The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-09-02
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MCLEAN co.

OFFICIAL PAPER OF MCLEAN co.
Local Brickbats.
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Henry Rohrer came down from Coal
Harbor Sunday.
Fred H. Gilbert came up from Bismarck
Thursday.
Mrs. Mcdonald was down from Weller
on shopirg expedition Tuesday.
Robert Tower and his sister came down
marck.
William Wenn after few weeks visiting
among friends in Mclean county, returned
to Bismarck Monday.
Dan. Leroy and Robert Leroy passed
through Washburn Thursday on their
way to the Capital city.
WANTED-100 steers from to years
old. Also have some brood mares to trade
Tor cattle. JOHN j. ROBINSON.
Coal Harbor.
Mrs. Peter Miller of Turtle Lake was in
town this week visiting friends and enjoy
ing general good time gathering plums
and other wild berries.
A. Lyons passed through Washburn last
Saturday with band of horses. Mr..
Lyons will ship the band of horses to
Illinois, where he will try and sell them.
The conjunction of Venus and the moon
soon after sunset Aug. 18th, was beautl-
full scene. closer conjunction of the
same bodies will occur Sept. 18th. Sept.
9th the full moon will be in conjunction
with Jupiter. The latter will be about
five degrees-ten diameters of the moon
south of the latter. Sept. 11th, soon after
sunset, Saturn and the moon will be in
conjunction. Sept. 1st, venous and Saturn
will be in conjunction soon after sunset,
and Sept. I'd Jupiter and the moon will be
IN conjunction just before sunrise.
Robert B. Tower and M. G. Gorden came
down from Coal Harbor Sunday after
freight for Geo. L. Robinson, which was
left at the Washburn landing by the
steamer Castalia.
The Farmers Alliance and Peopel's
Party state convention in New York have
issued an appeal for aid for the unemployed
in the city of New York and asks the
farmers of the West to send grain and
supplies to the starving people of the
East. The appeal is crouched in language
that is more calculated to arouse passion
than sympathy.
Another base bail game was played at
Coal Harbor last Saturday between the
Ft. Stevenson and Coal Harbor teams and
resulted in victory in favor of the Coal
Harpar boys in score of Is to 25. The
Fort Ftevenson team wasn't in it this time.
Senator Hansbrough gives the James
town Alert column, defining his creed.
The senator says he wants blmetallism and
gradual return to unlimited free coinage
and he s'would have congress regulate the
ratio and the amount of our coinage" and
"keep gold and silver on parity.''
r. NJ. Tuttle in his last Mandan Pioneer
has an able editorial concerning the con-
viction of criminals on circumstantial
evidence. and truthfully asserts that direct
01>k >koi iro1 tn opsv ro1
prosecutions, as men do not commit crimes
openly and in the light of day. when direct
witnesses of their criminal acts are obtain
able.
Frank Khim, tae popular landlord of
the Sheridan, and A. G. William went out
to Dickinson yesterday to consummate
the deal whereby they purchase and as
sume control of the Willard hotel in Dick
inson, now owned by g. H. Klinefelter.
The Willard Is Dicklnson's leading hotel,
is centrally located, has an excellent
patsonage, and Messrs. William and Kihm
think, and rightly, that it is good invest
ment. Mr.. Kihm will take active charge,
and his long experience will resure good
hotel and an extensive patronage.
The following poem won for it's author,
the editor of the Rocky Mountain Celt'
the prize of 300 offered for the best ap.
peal poem to newspaper readers to pay
up their subscriptions: "Lives of poor
men oft remind us honest men won't stand
no chunce; the more we work there grow
behind us bigger patches on our pants.
On our pants, once new and glossy, now
are stripes of differe Mt hue, all because
subscribers linger and don't pay US what
is due Then let us be up and dong, send
in your mite, however small, or when the
snow of winter strikes us, We shall have
no pants at all. Farm aud Fireside.