The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-03

Entered at the POST Once at Virginia, Minn..
20 second class mail matter.
Terms. 81 Per Year. IN Advance
IF there is anything in the ground.
hog idiom we are doomed to six
weeks more of winter. And the only
people we really know who may be
glad are the coal men.
THE B1wAB1K TINES lis four years
old and healthy, thank YOU" And if
Editor Keen continues to feed it on
live topics, as in the past, it will
continue healthy for all time to
come.
SENATOR Jas. p. Boyle has been
chosen to deliver the Lincoln Dav
address at st. Paul on February
18th. And it is a safe prediction
that Jimmy" will not disappoint
his hearers if they look for an out
flow of eloquence.
The worst feature of the proposed
new reciprocity treaty with Canada
that has come to our notice is the
fact that Speaker Cannon of the
national house of representatives
favors the move. Enough to stamp
the act as one instigated by the big
| interests.
AND when President Taft gets
that RECIPROCITY with Canada" bill
through, get quarter section of
land on the Canadian side-in the
wheat belt. IT'S all you'll need for
life, and you can afford to spend
the winter in California or Florida
as fancy may dictate.
OWING to the illness of E. A. Ry.
deem the initial number of the CHS.
holm Independent, to have appeared
this week, has been delayed. Mr..
Rydeen suffers with an attack of
la grippe, but feels that the first
issue will get TO the hands of read.
ers the coming week.
The editorial opinions of the Du.
luth dailies on the county division
movement have not appeared in
print az yet. The movement is in
good hands, however, and the opin.
ions of the Duluth scribes will be
forthcoming in due time-for the
proposition is going before the PEG.
pie, and is going before them in a
form bound to win.
A BoATLoAD of dynamite explod.
ed in New York harbor the other
day, and liked to scared the eternal
tar out of the old New Workers. Had
they lived on the Mesaba where we
get dynamite salute before and
after each meal they would have
simply said "there loosens anothe,
ton of ore" and would have let il
gone at that.
IN its search for an opportunity
to cut down expenses it is consider.
ed unlikely that congress will run
foul of the congressional mileage
graft. Congressman make $3.50 pc,
hour riding on Pullman cars a,
present-and considering the fact
that some of them ride most of the
time it becomes evident that there
is money in the job, even though a
man be decently honest.
IT would seem the politicians dc
not figure on giving Governor Eber
hart the courtesy of second term
without "scrap" for it. Leastwise
they are already busy with the
names of prospective candidates
among them being the name of S
Y. Gordon, lieutenant governor, anC
Bob Dunn, who some years age
would have been governor had i
not been for the almost unanimous
verdict of the people of the stat,
against him.
We note by the "officiar censut
statistics that Virginia is accredited
with a population in 1890 of lilo
Considering the fact that Virgini:
was incorporated in 1892, that prio,
thereto the site of the city was a tag
alder swamp and that even the In
dams Stunned the spot because i
was so dense they could not cary,
their way through it, we feel it ar
incumbent duty to question the cor
rectness of the figures given. May
have been leven hundred mos
quitoes here at that time-but o.
human beings there were none.
ACCORDING to the statement of 7
S. Arneson, of the Chisholm Trib
une-Herald and who draws salary
as private secretary to the lieuten
ant-governor, a compromise viii,
be necessary to obtain reapportion
ment. In an interview in the News
Tribune of Thursday Mr.. Arnesor
is credited with the statement tina,
1.-The brewery interests could get the
reapportionment for the state il
they wished, but they do not wan,
it." In other words, the compromise
would have to be with the State
Brewers Association. Pass up re
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