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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
Our Files are Open for Inspection.

During the course of his remarks
at the school meeting Friday even
ing last and later, after the close OF
the meeting, Mr.. w. T. Bailey &C.
credited the Enterprise with having
published, sometime during the
month of April, an article, IN which
he was referred to in most uncom-
pIimentary terms.
We have no remembrance of such
an article. Mr.. Bailey stated that
he had mislaid the paper contain
ing the article to which he referred,
but was Informed that we had files
of each issue of our publication
which would he placed at his dis
posal if he wished to look the arti-
Gle up and show..it to us. This he
said he would do on the following
day-but it is evident the following
day has not yet arrived, as Mr.. Bal.
ley has thus far failed to take ad.
vantage of the proffered opportuni-
ty of looking up the article.
In this connection, we will endeav.
or to use Mr.. Bailey like a gentle
man, 80 nearly az may be, at any
time he may visit our Office for the
purpose of searching our files for
the alleged contumely. We have
edited newspapers in the Lake Su-
perior field for upwards of twenty
three years, and while we have ad.
mittedly said some things that had
a drag to the pen-point as we wrote
them, we have yet to be shown
where undeserved comment has
been rendered any, or where adverse
comment of a personal nature has
been made, except as we considered
it for the public good. And that our
course has been appreciated by the
public 1s made evident by the fact
no man holds the whip-hand on our
writings through mortgage loans.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
Labor Day Dance,

The Modern Woodmen Degree
Team of Virginia Camp No. 1855, NJ
W. A., arrange for a grand Labo,
Day Ball at the Fay Opera on Mon
day evening, September 5th. The
Team is recognized as the best in
this part of the state, and will en-.
deavor to have the dance under
their auspices of character worthy
the patronage of all who would en-
JOY pleasant evening. Peterson'e
Orchestra will furnish music fol-
the occasion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
All Officials arc Reelected.

At the organization meeting OF
the new Board of Education of the
Independent School of Virginia on
Saturday, at the Roosevelt building
the old officers of the Board were
reelected for the ensuing year, N
A. Holmer as president, James II
Fleming clerk and Mrs. Helen E.
Coffman treasurer.
Aside from perfecting the organi.
zation of the Board but little bus,.
ness was transacted at this meeting
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
fracturli hlf lrn.

Miss Freida Mollenhauer. vh;la
"cranking" her auto Wednesday af-
ternoon, sustained fracture of the
right arm. She was at once taken
to the Lenont Hospitabs where the
injured member was, cased for. The
injury will preclude the young ladv
from any sisailsr expetience for
eome time. I
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
WAS SEEKING INFORMATION
". 7. Bailey Appears Before School Boart
to Ascertain Responsibility Of Reply TO-
Auditors County Examiners Report.


AT the last regular meeting of the
outgoing Board of Education of the
Independent School District of Vir-
ginia at the Roosevelt building Fri
day evening last, following the rou-
tine business of considering con-
tracts, auditing bills and accept
auce of reports, an unschedu]ed ele-
ment was thrown into the meeting
by request from w. T. Bailey, Sr.,
of Duluth, that he be allowed few
moments in which to address the
board.
Mr.. Bailey was granted the privi.
lege, his remarks evidently being
based upon deductions from the
wording of the reply of the Board
to the famed report of the auditors
county examiner, Andrew J. Was
gait, which was published in both
the Virginian and the Enterprise in
April last, his opening statement
being the allegation that he "had
been accused by the Board of being
a thiet and a liar and everything
else; of having cheated poor peo-
pie, etc.," his contention apparently
being that certain statements con-
tained in the reply or in the CON-
mentary thereon were direct thrusts
at himself, and his object was evil
IDENTIFY to ascertain who was respon-
sible for such reply and the publi-
cation thereof in the Enterprise
entirely overlooking the fact that
the same report and the same reply
was also published in the Virgin
ian, from the same type.
Mr.. Bailey was informed that the
Board had officially ordered the
publication of the Report and An
swers; that the Board had paid for
the publication of the Report and
Answers; and that the name of w.
T. Bailey did not appear in either
the Report or Answers.
Mr.. Bailey was also Informed that
the courts we're always open to any
who sought balm for injuries to
their reputation or their character.
The chair appointed committee
of J. H. Fleming, Helen
E. Coffman and Guy H. Moore to
look up the authorization of such
publication, it being found that the
reply to the report was accepted at
a regular meeting of the Board on
April l, 1910, ouch Report and An
swers being ordered published in
form. AT this meeting
all mem bers of the Board were in
attendance with the exception of
Director c. +. Moore, who ceased to
be an active member OF the Board
several months before the expira
ton of his term, although present
in person but not as member of
the body at the Friday evening
listen to the reading of
the annual reports and other things.
The remarks of Mr.. Bailey we're
supplemented by an address by Mr..
W. H. Eaton, who failed of election
as member of the Board, by
pleasing majority, at the last an.
nual school meeting.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
Still Know The Gam.

In ball game between the mar
ried and single men at the Oliver
Park yesterday the married showed
the boys that they had not had all
they ever knew about the game
talked out of them since getting
"tied up" by winning by score OF
8 to 4. The youngsters want another
try, however, and will likely be &C.
commOdated.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
Waite Way will Be Abt1e Tomorrow Might,

Virginia'e great White Way will
be ablaze tomorrow night, unless
weather conditions in the meantime
preclude work on the finishing
touches. The contractors. the Law
renee Goodspeed Co, have received
all material and have been busy
this week in wiring the line.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
First Annual. Band Dance.

The Virginia City Band arranges
for it's First Annual Ball at the Fin
nish Temperance Hall on Friday
evening next, to which a cordial in
vitation is extended. The H. B.
Maine Orchestra will furnish rnu-
sic for the occasion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
Took En- Ten Inlings 10 DO L.

The Hibbing Hooligans and the
Norton Hardware Team gave the
crowd an exhibition of the national
game at the Oliver Park between
showers Sunday afternoon, the Wis
itors winning in ten inning game
by score of 3 to /.
The opposing teams are evenly
matched, and either side pulled of
some plays that showed good head
work as we'll as commendable abil.
itY.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
A thousand Mtn On the Job.

According to the Duluth papers
a tull thousand men are on the con-
struction work of the Duluth, Rainy
Lake & Pacific railway, the Duluth
extension of the Duluth, Rainy Lake
& Winnipeg south from this city.
Survey crews are engaged at vari-
Gus points along the line, and
camps are being esta blished short
distance southwest of Virginia, with
a view to commencing active work
at this end of the route.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-08-12
Lots IN Crescent View Park,

N. Boidoin and Il. n. Prindle
were up from Duluth the first of the
week in the interest of w. NJ. Priudle
& Co., in the sale of lots in Kenil-
worth Park, in which some twenty
five Virgin1ans are interested
through purchases. They also pre-
pare to place on sale in the near
future new plat to. be, known as
Crescent Park, near, 36th avenue
East, Duluth, of which our people
will be more fully advised later. 4:
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
VINITA, CRAIG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER 9, 1910

only be produced by laborious, pains
taking and persistent methods and de
votion
when it is the fact that the entire
ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment last year were less than $500, ,000,-
600, and when a great part of those
expenditures is not reducible at all, as,
for example, the interest on the debt
and the pensions, one can readily see
that there probably is not very much
more than $3OO,O0O,00O gross left on
which to save $300,0O0,000. Now. to
effect a saving of $500, 100000 when the
whole expenditures amenable to any
saving is 100000 900 is, of course, not
easy. appeal to the sense of proper
ton of congress and the American peo-
pie; for it is very important to have
these impressions corrected in order
that there may be some encourage
ment given to those men scattered
through the departments who want to
bring about all the improvement pos
sible."
Superflueous customs house, mints
and assay offices should be abolished,
the report says. There is an over sup
ply of the latter and the mints in San
Francisco, Denver and Philadelphia
are not fully employed. The secretary
also promises to send to congress a
list of customs Aouses which he says
ARE no use under the sun"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
BARNARD FILES OBJECTIONS
TO ACCOUNTS OF BROWN

Commissioner of Charities Kate
Barnard has filed objection to the ac-
count of Daniel r. Brown, of Big
Cabin, guardian of three Indian minor
children in the Pryor Creek Orphans
Home, and hearing was had in the
county court this morning.
Judge Frear reserved decision and
gave counsel until Monday to submit
briefs. DR.. ]. H. Stolper, assistant
commissioner, represented Miss Bar
nard. w. T. Rye is counsel for the
guardian.
The charities department contends
that the real estate of the children was
sold for an inadequate price and that
the guardians charges were excessive.
The final account shows the estate in
debt to the guardian.
This case is one of great Importance
and is attracting much attention among
local attorneys. 1t is the first of the
kind under the laws of this state, and
if the decision is favorable to the com.
missioner, similar action will be taken
in many other cases.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09

ing the ocean. A New York merchant
writing to Yokohoma must post his
letter practically a week before the
mail steamer sails from SanFransico
to Van Couver.
The Western Union has arranged
for the use of its night letter and other
telegraphic service in connecting with
outgoing ocean mails so that this
week of trans-continental time may be
saved.
It's New York office will receive tel
egrams from any part of the country
destined to European addresses and
will forward them in a sealed special
delivery addressed envelope by the
first outgoing Atlantic steamship mail.
The same plan will be followed in
San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver
for trans-Pacific mails.
This will enable correspondence to
be dispatched from any part of the
United States for an ocean mail within
a few hours of sailing time.
The only charge in addition to the
telegraphic tolls to the ocean mail
port will be five cents for postage.
kilograms should bear the full mail
address of the foreign correspondent,
for whom they are intended and mark
ed care ocean mall" New York, San
Francisco, Seattle or Vancouver as
the case may be.
No charges will be made for the ad-
dresses.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
NOW
SEEMS CERTAINTY
Bill Providing For Sale of Section ot
School Land Is introduced
In Senate.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. S.-The
prophesied compromise between the
administration and the state senate
was started yesterday when Governor
Haskell, in a special message to the
Legislature, recommended the sale of a
section of school land three miles north
of the city to be converted into cap
itol site following its sale.
A bill was introduced to that effect
The bill provides that the land shall be
reappraised and offered for sale al
once to the highest bidder 1t is con
templated that an Oklahoma City cor
poration shall be organized, which will
buy the land and convert it into lots
to be sold to raise money to insure the
of free capitol.
Senator Thompson tomorrow will in
troduce another bill providing for the
location of the permanent capital at
Oklahoma City.
Another message from the governor
recommended the appointment of a
joint committee of the two houses to
ascertain the approximate amount OF
money necessary to be appropriated
for the several state institutions.
A memorial to congress was intro
duced in the house urging adequate
and immediate remedial legislation fol
! the Five Civilized Tribes"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
DEFENSE TO SHOW OTHERS
HAD MOTIVE FOR MURDER
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 8.-The de-
fense will introduce new sensation
in the trial of Hattie Leblanc, for the
Glover murder. Today the counsel for
the defense declared they would show
that some one beside the prisoner had
a motive and ability to commit the
crime. Then Metiven Johnson senior
counsel for the defense called as the
first witness, District Attorney Higgs,
leader of the prosecution. The court
room gasped. Johnson said he would
show great bias and that the prose.
cution had done everything possible
to block the defense in preparing the
case.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
NO ACTION ON BALL|NGER
REPORTS UNTIL CHRISTMAS
BY Associated Press.

by ASSOcldJeu HTeSS.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 8. = The
Ballinger-Pinchot reports will not be
acted on by the house committee on
agriculture, to which they were re-
ferred until Christmas and perhaps not
then, according to indications. The
committee on agriculture, of which
Scott, the defeated representative from
Kansas, is chairman is considering the
agricultural appropriation bill and has
no time for Ballinger or Pinchot. The
democrats of the house and Madison
of Kansas are figuring on some action
to take. Failing of early action the
democrats plan bringing up the ques
ton in speeches on the floor of the
house.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
FIGHT OF SIXTY
YEARS MAY Be WON
Never Once Has United States Senate
Allowed Itself to Vote on Direct
Election of Senators.

Washington, d. c., Dec. 7. - The
trainers of the constitution, living be-
fore the days of cheap newspapers and
rapid transit, and not greatly fearing
the initiative, referendum and recall,
and most of them having a good deal
of fear of the 'mob," succeeded in sew
ing the people up on two counts. They
would not let the voters elect the pres
ident or the senators. These two Of
fees, at least, were to be kept sacred.
The people proceeded to put the
crimps in the electoral college scheme
Immediately. Almast before Hamilton
had finished writing in the Federalist
that the plan was as nearly perfect as
human nature ever attained the peo-
pie were electing their presidents, vot-
ing, as Uncle Chet Thomas of Topeka
said, 'just as they blamed pleased" !"
Sixty years ago they began to fiddle
around to get rid of the indirect cleo
tion of senators. But observe how well
a body Of beneficiaries preserves it's
privileges, whether they are tariff bene-
ficiaries preventing revision down.
ward, or lawyers preventing the sim
plification of judicial procedure. Not
once has the senate permitted itself
to vote on the question of submitting a
constitutional amendment for the pop
ular election of senators.
Senator Bristow of Kansas, who in
troduced a resolution to submit such an
amendment in the senate last year, has
compiled long list of similar re-
quests from the 1850 down to the pres
ent time. Every one of them was
strangled in committee. Which means
that the senate didn't enjoy the no
ton of coming out into the open and
voting to refuse to let the people pass
q on the method of electing senators. 1t
found it much easier just to suppress
the resolutions without vote, which
can readily be done under the rules OF
the upper house.
Six times in the last twenty years
has the house passed resolution for
submitting a constitutional amendment
on the subject You can put such a
resolution through the house any time
But that was all the good it did.
Senator Bristow's resolution was re-
ferred last year to the committee on
the judiciary. Senator Clark OF
Wyoming, chairman of that commit
tee, assured him today that the resolu
tion would be reported out for vote
at this session. The senator said that
he found a growing impression in the
senate that the matter would better be
submitted to the states for action, since
there was an evident growth of popu
lar feeling along these lines.
Senator Bristow is hopeful that the
senate will adopt the resolution an(
that it will go through the house al
this session. Then it would have to bt
ratified by the legislatures of three
fourths of the states. AS thirty-seve1
state legislatures in the last few years
have passed resolutions calling fo
popular election of senators, it is be
lieved that the amendment would b'
ratified without difficulty.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
WORKING OUT DETAILS OF
CONTRACT FOR GUARANTEE
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. S.-A
bill proving for the immediate location
of the capital in Oklahoma City, has
been prepared and is to be presented
in the senate this evening. The mem
bers of the capital committee are
working out the details of a contract
to be signed by the governor and Ok
lahoma City citizens, providing for a
million dollars guarantee and free
capital site.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09

Lige Henderson is here from Kansas
City, looking for a location. Since
leaving Vinita, Mr. Henderson has de
voted three years to learning the un-
dertaking business and is now an ex-
pert undertaken and embalmer.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
GOVERNOR MUST
NAME LOCATION
Letter From Adjutant General Says
Creation of New Regiment BY
Legislature is Needed.

Considerable interest has been cen
tered about the authorization of a
company of state militia for Vinita, and
from the following letter from Adult
ant General Frank M. Canton, there is
very small prospect of company be-
ing located here in the near future:
Mr.. John A. Wise, Secretary,
Vinita Commercial Club,
Vinita, Oklahoma,
My Dear Sir: Your favor of the
Both of November is just received, and
/ would respectfully state in reply that
we have no vacancy at present in the
national guard. The last company to
be organized was the company at Nc
Alester. I have had the application
for a company from your people on
file for long time and | assure you
that l would be very much pleased to
give you company at Vinita but the
governor, who is commandments
of the national guard is the man who
names the location for each company
Had the choice in this matter, or the
authority to name the place where the
companies should be located, you
would have had a company before this
time. | have talked to the governor
several times about organizing a com
pany at Vinita as soon as we can dc
so and he seems to be in favor of il
but we are only authorized to organize
one regiment of twelve companies.
don't know what this coming session
of the legislature will do. They may
allow us another regiment. In thai
case, l would recommend that the frs
company be mustered in at Vinita
However, l will file your letter an(
remember this matter and if we have
occasion to muster out other com
panies | will urge the governor to give
you a company at Vinita.
Yours very respectfully,
F. M. CANTON,
Adjutant General
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09
WESTERN UNION ADOPTS
OCEAN MAIL SERVICE

The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany announced today another nova
tion in its telegraph service, called the
special ocean mail service" Desig-
mated to save time in foreign cores
pondence. A letter from San Fran
cisco to London requires as much time
crossing the continent as it does cross
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-09

Rev. B. F. Berry, of Weir, Kans., is
visiting Prof. and Mrs. w. P. Cowan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-10-21

victims of the Redeemable Investment
company of Boston, whose manager
Charles II. Brooks. has been arrested on
a charge of using the mails to defraud
The company is behind a gigantic land
and mining investment scheme Mr.
Thomas resigned his position as state
fish and game commissioner a few months
ago to take a position with the company
which was endorsed by Secretary of the
Interior r. \. Ballinger, Supreme Court
Justice David J. Brewer, Rev. a. 2. Con-
rad of Park street church. Boston. and
many others Of prominence Boston
despatch says nearly s1,OOO.OO0 of the
savings of women and professional men
has been swamped.
The Vermont Sunday School associa-
ton, in its 42d annual convention which
closed a three days session in Rutland
oct. 10. went on record as being i'm favor
of submitting the liquor question to a
referendum, and a message to that effect
was sent to Gov. Mead. These officers
were elected Pres, F. S. Pease of Bur
lington vice pres. Rev. +. A Mason of
SaXtons River; rec. sec, Frank G.. SAT-
ford of Burlington; eX COM, II. A. Stay
ton of Morrisvile n. G. Williams of Bel
lows Falls, w. A. Clark of Rutland; Yer
mont member of international committee,
Isaac Thomas of Rutland; publicity com,
Rev. w. r. Davenport of Bellows Falls.
The convention next year will be held
in Burlington.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-10-21

in the class for breeders young herd. The
conditions were such that he had to in
clude in the makeup of his herd in that
class a heifer which had not taken an
award. Had she won even fourth
premium she would have raised the aver
age of the herd enough to capture the
cup. Mr. Briggs had a heifer at home
which easily could have taken a premium
and which would have been shown had
Mr.. Briggs figured on getting the cup
AS ii was, it took the judge long time
to make the decision.
At the head of the herd stands the bull
Flora's Roy of Tarbell Farm He was
four years old Aug 90, and he not only
possesses the fine points which make
him a prize winner but he is very gentle
and quiet Last spring he was driven
to harness in gathering sap IN Mr.
Briggs's sugar orchard, being guided with
a whip and without a staff. He never
paws or bellows at home or elsewhere
and remains perfectly quiet in the show
ring even though the other bulls are
throwing up the dirt and making the
hills resound. He was sired by Roy of
Norwood by Strong Anchor. for which
the late Gerald Howatt of White Plains,
n. Y, an expert judge of cattle, offered
$4,000 Mr. Howatt bought F'lora's Roy of
Tarbell Farm for Mr.. Briggs two years
ago last January of Gage Tarbell, one of
the Equitable Life Assurance company
officials.
This bull was awarded the grand cham
ponship at Rutland, st. Johnsbury and