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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
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CLOSED LAST
Estate of Peter Kinberly Paya
$50, 600 for Five Acres 81 Prop
II erty II This City.

A long pending deal Of more than
ordinary interest was closed Satur-
day night when the estate Of Peter
Kimberly Of Sharon, Pa. paid over 70
W. T. Bailey $50 900 for five acres Of
land in Virginia. ...|...-....z w.
Peter Kimberly left an estate esti-
mated at 81, 600, 900, the great bulk
of which was accumulated from min
ing operations and iron land deals on
the Mesaba range. $50 ~ -.
One of his transactions was with
the Interstate Iron company, (Jones
|& Laughlin) and involved the trans
fer, among other valuable ground at
Virginia, of forty acres in the edge
of the city, and close to the w. T..
Bailey Lumber company's mill. Five
acres Of the land was owned by w. T.
Bailey. In his deal with the Inter-
state Iron company Kimberly was
bound to deliver the land clear Of any
claims, and he asked for price on the
five acres. That was about IA years
ago. Bailey asked $1,000 and the
price was accepted. But Kimberly
neglected to pay for the land. Bailey
met him in the Grand Pacific III Chi
cago about year later. II will send
a check at once when I get home"
said the mining magnate. A year
passed and the two men met again.
The conversation was much the same
as before, and then another year pass
ed and still Kimberly neglected to
close for the five acres. More time
elapsed and Virginia was growing.
Bailey advanced the price to $50, 900.
Kimberly found no fault with that,
tut still neglected to close for the land.
Then he died rather suddenly. The
administrator was given an oppor-
tunity to buy at the same price. There
was some more delay, for this was a
big estate and involved bewildering
mass of transactions and detail. The
last time that Mr.. Bailey gave an op-
ton to the administrator it was for
$4,000 to advance $1,000 a month
until the deal was closed. This was a
verbal option, and it was 81 months
before the estate finally exercised it,
and Bailey received $4,000 for the
property. Allowance was made for
interest on the long pending deal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
LOCAL POSTAL SAVINGS BANK
IS HAVING'sT STEADY GROWTH

Deposits in the postal savings bank
Of the Virginia postofice give anoth-
er evidence of the rapid growth Of this
city. The local postal savings bank
now has on deposit approximately
$4,000 while it has issued government
bonds in about half that amount. The
records show a steady growth in post
al saving deposits ever since the bank
was established here. While the post
al saving deposits are growing local
banking houses report that there is
but little noticeable difference in the
foreign exchange business, which is
large in all towns on the range. Saw
ings accounts in local banks also show
an increase. The only inference is
that Virginia is growing and that the
growth of savings and postal deposits
is just another evidence of the fact.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
McKERCHER SAID TO =. ..
-:- COVET MEINING'S JOB

NOVEX U1E1N1NU = JO0
County Humane Officer r. D. Nc
Kercher has spent several days in
Virginia this week and about the lob
bies Of the court house, where there
is more or less political gossip, it IS
currently reported that Mr.. McKerch-
er, who has served the county, for sew
=eral years as humane officer, may be ..
candidate for sheriff next spring.
While Mr.. McKercher has many.
friends in this section the pressnt
sheriff, John r Meining, is stronger
here than ever before. Mr.. Meining.
has made m excellent officer and ever.
since he has held his present place be
has been making friends on the range.
He win undoubtedly again be :. candi-,
date for sheriff and will have strong
support ia Virgins. Many belisys'
that Mr.. Meining IS stronger than any
q the present Get q county odsciiI
with the people g this section, With
the possible exception q Register 81
Desds Galliean leining has not
yet announced whether or not he win
run next year, but has held tie posii-
tion but tHo md deserves M
|otlsr q Ii record 4 be wants 4.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
FINNISH WOODSMAN KILLED
BY TRAIN NEAR GHECN

While walking on the D. w. & P.
tracks in an intoxicated condition Sun
day night, near Gheen, John Oman, a
Finnish woodsman, was struck by
train and instantly killed. The body
was found by the right-of-way Mon
day morning and was brought to this
city Tuesday. Oman was q widower
and had no relatives in this vicinity
that the authorities have so far been
able to locate. He will probably be
buried as a county charge. He had
recently been employed in the woods
in the vicinity of Cook.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
PROS SRA TED By u lllt
FARlhHA s NEAR DEA III
Regans Consciousness in Barn Where He Had Taken Refuge
from Storm to Find Building II Falls q Just
He Crawls from Burnins Loses In
plements Hay. Harness and Feed stun

ing rendering him unconscious, and
knocking him : distance Of Is or 90
feet. 5 ! se ,rz. .z III CHI . 5.::s s.
Six head Of cattle in the barn
were loosed and taken out but ! wagon
and mower and several sets Of harness
. considerable quantity Of feed stun
and several tons Of hay in the barn
and in the stacks adjoining were burn
ed. IT, - -: 49,. .z.z5=,,
Mr.. and Mrs. Piljalla were asleep
in the house at the time and did not
know the building was on fire until
reused by Hautala, who was still in
4 dazed condition from the shock.
Their loss is total, as no insurance
was carried. It is estimated at 81
200.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12

Eli Hautala, : farm hand, employ
ed in the country near Iron Junction
had narrow escape from being burn
ed to death last Saturday night when
he was Frustrated. and rendered I'M
conscious by bolt Of lightning which
struck the barn Of Matt Pijalla, in
which he had taken refuge from the
storm. Hautala recovered his senses
just in time to crawl from the. build
ing which was set on fire by the
lightning, before the roof fell in.
Hautala was on his way to a dance
at Iron Junction when Saturday
nights storm overlook him about
$3.50. He took refuge in the barn
and had been there but few minu-
tes when lightning struck the build
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
MESBERG & LAVICK OPEN
NEW STOCK FOR BUSINESS

Il kAVlCk OPEN
NEW STOCK FOR BUSINESS
Mesberg & Lavick are open for bus
mess in a remodeled and redecorated
store building this week, with all new
stocks lastly displayed and one of the
neatest places on the range. James
Lavick returned the first of the week
from buying centers and it is expected
to have all the stocks in place and the
store ready for the public today. The
formal opening will be next week. The
Office will be moved today to the new
building from the Steurwwald jewelry
store, where temporary quarters have
been maintained since the fire which
destroyed the store several weeks ago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
MANHATTAN RESTAURANT TO
BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS SOON

DE- OfEN FUN BUSINESS SUM
The Manhattan Restaurant, a new
addition to the. business establish
ments of Virginia, will be opened in
short time in the new building being
constructed by Nels Anderson, adjoin-
ing the Royal theatre on Chestnut
street. The proprietor will be Charles
Manchus and he announces that the
place will be one Of the neatest on the
entire range, catering to the best trade
and giving first-class service. All
new fixtures will be installed. Mr..
Manchus has had much experience in
the business and believes there is a
fine opening for such a place in Vir-
ginia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
MANY TRAVEL THE ROAD n.
" TO JERICHO IN YIRGINL


The local lodge Of Odd Fellows is
experiencing the largest growth in it's
history. At last nights meeting a
class of seven were initiated in the
first degree and prospective candid
ates promise to keep the degree team
busy during all Of the winter season.
The Rebekahs are also experiencing
q rapid growth and took in = class Of
seven candidates Wednesday night.
Two weeks from last night the third
degree win Be conferred on . large
class Of candidates, and the work q
the evening will Sc followed 81 I
Esocial session.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
SYSTEM PUT
IN SERVICE SUNDAY NOON

The new interlocking plant of the
Canadian Northern and Great North
ern, the first Of the kind on the iron
range, was put in service Sunday Of
last week and is working perfectly.
It is safety device for controlling
the movement Of trains in Virginia
and cost to equip and construct $780,
600, being one Of the finest plants Of
its size in the country. All trains on
both roads in and out of Virginia
are now handled by the operators at
the tower station near the incinera-
tor plant. ....
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-09-12
HIBBING-VIRGINIA WRESTLER
BEATS ROUGH HOUSE GERMAN

HIBB1NG-VIRG1NIA WRESTLER
BEATS ROUGH HOUSE GERMAN
Tom Shaw, the Hibbing- Virginia
Turkish wrestler, giving away 80
pounds weight defeated Harry Faust,
the rough house Dutchman in a
straight match at the Power theatre
at Hibbing Monday night before a
big audience in straight falls and es-
tablished his reputation as the best
160-pound grappler in northern Min
nesota. Shaw and Faust met about
two weeks ago in a handicap match,
Faust agreeing to throw Shaw three
times in an hour. Faust was easily
defeated at that time despite the fact
that he resorted to rough tactics and
was repeatedly cautioned by the ref
cree, Chief Charles Mc1llhargey of the
Hibbing fire department. Faust i'm
mediately issued a challenge to Shaw
for straight match for a side bet of
500. Hibbing mat fans say the
match was the best ever seen on the
range. Shaw took the first fall in 20
minutes and the second in II minutes
and 3 seconds. Faust roughed it from
the crack of the gong and was fire.
quently cautioned by the referee. The
plucky Turk got the first fall with a
toe-hold and haf-Nelson and the Sec
ond with scissors and bridge body.
Faust after the match stated that
Shaw was one of the best men he had
ever met and declared his confidence
in his ability to defeat both Beel and
Yokel. Hibbing fans who have been
inclined to be skeptical about Shaw's
ability are now convinced he is the
best man Of his weight who has ever
come to the range and are prepared to
back him literally. Shaw learned to
wrestle in his native khan in Turkey
and started at the game when a mere
boy. He has met and defeated some
of the best men in the country at his
weight. He is a thorough gentleman
and is member of the Masonic lodge
in his native country. He is under
the management of Chief Charles Nc
1llhargey of the Hibbing fire depart
ment, who would like to arrange
matches for him with wrestlers on
this end Of the range. Anyone who
wants to meet Shaw will be sure of a
square deal from Mr.. McIllhargey who
is an ardent wrestling fan and
sportsman of the type who likes sport
for sports sake and not for the money
that is in it from the promoters end Of
the game. Later in the season an
effort will be made to get some match
es for Shaw and his wrestling partner,
Kahn Alley, who works at 40 pounds
and is also a good man at his weight.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
Mary and Her Charles

EET TITLE DORRT" age
SOutHgate ndCha
girl sveehear, little Milton,
the original Of Little Dot the lOvab of all Denss child
Dickens qualities character which the girl
the portrays.
the
good they certainly
Dickens authors
Later the Milton youth somewhat older than Dickens helped the author
y always
great others company.
grandfather
them milk drink and them have if he always struggling
church Francis especially Mary afterwards na
with
Little Dknss
Do the children Dickens nowadays they did? The Dickens characters
used to familiar child much loved and feared and hated
suffered Of Dckenss
the VIII rTeading with entirely
conceptions
Of description mastery Of emotional appeal
children
with It
realities life
the depths the and the best the false
woman grovnups
To- information
O.
fiction
growth individual and
boy reading
for people
friendship girls missing great
Of life
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
GoodBooks
By walt Mason.

There are so many helpful books. the
books that truly nay, the useful books
that drive the sPOoks Of grief and care
away; it's fOOlishness and worse, CAD
cooks, to pass awav the time a-reading
books that treat OF crooks and so brands
OF crime. So many books are merely
foam, made for the passing hour; and
every tome you read at home should
have a lifting power. The stuff you read
should help YOU meet your duties everv-
where; impel your feet along the street
with vim TO do and dare. Your books
should help you do your grind, and to
your labors waltz .;and make you kind,
and make you blind to other peoples
faults. Your books should teach YOU
what IS right, and also what Is wrong,
and help you fight ike armored knight,
with battle-cTy and song. They should
make home a happy place, your wife the
JOY IN chief, with not a trace upon her
face Of WEAKNESS or grief. So do not
soak your spOngy head in rubbish day Dy
day, but read instead the books that
spread some light upon your way Read
hefty books that hit the spot with fierce
and fOrceful stroke; oh turn your
thought away from rot to truths that
fairly smoke.-Copyright, 1913, by
George Matthew Adams.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
A 100000 Shack For Manhattan

NE for s2o5ooOOo downtown
filed The site the Old Equitable Life
the being largely and the balance quickly
goaIe the city
building
C. POnt powder family,
Equitable the erecting office
The total investment in this single business building VIII be $oOoooo
almost equal the total valuation Of the Of FL with its $1,000
ssQOqoOO
The office building
all the other building
One points
public park
upon
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
n Years Ago Today
From The Herald This Date Isss.

r. P. Bean. Of Van Horn. Tex, is in
E. Piper has a position in Bishops
r H Pierce, wholesale dealer at
.Alamogordo, returned home this morn
ing.
Sill, and Miss Ascarate returned home
to Las Cruces today.
Prof. Townsend, Mr.. Barber and Ben
Williams returned TO the college at
Mesilla park this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. W. 3. Gilman arrived
yesterday from Marshall, Tex, to visit
Mrs. GiIman's father, p. Murtha-
The Stars and Deweys played two
games Of baseball yesterday afternoon
OF five innings each, and both games
were won by the Stars. Christie and
Hartley starred for the Stars.
Joseph P. OTerholser, telegraph OPP
orator at the Santa Fe depot, will
leace for Tucson, Ariz, tomorrow,
where he viii wed young woman OF
that place He will be absent for about
a month
As soon as Dan Toomey, the present
master mechanic of this end of the
G. H line, returns, Mr.. Herbert, the
newly appointed master mechanic, will
leave for Victoria, Tex, where he will
meet his family and bring them to this
point
There was no school board meeting
Foster and Mr.. Shelton, attended. The
others remained away owing to the
contest for the presidency now in the
courts between DR.. Race and DR..
Turner.
Customs officers are Of the opinion
that the arrests Saturday will result
in permanently breaking up a large,
well organized gang of smugglers- H
F. Bloom, captain Of the mounted in
speCtOrs, worked up the case and broke
up the gang.
The dawn of Dewey day was cele-
brated by the boom OF cannon. Early
this morning the McGinty cannon were
hauled to the top Of McGinty hill and
an admiraIs salute OF II guns was
fired in honor OF admiral Dewey
This evening a national salute Of p
guns viii be fired and the day will
close with music in the plaza
The LindelI hotel changed hands
this morning 1t was sold by 7. c.
Lyons, who has conducted the estab-
lishment for several years, to Charles
Zeiger. Of Albuquerque. Henry
O'Byrne, who has long been clerk at
the hotel, viii be retained in his posi-
ton by the new owner. T c. Lyons
has not yet decided what business he
will engage in.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
One-Sentence Philosophy
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

It's the interior Of a mans head that
counts.
Second thoughts may be best-if they
arrive in time
Few Of US are perfectly happy and
Few of Us deserve TO be.
You won't be forced to eat your
words if you pay compliments
Too often the charity that begins at
home isn't worthy Of mention.
There are lots of people in the swim
who cannot boast Of clean records.
A woman seldom finds any good in
her husband by the detective method.
A good way to respect people is not
to be Intimately acquainted with them.
One of the things that fail to come
to him who waits is the money loaned
TO his friends.
Some men are born great. some
achieve greatness, and some manage TO
put up a successful bluff.
But when a man is sick, a $50 gold
piece may buy him a lot more care
than 90 friends VIII give him.
Women do not expect men to be wise
all the time, and there are men who do
not expect women TO be wise any Of the
time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
Thunder
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of at Good Old Sifasb''

THTNDER IS natures favorlte and
greatest bluff.
4 1t is the most tremendous and
impressive of noises. A robust clap OF
thunder can be heard for 20 miles, and
can sour the milk in 10000 retrigerators.
Few things inspire man with more awe
than a peal Of thunder, rolling. maJes-
tiealIv from cloud to cloud, and gruml-
bling slowly out OF hearing, like a tltanle
lion who has had a mass meeting Ior
breakfast and isn't satisfied Many
times a wear thunder fills the closets OF
this country with frightened women, but
it mas never hurt anyone No one can
be blamed for paying attention to
dogs bark. because in that case the noise
precedes the danger, but it is foolish to
flee from thunder BY the time an adult
thunder clap has crashed into the con-
versatiOn and has Jared the chandeliers,
the Lightning, of which it pretends to be
a warning, has already messed up the
vicinity and retired to parts unknown:
Thunder is the great Il told you So OF
the elements, and IS as useful as a
whistle on the rear end of a train
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01

Thunder is very impressive, ike cam
paign oratOry and IS the only thing
which it exceeds 1t In grandeur. Thunder
Is produced by vast quantities of air
rushing into a vacuum, while campaign
Oratory is usually produced in exactly
the opposite manner. There are many
points OF similarity between natures
greatest noise. and mans lOudest remark,
however. The man who can fill an audi
tOruim with ponderous reverberating
phrases, which do not mean anything,
even when they can be heard four blocks,
is usually more feared than the speaker
who uses the swift, seathine simile IN q
quiet voice, and does not wilt one collar
a week.
In order to make a single clap Of thun-
der, 1t Is necessary for nature to employ
several million volts of electricity IN
burnin0 a vacuum in the air. This Is q
great waste of power, and also of noise.
If the electricity cannot be wheedled into
captivity by scientists, our inventors
should take up the task of canning the
thunder peal and working it up into ju-y
arguments and stump speeches.-COpy-
righted by George Matthew Adams.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison GIObe.)

We believe in the truth, but we can
agree among ourselves as to what the
truth is
No man admires a woman who can't
express indignation without going into
Mysteries.
When a man leaves town he expects
people to miss him a good deal more
than they do
Jude Johnson's brother was killed
in a fight, and the newspapers said
he never had an enemy.
Another trouble with the gent who
wants to so fishing is that he wants
some one to go with him.
Divorce is so easy that there doesn'
seem much excuse for a poor weak
woman killing her husband.
An AtchisOn man is undecided as to
whether he will take a vacation trip or
stay at home and get a little rest
Sometimes man works hard enough
for a government job to make up for
such lOafing as he may do after land
ing it.
A boy soon learns that the dimpIe in
his cheek, which his mother considers
such a valuable asset, is really a Sc
riOus handicap in life.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
The PhOny and the Real
Woman Must Learn to DfstinEuIsh
Love From Temporary Admfra-
dOn5 to Pick the Real
By Ada Patterson.
. HE other day a woman killed

~ HE other day woman killed her
self, and to those gathered about
her bedside in a vain effort to
save her life she said: Il didn't know
the real thing from the phony until
too later
The dying words OF the poor, paint
ed creature, self slain, despairing.
anxious to leave a world in which she
had allowed herself to be cheated, are
q message to every woman, whatever
her age or station. whatever her gifts,
her outlook or her probIems-
The young girl peeps into her mir
rors and discovers with q thrill OF
pride that she has suddenly, mysteri-
oUsly, become pretty OF face and pleas
ing OF figure, that the saliOwness and
awkWardness Of yesterday have gone
somewhere, somehow, that she il
growing up and has dominion in a
new, strange land, the land OF admira-
lowering timidly. fascinatedIy at
lite.S bargain counter, she is in great
danger, the greatest danger that be-
sets a WOman's life-that OF not know
ing the worthy from what is worth
less.
The stranger, who twirls his cane
with one hand and pulls his mustache
with the other. while he Ogles her, she
may, because this shopping is so new
to her, mistake for something genu-
inc and worth while
If she watched him saunter a
block further she would see the same
tWlrllng of the light cane. the same
pulling at feeble mustache, the same
rolling Of shallow eyes at every other
pretty girl he met Worthless goOdsi
The only man worth a seconds con-
slderauOn is the one who does not
Ogle, but who. looking with true,
steady eyes into your own, asks the
only honest question; "Wiu you be
my wife,
Perhaps they do want it. but the
only real value to be found in the de-
partment of hearts is not the admira-
ton. but love. Love Of general ad-
miratiOn IS the commonest mistake OF
woman. Homes are broken by It,
Lives are shattered by it. Yet. mad
dened by the rush Of other women to
pay the last penny OF their woman
hood for what is worse than worthless.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
Another Two Dollar Justice

q La MANN
I'VE
to
the the back
thought the girl had pistol he allowed himself
away they pistol"
police station, magistrate way
them some the in
Fl punishment tOtngl
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
TALKS TO SCHOOL ON
"HOW TO STUDY"
President C. N. Light, OF Silver City
Normal, Is Guest of AlamOEOrdo
school Wednesday.

President C. NJ Light, Of the state
Normal college at Silver city, N NJ,
was in the city Wednesday. returning
to Silver City from visit to the pub
lie schools OF A1amogOrdo.
On Wednesday morning Mr. Light
delivered an address to the high school
pupils at AlamOgordO on How to
study" He says the AlamogOrdo pub
lie schools are in most excellent con-
ditiOn- The graduates this year from
the Eighth grade number %, and nine
are in the high school class
Mr.. Light says superintendent
George told him that so pupils had
been neither absent nor tardy during
the year and that out Of a population OF
1900. the school census is 500
The commencement exercises Of the
AlamOgordO schools started Wednes-
day.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES.

Craziness to get married too often
turns out to be a brand Of insanity
that's only temporary
The inconsistency Of humans is also
demonstrated by the folk who buy
alarm clocks and then muffle them
Some people don't know what hap
piness is because they fail TO recog-
nize Il when IL comes their way
Many men waste a lot Of time and
energy in working their way IN lad
ders that have nothing very desirable
at the top