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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

A REPORT made to congress by a
"a commission appointed to examine
land titles in the District of Columbia
discloses that many lots of land occu-
pied by modern business houses and
residences in the national capital are
still owned by the government, not
withstanding the present tenants be-
lieve they have a clear title to the
property.
This question of land titles in the
national capital is not new one Two
years ago congress created a commits
sion to study it. The commission con-
sisted of the attorney general, the Sec
rotary OF war, Senator Scott of West
Virginia, Representative Bartholdt of
Missouri, and one of the district COM
missioners. The report reveals hor-
rible land tangle, which the courts will
probably never be able to straighten
out. The tangle is the outcome of the
wild speculation in real estate that
took place for good many years after
the capital was laid out.
Private lands were acquired in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Gators and Insects Hunt New Home

tions are now being made to reclaim
an additional half million acres
through the construction of wide
levee along the western shore of Lake
Pontchartrain and the southern shore
of Lake Maurepas. On the crown OF
this levee a paved roadway IS pailes in
length will connect New Orleans and
Baton Rouge and ultimately will be
the southern terminus of a Chicago
New Orleans highway.
The nearest town or settlement OF
any consequence is now sc miles dis.
tant from New Orleans. Within fifty
miles of every large city in the coun.
try a million or more people reside
and many industries develop business
and wealth for the urban population
This is the end New Orleans lie
working to and will have reached, in
large part, anyway, by the ti1e the
Panama canal is opened to thu ships
of the world.
Meanwhile modern sewerage ano
drainage within the city proper have
practically and wholly solved the city's
sanitary problems, and the discovery
of a simple method of f1ltering the
waters of the Mississippi river has
given the city pure water service ex
celled by none in the world These sys.
TENS are in operation and are nearly
complete. They have cost the city
about $25,00O,OOO.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Dentists Believe They Have a Kick

BILL either. Say, this new tangled
hair style is putting me to the bad.
1.-THE worst feature Of the whole
thing Is that the heads, or rather the
hair. won't fit into the headrests.
have tried all manner of schemes. and
even had a new headrest built along
lines that l was sure would 1T. Int
the heads simply won't fit into anv.
thing. - ~ -
IF we do succeed in getting the
mass laid out and tucked away cara.
fully where it won't bother us. ~ ret
something like this: r-sssss7
."'oh. mercy, doctor, you are mrs.
ing my hair all up. And I am. 1870.
to party this afternoon, too
But the most usual thing In. ,nh
doctor. there is hairpin sticking 3
my head. Wait minute. @. dear -.
coming down. Doctor. do stop \ min.
ute while fasten up my braid. -
Il do tell You what, the dert,...
ought to get together and boycott ~.
present style Of hairdress. or els. a.
sist that Ill extra hair be taken a.
before any sdantal work VIM s. - =.
That would settls It. III rikht-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Observation-Disclosures on til

Observation-Disclosures on the
w part of amateur diplomats con-
corning the proper form of diplomatic
correspondence nearly precipitated a
war scare in two nations not long
since. It was announced that the en-
peror of Germany had deliberately
affronted the United States govern
ment by employing affectionate terms
In addressing President Madriz of
Nicaragua, whom our government had
refused to recognize.
Great and Good Friend" is the
way the kaiser's letter to Madriz was
commenced. This had sinister sig.
n11cance to the amateurs. Immedi.
ately the newspapers were filled with
stories that Germany had espoused the
cause of Madriz; that the Monroe
doctrine had been thrown down and
repudiated by the warlike kaiser:
also the emperor had been acting
queerly of late and undoubtedly was
bent on making all the trouble he
could for the United States. After a
little inquiry the war scare faded
away.
In all probability" said a state de-
partment official. "the emperor never
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Bad Land Title Tangle Is Revealed

Washington, in the early days, by a
very simple process. The territory
mot exceeding" ten miles square was
coded to the United States govern
ment by Maryland and Virginia and
placed under the authority of three
commissioners, appointed by the presi.
dent. They or any two of them were
required, under the direction of the
president, to survey and by proper
metes and bounds define and limit a
district Of territory, and the territory
so defined was established as perma-
nent seat of the government of the
United States. Power was given tho
commissioners to purchase or accept
land on the eastern side of the Poto-
mac, for the use of the United States.
and the commissioners were further
required to provide suitable buildings
for the accommodation of congress,
the president and public off1ceDs of the
government of the United States. It
was to raise money to erect the pub
lie buildings that the government
planned to sell it's land to private par
ties.
No sooner had the capital city been
laid out than land spectators ap-
peared on the scene, and as a result of
their operations, 1t Is asserted, much
land which belonged to the govern
ment illegally passed to individual
owners.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

NEW ORLEANS-More than 1,0OO,-
~ 900 acres of marsh land lying with
in SO miles of New Orleans are to be
drained, reclaimed and transformed
from wilderness into gardens, homes,
Lamlets and towns. The work of re-
claiming some $4,000 acres within the
corporate limits of New Orleans is
now we'll under way, while contracts
have been let for the reclamation Of
fully 100000 acres additional in ad-
Joining parishes.
This means that. within two years
he alligator will no longer find abort
ginal harborage in the Carnival city,
that the breeding grounds of countless
billions of mosquitoes will be turned
into highly productive farms on which
mosquitoes cannot breed. that hun
lreds of miles of paved roadways will
lead from New Orleans north, east and
west, and that for the first time in it's
history New Orleans will possess sub
urbs.
To the westward the same character
If work is being done. and prepare
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

IN the present census the govern
] ment has made great effort to OBJ
tain, through special agents, full and
authentic data concerning the tribal
relations of the Indians, as decade
hence when the fourteenth census will
be taken, it probably will be found
that those Indians who are now de-
pendent wards of the nation have be-
come full-fledged citizens.
The Indian population of the United
States decreased In the decade from
1890 to 1900. from 273,607 to 266, $50.
In 1880 the care of the Indians cost
the national government $5,206,109;
in 1909 the cost had risen to $751;
724.162. more than. three times as
much. The total attendance Of In
dian children in schools conducted by
the government or by missionary en-
terprise is c5,777. In these schools
no effort is spared to teach the child
some industry BY which he@may sup
post bi,nset when he comes Of aga.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Governments Census of Indian Wards

and the Indians are gradually learn
ing to live by the sweat Of the brow
upon the product Of their own self.
respecting handiwork, rather than up
on the bounty of the government.
The Apache Indians employed on
the Roosevelt reclamation project un.
der the act of June II, 1902, earned
$34, 900 in 1909, and rendered eminent
~ satisfactory service in regions
where, on account of the heat, a white
man could not have labored. Sheep
herding has given profitable employ
ment to many hundreds of Navajos
and Pueblos in the past year, and
Pima and Papago Indians, employed
as navvies on the Southern Pacific
railway, earned many thousands of
dollars. The Sioux farmers have done
well, though they are deficient in the
quality Of persistent patience that
makes the most successful sort of az.
ricultural laborer.
The Indians worst foe at present,
aside from whisky, is tuberculosis.
The investigation by tho Smithsonian
institution in 1909 showed that about
one in four of some $500 Indians ex-
amined were suffering from what has
hitherto been known as the white
plague" Sanatorium camps have now
been established and the government
10 exercising special care over it,
wards. = .~=.. ~. i: &
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
9 79l4lll;ia|I Il 2
Bungling Diplomats Cause Trouble

knew that the note in question was
sent. 1t was regular routine matter
in the German foreign Office and fol-
lowed the stereotyped form.
Nations are excessively polite to
one another in their interchange OF
communications. Every letter that
goes out from the state department to
foreign government has this cere-
monial finish:
Accept, excellency, the renewed as
surance of my highest consideration.
The cermonail letters of all coun-
tries begin in about the same way.
For instance, all of England's COM
munications begin:
George ", by the Grace of God, OF
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, king, defender of the
faith, emperor of India, etc.
Nicholas, by the Grace Of God, en-
peror autocrat of all the Russias, car
of Casan, car of Astracan, etc., lord
of Plescott and grand duke of Smo'
lenski, ETC."
Germany's letters are very much
like those of Russia, In that they be-
gin by announcing all the titles Of the
| ruling potentate. "William H., by
| Gods grace, emperor of Germany and
king of Prussia" etc., is the way the
present emperor addresses his cere'
| monial letters. The emperor writes
| with quill pen, and If one may judge
by his signature on file in the state
department, does not take much time
about it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

great indeed all that
shall be carried
Those who Rockefeller saw
ministry had
magnate Born and bred In Cleveland
college by private tutors and sent to Brown
is sd him
onable learning
Affiliations denomina
he
October Mr. Rockefeller
Senator Nelson W. Aldrch Of Rhode
Rockefeller
bt director large
fellow He has advised against living
humble
original
outpoung sincere
filed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

III ASHINGTON.-T have often heard
w a question as to whether West
Pointers wore corsets. 1t is absurd in
. way, because should any etfeminate
youngster resort to such a thing it
would be impossible to keep the affair
secret, and once known his school
life would become burden to him on
account of the endless amount of criti-
cism he would receive from his fel-
lows. He would be made the laugh
ing-stock of the school and would soon
ind himself the possessor of any num-
Der Of efieminate nicknames that
would crate upon his ears in any but
a pleasant manner.
1T is true" continued tho cid SOL
der, who was no other than Col. K.
B. Collins, a retired army officer, in a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Now Planning a Substitute for Beef

matter of course, and State Game
Warden Nowlin Of Wyoming, who has
led the feeding experiments, says that
the last of the great elk herds is be-
coming rapidly domesticated. Several
ranchmen in the Rocky mountain coun.
try have conducted private elk pre-
serves for years. Outside of the pri-
rate elk preserves there are few herds
left in the west.
Barrett Littlefield, who lives near
Slater, has several hundred elk on his
great ranch. Every season he ships
many carcasses of elk to the Denver
market, besides supplying geological
gardens throughout the country. He
has found it profitable to raise elk for
the market-so profitable that he
abandoned the cattle business years
ago and has devoted himself entirely
to the raising Of venison. There are
two other elk preserves in northwest
ern Colorado. J. B. Dawson, Routt
county pioneer, has several hundred
head Of elk on his ranch near Hayden
The Glen Beulah deer preserve is an
estate of about 5000 acres near De-
beque, COL, and here one finds sew
eral hundred deer and elk roaming
about. Henry Binning, Of Cora, Wyo..
has large herd of elk under enclos-
ure, and in report to the government
he shows how easily elk yield to cap
tivity when he states that the en-
closure in which he keeps the animals
is less than four feet high.
In nearly every state in the Union
the killing of deer is forbidden ex-
cepting in the fall and during lin
tied period. II deer and elk are to be
raised for the market the venison
farmer must be allowed to kill for the
market. whenever the demand is there,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

NEW YORK--The whole United
~ States government, with its vast
treasury Of wealth, its brainy states
men and Insurgents. its army and
navy, its immense horde of high
brows, against the poor little house
fly! That's the lineup in bitter war
of determination scheduled to set the
nation by the ears and enlist the cour-
ageous support of every man. woman
and child in this broad land. The
final knel of the house fly has been
sounded and the battle has just be-
gun. Catch 'em and kill 'em: show
no quarter"-that is the war cry of the
army of determination that Is to put
forth every effort to rid the land of
the Musca Domestica, the polite name
by which the house fly should be ad-
dressed by strangers.
Until the scientists got busy with
their Investigations the house fly was
considered merely as pestiferous in
sect, designed by the Creator OF all
things merely to take its bath in the
sweet cream and maple strip, annoy
the late morning sleeper, skate about
with abandon on the polished surface
of shiny baldheads and practise the
Morse telegraph code on the cleanest
Of windows.
Long suffering housewives since
time began were the only really active
enemies of the seemingly Insignificant
little fly, and they alone and unaided
applied the imprecations and dish
cloths vigorously against the nuisance.
But after the scientists got onto the
Job the fight against the insect began
to assume proportions of magnitude.
That little insect which the average
citizen was wont to regard merely as
domestic pest is now branded as the
most dangerous creature on earth, The
house fly has been publicly indicted as
murderer OF the human race, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

THICAGO.-'Well, don't know what
~ under the shining forceps am 60
ing to do, anyway" and a dentist in
the Masonic temple sighed perfect
mammoth of a sigh. -
The matter? Hair, just plain hair.
No-not plain, either. Now. for In
stance. A lady came up to my Office
the other day and wanted her teeth
fixed, and finally took hold Of the
TOP of her head with one hand. while
l worked with the other. Then
turned away to get an instrument,
and my sleeve button caught In her
hair and the whole back OF It, about
fifteen fat, shiny curls. came along
with me. She simply fross me up.
andsshe, didn't come baek % pay her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26


the third national council the church.
written books and pamphlets subjects
liable
subject
ees The evils divorce
canke which eating into the
interview" which
itself
n OF the family When attack the family attack
se And
statutes
81 for he time
should understand that
month"; but lifetime They
and forba The husband
pull
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Intimate
big physically boyhy emotional
though change
aroused HIS talk homey and direct He frankly admits is mb
uos TO go politics.
not pretend to have
states educational institutions
Subbs began political In
1904 ne became chairman
or He
ocn 1d refused accept the nomination.
telephone
who had his money
satisfied
said
governor Stubs
t"cen law declaring
commission recommending that the be not passed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
Uncle Sam Asks All to Swat the F

greatest disease propagation and the
carrier # more menacing and malig-
nant germs than all other creatures
put together.
This little, but potent, messenger of
death wanders from the sick room,
from the filth of the garbage pail.
from the heaps of refuse OF all kinds
into. the peaceful, happq homes of our
land, walks upon the butter. the meat,
the fruit, the sugar. takes bath in
the milk, leaving everywhere the
germs of disease that have gathered
upon it's furry feet and body.
In experiments conducted by the
New York health authorities the sclen-
lists found on the body Of single lit
tie fly 1,222,570 different bacteria,
enough to kill a few thousand human
beings. In another experiment ny
was caught in a sterilized net and
dropped into a bottle of sterilized wa
ter. The bottle was shaken and the
germs washed of the insects body, as
would be the case If the fly dropped
into glass of milk for the baby. The
previously pure water was then exam
ined and it was discovered that the
fly's bath contained no less than 5,0OO,-
900 disease germs.
About half the deaths from typhoid
in New York, according to the health
authorities, are attributed directly to
the distribution of germs by house
flies. And.worse than that, the figures
show that of 1000 deaths of cooling
babies in tina: city from infantile dis
eases, more than 5000 were traced to
infection carried by house flies.
According to noted scientist the
determination of the pest is compare
lively easy. All that is necessary, he
says, is systematic effort on the part
Of the public. II all the people will
practise the utmost cleanliness, 1t is
declared, the house fly will be extinct
in this country within few years, for
the house fly cannot exist without
filth.
"Cleanliness," then, is the watchword
for the American public to put an end
to an insect that is not only terrible
nuisance, but terrible instrument of
death to thousands of our population
every year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

The oil-burning torpedo boat de-
stroyer Roe reached speed of 81
knots an hour in test off the Della
ware breakwater, although the con-
tract requirement was only % knots.
and is now acknowledged to be the
fastest exclusively oil-burning torpedo
boat destroyer in the United States
navy. The American shipbuilder has
the reputation Of cultivating margin
OF safety, and turning out boats which
exceed the maximum requirements of
contracts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Farmers after experiment report
that the COWS yield their milk better
when the photograph is kept going in
the barn at milking time. This seems
to offer a grand scheme of relief in
the form Of moving all the phono-
graphs to all the COW barns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Counterfeit buttermilk is being sold
in some of the drug stores in the east,
and the health authorities say 1t Is
very dangerous. Will it never be pos
sible to get good thing that the coun-
terfeiters can't counterfeit?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

In printing the new passenger tick
cts to be used on airship lines care
should be taken to have it specified
that stop-over privileges may be had
when necessary without the signature
of the conductor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Ten or fifteen deaths among the
comparatively few aeronauts and avia-
tors in the last few months are not
only depicting their ranks but showing
up air flights as mighty dangerous
pastiming.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

The work of a contributing editor
Is sometimes made difficult by the
friends who insist on coming around
during Office hours to talk politics and
tell hunting stories.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

The prize COW at the Missouri agri-
cultural college produces. ITO pounds
of milk a day. But with our cook on
the job, there wouldn't be half ounce
of cream in it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

If the analysis Of hoky-poky 10 cor
rect we are unable to understand how
the dies that gather upon the cones
manage to stay 20 long without seen.
1ng to b ovaJcom0.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

1imorous males who are frightened
at the way women are invading mems
occupations should take heart at the
success some achieve in trimming
hats.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Having all the news about the hot
spell that was fit to print, and some
that was not news, it seems that we
might have a little cool weather for
variety in the news columns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
CARDINAL GIBBONS AT rs

James. Cardinal Gibbons, who recently cele-
brated the seventysixth anniversary of his birth,
Is noted among churchmen and is head of the Ro-
man Catholic hierarchy in the United States.
He was born in Baltimore, but at an early age
was taken by his parents to their former home
in Ireland, where his education began. Upon
returning to the United States he lived for
while in New Orleans. He studied first at st.
Charles college and later at st. Mary's seminary
i'll Baltimore, and in 1861 he was ordained to the
priesthood In short time he was made private
secretary to Archbishop spalding and chancellor
Of the archdiocese In 1863 he was raised to the
episcopate and in 1877 was created coadjutor
archbishop of Baltimore, A few months later he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Going down to the sea in ships was
the ancient idea of peril. But it was
common place safety beside going up
in the air in the most modern style
of ships.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

The man who is earning his own Hv-
ing in these days, however mildly he
may be going about it, is truly enough
earning his bread by the sweat OF his
brow.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

In twenty-seven years the Kimber-
ley diamond mines have yielded $780,.
100000 worth of diamonds. Still our
western cornfields do lot better than
that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26
WEEDS A JAP WAR ADMIRAL

Miss Florence NJ Roche, the only daughter of
the late James Jeffrey Roche, the famous poet
and author, recently married in Boston to
Read Admiral Henry Walton Grinell, formerly
the Yankee admiral" of the Japanese navy, and
they are now touring Europe. They have been
friends for years. The admiral was a friend of
the young woman's father while he was editor
OF the Pilot. During last winter the two were
brought together great deal at st. Augustine
and their long friendship strengthened by con-
slant association, led to their engagement
Miss Roche is about Is years old and has lived
in Boston virtually all her life up to the time that
her father was appointed consul to Genoa by
President Roosevelt In 1905, when she gave M
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-26

Just bottle up your weather crouch
and strike a temperature average for
the year on the 31st day Of next De-
cember.