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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-07

to know how the Austrians keep
their little blind pigs in the west
ern end of the careless old city.
Those eanny enemy aliens use
the manure pile, or garbage heap
on the back of their lots for blind
piggeries. They put the bottles
Of booze in an old box and then
turn the box upside down on the
manure pile or garbage dump,
after which refuse is scattered
over the little pig to give it an
ancient and innocent appearance.
I When a customer comes, with
his So for a quart of booze, the
blind pig owner goes out back,
peeps cautiously up and down the
alley, and then, if the coast seems
clear, extracts bottle from the
dirty old box and exchanges it
for hard-earned coin of the realm.
It is alleged that such a pig Or
pigs, as described, can be found
within a block or so Of the street
car bridge that runs across that
deep ravine on the easterly en-
trance to Gary.
Perhaps commissioner Silber-
stein and chief McKercher may
remember that there is such a
place as the licensed Moose hotel
at No. 615 West Superior St.,
conducted by Mrs. Lima Hall
bergg. Perhaps, unless Madam
Lima also has one Of those handy
permits to dispense booze and
beer in a bone dry town, Onkel
Bernard and Big Bob may not
know that the Moose gives two
kinds of milk, the John Barley
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-07
Marshall Mystery Murder
Is Yet Unso|ved.

Chief McKercher, who took per-,
sonal charge of the Brooks-Mar-
shall murder case, has not yet
solved the mystery. After mud.
ding up matters, he left the city
on q pleasure trip, hoping that
cleverer men in the department
might undo the damage from his
bungling.
The story that a revolver was
found in the grass, where Mar
shall was shot down, five days
afterward, on Friday, August 23.
was a fake. The revolver was
found on a shelf, in a closet, on
the second floor of No. 7O8 West
Second street, a fiat in Altadena
terrace. The weapon was discov.
cred by a citizen and not by the
police. 1t is believed to be the
property of a kinsman of a family
that moved out Of that apartment
day or two before.
Mrs. Brooks, who was arrested
. after the citizen reported the dis
covery of the abandoned revolver,
was released after q few days of
! Imprisonment. ...-~
Mrs.. Marshall was called to
police headquarters early this
week and closely. questioned. Mrs.
Brooks was placed in an adjoining
room to see If Mrs. Marshan's :
voice sounded like that Of the
mysterious murderer who shot
down Marshall after being showed
away by him.
The BroOks-Marshan mystery
murder yet is unsolved but, when
snow falls deeply enough to per-
NIT use of snow-shoes, the Big
Chief expects success.
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WARTIME DEFINITIONS.

Listening Post-A party tele-
phone in Anywoman's house.
Code-The hard look your wife
gives you when you have company
at dinner and ask for more
chicken. 49,. I
Flank Attack-What little Will
lie gets for putting fly paper on
baby's head.
Over the Top-Your wife's
hints to you concerning her lack
Of everything to wear:
Gassed-The result of listening
to a charity neighbor's detail de-
scription Of her appendicitis oper-
alton.
Allies-Three late commuters
making UP a set Of excuses for
home consumption.
Liquid Fire = Prohibition
whisky.
Raiding Party-One o'clock a.
m. at the ice-box.
Observation Post-The front
room window.
Relieving Party-Ffiend wife
on payday.
Reveille-Shrill voice exclaim-
ing, cts Z o'clock" v
Tanks-Husbands whose wives
are in the country.
Camouflage- Rouge, poudre de
rez,s peroxide, etc. :
PriannSra--Marri mpn.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-07
MIGHTY MAN OF SCIENCE

Alchemists Of old sought in vain
for q method of transmitting base
metals into gold. Where the old
fellows in the middle ages failed,
Roland Waldemar Esterly IS re-
ported to have succeeded. As the
rumor runs, Herr Esteriy, propri-
etor of q curio store on West Su-
perior ST., has q strong taste for
science, possibly due to his early
experience as q house-painter and
paper-hanger. BY this process Of
transmutation, Herr Roland VAL
demar is able to very profitably
turn base metals, such as copper,
brass or lead, into precious yellow
gold, accepted at any bank or even
by the coal barons. An the COM
mercial and scientific kultur Is not
shut up in Germany. -..-.. =
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SOME sTRATEGIsT.

All strategists are not in the
army. This proves it.. H. A.
Clark, a'veteran Of the Civil war,
inquired of a poultry and egg
dealer the price Of eggs.
t'Thirty cents a dozen,' came
the reply.
"How much are cracked eggs, u
asked Mr.. Clark.
Fifteen cents a dczen,'' came
the reply. |.f.
'"sAll right. Crack me 80 cents
worth, " said Mr.. Clark. .-Ex.
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Old John Barleycorn, prince of
roughnecks, is employing Capt.
Bruce Palmer as medium for
raising hell and outraging the
rights Of reputable people who
visit Oliver.
Palmer makes an ideal medium.
He formerly was a lumberjack and
now is a captain on the Oliver po-
lice force. +, As a side line, he
wrestles T.. with, John Barleycorn,
thereby helping the old Stacker to
keep in his customary disreputa-
BILE condition.
Monday, August 26, Capt.
Palmer ordered John L. Morrison,
publisher of the Rip-saw, thrown
into the village bastile at Oliver
on a charge Of soliciting without
a license. Later, the charge was
booked as disorderly conduct.
When arrested, Morrison was
trying to get, away from John
] Krnth, T. lawlessr German saloon
Keeper at Oliver, who was pouring
a torrent Of verbal sewage on his
head. rE .,.
. When Kruth set about to make
Morrison q victim of his German
kultur, the Duluth publisher was
on his way to the Palmer home,
an invited guest to eat beefsteak
and sample some canned wild
strawberries. -.'
Capt. Palmer, instead of pro-
tecting has invited guest, silently
permitted Kfuth to shamefully
abuse him and then, when he
started to walk away from the
booze vendor, yanked him back
and ordered a patrolman to
"throw. him in overnight"
Morrison thought at first that
Capt. Palmer''s orders were his
method Of getting Kruth away
from his dinner guest. When the
patrolman took him clear to the
police station, booked him up and
then proceeded to have the jailor
lock up the prisoner, the latter
thought it was one of Palmer.'s
| gentle jokes. He had been glee-
fully narrating that, afternoon how
he had plaps a short time before
! for throwing in'' Victor Power
and brother, from Hibbing, but,
| for some reason, the "joke" fell
| through. $780,
When Morrison found that there
was no joke about matters, he
called the jailor and insisted that
he be given the privilege of giving
bail and securing release. The
kindly jailor summoned Hon.
Charles Rebek, who, true to kindly
neighborly form, s'sprung' the
| outraged dinner guest from his
prison cell. ..
Kruth, strange to say, was ar
rested but not jailed, The next
day he pleaded guilty. to a charge
Of disorderly conduct and was
fined $40 and costs by Judge
Wells. Morrison pleaded not
guilty to a similar charge and his
trial was set for Monday, Sept. g.
| Capt. Palmer took a post-grad.
uate course on the Duluth police
force last winter, under McKer-
cher. Ninety-nine men out of 100
firmly believe that the verbal as.
sault by Kruth and Morrison's s ar.
rest were a. "frameup" by McKer.
| cher's old night school student.
Some Of the, liquor dealers al
Oliver are inclined to believe that
Palmer, was ''stewed," therefore
lacked a proper sense Of perspec.
tive and proportion. They declare
that he made heavy inroads or
their wet goods that day, freely
and without price.
] Morrison went over to Oliver or
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I Monday, August 26, to solicit sub
scriptions to the great family jour-
nal. There was a most cheerful
response. Coming down the,
street, the publisher was greeted
by the genial Capt. Palmer, with!
both hands outstretched. He
kindly offered to introduce Nor
rison to the business men and cit
izens. He gave valiant aid in get
ting subscribers. So highly was
the Rip-saw esteemed by men who
believe in not starving the brain
while wetting the; department Of
the interior, that Judge Wells even
subscribed for two copies for po-
lice headquarters.
After covering most of the vii
lage, Capt. Palmer, who is said
to be favorite nephew Of the late
Mrs. Potter Palmer, a prominent
Chicago society lady, firmly in
sisted on taking Morrison home to,
! dinner. The latter begged off, not
/, having on dinner garb and well
knowing that Mrs. Palmer was not
| expecting dinner guest.
But Capt. Palmer was so insist,
ent that the Duluth visitor to the
oasis was compelled to accept,
When the two passed by the sa-
loon of Kruth & Mckinney, the
former Kaiser of Niggertown, be-
low Third St., Superior, jumped
to his feet and began to take Nor
rison to task for merely stating in
! the previous issue of the Rip-saw.
that "Messrs. Kruth & Mckinney.
| were arrested Tuesday morning
on the charge of selling liquor to
! minors" " ..... 49,. j,
|. Morrison started to try to. show,
Kruth that the item was warrant
ed and not inconsistent with good
form. But the foul-mouthed old
money-grabber began pouring out.
all kinds Of abuse. He called
| names and attacked. Morrison's
business integrity ?
"Do I owe you anything9" the.
publisher asked the bawling booze
vendor. Kruth could not say that
! he did, but he kept UP his torrent
) Of verbal sewage. y /
Patience at last ceased to be a.
virtue. =
"I do not allow any old Dutch
man like you to talk to me that
Iway," the dinner guest of Capt.
Palmer informed the old rough
neck. :" S.. ... .
+ "Ich bin nicht elm Deutscher!
Ich bin ein Frenehmann! shouted
the man with the French name Of
Kruth. l...> ~.
| Then the former subject Of the
kaiser resumed his outpour Of filth
and abuse. He was very profi-
cient at it. = T., -. -
! Capt. Palmer stood there, ST.
lently, permitting his dinner guest
to be abused, saying never word
to the crazy Dutchman in protec-
tion Of the surprised and helpless
/ visitor. ~ = =,
Not wishing to endure it any
longer, Morrison made some re-.
tort to Kruth and then stepped oft
! the sidewalk, intending to go,
/ around the wild man and go back
down the street to catch a jitney!!
| to New Duluth.
! Capt. Palmer then grabbed
Morrison by the arm, called a pa
i trolman and ordered him to-
"throw him in over night. :"
! The next day Capt. Palmer
4 failed to show up in the village
1 court, but Chief Philbrook was
! there. Perhaps the society leader
4 Of Oliver was ill; perhaps he was,
| ashamed; perhaps he wished to-
: l"pass the buck" to his superior !
- -s,-s -s--. - So -.
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Commissioner Silberstein start
ed cock and bull story some days
ago about having Indian Commits
sioner Cato Sells close up Oliver
because it is in Indian territory.
As U. S: senator Nelson states, and
as properly posted people have
known all along, Oliver, being in
Wisconsin, is not in Indian terri
tory, therefore cannot be closed by
Cato Sells.
Critical citizens once more raise
the point of order to the effect
that Onkel Bernard, commissioner
Of camouflage, unsafety and trop-
ical atmosphere, should clean out
a lot of dirty nests in Duluth be-
fore he wastes his time over Oliver
time for which the burdened
taxpayers of Duluth pay him
$4,000 a year. .~
Of course commissioner Silber-
stein is handicapped at home be-
..cause. Of. daclx4ofr eAief ef peIiees
When the Big Chief does show up,
commissioner Silberstein, now an
elderly man, is apt to be in bed.
Then the wild raider from Tay-
side, Ontario, is more apt to be
roaming the hinterland, trying to
make votes for Magic, than doing
his duty at headquarters. Only
recently, after sadly muddling up
the Brooks murder case, the poor
est chief of police Duluth ever
has had, quit the job cold and
went on visit to LeMars, Iowa.
leaving the subordinates to un.
twist the tangled skein Of mys
terry murder as best they could.
These critical citizens wish to
know why commissioner Silber
stein permits May Scott to run
an. unlicensed hotel over the
Delmonico restaurant at No. Ill
East Superior St., nearly facing
the dear old police station.
May Scott was an old-time red
light lady, it is alleged by boys
who formerly feared no noise
After the trade of the Silbersteir
store was so sadly cut down by
Hicken's dispersal Of the redlight
ladies, busy May conducted {
blind pig and assignation parlor.
at No. 6 E. Superior St., owe,
what now is the Pallas restau
rant.
A couple of years ago, May
Scott was arrested in the Lowell
block for some act of low mora
endeavor. Immediately after Du
luth went dry and the lid was put
on, May was arrested for fitting
it and got 80 days in Jail. Now
like dog returning to it's vomit
May Scott is credited with rent
ing rooms to people Of easy virtue
and with letting Old John Bar
leycorn make her place a hang
out. May, herself, posing as I
young woman, is about SO years
old and whisky is her favorit'
drink.
Critical citizens wonder i.
May has police permit tt
dispense booze, beer and red
light privileges. That is no
impossible, for others have Sc.
cured permits to sell beer sine,
the dear old town went dry
When the Rumainian society cele
brated Greek Christmas at Gar.
last, January, the committee tolt
what q hard time it had to- get th'
permit to sell beer. TIessbeel
was sold, too, at 20 cents pint
A bottle Of it, purchased by
Kip-saw inspector, still reposes il
the Klp-saw's safety deposi
vault. ss,:,.. sssve s..,s $
a big, Eat, Rumanian sat ther
and chanted: 'sIf you no van
= ~ ss..3.sa s
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to'buy da sandwich, buy da beer. -
While that beer was being sold,
a policeman in uniform was in the
hall much of the time. But all
that is an old story.
May Scott has a warm, loving
disposition. Nature evidently
intended her for a Mormon and
the possessor Of mammoth Nor
mon car, filled with members of
the sterner sex and plenty Of bot
ties of booze and beer. For many
moons, even years, Perry Evans
has been May Scott's devoted
lover. She took on second lover,
steamboat man now in the east,
but Perry Evans stuck to May
like dog to a hunk Of dough.
She could not lose him and dare
not bounce him for Perry is cred
tied with 'having something"
on May Scott.
Parry Evans tolls net neither
does he spin, yet he goes about
garbed in raiment bought with
May SCOTS money. He gorges
himself with food from May
Scott's table and, presumably,
washes it down with her booze
and beer.
Perry Evans even lets May
Scott pay for his laundry. He's
a Stacker in every sense of the
word.
Chief McKercher knows more
about May Scott than commits
| sioner Silberstein and the Rip
! saw, combined.
Critical citizens wonder why
commissioner Silberstein and chief
McKercher permit that blind pig
| to exist in that tailor shop back
of the Lenox hotel. A Spanish
war veteran with a wooden leg
/ gets the credit of conducting that
joint successfully and without mo-
lestation. He may have one of
those permits that the Rumanians
talked about last winter.
J. This former war hero is repre-
sented as making three trips a
day by car and jitney to Oliver.
He usually wears an overcoat. All
his inside pockets are filled with
bottles of beer and booze. He
even carries a package Of intoxi-
cants in his hand.
This blockade stuff is sold at
$3.50 a pint for whisky and fifty
cents q pint for beer. For safety's
sake, the brave veteran Of, the
Spanish-American war keeps his
wet stock locked in the tailor s
safe when making the trips to
and from Oliver but, if you have
the price in your fist and are not
too much of a stranger, the kind
! ly tailor is credited with a willing
ness to unlock his safe and let
out a bottle or two.
| The hero of long ago comes
back from his last trip to Oliver
at about 8 p. m. He usually
finds number of men in the tai.
lor shop, men of the working class,
who seek to exchange $3.50 each
for rsaspint. bottle pf the nightcap
stuff.
| Cunningly, too, the man who
licked Spain, has a boy carry his
hand package from the street car
alta the Lenox hotel corner to the
taaora shop, thereby minimizing
his chances for being detected
and caught on the street with
! blockade booze.
] If commissioner Silberstein
| and chief Mex Kereher do not know
/ it, Uncle Bob Med Dermott, lieu.
\ tenant Of police at New Duluth
i Or some Of his subordinates, ought
: : ,.-s.Ss -. esFex.
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CAPTAIN BRUCE PALMER
IS ROTTEN DINNER HOST
INVITES MORRISON HOME TO DINNER
.. I THEN ORDERS HIM JAILED.

Rip-saW Editor Visits Oliver-Police Captain
Boosts Great Family Journal-Insists That
Editor Become Dinner Guest-Permits Saloon
Keeper Kruth to Verbally Assault Visitor.
When Morrison Attempts to Side-step Kruth,
His Genial Host Orders PatrOlman to "ThrOw
Him i'm Over Night ,:&. 49,
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DIRTY NESTS IN DULUTH
UNSEEN BY SlLBERSTEIN
BLIND PIGS AND REDLIGHT DUMPS FLOUR
ISH WITHOUT HARM OR HINDRANCE.

Commissioner of Upsafety and Camoufage Is Paid
$4,000 Year to Make Duluth Safe for Decency.
Facts About May SCOTS Place Over Delmonico
Restaurant Combining Boose and Tailoring
Back of Lenox Hotel-StrOng Moose Milk at
Moose Hotel-HOw Gary's Blind Pigs Are
Kept.
The Dermott news., 1918-08-15

1t was not much that he had to do.
Masses of troops continued To rush
across the bridge until more than half
were safely over. The bridge further
above was not in such great demand,
and with the lessened congestion al
most all who crossed here We're
already safe. We could see how the
first of the French units had crossed,
but the bridge continued TO stand.
The sergeant who manned the appa-
ratus at this bridge became restless
waiting for orders. and finally on his
own initiative blew it UP. Some
Frenehmen and hundreds of Germans
upon the bridge found their graves in
the Marine.
At the same moment the officer
standing next 10 me received the order
to blow up the last bridge. He hesi-
tated to obey. for he could still see
many Germans on the other side. He
could see the race for the road leading
to the bridgehead as all sought safety
at the same instant. There n terrible
panic reigned. Many soldiers jumped
into the river and tried to swim across.
The pressure became greater as the
thousands still on the other side tried
to get back.
The message over the wire became
more and more inSistent. Finally the
The Dermott news., 1918-08-15
44I1OCaa
SOU I S
Conducted by National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America)
SCOUT WORK NOT PARADING

1t isn't strange with the whole world
at war and millions of men training
at gun-drills that some boys will get
the gun-drill fever No doubt they
think they can help their country In
that way. Let's see about that, says
a scout official in answering a scout
who wants to drill with guns.
Uncle Sam has asked the boy scouts
10 serve in the first. the second and
the third Liberty Loan campaigns; he
has enlisted them as his dispatch bear
ers in the drive against Hun propa
ganda in America he has given them
a big and important job in boosting
the sale of Thrift and War Savings
stamps; but as far as have heard he
HASN'T asked n single boy scout to put
a gun To his shoulder and drill.
Why hasn't Uncle Sam given guns
TO his boys? Because he knows they
can be n thousand times more helpful
in winning the war in other ways. The
youngster parading around with rifle
no doubt is n splendid fellow, and
eager to help; but in this particular
case he is on the wrong track.
The boy scout movement is now, al
ways has been and always will be
nonmilitaristic organization, and gun
drills do not have n place in its pro-
gram of activities. The best military
experts In the country do not believe
In gun drills for boys of scout age.
And that is only one of the many rea-
sons why military gun drill and "tin
soldering" activities are not made a
part of scouting. There's plenty of
other more necessary things to do for
'teen-age boys. When you are older
Uncle Sam will give you the real thing
In drill, under competent officers and
you Will be taught the use of the rifle
as technical weapon the purpose of
which is to kill. For the present, In
preparation, the government wants
boys to do other ana more helpful and
practical things.
The Dermott news., 1918-08-15

officer sprang up, rushed by the pio-
neer standing at the apparatus and n
second later there was terrible deto-
nation-bridge and men were thrown
into the air hundreds of meters. Just
as a river at high tide races along,
taking with 1t all manner of debris. so
the surface of the Marine was covered
with wood. men. torn uniforms and
horses. Efforts to swim were futile,
yet soldiers continued to jump into the
river.
On the other side the French began
to disarm such German soldiers as
stood there with raised hands. Thou
sands of prisoners. innumerable horses
and machine guns fell into the hands
of the enemy. Several of our company
were Just about to retire with the
electric apparatus when something de-
veloped which certain of our number
had suspected. An error had been
made and 1t was too late to rect.f; <.
The upper bridge, which had not
been used to any great extent by the
Germans, should have been left stand
ing
Ii had been the purpose of the staff
In command to leave this bridge so
that the enemy might continue its pur-
suit of our troops until certain num-
Der OF Frenchmen had crossed the
The Dermott news., 1918-08-15

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The Dermott news., 1918-08-15
GRO BE CONTINUED3


Conveying systems which are very
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The Dermott news., 1918-08-15
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