The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04

bank broke, he found himself in the
same condition. In due course, he
founded the town of Mohall, N. D. At
the present time, he is supposed to
be making his headquarters in st.
Louis and acting as general agent for
an insurance company.
CLINTON p. MCCORMICK, son OF
DR.. and Mrs. S. P. Mccormick, and
brother of Will S. Mccormick, now
resides in Seattle. his business adj
dress being No. $50 Burke building.
Mr.. Mccormick not only is married
happily and has start on the third
generation but is interested in sew
eral manufacturing and ranching
undertakings.
HARVEY FETTER was civil en-
gineer on the Duluth Terminal Rail-
way in the days of Paul Mitchell. He
went from Duluth to the Klondike
about 20 years ago. He engaged in
railroad construction work in North
western Canada soon afterwards and
amassed an Independent fortune. He
now resides at Seattle.
CHARLES l.. LEWIS, former
member of the district bench and,
later, one of the judges of the SUI
preme court of Minnesota, now re-
sides at Kingman, Arizona. For
many months he was under medical
treatment in Los Angeles but, his
friends will be pleased to know, has
gone far on the road to recovery OF
his health and is now practicing his
profession moderately.
THOMAS BURKE, son Of D. F.
Burke, prominent capitalist OF
Port Arthur, Ont, spent several
years in Duluth as an electrician and
specialist in electrical fixtures and
appliances. He was one of the first
Canadians to enlist and was cap
tured early in the war. therefore Is
supposed to be languishing in Ger
man war prison.
COL. w. Fl. III. STOWELL, once a
congressman from West Virginia,
was prominent at West Duluth in the
boom days. For time, he was con-
nected with the old West Duluth
blast furnace. Col. Stowell is sup
posed to be in New York, being seen
there not so very long ago, busily en-
gagged in compiling a genealogy of
the Stowell family in America.
DIR. w. G. GOFFE went from Du-
luth to Medford, Oregon. He had
serious ups and downs on the north
Pacific coast. Finally, he became
attached as physician to the Pacific
Mail Line at San Francisco. About a
year ago, that line of steamships
changed hands and what became of
Duluth's former health commissioner
and we'll known physician, is not
positively known.
JOHNNY MNABB came to Duluth
from Owen Sound, Canada. He was
a pioneer bartender at Tower, Mimi,
and, later, tended bar at the Spald-
ing with Matt Prendergast. The
two of them cleaned up a neat lit
tie competence in an iron deal. Nc
Nabb opened popular bar in st.
Paul, and, later, went back to Can
ada. His competence got away from
him and he now is tending bar at
the Clarendon hotel, st. Paul.
JOHN A. MAGNUSON at one time
was connected with a Duluth lum-
bering company now out of exist
ence. Later, he was manager of the
Spalding hotel and, also, Hotel Su-
perior. Mr.. Magnuson now is con-
nected with the noted Harvey hotel
system and is stationed at Deming,
New Mexico, where he anticipates
meeting quite number of old
friends when the Duluth soldiers ar
rive there for training.
MISS l.. STOKELY was we'll
known stenographer in Duluth when
she took up work as a writer for the
News Tribune in 1895. Later, she
married Charles H. DeVault, con-
nected with the city office of the
Great Northern. After spending some
years in Texas, trying the cattle
business, among other things. Mr..
and Mrs. DeVault came back to st.
Paul where they now reside.
NICKEL" JOHNSON who ex-
pended a quarter of million dol
lars in Cook county, Mimi, exploring
titaniferous ore, under the assump-
ton that it contained nickel, now re-
sides at Forest Lake, Mimi, where
he wears his whiskers long and
meets but few Of his many stock
holders in the Johnson Nickel Com
pany.
w. p. HURLBUT went through
Duluth's big real estate boom and
the panic of '93, coming out flat fl
nancially. For time he was secre-
tary Of the Duluth board of health,
under DR.. D. D. Murray. After that,
he went to Idaho where he made a
fortune. Although having gone
through bankruptcy, he came back to
Duluth, when on his feet, and set
tied his outlawed debts 100 cents on
dollar. Leaving Idaho, Mr.. Hurl-
but went to New York where the
Gothamites separated him from
much of his surplus. He went at 1t
once more and now is a promoter Of
large enterprises, with headquarters
in New York, and with a heavy tide
Of fortune flowing his way.
C. p. FRANK for many years was
a well known surveyor and civil en-
gineer In Duluth. He served as
county surveyor and, among other
pieces of work, laid out the townsite
of Rainy Lake City at the time OF
the boom there, following the dis