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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07

a big part Of all our maladies
and diseases are caused by eating
impure food. I know that many
of the ingredients used to adulter-
ate flour, sugar, coffee, preserves,
etc., ETC., will shorten life, by
causing disease.
We have a great many people,
throbbing with energy but, owing
to impure foods, many of them
are headed for untimely graves
with the possibility of a prelimin-
airy sojourn in hospitals or even
insane asylums.
What a sight it would be il
we could look down on the world
and behold the unfit, misshapen,
worthless men, women and chill
dren, some made so before birth
and some after birth. due in en-
tirely too many cases, to impure
or unfit foods and the leading of
unnatural lives.
The wages of sin is death. De-
termined efforts should be made
to stop the premature killing off
of our kind. But, from personal
efforts, I know that those in high
places fail to appreciate the grav-
lty of these matters.
Our bodily ills can best be cured
by pure medicines and pure
foods. With impure, adulterated,
unfit foods and medicines elimin-
ated, the next generation would
be wonderful Improvement over
the present one. Pure foods,
medicines and natural ways Of
living ought, in time, to enable
mankind to live at least 125 years.
That rarity, a physically and men,
tally perfect man would be COM
mon--the rule, not the exception.
Insane asylums would have to
close their doors. To bring about
the desired end. perhaps there will
have to be public ownership of al!
plants that prepare food stuffs.
MARTIN S. FELLAND.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
STORY OF THE DOUBLE
CROSS.

The erratic Emperor of Ger
many is famous for a liberal
bestowal Of the Iron Cross and
the King Of st. Louis county's
courthouse is notorious for hand
ing out the Double Cross.
Emperor Wilhelm, in his
erratic, half-insane way, loves his
Fatherland and delights to honor
those who advance the welfare of
the Empire. Konge Odin looks
on st. Louis county as a plum
tree for his personal shaking. He
ruthlessly throws down any who
may seem to stand in his way.
For a quarter of a century, now,
this modern Phillip, drunk with
power, if not pelf, has spun his
treacherous webs in public affairs.
He has advanced his personal
political fortunes by retiring
others who stood in his line of
march. He has bitten the hands
that helped him and thrown down
those who lifted him up. His
spidery trails Of deceit, treach-
cry and double-dealing run out of
every door in the marble-lined
courthouse to every voting pre-
cinct in the county. Even the
capitol building at St. Paul has
not escaped his cruel, clutching
claws.
For generation, the common
folk, so to speak, have suspected
that all was not as it should be
with their auditor, his methods
and his office. It was not until
the Rip-saw took off the lid and
let them look into the mess that
they saw verification Of their
fears. It was not until the Rip
saw opened up the tightly closed
door that they ever saw how the
wheels of the auditorial machin-
cry really worked.
Another page tells a few brief
stories Of the treachery, duplicity,
cruelty and double dealing of the
tyrant on the hillside. These
stories are but types and samples
Of many, many other stories that
can be told, that should be told
and that will be told as the weeks
60 by. The narrative is neither
pleasing nor creditable to the
courthouse king. But it is illum-
mating and instructive.
The people rule. Let them read
and learn and act.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
POW-WOWING OVER POWER,

By all means let Victor Power
run for governor-by all means,
and then again. If he thinks he
has all the people of Minnesota
bucoed he needs the awakening
that would come with the count
ing of the ballots. Mr.. Power
would find that Minnesota ca.l
in the final analysis be counted as
safe and sane, and that it is not
in the habit Of promoting a mai
to high office that he may vent
his private spleen.-Biwabik
Times.
1t isn't a matter Of letting Mr..
Power run-it is a question of
getting him to run. It isn't
matter of Mr.. Power thinking he
has "buncoed" anyone-it is
question of how many people
look at him as Editor Koen does,
through glasses especially pro-
vided. Mr.. Power would find
that Minnesota can, in the fra,
analysis, be counted as safe and
sane, and Mr.. Powers friends
are satisfied that the voters Of
Minnesota would consider it a
most safe and sane move to elect
him governor. Mr.. Power has
not, as the Times editor would
have his readers believe, any pri-
vate spleen to vent. Even the
Times editor would be befriended
by Mr.. Power, if he was given
the opportunity, and Editor Koen
will surely admit that would "be
going some. THE Mesaba Ore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07

Old chief Dash and his band of
gallant warriors up at Smithville
refuse to wash off their war paint
and have, accordingly, put up
Oscar Amundson as a candidate
for the school board. That Sec
ton of the city is entitled to bet
ter and heavier representation on
the school board and, if wise, will
fight until it prevails over the
autocratic East End.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
AMMUNITION IS AMPLE.

Editor Koen thinks "the news
papers after the scalp of county
auditor Halden have started
their campaign too early" and
he goes on to say that the am
munition will run short. Wrong
again-or is it yet9 Halden =
political machine is such that it
will take a long campaign 20
break it up. As for running
short of ammunition, there is 10
cause for alarm, as Halden is
furnishing that every day.-The
Mesaba Ore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
IT'S SOME JOURNAL.

The chap who said that his idea
of a successful college was him
self on one end of a log and Mark
Hopkins on the other end, should
have known the Bear River Jour-
nal. Somewhere up, above and
back of Hibbing, far remote from
the busiest haunts of men and en-
tirely out of hearing of the iron
horses snort, Col. G. F. Peterson
puts out a paper that is a pleas
ure to receive. Why such a writer
hides his light under a bushel, we
wot not. 1t smacks somewhat of
hunting ducks with a cannon.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
DEMANDS PURE FOODS.
Cramer, Mimi, July l, 19

Cramer, Mimi, July l, 1917.
To the Editor of the Rip-saw:
I feel it my duty to call the at
tention of the general public to
the condition of much of our food
stuffs. President Wilson and
Congress have called a great army
together to put down the iniquity
of the Germans but, here at home,
corruption is allowed to run riot.
l have studied the question Of
our foods for eighteen years and
have come to the conclusion that
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

Mr.. County Option proposes to
make St. Louis county his regu-
lar home if he can carry out al
his plans.
The tools, flunkies and hire
lings of Konge Odin now and
then try to show their teeth t.
the Rip-saw.
The old deadheads are slowly
but steadily being snaked out of
the millpond and the sales of the
Rip-saw just as steadily increase.
If the city of Duluth really is
honest, it will give Col. Huber
back the wire he provided for
the Zoo fence.
The Zoo postholes have been
filled, therefore may be consid-
cred a total loss to the city. All
hope Of he city owning it's own
fox has gone glimmering.
Uncle Sam likes the Rip-saw so
well that he has permitted its
entry as second class mail mat
ter. The Rip-saw certainly has
come to stay.
The Cuckoos now talk of roost-
ing on the boat that goes around
the horn and then loiters a little
in Lake Superior on the way
home.
It's better, perhaps, to be a bit
conventional than tc nurse, dress
and support a poor little war
baby, fatherless, nameless and
unwelcome to grandpa and
grandma.
The courthouse spies are
working overtime to learn where
the Rip-saw gets its information
concerning petty grating. Muir
der will out. Truth, crushed to
earth, will rise again.
Can the fact that most Ameri-
can brewers are Germans have
anything to do with the congress
sional craze for nationwide pro-
hibitio? Stranger things have
happened.
The people Of st. Louis county
are back of the Rip-saw, as the
big bundles Of subscriptions
steadily coming in eloquently
testify.
The heather now and then try
to put spikes in the dead-heads
that are snaked out for saving.
The chief inspector has an eagle
eye and no harm has been dore
! to date.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
THAT PULVERIZING PUNCH.

Col. c. M. Atkinson, head gen.
ius Of The Mesaba Ore. a promin-
ent paper in "The Richest Village
in the World,' has had the sur
geons tinkering up his hands so
that he can more effectively push
along the boom of Victor L..
Power for governor. The Henry
Watterson of Northern Minnesota
journalism has a pulverizing
punch in that pen hand of his and
woe be to him who gets the full
force after nature has fully healed
the surgeons work
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07

Some of the Fat Boys still are
worrying over who is behind the
Rip-saw. They refuse to believe
the truth-the people Of st. Louis
county.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07

According to the latest reports.
old John Barleycorn's bones were
resting easily and undisturbed in
Duluth.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
THE PUBLIC PULSE

The communications printed below necessarily express
views opinions of the Rsaw They printed
matter of public interest entirely responsibility of
pondnt All be writer's
not So
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
THE BOOZER,S LAMENT.

Good bye, beer and whiskey!
Farewell, rock and rye!
We will meet you in Superior,
Now that the Bowery's dry.
Anon.
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IT'S SOME BUG.

The FREELY has a wing of flame;
The ladybug wears her plain.
The bed bug has no wings at all,
But he gets there, just the same.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07
ASSESSMENT DISCRIMINA-
TIONS


To the Editor of the Rip-saw:
The barons who own standing
timber are not the only offenders
against the welfare of the county
treasury in the matter of lodging
proper assessments and payment
of taxes. j. G. Helms work of
revision and adjustment can ap-
ply as to standing timber but mil
lions of feet of logs, ties, posts,
poles and pulpwood from this
neck O. the woods have been cut,
floated to the railroad and then
shipped away, entirely guiltless
Of taxes which, legally and hon.
orably, should have been imposed
and paid.
In the years of 1908 or 1909,
several hundred thousand ties
were landed on Savanagh river
in Halden township. The assessor
in that township got instructions
from auditor Halden not to as
sess them there as they were to
lbe assessed at Floodwood.
| Auditor Halden then wrote
John Anger, assessor at Flood
wood, telling him to assess the
ties at the meeting Of the board
Of equalization. Anger refused
to do so, saying that he knew
nothing about them, mentioned
Halden's letter and told Mr.. Hal
den to assess the ties himself. AS
SCISSOR Anger was employed by
the Coolidge-Schussler Company,
the ties belonged to that COM
pany, and the ties never were as
sessed.
Along back in 19OS-9 and fol-
lowing years, the Coolidge-Schuss-
Ter Company shipped an average
Of 80 cars a day Of pulpwood,
poles, ties, cedar posts and logs,
cut from lands in unorganized
townships, which forest products
never were properly and fully as
sessed. John Anger, holding the
dual job of township assessor and
employe Of the Coolidge-Schuss-
Ter Company, invariably refused
to assess any timber products not
in sight in the town of Flood.
wood. By the time that. stuff
arrived at Floodwood, the assess
ing season had passed.
Most of this timber was cut
from D. & /. R. lands which were
not on the tax rolls at that time.
When stumpage was cut, the rail
road company advised the county
auditor and only some small as
sessments were made by him
against the lands, during the life
of the timber permits. The tim
Der was far more valuable than
the lands.
Today, lands in Sec. 80 and 81,
$500, and Sec. 6, 1920, bearing
the most valuable timber in this
region, are being cut off. The
timber was sold to Andrew John
son. The assessment in 1920
averaged only about Sc per 40
acres. The average assessment
in 1920 averaged about 1915 per
40 acres.
The NE14 Of SEA-, Sc of SWA,
NV of SEA-, and SW Of SE14,
in the same section belonged to
another man and his assessment
was $3.50 per 40 acres and his
timber was cut off IL or Is
years ago. These D. & I. R. lands
are three times more valuable on
account Of the timber being cut
now.
This timber is being taken out
on a spur track from the Missabe
road. I do not know whether or
not it has been assessed in the
last three years.
The dictionary says that an
auger is a tool. John Anger was
rightly named. He held a sine
cure with the ge-Schussler
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-07

The heather now and then try
to put spikes in the dead-heads
that are snaked out for saving.
The chief Inspector has an eagle
eye and no harm has been dore
to date.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Archie Walker Stops
Two in Amateur Bouts

Archie Walker, the clever Irish
American Athletic Club boxer. easily
defeated two opponents in the lOS-pound
class in the trial bouts for the New
York state amateur boxing champion
ships at the City Athletic Club last
night. His victims were Isaac New
man. unattached, and William Murphy
East Side House. Each bout went the
regulation three-round limit.
Robert Gleason, Of the Dominican
Iyceum. who recently captured both
the 145 and 158-pound Metropolitan
Association titles, stopped George Muir
nhv. ST. Bartholomew Athletic Club. IN
the second round of the 15o-pound diVi-
sion.
The summary follows:
los. pound class orialI--A. Walker Irish Ameri
can A C. awarded judges decision over lrrins
p Newman unattached IN three rounds Irving Jan
moi RrcnRdsle A {. awarded judges decision
over Walter Gllday Oysnam 4. \. IN three rounds
second trfels-A Walker. irish American a. Z
sTsrieJ Judge decision over w. Murphy. East Side
liz Mound cIsss (trals}-F Zellner. Trinity Club
awarded judges decision over J. Cooney. una,'
70 ss Mound class (tnalsl--C Bsecher Educatons
,,ii,rrs defeated Patrick Mccarthy, unattached
n orc round stopped by referee. NJ.
i35 pound class ltnAslLl,o ION nuHeS' hf,,.e
So-,sgisn T and A C.. In three rounds. j W
Riordsn. Irish Anericsn A. G, awsTied ludges
derision over < Moshfg UNI Ichepi ~ III, 4,
srtwinscr unattached. IN ono round st,pped o
rs,,re, 4 Banning Bhn-crest A. c.. defeAt.d >
Her unattached IN one rognd snpps1 Tgooin,.s
T,crln detected q. MURPHY. - barthooine"
A q in one round. stopped BY referee
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Braves Victors
In First Extra
Inning Session
"Iksome" Mayer Passes Pinch
Hitter, Forcing in the
Winning Run

Boston, April 17-Boston won from
Philadelphia again to-day in the first
extra inning game of the season when
Pitcher Mayer gave Chapelle, a pinch
hitter, a base on balls with the bases
full in the twelfth inning. Smith
counted with the run which made the
final score TO 5.
Lavender's wildness in the first
inning gave Boston a two-run advan-
tage, but the Philadelphias in the third
gained five runs on a combination OF
poor pitching, hits and errors, which
forced the retirement of Crum, a Bos-
ton pitching recruit.
Nehf, who succeeded him in the local
box, held the visitors safe while
Gowdy's singles brought in runs in the
fourth, sixth and eighth innings, the
latter tally tieng the game.
The Phillies protested Boston's
twelve-inning victory. Manager Moran
announced tonight A decision by UNI
pire Bransiield, who declared Pitcher
Lavender, of the Philadelphia. out for
running off the line between second
and third bases in the third inning,
when Philadelphia scored five runs, was
the basis of the complaint.
Lavender had started to cross the
diamond from second, apparently be-
lieving he had been called out on a
play at that base, but turned and
reached third base before the ball was
thrown to that position.
Manger Moran said his protest was
based on the ground that runner can
rot legally be retired for leaving the
base line unless intending to avoid be-
ing tagged.
The score follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Giants Take -Four Straight,
Robins Drop Same Number
Pol Perritt Gets Off to q
Good Start for Season
at Ebbets 5 Field
BY ". J. MACBETH

The story Of Brooklyn's fourth
straight defeat Of the season - one
Ringing purely on mistaken identity.
Last years champions Of the National
League mistook the violet stockings Of
McGraw's platoon for the Crimson hose
Of the Red Sox-and acted accordingly.
The Giants won by score of to ..
1t kept them up on the top Of the NJ
tional League heap as 1t conversely
submerged the Dodgers in the slough
of despond.
From Brooklyn viewpoint there
were many regrettable incidents. Inc
left side Of the cast was distinctly or
color. Bunny Fabrique. Zach Wheat
and Ivan Olson didn't have their minds
exactly on the race Among them they
made show of Uncle Robbie's neuritis.
] They spilled enough bone and ivory
through the encounter to set up hall
dozen billiard psrlors.
Jeff Pfefcr staked his reputation
toward a much needed uplift for Flat
bush. He drew Pol Perritt, the sicS
silver of New York. and probably would
have made 1t dudel to the end II M
support had lived up to expectations.
For six innings Perritt looked every
bit as good as Walter Johnson st ms
best. He skidded couple of cantos
then, but closed tight and sound as
stranded clam
Now Pfeffer never had a great deal
of encouragement TO beat Perritt. BE
fore Brooklyn's opportunities fell the
game was pretty we'll cinched. In a
squeeze Brooklyn might not have had
the later openings.
The Fourth Straight
This fourth straight victory for the
Giants and fourth straight drubblng
for the Dodgers as pretty "A tut
As ono might imagine for three innings:
In that time New York got a couple o.
hits Oft Pfeffcr; Brooklyn nicked Per
rts for one safe blow. IL was HerzoG
who broke the ice for the Giants IN tire
very first round he was cut down try
ING 10 stretch his one-bag swat 70
Wheat's patrol. Dayey Robertson fol
lowed with a safety, TO be left when
, Zimmerman whitfield.
Brooklyn'5 only hit in three rounds
was a poke by Daubert in the FIRST
inning. II looked like a starter TIL
Benny Kauf raced away back TO the
fence for a beautiful catch by Iach 5
Wheat terrific liner. This catch Killed
off an apparently sure triple. From
there till the sixth only one Dodger
runner saw first. Olson. hit by pitched
ball, with two gone in the second, was
forced by Miller
Brooklyn broke Pfefer's heart and put
the legion Of McGraw on the winning
way with a whole lot Of weird fielding
in the fourth round. Herzog raped a
hit by Cutshsw's off hoof TO start. IT.
The official scorer gave it a hit but
TO a man up a tree who ever heard OF
an infelder supposed to wear glove
on his hoof? What Zach Wheat did
to Davey Robertson's succeeding line
drive is almost too horrible to tell
First Of all Zach misjudged the lick
He didn't start till the drive was almost
on top of him; then he crossed his
pedals, tripped and let the csrron
through to the fence for circuit smash
It was curtains thereafter; mere for
mality of playing nine rounds.
Robins Go to Pieces
The psychological slump of the after
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Ebbets Offers Aid
In Recruiting for
Naval Service

In the breast OF that Flatbush
patriot Charles II. Ebbets, stanch op'
ponent Of the tax on baseball, burns the
desire TO help boom the recruiting
work. Charles Hercules, the Columbus
Of holiday dates. has dedicated his
handsome edilice that bears the name
Of the family TO the cause or demoe-
racy.
Thursday afternoon-the last day the
Giants will have 10 make life mlseraDle
for the doughty 1916 champions OF the
National League-will be celebrated IN
q gigantic boom for supplementing the
naval strength of the big brother OF all
the republics.
On the historic scene Of the celebrat-
cd battle Of Long Island will be m
aucurated the spring drive OF the. ON
ems Auxiliary Navy Recruiting Body,
Of Brooklyn. Morning and afternoon
parades will be held-at 1880 and :
o'clock, respectively. The afternoon
parade will lead to the scene OF hostili,
ties-both of Revolutionary days ana
the present marlborough baseball teud
where speechmaking by Brooklyn
most prominent enthusiasts Will usher
in the drive of preparedness.
Senator Calder and Borough Presi-
dent Pounds are expected to lead the
verbal drive toward the great awaken
ine-a stratagem that bears the stamp
of approval OF the Navy Department.
Mrs. n. X. Usher. wife Of the com
randant OF the Brooklyn navy yard, Is
honorary chairman of the rally. Most
prominently associated with her are:
Mrs. Maude Garfield. chairman; Mrs
". II. McGrann, assistant chairman /;
Mrs. f. p. Jessop, secretary; Mrs. W. l.
Simmons. assistant secretary; Mrs
Charles VI. Travis, treasurer; Miss May
Ebbets. assistant treasurer, and MISS
N. II. Lloyd, chairman of auto trans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Boxing
Bill Fails in
Assembly
Attempt to Pass Repeal Of
Pugilistic Law Is
Defeated

Albany, April H. - The G. ].
Davis bill carrying out Governor Whit
mans determination TO abolish boxing
is having hard shedding in the Asser 70
bly,. The first attempt to pass it to-
day got only seventy-four votes, two
less than necessary to pass. There
were fifty-six votes against it. The
introducer moved that the vote be re-
considered.
When the vote was first counted this
afternoon It was found that seventy
six members. including the Speaker
were recorded in its favor, but before
the result was announced Assemblymcn
Bush, Of Chemung, Democrat, and
Bourkc, of New York, Republican,
changed their votes from the aiiirma-
tive TO the negative. Three Democrats,
Bloch, Donohue and Merritt, voted for
the bill, while twenty-ono Republicans
voted against it. They are Baxter,
Bell. Bewley, Bourke, Cheney, Danser'
Davies, Dobson, Ellenbogen, Gardne-,
Green. Kasson. Malone, Marsh, y. j.
Miller, II. {. Mitchell, Perlman, A. Tay-
lor. f. A. Wells, Welsh and thinner
man.
So sure we're the legislative leaders
that the boxing repeal bill would he
passed that money for the support 81
the boxing commission for the next
wear has been left out Of the annual
appropriation bill signed By the Gov
prnor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Fight Log

THURSDAY
CIermont s. C.-Charley White and
Walter Mohr.
FRIDAY
New Polo A. A.-Bobby Adsir and
Billy Kelly.
Harlem ). C.-Sam Langford and
Bob Devere; Willie Astey ard
Mickey Dunn.
SATURDAY
Fairmont 4. C.-Bob McAllister and
Johnny Howard.
Greensboro 4. C.-Johnny Molinaux
and Walter Brooks.
Broadway S. C.-Joe Lynch and
Terry Martin.
Clermont s. c. - Pal Moore and
Frankie Callahan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18

morrow night. and White may be the
nurse who will lull him to sleep.
Francis Charles Moran. the blond
cun-pointer from Pittsburg, who did
things TO Tom Cowler at the Harlem
Sporting Club last week. has his chal-
lenge to the winner of the bout be-
tween Carl Morris and Jim Coffey at
the Manhattan Athletic Club on Mon
day night. already engraved and ready
70 be hurled.
Joe HUMPHREYS, the sweet singer Of
Harlem, has been practising his verbal
delivery OF the challenge for the last
two days and will do a Demosthenes
from the Manhattan ring just before
Morris starts to stir the Cofey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18

Wingo Big Factor in
Victory for the Reds

Cincinnati. April 17.--Cincinnati won
the third game of the series from
here to-day in ninth inn
ing rally. Roush opened the inning
with a single; Griffith, batting for
Neale, forced him. and Kopf flied out.
Wingo then hit for his second triple,
scoring Griffith Baird threw low on
easy grounder and Nlngo
scored with the winning run,
Tho score: