The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-04-03

this, he moved from here over to
Duluth, announcing, very generally,
to the people of that place, that he
chad to leave Superior or else starv e
to DEATH!
wei, since he became a resident
of Duluth, this high-and-mighty gen.
tleman, this eminent surgeon, this
spill broker"-who is worse spill"
than any of the old fa> hioned Allo-
patblc decoc,ions with which, it is
said, he doses his high-charged pa
tients-has been a very bitter oppo-
nent OF Superior, running down The
place at every opportunity, making
fun OF her people-the people who
had placed him on his feet, and
heiped to enrich him-and esvious
OF everything which might tend to
advance the interests or welfare OF
the town; aud when, a few weeks
ago, Douglas & Pryor purchased
HE ZINES, and he saw, from the
way 'the boys" started out, that
they were bound to make an infiu-
entail and fir,t-class journal out OF
lt-a paper hich would excel any
thing III the N west excuse our
extreme modesiy J and would do
u great deal towards building up
superior by making known to the
world It's many advantages-whlch
are so far superior to those of Du-
lnth that they Will not admit OF com
parlson-he resolved, in the diaboli
cal diabolicalness of his diabolical
heart, to deal to Superior cruel
stab, to crush out the new enter
prise by Withdrawing from it his
Immensely support-whlch Is i'm
mense To the extent of 200 cents
and hence, to the accomplishment
Of this wicked aim, aud with this
base object in view, he striped has
subscription to the pdper, alleging,
as an excuse, that st is not lit
paper to be read i'll my fami y, STRIP
The paper, however, survived
this terrible shock-both morally
aud financial -and in its second
issue made mention Of the fact that
the Doctor Lad stopped his paper,
and also complmentel him on beng
such nice aud puremlnded gentle
man; and besides this compliment
AIRY notice, The ZINES, week before
lest, also made mention Of the tact
OF ms having stopped Tue Duiutn
Herald, on account Of some I'm
proper" article which had appeared
III that paper-aiI OF whicn the
Waloank did not like, and which
caused him 10 get very angry, and
10 make, We understand, a great
many foolish threats OF thrashing
the editors OF Tue lines, ETC.,, etc.
Well. To make ii long story short,
the writer hereof-the aforesaid
''portly editor-ln-c chief y, as The Du-
Iuth Tribune has it-belng In Du-
luth on Monday morning last, and
meeting the above-named high
toned aud christian gentleman IN
the Clark House, there ensued quite
a wrangle, the Doctor coming at us
with blood i'll his eye" but accom-
pllshlng nothing more than making
an ass Of himself. aud the laughing
stock OF the lockers on, who thought
from the tierceness OF his prelilnlna-
ny maneuvers and demonstrations
that they were 10 be treated 10 the
sight OF a genuine editorial chastlse-
ment, but who were sadly dlsap-
pointed, as, after a good deal OF
blowing and clustering, and some
abusive and ungentlemanly IAN
guage, the learned NJ. ID. finally
hauled off, satisfying himself with
The threat that, should we ever
again mention his name III The
LINES, he would give us the -
thrashlng we ever had in our life +;
either thrash us himself, or lire
somebody to do Itn'
A great many have wondered
why we didn't knock the man down
tor his insoience, and undoubtedly
We should have done SO, had 1t not
been Tor our regard for the old adj
age: "Never strike an old man nor
a TOOL, under both Of which heads
DR.. 5. 5 Walbank can properly be
classified, though perhaps a htle
more appropriately under the latter,
Judging from the course he has pur-
sued III this particular case.