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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
BLIND-PICCERS RAMPANT
IN MESABA RANGE TOWNS
Recent Range Grand Jury Adopts Resolutions Condemnng
fragrant Law Violations and Calling Conditions
to Attention of Officers of the Law

For many moons the Rip-saw has
been receiving complaints from the
iron range towns concerning the law
less activity Of blind piggers with a
redlight dump stuck in between now
and then. Complaints have been .es-
pecially pointed and serious from Ely
and Eveleth, but Gilbert seems to
stand in a little class by itself. Bull,
Virginia and even Hibbing have not
been exempt. Chisholm is supposed to
be highly. moral and law-abiding, be-
ing the home of county commissioner
O'Neil and having furnished sheriff
Magic one Of his deputies.
The recent grand jury on the Me-
saba range must have had its ear to
the ground or else compliments were
especially numerous for that august
body passed resolutions as follows,
viz:
"Whereas, certain evidence pre-
sented to this grand jury shows that
the intoxicating liquor laws Of this
state and of the United States are be.
ing flagrantly violated in. the cities
and villages Of this county and, also,
in outlying locations in the county, and
whereas, it is. the, firm conviction
Of this grand jury that such violations
Of the, liquor laws can be stopped by
the sheriff and his regularly appointed
deputies and the police officers of
said cities and villages, or by new Of
ficers appointed for that purpose with
out the hiring Of stool pigeons, so.
called, and
"Whereas, in certain cities and vii.
lagos of this county said intoxicating
liquor laws are being so openly and
| VIGOROUSLY violated that such viola
tions must be committed with the
knowledge and consent of the mayor
the chief Of police and the police off
GERS in said cities and villages, now,
therefore,
ssBe It Resolved, that the sheriff
the mayors Of all cities, the presidents
of all villages and the police officers
Of said cities and villages be and they
are hereby requested to strictly en-
force the prohibition law within their
respective jurisdictions, and
"Be It Further Resolved, that, in
case any of said officials refuse OF
neglect to comply with this request
the matter be referred to the governor
of Minnesota and such officials be re.
moved from office and prosecuted fol
malfeasance of office, and
"Be It Further Resolved, that the
| clerk of the district court be and
hereby is requested to mail copy Of
this resolution to the sheriff Of this
county and to the mayor and the chief
Of police Of each city and village in
the county"
A very stinsy and inadequate con.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
THE CANNY SCOT.

A man from the north of Scotland
was on a holiday in Glasgow. On Sun
day evening he was walking along
Argyll street when he came upon a
contingent of the Salvation Army, and
a collection bag was thrust in front
of his nose. He dropped penny into it.
Turning up Queen street, he encoun-
tered another contingent of the Sal
walton Army, and again a smiling
Glass" held collection bag in front
Of him.
"Na, nal" he said. "I gied a penny
tae a squad o. your folk room the cor
ner jist the noo."
"Reallys" said the lass. "That was
very good of you. But, then, you
can't do good thing too often. And
besides, you know, the Lord will repay
you hundredfold.
"Aweel," said the cautious Scot,
"wen jist wait till the first transac.
ton g 'feenished before we start the
second. "-London Tit-Bits.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
king C0LAHAN'S CONS0RT
WEARS HER CROWN TILTED
Marie Vee, Former Queen Of the Bull Pen Abides Royal
Bower on Third Street, With Sarge. Miller and His
Faithful Dog Fido in Her Encourage

four tags hanging on King Colahau 3
neck.
The first tag read, Preserved for
Royalty" On the second tag their
startled eyes beheld the inscription.
"Private Stock" The third inserts
ton read, "Look but Don t Touch.n
The now deeply interested rsdlight
ladies in waiting crawled around to
cad the fourth tag when in came the
erstwhile Queen of the Bull Pen and
now queen of King Colahan . fancy.
One glance and the jealous quee,
/ fastened to the kitchen where she
seized long and sharp butcher knife
with which she chased the bold and
inquisitive redlight ladies in waiting
to the marshes Of Bingoland, back of
classic old Third Street.
Repeated attempts to preserve King
Colahan from predatory females
brought about revolution with the
result that his royal majesty took
Queen Marie into exile and established
her in bower over Max Rosenberg's
notorious cafe America at 726 Tower
avenue.
Ace Chandler appeared on the scene
soon after and made the floors 30 hot
for the queenly feet that Nadamoi-
selle Marie tried to cool them by en-
gaging in the shimmee. Even that
failed to bring relief.
One night Queen Marie 3 royal con-
sort. fearing that she would make the
devil jealous, loaded her into flivver
and wheeled her down to q place of
royal retreat on Third street, a red
light Land Of Canaan, so to speak.
The underworld queen will roam no
more, for the old tank is out of repair
and the doctors require bales and
bales OF long green to keep it in re-
pair. But the bottle-scarred queen has
found that it pays to be with the al
lies instead of depending entirely on
the alley stunts. Now, instead Of
leaning entirely on King Colahan, she
has Count Sarge. Miller in her en-
tourage.
No longer does Queen Marie sit
serenely by her window, her face COW
cred with painted smiles and smirks
This cooling sweetly out of a window
to gilded young sports is old stuff, so
to say, and Madamoiselle Marie leaves
it to those who have not profited by
the World War. Camouflage now is
freely used. The dandelion season is
over but grass may benefit from We
ter sprinkled on the tiny front yard
of the royal residence about every
twenty minutes. Who would not stop
and hold gay converse with a queen
when caught in her own dooryardi
Madamoiselle Marie knows how to
mix her delivery, therefore she now
and then deserts the watering can for
Sarge. Miller's dog. It's sight for
the gods and even the goddesses to
note the sympathizing face of her
royal highness as she sits on the steps
of her retreat at No. 1411 Third st.
and searches Fido's glossy coat for
the festive flea.
1t is not known definitely whether or
not Madamoiselle Marie, consort Of
King Colahan, therefore queen of the
redlight dumps in Bingola1d. has spe-
cial audience days for her male sub
jects. If you are anxious to really
know, then drop in on king or court
Better yet, follow Fido. He will not
lead you astray.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

tingent fund, regulated by the state
law, is given as one reason why the
offices of the county attorney and
even the sheriff cannot and do not
show greater zeal and energy in going
tier booze outlaws.
Mason M. Forbes, first assistant
county attorney, states that his con-
tingent fee is only $1,000 and that
s., 900 per year is the limit. He states
that the county attorneys office
should have at least $4,000 year to
permit it to fully and closely follow
up violations Of the liquor laws and
similar low moral endeavor stunts.
That some Of the mayors, chiefs of
police and other municipal officials
are lax, if not favorable to booze and
redlight outlawry, must be apparent to
any citizen who has open eyes and a
normal thinking apparatus.
At Gilbert, for example, one Muir
ply has done just about as he pleased
in the operation Of combined red
light, booze and gambling dump. Gil.
bert citizens even look mp to him as q
civic and business leader. One ,detec.
tive, who was on the range for pri.
vate parties, solemnly assured the
Rip-saw some weeks ago that nineteen
or twenty places in Eveleth were sell.
ing booze. Some months ago, an Eve.
leth citizen declared that it was not
an uncommon sight to see the mayor
and his chief Of police drink togethe,
at an outlaw bar. A farmer who lives
few miles from Eveleth recently of.
fered to spend half day in Eddie
Hatch's town and steer the Rip-saw
editor up to any number Of places
where stimulating red-eye could be
openly purchased.
The authorities declare that it is
quite difficult to secure a conviction
on the range for violation Of the liquor
laws. Some Of the grand juries also
have been very cratic and uncertain
in their indictments. An indictmen,
would be found against one mar
through testimony of witnesses and
then the next man would escape ar
indictment after testimony was given
by the same set Of witnesses. The
natural conclusion in such cases was
| that the accused had few friends
among the grand jurors while the in
dicted man had none.
It is maintained that some Of the
men bowling loudly about American
ism" on the ranges might profitably
and successfully promote real Gamer
icanism" by teaching obedience of the
laws and in helping enforce the laws
The blind-piggers, the petty gam
blers and the redlight dumps have felt
= great deal safer since that militant
Methodist preacher ut Virginia left
he Mesaba range AID went back east
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

Beer saloons are opening up in Su-
perior nearly as fast as morning-glory
blossoms ON the windows of Third
street redlight dump. They have not
been granted licenses and there is no
certainty that they will remain i'm
mune from arrest. The policy of the
federal government seems to be to
await decision of the supreme court,
expected in November, before taking
action. In the. meantime, the friends
Of very weak and aenemic Gambri-
nus will take full advantage of Judge
Sanborn IS decision that it is up to the
compliments to prove that 2.75 per
cent beer is intoxicating.
But Superior sellers of weak beer
cannot rest satisfied with the modest
profits therefrom. Despite crowds of
beer guzzlers from Duluth, a Rip-saw
inspector reports that many of the
beer dumps are secretly selling red
liquor. That being the case and Supe-
rior having mayor with real back
bone, it must be only q question of
time until lot of the lawless bows
are gathered in. After the city fin.
ishes with them, the federal authori.
ties will have their turn. ~
U. s. district attorney Wolfe praises
mayor Baxter highly for his enforce
ment Of the laws. and the help he give,
the federal authorities. It pleases
them as much as it displeases the un.
derworld outlaws and lawbreakers.
A heavier flow Of beer and booze
tends to make Superior more noisy AND
serappy: A couple Of weeks ago there
was tight in Max Rosenberg DUNN
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

Madamoiselle Marie, alias Marie
Velie, alias Marie PARSE, alias Queen
Of the Bull Pen, consort of King Cola
han, the big bully of Bingoland, there
fore Queen of the Underworld in Supe-
rior, wears her crown a bit tilted these
days. There is strong possibility, in
fact, that the gladstone creature will
lose that tinsel crown, a la Kaiser
Bill. These certainly are hard days
on royalty, as Max Rosenberg often
remarks.
Marie Velie, alias Marie PARSE, hit
the primrose trail in Minneapolis
when she started "hustling" on the
streets at the tender age of fifteen
wears. It was not long until she, as
PRED to higher fields of endeavor,
therefore gained admission to old
Madam Gains notorious recreational
~arlors, otherwise known as the Bull
Pen.
In Madam Gains bagnio, Marie
eventually was crowned Queen Of the
Bull Pen, instead of Queen o. May.
Three stars bedecked her crown, but
it is not to be taken for granted that
high Jove sent her those stars en-
closed in a thunderbolt, express pre-
paid.
It may be that coquettish Madam
Gain became jealous Of Queen Marie
for the beauteous creature was re-
ported missing from her throne one
dark night, when the bright lights
were blazing. When next located, in.
stead. Of occupying throne as Queen
Of the Bull Pen, Madamoiselle Marie
was cleaning finny denizens Of Rainy
Lake in fish house at International
Falls. She may have taken up that
humble employment for her health,
but it is more likely that she followed
some pandering Adonis of the Under
world to the rugged borderland, hoping
to establish little kingdom Of their
own and jointly occupy the red, red
throne.
Unfortunately for the hopes of the
new underworld dynasty, the authori
ties of International Falls were taken
with one of their biennial moral
spasms and started to clean up the
town at the same time the heroine of
this tale was cleaning fish. Soon the
"amblers, panderers, petty larcenists,
redlight ladies and even the erstwhile
queen Of Madam Gains Bull Pen were
engaging in rapid exodus from
Backusville.
After carefully surveying the Supe-
rior field for carrying on low moral
endeavor, Madamoiselle Marie lit her
redlight lamp in Madam Minnie An
derson's notorious dump. There she ac-
cumulated subjects of the underworld
in which she reigned a favorite queen.
The famous monarch of the Supe-
rior underworld, old King Colahan,
was a particular favorite with Mad
amoiselle Marie. Like England's vir-
gin queen Elizabeth, this Superior
queen Of immoral endeavor was very
jealous. To keep other vampires,
harpies and redlight ladies in. waiting
from making goo-goo eyes at old King
Colahan, Marie hung four tags on his
royal person.
One night when Queen Marie was
boning one of her male subjects to
buy bottle Of beer, several ladies Of
the bedchamber waxed 80 bold as to
read the inscriptions on three of the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

very, very thirsty. But old sawbones
was clever and he eventually made q
neat job Of it.
But Howe dared not 60 home with
that booty odor about him and those
mysterious gashes in his hip. He was
fain to remain within the sheltering
walls Of Hotel Superior until his cuts
and gashes were in fair way to heal
and in a condition not to attract at.
tention in his family circle.
It amused the bunch greatly when
Doc. OLeary told them how Howe
received those Hunnish wounds in his
rear. Members of the bunch came up
to condole, relieve or josh, as might
be the individual mood.
It was not long until quite gang
congregated. Howe, ever as thirsty as
a fish and well knowing that the acct.
dent was Zone on him. bought lib.
orally, as Old John Barleycorn s Ell.
quette required.
Such sudden fall of moisture
caused the bunch to linger and the
various members of the gathering add.
ed their mite to the buying and then
the absorbing. It was such a blowout as
the boys had not seen since Superior
went legally dry.
OF course Howe was there. He
could not have gone away had he
wished.
Of course Comes Horey, dean of Su-
perior' 8 adulterers, hurried to the scene
Of action. Conner is as sporty as he is
popular. It is alleged that his wife
and her aged mother keep a rooming
house in one section Of the city while
the fond husband lives in a former
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
PEOPLE BACKED BAXTER
IN loWLAND ELECTION
Superior's Underworld Folk
Failed to Bring Back Old
Ward System.

Results of the election in Superior,
at which it was proposed to get rid of
mayor Baxter by changing back to the
old ward system of government, were
a killing frost for the underworld
bunch and wonderful vindication for
the mayor and the commission form of
government. They. came in too late
for insertion in the previous issue of
the Rip-saw.
There was total vote of about
4,6l9. Of that number, mayor Baxter
and the commission form Of govern.
ment received 1921 votes and the un-
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
SOUNDS LIKE HOKE.

A visitor to a school began an ad
dress as follows:
"This morning, children, I propose
to offer you an epitome Of the life Of
st. Paul. Perhaps some Of you are to-
young to grasp the meaning of tn.
word 'epitome.' 'Epitome,' children
is in its Specification synonymous Will
sy1opsisi London Tit-Bits.;
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
Draw SAILOR BOY ALLEGES
HE WAS FIRED ILLEGALLY
MONEY SALVE TO FEELINGS IN SUM OF TWO THOU
SAND DOLLARS DEMANDED BY PLAINTIFF.

John Howes Pocket Pistol Explodeh and Cutteth His Hip
Wounded Exponent Of Moral Uplift Goeth to Hotel
Superior Where Clever Surgeon Soweth Up His Grevous
Wounds-The Gang Assembleth and Holdeth "Con-
eress Of Rough Riders Capt. Osborn Taketh Away
Ye Worst Indian in the Patrol Wagon and Breaketh Up
the Blowout That Beateth All Recent Records
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

lemon, a pound Of 'raisins, five pounds
OF sugar and cake of compressed
yeast. After that mixture stands a
couple Of days it will make hair grow
on the breast of the mildest man that
ever wore pants.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-20
World Methodists Hold
Centenary At Columbus
xBy Associated Press,

COLUMBUS, O., June 20-Method-
lists from all sections OF the United
States and from various foreign coun-
tries began to arrive in Columbus to-
day for the opening OF the Methodist
centenary exposition. which will con-
tfnue at the state fair grounds until
July 10. Opening day ceremonies
we're In charge of Columbus business
men, representing every religious
faith
Gates at the exposition grounds
were opened this morning by wire
from Washington by Assistant Secre-
tary Of State Polk. At noon In the
Coliseum, where each night during the
| exposition, pageant participated in
by 1000 men, women and children
will be staged, Mayor George J. Karh
welcomed the Methodists to the city
Exposition officials expect more
| than 100000 visitors in the city dur
! ing the three weeks of the celebration
During the exposition prominent
Methodist leaders, including w. j
! Bryan, former President William How
ard Taft, Secretary of the Navy Dan
tels and Admiral William n. Sims, viii
deliver addresses. Efforts are being
made to have President Wilson attenl
after his return from France.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-20

A. NJ. Brown, of Winchester, Ind,
secretary of the National Poland China |
Record association, said that for some
years about 10000 hogs of this breed
have been registered from this state.
The year In Poland Chinas has been
marked by very high prices, the range
for boars being from SIS to $10,200.
Silver Brook farm, at Munc1e, sold a
boar to e. e. Farver, an Iowa breeder,
for 5000. j. L. Davis, of LaF'ontaine,
sold Kramer's Kind to T. E. Thomp-
son & Sons of Franklin, for $4,000.
This sow early in the spring farrow-
ed ten pigs, nine of them sows, all OF
which are being raised.
So much improvement has been
made In Berkshires in recent years
that the breed is rapidly spreading in
favor and the number OF these hogs
on Indiana farms Is increasing every
year. In its earlier years the Berk-
shire was small and fine in quality,
| but with passing time 1t has been
taking on size. One of the last auc-
lions Of Berkshires held in Indiana
this year was that of E. ]. Barker, OF
| Thorntown, who sold f1fty-one head
for a total of $12,935, an average of
| 1851, these figures showing about the
I IdA60 p1INCp 1O4 AAu1cho ~ SAAo
| breed this year. Piping Brook farm
of Greenwich, Conn, bought five AMI
mails at the Barker sale, paying from
/ $3.50 to $1,000 for them, Grand Leader
End bringing $1,000. Breeders from
Massachusetts,, Virginia, Pennsylva-
MIA, Illinois, Georgia and Ohio came
! to this sale and took home with them
Hoosier-bred animals with which to
enrich the blood of their breeds.
/ Clubs Are Formed
To increase interest among breeders
as well as to increase the number OF
breeders and the size of the herds,
all Of the swine associations Of In
| diana are giving much attention to
the promotion of boys and girls pig
| clubs. AS a result there are many
| thousand members in these juvenile
| organizations in this state. Banks IN
county seat and smaller towns are
financing these movements and the
/ clubs are under the general superV1-
sion of county farm agents of expe-
rienced members of the adult assoc1a-
tions. Some of the clubs have been
operating long enough to get on q
substantial footing, and in most OF
1.-The counties of Indiana, to be the cham-
pion pig raiser is the goal of the am
] bilious members Of the clubs, and
these county champions aspire to
state leadership.
The breeding associations are broad,
ening the activities of the juvenile
clubs. The great show of pigs raised
by club members will concentrate II
September at the state fair, when ooI
or more pigs, which have won county
honors in their breeds, will be IN
battle royal for the state champion
ships. About $4,000 in prizes will DC
awarded in the different breeding con
tests at the coming state fair, the
Chester White association being one
organization which will give 5000 II
prizes for the best pigs of that breed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-20

Record Association, Of which Fred L.
Oberchain, of cambridge, Ind, is sec
rotary, has $4,000 hogs on its books,
the number from Indiana farms being
about 10000, including boars and sows.
The Hoosier soWs, the secretary esti-
mates. narrowed 10000 pigs in early
spring. That the breed is growing In
numbers and In popularity Is shown
by gain of los per cent In the bust
ness of the association in the first four
months of 1919 over the first four
months of 1913
Poland China Prices.
Spotted Poland China prices have
been on the rise and are now at the
highest level in the history of the
breed. A frst-c1ass yearling boar read
lily sells for $500 Mr. Oberchain sold
a two-year-old boar in May to George
w. Reeve Of Rushyille, for $1,000. At
their spring sale, Clawson Bros. &
Larry of Lafayette, sold a yearling
SOW to Shaver & Fry, of Kalona, Ia.
for $1,000; B. j. Southland, of Fishers,
sold SOW to James Owens of Mobiles
vile, for $1,000; Lilly Bros. of Upton,
sold a SOW to Dunk & Ehrsman, of
Mulberry, Ind, for 81, 030; Clyde Jones
Of Stewart, Ia, bought boar of You
| key Bros, Thorntown, for $1,275, and
a SOW for 1910.
The largest herd Of Spotted Poland
Chinas in the National Breeding asso-
citation is owned by Mrs. Jennie M.
Conrad, who operates farm of 5000
acres In Newton county. She began
specializing in the black and white
swine years ago and while her herds
produce many hundreds of pigs year
she has difficulty in meeting the or.
ders from breeding farms over the
United States for pigs, gifts and older
animals. Mrs. Conrad has $50 cows or
her farm which supply milk for hel
pigs and Aberdeen-Angus calves.
G. G. Carter of Fairmont, says there
are 300 Indiana breeers of Duroc Jer
seys who have $500 hogs recorded or
the books of the breeding association
the number not including all of the
boars or sows that are eligible to the
records.
Not All Registered.
"Only about 40 per cent of the pure
bred Duroc pigs raised are ever reg
istered,' Mr.. Carter said, so there
are about 11,250 eligible for registry
in Indiana. The Duroc is a predomin
ating breed in the corn belt Of the
United States and the large number
of red hogs In Indiana is evidence O.
| the popularity of Durocs among Hoos
Ter swine breeders. There are man,
red hogs In this state which are grade!
and many of the pure-breds are neve
registered.
i With 800 Duroc breeding farms il
Indiana, with an average of fourteen
brood sows and a boar to farm, MI
Carter estimates that 1880 pigs o
pure breeding we're narrowed in thi
state early in the spring. The fac
that large numbers of farmers owl
pure-bred Duroc sows, he said, woul
doubtless increase the number of pig
to $4,000. The range of prices 70
Duroc boars has through the sprin
sales in this state been from 800 t
$4,000