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Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-06
TOWN |S MARKING 'ON BOOTLEGGERS
Citizens Follow Leadership of Man Against Whom Vets
 Are Making Offensive

KINGSDALE,M ,Minn., Aug, 5.-War 10 the death, war with rifles, revOlvers 1 fire and dynamite is being waged in this little community between an or gonized gang of p bOotleggers and a small group of Kingsdale citizens. Heading the citizens is Charles R. Grace, community leader and stanuch upholder Of law and order.
 Acts of terrorization which the des- peradoes have committed include: The burning of Grace's lumber camps, with a loss of S2000.
 The dynamiting of his $14,000 hotel and business block, endangering the lives of himself and his family.
 The shooting up" of the town with revolvers and rifles, and three-hour reign of terror.
 The driving of four preachers from Kingsdale.
 Open iIreatz of death against Grace and his family.
 BUT
 'They are not going to make me quit" said Grace. Mine was the second family to settle here. It is my town. They may get me, but Kingsdale will be here when I'm gone"
 In Armed Camps
 Grace has appealed to the gover- nor and to federal agents for aid. Meantime the two factions face each other from armed camps.
 The bootleggers have established themselves in an almost inaccessible stronghold in the dense woods along the Minnesota Wisconsin boundary near the junction of the St. CroiX and Tamarack river. SentrieS with long range rifles, stationed at far outposts, guard all approaches. The gangsters are familiar with all the thicket pas ses-a knowledge not possessed by dry law enforcers. It is believed that noth ing but strategic attack and pitched battle can dislodge them.
 Here in Kingsdale is the other camp. that of Grace and his supporters. They also have armed themselves with revo!vers and long-range rifless Before the entrance to Grace's hotel and business block continually stands an armed sentry. In his general store. his son, Chester and his three daugh- ters, Elizabeth Florence and Lida, go about their business, but guns are within easy reach-an1 they all know how to use them effectively.
 The war started when Grace was reported to have tipped off dry agents to the booueggers' activities. There was a raid upon 20 big stills near here, and 2000 tons of sugar and thous ands of gallons of mash were seized.
 Dynamite Building
 Seeking revenge, the moonshinerS rode into town en masse. placed dy- namite in front of the store and set it off. There was blast wich shook the country for five miles around. Grace and his family were hurled from their beds His sons back was wrenched, and a guest and the hired man. John Jacobson, were severely cut from flying glass from shattered windows.
 And vet, with the exception of Grace and his little band Of followers (he can almost count tEem on one | hand), 10 one could te found who knew anything about it. They gazed at the debris which filtered the street | and kept mum.
 The blast failed tD shake the cour- age of the little gI1up. We wIl stay and flGni to the fin ish." Gra>e announced My family
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-06
TO START TRIP
 IN SEPTEMBER Big Blimp Will Probably Pass Over District on FL Paso-
 Nogales Leg of Flight
BY HARRY HUNT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The first transcontinental airship pathfinding expedition to be undertaken in the United States will be started early in September when the army dirigible C.2 casts loose from her moorings at Langley Field. Newport News, Va. and heads for Washington on the first leg of a flight to Ross Field, Arcadia, Cal, and return.
 The flight will be undertaken by a crew of five in command of Major H. A. Strauss, now in charge of ex- perimental and research work in aero nautics at McCook Field, Dayton, O. The personnel will consist of two pi- lots, two engineers and one radio op- orator. The only members of the crew so far designated are Master Sergeant William A. Fitch and Staff Sergeant A. D. Albrecht. both of Airship Com pany IS, now with the C-2 at the Aber deen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Md. Ten purposes are sought in attempt ing the flight, as follows:
 1. To establish and chart a defi- mite transcontinental airship route.
 
 2. To assist in the location of pos sible emergency landing fields both for airplanes and airships.
 3. To demonstrate the possibilities of the present training type of air ships.
 4. To determine what changes in design are necessary to make training ships suitable for reconnaissance work. ,. To determine engine perform ance life of power plants and fuel consumption under varying conditions and at various attitudes.
 6. To train airship personnel un- der field conditions.
 '. To ascertain best methods of mooring and caring for ships at places where air-service troops and hangar facilities are not available.
 s. To stimulate interest in com mercial aeronautics, particularly air ship travel.
 g. To photograph and chart trans continental airway and landing field. 10. TO determine by experience the necessary equipment, minimum crew and comforts required to enable crews to stand the long watches necessary
 (Continued on Page TwO)
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-06

made to start a church to counteract the evil effects of moOnshine. But at the first meeting a band of invaders entered the schoolhouse where the meeting was being held, and demand ed in forceful terms that the minister leave town. He left.
 Three other ministers who came to Kingsdale also were driven from town by threats of the opposing element.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-06
SECOND FATALITY IN MINE

GLOBE, Ariz., Aug. 5.-Walter Bald win, of Superior, who was 23 years old today, is dead as the result of the second fatal accident within a week on the same incline shaft of the Inspiration mine at Miami. He was struck by a runaway timber car on an incline railway and killed in stantly. Daniel Zibonb met death several days ago in the same manner.
 In London, under present restric- tions, no building is allowed to be higher than eighty feet above the street level. |.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04
AUSTIN GANG IS DlSPLEASED
Worn War Veterans Organize Strongly in Chisholm Under
Jack Qark-Austm Gang Is Scared-lramonm very
Obscenely Abuses Service Men IN SalUs DUMP.

a little puddle, so to speak, also IS lam
basting the former service men.
Gar Tramontin is a liberal patron OF
signor Salvi's blind-pig and gambling,
den. While blowing his bazoo in that
lawless dump Thursday evening, Feb.
16. between midnight and CLOCK a.
m. this foul-mouthed member OF the
board of education used words against
the World War Veterans that cannot
be printed, 50 vile were they.
School director -Tramontin said that
the World War Veterans. were morse
manure. Then, in foul and obscene
words. he called them 'fBolshevistic
- of -, He also said, with OBJ
scene adjeetives, that "They need a
sword stuck into their - bellies,
every one Of them.
The facts are that many OF the people
Of Chisholm are tired of laxness and
favoritism in law enforcement and the
drunken actions Of some or the leading
appoiatees of the Austin regime. These
,bibulous public servants. think more OF
drinks, and worse, than they do: of duty
and earning their big salaries. When a
citizen gets in bad with these big toads!
he is bulldozed and threatened until he
either knuckles down or gets out OF
town. -.
No one could blame the World Wal
Veterans should they take it into their
heads to change tfe administration and
by that change, put stop to some Of
these Prussian methods snd stunts.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04

CHISHOLM, March 1.-(speeial to
the Rip-saw. 1.-The Austin gang Is very
much displeased because the World
War Veterans have organized in CHS
holm. This is the organization to which
Capt. George H. Mallon, one of Perish
ing,s Zone Hundred Heroes" belongs.
There are about 100 members already
in the local organization and, for some
reason, the bigibugs in the Austin ad-
ministration fear that the former ser
vice boys are not for the old gang.
Election day, of course, will prove or
disproye the existence Of danger. Per-
haps one thing that makes the Austin
gang fear the World War Veterans is
the fact that Jack Clark is at the head
Of the local organization.
Not long since, D. G. Hackett, a mem.
Der Of the council and pinch-hitter fol
the Austin administration, promised
returned soldier q village job. Some
days ago, when the former service mar
asked about the promised position
ninchJhitter Hackett informed the vet
eran that the job could not be given
him because he belonged to the World
War Veterans. This incident plainly
shows the attitude Of the Austin ad
ministration towards the returned sol
diers.
G. NJ. Tramontin, a member OF both
the school board and the Austin gang
a loud-mouth local ear, big toad II
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04
DOCTOR GARLOCK wins AGAIN


ssDirty Dewey = is around the coart-
room every day and, not being up either
for arson or bootlegging, seems vexys
very lonesome. He looks and feels neg
lectsd. IL the underworld birds come
off in fair condition, Dirty Dewey
may 90 to peddling booze again.
Game warden Cline ii showing his age
this snowy winter. he is far from be-
ing as limber as ne once was. His hair
as getting white and he puffs pretty
hard at that old pipe. Sherns Bailey
helps the old rooster expert keep up his
nerve by telling him to keep stiff up
per lip.
In some way, for some reason, the
grand jury let Gilbert, the lawiess. col
!ored dive keeper, escape an Indictment
His joint Is the official meeting place.
Of the Bailey gang when framing up"
some poor stacker. It was in this law
less resort that the Rip-saw's old hone
missionary was 6 frames" about year
ago. - $. IS.
Colonel Marion Hszen stiil 10 in No
Mans Land, bat his former ssswelI
dame, a. he ternsd her, still sticks To-
the old town, Some think that Col,
Hazen was donble-crossed out of the
Hub City of the North,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04
COLONEL Il Us BAR
VERY 70 uLlR OASIS
julius Blynberg's Place Il Listed
as Saloon Police Disregard
Several Complaints.

SUPElsIOR March 1.{ Special to
the Rip-saw. Allouez is considered a
very vet suburb BY those in a position
to know. One of the most wet spots is
the corner where Col. j. o. Ely conducts
bis wide-open bar and other things for
human entertainment. The garage in
the rear exudes moisture like a tropical
swamp under Tho noonday sun. =.
Geing over ane}ber block to 236 Ifas-
ca, you find Jul Bfxpburg. The tel
ephsne book ca lit saloof ard
these is NO mistSke made ID caliing IL
by that name.
These and Other places have been 70.
ported to the police but nothing has
.besn done. Loo dry citizens believe
that the federal 43snts woald find Al.
souez very interesting field for in.
y estigation.
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his mosnshiae With waser. Watering
your lfkkef Is worse ozfense IN the
keeaerl1na than nzurders -
Colonel Martin sells his moonshine in
the dirfx hif<heu. When the Interna-
.tiona1 Falls police are suffering for q
snort they can Find relief IN the Kitchen
of cafe Martin, not out frent. The fed.
eral sleufhs should reIsenlber this fact
also, when they next comb the Falls foi
illicit booze
Cafe Martin is far from neat and
tidy place. Colonel Martin does NOT
even wear clean apron when he waits
ON his trade. One feature Of the place
is the swarm Of big cockroaches that
goes scooting up the wall every time q
patron slsnls the door.
Ever and anon, asssshe goes flying
about, Col Martin Knocks cockroaches
into the soup by brushing against the
walls with his dirty apron. When he
sees fhe big insects in the soup, he
tries to fish them out, but he does moi
always see them. Many a time has Col
Martin burned his thumb and finger in
the hot soup as result of trying to
fish out big and fat, cockroach.
tDamnation! exclaims the restaura
tour. "This soup is so hot that it burns
my fingers"
The state hotel inspector might pro,
fitably look over cafe Martin.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04

= BEMIDJI, March 1.-fS Especial to the
Rip-saw. Doctor Garlock carried every
ward In sBemidji and was reelected
mayor by . safe majority, Or. Garloek
was elected on law and order ticket
q year agg and, despite the opposition
of the sheathen. he got evidence against
every lawless dive, joint and den in Be
midi. The underworld birds were ar
rested, bound over 10 the grand jury
and, at this term Of court, they are be-
ing tried. That memorable raid cost
81 200 and, naturally, it was opposed
by the notorious Bailey gang.
Sherm. Bailey is credited with back
ing Grossman for mayor and Stein for
assessor In the late campaign. Both
men were defeated. This is the third
time Sherm. Bailey and the Crookston
Lumber Co. have met straight defeat in
campaigns for city assessor.
Thomas Lloyd who was boosted. by
Bailey for the school board and defeat
ed last July was elected alderman in
the Third ward without opposition.
Bailey Hses In the- second ward, hence
could not queer Lloyd by voting for
him. =,
Judge Wright, of Park Rapids, Is pre-
siding at this session Of district court
and IS trying the bootleg and other un-
derworld cases. The first ease called
was that of Frank North, formerly q
member OF the Bailey gang and proba-
bly, one now.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04

My Paving Program a. commits
sioner Farrell fondly terms it, proceeds.
The contract for paving Second st. has
been awarded to D. H. Clough & Co., OF
Duluth, 80 far as surface indications 60.
An bids for the repaving Of Superior
st. have been rejected. The city is
about TO sell $50, 600 in bonds to pay
its share of excess profits, if that term
is to be preferred over booty, rakeoff or
graft.
As shown in the previous issue Of the
Rip-saw, the contract price for paving
Second st. is fully $4,000 higher than
it should be or would be, had there
been any real competitive bidding.
Such sum of money is more than
most men accumulate in life time of
hard toll, but here are three or four
men who extort it from their fellows
after a single short hour Of intrigue.
Talk about getting rich by skimping
the work-half the cement in the con-
crete base might be omitted and half the
bitulithie top might be cut out, then the
contractor would be only about $22 600
ahead.
Here Is a case where many times the
amount is secured at the very start,
with impun;ty, that any dishonest con-
tractor could hope to obtain by cheating
and skimping in materials. Unless cir
cumstautial evidence is unusually de-
ceiving,f too, this big killing apparently
is made with the assistance OF the city
Officials.
Mary of the property owners on Sec
ond st. are poor people who lily can az.
ford any pavement, yet they are told
that TIERS Is no law. in the Aand where.
by they, can protect themselves against
such procedure. II all else fails: some
of them are talking sbout going before
the grand jury. :,
Scarcely a mention appears in the
daiiy papers in regard to the passing OF
Superior st. without -. including the
clause. Commissioner Farrell is known
to favor brick" What inference is to
be. drawn from such repetition IN
"My, Paving Program in the light OF
recent eventsf
Il now is stated that, when proposals
again are secured for the improvement
OF Superior st.. Asphalt and concrete
will be included with bitufthic and
brick. It also is claimed that many OF
the property owners would prefer btu
1.-THE 70 brick, as the cost will be only
$4,000 greater.
Is shat fact, however,
Two weeks ago, the Rip-saw showed
its readers that the raw material enter
inc into bitulthic pavement, exclusive
of The concrete base, does not exceed
As cents per SO. I'D. in cost;
Paving brick was quoted in Mime
apofs last month at $4s per thousand
or4.3 cents per brick. It requires aoou'
Al brick to a 50. I'D. Of pavement, which
at the price quoted, would mean 81"
per 50. I'D. :,
Where an asphalt filler is used, il
tskes about IA pounds Of asphalt to lay
a 50. I'd. of brick. The asphalt comes
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04
|DULtITHIAN CLAIMS CONWAYS
RESP0NSIBLE FOR THE Loss.
Bowy Hotel People Are Sued by JenswoM Jenswod fox
Client Who Was unlswfully Sold I;eit Whisky IN Inter-
Ocean HotelPropery and Cash Attached

n,,1,&h ~, a :
"a - A.so WV nisn. as w wen pe
I 1919 80 sneges enat, On Feo'
!, no = ,rocnsnine at the IN
Sel0sA nosei' aAo ~. superior ST.,
~. W. = nas n - irresponsible conan,
tson, aes wa1cn an aggregation OF
-, a.u 49,. es.ens renewed III" OF
toy Hss aeins $7So.
John 2. Conway rms the classic In
er-ocean. John 2. came to Duluth
from Superior. He at one time had a
soft drink place between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth avenues W., where he
also had some adventures with the pro-
hib,t;on agents. II.
Associates with John p Conway 10
Mrs. Effie Conway. ALA, Dolly onwav
alleged Il he the vie of James p. Then
aecoyainO "a Richard. Roe. there ia a
certain nalIy rhite and a Miss Fife
White bsY fke latter i not the sub.
stant;s, ed,s.a t,rss In n,lnfh who bears
tho na,ne II Eff;e WHITE -
The unfoyhanate Richard Roe had
been EXPERIMENTING some family grief.
the loss Of good wife being one Of the
items. He was tempted into trying to
drown his sorrows in bowls of flowing
moonshins. For that purpose he entered
the classic Inter-ocean, down ON the
edge OF the historic but now almost OBJ
soie.e old Bowe,v. s.
Through his iswyers, Aessrs., Jens-
void q Jenswold, grand eombipation,
so the court sharps say, Richard Roe
tells how he fell off the water wagon
and lost mis- roll, something as follows,
viz:
Defendants Conway, Conway, White
and WRITES ksxp she 1nters6 rraas iotei
at III W. Superior ST. On tbet ground
floor there is soft drink plaee To
sshieh they tthe defendants in the
easel, invited the. general public to
share their hospitality and. company and
thereby to remain, purchase, receive
and drink non-aleoholic beverages. - :
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04
"BITI1ITHIC BERT'S" PAVING
PROGRAM PAYS BIG PROFIT
Bulhic Prices Beat Skmping Contracts Idea that
Bitulthic Should Cost More Than Brick-Some Sig
nifeant Figwes-Leahy's Kind Italian Hand.

in drums which cost about Is per cent
more than where the asphalt is shipped
in bulk, making the filler cost about
IT'S cents per SO. I'D.
The entire cost of the raw material
for the wearing surface is 1895 per
50. yd., as against As cents per So. I'D.
for bitulithic.
Instead of bitulithic costing $4,000
more than brick on Superior st., it
should cost $4,000 less for each and
every block. If the proposed work
covers Is blocks, then bituhthic would
cost in the aggregate, $67 200 less than
brick.
Sheet asphalt commonly is laid, for
heavy traffic conditions, in two courses,
the first being called the binder course.
It is one and one-half inches thick and
composed of about nine pounds of as
phalt, 81 pounds of sand and rs pounds
of broken stone, per 50. yd., all mixed
and then rolled on top of the concrete
base The wearing surface, the second
course, is two inches thick and composed
Of about 26 pounds Of asphalt, %
pounds Of rock dust, called the filler,
and ITS pounds of sand per 50. I'd. The
total material for the asphalt pavement,
exclusive of the base, should be IS
pounds Of asphalt, 2s pounds Of rock
dust, IS pounds Of crushed stone and
252 pounds Of sand. costing in all about
so cents per square gard Of the raw
material, as compared with As cents for
bitulithic and $1.93 for vitrified brick.
It will cost about rs cents more per
50. I'd. to lay, sheet asphalt than btu
1.-the, making a total difference be-
tween thsstwo-of -ahuut 70 csnts per-sq
yard. +
In the Engineering News Record, the
leading engineering paper in America,
in Vol. 81, p. 80, you will find the fol
lowing statement: "From the forego-
ing it isclear that the Wallace Patents
produce a pavement which. is closely
analogous 10 a very thin sheet Asphalt
surfacing on a close binder, the top
layer being generally about one-half an
inch thick"
The Wallace Patents are those under
which Messrs. Warren Bros. now are
laying their bitulithie, which, according
to the editor Of the Engineering News
Record, amounts to a sheet asphalt
pavement with abont three-fourths of
the top left off. Nevertheless, we To-
| cally hear that bitulithic is the best
and most expensive pavement laid.
The Rip-saw's readers will remember
that, about three years ago, the Great
Family journal published some interest,
ing information as to how Mr.: Leahy
and Mr.. Davis prepared specifications
for the paving Of East Superior st. and
presented them to the city engineer, all
typewriter and ready for use. A bit
Of repetition right here and now may
enable present readers of the Rip-sa"
to know what to look out for at the
the next letting of the contract on su'
perior st.
In his book on asphalt pavements
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-03-04

Clifford Richardson, fss-yesrs consAat
ing engineer to tia Basber Asphalt Co.
says, viz: -zzz1Ss:>a -, . : s
eft has been fonnd by service tests
that the most desirable filler isaS finely
ground portland cemenk and this always
should be used where the surface is to
be subjected to heavy travel or to ex'
cessive moisture. .~
~ Now, as stated about. three years ago
by the Rip-saw, Mr.. Leahy, Of the Gen
eral Contracting Co., and Mr.. Davis, Of
the Barber Asphalt Co., despite en-.
gineer Richardson g opinion SO changed
the specifications for East Superior st.
paving that limestone dust was per,
mitted instead of portland cement. The
original specifications called, too, for
one and one-half inches Of binder. the
standard for heavy traffic street, but
Messrs. Leahy and Davis changed that
to one inch in thickness.
Professor Blanchard, formerly profess
sor of Highway Engineers in Columbis
university and now director Of the High
way Engineering department of the
University Of Michigan, says: =.
1.-THE fact that from so many well
known asphalts, as Bermudez, Califor.
MIA, Pioneer, Texaeo and Trinidad, sat
isfactory asphalt eements, as shown by
service tests, have been made, empha-
sizes the necessity of carefully consid-
ering the fundamental principles under
lying the drafting Of specifications for
the asphalt cement" ~
The original specifications on Su-
perior st. were drawn by committee
of national experts, Of which Prof.
Blanchard was member, permitted ali
satisfactory brands of asphalt to com
pete. II
Then came the canny Leahy and
Davis, changing the specification to
Trinidad asphalt only, thereby virtu-
ally specifying Mr.. Leahy as the con.
tractor. Many citizens win remember
that Mr.. Cloush, then as now. secured
the contract and that Mr.. Leahy did
the work. -.- \ - ssls
What has happened before, under The
clever Mr.. Leahy and "Bitulithic
Bert can and may happen again.
For the first seven years that il is
laid, one asphait may look as good as
another, hut After,ste ass.-thea man
who ipays Tor The pavement will appre-
ciate what q mistake it Il TO be fooled
into accepting limestone dust. for port
land cement, and an one-ineh binder