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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12
AUGUST LETTERS
BREAKS UP HOME
Superior Lothario Suspected Of
SeduCing wife and Mother
From Duty and DecenCy..

One of the cardinal rules of
sports is not to NEEDLE with another
sports wife or woman. Over in Su-
perior, there seem to be no rules
recognized, therefore the quickest,
strongest or meanest man has the
pick of the hen roost, so to speak.
Last week one sunny afternoon,
Charles A. Hazelton walked into the
Rip-saw office and wanted to know
where or how he could find August
LETTERS. Hazelton stated that he had
been worker at the Globe shipyards
and that the last seen of his wife
was when she and LETTERS were board
ing Duluth-Superior trolley car.
When Hazelton came home that
fatal Monday evening, March %, he
found his 7-months' baby boy crying
loudly. The poor child had received
no attention for several hours but the
father promptly found an efficient
nurse.
In the Hazelton home at 424 o.
den avenue, the deserted husband
stated that he found a note from his
wife, telling him that he could put
the baby in the children's home or
that he could do as he I'D
pleased. The note was of such a
character as to enable the husband to
easily understand that the wife and
mother had no further use for either
him or the baby.
Hazelton took the baby to his kin
folks in Eau Claire, Wis, for proper
care. He was married to his wife
in that Wisconsin city three years
ago. Her parents are respectable peo-
pie and have a small farm near the
city.
LETTERS, the man in the case, is
about 33 years Of age and possesses
wooden leg. He formerly was night
clerk at the Lake Superior Mission,
$50 Tower avenue, where he met
Mrs. Hazelton when she worked there
as waitress. He quit there some
time ago, after having some friction
with Supt. Roycroft and threatening
to show up that gentleman in the
Rip-saw. What LETTERS intended to
show up has not yet been made
known.
A Rip-saw informant stated a few
days ago that LETTERS still is in Su-
perior, trying to cut tombstones in
marble-works in the lowland city.
Hazelton reported the elopement
of his wife to the police in Duluth.
He believes that his wife's detection
and going astray are due to one Mrs.
Brown who lives at 423 Ogden ave-
nue.. He represents Madam Brown
as being a woman who is living with
third husband and having notions
that might lead an attractive young
wife away from the path Of duty and
decency.
The great family journal does not
undertake to vouch for Hazelton but,
since he seems to be the injured hus-
band, his side of the :.ory is told for
what it is worth.
If Hazelton finds LETTERS. however,
that gay Lothario either will need a
second wooden leg or the one he now
has will be reduced to splinters. The
aggrieved husband is meek looking
chap but he has an enormous muscle
and, it is suspected, a big gun, with
long blue barrel. Such guns
are considered effective means for
handling home robbers.
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Gill is city physician, therefore he
is responsible for pest house admin
istration. He is considered a compe-
tent man and a mighty good fellow,
one who would do anything for
friend, but his pest house system is
considered a bit penurious.
DR.. McGill now draws $4,000 a
year, to say nothing of possible
$500 additional in fees for keeping
the record Of births and deaths.
Those birth records also show that he
has been doing something in the way
of private work in ushering infants
into the world But the good doctor
has nine children of his own, there
fore needs and deserves a substantial
income. The chief complaint is that
he keeps the diet of pest house pa
tints down to workingman's fare;
that toilet facilities are shame and
a disgrace; and that doctors have not
been quite careful enough in guard
ing against carrying possible infec-
ton.
OF course, the pest house was out
of the question during the influenza
scourge. Many Of the sufferers from
that foreign plague were immured in
an old steamboat, floating in a slip,
and not at all as comfortable as Rud-
der Grange. The visitation of the in
fluenza cost Superior anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000, a large enough sum
to have modernized the isolation hos
pital.
Public Demands Modern Hospital.
Medical men, citizens and patients
who have been there, declare that
Superior needs and should have a
modern, sanitary, adequate isolation
hospital, without delay and before
other desirable but not really press
ing municipal conveniences are pro-
vided.
Although the papers have said
nothing about it and the citizens have
not shouted it from the house tops,
Superior was peppered through the
winter with smallpox. It came in
mild form but had quite a run in
many neighborhoods in the city.
About a month ago, Sacred Heart
academy and the Seven Day Advent
list school and church were closed be-
cause of the smallpox.
The nasty disease got into several
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caught, he put up something like
$4,000 in cash bail.
On several occasions druggist
Holmberg has held bargain sales of
booze, if reports are correct, and so
heavy have been the rushes that his
entire staff has been drafted into
the booze trade and seekers for pills
or powders have been unable to get
back to the prescription clerk.
State Action Is Desired.
It is understood that enough evil
dence exists to stick Holmberg on
three counts this time. Many COM
mon, unsophisticated citizens are
expressing curiosity as to why the
county attorney does not take steps
to have the Holmberg license as a
druggist cancelled or revoked by the
state authorities.
Alex Holmes, one of Holmberg's
clerks, was included in the list of
guests at Mayor Bakers April Fool
party. Both pleaded not guilty.
Holmberg always does that, at first,
and then dickers for the best possible
terms.
It would be something of an April
Fool joke if Judge Parker handed
druggist Holmberg a straight jail
sentence in the event that he is so
unfortunate to be found guilty of the
charges against him.
That Famous "Snake OIL"
The boys with hot coppers say
that Holmberg's downtown store has
a big sign in the window with the
legend, 'Snake Oil.' He also ad-
vertises that remedy, whatever it
may be, in the local papers. When
Holmberg's booze-selling proclivi-
ties are remembered, that sign seems
significant and very appropriate.
Otto Rydell makes his first ap-
pearance this week in the Rip-saw
as a member of Superior's mammoth
gang of Jesse James imitators.. He
conducts the Red Cross drug store at
52S Tower avenue. He was accom-
panied to Mayor Bakers April Fool
party by his clerk, Oscar Olson, pre-
sumably a specialist in Swedish
punch. Both defendants denied their
guilt and their cases were set for
trial at a future day.
Olson was arrested some time ago
with chap named O'Toole, on a SIM
liar charge. Pat O'Toole took all the
blame and was fined, but it is gener-
ally understood that the fine was
paid by others and with money that
did not belong to kindly O'Toole.
Opera Drug Store Suspected.
The Opera drug store, facing hotel
Superior, is reported as again being
busy at supplying booze to guests of
the popular caravansary. It is al
legged that business is conducted
through clerk in the drug store
and bell boys in the hotel.
It is assumed that neither the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12
FAKE PROFESSOR
JUMPS The TOWN
Ne|s Christensen Robs Boys
and Girls With His Bogus
Telegraph School.

Last summer, Nels Christianson
was washing dishes in a boarding
camp at Barksdale, Wis. Early in
January, last, Nels came to Duluth
and opened the Northern Telegraph
School at No. POI Manhattan build
ing.
Christianson offered to make pu-
pills proficient in telegraphy for the
small sum of $50, in about six
months time, If they were even nor
mally proficient, and then to start
them in jobs paying all the way from
$106 to $3.50 a month.
Two or three score of young folks
mostly boys and girls Of the hard
working, low-salaried class, took
Christianson at his word and en-
rolled for preparation for those fat,
guaranteed jobs. He even had bo-
gus letters from prominent railroads,
calling for young operators at fat
salaries, none below sos a month.
Some came across with the full $50
Others paid only a part of the full
tuition fee. Still others were lucky
enough to go along on basis of SO
a month. .,.
Today, brass pounding is not heard
in the Northern Telegraph School
The students have dispersed. The
school is on the blink. Christianson
has taken the advice of Horace
Greeley and "gone west" geograph.
ically, not spiritually.
Christianson was a big, long ig.
noramus with a wooden leg and
enough gall to serve q whole herd
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of army mules. He claimed to have
been a railroad dispatcher but he
really was very much of "ham" In
practical telegraphy. He had black
bottle in his office, however, which
made him imagine he was president
of the Western Union afte' he had
taken enough swigs out Of it.
81 always keep a quart on hand"
the professor once told one of his STU
dents.
There also is excellent reason to
believe that Prof. Christianson sold
enough of the booze to handsomely
augment his professional income. In
other words, the adventurer kept a
neat little blind pig within the walls
of the Northern Telegraph School.
Some Of the young people stung,
lily could afford it. Among two or
three score of suckers whom the erst-
while dish-washer caught were the
following. viz:
Ragna Olson, Hilda Lund, Hulda
Larson, Margaret Westman Rose
Long, Ida Geski. Sigrid Linden, Helen
Zielke, Lena Hildebrand, Catherine
O'Hara, Rosamond Holmes, George
Sand, Fin. Agre, Albert johnson,
John Schotke, William Mealy and
Ely Mckinney. There were many
others.
There are strong rumors, also, that
Prof. Christianson was something OF
heart-breaker and that he made
ardent love to at least one girl STU
dent. A note book that he left be-
hind had enough obscene language
in it, presumably sent and taken over
the school wires, to indicate that he
also was a Hcentious educator.
After skipping out from, Duluth,
Christianson sent back decoy letter,
indicating that he had excepted" q
grand position with the Western
Union and that he wanted a Miss
Breole to take charge of the school
until she heard further. A postmark
indicated that the fugitive professor
was heading for Montana as rapidly
as the train could run.
There is strong talk of swearing
out a warrant for. Christianson's ar
rest on charge Of fraud. Promin-
ent citizens feel that justice to the
deluded students requires, location
and arrest Of the booty faker.
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Grated the Fifth avenue hotel at
1915 North Fifth St. Gust Beck
iiv,,. there. He alsc drummed up
so many roomers fc1 her that she
coined money. Investigation has not
yet shown that she did other business
than renting rooms hut she ever was
willing to let her rcomers conduct
themselves according to their indi-
vidual standards of morals, whether
high or low, good or bad, clean or
foul.
A line on how Madam Christensen
conducted her place is shown by the
fact that, when her license ran out
a year or so ago, she was refused
renewal. The hotel then was sold
t. a Mrs. Mathis and Madam Chris
tenson moved to $40 Ogden avenue.
Gust Beck moved with her. There,
in their little flat, they lived in hap
piness and contentment. He was
her'n and she was his'n, so what
concern was their mode Of life to
others?
But Mrs. Christensen had become
attached to the hustle and hustle Of
hotel, therefore she located in
coy apartment in the Palace hotel.
1911 Eighth st. Gust Beck, of
course, went with her, as roomer,
some say.
Beck's assistants in the blind pig
business did not live at the Palace,
however. They located in the Key
stone block where the police found
booze plant. Elmer Anderson, the
man found in that plant, was traced
from Gust Beck's place. Attorney
Cadigan's attempt to fool justice Nc
Pherson did not work as we'll as in
the Danielson case. Beck had to pay
the 500 fine. Now Beck, himself,
is out on $500 bail, under charge
of violating the dry ordinance.
Professional blind piggers have
found/it costly to keep their capital
stock, so to speak, within the city
limits. They have learned to estab-
lish plants at safe but convenient
distances from the city, where they
can drive out, ostensibly on business
but in reality, to bring in a load OF
booze.
Inc CuTlSLcuSOu-DcCh ldI LII az
Hawthorne is alleged to be place
of that kind. Anderson and Daniel
son would not be idle when out
there. They are we'll known among
the booze fiends and, while out there
watching the plant, could carry on
considerable business in furnishing
other purveyors of the illicit stuff,
az we'll as keen Gusts city diStribut-
ing and selling stations we'll supplied.
If men around Beck's places in
town were caught, they then could go
out to the booze farm and stick
around while their places In the
city were taken by Anderson and
Danielson.
The lawless underworld element in
Superior has no respect for the law.
The almighty dollar comes first and
if it is dirty dollar, SO much the bet
ter. Only fools and ants work in SUI
periOr.
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Police officials and private -detec-
tives have made life very hard for
Gust Beck for some time. Gust was
a saloon keeper at $40 Tower ave-
nue., during the soppy, sloppy, very
wet days. He now is credited with
conducting speak-easy at the same
place.
Gust Beck came to grief in the
blind pig business because a lawyer
was so cute in another case that an
investigation revealed Beck's duplic-
ity and secret infraction of the dry
ordinance.
Some time since, one John Daniel
son was arrested for illegally ped
ding booze. This exponent Of low
moral endeavor once was bold bar
tender. OF late he has been boot
logger, operating in Gust Beck's soft
drink emporium.
Boot-legger Danielson had a habit
of operating in part Of Becks' bingo
depot that was not intended for a
filling station. There the city de-
tectives caught him with a bottle of
booze on the hip, therefore hailed him
before q magistrate under charge
Of violating the liquor ordinance.
. Attorney John A. Cadigan repre-
scented Danielson and he swore out
an affidavit of prejudice, thereby TAX
ing the case from municipal Judge
Parker and bringing it before justice
o: the peace Mcpherson. A strong
defense was put up, Lawyer Cadigan
man, an honest farmer, under con-
tract to run a farm at Hawthorne for
one Mrs. Christensen. The contract
was offered in evidence.
It was argued that law enforce
rien. was being carried to an extreme
when an hoasst, Woodworking, plain,
esery-day granger was denied the
right of carrying a bottle on the
hip"
Justice Mcpherson fell for the CUFF
and lectured the police for going af-
ter the small folk while larger fell
lows were VIGOROUSLY violating all
laws and ordinances. /Danielson,
uOWCfCI, was 1Ouuu ICS1ulCdAly ul1ty
and fined 500. On a plea of law
yer Cadigan, the fine was suspended.
Cadigan saved Gust Beck, who is
Danielson's acknowledged employer,
from loss Of 500, but he also aroused
a spirit of investigation in men who
were on their mettle. They investi-
gated carefully and we'll.
"Who is Mrs. Christensen" they
first asked themselves.
Investigation developed the fact
that Mrs. Christensen Is widow
and that Gust Beck is her star
bcarder or roomer. Further than
that, affiant knoweth not. although
it is generally conceded in under
world circles that she is Gusts Wo-
ran"
Madam Christenso1's farm at Haw-
thorne is reputed to contain the plant
from which Gust Beck draws his sup
ply of illicit booze.
At one time, Mrs. Christensen o.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12
GUST BECK KEEPS BOOZE
ON FARM AT HAWTHORNE
POLICE DISCOVER CUTE TRICKS PLAYED
BY FORMER SALOON-KEEPER.

Lawyer Cadigan Uses Camoufiage to Clear John
Danielson of Blind Plugging Charge-AuthOri-
ties Find Alleged Honest Farmer Works on
Booze Ranch-Widow Christensen Helps Her
"Man" Fool Authorities Learned From
Discovery of Blind Pig I'm Keystone Block.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12
PATIENTS CONFINED IN
ANTIQUATED BUILDINGS
VICTIMS OF DANGEROUS CONTAGIOUS DIS
EASES SERVE AS OWN NURSES.

Sick People Compelled to Bring Own Fuel and Build
Own Fires Scarlet Fever Patients Use Same
Halls as Smallpox Victims-Food Well Cooked
But Very Plain-Bathing Facilities Utterly
Lacking Detached Privy, One Hundred Feet
From Hospital Building, Is Filthy Hole.
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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-07-03
WASHINGTON RECEIVES NEWS
WITH SCARCELY A FLuTTER..

Washington.-Word Of the consum-
nation of peace was received at the
national capital with scarcely a fiut-
ter Of popular or official sentiment.
At the white house and the state
department the news aroused only
quiet feeling of satisfaction that the
pre-arranged program for the signing
at Versailles had gone through. In
Congress there was but a naomentary
demonstration and on the streets the
crowds gave no show Of interest.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-07-03
HAS THROWN UP
JOB OF COMMANDER-lN-CHiEF.

Berlin.-Field Marshal Won linden
burg's letter to his troops runs as
follows in part:
Soldiers, intimated some time
ago to the government that I must
prefer an honorable defeat to shame
full peace. owe you this explana-
ton. Having already at an earlier
stage announced by intention to with
draw again into retirement after the
decision as to peace has been made,
[ now lay down my command in chief"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-07-03
Wanted Is Farms to Sell.

List your farm property with
us for quick action. We have
several customers on our wait
ing list. Write or call Bagwell
or Sanford, Hamlet, N. c.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-07-03

Large stock of flags and bun
ting at Stephenson-Belk's Buy
early. advt.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-12
EMPLOYMENT
Iieip Wnntt,l-AinIn

MEN. learn 10 De BARRIERS. lew weeks re-
Huired. Writo Tor catalogue Richuoai
Barcer College. $40 NORTH FIfth 3ire-I.
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OF huhuiinE sales agents business arm
OF lonE standing and established rCputa-
lion: sS6. care Times D!spaIcn
SAii.wAr MAIL CLERKS - ,iry.rn5ncnt
VIII hold railway mai. clerk cNSiniui.tiuus
nisihmond: March 10 ;s2 monSh TX
ptileHte unnecessary. Men. is az over.
desiring clerkghips writ. Tor lrc. par
ucalars. j. l.. Leonard former Civii
service Examiner. 1865 kcnoiS BldS..
Washington 70"
RAILWAY rOSlrION--A man succeeds In
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- -7H----
FINANCIAL.
business Opportunities.

BANK forming syndicate 1000 people nay
So monthly TO purchase government bonds
FRONTS divided every SIX months. Give
your phone. BOX 1853. Richmond. Va.
BIDs--omce, OF the State. Highway Com
mission. Richmond Va; January 81. l9l".
BIDS will be received at this Office until l2
O'Clock noon Monday. February II. 1913
for the construction OF the following sec
tons OF road: S.25 miles concrete road
from Richmond towards Petersburg; \. 80
miles gravel road from Franklin To Court
land: $50 miles top soil road from Ridge
way TO North Carolina line. rlaGs and
specifications on Tile at this u.tlcc, and
may be obtained from the undersigned by
depoaiting $500 FOR each set, one half OF
which viii he refunded when plans are
cheeks Tor $500 viii he reaured Tor BID
on each road, or $1,000 for bids on ali
reserves the right 10 reject any or All
bids An engineer from tho Highway
Cotnn,issioner's onico will show tho 'Sich.
Inond- Petersburg road to contractors on
February anu 18Th. Engineer nj the
Stonewali Inn. Franklin. Va, will show
tho Franklin Courtland work to contrnc-
tors on February and II, at 10 A. NJ
Engineer at GrigG'a Hotei, Riogeway Va
WIN show tina R,dgeway-North Carolina
limo work to contractors on February 6
and l3. at noon @. p. Coleman. State
Halfway Commissioner.
WANT 40 automobilef Read aud use the
Want Ada.
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FINArCIiL
Husincss Onnnr,rnitics


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pesirnbly located detached brick dJysli.@
ing on Floyd Avenue. Just beyond aass-..-.
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Poultry aud Supplies.

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DISPLAY-CL.4SSIFIED - s1v'''v
Money toLends

NnIch we can place at once on ISiah -
mono city and suburban real estate, In
sums from $1,000 TO $4,000 We Can.
m us, MAKE loans on good class farhi
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'lTEG'HiA HOT SPRINGS Hot Springs.
Va Tsbrusry g. 1919 To the stockh old -
sTs Of the FirEinia Ito. Springs GoSansnS,
IN IN" i Ennuai Insstins Of the stock hoiders, Of
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purpose or eiecting directors and fofi sRs,
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SpraMnEs Va. on Saturday, the. o3a day
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i;SF DOORS VIII be closed Friday F,oruary
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