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HAS A SWELL GRAFT.Young Man Works Game ofGraft at Fiilcon.A young fellow giving the name of Fred Cnlbert or John Culvert, is circulating around the Mississippiriver towns, telling the people that he is looking up a location fpr a big sawmill to cost in the neighborhood of $250,000 and employ 200 men. He claims that his father and himself own thousands of acres of timber land in the north along the river and that they will establish a large lumber factory. After spending several days in Fulton, where he worked the natives up to a high pitch, with visions of agreat industry growing up in their midst, he took an unceremonious departure, even forgetting to pay his board bill, and it is reported that he even took along some per sonal property belonging to others which he had gathered up. The last heard of him he was at Muscatine, where he was exploiting the same kind of a pcherne. Lie is evidently a smooth schemer without any capital other than a fertileimagination.
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Galena Tribune
Galena, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 06, 1906
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