The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-04-21
spent at his desk, in the very
comfortable courthouse.

spent at his QeSK, IN the very
comfortable courthouse.
When you hear a snicker all
through the courthouse and even
along Superior St., it is safe
bet that the telephone girl or
a deputy has reported to some
anxious patron of the auditors
office that Mr.. Ealden is very
i'll at home and that it cannot
be told when he can get back to
of-ce duties.
Time that citizens lose by wait
ing around the courthouse to see
their auditor who audits entirely
too infrequently, would give a
whole royal family a princely in
come if reduced to dollars and
cents.
If clerk of the court johnson,
register of deeds Calligan, treas
urer Vivian, judge Of probate
Gilpin, sheriff Meining, county
surveyor Anderson you'd for,
gotten about him, hadn't you)
can be regularly and faithfully
on duty, why cannot auditor
Halden do so also? !
The people have determined to
give auditor Halden a permanent
vacation just as soon as possible.
The previous issue of the Rip
saw had a paragraph to the
effect that John Hogan accused
T. H. Little Of trying to turn the
county over to the Catholics as
a result of the county commits
sioner's efforts to give the arch
itectural work for the new Hib-
bing courthouse to Halstead &
Sullivan.
Mr.. Hogan now declares that
the Rip-saw did him grave
injustice by publishing said para
graph. He declares that he never
made any such remark to Mr..
Little and that if the commits
sioner says so, he is trying to
stir up denominational feeling
against him for a malicious pur-
pose.
Mr.. Hogan further declares
that what he really did say to
commissioner Little was to ac-
cuse him Of "trying to turn the
county over to Victor Power and
the Hibbing gang
It is both a duty and a pleas
ure for the Rip-saw to print Mr..
aogan's version Of the dispute
which was hot one if all reports
are true. Happily no blows were
struck, otherwise no one might
have been left to tell either side
of the argument.
Y X
Now that the legislature has
adjourned for a couple Of years,
some way must be found to get
another salary or two for sena-
tor Charles E. Adams. He is
one of the double e-barrelled boys
when it comes to shooting SAL
aries. = The job Of special county
attorney has been supplemented
with the second job and salary
as state senator. When one ac-
ouires the habit Of drawing sala-
ries that run concurrently, like
the sentences of a complacent
Judge, it's a great hardship to
drop back into low gear, as it
were.
Where there is a will, there's
a way. The Lord is not unmind-
full Of his own. Such a pie
counter genius as senator Adams
will not long blush unseen or
unheard. Such a connoiseur in
salaries knows a masterpiece
from fake.
Two years ago, senator Adams
got through a law raising the
salaries of the county commits
sioners from $1,000 to $1,000 a
year, with an allowance Of $500
for horse hire and travel A few
days later, by the way, the ap-
preciative county commissioners
raised senator Adams salary as
special county attorney, from
$3.50 to $3.50 a month. All this
happened early in April, 1915.
Senator Adams scratched the
backs of that bunch Of King
Odin's tame pets and then they
tickled senator Adams chin.
Some mighty good lawyers de-
clare that they find no real war
rant in law for creating this
downy berth for the senator.
But that's a disgusting detail:
Whv worry?