The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-05-30
IN NORTH DAKOTA
I~nterestin. News Items From all
Parts Of the state.

The pipe for the Lisbon water WORKS
Is more than half laid.
The 500 had to put in an additional
crew to hustle freight at Harvey.
New Rockford has a tennis club
with sixteen members.
Some Wheatland men have violated
the game law.
Judge Lauder is holding court in
Mcintosh county.
Crystals fire department has been
reOrganized.
jamestown is now district headquar-
tiers for the Salvation Army.
o. ]. Stirk of Devils Lake has been
appointed a guard at the pen.
X. Smith of Lisbon gets an increase
Of pension.
Mimic will probably get into the big
telephone circuit.
Mimic parties struck a very good mr.
tesian we'll at a depth Of 223 feet.
Edinburg, in Walsh county, will in
corporate.
Three Pembina blind pigs were
pulled last week.
Lars Ellingson mas been appointed
postmaster at Jackson, N. D.
Ncls Jacobson of DeGroat has been
granted an original pension.
Farm hands are in great demand
and hard to get in Sargent county.
Ben Pagels killed a 350-pound bear
near Bottlneau last week.
Ransom county Independents meet
in county convention at Lisbon June
10.
A twelve-year-old boy at Crystal
would have been killed by a boar but
for the gallant services of his dog.
Alfred johnson, a fourteen-year-old
reform school for incorrigibility.
A Dickey county mans team and
wagon ran over him, inficting serious
injuries.
The Trail county seat case was be-
fore the supreme court again for ar
gument.
A farmer nine miles west of Grand
Forks shot an American eagle that
measured six feet across the wings.
Some one burglarized a Grand Forks
restaurant for $85 and set fire to the
building.
A quarter-section of wheat is being
sown at Wheatland for the benefit Of
a Methodist parsonage fund.
So many horses are missing in Sar-
gent county that the existence of rust
lers is suspected.
The tiremen's tournament has been
postponed from June 8, 10 and IL to
June 16. II and 10,
Forman is up with the procession
found.
DR.. ]. M. H. stoffer got losts on the
prairie near La Moure night last
week, but found himself next morn
ing.
A tarantula stampeded the whole
town of Harvey the other day. The
varmint finally jumped himself to
death trying to catch somebody.
Hon. H. A. Armstrong has been ap-
pointed states attorney of Emmons
county to succeed the late John
Parker.
George Doherty of Drayton who
created a sensation last year by get
ting arrested in New York, has been
SNAS W tAAO - AuA4 OF
Grand Forks is to have paved streets
the business men and the property
owners r at work hand in hand to
bring about the desired end.
The proposition to change Bathgate
from a village to q city carried by 20
votes. The city officers will be elected
in a few days.
Hope will celebrate July 4 in a man
ner v before attempted there.
Preparations are now in progress and
a big time is looked for.
The Office Of Agent Warner of the
Andrews & Gage elevator at Pingree,
was entered by burglars and $3.50
taken. No clue.
Horse thieves broke into the barn Of
William Pinkham, a farmer living II
miles southwest Of Fessenden, and
stole a valuable horse and four sets
Of harness.
Bathgate city schools will close on
June 1. Prof. Godward has accepted
q position with the Pembina schools
as principal. He is a graduate of
Minnesota university.
The Forman Telephone company
has let a contract to Kemper Peabody
and G. G. Mundahl to extend the pres
ent line from Lisbon to Sheldon via
Buttzville and Enderlin. Work 10
o under way. When the line is
completed this will be n of the best
telephone systems in the state. The
line is now paying a 4 per cent divi-
dend.
At a meeting of. the business men
and farmers Of Abercrombie $1,000
was subscribed as a bonus for a first
class Touring mill of not less than
100 barrels capacity, to be located at
Abercrombie. All bids for this mill
must reach the secretary of the al
vertising committee by May 80. The
committee reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
Neil Mckay. nineteen years old, son
of a farmer living twelve miles from
Wheatland,. was accidentally killed
last night by being thrown from his
pony. He lived several several hours.
Chief Ryan of Grand Forks induced
two young ladies to return to their
homes to-day, They were but little
over fifteen years of age, and left
their homes about two weeks ago.
They first went to Crookston, and
lived, a very rapid life among a certain
class, and it was only q few days ago
that they returned to the city. They
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