The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-01-09
Superintendent of Schools j. T. Davis
held his first examination of teachers yes
Bids Wanted

For the construction of double store
building at Washburn, N. D., 50x100 feet,
with cellar. Address
ROBINSON g. CAssELMAN,
Coal Harbor, N. D.
No reports were handed into the county
board from anv of the road supervisors.
There has been no money squandered IN
that respect during the past year, as for
merly, and yet the roads have been kept
in as good repair as they ever were. We
hope the county has passed the rocky point
of extravagance, and believe we have now
good men at the helm who will steer the
ship of state clear from the shoals of
bankruptcy. No more soft snaps.
The milk of human kindness has soured
on the stomach of Bro. Bierly-he of the
Grand Forks News. He has whet up his
cannibal appetite and wants to devour the
whole Missouri slope. He says Bismarck
is the gahenna of the state," and that
''every decent man should use his efforts
next year to send men to the legislature
who will remove the stigma from the
escutcheon of the state" Oh, don't.
| A fatal accident occurred about o'clock
Tuesday morning on the Northern Pacific
railroad. A double-headed stock train
crashed through bridge two miles east
of Sentinel Butte. The head engineer dis
covered the bridge on fire and applied the
air brake, but it was too late, and both
engines and one car went through. Both
engineers jumped and were not injured,
but fireman Bert Clough was killed, and
fireman G. w. Poor was so seriously in
jured that he has since died.
The board of county commissioners at
their meeting last Monday declared the
Office of the clerk of the district court va
cant because of the absence of Frank
johnson, who was elected clerk in Novem-
Der, 1880, and who went away from here
without leaving a deputy. Considerable
business had accumulated requiring the
clerk of courts attention, and as no one
seemed to know Mr.. Johnson's address,
the above action was deemed necessary.
Hans G. Nygard of Turtle Lake was ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy.
John j. Robinson and his in-law,
Laurence Casselman, were in Washburn
Monday and Tuesday making arrange
ments for the establishment of another
mercantile house at this place. We under
stand that it is possible the Ramsett Bros.
may sell out to these gentlemen, and i'll
that event the number of stores will not be
increased. We were informed, however,
that in case satisfactory negotiations could
not be entered into with Ramsett Bros,
that Messrs. Robinson and Casselman
would lease the Christianson building and
make immediate preparations to put in
an eight or ten-thousand dollar stock of
now goods.
J.F. Fort of Bismarck spent several days
here this week looking after the interests
of the Plano company. As collection at
torney for that company he has a large
number of notes against the farmers of
this county, but, although the farmers
have plenty of wheat on hand, he finds it
impossible to make collections for the
reason that few had thrashed before the
close of navigation, and therefore had no
opportunity of selling their grain, and are
now unabte to haul it to Bismarck, owing
to the bad condition of thelroads and the
expense. He thinks no profitable collec-
tions can be made until after the opening
of navigation in the spring.
Minot Journal: The Bottineau Pioneer
is mad or at least very much vexed. It
is at present publishing continued story
having for its subject, E. Ashley Mears,
president of several banks throughout the
northwest Editor Bennett turns the
crank of his "roasting machine" fearlessly
and his aim seems to be the complete
annihilation of the entire Mears family.
We cannot presume to Judge of the truth
fulness of the Pioneers statements, but
surely its readers are not particularly
edited by such literature. V
| In speaking of the Missouri slope coal
fields, the Fargo Commonwealth says:
''These undeveloped coal beds are destined
to be of inestimable value to the c0nsum-
ers of North Dakota. It is customary to
give Ignite coal an unfair test in either
wood or hard coal burners. Such test is
bound to be unsatisfactory. The coal has
some Of the qualities of wood, and some
of bitumous and anthracite coal, but is
unlike any one of them, and requires
stoves and heaters constructed for it's use.
In such heaters it is fully so per cent more
economical than any other fuel that can be
placed in the hands of the North Dakota
consumer. At present the cost of trans
portatiOn is serious obstacle, but rs fast
cs the industry developes transportation
rates will be lowered, either at the instance
of the railroad themselves or through
legislative pressure"
South Carolina produced more than one
third of the entire amount of phosphate
rock mined in the world in 1880, the out
lput being 100000 tons.