The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

tanned a column article, apparently
written by some one in Martin county,
complaining of the action of the officials
~f the Worthington Land Office in the
matter of filings on lands conveyed to
the Southern Minnesota Extension COM
psny by the act Of July 1, 1883
promptly interviewed the officials
'ts see what they had to say and were
shown the documents establishing the
following facts:
l. The General Land Office required
AL applications to be submitted to it
before allowing filings to be- made.
Wien the general Office had passed
upon the applications they were return.
ed and the local office was ordered te
put on such rs were approved.
2. Tie local Office thus acted under
instructions or orders III every in
stance.
3. Thirty applications were sent from
the general land Office on the 10th Of
March last with orders to put them on.
/. Of this thirty, twelve were Martin
county applications and eight or ten
from that county had gone on previ-
.Vusly. Eighteen were from other
counties.
1t would seem therefore that Martin
county men ought not to complain.
There is no reason why precedence
should he given to Martin over other
oOunties.
JAILED FOR EM8EzzLEMENT.
The brilliant Sioux Falls attorney,
A: N. Flagg, Of the firm of Kersl,aw 4
Flagg, WAS arrested on Friday last for
embezzlement and jailed in default of
5000 bail. The Press says:
The fates have finally descended upon
Alfred NJ. Flagg, and he occupies Il cell
in the county Jail, in default Of 5000
bail for his appearance at the next
term of court Yesterday O. W. Dye,
agent of the Producers Marble. works,
OF Chicago, filed before Justice l.. u.
Henry Il complaint charging him with
embeZzlement of 81 500, sent him to
loan tO L. w. Tenney OIL a mortgage,
according to an arrangement previous
ly made. Flagg was arrested between
five and six o'clock and taken before
Justice Henry, where he waived an ex-
animation and expressed no desire to
secure the $4,000 bail required. and
about nine o'clock he was taken to Jail.
The time was when scarcely man in
Sioux Falls had such a chance for a
fortune as did A. NJ. Flagg. The firm
OF kershaw & Flagg had a large share
Of the legal patronage in this section.
sNtk
tho loan and collection department Of
their business made them thousands of
dollars. and all that was required was
attention and integrity. All This went
to wreck for gambling.
This arrest ought to serve As warn
ing and make number of others in \
similar condition quake in their boats.
In nearly every one Of the newer towns
and counties of the west there are at
torneys, loan agents. etc., playing this
same game more Or less, and they ought
to be brought up standing. We are
assured that during the past few years
the confidence Of eastern capitalists in
western men has been very much
shaken by just such sharp practice and
the country has suffered in consequence.
PROF ToUsLEY AND THs SCHOOLS
The reforms recommended by Prof.
Tousley for the Minneapolis schools
are attracting attention. His plan
seems to be to take the two ends and
bring them together in the middle. In
other words, he would apply the meth
ods of the juvenile schools, object and
oral teaching, and the lecture or oral
method of the higher universities, to
the common schools. If that is what
the Professor means, he has hit it,
Under such method there will be life
and health in the schools instead o1