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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
PROF. SIMON HhRRIES
BURBERRY PICkERS
Poor People Cruelty Refused
What Rich Owner Cannot
or Will Not Use.

Poor people with a yearning for thu
festive BURBERRY express the opinion
that J. P. Simon is meaner than dirt
J. P. Simon is wealthy man who
conducts an alleged business college il
Superior and, at the same time, holds
title to many ard valuable chunks OF
real estate. Among other holdings
the business college proprietor is sole
and exclusive owner of six hundred
acres of Gods green foot-stool some
miles out of Superior.
Thanks to the sun, rains and
breezes, Prof. Simon's aforesaid six
hundred acres are fairly blue with
blueberries. Those premises are noted
far and wide for their abundance of
berries. Prof. Simon makes no at
tempt to gather his blueberries, there
fore poor people, who cannot afford
to pay the food hog price of $3.50 q
busheI or 1915 for a case of sixteen
quarts, are impelled to trespass on the
Simon domain for the purpose of gath
ering the festive fruit.
Although Prof. Simon does not at
tempt to gather his BURBERRY crop,
he is not without berries in his hand
some home in Superior. He lies in
wait until some poor person has gath
cred a considerable quantity, after
which he or some heartless agent con-
fiscate the pals, buckets or baskets
of blueberries so toilfully gathered.
Sunday, Aug. 10, so say those who
claim full information, Prof Simon
took large quantities of berries away
from the poor people who had gath
cred them. 1t also is alleged that the
bard-hearted educator had an agent
with him who carried a cruel black
snake whip with which to enforce
their demands that berries picked on
the Simon land be surrendered to the
thrifty owner of it.
Several trespassers have been ar
rested. A couple of weeks ago, Prof.
Simon had couple of poor women
arrested for trespass, a deputy sheriff
being assigned the benevolent job. The
judge found them guilty of technical
trespass and fined them, $1.0O each,
but suspended sentence. The women
then .swore out, complaint against
the thrifty Simon on charge of stick
ing a revolver under the nose of a
boy who was in the party.
One man from Duluth got the best
of the Superior citizen who reaps
where he hasNnH sown and gathers
where he has not strewn. He evaded
detection and in six short hours
picked 40 quarts of the forbidden Der.
ries. This shows how plentiful and
thick a crop grows on the Simon
estate.
Nearly every berry picker will vote
"aye" on a resolution to the effect
that Prof. J. P. Simon is the cham.
pion tightwad of all Superior.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
ALLOUEz DOCK BOSSES
SWEAR AT GREEN men
G. n. Ore Dock Worker States
That Many Conditions Are
Very Unsatisfactory.

An employe ON the Great Northern
ore docks at Allouez. speaking for 200
men, as well as himself, complains to
the Rip-Saw over existing conditions.
He declares that the men are veritable
slaves, under guard of men without
firearms, but guards, just the same.
This critic of labor conditions on
those dear old ore docks declares that
the foremen swear at the men because
they do not know where to 90 to work
before they are told, not being mind
readers.
Further complaint is made that
when new foreman is necessary, he
is hired from the West End employ
ment office instead Of getting exper-
fenced men who know how to do the
work.
1t further is charged that six men
recently were discharged because they
insisted on having pay for working
ten hours and twenty minutes. The
company insisted on paying for an
even ten hours work, apparently
wishing to chinook down" the twenty
minutes of overtime worked by the
men.
Further complaint is made that the
bosses at the docks invariably will dis,
charge an American citizen for the
purpose of putting on foreigner. II
is claimed that there is limit to the
number of American citizens that will
be worked at one time.
New men also are put to work with
out safety instructions, if this com
plainant is correct in his statements
1t is, alleged that the drinking water
is unfit and that the health officer
never inspects sanitary conditions as
to water and other conditions affect
ing the men. It also is charged tina:
the labor commissioner or his repre-
sentative has been conspicuous by
failure to investigate working and
safety conditions.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
SEEKS HIBb|NC MAYOR
FOR LABOR DAY ORATOR
SuperiOr's Labor Day Commit.
tee Asks Victor L. Power to
Speak on LabOr's Holiday.

Superior Labor day committee at a
meeting last Saturday afternoon de-
cided to invite Hon. Victor L. Power,
the well-known and popular mayor of
Hibbing, Mimi, as the official Labor
day orator. An invitation has been
mailed to Mayor Power and James B.
Campbell, the chairman of the COM
mittee, entertains hopes that he will
accept
At the meeting, all subcommittee
reported progress and indications are
that the event will be one of the great
est and most successful ever held in
Superior on organized labor's holiday.
Owing to removal from the city of
Harry Stanley, one of the committee,
August Peterson, representing the Re.
tail Clerks union, was selected to take
his place.
With the addition of Mr.. Peterson
the Labor day committees are as fol.
lows:
General committee-James B. Camp.
bell, chairman; August Peterson, r.
M. Baston, E. Anderson, Lyman White
W. Grings and F. A. Sell.
Dance committee-R. M. Baston
chairman; August Peterson, W. Grings
and E. Anderson.
Grounds and concessions-Lyman
White, chairman; E. Anderson and F.
A. Sell.
Sports and prizes-August Peterson
chairman; R. M. Baston, W. Grings
and F. A. Sell.
Programme. Anderson, chairman
4. M. Baston, J. B. Campbell and
August Peterson.
speakers-James B. Campbell, chair
man; Lyman White. ~
Music-W. Grings, chairman; August
Peterson and E. Anderson.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23

ers onto the age-worn petition. If it
is not filled up soon, it will have gray
whiskers on it two feet long. They
have been introducing it around for a
solid month.
Last Monday the petition was not
at all near completion. The Rip-Saw
now understands that at least 1000
names are required, names Of legal,
qualified voters, instead Of 1000, as
previously stated. Last Monday, one
authority declared that not to exceed
500 names were actually on the petit
ton. A number of cases were re-
ported where early signers were seek
ing to recall their signatures, declar-
ing that they signed under a misun-
Outstanding. There was one man who
thought that there might be 1,400
names on the petition but he would
bet nothing on it and no one backed
his opinion.
One interesting incident in this
movement is that Col. u. J. Burnside
has refused to sign the petition. He
feels that he has so many personal
troubles and worries right now that
he had better remain entirely neutral.
The pimps, gamblers, redlight women
the few that remain in the city
the blind-piggers, burglars, sneak
thieves and some of the recently dis
charged policemen feel greatly en-
couraged over the fact that Mayor
Baxter is being opposed by Messrs.
Near-Beer & Bevo,5a couple Of gents
who print scandal sheet in Mime
Lapolis. They assure the underworld
element that they s.ean spout. enough
In rovefnmsnt ana Mayor Baxter, i
recall.
Some time ago, 1T is alleged, the
Superior underworld raised a jackpot
of about $4,000 to buy few eruptions
Of mud and slime by the Minneapolis
scandal sheet. Messrs. Near-Beer
Bevo set about to earn and annex the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
THE FOOD HOGS SEND CORN
TO THEIR RURAL COUSINS
Title Larson, Living at Mile Post No. 80, Duluth and Iron
Range Railway, Receives Six Mysterious Barrels
Of Haf-Good, Half-Bad Apples.

rels of apples dumped off at her place
from hating freight train. Some Of
"the poor mans fruit" as it once
was called, was spoiled and some was
perfectly good and disable. There was
no shipping bill or anything to indi-
cate the identity of the consignor and
no word was received from any source
as to the shipment of six barrels Of
half-spoiled, half-good apples. ...
Such investigation as has been pos
sible strongly indicates that six bar
rels of summer apples had spoiled to
an extent to make them unstable BY
the Food Hog firm that had them,
yet they were not rotten enough to
safely, send to the incinerator or the
municipal dump. Happy thought. Ship
them to Title Larson at Mile Post
No. 80. 1t was done, with never q
thought of detection or scandal for
destroying valuable and popular
food product, just bit on the shady
side of maturity. .,.. ..:
Who says that a cunning brain is
no asset in this twisty day and agef
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23

doddered bit on the threshold Of the
cold Man IS" private office, "but 1
hated to have my financial condition
exposed"
"Hey, there, old Chiefl Wash It
that some frameup9" exclaimed the
doddering bod over the telephone.
"That will scare the public so badly
that they will insist that you put
O'Brien, St. Onge, Gleason, Conlin,
Peterson and Mcdonald back onto the
force.'
elbow in the world did you think
of so clever a scheme?" asked the
sinless chief.
GA reporter pulled off similar
stunt in Duluth about thirty years
ago and I hapnened to hear about it
gently, therefore T tried it out. 1t
worked" replied bod as he doddered
away from the telephone.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23

dough. In some way, they got mixed
up with couple of crooks going un
der the name of H. G. Ford and F. G
Grimes, who were in Duluth and Su
perior off and on for several weeks
representing the Twin City Mud
singer and telling the boys in all the
pool halls of the Twin Ports how
Messrs. Near-Beer & Bevo were going
to blow Baxter off the map.
From the way the nasty scandal
sheet has fallen down, it now is sus
pected that either the sports held out
in payment of the $4,000 or that
Messrs. Ford and Grimes got their fin.
gers on the greater portion of it.
AS these lines are written, 81. G.
Ford is under arrest for passing bogus
checks in Duluth and Superior while
he was posing as agent for the scan
dial sheet sponsored by Messrs. Near
Beer & Bevo. One check was cashed
at the Hotel Superior, another at the
Spalding hotel and another at the
Lyceum cafe. Grimes seems to have
cleared his skirts but Ford was caught
in Milwaukee and brought back to the
head of the lakes, where the law will
be laid upon him. Although the Twin
City Defamer repudiates both men,
some one must be standing by Ford,
for Ray M. Hughes is his lawyer. In
default of $500 bail, he was in jail
Tuesday last.
But to get back to the main issue,
it must be admitted that the proposed
recall of Mayor Baxter and the return
to the ward system are not popular
in Superior. The best people of the
city, the business men very heavily
and, above all, the labor unions are
for Baxter and the commission form
of government. Not even Bob Shields
can seduce the people away from
either one.
The Superior Trades and Labor as
sembly not only recently went on rec
ord against a change but by a formal
vote denied that it ever had endorsed
any movement looking to change.
As stated in the previous issue of
the great family journal, the car
penters' and the blacksmiths' unions
formally endorsed Mayor Baxter and
went against abolition Of the commits
sion form Of government.
More recently, the Iron Range
Lodge, No. 296, Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen,
passed strong resolutions in favor of
Mayor Baxter and the present form
Of government and against the pro-
posed change.
Journeymen BARRIERS union No. 139
also passed a resolution in support Of
Mayor Baxter and the present form
of government. Last Monday night,
local union No. ia of the Boilermak-
2ers, Iron Shipbuilders & Helpers Of
America followed the suit of the other
1t is believed that, in due
course, practically every labor union
in the city will take firm and posi-
tive stand in favor of the present gov
eminent and the mayor.
After that will come endorsements
by civic, educational, moral and even
religious organizations.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
THE DODDER|NC DoD
D0DGES DIRE DANGER
A Scion of the Sunny South.
land Pulls Spectacular Stunt
in Dear Old BingOIand

The gallant bod had enioved his
bevo with the boys and was dodderino
home. When he reached a lone snot
on Tower avenue between Twenty.
third and Twenty-fourth streets. he
was boldly accosted by two ruffians
one of whom grabbed him BY his wash.
silk neck-tie and the other told him
to shell out that pay envelope and
"the watch me ,feyther wore. y
bod ceased to dodder. His bo,
Southern blood boiled like a tea-ket.
tie.
. "Unhand me, caitiffl" commanded
the scion Of the F. F. v.
Then came a struggle. bod had
been doddering around town without
a pistol, knife or brassy knucks. Bni
the spirit that led Pickett on his his
toric charge also led bod to show
those men Of the road that he wa.
not one to dodderi in the face of crave
danger to wind, limb or life. '
Making a desperate effort, tina,
wash-silk four-in-hand slipped through
the greasy fingers of the highway
man bold and bod lodged down tn
street at pace that quickly brouoh,
him under the wire, or safely into
port, have it as you will.
"I1l tell Chief McKinnon on youi,
loudly exclaimed the no-longer dodde,
ing bod as he reproached Mayor Bax
ter for not having an entire regimen,
of policemen i'm that particular sec
tion Of the city.
"Do so,' replied the MAYOR with
his never-failing affability and k;nd,;
ness Of manner.
"Why did you put up such a aes
perate struggled" asked John T
Murphy Of his local editor. uYoul
salary was not nearly so much as you,
fair young life. -
: ri know it," admitted bod as he
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
CAME WITHOUT 1NcunBRANcR.

g. can let you have q room on the
top floor, sir, if you don't mind shaT-
ing it with another gentleman" said
the clerk.
"All right. But do you suppose the
gentleman win retire earlyf I'm IN
need of sleep and don's wait TO be
disturbed
You II probably be able to get >
good night g rest before the geatlemap
comes in, sir. He's been stopping with
US every spring for six or seven years
and this is the first time he's ever
made the trip without ~ wife. -
Birmingham age He.ald.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
BOARD OF EDUCATION .
ENDS PAINT DISPUTE
Directors and Painters Union
Put An End to Paint Monop-
oily in School Business.

Under Hoke and HARDWOOD, entirely
too many business questions pertain
tanning to public school matters ara
settled merely because that way
would be followed in Minneapolis.
When thea willy McGiffert dominated
the board of education, every ques-
ton was settled in way not to hurt
the feelings or the business welfare
Of A. M. Marshall.
just before the recent school cleo
ton, Director Proved introduced q
resolution to the effect that the board
Of education refrain from patronizing
1.-THE Marshall Wells Hardware Co. so
long as that concern was unfair to
organized labor.
Under the guiding hand of Director
Crassweller, vote on the resolution
was put over q month. When that
month had elapsed, the board of edu-
| cation was told that such a plan was
legally impossible, therefore the cor
poration sympathizers voted down the
Little Commoner resolution. The
minutes of the meeting show that
Director Coole voted with the auto
Gratis and against organized labor. Di-
rector Firoved alleges that he heard
Mr.. Coole vote just the opposite, he
| withholding his vote until Mr.. Cools
| voted.
Director Firoved's resolution was
inspired by kick from the Painters
union, that organization alleging that
specifications for paint invariably.
called for Hock-a-Day paint, handled
exclusively by the Marshall Wells
company 1t was claimed that other
paints were just as good, If not bet
ter, and considerably cheaper.
:, The business agent Of the Painters
union kept after the directors and, it
is believed, had several earnest ses-
| sions with Sir Stanley HARDWOOD, bust
ness superintendent, who measures
and bases 50 many school board mat
tiers according to- the Minneapolis
standard. ..-
At first it was proposed to paint
one surface with Hock-a-Day paint
and another surface with other paint,
not monopolized by the MARSHALL
Wells company.
Now comes the information that diff
ferences between the Painters union
and the school board have been salts
factorily adjusted. Minneapolis meth
DDS and Marshall Hardware
company methods have been put in
the background to the extent that,
hereafter, specifications for paint and
painting will not be broad enough to
make it possible to use other paint
than some brand monopolized by the
canny Marshall interests. As the
Labor World recently said, this win
make it possible to save at least $500
year in paint bills. This sum win
be sufficient to give five school teach
ers an increase in salary Of 800 each
per, year. Other economies will result
in making it possible to give more
teachers, engineers and janitors in
creases in salaries without increasing
taxes.
Already, the long-suffering public,
the public schools and even the school
board are getting benefit from the
retirement Of the autocratie lcGif-
fert.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
MAKING THE MONEY FLY.

With sufficient number Of sssu-
pervisors" with nothing much to do
besides drawing their fancy salaries
the school board will make it possible
to get rid Of all the taxes that the
people Of Duluth can possibly pay for
the support of their schools. These
numerous supervisors, having little to
do besides talk politics, will come
handy next year when the board de-
sires to elect another administra-
tion" ticket Ransom Metcalfe. in
Steel Plant News.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
MOTHER HAD FORGOTTEN

Finding some old love letters he,
father wrote to her mother before
their marriage, a Kansas girl read
them to her mother. The daughte,
said they had been written her re.
Gently by a certain young man in
town. Mother appeared greatly dis.
gusted and forbade her daughter as,
sociating with the young man who
would write such sickening nonsens.
ical stuff to a girl. When the mothe,
was told who really wrote the letters
the house became so still one could
hear the grass growing in the back
yard.-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
NO PLACE FOR HER.

An old lady was going to STANFORD,
Conn.,, to visit her daughter, and took
her seat in the railway car for the
first time in her life. During the ride
the car in which she was seated was
thrown down an embankment and de-
molished. r.
Crawling out from beneath the de-
hr;s she spied a man in q sitting posi-
ton, his legs pinioned.
els this Stamford" she anxiousiy
asked.
The man was from Boston. He was
in considerable pain, but he didn t lose
sight Of the fact that he was bos-
tonian. He said:
Ono; this is catastrophe.
ntOhl'' exclaimed the lady. "Tnen
I hadn't oughter got off here"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
HARD ON THE EDITOR.

"Confound these typographical er.
rors," exclaimed the editor Of the Su.
perior Leader, to his foreman.
"What's the troubled" inquired the
type juggler.
~ wrote pert paragraph in which
I mentioned that booze ID selling FOL
SO . quart
tfWell. what about it,"
"It came out in the paper ~ q
quart, and I've been swamped with
telephone calls all day asking where
I get my supply for medicinal pur-
poses. -
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23

Duluth's public. school teachers VIII
enioy quite an advance in salaries this
year. That fact should make 1t . most
propitious year for selling oil and
mining stocks to the local educators
md educatresses by any promoters yet
remaining on the board of education.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
BAXTER'S OUTLAW ENEMIES
ARE GETTING DESPERATE
"CHET" BELL THREATENS CITIZEN WHO REFUSES TO
SIGN THE RECALL PETITION.

After Month Of Strenuous Effort Ed Hantons Crew Fails to
FIJI Recall Petition Seventeen People, Including
Reporters, Attend Mass Meeting-L W. W. Organizer
Crculates Underworlds Petition for $1,000 Per Day
Labor Unions Unanimously Endorse Mayor Baxter and
Commission Form Of Government-Even Bob" Shields
Cannot Save the Day for Wide-Open Boys.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-06
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Old Hickory Mining Company, Wal.
lace, Idaho, September 20, 1919.
Notice Is hereby given that at q
meeting of the board of directors OF
the Old Hickory Mining company
held on the 18th day of September
1919, an assessment of one "a cent
per share was levied upon the out
standing capital stock of the corpor-
alton, payable on or before the 23rd
day of October, 1919, to H. C. Lam
bach, treasurer, P. o. box 1918, Spo-
kane, Washington, or ait his office in
the Cemmer Theater building, Spo-
kane. washington.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 23rd day
of. October 1919, win be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and unless payment is made be-
fore, will be sold on the 10th day of
November 1919, at the office of the
company, namely, the office of L. L.
Leighty, on Seventh street, in the
Gyde-Taylor building Wallace, Idaho,
to pay delinquent assessment thereon,
together with the costs Of advertising
and expenses of sale.
H. c. HANBACK,,
Treasurer of Old Hickory Mining
Company; Clemmer Theater Build
Ing, Spokane, Washington.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-06
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE,
70 Laury M. Dustan. Her Heirs and

To Laury M. Dustan. Her Heirs and
Assigns:
You are hereby notified that in ac-
cordance with the provisions of Sec
ton 1924 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States and the acts amen
datory thereof and Supplement-
thereto requiring annual labor on mi
ming claims, l, your co-owner have
expended in labor and improvements
on the Bull Frog No. l, Bull Frog No
2, Bull Frog No. and Buddy No.
lode mining claims, situated in Hunter
mining district, Shoshone county, Ida
no, for the years 1913 and 1915, the
sum of -Four Hundred ($40O) dollars
for each year, the total expenditure
aggregating Eight Hundred (sS0O)
dollars; and If within ninety (9O) DAYS
after the expiration of this notice by
publication you fail or refuse to paw
your proportion Of such expenditure,
namely, seven-twenty- fourths 7-24)
and amounting to two hundred thirty
three and thirty three and one third
($233.S3 -?3) dollars, together with the
costs of publishing this notice, your
interest i'm said mining claims will be-
come the property of the undersigned
your co-owner, as provided by law.
H. B. GREEN,
016-Jan23-15t Burke. Idaho.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-06

alton, payable ON or before the 9Th
day of November, 1919, to Otto A.
OLSON, Secretary Treasurer, at the
office Of the company, Gyde- Taylor
building. Wallace. Idaho.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 9Th day
Of November, 1919, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and unless payment is made be-
FORE will be sold on the 9Th day Of
December, 1919, at 800 p. m. at the
office of the company, Gyde-Taylor,
building Wallace, Idaho, to pay the de-
llnquent assessment thereon, together
with the costs of advertising and ex-
penses of sale.
OTTO A. OLSON,
Secretary Treasurer New Hope Min
ing Company Limited; Wallace
O9-N6-5t