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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Experts Work on Water Power Policy
have criticised it and approved it.

have criticised it and approved it.
The basis Of the plan is develop
ment without delay of water power
sites. The plan holds that private
capital must be aided by the state or
nation through corporate franchises,
condemnation of private property, and
licenses to use public lands and OBJ
struct public waters, etc. Under the
plan, the power companies would have
certainty Of tenure for a reasonable
time, and chance for generous
profits on their actual investment. For
the public, the plan attempts to pro-
vide for good service, fair prices, full
publicity as to cost, honest capitaliza-
ton and fair rentals for public prop
erty used by the companies.
The plan comedies that the federal
government has no Jurisdiction in
dealing with the problem of power
sites unless it's land is to be occupied,
or navigable rivers affected. It is pro-
posed that the regulation of service
and prices Is to be function of the
state, leaving to the national govern
ment the duty Of obtaining prompt,
full and orderly development, a rea-
sonable time limit for the leases. pub
licity as to f1nanciering and fair rent
ais for federal property used, perhaps
paying part of the proceeds to the
state. The associations plan was
submitted to the proper committees
in congress.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Reno Divorce Colony Is Threatened

fashionable people OF the east come
out here because they like the climate.
scenery or residents. They come be-
cause it offers the shortest route by
half of any that leads from matri-
mOny.
In any other state a years resi-
dence is required and Reno Is pre-
ferred by those in a hurry to liv-
ing year under more congenial sur
roundings.
1t is expected that an effort will he
made to effect compromise with
those who insist upon this action as
retaliation for driving tho gambling
houses out of the state.
Southern counties are clamoring for
the raising of the gambling lid and say
they cannot get along without tho
gambling houses to attract men to
town. Reno and Carson City, where
the divorce business is Nveliest, are
determined there shall be no tinker
ing with the divorce laws. The hotel
men, livery men and lawyers ere PAN
ic-stricken at the prospect of losing
business from the colony of women
and men who have nothing to do dur
ing the six months they are here but
spend money.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

w ASH1NGTON.-T of the Unit
W ed States army are in readiness
to be rushed to Cuba to maintain
peace and protect American and other
foreign interests.
Officials of the war department look
Tor a crisis in the affairs of the island
republic. The last time, 1906, that
the United States interviewed in Cuba
the then president Of the United
states, Theodore Roosevelt, and the
secretary of war, William H. Taft, de-
clared that If this country was again
called IN to settle disputes between
factions OF the Cuban government and
MAINTAIN peace throughout the island
tne Stars and Stripes would remain
there.
Officials Of the state and war de-
partments have been kept In close
touch with affairs in Cuba ever since
the evacuation by American troops
less than three years ago. Within the
last SIX months reports and Informal
ton received from American repre-
sentatives in the island have indicat-
ed that the Cuban government was
not substantial and could exist but a
few months longer. Within the last
three weeks the reports have been so
dlscouraging that the war department
has felt the necessity of keeping 5000
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

w HILE trying to cooperate with
w China for the suppression Of traf-
tic In Illicit opium, our government is
having troubles of its own in dealing
with the problem in the United States.
Under the new law the drug is not
admitted at our ports unless intended
solely for medicinal use; yet there Is
no question of the fact that something
like three-fourths Of the $4,000 pounds
Of opium imported annually is con-
sumed by the unfortunates known pop-
ularly as dope flends."
OF such dope flends there are a
number Of species. which is one rea-
son why the opium problem is so hard
to tackle successfully. There are, to
begin with, the smokers of opium.
who are said to compose an army of
about 10000 Of our citizens. These.
however, are minority In the total
number of victims, most of whom pur-
sue the destructive habit in its more
highly specialized forms, particularly
the taking Of morphine in pills or by
hypodermic injection.
AS fast as stop is put to one
method Of procuring or using the
drug. another springs up in response
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Millions Are Saved in Mail Carrvin

Sc per cent more than the appropria.
ton for the current fiscal year.
In every instance possible the DOL
icy Of equalizing the rate Of pay for
the transportation of mail by railroad
routes on the basis of lowest cost has
been followed. The department has
saved $12,274,4SS by the operation of
the new method of adjusting pay. to
and including the present fiscal year.
Sixteen railroad companies have fled
suit against the United States attack
ing the validity of the order of the
postmaster general in readjusting the
rate of pay.
Particular diligence has been mani
tested by the department in it's in
quiry into the cost to railroad compa-
MES of carrying the mail.
During the year there were 446 rail-
road accidents in which postal clerks
were either killed or injured or in
which mail matter was lost or dam.
aged. Twenty clerks, four substitutes
and three mail weighers were killed,
90 seriously and GIT slightly injured.
The year was more disastrous in the
number of clerks killed on the rail.
roads than any in the history OF the
service.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

A PLAN to bring together the op-
"A posing advocates Of federal regu-
lation of water power and those who
stand for state regulation on a water
power policy on which both can agree.
is being considered by the executive
committee of the National Conserva-
ton association.
The object of the plan is to afford
a water power platform on which both
sides Of the water power controversy
may unite to protect the public in
terest and at the same time encour-
age the development of the many mill
ions Of horse power now going to
waste in the mountain streams of the
far west and the great rivers Of the
central and eastern parts of the coun-
try.
The proposed plan, which is the re-
suit OF long and careful study Of the
water power question, has been laid
before competent engineers of wide
experience in water power develop
ment and officers and managers of
hydro-electric power companies. who
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

N EW YORK.-Nine lepers, inmates
~ of institutions in the vicinity of
this city. were exhibited the other
night for public examination at a gath
ering Of physicians in the Academy of
Medicine. One of the patients, a China
man. was from Paterson, N. J.: two
were from Brooklyn, two from the
city hospital. three from the skin and
cancer hospital. The purpose of ex
hibfting the lepers is stated to be the
beginning Of an effort Ito educate the
public away from the hysterical atti.
ture 1t has heretofore shown when.
ever the presence of a leper becomes
a matter Of general KNOWLEDGE"
1t was declared that the attitude of
the people in general toward lepers
has not in the least advanced since
the middle ages, and that, as a re-
suit, many lepers, in fear and terror.
conceal the fact that they aer suffer
Ing from the disease instead of ap-
plying for and receiving humane and
Intelligent treatment. There are at
present IS cases of leprosy under
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

r. H1CAGO.-When the gentleman
~ from the rural districts arrives in
the city and gazes in. amazement at
the high buildings and looks with awe
into the subway he is Immediately set
down as RUDE with hayseed in his
hair and given the merry laugh by
the wise city guy, who will then pro-
ceed down the street and stand for
half an hour on curbstone to watch
an automobilist initiate a punctured
tire, or proceed to murder a perfectly
good quarter Of an hour watching a
cook browning the wheats in q res
taurant window. Is
But for absolutely pure and undi.
luted inquisitiveness you've got to
hand 1t to the city man, for he is right
there with the research stuff. He will
poke fun at his wife for her knowl-
edge on the subject OF the neighbor's
do1ngs, but he can show more genuine
interest In absolutely nothing that you
can Imagine, and nothing out of the
ordinary run Of things in city streets
is too small to claim his attention.
He will let his dinner get cold any
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Trouble in Dealing With Drug Evil

to an unfailing and always profitable
demand. For instance, the average
apothecary nowadays finds a large
and unprecedented demand for Co
deine"-one Of the alkaloids, or active
principles, Of opium. 1t is only about
one-third as powerful as morphine, but
acts similarly. The sale of morphine
is forbidden by law nearly every
where at the present time. except on
prescription by a physician, but in
most of the states there is no such
restriction in regard to codeine-
whence the growing popularity of the
latter.
The sale of "heroin" also has great
ly increased since the enforcement of
restrictions on opium and morphine.
This is what chemists would term a
morphine Acknowledgement is to say,
substance derived from morphine by
certain monkeyings in the laboratory.
1t acts just like morphine, and the
habit formed by taking it is not less
destructive. Yet al the present time
there is nowhere any law or ordi-
nance against the sale of "heroin,"
and the only charge that can be
brought against a druggist who sup
plies it is that he deals in a danger
Gus poison.
But what is the use? Where opium
itself is taken as a habit, it is in most
instances consumed in the form of q
tincture- is to say, as laudanum.
The sale Of laudanum, save on pre-
scription, is forbidden in most of the
states; yet the 'fiends" manage to get
it in one way or another.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Mules Run Away With Blazing Cotton

negroes, was captured. the others e.
Gaping.
News of the arrest was telephoned
to the sheriff, who got out of bed and
started for the scene. The two fu9i.
tives had returned with a wagon and
we're loading in the cotton when thew
were surprised and arrested by the
sheriff. The other officers came I'm
and the three captives were hand.
cuffed and put into their wagons. On
the way to town one Of the neproea
stepped on his gun. concealed at tho
bottom Of the wagon. and it exploded
the bullet narrowly missing one ~
the mules ahead. and the mules rsn
away.
BY the time they were stopped ths
bale Of cotton was on fire. and .
strong wind was blowing, with no
water near. It was decided to make
a fast drive to town, and call out the
fire department. The faster the mules
ran the higher burned the blazine
cotton, scorching one of the ne9roes
The wagon next caught fire. The fire
department put out the flames, but the
cotton was destroyed and the wagon
ruined. ".-.rs
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

4 CONSIDERABLE saving was ef-
"a fectsd during the year by the bu-
reau of the second assistant postmas-
ter general, which is charged with
the authorization and direction of the
transportation of both domestic and
foreign mails. The aggregate cost Of
the transportation of domestic mails
during the year was $81, ,433.6S,
while the cost of foreign mails was
s3,112,3O2.46. Notwithstanding the in
creased amount of mail handled the
percentage of increase in the cost was
only lis per cent.
During the year 1875 mail routes
were in operation. covering distance
of 22O,73O miles. The distance trav-
eled by the mail of the United States
was 426, 923,109.55 miles. The amount
of money necessary for railroad trans
portation for the fiscal year aading
June 70, 1912, is $44s.ss3,0o0. being
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27


indictments
$780,
years Acknowledgement
net caught
sexes Lincoln president
OF the United States
youths
with the inmates
one even mother together the mother
admitting Blair
$50 the indicted Kentucky
announced
is
"They will outlaw
Judge Blair said that while other counties
dreadu must be to have sold bought
goody critics
kindly
be-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

n UTs1RIE, OKLA.-With lint cot
VI ton selling at SIS bale, thefts Of
cotton ere frequent in Oklahoma. A
bale is rolled from a car into the
weeds, & taken from a farmers barn
into his 3eld, and at night the thieves
return With a wagon and team and
haul the cotton to q nearby town,
where it fnds ready sale.
Two bales + cotton were found in
a ravine At the roadside near Guthrie.
The fact was reported to the sheriff,
who placed night guards to arrest the
persons that came for the cotton.
Shortly after midnight three men
approached bale and began rolling
it down the highway. When the
thieves were commanded to halt, un-
der arrest, they fed and the officers
opened fire. One Of the thieves, all
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

d EMO, NEV.-One Of Nevada's chief
IL industries granting OF d.
vorce while you watts in danger of
destruction because the gamblers of
the state have been put out of bust
ness. =. The legislature will be asked
to repeal the law that makes the gam
blers 60 to work. and, If this cannot
be accomplished, bill will be intro
duced amending the present divorce
law and making 1t as hard to get a
divorce here as it is in other states.
Under the present law six months
residence is all that is required. and
the divorce colony, all of them good
spenders and unemployed while here
waiting for the time to tell the court
about matrimonial troubles. are a fine
source of income.
Not even the most enthusiastic Ne
vadan believes that these well-to-do,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Uncle Sam May Yet Intervene in Cuba

troops within q SO hours embarka-
ton point.
When Secretary of War Dickinson
and Brig.-Gen. Clarence Edwards.
chief of the bureau of insular affairs
of the war department, visited Cuba
In November, last year, they were
startled and amazed by the disrupted
and corrupt conditions which they
found existing there.
1t was on the strength of their re-
port and those of John B. Jackson,
minister to Cuba, that the admins
tration deemed it advisable to have
troops and munitions of war in readi-
ness for immediate use. Leading off,
GERS of the army do not believe that
the American flag can be planted in
Cuba without bloodshed.
According to reports in the war and
state departments, it has been the
'practise' Of the United States pro-
tege president in Cuba, Jose Miguel
Gomez. that has led to the undoing Of
all that Gen. Leonard Wood, Presi-
dent Taft and Governor Magoon did
to put the government on substan-
tial basis. These reports state that
many measures have been pushed
through the Cuban legislature for the
benefit of special interests.
Officers of the army familiar with
conditions in Cuba liken them to
those in Corea, saying the only differ
ence is that the factions in Cuba have
not reached the poisoning stage and
ton than proceed along the same
lines as did Corea before being an
nexed by Japan. These officers say
they look for final Intervention by the
United States within three months.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
A MISSOURI SUPREME JUDGE

Governor Hadley of Missouri recent
1y announced the appointment Of
Judge Franklin Ferris of st. Louis for
supreme Judge to succeed the late
Gavon D. Burgess.
Franklin Ferris is sixty-one years
of age and has been a practicing at
torney In St. Louis since 1874. He
was native OF New York and was
graduated from Cornell university in
the class of 1873, coming to Missouri
the next year.
Though active in Republican poll
tics, he did not hold office until 1893,
when he was elected a member of the
city council, the upper house of the
municipal assembly Of St. Louis. He
was made president pro tempore. At
that time Charles Nagel, now secre-
tary of commerce and labor, was the
presiding officer of that body. Soon
after the four-year term ended in 1898
he was nominated Judge of the circuit
court and elected.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Goes Higher Up.

Goes Higher Up.
Henrietta, aged six, is fond Of ham.
which has been decreed not good for
her. The maternal mandate that she
must not eat it, even though the for
hidden dainty was offered, proved try
ing. Henrietta made 1t subject OF
prayer. Dear God" she was over
heard pleading. keep my papa from
putting ham on my plate until I can
eat IT. I can 'sist the temptation when
the ham isn't there, but when It -. my
soul seems very weak"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
HEADS RAILROAD ENGINEERS

Grand Chief Engineer Warren s.
Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, on behalf of the mem
bers of the brotherhood, accepted the
agreement offered by the railroad man.
ayers by which nearly $4,000 of his
fellows are to benefit. Four million
dollars year is what it will cost 81
western railroads to make good the
provisions of the settlement.
In spite of their repeated assertions
that they had reached tho limit. the
managers made concessions in the
face of threatened strike. Conces-
sions were made by the men also, but
they established two of the chief
points for which they contended-jur-
isdiction over motor trucks and an
increased schedule for the Mallet type
Of locomotive.
Chief Stone in his letter to the COM
missioner of labor said: AFTER thor
oughly considering the proposal and
the question in It's entirety, we are of
the opinion the offer will not yield the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

Canada has 4o,ooo,OO0 or $4,000 ooo
acres Of land located near the arctic
circle and which it is asserted can he
made to produce big and profitable
wheat crops. Perhaps Canada's claim
to the north pole is based on the he
lief that the extremity OF the earth can
be utilized for agricultural purposes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
Diamond In q Clear.

Diamond In Cigar.
Citizens Of Hubbard stopping at q
local hotel here and attending district
court tell strange story OF suddenly
acquired" wealth. Will Kyle a few days
ago bought q cigar from a dealer at
that place. The cigar giving poor serv-
Ice on account Of some impeachment In
the drapping, an examination waa
made with penknffe and a diamond
was found. The sparkler IL valued at
]226. - Hillsboro Correspondence
Houston Post, }
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

The hobble skirt and high trolle,
car steps have clashed in Trenton. The
steps may have the logic of the situa,
ton, but the hobble skirt has the eter
nal feminine end of the discussion. and
all human experience is unit on what
happens when logic attempts to tackl.
the eternal feminine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

A Boston young woman has been Wis
iting dentists Offices and stealing mon
ey and other valuables from the wrap.
of the patients in the torture chamber
Here's another excuse for not going te
the dentist when you ought to.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

The New York Tribune reports the
case Of a girl who was so modest that
she refused, when she was wounded
on one of her legs, to let ANYBODY
see it, and so bled to death. She
probably called them limbs, too.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
EXPOSED OHIO VOTE BUYING

Judge Albion z. Blair of the COM
mon pleas court of Adams county,
Ohio, who recently unearthed the
amazing vote traffic in his county, IL
authority for the statement that there
is grating everywhere, and that 1t Is
not only the right, but the duty OF ev-
cry official to see that this is stamped
out. Judge Blair declared that he In
tended going over the ground so thor
oughly that none would escape, and ne
estimated that the grand jury would
indict 1000 or more before it had I'M
ished its sitting.
Fully 80 per cent. of the indicted
men made the trip to West Union, the
county seat, appeared before Judge
Blair and entered pleas OF guilty TO
the indictments found against them.
To all these the court handed out q
nominal fine of IS, SO or $15-usually
about the price received by them Tor
their last vote-a suspended sentence
of three or four months in the work
house and disfranchisement for pc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

Now we are told that the Garden
Of Eden was located at the north pole
Possibly we shall learn also that Adam
and Eve were Eskimos and ate of the
forbidden blubber instead of the for
hidden fruit.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27
new AID TO j.. P. MORGAN

With the retirement Of George w.
Perkins from the great financial firm
of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. there
steps to the front as the right-hand
man of the great f1nancier Henry
P. Dawson, once a school teacher Of
Troy, Pa, who now becomes the most
important member of the great bank
ing house, next to Morgan himself.
Davison's rise in the house of Nor.
gan has been one Of the most remark
able in the history of Wall street. He
has been a firm member for only two
years, but in that time his star has
steadily waxed. 1t is known that J. p.
Morgan since the panic of 1907 has
been convinced that in Dawson were
the qualities needed for financial lead
ership Of the highest type.
To the financial genius of Mr. Davi-
son is due the successful outcome for
American bankers of the negotiations
held in Paris last summer for Ameri.
can participation in tie great Chinese
loan-the $3O,OOO,000 Hankow-Szechu-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

The New York doctor who asserts
that overripe eggs are as nutritious
as the fresh kind will not meet with
violent objections If he tries to get 9
monopoly of eating the ancient vint
age
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

The automobile is acceptable In
funeral professions but the aeroplane
is still barred out by the undertakers'
trust
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

We are told that the day of the
novel is ended. When we consider
the alleged literature that has been
perpetrated recently, we cannot
squeeze out even the semblance Of a
tear.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

A writer in the New York Medical
snake bite, but kindly refrains from ex
pressing an opinion as to its suitability
for fish bait
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

TN future" says Doctor Wiley. the
air will furnish heat, fuel and power"
IT might do 80 right now If some way
to extract the coal from it could be
found.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-27

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