The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-11-06
BOLD ATTEMPT TO
SWIPE PAPERS
ST. CLOUD NEWSPAPER MAN
TRIES TO GET AWAY WITH
co. SEAT PETITION. -
INSISTS PLAY WAS A "JOkE"
ATTORNEY BARRON FOILS RE-
LENTLEsS RUDOLPH In HIS
NEFARIOUS SCHEME. :.

There is "blud" on the Moon in con-
nection with<the county seat scrap
between st. Cloud and Albany.
It seems that when Attorney Bar
ron visited the court house in st.
Cloud last week to file the petition
with the County Auditor bold, bad,
heinous, blood-curdling, horny-hand-
ed, green-eyed reporter afflicted with
the name of "Mike" made an attempt
to get away with the satchel contain
ing the papers" while Mr.. Barron
had temporarily deposited the grip
on the floor in the auditors office.
Being something of mick Car
ter sleuth" Barron turned on the
news gatherer just as he was about to
hike with the satchel to democratic
headquarters. ....
Without the bat of an eye-lash
Barron speedily placed his trusty
right mitt in close proximity to his
pistol and with the voice of a Pad
lock Holmes he ordered the "willian"
to desist in his henious intention and
to return the grip to the place from
whence it came.
Caught with the goods" "Relent-
less Rudolph" once more lost Belinda
the fair boilermaker.
All this was accomplished without
any grandstand work on the part of
Mr.. Barron, although in saving the
petition he knew that he had
ibid" his duty as he saw it. Upon his
return to the embyro county seat Mr..
Barron related the narrowing details
of his experience" with the thugs in
the Granite City, modestly recounting
the part played by him. Under
such circumstances. it would take q
much stranger man than Mr..
Barron to prevent an admiring popu-
lace from placing the laurel wreath
of heroism athwart his manly brow.
The st. Cloud papers are inclined
to make light of the incident and in
sist that "Mike" is the fellow who put
GOSH" in josher; that he knew Barron
well-intimately in fact, an old friend
and pal, and that he would no more
think of attempting to get away with
anything he could not carry than
would any other newspaper man.
The st. Cloud papers intimate
quite strongly that Barron is a
"'grandstander" pure and simple, and
that he dearly loves to pose for cal
cium effect, asserting that his desire
to have the county seat removed has
been accentuated by the placing in his
palm of divers and sundry pieces of
the coin of the realm by the trusting
people of Albany; that he came to AL
bany for the sole purpose of starting
a scrap.
AS an unprejudiced spectator the
Herald is inclined to the belief that
the people of st. Cloud and Albany do
not dwell together in that spirit Of
brotherly love which should be the
aim of all communities and people.
'"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours
Holy Writ but court houses are not
OK" is one of the commandments of
mentioned, hence all the trouble.
Seriously, the Herald believes the
people of St. Cloud will make a SER
Gus mistake if they make concerted
effort to prevent the matter from
coming to a final issue at the polls.
Nearly 5000 of the residents and vot-
ers of the county have signified their
desire for vote and any attempt to
thwart their will will have tendency
to create prejudice, and the fling of
another petition as soon as arrange
ments could be made for one.