The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-10-04

sold out his stock with a view to retir-
ing to his farm. The"reorle have do
cided that they want him at the ''hub''
a few years longer and will, at the COM
ing election, go through the little for
mality of electing him to stay.
Rev. j. G. Ogle, the nominee for Su-
perintendent of Schools, is we'll known
as the pastor of the NJ. E. Church, of
this place, and as principal of the Wor-
Ellington Seminary. That he is every
way qualified for the place, both by
character and by his training as an
educator, is very generally conceded.
L. B. Bennett, the nominee for Coro-
ner, has served in that capacity before
and is well and fayorably known to the
people already, having also served for
several years us Justice of the Peace
}: A. Town, the nominee for Sheriff,
and r. D. Barber, the nominee for
Judge of Probate, are the present in
cumbents and need no introduction.
HOW 4 NAIL ROBBER WIS ca UG4Y.
Geo. Lewis, a route agent, on the St..
Paul and Duluth road, was arrested a
few days since for robbing the mails.
The Minneapolis Tribune gives the fol-
lowing account of how lie was detect
ed:
| Special agents were detailed to work
up the case, and Mr.. j. E. Stewart, al,
experienced detective connected with
the Chicago Office, was detailed and f.
nally fastened his suspicion upon Geo.
II. Lewis, Il route agent running from
st. Paul to Duluth. Stewart went to
tie junction of t &c st. Paul e Duluth
and Northern Pacific roads, made him
self known to Mr.. Dunlap, the post.
master, explained to him his object,
prepared three
DECOY LETTERS
in his presence, inclosing in them S31
in marked money. One of these he al.
dressed to Mrs. Geo. Davis, Rochester,
n: \. Box So: putting therein Il SIS and
a $40 bill. The second was addressed
to Editor New York Tribune. New
I ork city, and contained a SIS and Il 81
bill, and the third was addressed to
1talstOn Jewelry Co., corner of Adams
and State streets, Chicago, Ill.,, and
contained one S., two So and one 81 bill.
lie then made duplicate envelopes cor.
responding to each of these letters, saw
the decoy letters inclosed in the mail
bag, and the bag delivesed to Lewis by
POSTMASTER Dunlap on Saturday after.
noon. he then took the same train
down to st. Paul, and arriving there
secured a team and drove rapidly to the
post office before the mail could arrive
made himself known to Postmaster
Day and Chief Clerk O'Brien, and de.
hvered to them the duplicate envelopes.
asking that they find in the bag the O.
rlgiralS. The request was complied
with, and
ONLY TWO OF TIE LETTERS FOUND.
Lewis had already left the office by
this time. and his guilt being pretty
well settled, Stewart. started for his
home, did not find him there but met
him on jackson street. Mr.. Stewart
asked Lewis for his pocket book, the
request. was promptly complied with,
and on examination the first bill that
was drawn from it was the: $40 bill in
closed III the letter addressed to Mrs.
Geo: Davis. The pocket book contain
ed $73. IS and of this sum was the Sis
OF marked money. Lewis was immedi-
ately taken into custody, taken to the
postotlice where lie confessed lis crime,
and
| BEGGED FOR MERCY,
EXPIRE ssing lis Willingness to adjust
his wrong and replace every. cent he
had taken, which Il bank account OF
$500 would enable Inn to do. But In.
Gle Sam is inexorable. lie was taken
before Judge Cordozo and having waiv-
ed an examination was admitted to bail
in the sum of $4,000, Messrs. J. A.
tWheelock, e. s. Uline and F. Driscoll
signing his bond.
DAKOTA TERRITORY WHEAT
Messrs. Morton, Moore & Co.. of st.
Paul, have received several samples OF
wheat grown Iii Dakota Territory.
which show the remarkable prod,,c-
tiyeness OF the land along the great
wheat belt OF the continent which the
/ Northern Pacific railroad trayerses,
Col. Morton i'll forwarding specimens
OF his wheat to Messrs. w. r.. :McLar-
en- y Co., OF Milwaukee, remarks: 1--WE
send you by express to-day two sam.
pies of Oak Territory wheat, raised
on Maple river, fifteen miles from Far
60. and immediately upon the line OF
IIc NollIitlh RACING railroad. The
wheat speaks for itself, but we must
tell you Of the land on which it was
raised. Less than two years ago, Mr..
1 Mcknight, upon whose farm this wheat
was raised, paid $3.50 an acre for his
land, and now for his first crop OH one
hundred and fifty acres, lie has nearly
six thousand bushels OF wheat. When
you, take into consideration the fact
that this wheat can be marketed at as
small i cost us that raised contiguous
to st, Paul, you can we'll imagine that
in view OF tile cheapness of their lands,
the territory of Dakota will in a few
years furnish us twenty millions OF
bushels of this incompatible cereal tol
EXPORT ..-:r:I 49,.
Though Col. Morton says the wheat
will ''speak for itself,'' the reader will
be glad to know that the wheat is what
is known Us hard Scotch Fife. the
grains large, dark, and OF uniform col.
or. Mr.. Mcknight sowed two differ.
eut Kinds Of seed-the Scotch Fife and
I Rio Grande. The Fife is i shade dark.
er weighing sixty-three pounds to the
bushel, and the lighter sixty-two and a
4 half pounds. Besides just think of it!
forty bushels to the acre! Six thous-
ands of dollars cash, developed from
two hundred and cnty-five dollars
worth Of land.