The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
NAYL0R FAMILY WAS HARD HIT IN FOREST FIRES

the woman s rights but permitted de-
fault to ruin her interests. Suit was
brought and, quite recently, Judge
Fesler, in Duluth, decided that, owing
to the default of the plaintiff, through
neglect of her lawyer, she had no
rights remaining to her under the COM
pensation act.
Incidentally, it is claimed, Lawyer
Fessenbeck did hand Mrs. Studeman
his personal checks in the aggregate
sum Of $1,000, very much less than
she could and should have received
from her deceased husbands employ
ploying corporation.
Lawyer Fessenbeck, it further is al
leged,' utterly neglected the woman 8
claim against the Great Northern rail.
way. One day Claim Agent Smith
came to Mrs. Studeman and informed
her that the government now was run
ming the railroads and that stingy old
Uncle Sam was not paying the heavy
damages that the roads paid under
private control The matter was so
put up to the woman that, in her ig-
uorance, need and the absence of a
protecting lawyer, she accepted a
measly $1,000 and signed a release.
It Mrs. Studeman was entitled to any
thing at all, she should have had
S., 500.
Those big piles of pine lumber at
Cloquet seem to have a peculiar in
fluence on some of the lawyers as well
as the lumber barons.
Then Col. McNair's paper company
coveted Mrs. Studeman g lot, even as
the Hebrew of old coveted Naboth g
vineyard. Disinterested parties de-
clare that the lot reasonably was
worth $500 but, under the protecting
legal skill of Lawyer Fessenbeck, a
Hunnish sort Of name, by the way,
unfortunate Mrs. Studeman was in
duced to let the benevolent old paper
company have it for only $3.50.
Just what Col. McNair's paper
company did with Madam Studeman g
little lot, does not clearly appear, but
it is assumed that company. house
was erected thereon and then duly
sold, at fine, fat figure, to some in
dustria1 slave in the White Pine City.
Stranger things have happened, dear
old reader.
Now comes the story of Mrs. Bauer,
an elderly woman living at Brookston.
She is represented as losing about
81 900 in the forest fires. She had a
little money in the bank which she
held there to meet obligations on some
real estate. When she declared that she
could not buy bonds because her
money must be kept on hand to pay
her obligations, some of the Florence
Nightingale brides called her ga
Fro-German."
Mrs. Bauer was a German before
she was an American. It is not at all
impossible that, before the United
States got into the war, her sympa-
thies were with the Fatherland in
stead Of England Russia or even
France. The Rip-Saw is not fully in.
formed as to that detail. But Brook
ston citizens of repute declare that
Mrs. Bauer was a mighty good Amer
lean when Uncle Sam took direct
hand in the war.
Mrs. Bauer did, however, give boy
to the U. s. navy, where he served
eight years with great credit. After
the fire, when the loving son came
home on a furlough for the purpose
Of seeing his poor old mother, her
heart was greatly grieved because her
paper shack was not larg enough for
him to sleep at home, therefore he
was compelled to sleep in freight
car on the G. N. R. side-track. Al
though Mother Bauer was called a
"Pro- German" and she was denied
relief to which she felt she was en-.
titled, the I. o. o. F. in distant Pan
anna, where the sailor son was a men,
Der, sent him a check for relief pur-
poses when it was known that the for
est fires had swept Brookston off the
map.
Mrs. Bauer had some hay seven
miles from Brookston that escaped the
fires. Last winter she hauled that in
herself. She also went a long dis.
lance for fuel wood and sawed down
trees and cut them up with her own
hands.
WINCH Ine ualHCy rlOTcHce night
ingale brides talked with Mrs. Bauer
over her needs, they would say, "Don t
you want to be independent"
The elderly, hustling woman did
get about $50 worth of food, charged
to her at high prices. She could no:
eat the prunes and the pork was too
strong for any ordinary human stom.
ach. Little potatoes, not much larger
than marbles, proved so hard to utilize
for human food that they were fed to
the family cow.
"Big, strong men, able to work and
hustle, got $40 day for relief work
while I had to haul hay and saw down
trees with my own hands," said Mrs.
Bauer to the Rip-Saw.
When the Florence Nightingale
brides expressed their opinion to Mrs.
Bauer that several people could be
lodged in her little paper shack, she
replied:
fsI never vas catt1es."
It was found that use of automo-
biles to transport voters to the polls
would not be legal in the recent road
bond election. In the school board