The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-09
HELPING HALDEN'S HOUSE

new voters in the marble-lined
courthouse.
On one occasion an Austrian
was being initiated into citizen
ship and already the Spiders
Web seemed to have him. His
answers were fairly satisfactory
until the Judge asked him:
"Who makes the laws?"
"Odin Halden,'' was the earn
est reply.
A recent issue Of the Rip-saw
told how a careless custodian
failed to drain the cylinders Of
the famous gasoline tractor en-
gine in the Fifth district with
the result that water froze in the
cylinders and badly burst them
last winter, making it necessary
10 spend much money for repairs.
This is the same tractor as
hauled manure to Louis Ander-
sons Pike Lake farm and for.
which use Col. Kauppi says that
bill against Capt. Anderson in
the sum Of $40 was made out and
left in the county auditors Of
flee.
The last known, Capt. Ander-
sen had not shelled out the $40.
A Pike Lake farmer who called
on the Rip-saw the other day
wondered why Col. Kauppi did
not collect the bill before he went
out of office, especially since it
was so reasonable a one, for this
hard-headed old farmer swears
that 5000 would have been rea-
sonable price for use Of the trac-
tor. The Rip=saw now passes the
buck to Col Kauppi, Capt. Ander-
son and the horny-handed
Farmer.
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A citizen with an eye sharp
enough to make him a good
gravel prospector, informs the
Rip-saw that, where the Pike
Lake road turns off from the
] baaaaaIas fiinaasRaed
grader stood out in the weather
all winter.
Whether or not that grader is
one Of the big bunch bought by
Commissioner Penttila, the in
formant did not know. He also
was uncertain whether it be-
longed to Uncle Alec's First dis
trict or to the long-suffering city
Of Duluth. He heard that Uncle
Alec's road grader was properly
housed last fall, therefore feared
dear old Duluth was the innos
cent bystander in this case.
Konge Odin strenuouSly denies
that he ever reads the Rip-saw,
but he does show some curiosity
as to who is back Of it. Some of
his Wolvin building friends and
supporters also have shown a
right smart lot of curiosity as to
the Rip-saw hackers. Their ex-
periences and methods cannot let
them believe that the only back
ers are the sovereign people Of
St. Louis county, who believe in
having a completely clean court
house and, an administration Of
county affairs by the people and
for the people.
Some of the kings courtiers
puff up their cheeks, blow out
COB of hot air and declare that
the Rip-saw will not last long.
Other Rip-saws have been
,>owned and operated by the head
sawyer Of The Duluth Rip-saw
and some mighty big and promi-
nent deadheads were sawed up
and piled up ia the storage yard.
There's d yarn around town
that some bombs will be put
Under the Rip-saw if it does not
cease it's lese majeste.
The very first issue Of the
Rip-saw told how the complacent
county commissioners, in May,
1915, sold road bonds in the sum
Of $15O,000 without advertising
for bids. The scheme seems to
have been cooked up to help Fred
Is. Myers, a chum Of Odin Halden
and State Treasurer Walter j.
Smith, to the tune of $4,000, that
sum being a commission paid by
the complacent county commits
sioners for &C finding a buyer.
That bond deal put a bad taste
in the mouths Of taxpayers and