Show LOOKIKG FOR AN EDITOR Pat Ryan of Ironwood Utters Hare Inducements Induce-ments for a Dally Taper Pat Ryan who has just come down from the borders of the great Northwestern lakes and is at the Cullen is looking for a young man with a little ready capital to go up to Ironwood and start a daily paper Throe young and enterprising journalists essayed the job Two of them filled early graves Tho first young man in his salutatory said that ho had coma to Ironwood to reform re-form tho town and referred to his local columns where would be found the names i of a number of toughs who ought to be I tarred and feathered There was ono edition of the paper The editor was escorted as far as Lake Superior Super-ior the next day and dumped in with a lot of pied type that had been put in a sack end attached to his feel His relatives mourned bis silence for two months before I learning his fate The second caught the sheriff stealing poker chips one night Ho told the story In vivid words tho next day Some friend I told him that there would bo no edition of his paper after the expose He had cleared 1 100 during the week he had run his paper h and he staked it on tho result The friend took down tho money two da later while the editor who had been arrested on suspicion sus-picion and jailed without bonds lay languishing When the sheriff released I him a select company of Ironwood citizens escorted him ostensibly to the border of tho state He never camo back I What his fate was nobody has discovered up to date The third editor of the Ironwood Age was a bright young man from Milwaukee He had been marked for distinction in his profession pro-fession Everybody in Milwaukee predicted pre-dicted his success in Ironwood He lasted ten days and then the leading citizens held an orgio over pied type and a press that had been dressed down with sledge hammers ham-mers Mr Ryan saw him a year later it St Paul and saida Wont you come back and try it again old man Nop Guess not They didnt seem to appreciate me up there St Paul didnt get the convention but its good enough for me Its a nice place Ironwood says Mr Ryan and Im here looking for a good newspaper man We cant get one in the cast to come up our way but that is because be-cause they dont appreciate tho situation We are a pretty decent sort of people We purify society by hanging horse thieves and if a newspaper man only stands in with tho gung he can get an army to And by him in time of trouble We liko newspaper men but they have a faculty for starting in the wrong way Dont know a good man you can recommend recom-mend us do you Nop Well if you hear of one lot mo know about it will youV Yep Good bye Good bye |