BOWIE KNIVES BY THEIR PLATES.

They were uncommunicative, inoffensive and polite, and paid liberally for

the hospitality shown them.

The hunt had continued while the bandits were escaping as above related, a

reward of $1,000 offered by Governor Pillsbury, $700 by the Northfield

bank, and $500 by the Winona and St. Peter railroad inciting many to

action. The state reward was afterwards increased to $1,000 for each man

dead or alive. However all were off the scent, the objective point of the

pursuers being the woods back of Elysian from which the pursued had

quietly passed. The headquarters of the robber hunters were made