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of organized labor are strong for Prof.
Gillette. They had no chance to vote
for him in the referendum, so they are
going to take their opportunity in the
primaries.
Prof. Gillette has a consistent labor
record. He was very prominent and
effective in the old Federal labor
union. If information is correct, Mr..
Gillette today is member of the
American Federation of Teachers, an
organization affiliated with the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor. He is in
full sympathy with organized labor
and that element would have an able
friend at court, SO to speak, with him
in the city hall.
A. D. S. Gillette has lived in Supe-
rior for many years. He went through
the Normal school and then through
the state university. He is a thinker.
scholar, worker and an effective
speaker.
Prof. Gillette has made deep study
Of the Pittsburgh Plus problem and
the proposed Deep Waterway to the
Sea. He is deeply versed in economic,
industrial and municipal questions. His
friends declare that he would be of
untold value to the city as a public
official and that his election will fill
and round out the city commission to
great advantage.
Mr.. Gillette is family man with
fine home on Belknap street. He is
prominent in the Civic and Commerce
association and his entrance into mu-
picipal politics has aroused much en-
thusiasm and caused mon of all classes,
creeds and colors to rally around his
standard.
The primaries, be it remembered, fall
on Tuesday, March %.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20
The Railroad Man Is a RObber
Labor, Washington, D. co.

Sid. Goldstein, merchant at Glad.
stone, Mich, is credited with having
inserted the following illuminating
facts in the Delta County Reporter,
as an advertisement, in discussion of
the allegation that "The Railroad Man
Is a Robber," viz:
I hear that so often from everyone
who is not railroad man that, being
business man, I shall do my best to
show you that he is robber.
[ am small merchant in a small
town. I sell dry goods, clothing and
shoes. A good share Of my customers
are railroad men. In effect, am their
purchasing agent.
In 1913 the switchmen brought in
their eight-hour wage to me, $3.50.
"Give me suit of overalls, Sid" l
took his days wages and gave him
back $1.70 in change. Overalls $1.SO
the suit. Today he is robbing the pub
lic-he gets SIS for eight hours work.
He comes in today and he buys over
ais from me this way:
"Here is my days wages, Sid, gim-
me a suit of overalls.,
I take his days wages and tell him
that oyeralls have gone up. He count
ers with the fact that sshe should wor.
ry, he is getting more money"
So give him his suit Of overalls and
tell him that they have jumped from
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$1.S0 a suit in 1913 to Sc a suit now.
[ tell him to GO back and work over
an hour and half more the next day
and bring me that dollar too, and we
will be square with one another. His
wages were raised about 40 per cent
and his overalls $50 per cent. Some.
body gave him 40 cents and somebody
took 230 cents from him. And he is
the robber you hear SO much about!
His wife bought 35 yards of ten-cent
muslin in 1913, for her husband s day s
wages. When she comes into my store
today with the wonderful increase in
pay to get the 35 yards of cotton,
tell her to 60 back home and wait un-
til her husband works almost two DAYS
more, then bring me his THREE
DAYS WAGES and will give her the
80 yards and one dollar in change!
Somebody let him work one day in
1913 for that 80 yards. Now somebody
lets him work almost THREE DAYS
for that 35 yards.
Raw cotton was 10 cents a pound in
1913.
Raw cotton is 40 cents a pound in
1920 300 per cent increase.
And he is out working the extra two
days In weather that is sixteen below
zero for that cotton. Weather that You
would not have your pet cat outdoors
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COL. JAMES CHESTER BELL
CHASES With new CHICKEN

small, stopped and said to be very,
very bow-legged. There are nasty ru-
mors and suspicious that she has done
some light-fingered work up and down
Tower avenue. Finnish people intimate
that when the unfortunate creature
was only nine years old she was
taught and encouraged by her mother
to pick up other peoples possessions.
It is alleged that certain pieces Of fin
cry now in Miss Koski's possession
might look more Appropriate if displayed
in Roth. Bros. Bee Hive store. Just
how and why she has escaped the Su-
perior police, does not appear.
It is alleged that the Koski girl
roomed for time at the Saratoga no.
tel, in room 81, with one Sophie Bran
ger. They registered as "Mrs. Berg
and sister, and left the hotel by per-
onal invitation Of the management.
In the years gone by, Col. James
Chester Bell has shown much better
taste in female beauty and pulchritude.
Just how or why he is so fascinated by
the Koski girl is not understood by his
friends. 1t may be that the couple are
attracted to each other by the princi-
pie that "Birds of a feather flock to-
gether.'
Colonel James Chester Bell, as well
as Hilda I. Koski, has a prison record.
James Chester Bell was one of a
dozen little Bells that made noise in
the old "Bloody NINTH ward in Eau
Claire. Something like a quarter of a
century ago, James Chester got mixed
up in robbery that brought convic-
ton and sentence of two years to
Waupun.
Frank Dicks was cattle buyer in
those days and he slaughtered quite a
number of cattle, if information is cor
rect. Charles Kitzman was a retail
butcher in Eau Claire. During an open
month Of January, "Bige" Moore,
"Chet' Bell and Charles Kitzman
stole % quarters of beef from Frank
Dicks and buried the beef under pile
of hay at Kitzman s place in the town
of Union.
There was strong suspicion and
"Cbub' Elliott, chief Of police in Eau
Claire, took out search warrant. e.
lott was veteran Of the Civil war,
determined, resourceful and unafraid.
Kitzman had a dog that was very
fierce and he expected that animal to
keep off any providers around the place
where the beef was hidden. He even
made bet Of 500 that Elliott could
not enter the building when the dog
was loose.
Chief "Chub' Elliott took a pitch
fork and started for the building where
the beef was hidden. With the fork he
not only effectually stood off the dog,
but turned over big pile of hay and
found the % quarters of beef concealed
under it.
. Arrests followed. "Bige" Moore not
only was an old prison bird, but he had
been shot some time before in some
sort Of a holdup game. It cost Kitz-
man a big bunch Of money to get out
of the scrape. Moore and Bell went
to Waupun, if information is correct.
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THE TORRANCE COUPLE
MAY Leave BINGOLAND
Lean Times Face Disciples of
Low Moral EndeayOr i'm
Suffering Superior.

Claude Torrance is back in Superior,
after wrestling with the law in Min
neapolis over charge Of buying stol-
en- automobile. It is claimed that the
hero Of the world war got out of the
scrape. Be that as it may, he is doing
nothing in Superior at present.
Genevieve Torrance is believed to
have returned recently from the iron
ranges, or even International Falls,
where she went to give the fields the
once over. 1t is alleged that Genevieve
is "hustling" to support herself and
Claude. If so, she will prove to be
persona non grata to chief Osborn and
mayor Baxter, which means an invita-.
ton to a Get-out-of-Town party.
Jack Lavinsky and Josie are sup
posed to be living over a pool room at
Hughitt and Fifth street. Jack is cred
ICED with driving ear while Josie
"nustles."
Emanuel Stevens is out of the coun-
ty Jail, fancy free, ready for any easy
money stunt, with a divorce in his
pocket from "Babe" Stevens. "Babe'
by the way, has kept in the back
ground lately and if she has not faded
out of Bingoland, she might do so at
almost any time.
Nora Burton is having a hard time
with the minions of the law. Col.
Burnside is being watched more or less
closely. Col. "Chet" Bell has an angry
and aggressive woman on his trail.
Bingoland is not what it once was and
there will be a heavy exodus of the
disciples Of low moral endeavor as soon
as some one Of the bunch finds a field
where easy money abounds and low
moral endeavor is in flower.
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BAXTER BEATS BINC0LAND BUNCH

for over an hour! And he and his fell
low workers are the poor simps who
are robbing the public.
If he is a conductor, fireman, engi-
neer or brakeman, it is just the same.
He gets more money it is true, but the
same percentages hold good. Why's Be-
cause every dollar that that class earns
has to be earned away from home-on
the road-and it costs him So extra per
day to live on the road. And don It
you think for minute he has room
with a bawthl'
And I am the fellow that has to buy
Ger them. How am going to buy for
them when they are not making enough
money to afford the goods that I have
for sale? I must have at least 7 per
cent net profit. q am entitled to 10
per cent?. Those overalls cost me 1925
whea I figure my net profit and cost
Of. doing business-and I am selling
them to him for $500!
l read an awful lot of CUFF in the
papers about the common laborer going
into the stores and buying a half dozen
shirts Of pure silk, in a nonchalant
manner, just wave of the hand and
"Gimme them six, at $500 each"
The railroad man in this town of
Gladstone, Mich, would wave his hand
beluva long time before he'd get any
silk shirts in this store in half dozen
lots. I'm too busy trying to sell him
the old fifty-cent shirts at $1.9O-and
he is too busy trying to get. enough
money to buy them, to try any Of this
handwriting stuff that I read so much
about.
And if you think that am picking
on overalls and sheeting alone, just try
me. I'll tell you about shoes, gloves,
silks, ginghams-any old thing you
want to know in my line of dry goods,
clothing and shoes.
But don't call the railroad man a
robber because you won't be able to
prove it when I ask you to. He brings
me his check for two weeks work and
between himself, myself and the gro.
Gerry man, we figure that somebody
ought to pay him just about 100 per
cent more and then he would not be in
the same class by at least fifty per
cent as he was in 1913.
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expired and he has been succeeded by
Rudy Hanson. Doc Mason failed the
bunch at the McKinnon trial, but Bill
Walsh stood pat, as no amount Of evil
dence could have induced him to vote
against the former chief.
Just what Duffy would have done
was never established, but there is
sufficient circumstantial evidence to
prove that his action would have been
satisfactory to the Bingoland bunch.
If anyone is not clear on this point, he
needs only to take peep at the Weak.
ly Leader and see what strenuous ef-
forts that publication puts forth to get
Jim elected city commissioner this
spring.
The Weakly Leader advocates the
election Of Duffy while it continues its
vituperations against Baxter, the Su-
preme Court and all forces that believe
in a clean administration and decent
citizenship. If Doc. Mason were nom.
mated for public office, he would not
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| Continued from page ~
Irene Nixon, is reputed to have quite {
record. She not only has served as {
waitress in Superior and Minneapolis
but it is alleged that she has poli:'
ing something of a siren in singing
sweet songs to seduce amorous ant
morally weak men.
The Finnish people tell story about
man who was so intimate with the
Koski girl, when she was only about
fourteen years Of age, that his com
patriots forced him to leave Superior
There s a worse story about man now
dead, at one time very prominent il
Superior manufacturing concern, who
went so wrong after the young sirer
that his wife divorced him. It is stat
ed that the erring citizen fairly haunt
ed the home of the girl and her mother
and it is said that he would sit in the
family circle with the young enchant
ress on his lap.
The Butte Miner, in it's issue of Fri
day morning, Feb. 20, 1919, printed the
following dispatch from Anaconda
Mont, viz:
Glove Of pretty clothes, hats in
Guided, has brought two Spokane girls
into trouble. They came from Butte
| Wednesday and visited a number OF
stores. In the Nossell-Parker store
| shortly after they left, ten yards OF
silk were missed. Suspicion pointed
to the two strangers and, within fit
teen minutes after they had left, they
were arrested by officer Tom Corcoran
in the B. A. & P. station. They had
become frightened and had hidden the
| silk in the women s lavatory, where ii
was ruined by water.
zone of the girls, Irene Nixon, at
once shouldered the blame for that
theft and endeavored to remove all sus
| picion from her companion. In jus.
tice court, she pleaded guilty and was
given ninety days in the county Jail
Laura Davis was permitted to go,there
being no evidence against her.
Gin the meantime, D. R. McRae had
been told that two new spring hats had
disappeared from the millinery depart
meDt of his store. The young women
had been there, too, but there was no
evidence to warrant suspicion. Fol
lowing the arrest Of the two girls, Mr..
McRae did little sleuthing, but took
no action until Laura Davis was &C.
Quilted of the silk theft. Upon Nc
Rae's complaint, she was arrested aft
err she had boarded the train for Butte
and two new Milan hats, with lacy
brims, were in her travelling bag, but
nothing else. She was very much sur
prised to find them there, but Mr.. Nc
Rae identified them as belonging to
his store.''
At the time both girls were arrested,
Irene Nixon claimed to belong in Spo-
kane and Laura Davis to come from
Duluth. When the Davis girl was ar.
rested and jailed, man was in her
company.
Hilda I. Koski, alias Hilda I. Maxi,
alias Mrs. J. G. Brown, alias Irene
Nixon, is about % years old. She is
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20
BULL WOMEN P|NCHEO
BY RAINIER INSPECTOR
MeSdames Cusick and Aldrich
Charged With Smuggling
Booze From Canada.

With "Jack' Beaton, "Long BobO
Blossingham, "Terry' Lennon and
"Kid' Oliver taking the rest cure for
thirty days in the Bemidji Jail, the
booze business was neglected for few
days at Rainier. Colonel Dryer could
have looked after it, but he was afraid
OF federal agents and, too, was quite
busy playing casino with the lumber
jacks.
-Vernie st. Clair, alias Margaret Gu
sick, then came forward and tried to
play the part Of a pinch hitter, but she
succeeded only in getting pinched by
the customs officials for smuggling
Canadian rye whisky into Uncle Sam 8
domain.
Madam St. Clair Cusick registers
from Box II, Calvary Road, Duluth,
but her real headquarters are at Luck.
now, near Bull, where she pushes along
the cause of low moral endeavor at a
roarin old redlight dump. There, too,
when Dan Cusick is busily engaged in
bending and breaking the laws Of God
and man, Madam st. Clair.Cusick
makes life pleasant for Buda Radoso-
vich, a big Austrian lover.
Wednesday, March 10, Madam Gu
sick and Tillie Aldrich, woman
claiming Bull as her port of hail, ar
rived at Rainier on train No. from
the South. When train No. came in,
Mesdames Cusick and Aldrich rolled up
to the station in an automobile and
boa rded the coach.
j.. Roe, deputy collector of customs
of Rainier, became suspicious of all
that haste and activity. Following the
women onto the train, he went through
their luggage with the result that he
found ten quarts Of Walkers Cana
dian rye whisky in one of the grips.
The two female followers of Old
John Barleycorn were put under arrest
end held until word could be received
from Duluth as to their disposition.
Report was made to Harris Bennett.
collector Of the port of Duluth.
Last Saturday, a Rip-saw inspector
called at the office of the deputy u. s.
marshal and was informed that no
complaint had been made against the
two pilgrims and that the federal Off.
GERS in Duluth knew of no reason why
the two DANES should be held by the
borderland authorities.
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THE FEARFUL FLU.

I've had the "flu maybe so have
you; but can you tell what a man
should do, when his "pep's" all gone,
and his face all drawn, and the small
Of his back with plasters on? He can It
stand work, and he hates to shirk, but
his hands won't do anything but jerk.
His minds in a middle, and he moves
in fuddle and he sits by the stove in
helpless huddle. He swigs down
"dope,' but he's lost all hope and feels
like he's come to the end of his rope
"Have you got the flu9' says friend
to you, and you snarl right back, SAW
say something newt" Your nerves
are raw, and you growl and jaw, and
things SEINE worse than you ever saw.
And say, old sport, am I talking to
you. That's just what mean-have
you had the flu?-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20
col. CHARLEY HUGHES
LIFTS sPOusE'S roll
World War Hero Of Bingoland
Helps Himself to Couple
Thousand Dollars.

Mrs. Mary H. Hughes conducts the
Hill hotel in Superior and her husband,
Charles Hughes, a typical Bingoland
sport, has done his best to ornament
the place with his shifty face.
A couple of weeks ago, Charles
Hughes got his fingers onto $500 of
real money that belonged to his indus
trious wife. He made a quick disap-
pearance and the wife Of his bosom wot
not where he went or whom he took
along.
The last of last week, when Mrs.
Hughes was ill in bed, her rambling
and recreant husband sneaked back
into the Hill hotel. He slyly went to
the hiding place of his wife's cash and
helped himself to $500 additional,
after which he quickly disappeared,
and has not been seen since.
Mrs. Hill was very much peeyed
over the two heavy touches on her
cash reserves and, while she still felt
peevish, she went to state attorney
Mckay and swore out a warrant
against her iege lord. As these lines
are written, however, dear old Charley
stin is missing and the authorities have
failed to pick up his tracks.
Charles Hughes is credited with be-
ing brother of "Dusty" Hughes. In
addition to that, he is world war
hero, which is expected to ease things
up bit at any time he is so unfortu-
nate as to get into Jail through some Of
his Bingoland stunts.
Mrs. Hughes, of course, now must
start over again in accommodating big
roll Of long green. It has been sug-
gested that if the good lady has no
confidence in the big banks, her money
win be safer with the new Community
bank than in the hands Of Chuck
Hughes.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20
THE STATE SUPREME COURT
REVERSES JUDGE PERRIN
Lawyer Crawford Gives Bmgond Clients Unsound Assur
ances-Supreme Court Says That Bakers Motives
Were lmmaterial So Long as He Obeyed the Law.
Bob Shields Given Body Blow By Decision Bngoland Poll
tic. Seriously Affected Weakly Leaders Inconsistent
Position Can Organized Labor Be Hoodwinked?

n The decision of the Supreme Court
4 unfolding mayor Baxter in the Supe
srior police case, came to the Blngolano
bunch like a clap of thunder in clear
sky.
h Most Of the intelligence of the Bin
igoland bunch has existed in the lead
lers, rather than the rank and file. As
"a result, the leaders have lived com
fortably and we'll during their rule
over the common herd. It is not re-
corded that the wise ones ever have
given warning of the cloud on the
horizon, therefore the bunch was to-
tally unprepared for the fatal blow
The number of limping, crippled, de-
spondent Bingoland boys along Tower
avenue makes one think of war Grip
pies at big base hospital.
i The decision was in connection with
the case in which Sarge. Bill Miller
brought suit against the city, demand
sing restoration to the police force and
payment for several months wages
while he was laid off. Sarge. Miller,
I it will be remembered, lost his official
head when, about ten months ago.
mayor Baxter dropped about a dozen
and q half men from the police force
who were not needed, men commonly
known as rafting kings, blind-pig pro-
tectors, gambling shields and consorts
i of redlight queens, one Of whom, black
Bessie Rowan, is credited with making
her will in favor Of Sarge. Miller.
Lawyer Crawford, who seems to have
the highest intelligence Of any of the
Bingoland bunch, assured the police
men that he would collect their unpaid
salaries for time when they did not
serve, and he set about to do it.
Sarge. Miller started the case, but
about dozen were involved and the
desired back salaries, if paid, would
hars cost the city about $4,000.
The decision of the supreme court
informs the Bingoland gang that law
yer Crawford is not half so clever as
he has claimed to be, even when forti-
fled by a decision from the superior
court, handed down by kindly Judge
Perrin. ~
The Supreme Court decides that if q
police force in a city Of the second
class is to be reduced, it must be done
according to law and that mayor Bax.
ter fully complied with the state and
municipal law, when he laid off Sarge.
Miller and his boon companions.
Lawyer Crawford contended that the
police and fire commission was the
only legal body to deal with the dis.
missals, but the Supreme Court held
I that such was the case only when the
men were to be dismissed for cause. II
does not apply when men are let on,
because their jobs no longer exist.
During the hearing before the Su.
preme Court, lawyer Crawford harped
continually on what he considered were
mayor Baxter's motives in cutting
down the force, contending that the
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get that kind Of support. Why's Be-
cause he ditched the old gang. Duffy
would not get such active support if
the old ring was not satisfied that, if
he is elected, his services will be en-
tirely satisfactory to the old gang, the
Weakly Leader and the political Pope
of Bingoland:
The Weakly Leader pretends to sup
port Duffy on the grounds that he has
been named by organized labor, but
such protestations do not fool any close
observ err Of Bingoland events. If, per.
chance, the labor endorsement had gone
to John Schaefer, John R. Todd, Rudy
Hanson or Jim Campbell it would have
been interesting to see the kind Of sup.
port they would have received from the
Bob Shileds-controlled and McKeague.
managed Weakly Leader.
This fake friendliness to labor is one
last attempt of the Bingoland bunch
to come back. It remains to be seen
how far they get with it.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20
SHOWS BULLIsH SIGNS.

They tell us Of a citizen who took
the anti-red campaign so seriously that
he is advertising now for white-combed
hens and roosters, having killed all his
former flock because they sported the
emblem of anarchy and sedition-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20

Ho for Cuba! is the cry of many a
low moral endeavorer in this neck o.
the woods.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-22
MISS LUPTON
PASSES AWAY
Death Of Miss Sarah e. Luptor
Occurred This Morning at Graham
Hospital From Para
letic Stroke.

The death Of Miss Sarah f. Lupton
occurred this morning at 12:45 o'clock
at Graham hospital from a paraletic
stroke. She had been i'll for five
weeks. Her residence was 800 North
Sixteenth street.
Miss Iupton is native of Lee
county and with the exception of six
years which she spent in California
with her parents, lived all of her life
in keokuk. She was born March S,
1856. Her parents were Joseph A.
and Annie l.. Lupton, both of whom
preceded their daughter in death.
Miss Lupton was member of the
Westminster Presbyterian church.
The survivors are four brothers
and one sister: Mrs. w. w. Howell,
j. c. Lupton of Keokuk; Charles N,
of Sterling, Kan; David A., of NiclSo.
son, Kan; A. c. Lupton of West
Plains, Mo-
Funeral arrangements will be an.
nounced later.