The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-02-29

A little less snow would suit the
cattle men out West better just now.
Bismarck has just had a Mother
Goose entertainment.
Fargo's diamond robbery has been
settled.
G. A. r. posts are already securing
their Memorial day orators.
Edinburg, Walsh county, blind pigs
got it in the neck last week
Lcola is another Dickcy county
town after q creamery.
The Great Northern Express com"
pany has put in free delivery ut III
lcndale.
The school census Of Burleish u
ty shows 1856 children of school age
in the county.
A Tower City party built q smoke
house that worked SO wei the Whole
business went up in smoke.
The Salvation armies Of the state
are all meeting with success in their
winter campaigns.
The number of cattle In Dickcy
county has increased 100 per cent dur
ing the past two years.
A Jamestown man will try shipping
North Dakota bred horses to North
Carolina.
The Sargent county emigrants to
Virginia are sick, and will come back,
when they can.
A Barnes county man died from can
Ger in the face caused by the use of
tobacco.
The Val Blatz Brewing company is
erecting a cold storage plant at Bis
marck.
The meeting Of the state dairymen's
association at Lisbon was a big sue
cess.
Walsh county has 6,163 school chill
dren, an increase for the year of 23S;
and Grafton, 700, and increase Of III.
An angry parent at Grandin sued
the teacher for whipping his boy, but
the wielder Of the rod was sustained.
A pusillanimous critter at Wahneton
carved up q $45 overcoat Of q guest at
a church social.
Cakes academy Of music IL nearing
completion and is said to be a,splen-
did structure. n
G. w. White, interpreter at Fort
Il OllG4A, W10 1A1dAA FCU"SV AAS ~
Bender last week.
The Grafton blind piggers are en-
deavoring to prove that they only
sold malt.
Emmons county has $4,000 in its
treasnry-SS.OOO Of which is in the
Capital National Bank of Bismarck.
The right of way from Grafton to
Park River for the telephone line has
been secured.
Grafton's school children keep in
creasing at a rate most satisfactory to
the immigration agents.
Ransom, county has four official
papers this year-all there are in the
county.
Judge Rose Of jamestown has
called a grand jury for duty next
week.
The Odd Fellows at Lisbon are al
ready arranging for the grand lodge
meeting in June.
A special term of the Ransom coun-
ty district court will convene at Lis
bon March 16.
The North Dakota Enforcement
league has been attending to blind
pigs at New Rockford.
Two young E%nglishmen have pur-
chased 16O acres Of land on the Shey-
enne river, lear Lisbon, where they
will make their home.
Dan Ringer, while en- route from
Jamestown to Chicago with a car load
Of sheep, fell from a freight a and
his recovery is doubtful.
Charles e. Allen, Of the Enderlin
Journal, has purchased the Hope Pho
neer and will moye his family there
April ].
In his latest experiments Edison Is
said to have discovered a process Of
hardening aluminium, making it as
hard as steel.
A Jamestown man sued for $50 and
got q verdict of Sligo, and must pay
the costs, which were $38.25, besides
his attorneys fees.
A sporting club at Bismarck con
templates importing some quail and
placing them in the timber along the
river.
Dickey county's immigration board
may have 10000 extra copies of each
of the five papers of that county is
sued for immigration purposes.
Hon. Tom McHugh Of Grafton has
gone to California for his health, ex-
pecting to return in time, however,
to take part in the campaign.
Stockmen in the western counties
will form a company to buy young
stock and prepare them for the
choicest markets.
The attorneys in the Gillespie muir
der case at Langdon examined sixty
ben before they succeeded in getting
q jury.
Diphtheria has been prevalent at
Williston for the past three weeks,
but is being stamped out. All who
have been afflicted are getting well.
A dividend Of % per cent distributes
about $1,000 among the creditors of
the North Dakota Independent Pub
fishing company.
Judge Cochrane and III. b. Doughty
are defending Gillespie at Langdon,
while the states attorney has the as
sistance of Counselor Young e Penn
bina county. :.