The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-04-11
IN NORTH DAKOTA.
EAterestin9 News Items From al
Parts Of the State.

stantly of heart disease.
f. P. Young is made postmaster at
Leal, Farnes county.
A jamestown lady won a 1925 dia-
mond ring in a rattle.
The contract for Burton's new $1,000
| school house has been let.
The ice is going out of the Missouri
at Bismarck, the earliest since '7S.
J. M. Devine will be Decoration day
orator at Mayville.
jamestown wants Bismarck to have
| the firemen's tournament.
Rev. T.. G.. Bailey of Cakes is dead
and the Methodist church mourns.
Young vandals smashed those new
street lamps at Willow City almost
as soon as they were put up.
A man named Michaels will start q
15O-barrel flour mill on Beaver Greek
in Emmons county.
A restoration, reissue and increase
of pension has been granted to Wei
come L. Pattison, deceased, of Darcy.
A lamp explosion fired q Fargo resi-
dence, hut the fire department headed
it of.
o. L. Anderson of Wahpeton is in
Jail, charged with the paternity Of a
child Of Miss Olava johnson.
Williston ranchers report stock as
having gone through the winter in
the best shape for many years. e
John Paulson was acquitted at Fes-
sender of the charge of shooting his
fn~ther-in-law.
Two car loads of Dunkards will To-
| cate in Wells county on Northern Pa
| cifc lands.
A Dickey county young lady fell out
| of q cart and was kicked by the horse,
sustaining sever injuries.
A young mems Populist league has
been organized at Glendale with twen-
ty-five members.
Bismarck fremen are taking active
steps to secure the annual tourna-
ment.
Railroad and postofice officials at
Larimore are scrapping, over the mat
ter Of whose duty it is to carry the
mail to and from the depot.
John Webb Of Cavalier had a nar-
row escape from death from an ell
ragged stallion but escaped with a brok-
en- leg and dislocated arm.
One Dickey county farmer fired at
another but the bullet went between
the legs Of the intended victim and q
tragedy was averted.
Gov. Allin has appointed DR.. Robert
III. Treacy of Kidder county member
| of the state board of medical eXamin-
ers for the term of three years.
| lxy:1r:,-. NF:1Io- n1d %;-~ No,,t1,
Dakota newspaper man, was arrested
ut Grand Forks for breaking a show
case, and will be examined as to his
sanity.
The Great Northern superintendent
has received a report showing the loss
by fire of the Larimore depot to be
$1,4S22, exclusive of the value Of the
freight destroyed.
Secretary Smith has approved as
basis for patent Northern Pacific rail-
road list No. 80, embracing 114,968
acres. and list No. 33, embracing 49,
978 acres in Bismarck land district.
Fred Ritz turned in a false alarm
at Mandan. The boys didn't do a
thing to him, and after a swift foot
race Ritz was taken before q justice
and assessed $40 and costs.
Five Breckenridge toughs pounded
a Wahpeton man with a coupling pin.
A broken fange caused a wreck
north of Edinburg. Five cars of wheat
were ditched. No one was hurt.
The Diclqey county %creamery's an
nual report shows nearly 5000 cash
received for sale of products, paying
for milk some $500, help $1,000, ex-
penses $500, and over $1,000 on origi-
nal investment.
The programme for the Devils Lake
Chautauqua assembly is out. The ex-
ercises will begin July 1 and continue
thirteen days. Many speakers of ma
tional reputation have been engaged
and the musical programme is strong.
1t is announced that the state en-
campment will be held IN the state
militia grounds at Devils Lake July 8
and 10, and that Col. .Creel had the
ground cleared and put in excellent
shape for the e~ncampment.
Attorneys w. Armstrong of WASH
ington and Frank Palmer of Fort Tot
ten are at R0lla making arrangements
whereby the Turtle mountaiA band Of
dO W4AA 4ONSAvS PASVVVSVOV o0U
other gerquisites.
P.e1 Morgan, member of the house
froAsApMa |e First legislative district, Penn
biT2& unty, has sent in his resignation
to We effect at once. He has been re-
Gently appointed deputy collector of
customs at the port Of Niche, and the
two conflict under the state constitu-
ton.
Louis Sitting Bull, now under in
dictment at Bismarck for q heinous
crime, has been removed from the
hospital to the county jail, the federal
government refusing to pay for the
necessary guards and nursing. His
trial will take place in Fargo at the
May term of the United Ctates court.
The layman's committee Of the Cath.
Ollie church Of North Dakota met with
Bishop Stanley recently and decided
to hold the second annual laymen's
convention May 27-28. The convention
last year did much to advance the
cause in the state. The convention
will meet in the opera house in Fargo.
The special term Of the district
court at Lisbon came abruptly to q
close Just in time to save many Of the
Jurors, litigants and their attorneys
from serious illness, it 10 said. The
room used for holding the court il
lily ventilated, with q law ceiling, and
only q make-shife of a court room.
The last legislature passed a law au-
<horinin~ oo,1nfu commissioners RI co.