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Show B HOW DID IT OCT Tll..l.r.? l llox of ltoolta Ordered from Cl.'cago H 1, louuil at the Jlimlli of Iho H ' ' Jordan. M On the 14th Instant tleorge (J. Can. H non A, Bon, the well known publish HI era and book dealer, of thli city, tent HI jf ju order for one hundred and llllr H book, to a prominent Chicago house. HI J A few daya lattr they recolred word Hi i that tho order had been filled and thu HH iy book, lent on the lOlli luit. Nothing HBrj inorowaj thought of the matter until HJ ) Saturday afternoon when n gentleman Hi V named Wlnegar, who live, about ten HI ' or twelre rolli. frum tl.lt city down HM the Jordan toward, the lake, called at Hi ' the utenUe olllco and Inquired If the H Messrs. Cannon had lott a box of Hi book.. .Receiving a re.pomo In the Hi negative the geotlemau .aid a. ho HI produced a couple ot. oiled book.: HI 'i "Well, I found one down the river Hli'' today, In a bunch of willow. HI rl near my farm aud aflor con. HI 9 alderable dlfflculty succeeded In HI? towing It ashore. Tho box wa. HI- plainly addreesed to you and I can- HI eluded It mutt be your.." The hook. HI I were found to be Itoborts Itulrn HI it of Order and Town.eud'. Civil HlR1 Uovernment, the klnu. that were or Hli nered from Chicago. II r. Wlnegar Haalkti waaanRagedto bring the box to thli HIE.V ' which lie did today. It proved to Hfifil bo " Chicago order. Tliequuitlou Hlffitg now arlMK, how did It get Into thu HI y r'.i Jordan river many mile. Irani the rail HI K road and In tucb a reinaiktbly short HI Si 'pace of lime. The Itlo llrando Hill I Western olllclal. over whoao road It HI VI came pretend to be ailounjoj and Hlfi declare that It Is a mystery HI Hi. i entirely beyond their comrreheualon. HI I They deny that their ran have btea HI ?,: broken Into or that anything ha. been HI' stolen from them or that there ha. Hv been a wreok on their road at the Hill Marrow, of the Jordan mar the point HI 3 ' of the mountain, liven If theru had HI 'J been a tmaati-up at thl. plaou they HI I "J tat a box of book, could not Hh psa.lbly have been carried down Hh the atream for a dlilauou ol thirty HjVf' ( mile., at It would have gone to the HI bottom. Hjl' Mr. Welnegar say. that Kovcral HH drened hog. aud other artlclet of HM I merchandise have bten sten lloatlug Hi down the river tho last few days. |
