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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04
Red cross buttons.

The local Red Cross is in receipt
of a limited number of Red Cross
buttons and pins which can be pur-
chased for IS cents each from the
secretary. Mrs. Jessie S. Vert.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04
To Build Fine Homo.

L. Monterastelli whose home on
Market street was recently badly
damaged by fire. has taken out a
permit to replace it with a two story
dwelling with fun basement at a cost
of $4,000
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

Divorce Is Granted.
A decree of divorce a been
signed in the case of n
Knowlton VS.. Fred Knowlt"n.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

Mrs. Turner i'm Hospital.
Mrs. O. Turner. a sister of Perle
Bowman. underwent an operation
today at ST. Anthony's hospital.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

]. w. Brown, well known local
furniture salesman. Is leaving for
Palmer Junction. Union county,
, where he will reside In the future.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

Athena Man Operated ON.
William Woods OF Athena is at St.
st. Anthony's hospital where 1e IS
recovering from an operation which
he underwent Saturday evening.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

John +. Wheeler. who has been
practicing law at Vale. has arrived
in Pendleton to take a position as
abstractor for the Hartman Abstract
Co
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

Hermiston Man in Hospital.
Mr.. Alderman of Hermiston. un-
derwent an operation at st. An
thongs hospital yesterday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

The Buick auto of Al Slusher was
stolen Saturday night from Cotton
wood street near the Elk club
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

Liberty belongs rightfully only to
those who pay the price.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04

A French officer decorating \
Plat Andrew. chief m the American
Ambulance Corps iu France. with
he Medal of the Leuion ~ Honor,
The photograph was Wade In tho
Marine District
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-04
Enlist i'm Artillery.

Tom Follett and A Hide left this
morning for Portland, having enlist
ed in the heavy field artillery corps
of the regular army.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
HARVEST TIME FOR TOLL
ERS.

A Duluth employment agency
recently received an order for a
substantial number Of men for
surface work at the Stevenson
iron mine at Hibbing at flat
rate of 40 cents an hour, board
and lodging $30~ a month. For
a 10-hour day, this meant 81 a
day, or a net return Of at least
$75 a month. The job also had
possibilities for Sunday work
and overtime, if desired. To get
and hold such a job a man
needed only his bare hands and
a willingness to use them. Only
two men responded to the call,
although Michigan street was
crowded with idle men. When
a common laborer can get So a
DAY, present high cost of living
is not 50 formidable as it might
be. Hands are worth more than
brains these days.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
DOUBLE-BARRELLED BOYS
Boiler Inspector Bishop Accused
of Belonging to That
Greedy Glass.

Complaint is made that the
double le-barrelled boys are so thick
that pedestrians stumble over
them, no matter what walk in
life they are following. A
double -barrelled boy is a chap
who holds two public jobs at one
and the same time and draws the
salaries concurrently, like the
sentences Of a complacent judge.
To man up a tree, it looks as
il James w. Bishop is one of the
double e-barrelled boys. He is
deputy state boiler Inspector in
this neck O. the wods and fire.
auently issues licenses to en-
gineers and firemen who have to
handle boilers.
Col. Bishop also is credited
with practical operation of Du-
luth's rickety old incinerator, at
a salary Of 800 a month. The
more boilers he inspects at So
each, or two boilers for $5, the
more fees he makes, all without
harm, hurt or injury to a
monthly salary from the kindly
old city Of Duluth.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
VALIANT FIRE FIGHTER
RETURNS TO PIKE LAKE
Turkish Baths and Classy Trained Nurse Rapidly
Heal Blind Pig Bites Recently Received
BY Col. Chas. w. Fitzgerald. .

CANOSIA, June 22.-(Special
to the Rip-saw)-Col. Charles
W. Fitzgerald, recently bitten by
a blind pig that roams the woods
in this vicinity, has SO far re-
covered from his injuries as to
be able to return to his summer
cabin on Pike Lake.
After his injuries received
while valiantly fighting forest
fires in this neighborhood, Col.
Fitzgerald was taken to Duluth
where he took a series of Turkish
baths to eliminate any blind pig
virus that remained in his sys-
tenn. After that regimen, fully
convalescent, the Colonel in
sisted on returning here, accom-
panied by a trained nurse, one of
the classiest nurses seen out here
for some time.
Some Of the young ladies of
Duluth's Smart Set, with Red
Cross inclinations, would have
been delighted to have nursed Col.
Fitzgerald through his GONZALES
cence but both he and his physi-
clans preferred professional tai
ent.
Col. Fitzgerald not only is a
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

great lover Of nature and the
quiet, simple life, but he is a
great favorite with the summer
campers out here, especially the
elderly set. When he is in their
midst, dull care must chase away
and hide itself.
There is great rejoicing that
permanent disability did not fol-
low the poisonous bites Of the
notorious blind pig. The sum-
mer campers now talk Of holding
festivities in honor Of Col. Fitz-
gerald's narrow escape and re-
covery as soon as e his trained
nurse returns to Duluth. A big
picnic supper, with dandelion
wine and raspberry shrub as
moisteners, may be given.
Speeches, dancing and even a
water fete, on classic Pike Lake
may be collateral features.
When ~''Uncle Bob" McKerch-
er has time to practice up a bit
on hunting down blind pigs in
Duluth, the resorters out here
plan to have him come out in
his Marmon car and hunt down
the blind pig that bit a scion Of
the house Of Fighting Fitzger-
aids.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
HALDEN HANGS HIS HEAD PERCY GETS PINCElED

he should have done, thereby
compelling said contractor to
blow them out with dynamite
when he came along with his
road grading operations the next
spring.
Very recently, good farmer
Harris was given a job in the
sum of $50 to dig a ditch along
the Harris road. He dug awhile
and then wanted to, know if the
county had his money ready for
him. He was informed that the
money was ready when the job
was done. He thought the job
was fully finished. An engineer
went out to check up and found
that the ditch was fully a foot
high in the bottom. Another
foot in depth had to be dug in
that ditch before farmer Harris
got his Fifty bones.'
Conditions do not seem to be
so easy and free up in New In
dependence and Northland as
they once were. In some ways,
commissioner Becks is considered
very old-fashioned.
A member of one of the oldest
and largest firms along Superior
street received a tax statement in
which the amount of taxes had
not been written, undoubtedly a
clerical omission.
May 20, two days before the
expiration limit, an employe Of
this house called up the court
house to ask what sum was due
and was greatly surprised to be
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

Pearl Fuller, Catherine Avery,
May Baxter and Irene Hope. He
sought an audience and effected
an engagement with the famous
quartette, in his atelier, down on
the Bowery, over the Boston beam
cry, where they proposed to pose
and where he planned to make
divers studies, from life, of the
human female form divine.
When the show was over, the
pulchritudinous quartette found
the Johnnies crowded out of the
alley back Of the Lyceum by Peter
Percy's powerful Limousine. He
bundled them in, scorched a few
turns up and down the White
Way and then escorted them to his
study, studio, atelier, joint, den
or harem, whatever the proper
name may be.
Percy the Painter seated him.
self on raised daias, like Bacchus
on a beer keg. Sparkling wine
freely flowed. The four famous
models were priming themselves to
properly pose in full dress, half
dress or no dress, as necessity re-
quired, so that the Master could
make his studies. In the mean
time, he unconventionally lectured
on high lights, high spots, feeling
and impression, all the time
smacking his lips over artistic de-
lights to come.
The goddesses shrieked, as pre-
viously stated. Through the studio
! door came officers LeBeau, Ros-
bert and Grinager.
"Uncle Bob wants to see you up
at his atelier,'' they said.
Percy the Painter and the four
famous models went to the un-
soulful police station. There, the
amateur Master of Art was
charged with furnishing women
liquor, contrary to the edict of
the Minnesota safety commission.
He was released on $100 cash bail.
Pearl Fuller, Catherine Avery,
May Baxter and Irene Hope were
charged with being drunk. They
looked the part, but were re-
leased on $40 bail, each.
Peter Christopherson, alias
Percy Christopher, alias Percy
the Painter, employed Thomas
Jefferson McKeon, a clever law
yer, who satisfied the Court that
his client was arrested just one
day too soon to come under the
edict of the safety commission.
The accused was acquitted.
The four famous models from
Broadway admitted that they
were drunk when arrested and,
on advice, forfeited their cash
hail.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

told by the courthouse exchange
operator that the county treas
urer's office would not answer
that she could not getNa connec-
ton.
Surprise was expressed over the
wire at such a state of affairs
and, finally, the operator said:
"What do you want of the
treasurer's office
Although not accustomed to
telling telephone operators his
private business, the business man
finally informed her that he
wanted to find out what sum was
due on taxes, his statement not
showing it.
"Oh, just send them up a signed
check in blank,' - advised the
operator. -
"They might fill it in for mil
lion dollars,'' was the reply, not
made seriously.
"They are honest up there; you
can trust them," was the re-
sponse.
Finally, a member Of the firm
made a personal call at the treas
urer's office to find out what he
needed to know.
The treasurer's office declares
that girl was employed for days
before the rush to do nothing but
answer calls and that there was
no good reason why a connection
with the treasurer's office could
not have been obtained, through
the exchange, especially two days
before the last day of May.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
JAIL GRUB COSTS MORE.

The high cost Of living has
struck the county Jail. Starting
with June l, II cent meals came
to an end and, by authority of
the county commissioners, sheriff
Meining will receive IA cents for
each and every meal he feeds the
prisoners. Had this raise not
been allowed, Mr.. Meining would
have gone out Of the boarding
house business and permitted the
kindly old county to feed its own
prisoners.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

Ihat,s nOtnlng DuC pla1n,
common door mat thievery.'
Such was the declaration Of
many a citizen of st. Louis
county when he read in the pre-
vious issue of the Rip-saw the
sordid facts as to the practice of
county auditor Halden and dep
uty county auditor Walker of
having work done at their pri-
vate, homes by courthouse en-
ployes at county expense.
A door mat thief is one who
steals door mats and is con-
sidered the very lowest and most
contemplate of all thieves.
The taxpayers pay rather
handsome salaries to their serv-
ants in the marble-lined court
house and they make wry faces
when informed that courthouse
carpenter or courthouse janitors
have been employed, on county
time and at county expense, in
doing such work as taking off
and putting on storm windows
for auditor Halden; laying hard
wood floors and shingling the
kitchen for deputy auditor
Walker; or even cleaning a fur
mace, moving lawn or spading
up garden ground.
Exposure Of such sordid thrift
is said to have made the officials
hang their heads and their faces
register at least some measure OF
shame. Petty grating, when ex-
posed, also may be expected to
cause the culprit to show anger,
vindictiveness and desire for re-
venge.
Many, many years ago, judge
of the district court is credited
with using courthouse servitors
at his private home. If that be
correct, he changed his habit
when the fashion in conducting
courthouse business so radically
changed. Such practice no longer
is considered au fait, as the So
ciety editors say, but county
auditor Halden, speaking charit-
ably, may be 25' years behind as
to courthouse customs and fash
ions.
The Rip-saw is a veritable wade
mecum, as special county attor-
ney Adams would say, when it
comes to courthouse etiquette in
the matter of holding office,
doing business and managing the
affairs of marble Lined, granite
pile.
Some of the beneficiaries of
and apologists for Konge Odin
and Prime Minister Walker are
very busy telling how the Rip
saw will be made to retract it's
narration of petty grating in the
form of employing public serv-
ants to do private work. These
courthouse apologists admit that
courthouse servitors have done
work at the homes of Konge
Odin and Prime Minister Walker
but they claim that both those
individuals paid for the work out
Of their own pockets and that
reductions were made from
monthly paychecks of the men so
used.
Reference probably is made to
the time when three men were
employed, one for four days, a
second for five days and a third
for four days, for example. At
the very low wage of So a day,
that would mean work in the
value of $40.
Now the facts are, as reliably
told the Rip-saw, that those three
men were paid but SIS each by
the men for whom they did per-
sonal work and that but S. was
deducted from each monthly pay
check.
That would mean $25 out of
the pocket Of kindly old St. Louis
county and $25 in the pocket of
the man for whom the work was
done. !
That smacks a good deal of
Trying to drag the devil around
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
a stump by the tail.


The cases of gouging dear
old st. Louis county, as men
toned in the previous issue of
the Rip-saw, are entirely separate
and different from the times
mentioned by the courthouse
apologists.
It would be a pleasure and a
benefit to get some of the men
who have sweat in the court
house basement under oath and
on the witness stand. Not even
the hypnotic eye of Konge Odin
could keep them from telling the
truth.
Just as sure as the sun rises
and sets, Odin Halden is slated
for exile from the marble-lined
palace which he has dominated
so long.
One reason is that the masses
have turned against him.
Another reason is that county
elections now are non-partisan
and that the party lash cannot
be used to whip voters into line.
Still another reason is that
many members Of the party to
which Mr. Halden claims to be-
long have repudiated him be-
cause of disloyalty to party nomi-
nees in the past. -.
The Old Spiders goose is
cooked and, in about, 18 months,
all his cunning webs will be
swept away, to be spun no more.
As bearer of the double-cross,
Odin Halden is credited with
being in the front rank. If hell
is paved with good intentions,
then the courthouse yard must be
paved with auditor Halden's s
broken promises.
One former flunkey of Konge
Odin declares that his royal
,highness can promise more and
do less, and make the victim like
it, than any politician ever in St.
Louis county.
Treachery, duplicity, double
dealing, selfishness and similar
faults usually bring their own
punishment. It often is delayed
but comes all the harder when it
falls.
When a republican beneficiary
and leader sticks the knife in
the back of a fellow republican
candidate; when he takes part
in republican councils and then
carries condolences to the demo-
cratic camp; when he promises
loaves and fishes in return for
democratic support; when a man
does such things. he becomes a
political traitor.
Mr.. Halden has done such
things and, like curses, they are
coming home to roost. They can
be proven. In due course, they
probably will be narrated and
interesting reading they will
make.
If the full and complete story
of the making of the Miller
trunk road could be written it
would be ga terror to snakes"
if not educational for the tax
payers. Many citizen has de-
clared that the money expended
on that thoroughfare the past
20 years should have built a
macadamized highway all the
way from Duluth to the Mesaba
range. Some even believe that
the entire sum expended to date
would have paid for a concrete
roadbed all that distance.
Many ''little stories' come
daily to the Rip-saw as to soft
snaps held and money wasted
on the Miller trunk road. They
are not without interest and pro-
fit to the taxpayers.
The Duluth-St. Vincent road
can boast of its gravel pit, un-
discovered at a cost of $3.50 by
Col. Hank johnson. That great
highway No. 4 can boast of
$4,000 worth Of bonds sold at
par, unadvertised, contrary to
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

Where most people are COM
PEELED to put rear lights on their
tin Lizzies. one family in town
uses little batch Of Silberstein
Prestige. 4 xslsikasxssak ksxss1Hta
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

The city commissioners might
advertise for bids as a means of
selling 5000 worth of useless
Zoo posthOles.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
BEST CITIZENS CONDEMN "DOOR MAT LAR
CENY" BY COUNTY OFFICIALS.

No Longer Considered Good Form to Work County
servitors at Official Residences -Halden Apol-
Ogists Plan Comeback on The Rip-saw-Inter-
esting Incidents Concerning Miller Trunk Road
Work-Gravel Pit Foreman a Classy Job
Human Landmarks Being Changed in the Hin
terland by Old-fashiOned Commissioner.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
HUNTING THE BLIND PIGS.

Sheriff John R. Meining is
turning his eagle eye towards the
blind pigs out in the hinterland,
tributary to the county roads.
Several were recently taken into
custody. Sheriff Meining will be
highly commended if he extermin-
ates these grunters, thereby Gre
ating respect for the. law and
making it safer for everyone hav-
ing occasion to journey near the
nests Of the .bristly animals. Onkel
Bernard, perhaps, can get some
information from the sheriff as
to proper ways and means for
hunting down the city blind pigs.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
PATRON OF HIGH ART HAULED FROM HIS
STUDIO TO POLICE STATION.

Percy the Painter Maintains Stamford White Stu
dio Over the Boston Beanery on the Bowery-
Quartette of Famous Broadway Models Imbibe
Sparkling Wine and Plan to Pose for the Master
Police Rudely Spoil the SOiree and Beauteous
. Maidens Admit Befuddlement.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

The people around Pike Lake
talk Of presenting Col. Fitzger-
aid, the great fire fighter, with
an asbestos suit and an oxygen
helmet. 1919. l,i.ha j i ssltsssc sEsE6
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

The Duluth Rip-saw is here to
stay. 1t will be printed every two
weeks until patronage makes q
weekly publication profitable.
Subscription rate are $500 year,
in advance. Subscribe now.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

The Duluth Rip-saw prints and
circulates 5000 copies an issue.
Get your name on the Roll Of
Honor, thus helping bring the cir
culation up to 1O, 600 copies an is
sue. Only $500 year, In advance.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-19
VILLA WIPES OUT
CARRANzA BAND

Associated Press by Federal Wireless)
Ell PASO, Texas, March 18.-N1lla
troops by a surprise attack yesterday
wiped out of existence force of 1900
Carranzistas near the little town OF
Rosario. The federal commander was
subordinate of Gen. Murguia, who is
reported to have suffered severe losses
in the fighting south of Parral F..
The Villa victory was won through
a successful trick and one which the
bandit leader has worked many times
to the undoing of his foes. His men
pretended, when first attacked by the
federals, to be outnumbered and out
generated, and began feigned retreat.
The CarTanzistas, led on by this,
followed hard after, until they were
decoyed into an ambush, where the
Villistas fell upon them and literally
exterminated the entire command.
They then started for Chihuahua and
are now reported to be nearing that
city, which is. declared to be panic
strickened at the prospect of another
raid. -ts y J. ..-....-. 80 ....; ......
The Obfegon revolt against Car
rama, reported yesterday as having
been started by that leader, is said to
be growing in power fast, and reports
reaching here credit him with the
ability to seize the government and
GUST Carranza completely. despite the
vote which the president received at
the recent election.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-19

For the benefit and instruction OF
those who desire to send parcels to
prisoners of war detained in Germany
and her allied countries, British Con-
sui Gordon has sent a letter with
enclosures TO the Etar-Bulletin saying
that he enclosed the information for
the public as 10 certain regulations
that had been sent to him recently.
The Following is the information rel
alive TO the shipment of parcels:
There are at present four organi-
cations in neutral countries recognized
as controlling the sending OF parcels
TO British and Allied prisoners Of war.
These are:
-li) The Bureau de Secours aux
Prisonniers de Guerre. Berne. Swift
zerland.
"(2) L'Oeayre International pour
Blesses ct Prisonniers de Guerre,
Maestricht. the Netherlands.
"(3) The Danish Red Cross So
ciety, Copenhagen. with which the
Bureau of the British Red Cross and
Order of ST. John, recently estab-
lished at Copenhagen, is acting in
cooperation.
"14) The War Prisoners Aid.
Young Mems Christian Associations.
acting under instructions from H.
r. H. the Crown Princess of Swe-
den, Stockholm.
The sending of parcels to prisoners
of war from q neutral country through
any other organization is unauthor-
lied. and parcels may only be sent
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-19
HOW TO Send PARCELS TO allied
PRISONERS TOLDBY BRITISH CONSUL

subject to certain regulations includ'
ing the fixing of 6 maximum total
amount per month"
He also encloses the following ex,
tract from an article published in the
London Daily Mail: -.
The Canadian ana australian gov.
ernments have resolved. during the
past week, to adopt fully the restrie.
tons laid down by the British Prison
ers of War Aid Committee and to
cease forwarding private parcels of
food, ETC., to prisoners in Germany.
This decision is Likely to cause some
distress among the friends and reia.
tfves of soldier prisoners in the enemy.
There is no need for them to be dis
tressed. The Red Cross and other au.
thorities who act for the different gov
ernments will act as agents for buy.
ing whatever is wanted. They have
arranged for admirable parcels of
food, which can be sent without delay
to any man. The system Of private
parcels was found impossible. The
Canadian Red Cross in London, for ex-
ample, has recently been almost over
whelmed with the thousands Of par
cells arriving, many Of them insult.
ably packed, some Of them containing
impossible articles. The system of
sending privately prepared packets TO
prisoners was used by German agents
here as 3 means for forwarding in
formation to the German government,
On the other hand, genuine parcels
have been held up and sometimes