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

a private detective later on, is said
to have died in the West few years
ago. His end is reported to have
been in keeping with his living.
j. B. CAMPBELL, formerly law
partner with Clyde w. Stilson, is To-
Gated in Spokane, Wash, where he
serves the Jobbers' Association. He
has been prominent and effective in
fighting freight rates detrimental to
Spokane.
BEN F. HOWARD, a pioneer Of
pioneers in Duluth, who was alder
man several terms and very promin-
ent in Duluth politics and business,
now operates a sawmill and makes
his home at Iceland. Manitoba, above
Winnipeg.
ANDRES II. MILLER, one of the
most public spirited men Duluth ever
had and who erected the Lyceum
theatre building by day wages, pay
ing the top price for labor, makes his
home at the Savoy hotel, New York
City.
CARL NEUMAN, formerly deputy
sheriff of st. Louis county, made a
mint of money on the Guyana range
and now resides in Minneapolis,
where he mixes with the big ones
and collects iron royalties four times
a year.
GEORGE f. DAVIS, formerly a
Duluth lawyer, resident in West Du-
luth, and once member of the Iegis-
lature, now makes his headquarters
in Minneapolis. He is reported to
have laid the foundation for financial
independence in the Oklahoma oil
fields.
WILLIAM J. HAYES, for some
years assistant advertising manager
of the Herald, later with the Mime
apolis Journal aid still later in the
real estate business at Red Cliff, AL
berta, Canada, at present is connected ,
with the advertising department of
the Minneapolis Daily News.
HENRY TRUELSON, Duluth pion-
eer and former mayor, lives at Zen
18th, N. D., where he manages a lig-
mite coal mine for a corporation in
which he is interested. Henry Truel-
son, Jr., private secretary to his ia
Their when mayor, has made a great
success at farming in that same re-
gion.
GEORG7 r.. LAYBOURN, prom
inent in Duluth's real estate heyday
and, later, state senator, now resides
in San Diego, California, where he
dispenses real estate, tries to keep
thoughts of Duluth from pulling at
his heart strings and remembers how
Odin Halden gave him the double
cross in politics.
VICTOR RAKOWSKY, born and
reared in Duluth, graduate of the !
Houghton School of Mines, took up a
zinc mining deal in northeastern Ok |!
lahoma with great financial success. |
Since then, he is reported to have !
made a fortune in Oklahoma oil. He |
recently bought a mansion in Joplin,
Mo.
WALTER A. WASHBURNE, who
succeeded the editor Of the Rip-saw
as reporter on the Herald in the
spring Of 1895, worked as a news
paper writer in st. Paul, Omaha and
Kansas City and finally got back to
Chicago, his old home. At present,
he is night city editor on the Chicago
Daily Herald.
CHARLES F. HARTMAN, locally
prominent in business and social cir
cles and, later, receiver of the local
U. S. Land Office, now resides in
Portland, Oregon. In recent letter
to friend he stated that he had not
felt so we'll in years; also that he
had climbed high and dry onto the
water wagon.
HI. 8. MILLS, commonly called
SAM" once cashier for the Duluth
Evening Herald, is credit man for
McKibbon, Driscoll & Dorsey. whole
sale hatters in st. Paul. Mr.. Mills
retains that famous smile and
Of manner. He remar-
ried few years ago to Scotch las
sic in the Sanity City.
CHARLES F. FRANTZ, formerly
bookkeeper on the Duluth Evening
Herald, died at Ashland, Wis, ten
years or more ago, while employed
by the A. Booth Packing Company.
His widow, Mrs. Mary S. Frantz,
years ago proof-reader on the Du-
luth Evening Herald, has home in
st. Paul and is employed by the West
Company.
JOSEPH I'll. SHARP, formerly land
attorney and bon vivant in Duluth,
has resided at Lander, Wyoming, for
some years. He has practiced law,
attained a judgeship and secured
some promising mining properties
out there in the land OF sand and
Recent runors, now
ever, have 1t that he may remove to
Portland, Ore.
SIDNEY J. HUNTLEY, brother Of
w. w. Huntley, who "edged up ems"
for some years In Duluth, nearly a
quarter Of century ago, and who
was prominent in politics in and
around Spring Valley, Mimi, for
some years, has been a very valuable
lieutenant of Lieut.-Gov. Frankson.
At present, Mr.. Huntley has head
quarters at 800 Pioneer building, st.
Paul.
JOHN X. WIGHTMAN, who went
some of Duluth's old real
estate boom and the Mesaba iron
boom, came within about 100 votes
Of beating Odin Halden for auditor
twenty years ago. Mr.. Wightman at
present Is connected with the New
York office of the l.. c. Smith Type
writer Company. His family resi-