The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-07-19
l. w. w. Rendezvous Broken Up
By the Sank Centre Police
Late Last Saturday Evening

Of late newspapers have been full
Of the deeds and habits of the 1. w.
W., Sank Centre has been peacefully,
perhaps pityingly, reading the ac~
counts, with SNUG feeling of safety,
carelessly Struggling it's shoulders in
an attitude Of superiority over those
unfortunate towns which are SO infest-
ed. Therefore, the announcement
that this same unsaspectiig city has
been harboring, feeding and unwit-
tingly quenching with strong drink
the thirst of band Of I. W. WIS for
the past week will startle the inhahi-
tants to their mental feet.
Every one will recall, as it is
brought TO mind, the unusual influx of
the halt, the manned and the blind, not
to mention the umbrella and scissors
grinders which have increased the
population during the past week OF sc.
True, they seemed harmless, and
many child's penny, a portion Of a
busy housewives allowance, or an an
xious, but big hearted business mans
dime OF quarter has helped to steadily
and materially increase the self-sup-
porting system Of this notorious gang
Of good-for-nothing menaces. The
sound still dins in our ears, the scrape
OF the wooden supports on the hot
cement, the jingle Of the tin cup, the
half pleading, half surly call Of
please help por cripple" OF Help
a blind man who has never seen the
light Of day." We can still see the
great beads of sweat as they roll Off
the bare head in the glare of the sun,
the memory of the hot, sitting odor OF
protecting leather comes back with
disgusting unpleasantness to our nos
trils, the recollection Of feeling of
being sorry for the poor devils who
had to go through life that way is
still lurking in our minds. Detective
VIM. Burns, alias, Chas. Parkinson,
has thrown light on suspicious sub
iect and proved that not is all gold
that glitters.
1t runs almost like fairy story,
not the kind of the beautiful princess
and the gallant prince, but of the
ogEes ana giants, that lived in caves
and woods. These same men were dis
covered camping at the Stone Arch
in Hoboken and identified as same
that were more or less disturbing the
peace of Sank Centre. There were
| about fifteen members of. this little
club all of whom either begged for a
living in preference to an honest oc-
cupation, which even cripple could
get, or else did the least possible
work for the greatest amount of cash.
| Evidently there was some organiza-
ton about it and by keeping together
and dividing the spoils they contrived
to make ends meet beautifully. They
also managed to get gloriously drunk
on some of the afore mentioned easily
earned money.
AS soon as word was received
Chief Of Police Borgmann, accompani-
ed by Night Officer Lamb and Peck
Brown packed their six shooters ano
went out after them. 1t sounds easy
but seriously, it couldn't have been
the most blithesome task in the
world to go into the woods at night
against a bunch of men that might
be of desperate sort, and an alive
and an efficient dog. The dog died
however. He thought Officer Lamb
would make good eating and Officer
Lamb thought he would make goot
target. The Migrants were houset
in the city prison where they lang
uished until Monday morning whel
Judge Kelsey addressed them il
gentle, but firm tones and told then
that all time they needed to get on
of town was one hour. The opinion
was unanimous save for one person
who was discovered in the city tn,
following clay. He was consigned t.
the lookup once more and will b,
there until his ten days of existenc,
on bread and water are concluded.