The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-03-07
IN NORTH DAKOTA.
Interesting News Items From all
Parts OF the state.

two were there five years ago.
The Touring mill company at Kuhn
is being recognized and stocked.
Embezzler Hines, confined in the
Cass county Jail, is failing in health.
jamestown will vote on rcincorpora-
ton on March 8.
Minot has q cigar factory in opera
ton.
March IL the asylum board takes
another turn at 1t.
The Northern Pacific is sinking a
new well at Sanborn.
Walpcton wants n building and loan
association.
Cogswcll will add n to Sergent
cOunty's creamerics.
Buxton Is sOo to build q new school
house with four departments.
H'wson has a new lodge OF A. U.
U. ".
The Towner w. G. T. U. has dis
banded.
Kennedy & Porritt of Fargo get the
contract for Lisbon's sewers.
A Republican league has been Or
ganized at I.akota.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Colfax
have commenced harrow ing.
The Great Northern depot at Lari-
morc was destroyed by fire.
A rev court OF Fores;ers has been
organized at Walhalla with a member
ship Of nineteen.
Prof. Lewis of Valley City accepts
the challenge of H. +. Rundell of
Wahpeton to wrestle.
A Turtle Mountain nan In Florida
reports the cows there SO small That
they give condensed milk.
Mrs. Campbell, an old lady of James
town, had the misfortune to fall OH
the ice and break n Of her legs.
Neche to n milder cline makes a good
opening at that town for a dentist.
Grafton boasts of being one Of the
s"rorgest secret society cities in the
state.
One of Wahpeton's embezzlers writes
from Indiana that he's sorry and
wants to come back. If it Is safe.
Elias Hicks, a former Fargo hack
man, has been committed to an in
sane asylum in Utah.
Stark county had an enthusiastic i'm
migration meeting and perfected an
organization.
Neil Peterson of DeGroat has a
smoke house from which a quarter Of
beef and a lot of hams have got away.
La Moure county has nearly $4,000
In the Bank of Edgerly and has some
$1,000 cash with the treasurer.
The well known jamestown firm Of
Pearce & Orlady has dissolved, Or
lady continuing the business.
Mayville's water supply is short, and
plans for a better service are being
discussed.
Two fellows have been gathered In
at Grandin for stealing overcoats from
q church during services.
An Eddy county farmer has IL cow
which has discarded her young calf
and adopted a pig instead.
The North Dakota branch of tho
new silver standard party WAS Or
ganized at Grand Forks recently.
Secretary Dahl secured a full set Of
Congressional Records for the state
library while in Washington recently.
Joseph Meager Of Pulaski township,
Walsh county, has been adjudged in
for the third time and sent to
jamestown.
A thirteen-year-old girl Mt Valley
City took $50 from a store till the 9th
day. but the shocked parents made
good the loss.
The seven-year-old sou Of Jacob
Anderson of Reynolds had his 9land
broken in the rough playing Of q
group of school children.
George Rand, the Dickinson adulter-
er who was released on habeas CORPUS
proceedings, was rearrested and Jailed
on another charge.
Ono of the medicine mel of the Kick.
apoo Indian company took laudanum
with suicidal intent at Larimore, but
local doctors pumped 1t out.
Trail county held an immigration
convention raised $3.50 for the state
assessment, and the association is
booming.
At the immigration convention at
Hillsloro 1t vas resolved to assess
each legislative candidate $50 to meet
the state assessment in Trail county. |
At Hope 1t is said that J. j. Hill will
extend the Hope branch northwest
this summer tn connect with the main
line at DEVILS Lake.
Ole Mackson. charged with timber
trespass. waived examination at Grand
Forks and was held to appear. before
the United States grand jury at Bis.
marck in March in bonds Of 500.
The school land lease was a decided |
success at Fargo. ninety-three quarter
sections being leased, at a total Of $751; |
ON. Some quarters were bid up az
high as $500.
Mrs. Morgan of Pembina who was
recently acquitted Of the charge Of
poisoning her husband last summer. !
In order that she. might marry n r. |
Des I4ones, has married T. Des Lones.
Sheriff Rickert of Richland has been |
at Hunter after Frank Adams, who is /
charged with bastardy by a girl In
the employ Of his fathers family at
Wahpcton.
Prof. ID. G. McAllister, recently from
Chicago. has organized a class of tiftv
voices at Wahpeton, composed Of the
best musical talent in tho city. Al
the close of the term q grand concert 4
will be given at the opera house.
Alex Stern, w. w. Lewis and j. 7
w. Vonnelda, all of Fargo, filed arti.
cles Of incorporation with the score /
tary Of state for the Fargo Packing
and Cold Storage company.
Mandan business men organized the
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