
ton of such lands upon yearly increas-
ing valuations. That is. as fast as
the land grows in value it should be
assessed to the full, so that the inert
owner shall not be able to pocket the
whole of the unearned increment for
which he waits. Country lands are
little subject to this evil. 1t chiefly
affects city lots and near suburban
lands. and is a real evil in and about
every growing city.
1t is commonly said that it is the
massing of population in and about
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

in her maternal prerogatives, her in
sistence upon continuing the work
which she is used to, all are thorough
ly in accord with the times. Shaw has
written three plays dealing with eco
homie. social and moral relations. He
has deliveIei the most direct blow yet
leveled by the stage against the cow
ardice of social compromise. Up to this
time he has done little to suggest the
order Which shall succeed. A change
is coming, whether soon or late-a rev.
olution, whether orderly or destructive
end Bernard Shaw is its Voltaire.
At the Keylor Grand theater May 90
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

smaller dealers, including the little sec
ond-hand stores; the Northwest Retail
Furniture Dealers Protective aSsocia
ton, local organization, composed Of
retail dealers generally, the Northwest
Furniture Exchange, organized among
the wholesalers and jObbers of the
northwest and the Oregon Retail Fur
niture Dealers association, the men,
bership of which is made up from the
state al large.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Anyway we can go to Pendleton for
the Fourth of July, or see the auto
races at the fair grounds. or go to
Dayton, or stay home in the shade, Or
but then it hasn't yet been positively
decided that we are not to have a
Fourth
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
PARADISE FERRY.

On Snake river Will be in running or
der about the first Monday in June, but
will not run after shutdown. Friday
evening until sun down Saturday even
ing each week. but meals and horse
feed can be had on any day. Nothing
else will be sold from Friday night to
Saturday night.
A. H. SOMENBURG, Prop.
Eureka, Wash. sc
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Another of the mighty has fallen.
From being hunted and arrested as a
train robber and noted kidnaper. Pat
Grove has just been Jailed for vagran-
cy in Omaha. 1t is a frightful drop and
there will be no flowers
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

That extra thirty minutes to be spent
by the visitors from omaha in Walla
Walla will be used in explaining why
the boiling editorialists are engaged in
such fierce combat over whether Sen
ator Ankeny is a real man. or a ghost.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Chicago is threatened with a beef
famine because the trust insists upon
Withholding payment until the govern
ment inspectors have passed upon the
cattle purchased. And everybody in
terested in Cow stuff is ''beefing'
about it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The sudden slump in interest in the
Fourth of Juy celebration in Walla
Walla can only be accounted for by the
fact the business men are doing all the
business they desire to handle.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Abe Ruef's bonds amount to
million and a quarter and Mayor
Schmitz' bail is fixed at four hundred
thousand dollars. The public had no
idea either was so valuable.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The fight between the Washington
and oregon sheepmen has assembled to
the federal courts. The question the
learned judge will be called upon to de-
eide is which side will be Shorn.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

We are getting so, after reading the
Chicago market reports, that we can't
help carrying few grains of wheat in
our pockets just to demonstrate our
financial standing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

So far we have heard of no Walla
Walla householder who has bitten into
a dollar while eating bread made out
of that dollar wheat.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The Indictment of San Francisco
millionaires is just affOrding those
rich ones an opportunity of passing
through the needles eye.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Some of the heart burnings over the
failure to benefit by the hard work of
boosting a newspaper with a James
town trip are already discernible.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The "Bunc" is now earnestly engaged
in earning the freight paid by Jones,
as the Ankeny attacks demonstrate.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

AS a suggestion, wouldn't it be a
good idea TO put the new state of Lin
colna on exhibition at the Spokane in
terstate fair? It's small enough as an
actualitV
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The mayor and city councilmen were
up at the headwOrks today. And the
boiling cditOrialists had their ears to
the ground awaiting the reverberations.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Count Okuma declares Japan favors
smaller ornaments. Surely not be1ore
San Francisco has been taken?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

And it's showing in Kansas, Michi-
gan and Indiana while were eating
home grown strawberries in Walla
Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

That identification bureau for the
dead, as planned by Undertaken Hen
neSsey. is certainly a live venture.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The one or two men in San Francisco
who escaped Indictment are not mil
lionaires.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

If you wish to rent your house-Try
Our Classified Advertisement Page.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

The Complete Telegraphic News Ser"
vice printed in these columns Is
furnished by
SCRIPTS NEWS ASSOCIATION
and is by far the Best Report Pub
lished in Walla Walla
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-28

Wait at the Book Nook for the cars
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-10-17
CITY POLITICS.

| There has been an insistent SEN
timent among citizens for some time
that the coming city council should
be chosen from among business men
of the city,
That men who have demonstrated
their ability to conduct private
business successfully would probab-
| ly manage the city's affairs the
same way.
This has been proven true of the
present and of past councils-that
forcible business man is unham-
pered by theory and inclined to push
forcibly ahead and accomplish
things.
The people have cause for self
congratulation, then, that such men
as Frank Case, l.. G. Olds, M. G.
Russi and C. E. Buttles have come
forward and offered to serve the city
as councilmen.
The Office of city councilman car
ries with it only hard work and no
compensation.
The men who transact the city s
business do SO impelled wholly by
unselfish public spirit and desire
to see the town go forward. Frank
Case, for instance, was urged by the
Republicans to stand as their canii-
date for mayor He declined to de-
clare himself as candidate for the
highest Office in the gift of the peo-
pie, but stated he is willing to con-
tinue to serve Wenatchee in his old
capacity on the municipal board.
His iniefatigable energies there
have in the past saved Wenatchee
many a dollar and helped to dc
things when they needed to be done,
and the people should feel glad that
such men as he are willing to de-
vote their time, uncompensated. to
the city's interest; for Mr.. Case, like
Others on the council, is busy
man.