The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-01-24
Washburn County, Dakota Saturday. January
Local Brlckbats.

Local Brickbats.
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FOR SALE, OR TRADE.
One good work horse and harness
Inquire of R. H. Copeland, at the Leader
Office, Washburn, N. d.
For late telegraphic news read inside.
| The choicest lot of candies, nuts and
canned goods in the city can be found at
T. Fitzgerald's.
The LsADDR will take coal, wood, oats,
wheat, or any other farm product on sub
scription.
Jos. A. Burgum of Conkling went to
Bismarck Monday. s
Joe Burgum returned from his tRSsto
Bismarck Thursday.
OFull report of legislative proceedings
will be found on the inside.
Master Willie Wells has been spending
the past week in town visiting his father.
X. s. Ramsett and T. j. Haugeberg re-
turned home from Bismarck on Mondays
stage.
Drowning men will clutch at straws--
and some men will clutch at the school
money.
B. L. Baardson returned from Bismarck
Thursday evening with load of new
goods for Haugeberg.
The nine-year-old son of Frank Nord-
quist died at his home in Ingerson on Fri
day of last week, Jan. 16.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernt Johnson's baby boy,
aged about months, died in the town of
Sverdrup last Monday night.
The mandamus proceedings against the
county canvassing board has been ad-
journed until next Saturday, Jan. 81.
w. h. Carter and s. N. Willborg, from
Coal Harbor, passed Washburn for Bis
marck last Wednesday with two loads of
wheat.
]. c. Whitlock started last Sunday for
Montana, where he expects to strike a
good job of work for the balance of the
winter and spring.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Hunt
ley, in Oliver county opposite this place,
died on Thursday of last week and was
buried last Saturday.
Charles Brady of Conkling was in town
Thursday, anxious to give one of his phe-
nomeal war-whoops for the man winning
the senatorial jackpot.
Geo. L. Robinson from Coal Harbor
drove down to the capital city Monday.
Robinson went down to help bury the dead
and care for the wounded.
Peter Miller and. Mart Handy came in
from Turtle Lake and started for Bismarck
Thursday morning. Mr.. Miller will return
with load of lumber, but Mr.. Handy ex-
poets to remain in the city several weeks.
Hans Holtan has the agency for johnson
d Field Company's tanning mills in Nc
Lean county. These mills are the best
farm mills manufactured, and every farmer
should have one. See advertisement, with
cut, on fourth page.
The two great curiosities, the "Missing
Link" and the "What is it," so long and
eagerly sought after by P. T. Barnum,
have been discovered in Mclean county.
They are still running at large, but settlers
hope TO corral and capture them before
seeding time next spring.
Maj. J. 8. Murphy, Indian agent at Fort
Berthold, went to Bismarck Monday In
company with Geo. L. Robinson of Coal
Harbor. Maj. Murphy will visit New
York and Washington city before his re-
turn, and will be absent about four weeks.
While in Washington he will endeavor to
hasten the passage of the appropriation
asked for the Fort Berthold reservation.
Hon. John Satterlund, representative
from this county, is not talking" mem
Der of the legislature, but he is an indom-
table worker. His extensive and intimate
acquaintance with prominent men of the
state renders him most valuable repre-
sentative, and his success in accomplishing
all he has undertaken thus far has stirred
up the viscid matter in the mighty gall
of certain hemipterous insect hereabouts,
which emits its harmless secretions to the
great edification of its disgruntled fellows
here who slap its back and say, "vell done
thou good and faithful servant of deprav-
ity."
A letter received by John g. Benson, our
new register of deeds, from the attorney