The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-07-05

terday, and they report having splendid
time and big crowd.
John Rea, jr., son of ex-register Rea,
aid Ralph Ward, came up from Bismarck
Monday and on Tuesday went to Coal
Harbor to spend the 4th as guests of their
young friends Johnny Staley and George
Robinson.
James Larmor has resigned his posi-
tiOn az "Ribbon Holder" on the Washburn
II Hancock Stage line and passed the
Lines over to the new proprietor, james
hetron, last Tuesday. Jim will retire to
and engage in raising No. hard.
Andrew Peterson, the old soldier from
Sverdrup township, was in town Wednes-
day. The old veteran was made happy
over the good news that his pension claim
had been allowed and the rate fixed at $17
per month. This will be God-send for
Mr.. Peterson, but is not half what he
deserves.
DR.. j. j. Best, physician at the Berthold
agency, put up at the Washburn Hotel
Wednesday night. He was enroute from
Bismarck back to his post of duty. he
had under his care Theodore Everett, q
young Indian who was returning from the
Industrial Indian school at Carlisle, Pa,
in dying condition with consumption.
The Washburn -four mill is now running
under full head of steam, with Mr.. +. j..
Burt, recently foreman of the Berthold
mill, manager. Under Mr.. Burt's skillful
manipulation the mill is turning out a
better grade of -four than has ever before
been made here. Farmers having sur
plus of wheat had better bring it in now
and secure their summer and fall supply
of breadstuff.
We regret to learn that Henry Bartels,
of Turtle Lake, is now confined to his
house with asthmatic troubles. He has
been aflfched with the disease for many
years, but since his residence in North
Dakota has experienced very little incon-
veniencc from it. His present severe at
tack is the result of cold he caught while
camping out one night last week on a
trip to Minot.
Superintendent Murphy has been clean
ing out, the s.Augean stables" at the Berth
old agency and selecting a new set of as
sistants. Nearly every one of the old en-
ployes have been discharged and gone to
their former homes. We believe that the
new men selected by Major Murphy will
prove trusty set of co-workers, in their
respective branches, who will take pride
in giving the management Of the agency q
good record and a fair name.
On Monday night of this week two men
came down from Fort Benton in small
skif and stopped off at Washburn, where
they camped that night. Tuesday morning
they pulled out again, and during the fore
noon one of the men received u sun-stroke
which caused his companion to pull
ashore at Wogansport, where the unfor-
tunate man was lying i'll helpless con-
dition when the Bismarck stage passed
that place Wednesday afternoon. At
Washburn they made particular inquiries
as to whether officers were still in search
Of she N. P. train robbers.
The Wheaton Gazette-Reporter, pub
lished in Traverse county, Mimi, contains
the proceedings of an Alliance convention
held in that state for the legislative district
comprising the counties Of Stevens, Grant,
Big Stone and Traverse, from which we
learn that Alfred Setterlund was nominat-
cd for member of the lower house of the
Minnesota legislature. Alfred Setterlund
is brother of John satterlund of Washburn,
and the Gazette-Reporter's comments on
the proceedings of the convention, which
says that 'the announcement of Mr.. Set
terlund's nomination was the signal for
hearty applause" indicate that Alfred
stands high in the estimation Of the people
there as does his brother John here.
The effect of prohibition in North Da-
kota is most disastrous to some of its best
citizens. On Tuesday of this week, which
was July LIST, and the day upon which the
prohibitory code went into operation, Jim
Holt, q prominent society gentleman of
Bismarck, was seen wandering over the
prairie thirty miles north of Washburn
with his hat in one hand tin cup in the
other. AT first it was surmised that he had
left the capital city to 60 in search OF Col.
Bill Lows ranch, it being claimed that
the colonel has never heard of prohibition
agitation in the Dakotas, and that he ships
beer by the car load to his extensive cattle
range in the coteaus south of Dog Don
butte. OF course, the LEADER takes no
stock in any Of the vile imputations against
Col. Lows natural sagacity and his high
status in the social and political circles Of
the Missouri slope-but We do know that
on that first day of July, amid the scorch-
ing rays of q red-hot sun, Jim Holt was
prowling over the barren prairie in search
ne ar,n otl,inn uhirh ha cnuld seA afar off