The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-16
SUPERIOR'S LID LlFTERS
GET. VERY HEAVILY FINED
Fines For Month Of October Aggregate $14,O 600
-, Twenty Automobiles Seized-1nfluenza
-. Lid Was Lifted Last Wednesday.

R. D. McKercher, both of Duluth.
Judge French has been imposing
some heavy fines on lid lifters in
Superior. He fined Joe Odlovak
and Joe Walek $500 each. Tom
Huray got off with $780,. Mike
Bovar was favored with a fine
of only $100. Pearl Kemp pleaded
guilty to violation Of the dry Or
dinance and was fined $500. She
paid 5000 and was forgiven the
remainder on condition that she
Immediately get out of town.
William Frymiller, a hash ven
dor at Third and Ogden, pleaded
not guilty when arraigned for il
licit traffic in booze but it took
$500 in real money to get re-
leased on bail.
E. A. Holden was unable to
furnish cash bail in the sum Of
$1,000, for lifting the lid, there
fore was committed to Jail. Jack
Walsh also was required to put
up bail in the sum Of 81, 900. Some
time ago, he was reputed to carry
a stock of booze in a tea kettle
in his restaurant kitchen. Officers
also found booze in a coat that
hung on the wall, the pockets Of
which held keys to a garage where
still more booze was found.
N. j. Gagnon was former pro-
prietor of the once noted Hotel
de Jag. In October he was nabbed
on various charges of selling
booze. He put up an aggregate OF
ST 500 in bail. money to secure his
release, pending trial.
When Detective William Mead
and Patrolman Martin Wildness
went to serve the warrant on Gag
non in his present location, a room
in the Douglas hotel building,
they found the doors barred. Re-
peated knocks on the door failed
to get them entrance to the room,
so they promptly proceeded to
break in the door, which was heav-
lily barred.
While the officers effected an
entrance through. the, door, lead
ing from the hotel, many Of the
occupants Of the alleged pig are
said to have escaped through the
rear door,, The officers entered
the room in time to catch several
before their departure, however.
The police say that upon entering
the room they were met by a
strong odor,> which indicated that
a quantity Of liquor had been
poured out or destroyed. How
ever, they found sufficient evil
dence upon which to base a new
charge.
After 81 days with the influenza
lid tightly fastened down, it was
lifted last Wednesday. Churches,
schools and theatres again are
open for business. During the
regime of the lid nearly 1000 cases
of influenza were recorded. Fully
half a hundred deaths were due
to the dread plague.
At the recent election, by a
vote of 1888 to GA, Superior
voted in favor of municipal pur-
chase and operation Of the local
Water, Light and Power plants.
The question of issuing 100000
to build a city auditorium was
carried by a vote Of two to one.
Hon. Joseph Konkel has sold the
Leader Clarion, a weekly paper, to
Emmett R. and John M. McKeague.
The name will be changed and the
paper published weekly, on Sat-
urdays, beginning November %.
Emmett R. McKeague formerly
was city clerk Of Superior.
Dropping from sight as if swal-
lowed up, the membership Of the
merry party converted into one of
groans and means when their car
turned turtle on Tower avenue
near Nineteenth street, a recent
Sunday afternoon, still remains a
mystery. Immediately after the
machine went over, throwing the
occupants to the pavement with
much crashing of bottles, all van
ished, leaving the wrecked ma
chine were it lay. Later it was
taken to the Hedding garage,
where it still remains.
The explanation of the disap-
pearance is said to be in the fact
that the party were out joy-rid-
ing with previous visits to sup
plies Of "joy-water," and that
the accident was directly due to
the latter. Several bystanders are
said to have acquired several
bottles, well-filled with liquor, as
ro,1uonirS of tho annidont for.