The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

ladies, freighters, 'prospectors
and, close by at all times, hostile
Indians, were the main features
of the locality.
II clearly remember how, on
one occasion, q Mexican went
little way into the hills and soon
afterward rode down the street
with the head of an Indian on a
long pole. He had killed the
savage and the head was still
dripping blood.
II prospected, mined and
jumped claims with the rest of
them. I was at Lead, S. D., when
claim-jumping was accompanied
by bitter fighting in which bullets
flew thick and fast and men bit
the dust in numbers.
II personally knew Senator
George Hearst, father Of William
r. Hearst, the noted newspaper
publisher. He was a most agree
able man with a long beard.
Many time he asked me to join
him in a drink. His home was in
California but he came from Mis-
souri, and was prominent in Black
Hills mining. He acquired the
Homestake mine which now is
known all over the world.
II worked in one Of the big
stampmills at Lead as an ANAL
gamator but, after a few years,
| the Lake Superior region called
me back"
"Volumes have been filled with
stories about adventures with
John Barleycorn," remarked Roy
L. Hood recently, "but one Of the
most amusing incidents I ever saw
was in a plumbing shop on Su-
perior street some years ago. l
| do not remember the exact shop
! but most of the actors were that
bunch once employed by Alan
Black.
ut was Saturday evening and
the gay plumbers were rushing
an old apple can between the shop
and a saloon, foamy beer being
the beverage. The boys were get
| ting nicely stimulated when in
walked chap so drunk that he
thought the plumbing shop was
a lodging house.
Gimme bed,' he demanded
in thick and booty accents.
Zone of the bunch, quick as a
wink, showed the, shop book be.
fore him and told him to register.
He scrawled his name as best he
could.
| ga dollar, please. Our guests
are required to pay in advance,
said the plumber.
"The befuddled fellow handed
over a dollar, after which the
gang put him to bed in a big,
broad, deep porcelain-lined bath
tub that stood in the shop for dis
play purposes.
"The victim quickly fell into, a
drunken sleep, after which the
boys rushed that apple can until
the dollar was entirely expended
for beer"
"Here comes Andrew Car
negie," exclaim the jurors in the
district court as uncle Jimmy
Lynn walks down the halls Of the
marble lined courthouse. This re-
mark is due to the fact that uncle
Jimmy greatly resembles the
noted iron master in size, cut of
whiskers and physiognomy. Uncle
Jimmy not only is one of the
clearest-headed jurors that ever
sat in the box but he always has
a quick and fitting answer for
the jokers who call him "Andy
Carnegie
Mr.. Lynn came to Duluth very
nearly fifty years ago. Standing
in the jury room one afternoon,
| facing the hillside at the East
End, where schools, churches and
homes of millionaires now occupy
| the ground, the old pioneer re-
| marked that he once cut cord
wood on that identical ground.
II had not been hire long be-
fore I secured a contract to de.
liver William R. Stone 1000 cords
of wood at his dock. I had heard
people speaking of the 'Endion
lands and thought they said and
meant Indian lands, therefore I
got men, teams and tools and be-
gan getting out cordwood on
those very lands.
81 had cut and delivered