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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
THE POLITICAL POT
AS the Pie-comter Boys and Patriots Make Merry
Medicine in City, County and State, tho
) Old Pot BOils and Bubbles Fiercely. ,

der it impossible for him to ap-
peal from the sentence of exile
already passed by common con-
sent.
A small army. Of aspirants looks
longingly at the county auditors
office. Among the avowed as
pirants or those favorably men
toned by Influential citizens are
the following:
Walter Bergen, William R.
WATSON, George M. Peterson, A.
P. Cook, Ed II. Hatch, Jack Nc
Gregor and James Matteson.
The people propose to have
something to say about the NOM
nation. A competent man and
one who will not perennially play
politics and try to stick for life
will be the one to get the great
est consideration.
4
The boomlet for Fred Ward for
sheriff caused CONSERVATION in
the breasts Of several aspirants
for the nomination for the office.
The idea is taking like wild fire
with many. Mr.. Ward is on the
top wave Of popularity in St.
Louis county. If his candidacy
is a fact, it easily eliminates
"Uncle Bob" McKercher, the
wild Highlander rider in the Mar.
mon car.
A race between John R. Mem
ing and Fred Ward would be
worth going miles to see and
both men would know that there
had been a contest when the
voters rendered their decision.
Mr.. Meining has a host of ex-
tremely loyal supporters and a
super-man would find him an ex-
tremely stiff competitor.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
HIBBING'S MUNICIPAL
NOVELTIES.

Last year, Hibbing's village
trustees voted to establish a mu-
nicipal bull and municipal stall
lion or two for the benefit Of
the farmers in and around that
section Of kindly old St. Louis
county. Only few months ago.
it also was decided to erect mu-
nicipal warehouses for the stor-
age of potatoes and that plan is
being carried out at a cost of
about $15, 900. Now comes a plan
for the erection of a municipal
barn and resthouse for the farm
ers who may come into the Rich
est Village on Earth and who
may wish to feed their horses
and themselves, while enjoying
proper rest and protection from
the elements. Municipal bath
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
THE LAST LOG DRIVE.
Boom Sticks Are Removed and
Brainerd Bids River Hogs
Farewell.

The last log drive from the
upper Mississippi to Minneapolis
has been made. 1t passed Brain
erd the first of last month. A once
great river industry has gone,
never to return.
The logs in this last drive came
from upper points Of the river to
the dam at Brainerd where the
boom company had large crew
engaged in taking the drive past
that city.
The Northern Boom company
has handled log driving above
Brainerd and the Mississippi &
Rum River company from Brain
erd to Minneapolis. The work
has employed from $50 to 200 men.
The big drive past Brainerd was
in 1898 when nearly 100000, 900
feet of logs were handled. That,
it is claimed, was the biggest drive
ever made in the northwest, with
the possible exception OF some
drive in Wisconsin in the palmy
days of the numbering business.
This year, the drive dwindled
to 100000 feet. Boomsticks
are being taken up and Pat Long,
largely identified with the drive
at Brainerd,' has gone to Mime
apolis. He was well known for
his kindly treatment Of the river
hogs" and results successfully at
tanned with them and in the work.
With the logs out Of the river,
navigation will be facilitated. The
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
SOME PRICE FOR COWS.

Roy Bohn, near Menagha, Wa
dena county, recently sold four
registered short horn cows for
500. The owner said that the
animals were worth more than
SITS apiece and that it takes no
more to feed a COW worth $175
than one worth $50 but that he let
them 60 because Of a shortage Of
feed. Incidentally, why should
farmer with live stock like that
worry over the high cost Of living
and why should he not ride about
in a Ford or even a Marmon car?
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

Walter johnson, candidate for
the nomination for sheriff of st.
Louis county, informs the Rip
saw that he never has belonged
to Duluth's "Little Tammany,"
the pie-counter faction Of local
democrats.
In proof of Mr.. Johnson's de-
claration, his friends inform the
Rip-saw that his race for auditor
against Odin Halden is ample
proof of his Assertion. He made
that race against the wishes OF
Hon. A. G. Weiss, the local boss
of "Little Tammany' and man
who would not willingly see Mr..
Halden opposed.
The Rip-saw gladly makes this
correction and offers Mr.. John
son a full-size apology for the
error. The Rip-saw sincerely
hopes that the error has not DAM
aged Mr.. johnson s political for
tunes beyond complete repair.
A recent dispatch from st. Paul
expresses full belief that Victor
l.. Power, mayor Of the Richest
Village on Eearth, will contest
with j. A. A. Burnquist for the
republican nomination for gov
ernor of the great state of Min
nesota and that his announce
ment to that effect soon will be
Forthcoming.
AS the Rip-saw before has
stated, it's dollar to a dough-
nut that Charles A. Lindbergh
of Little Falls, Mimi, also will
be cadidate for governor. 1t is
not likely that next years cam
paign will be dull or slow.
So far, the most likely man the
democrats can run is Judge Stan
ton of Bemidji. G. M. Andrist,
once a professor in the State
University, then private secre-
tary to Governor Hammond, has
made his bow to the public as a
candidate for the democratic
nomination. This is the second
time he has put up his lightning
rod for that office.
y
Every week and every day in
dictate that Oden Halden is as
dead as a door nail in st. Louis
county politics. Not only has his
long tenure of office barred him
from further consideration but
his record is becoming so well
known that old supporters have
turned him down fatty and
coldly. All this. gets on the
nerves of the domineering King
Of the Courthouse SO seriously
that he is making breaks and
stopping over in ways that rem
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

"A recent report Of John G..
Ross, agent Of the st. Louis
county humane society, contained
the following detail, viz:
"Dan Lehman, a 14-year-old
boy living at Floodwood, was
placed in charge of a doctor and
complaint was made that the doc
tor had mistreated little Dan. We
brought the matter to the at
tention of the county attorney
and Muirhead was indicted and,
after a long and hard-fought
trial, he was found guilty and
sentenced to three months at the
work farm. at hard labor. He
served his time, including the
hard labor.p
AS many will remember, the
Lehman boy was sent to-a state
correctional school where it was
found that he was suffering from
broken ribs. When questioned,
he declared that the injury was
due to brutal blows by DR.. Muir
head, a Floodwood physician.
Young Dan Lehman had been
placed in the f;air-haired doctors
care. He was a wreck from vic
ious habits. The story Of his i'm
moral relations with his little Sis
ter and other vicious habits
would make many a careless
parent pale and shudder.
Supposedly suffering from kid
ney trouble, young Dan was
placed in the care Of the deb
OMAR medic at Floodwood.
When his brutality was revealed
the ethical doctor was arrested
and brought to Duluth. He put
up a hard legal fight and, in
stead Of going to the peniten-
tiary, escaped with only ninety
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
A BRUTAL RIB BREAKER
FREQUENTS FL0ODW00D
Ethical Physician Permitted to Resume Practice
After Gazing in Boys Ribs and Serving
Sentence at County Work Farm.

days of hard labor at the county
work farm.
Before the ethical doctor had
completed his sentence, young
Dan Lehman had paid the pen
atty of his ignorant depravity,
his end undoubtedly being has
tened by the rib-smashing blows
of his physicians novel treat
ment.
Before young Dams untimely
death and the gay doctors re-
lease from incarceration, his poor
old mother went from Chicago
to Floodwood and chased a vol
uptuous female nurse out Of the
Muirhead hospital, Gliding her
severely for alleged relations
with her fair-haired son.
It is quite well understood
that DR.. Muirhead was a drug
victim while at Floodwood but
that he took a cure for the habit.
But, today, he swells up and
down the sidewalks of one Of the
fairest villages in St. Louis
county, branded as a dope vic
tim, a lady's man and a men,
Der of the great medical profess
sion who treats Bright's disease
and vicious habits in an ignor-
ant boy by bashing in his ribs.
DR.. Muirhead has a license
from the state authorities to
practice medicine. Despite his
rotten record, not only do several
Floodwood families take him into
their innermost circles but no
professional discipline is given
him.
For the physicians Of St. Louis
county to take any action per-
haps would be unethical.
It's a caution to snakes what
stunts can be pulled off in kind
ly old st. Louis county.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
houses are expected to follow all

houses are expected to follow all
these other conveniences some Of
these bright days. The citizens
also have not given up the idea
of inducing the U. S. Steel cor
poration interests to build mil
lion dollar hotel at Hibbing. The
time may not be far distant when
municipalities all over the coun-
try will send their officials to
Hibbing to study modern
wrinkles in municipal improve
ments and ,conveniences. The
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
when FAT BOYS DISAGREE
LEAN BOYS HEAR FACTS
Col. Atkinson, Hibbing Editor, Caustically Com
ments on Certain Conditions in Duluth and
Talks About An InterlOcking Directorate.

real estate dealers of the ex-
change would profit as a result,
and no one else.
"Yet the fact remains that
the exchange in it's noisy yowl
has hit the nail squarely on the
head. Duluth has everything to
make it the most commercially
important and one OF the larg-
est cities in the United States,
but it will never get anywhere
until the plutocratic gang IN
charge is broken up, and that
will be slow business. The peo-
pie who work and make the
town, haven't a look-in.
"Also, just at present, there
is a great deal of righteous noise
over the iniquities of the Michi-
gan street gang, the commission
row as it is called. 1t has de-
veloped that these dry land pi-
rates have been destroying food
in order to better enable them to
keep the prices sky high, while
many of the people of the city
were going hungry.
"This condition of affairs has
long been known to the authorl-
ties and the newspapers, but 1t
remained for an outside man to
make the expose; and he made it
in such a way that it could not
be ignored. The newspapers,
therefore, are showing their GIVE
virtue by giving vent to a lot OF
distressing gurgles.
"But nothing will ever come OF
any of the proposed investlga-
tions, for the simple and very
good reason that the controlling
power of Duluth lies with the H.
terlocking directorate, which has
it's tentacles into every field OF
commercial endeavor in the city.
The operations Of the directorate
90 for the making of a million
aire here and there, and to the
loss of all of those who are with
out the mystic circle.
"Duluth's interlocking direct
crate is a wonderfully smooth
working machine, and has never
yet slipped a cog. 1t is manlp-
ulated by Steel corporation Of
ficials, controlling the banks,
wholesale houses, court house,
Commercial club, Real Estate Elk
change, the churches and every
thing else worth while, and all
Of these organizations are made
to work for the emolument OF a
mere handful Of Duluth gem
tlemen Of the highly seasoned
mold.
"That is what's the matter
with Duluth, and it will take
some kind of an organization and
a lot of hard work to break 1t
up. The present noise will soon
die down and the directorate
will again proceed on its even
way-grabbing right and left
with an Unsuitable greed, and de-
spelling what otherwise would
be the best and richest city Ill
! the country.
evil Duluth ever wake up?'
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

The building, when completed, will
be % by 125 feet and the roof and
sides will be entirely covered with
sod. The Oliver company en-
couraged its employees to plant po-
tatoes this year, furnishing the
ground and blowing it without
charge and furnishing an expert
to give advice as to the care Of
the crop.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13
BUILDS POTATO WAREHOUSE

A potato warehouse which will
hold approximately eight thousand
bushels of potatoes, is being built
at the Monroe location at Chisholm
by the Oliver Iron Mining COM
pany for the use Of it's employees.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

Duluth, like the church, was
founded on a rock. Like those
who landed on Plymouth rock,
Duluth's pioneers were impelled
| by an Idea. That idea was to
accumulate a pile and then make
a getaway for Gods country
| their former homes. They did
not come here for their health.
Man proposes but suckers
sometimes fail to bite. Panics
greatly disturbed real estate
| plans. Then, when the Big Boom
came, it bursted so quickly that
many a boomer was left flop
ping on the beach like a stranded
shark.
Today, many people in Duluth
look for the coming Of a second
real estate boom, even as the
good people look for a second
coming of Christ. In the opinion
of unprecedented bystanders, both
will reach Duluth at about the
same time.
It's only natural, therefore,
for Duluth to have strong, ag-
gressive, autocratic Real Estate
Union. There is no open shop in
dear old Duluth where the real
estate operators are concerned.
Open shops are for men who
work with their hands and who
buy small lots at big prices in
remote suburbs, among the tall
bushes.
Recently, Duluth's real estate
union started a crusade against
the u. S. Steel Corporation,
claiming that the Big Corpora
ton is discriminating against Du-
luth, thereby preventing the
suckers from absorbing as much
Zenith City real estate as other
wise would be the case.
All this causes G. M. Atkinson,
editor of The Mesaba Ore, to
erupt in violent, but interest
ing manner. To show Duluth s
Hidden Hands what neighbors
are saying about the several Com
mercial Smart Sets in this dear,
distracted town, Col. Atkinson s
critical words are reprinted as
follows:
"Duluth's Real Estate Elk
change has discovered that the
United States Steel corporation
is discriminating against the
business interests of the Zenith
City. There is a great hue and
cry about it in the newspapers,
but that is as far as it will ever
get.
"The exchange fellows are act
uated by the same degree Of sell
fishness that dominates the whole
business fabric of the City of
Virtue. They have plated all
the ground for miles around, and
are overly anxious for Duluth to
grow that they may have a mar
ket for their land at exorbitant
prices. If the Steel corporation
were to do the right thing by
the city these acres would com.
mand a higher price and the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

deadheads yet must be snaked out,
however. That work will come
later. From Is to 40 per cent of
the logs floated down in the years,
gone by, sunk and became dead
heads. Their salvage and saving
will be profitable.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

present administration at Hibbing
evidently realizes that a man lives
but once and believes hat "While
we live, let us live"ZDum Vi
yamus, Vivamus. 49,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-10-13

Good morning, dear old citi-
zen. Have you bought your Lib
erty bond YETI
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14

procure homes for themselves.
They, with Mr.. Shoemaker, had
taken up land near LeSueur Gen.
ter, MINI. Mr.. Shoemaker went
back to his old home to procure
a life's companion for himself,
and also to bring the young
families of Mr.. Saltau and Neu
enburg to America.
On the first of May, 1857, a
party of IL accompanied by Mr..
Shoemaker, left their home in
Germany and arrived safely the
latter part of June at LeSueur
Center and became the first pion-
eer settlers in this part of the
state. They endured many pri-
vations, but succeeded in pro-
curing comfortable homes for
themselves.
After nine years residence
the Shoemaker family moved to
Renville County and located on
their homestead about six miles
northwest of North Redwood.
To them three sons and four
daughters were born, of whom
six remain, to mourn the loss of
a loving mother; her daughter
Minnie, having preceded her
some II years ago. Her second
husband died in 1901, with whom
she lived A years most happily.
The following children survive
her: John Schleuter, Frank NJ,
and Herman Shoemaker; Mrs.
/ Celia Page and Mrs. Martha
Lindeman, all of North Red
wood. Mrs. Elsie Neuenburg of
Wabasso and Herman Shoemak-
er of, Danube. Also 27 grand
children survive her.
In early life she excepted
Christ as her personal Saviour,
Joined the Evangelical Church
and remained a devoted mem
UCT. Die was oil Cdl llOoC O1lA 10
tian, exerted a wholesome iriflu.
ence and many were led to bet,
ter life for having come in con.
tact with her.
During her sickness she was
fully resigned to the ways OF
Providence. She knew that or
account of her advanced age anC
frail constitution her days were
numbered. She seemed happy
in the thought, that very soor
the cares and tribulations O.
this present world would be ovel
and she would be permitted tt
enter the mansions of light. May
glorious reunion be accorded
ito all. (By G.. w. Hielscher,
former pastor.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14
HIGH SCHOOL MILITARY
TRAINING is PROPOSED

A bill has been introduced in
the state legislature providing
for military training in the high
schools of Minnesota, and the
general supervision of the work
to be in charge of an official en-
gagged by the state. Last week
Capt. B. M. Cosgrove of this city,
who recently returned from the
border with the second Mime
sofa was invited to speak before
the senate committee which is
considering the bill. Captain Cos
grove is we'll qualified to furnish
information for the members OF
the committee, and, incidental
| ly, would be an excellent mar
to place in charge of the work
st. Peter Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14
MAY CHANGE DITCH LAWS

What he characterized as
needed changes in the ditch laws
will be recommended by the
House drainage committee, &C
cording to it's chairman, G. M.
Bendixen, who came up from
the capitol to spend Saturday
and Sunday with his family.
This committee is one of the i'm
portant ones, especially since
Minnesota is spending millions
of.dollars of the taxpayers mon
ey in ditch projects, and mil
lions have been wasted in the
past, and there is a general de
mand for a change in the laws.
There is, of course, a great diff
ference in views, however, and
the committee is gaining much
information from interested par
ties. Mr.. Bendixen states that
anyones who care to appear be-
fore the committee will be CIV
en- a hearing, and more than
that, they will be welcome. At
present one person can petition
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14
CARNIVALS PROTECT
: AGAINST PNEUMONIA

From the standpoint of
heath alone says DR.. I. J. Muir
ply, of the Minnesota Public
Health association, Il would urge
every citizen to participate in
outdoor winter sports, like the
St. Paul carnival. Deaths from
pneumonia, bronchitis, colds and
grip are most numerous during
January, February and March.
One can greatly lessen the
chances of falling a victim to
one Of these plaques by partak-
ing freely of outdoor exercises.
Minor outdoor carnivals ought
to be he'd in every village and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14
C. Can: ar TODAY
BIDS-SCHOOL BUILDING
CLOSE FEBRUARY Fl
DELHI, MINI.

Notice to Contractors. Sealed
proposals will be received by r.
G. Rogers, Clerk, School District
No. 18, Redwood County, Min
nesota, at 2 O'Clock P. NJ, Feb
ruary Fl, 1917.
First, General Construction of
Building.
Gravel for all cement work
will be furnished on the ground
free of charge.
Second, Heating, Ventilation
and Plumbing.
Plans will be on file at the Of
flee of Clerk and Builders Ex-
change, Minneapolis, st. Paul
also at the office of Kirby T.
Snyder, Architect, 1884 Ply
mouth Building, Minneapolis.
A deposit of $1,000 will be re-
Iquired for all plans taken out OF
the Office. Same will be re,
turned upon return of the. plans
and specifications to the Arch.
tect and a bid on the building.
A certified check of 5 per cent
of bid required. The Board re.
serves the right to reject any
or all bids.
29-2t R. G. ROGERS, Clerk
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14
MRS. REBECCA SHOEMAKER

Our beloved mother, Rebecca
Shoemaker, maiden name Fitz,
died on Saturday evening the
9th dav f January, 1917, at
the of her daughter, Mrs.
IA Page, of North Redwood.
She was born on the 18th day of
March, 1883, at Harthorn, Hol-
stein, Germany, and lived to be
80 years, 10 months and IA days.
In 1854 she was married to
Claus Schlueter, her first hus-
band, who died two years after
ward. Two sons were born to
them, one dying in infancy and
the other one being the we'll
known and highly respected
farmer, John Schlueter, living
on the homestead farm Of his
foster father.
In 1857 she was married a
second time to Francis Shoemak-
er. He had just returned from
a sojourn of some years in the
United States, having acquired
citizenship papers. Two other
young men, John Saltau and
Herman Neuenburg, former resi-
dents of Renville County, had
left their young brides in Ger
many and had come to America
some three years previous to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14
SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL
SOLD.

ST. Johns Hospital, which had
been under the direct supervi-
sion of st. PauPs Lutheran
church ever since it was built,
is now the property of the Luth-
eran Synod of Ohio and other
states, the formal transfer of
the same having been made at
a meeting Of the association,
held at St. PauPs Lutheran par
sonage last Thursday afternoon,
nearly all the members being in
attendance.
In the transfer last Thursday
the synod paid the sum Of ST.
900 with which to pay all in
debtedness, hence those who
worked so ardently and faith
fully for many years to make
the hospital a paying PROPOSE
ton, besides heroically attempt
ing to pay off an old indebted
ness, may now breathe easier.
The hospital in the future viii
be conducted much along the
same lines as before. The nos
pital feature will be retained, as
will also the old folks home, anc
it may be possible that as time
goes on and more room is need
ed the old folks department vii
be enlarged upon.-SpringfieIe
Advance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-02-14

Orden1un Us. Wir1kelhoM
REDWOOD FALLS ARMOR,
THURSDAY, FEB. Is, t1O1.

STAGED by the Athletic Club. There will be
bouts by local that will highly
Winkelhof prove
card. The General public attend