Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — AFTER THE TIMBER THIEVES. [ARTICLE]

AFTER THE TIMBER THIEVES.

AV The United States Government Preparing to Put a Stop to Tlielr Operations. St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch": The lumbei stealing by Canadians along the northern border of Minnesota has become so extensive that the government has concluded to put a stop to it. A large expedition headed by four agents will leave Duluth about Aug. land head in a northwesterly direction, its destination being the western portion of Rainy lake. It is estimated that In two rivers there are 75,000,000 feet of logs, and perhaps as much more is being got away with by Canadians at other points along the boundary line. An effort is to be made to secure this in the name of the government, and as soon as the logs have been found by the agents and branded with the government stamps, which the agents take with them, they will be held at all hazards. It is proposed to have h permanent census department in Great Britain, whose duty it shall bo to take the usual decennial census. A company having for its object the bridging of the English channel, is seeking concessions from the French and English governments.