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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-28
MAX ROSENBERG
HEAVILY FINED
Superior's UncroWned Under
world King Arrested and Con-
Victed on Blind Pig Charge.

Max Rosenberg, proprietor of
the notorious cafe America and
the uncrowned king of Superior s
underworld, recently was found
guilty Of conducting a blind pig
and fined $500.
"Gefuellte Max" did about as
he pleased under the Konkel
administration but he never has
looked good to mayor Baxter.
Many attempts have been made
to catch the foxy product Of New
York's East Side, but he always
evaded the net Of the law until
recently.
After the joint had been closely
watched, the police raided it.
Booze was found in coal bins in
the kitchen. Two alleged soft
drink bartenders, Ed, Hubeck
and Joe Belis1e, were arrested
and complaint next was duly
made against proprietor Rosen-
berg. o.
Max seems to have lost his
luck in Superior. Konkel was
defeated. Then Max was shot in
the arm and side by Willie Ste
vens, his partner, nearly sending
him to. the happy hunting
grounds. Next Max's woman,
Virginia Reed, was arrested and
fined for keeping a blind pig.
Now comes the mighty Max, him
self, with arrest, prosecution, and
heavy fine.
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Michigan street Food Hogs had
the greed to demand $4.75 a box
for similar apples.
Foregoing prices are based on
car load lots in some cases and
less than carload lots in others.
On December II, a Minneapolis
house was asking $1.7O a hamper
for sweet potatoes while a similar
product was priced at $3.50 a
hamper in Duluth.
Right at Christmas time, when
hungry people desired celery for
their annual Christmas dinner,
celery that goes begging at Is to
20 cents dozen heads in Califor-
MIA, cost, 1925 a dozen when
bought by Duluth retailers. The
freight from California does not
exceed 10 cents a dozen heads.
Some difference, hungry reader.
Green onions, offered at 30
cents a dozen in Minneapolis
were boosted to rs cents a dozen
in Duluth.
Other fruit, vegetables and
edible produce ran along in about
the same proportion.
The Rip-saw feels impelled to
modify it's expression in the for
mer issue that there is no chiv-
airy on Michigan st. among the
"Big Four The previous issue
told how Miss Curren, a patriotic
agriculturalist, owning land near
Wrenshall, had started SUIT
against a Michigan St. company
to enforce payment on a carload
of potatoes, which she shipped
at an agreed price, but which the
Michigan street firm refused to
pay for in full, maintaining that
the tubers were defective.
Miss Curren believed that the
potatoes had not deterioated on
the short trip by rail from Wren
shah to Duluth, about go miles,
but that the welching was due to
the fact that potato price had
gone down and that the Michigan
street corporation wanted to pile
the slump onto the lady's frail
shoulders.
The Rip-saw's. teeth and ami
cable lawyers seem to have saved
the day for Miss Curren for she
telephoned a few days ago that
she had been paid the original
price agreed upon. She was COM
elled to suffer punishment, how
ever, to the extent Of paying a
legal fee to a lawyer for protect
ing her interests.
The simple-minded public will
wonder why the commission firm
did not come across without COM
pelling the lady. to hire a clever
lawyer.
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| not wish to run any FISK at ALL
I'VE can put on new seals, u
suggested the King Of Commits
SIGN Row.
"I'l not take a chance on it.
You can break the seals if you
sish. I'll turn my back, hut
trat is as far as III co." the
railroad employe Informed him.
"I'll own those two cars OF
peaches before night, anyway, .
l,plied the produce magnate. 81
think the chap who shipped them
in can't pay the freight and is
stuck. He must be pretty well
scared by this time. IN buy
them for a song and make a good
piece of money. I'll not bother
to break the seals. I'll get a
hook at the peaches in my own
good time
The clever, canny King of the
Food Hogs received a hard jolt
when the yard-master Informed
him that the freight on the con-
| signment had been paid and that
the cars had been re-consigned
to the Mesaba range.
Up on the range the hustline
! independent quickly sold one Cal
out at Virginia and the other at
Hibbing, at better prices than he
| would have secured in Duluth.
A potato merchant in the
southern part of the state shipp-
ed several cars of spuds to Du
Quth. The cars were lined and
heated as we'll as accompanied by
a man to keep up fires and other.
wise care for the tubers.
! Arriving in Duluth, all formali
ties incident to freight bills, bill
of lading and other details were
properly given attention.
"I want those cars on the team
track" the shipper Informed
the servants Of the railroad.
"Those Cars already are on the
team track" he was informed
Going to the team track, the
owner Of the potatoes was sur
prised not to find the cars there
waiting for him.
He then tried to locate the
missing cars. He went from EN-.
ploye to employe of the railroad
company but no one knew any
thing about the cars.
It took 48 hours to definitely
locate the cars and to get them
onto the team track. After that
they were shunted back and
forth so often that half day
elapsed before the cars could be
opened up.
! Then, after the cars were open
ed and the dealers invited to buy.
four helpers of the shipper were
arrested on charges of peddline
without license. 1t cost. the
shipper $400 to 60 through long
and strenuous litigation before he
won out.
At that time, potatoes were
drug on the southern Minnesota
market. Twenty-Five cents
bushel was about the top price
Duluth concerns were being
soaked anywhere from $1.1O to
$1.20 a bushel.
Track delays, arrest of men
and other funny business not
only annoyed the shipper and
caused him great expense, but
enabled the Food Hogs to load
up the retailers with potatoes
from their own stocks.
Once upon time a number o1
range merchants thought they
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would try to get their necks out
of the yoke Of Michigan street.
They went to Minneapolis and
filled up a car with produce that
they selected in that city. 1t
was routed to the range by way
of Duluth. In some strange way,
that car was lost for a week in
the Duluth yards and by the
time it had been dug up and sent
to it's destination, the perishable
produce had frozen, wilted and
withered until it was unstable
and unusable.
The man who beats the Food
Hogs and their silent friends in
the railroad yards must be a hu-
man fox and get up very early
in the morning.
Former employees of some of
the Food Hog houses tell hair-
raising tales of how they were
compelled to make fake reports
on the condition Of fruit, vege-
tables and other produce at time
Of it's arrival, under penalty of
being discharged. More than one
highminded young man has quit
Michigan street cold, with moth
| ing better in sight, simply be-
cause his conscience would not
permit him to take a hand in
crooked, unfair, dishonest stunts.
Some of these tales will make
absorbing reading when the Rip,
saw gets around to their public
cation.
The Rip-saw's readers were
deeply interested in the compari-
son of fruit and produce prices
in Duluth, Minneapolis and New
York. That outline, in fact, may
have caused some citizens to
break the commandment against
swearing. There were two or
three errors as to freight. Freight
on oranges, for example, was rep,
resented as $1.10 per box. That
was the California rate. The
rate from Minneapolis to Duluth
should be almost Is per cent of
| that, something like 80 cents a
box. That error, of course, was
in favor Of the Food Hogs.
Some Of the Food Hogs evi-
dently underestimate the intel,
ligence of the Rip-saw's inspect
ors for they have been wonder
ing where and how the prices
were secured. Any live mer-
chant has price lists, from here
and there, which price lists are
not kept under lock and key.
Apples are considered "the
poor mans fruit" but not now
when a real big one costs ten
cents and ordinary apples cost
more than oranges once did.
A Minneapolis broker, under
date of December II, quoted De.
licious apples, grown in Wenat.
| chez, Wash, at $1.75 a box. With
freight to Minneapolis or Duluth
+, added, those apples would cost
only $2.37 box. The Duluth
dealers were asking from $3.75
to $3.50 for similar apples on the
| same date. Arkansas Blacks, on
the same date, by the same firm.
cost $2.37, laid down in Duluth,
/ while Food Hog firms were ask.
ing SIS a box.
The Minneapolis dealer offered
| apples at a price of 1925 a box
for Spitzenbergs, laid down in
Duluth, while the 'Big Four
was soaking Duluth's retailers
at $4.75 to $5.75 a box for simi.
lar fruit. Missouri pippins, from
| Yakima, Wash, cost $2.S a box
laid down in Duluth. if bought
through the Minneapolis firm
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with calling her vile and afro
cious names, without due cause
or provocation, particularly on
the morning Of December Is,
1918. At times, she further al
leges, Col. King charged her with
unchastity. in the presence of
others. When she tried to talk
with him about his conduct, in
forming him that she was lead
ing the life of a recluse. that her
health was being impaired, that
she was on the verge of a ner-
vous breakdown and that she no
longer could endure sl:ch condi-
tions Of life, her welded husband
yelled al her:
"You can 60 plump to HI, I
will treat you as D.! d-l please
and yo1 will have to take what
I-giNa-4y an.,','-..4.----..-..--4---z-44-A.----
The complaint charges Kirs
with having neglected to take
meals at home since May, 1918,
except an occasional breakfast;
that since April 1918, without
just provocation, he has not TAX
en- her to any place of amusement;
that he also has refused to walk
with her on the streets Of Du-
luth.
In July. last, the defendant is
charged with refusing his wife
use of the telephone and then
with having taken it out of the
house. The same month he is al
legged to have taken the greater
portion Of his wearing apparel
out of the family home.
Mrs. King the recites how her
husband has staid away from
home days and weeks at a time
and that he has been in the habit
of staying away nights. She al
leges that he has been seen on
the streets of the city and on
the highways in Wisconsin
with Madame Lille Garceau, and
other women, during the past
eight months; that he has car
ried food and other necessities Of
life to the Garceau home; that
he has taken his personal effects
to the fair Lilies abode; that
he has assisted the Gallo charm
er financially, even to the ex-
tent of purchasing for her the
premises at 7O9 Eighth avenue
East, Duluth, MINI.
The plaintiff wife declares
that her nervous system is near
a breakdown and that she has
suffered anguish to an extent
that she feels and believes that
life no longer is possible with her
neglectful spouse. She alleges
that he is a man Of considerable
means and that his income is at
least $4,000 a year. She states
that she is destitute Of all means,
money and property; that she
even lacks means to carry on her
action for divorce, or. to secure
the attendance of witnesses, or
for her own support and main
tenance.
Big, strong Col. King is e-c-cc-
ed by his wife with threatening
physical violence on her; that
King and Madame Garceau were
taken out Of the Garceau home 1T
7O9 Eighth Ave. East early in the
morning Of December l5: at
which time King was occupying
bed in that strange woman's
house; that King tried to force
an entrance into the King home
and to do physical violence on
his wife on December 16, at 1925
East jefferson St. Fears are ex-
<No,,t;n,,od ou pa0A ~
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the guest Of the central station
until about 8 a. m.
Looking on lawyers as he does
on wine and women. Col. King
got the very best. He summon
ed Herschel B. Fryberger, who
quickly extracted his culprit
client from the bastile.
The man who got caught tried
to scare the police with threats
Of damage suits for false arrest,
but detectives, who have fol-
lowed him for months declare
that he can be kept too busy de-
Tending his own actions to have
time to bluff the police.
Col. King faded away for a
few days but on the unlucky Fri
day Of last week, papers were
served on him in divorce ac-
tion started by Mrs. hizzie Eve
line King. .. ...
The complaint recites that Mrs.
King is so years and Mr.. King
81 years of age. The two were
married at Vicksburg, Kalama-
zoo Co., Mich, September 25,
1917.
Friend wife further alleges, on
information and belief, that, be-
tween April 19 and July 19, 1918,
Col. King committed adultery
with Madam Lille Garceau, first
at 526 East Fifth St. and then at
524 East Third St., in the city of
Duluth, county Of st. Louis and
state Of Minnesota.
The plaintiff further alleges
that, during the month of July
and all of the months Of August
and September, 1918, her recre-
ant spouse and Madame Garceau,
under a fictitious name, lived in
adulterous intercourse, as man
and wife, in the city of Superior,
county of Douglas and state of
Wisconsin.
Then came the elimination of
the Kingly amours when, as the
complainant alleges, her frisky
spouse committed adultery with
Madame Lille Garceau at 7O9
Eighth Ave. East at about the
middle of this month. Allega.
tions also cover adultery at the
same place, during the months
of last October and November.
Mrs. Kings complaint further
recites that, during his married
life with her, the defendant has
been a man of vicious and vul-
gar habits. He is charged with
drinking intoxicating liquors to
excess and with possessing an
ungovernable temper when in his
cups.
The accusing wife alleges that,
since King led her to the altar,
she has been treated in a cruel
and inhuman manner. AS par
ticular instances Of married
mans inhumanity to his welded
wife, she alleges that, at the
Kingly home at 1925 East Jeffer-
son st., she has been denied the
privilege Of making the ac-
quaintance of and associating
with the neighbors.
Another allegation charges
King with denying. his wife the
privilege and pleasure Of riding
in the family automobile, with
the exception of one single time,
but that he has used the old boat
repeatedly for Transporting Ma
dame Lille Garceau and men,
bers/ /of her family 70 different
places, at different times, in the
states Of Minnesota end Wiscon-
sin.
Mrs. King charges Mr.. King
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William Francis King, com.
monty called Frank King, con.
tractor, capitalist and bon vivant
has been boasting of how he
would ''get Silberstein's goat
by running for city commission.
er next spring.
There are those who believe
that Col. King will be too busy al
defending a divorce suit to mix
much in the giddy whirl of mu,
nicipal politics.
Two short weeks ago, Col
King was yanked out Of chateau
Garceau, No.. 700 Eighth Ave
East, on a verbal charge of adul,
terry. Less than a week later
complaint in an action. for di
yorce, brought by Mrs. King, was
served on the Youngest Old mar
at the head Of the lakes.
If a charge of adultery and an
action for divorce do not suffice
to keep Col. King out Of city
politics, prosecution under the
Mann Act may prove sufficient
to save "Silberstein's s goat. -
Sunday morning, December Is
somewhat after three o'clock a. M.
three policemen, detective Brady
Of st. Paul, Mrs. King and an
agent, knocked at the front door
of Madame Lille Garceau's dom
icile at 709 Eighth Ave. East
An inside door was heard to open
and shut and then Madame Gar
ceau opened the front door to
her early morning callers. AL
though garbed only in her robe
de mutt, as the society folks say
Madame Garceau, with true Gal.
lie politeness, permitted the call
ers to enter the small but snug
little house.
"Where is my husband?" de-
manded Madam King.
Madame Garceau pointed to q
door from the tiny hall to a
front room. Entering, the un'
conventional visitors found Col
King soundly slumbering in q
soft, downy bed, but snoring like
the Seven Sleepers.
A big, strong policeman prod.
ded the snoring slumberer in the
ribs with his night stick and
spoiled happy dreams Of broil
ed Holsters, cold bottles Of bub'
bling wine and fair but frail
fairies in silken raiment.
"Get on your clothes and come
along,' was the brusque com
mand.
"Whash q mazzer?" sleepily
inquired Col. King in accents
somewhat bibulous.
"You are wanted for adultery
was the reply. . -, a..
"Guesh I can sleep in m'own
houshe, can't II" truculently
queried the favored guest ol
chateau Garceau. - 81
Seeing that he was making an
admission that might be rather
compromising, the foxy colonel
fastened to. add-HOr I ear
shleep. at tn Shaint Loos hotel
or anywhere elshe?''
Col. King finally was extract
ed from the Garceau bed and
helped into his street clothes
All hands, Mrs. King, Col. King
Madame Garceau, detective Bra
dy, Sergt. LeBeau, officers Pay
er and Steward and one or two
others, boarded an automobile fol
police headquarters.
Col. King roared aud protest
ed more or less but he remained
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Once upon a time, in the
month Of July, when it was cool
in Duluth, the markets of this in
imitable city were barren of
peaches. The consumers were
clamoring for the festive peach
and, when an independent pro-
duce dealer picked up two car
loads of Alberta peaches at Gil
mer, Texas, he fully expected to
satisfy the local longing and
clean up a neat profit.
The Albertas arrived on July
20. Their flavor was Of the fin
est but their flesh was so tender
that their keeping qualities were
short-lived. The superior pro-
duct required quick handling,
otherwise it would perish and re-
suit ii 3 heavy lose instead OF a
big profit.
The enterprising, and fortunate
independent merchant offered
the peaches to the local retailers
at So a bushel, expecting to make
10 to Is cents a bushel on the en-
tire 800 bushels.
The retailers called up the
Food Hog houses to find out
what they knew about Texas AL
berta peaches and they knew
nothing. But to those monopo-
lists hint was as good as a kick.
They watched and waited.
The monopolistic Food Hog
houses at once set their servants
and telephones at work. Re-
tailers were informed that sever
al carloads of peaches would ar
rive the next morning and that
they would be sold to the trade
for $1.00 a bushel.
The facts were that the Food
Hog houses were not expecting
consignments Of peaches and
they did not know just at that
time, where they could get
peaches.
The two carloads of Texas Al
berta peaches arrived Freight
and icing charges on the 800
bushels cost the consignee over
$500, which was paid.
When the retailers were noti-
fled that the peaches had arrived
and were asked how many 'they
wanted at the promised price Of
So a bushel, they cancelled such
orders as had been put in or Se-
piled that. they wanted none at
all. They were waiting for. Food
Hog peaches at $1.OO bushel.
One dealer stood pat. He ex-
pressed the opinion that the offer
of peaches at ST a bushel by the
Food Hog houses was a trick to
worst the independent dealer ;
that the Food Hog houses had
no peaches coming; and that they
could not and would not deliver
any. He was right and was sup
piled by the independent, greatly
to the envy and confusion of the
retailers who welched on their
orders.
When the car actually arrived,
the King Of the Fool Hogs went
to the railroad yards to see with
bis own eyes.
"Open up those cars so that I
can look at that fruit" he asked
the yard-master.
The yard-master declined to do
so, saying t!.a. the cars were
sealed.
"Break the scals.'' said the
Food Hog King.
Mr.. Yard-nastcr said that was
q serious offenss and that he did
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LOCAL PRODUCE PIRATES
PLOTTED AGAINST RIVAL

Shipped
From Texas-Realers Offered
Bushel- Hogs Then Offered
@xz at Only 81 Bushel, in Bad Faith
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PROMINENT CONTRACTOR
CHARGED WITH ADUL TERRY

Found Sleeping Of Madame Lille
Verbal Complaint Local Contractor Is Taken Police Hadquar
Cooling Hours Lawyer Fryberger
Youngest Old City.
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Failed to GObble
Range the Shipment Potato Grower Fin
ally of Spuds-More Illuminating
Between Duluth and Minneapolis Prices
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Evne King Starts Action DvOrceCharg
Crueies Neglec-Aeges That Kingy Husband
Away From Home For Long Periods and Spent Time,
Money Affection Another Woman
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1918-04-30

IatOrej hi bila ustanovitev "kraljevinc Srbov,
Hrvatov in Slovencev" lie nepopolna reSitev ju
goslovanskega problema. Ne lie da Sc z MO ne hi
dCsegel veliki ell miru ma Balkanu, ampak ma
sprotno hi Sc povzrocil trajen nemir, IL katerega
hi sc prejalislej izlegla krvava vojna.
Nikakor SC pa tudi ne moreno s~trinjati z ide-
10 monarhije, pa mai bo Observation-Disclosures ali ka-
krSnakoli.
Govornik ie obsirno analiziral bistvo monar-
hije ma eni in r~epublike ma drugi Strani i'll podal
argumente, zakaj Slov. Rep. Zdr. cdlotno naspro-
tuje vsaki monarhisticni obliki Wade.
Potem je utemeljeval zahtevo =. Il. h. da
bodi iugoslovanska r~epublika federativna. Nobe-
no deistvo sc ne more z dekrctom spraviti : sveta.
Tako tudi realno mic ne pomeni, &c Sc ma papirju
"odloci', da so vsi JugoSlovani zen narod".
Predvsem je Ia vpraSanje, XII Sc mora reSiti znan-
Stveno, preden Sc more reSiti politi6no. Povrh
pa je absolutnO treba welt V poStcv ~miSljenje in
cuStv0vanje ljudStva Samega. line. COR, ime dol
- neizpodbitno dejStvo je ,da Gutiio poSamezni
jugoslovanski deli, pa Jill i~menuite narode ali ka-
korkoli, razike in poSebnosti, in hoGeio, da Sc te
llposebnosti vpoStevajo. Mole mnenie je. da so Ju-
IgoSlovam ma poti, da postanejo EN- narod ampak
tia process nj dovrSen. In dovrSiti sc ne more pc
sill, ampak lie pc naravnem razvoju. PovSod izliva
Sila odpor; ako Sc DO Jugoslovanom vSiljevala
dogma, da 80 en- narod, dokler Sc Smatraio Slo-
venci, Srbi, Hrvatje, Bolgari vSak Ease IN narod,
st 10 prlTtuUo NldplJanJe lie ONlfalo. IA ROJNeN
tistih poSebnOSti, XII faktiGno obStajajo in Xxi so
naravno opravitene, ie potrebna avtOnomija. Il
drugimi besedami ReSitev ugoslovanSkega pro-
blema ie V federaciji.
FRI vSem tenn ne SmemO pOZabili ma dObo,
V kateri zivimo, ma dobo, XII gre IA naipopolnejio
demokracijo. Tudi IA iugoslovansko r~epubliko
moramo zahtevati, da Sc postavi ma najdemokra-
titnejSo podlago. Ako je sedanja vojna res vojna
demokracije roper avtokracijo, tedai mora demo,
kracija v~eljati tudi "a JugoSlovane.
Ali demOkraciia ne pride sauna cd sebe. &c io
hocemo doSeGi, moramo delati zanjo. Kdor Sedi
V teh casih "a peGjo ali pa Sc zadovoljuje : teore-
titmimi izjavami, pa odklanja vSako praktiCno de-
10, BIO Sokriv, de SO reSijo velika vpraSania prot
intereSom ljudStva. To hoGe :. X. T.. preprecili in
cato vabi ma delo vsc reSniGne prijatelie avobode,
da dosezemO proStost "a svoj narod in tako po-
magamo izvOjevati svobodo vsega Sveta. ---
Mnogo posluSalcev Sc ie potem oglasilo 2 vsa-
kovrStnimi vpraSanji, ma katera je govormik OBJ
Sirno odgovarjal.
Ma shodu Sc je nabralo S2454.
Predsednik ie Sc enkrat pozval vSe navzote
ma delO, naznanil prihodmjo sejo delegatov in "a
kljuGil shod.
JOS. Oven, zapisnikar.