Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-02-08
(" WHO'S THE DUPE."

WHO'S THE DUPE"
awe understand that the Hon. Jesse i. Tho
| mas has removed himself and family from this
town to the state Of Missouri"
Spectator, Non 2, 1929.
at is due to Judge THOMAS to state, that he
resides within few steps Of this Office that
he was in this town when the last EdparasuiHe
Spectator was issued. We are authorized to
say that he has not the renotest intention of re-
/ moving from this state
.Sar Of the " est, .A1o. 9, 1922.
The article last above quoted was, We have
no doubt, "aatiori.ed" by Judge Thomas.
He was, at the time, passing through this place
on his way to Washington; and he admitted
TO friend, that his family had removed to Mis-
had ordered them to come back, and they
would return Immediately. We stated these
facts at the time, and the Star did not again at
tempt to controyert them, until the 30th of
November, (the week preceding the COM
mencement of the session OF the legislature)
when the arrival Of Judge 1homas's family,
after SHIRT visit to their friends in Missouri"
was pompous'y announced; and we were stig-
matized as ga Catspaw to party that wished
having said any thing about his removal.
But to the sequel. The male part of the
family attended at vandalia during the pendcn-
Of the Senatorial Elcction-the other part re
manning in this town. AS soon as the election
was oyer, they e-packed their furniture, and
went back to Missouri and they do not now
pretend that they have any intention to reside
amy longer in this state, for several years al
least, If ever.
Now, we would ask, who are K.N:lYES, and
who are the DUPES?
County Of Fulton.-We mentioned
last wet. that bill bad passed both
Houses of the General Assembly, form
ing a second county upon the Illinois
bounty lands, the following are its per-
inanent boundaries, viz " B ginning al
the point where he fourth principal ue-
redian line intersects the Illinois river,
thence up the middle OF said river to
where the line between ranges five and
six east strikes the said river, thence
north with the said line between ranges
Ave and six east to the township line be-
tween ranges nine and ten north, thence
west with said line to the said fourth
principal meridian line, thence south
al Inv ~ l., Of an
These boundaries comprise twenty siH
whole townships and ten fractional ones.
The County has been called Fulton, il
honor of The celebrated improver o!
steamboats,, &c. All OF the bounty
tract which lies east of the fourth prin-
cipal meridian, and not comprised in the
above boundaries, is attached, Ter county
purposes, to Fulton county, until 1t shall
be therein disposed Of by the Genera
Assembly. t. 1aiel.
The bill 'to encourage the destruction OF
wolves" has become law. This act offers
premium of TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
to the person who shall destroy, in this State,
between the 18th April, 1928, and the 18Th
November, 1924, the greatest number OF
wolves not less than 60. 1t also offers pre-
MUM of TWENTY DOLLARS to the person
who SHALL within the same period, destroy the
greatest number OF wolves, rot less than ten,
IN any county in this State-the above Pre-
miums to be paid out of the State Treasury.
The act also provides that the county cem-
missioners' court may, on the petition of a ma
jority of the citizens Of the county, ofler a
premium of not less than fifty cents, nor more