The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-11-12
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6uCeteo ~ INC fOStO@ce At virginia, Minn.,
40 second class mail matter.
Terms. 80 Per Year. IN Advance
The name of Allan P. Allans.
worth. no longer appears as editor
of Duluth Saturday Night. but that
someone with courage of his con-
victions is at the helm of the
journal remains in evidence.
VIRGINIA continues to forge
ahead at every turn. The building
of the Canadian Northern extern
sion into Daluth will mean another
link in the chain which is fast max
ing of this city point of CONNER.
cial importance above her sister
cities OF the range.
HIBBING would like connection
with the International Falls and
the Canadian country through an
extension of the Duluth, RAINY
Lake & Winnipeg to that city. If
the people of Hibbing will show
the management OF the Canadian
Northern where it will mean nick
els and dimes in a business way
they will undoubtedly get the road.
THE village of Chisholm, which
has worried along for several years
with the railroad service accorded
by the wooden Shoe Line" has
prospects of getting cut in on the
Duluth, Missabe & Northern. If
the prospects mature, the innova-
ton will do much toward placing
Chisholm in her proper sphere
among other range cities.
THE damphool with the high
power riflel who roams the bush
during the hunting season and
shoots at every thing that moves is
already getting in his seasons
work. Last year record of forty.
two deaths was noted from this
cause in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, and the record of the
first two days this season bids fair
to eclipse all previous killings.
i AND while all this howl is being
made about Jim Tawney voting 70,
tie Payne-Aldrich bill while every
other Minnesota congressman
voted against the measure, did YOU,
ever stop to ask how many of the
rest of the Minnesota bunch would
have voted for the measure if Uncle
Joe Cannon. for whom, they voted
: as speaker, had told them thei,
vote was actually needed in behalf
of the interests?
THE defeat of Bob Dunn in 100.
marked the beginning of a new era
in Minnesota journalism, and to-
, day there are few country papers
which are dominated by part,
loyalty" They have Come to SET
the falIacy of being made the cats
. paws Of the politician who dismis
ses their existence without 2
thought the day after election bu,
whose so'icitude is exceedingly ex
circulating during the heated term
of the campaign.
WE note by the record of the las,
meeting Of the board of count,
commissioners that Commissions,
Cummings appropriated $500 oil
county money for the improve
ment of the Germantown road in
side the corporate limits of Du
luth. We failed to note any men
ton of an appropriation for the
improvement of the Virginia-Gil.
bert road, highway which would
do more for range residents than
any other improvement to be made
in the section at the present time.
"IF there were but twenty-five
saloons in Hibbing, paying a lie.
ense fee of fifteen hundred or two
thousand dollars, Hibbing would
be better off aud the men engaged
in the business would stand a show
of getting ahead in the world" says
The Mesaba Ore. And If the saloon
was run by law instead of running
the law, their would be a lesser
number of competitors for the
saloon man who attempts to run
his place half way right.
Bob DUNN says that his zeal in
behalf of the state, in saving the
Virginia Silver and other iron
lands, cost him the governorship
in 1904. Hardly as bad as that. It
wasn't his zeal to the state that beat
him, it was his zeal to Bob Dunn
and his bunch of machine polite.
ians that attempted to grab every
thing in sight that did the bust
ness; and besides, the state didn't
owe Bob the governorship, or any
thing else as he seems to think.
That nineteen-o-four crouch will
last the Princeton statesman as
long as he lives.-Mesaba Ore.
THE DIJIIJTH News Tp1pr1Nr ,s