The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
DEAR OLD DANCUL0YIC
LOVES OLD KAISER BILL
Convicted Blind Pigger, Helped Out of Jail By Fed
eral Officials Always Has Supported The
Central Powers.

mercies of others.
Danculovic and his paramour
came to West Duluth where they
conducted the St. Charles hotel.
The Hamm Brewing Company set
up Danculovic in the beer bust
ness. With dollars gained at
West Duluth, the big man with
whiskers came uptown and con-
Quoted a saloon where now
stands the Park hotel. Later, he
kept a saloon on Michigan street,
not far from the union depot,
where he was notorious for SELL
ing booze and beer ON Sunday
and after closing hours
When Duluth went dry, Dan
culovic had a saloon in the Park
Hotel, 631 West Superior street,
and promptly secured a soft
drink license. Violation of the
dry ordinance recently brought
about a" revocation of that
license and a sentence of sixty
days to the county workfarm for
the lawless Danculovic. He
played his cards so cleverly, how
ever, that, through intercession
Of local U. S. officials, a kindly
judge committed the sentence to
payment of a fine of $75 and costs
and released him on parole.
Local Croatians say that, per-
haps, local officials should not be
judged too harshly for ''spring-
ing Danculovic. He has posed
as "Me, the big democrat" and
made local politicians believe that
he carried the Austro-American
vote in his vest pocket. Since
there are not twenty Austro-
American votes in all Duluth at
the present time, that one release
from Jail was a very handsome
sum to pay Danculovic for his
allegiance to Little Tammany, the
pie-counter wing of the local
democrats.
The true facts are that Dan
culovic is not at all popular with
local Croatians. They consider
him a joke instead Of a local
leader in business and politics.
Not only does Danculovic put
himself in the same class as
Roosevelt and refer to himself as
"Me, the big democrat but he
is a notary public under appoint
ment by the state Of Minnesota.
He is reputed to have taken out
his first papers in South Chicago
in 1901 but local Croatians have
to take it for granted that he
has his second papers. They
never have seen them.
= Shifting his broad breast when
addressing humble members of
the local Croatian colony, Dan
culovic fondly refers to himself
as ''The old man with whiskers
who does not take off his hat
when he stands before the judges
in the courthouse.
!. Danculovic was a boon COM
panion and patron of one Basetic,
journalist, who was subsidized
by the Austrian government and
who left Duluth, local Croatians
declare, through help of the {.
S. department of justice.
When Danculovic was at the
workfarm he was commanded to
take a bath. He stated that he
had had one that morning.
"Take another now" the at
tendants commanded. He did so.
When told to put on the work
farm garb, he wanted to retain
his own fine raiment but that
sweet boon was denied him.
He objected to the lumberjack
rubbers. "They will hurt my
feet" he declared. But he had
to wear them.
When released from imprison-
ment, Danculovic told his old
handyman at the Park hotel:
eff anyone ask if Mike still is in
Jail, tell them no, that he has
too much money to stay in Jail. "
Danculovic, naturally, has no
use for prohibition. In his win
dow he has a cartoon of a big,
ugly, bristly hog, bearing the cap
ton: "Anti-saloon League-The
Mother Of Blind Pigs" Dan
culovic seems to have nursed the
mother faithfully and we'll.
just a few days before going
to the workfarm, Fitger's de-
livery wagon left a big barrel Of
whiskey at the Danculovic home,
COS West Second st.
Local Croatians believe that
Danculovic would not have con-
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