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Show AN ALLECED ROBBERY. An Armed House of Hlxtecn Men Start fur the ltaltty River Country. Di LLTii, Minn., Sept. 1. .Special. 1 Four special agents of tho general land otlice, accompanied by na armed posse of sixteen men started from here today to investigate the alleged robbery of valuable timber by Canadian lumbermen lum-bermen from the public lamia in what is known as the Rainy Kiver country in this stale. These men have gone in search of the Canadian lumber thieves who have for many years pillaged the lands of the "northern boundary of Minnesota. The forests of white and Norway pine tllero are reckoned among the linest in tho world. The depredations for the last year itlone are estimated at lHO.OtHUNIO feet. The prof, its of course ara enormous, hut the complaints of tho sufferers were unheeded un-heeded until now. |