The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-08-19
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MCLEAN co.

OFFICIAL PAPER OF MCLEAN co.
Local Brickbats.
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Martin Handy came up from Bismarc
yesterday on business.
John j. Nichols OF Coal Harbor wa
down on business Tuesday.
John Kettleson has gone to Bismarc]
after new separator.
Carlton West Of Turtle Lake was trans
acting business in town Wednesday.
Otto 81. Boysen of North Dakota ha.
been appointed consul at Gothenberg
Sweden.
Peter Miller of Turtle Lake. and Geo
Heffner of Dog Den, were visitors in
Washburn last Sunday.
j. Theo. Spitz of Bismarck, who has
been working few days at FL. Stevenson,
is visiting friends in this town.
Conn Peoples, who has been working
on the Sooroad, passed through Washburn
last Monday enroute to his home at Bis
marck.
Harvesting in Mclean county is about
completed, and it is claimed by many that
the grain will turn out much better than
anticipated.
Mrs. Laurence Casselman went to Bis
marok last week to spend two or three
weeks Larry says he can see no fun in
"batching" it.
ha1ah Rajagan, now summering at New
port and basking in the society of Ward
McAllster, denies the slanderous assertion
that he is a polygamist. He says he is
only a bigamist.
y. H. Gates, an empioye in the Indian
at Ft. Stevenson, came down last Monday
enroute east. Mr. Gates has been given
30-day leave Or absencv, ana ne contem-
plates taking in the Worlds far during
his vacation.
There is chance for some enterpising
American heiress to become queen OF Jeru-
salem. Lord Beaumont the titular king
of Jerusalem, is looking for an American
bride with the usual encumbrance in the
way of q million or two dollars.
Fred Gilbert, the sewing machine man,
was in town yesterday. He says that
Washburn is the best town on the Missouri.
river in North Dakota, excepting Bis
marck. He has visited all the towns along
the river, and pays us this mpllment
FROM personal observation.
H. G. Nygard and Frank Westmiller
from west-end of Turtle Lake, were IN
town Tuesday. This was the first time in
about three months that Hans had been
in town, and upon inquiry, we ascertained
that Hans was the father of a 16-pound
boy, which took about all his time to
handle.
Owing to the large distilleries not being
able to pay the government tax on whisky,
famine in that article of diet is threat
ened. The revenue department is firm in
demanding that the tax shall be paid in !
currency and will not bulge. II this posi-
tion is maintained no one will be able to
bulge.
TThoro met Eo r1o in thu oir n,
around Cando. On Sunday two cowboys
became involved in quarrel and in en-
deavorlng to part them, Frank Marion
was shot 6ead. The murderer, seeing that
escape was impossible, ran behind build
ing and shot himself, dying instantly.
The number of suspensions under the
recent act of congress which provides
that no pension shall be paid to n
resident who is not citizen of the Unit I'd
States, except for actual disabilities IT.
CURED in the service,is 2,463. The total
number of foreign pensioners originally
on the rolls was about 1000. 4
The new state canal will not be built at
present. Klrschbaum d Co., the contrac-
tors to whom was awarded the contract to
build the big waterway on the Arkansas,
have filed an assignment and the confusion
of affairs connected with the state canal
company is as bad as ever. It is stated
the assignment was made as the best way
out bf questionable bargain.
The Mandan Times says that on the
Wheeler place near Grown Butte there is
. band of 500 sheep, which were directly
ia the track of the prairie fire Monday.
and would, have been lost had not Mrs.
George Wheeler pluckily gone to the rescue
and driven them to place Of sofety. The
aanasr were 90 close that her hat blew off.
into the fire and was burned; but she saved
the sheep