The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-12-04
NORTH DAKOTA

mud otherwise improved.
Wheat thieves are causing trouble
In the vicinity of Hamilton.
Selah j. Barnes Of Gilby is a new
pensioner.
State Examiner Langlie has filed his
annual report with the governor. =
Stutsman county will raise next
year b ytaxation, 10000.
Several new coal mines are being
opened in the yicinit yof Minot.
A yield Of 80 bushels of potatoes to
the acre is reported from Fessenden.
Thomas Hart, Jamestown, got three
years in the penitentiary for burglary.
Stock shipments are reported from
the new town Of Hannah.
Matt Walsh, a popular n. P. conduct
or, is dangerously i'll at Fargo.
Government work on the Big Muddy
at Mandan has closed for the season.
W. j. Hoskins has received his COM
mission as postmaster at Rolla.
Fred Thompson, a Great Northern
brakeman, had his hand crushed while
making a coupling at Gran dForlss.
The. Mandan Library association
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books.
The recent Episcopal convocation
was the sixth in the history Of the
diocese.
1t is rumored that Park River is
OOH to have a we'll equipped electric
light plant.
James Weeks of Bathgate lost a
quantity of hay by a prairie fire III
week.
Work on the power house for the
city electric light plant has begun at
Casselton.
Sheriff Dahl prevented a prize fight
being pulled off in the vicinity Of La
kota.
The postofice at Dogden, Mclean
county, has been discontinued. Mail
will go to Velva.
Sylvester Hill and George Foster,
both of Fargo, have been granted pen
sions.
The Mandan band has secured the
services of w. r. Green, formerly
bandmaster at Cornell university.
A bunch of scab-intected sheep are
ranging between Tioga and White
Earth.
The Northern Pacific offers a spe-
cial feed rate for North Dakota and
Montana stockmen.
Fire was discovered in the Sheldon
roller mills, which was extinguished
before any serious damage was done.
The Valley City school ma'ams took
in $42 with taeir school-plano, chick
en-ple supper.
Several blind-piggers have been sen
fenced at Lisbon, and several other
bound over to the district court.
A new bridge at Fishtrap will ena-
BILE the farmers to market their wheat
at Walhalla-
The Grand Forks Gas and Electric
Light company declined to furnish
bids for lights, as requested by the
city council.
Senator Rourke has withdrawn his
resignation as states attorney of
Ransom county, in consideration of an
increase Of salary Of 40 per cent.
J. Christopherson is to erect q 50x67
two-story block in Mayville, with a
pressed brick front and brown stone
trimmings.
Attorney Mark Wilson of Fessenden,
a popular member Of the Republican
state committee, is i'll with typhoid
fever.
Rev. M. G. Hansen of Grand Forks,
pastor of the Lutheran church there,
has been elected president Of the Luz
<heran seminary at Red Wing, MINI.
Bathgate E%piscopalians are making
arrangements to erect a rectory, and
wirk will be commenced in the near
future.
Albert Palmer Of Crosier has been
granted q pension; George N. Stark OF
Cooperstown a reissue, and Mrs. Caro-
line Cramer, a Widows pension.
]. w. Watson of Park River, collect
or for the Singer Sewing Machine
company, was held up by masked men
and robbed of $3.50.
Ed STEVENSON, an Icelander, In
Walsh county, is under arrest, on the
of the same family.
A pupil in the public school at Far
20 has died Of diphtheria, and steps
have been taken by the authorities to
prevent a spread of the disease. .
Three churches, some half-doZen
good dwelling houses and one good
hotel, the Merchants, ar eamong the
improvements noticed at Leeds for the
present season.
The city council Of Jamestown is
considering the possibility of licens-
ing various trades, professions and &C.
equations in that city for the purpose
of raising revenue for the city.
A farm house near Lisbon, occupied
by Frank Babcock and family, was
destroyed by fire. Mrs. Babcock and
three children barely escaped with
their lives.
Henry eraser, the Courtenay blind
pigger, pleaded guilty, and got ninety
days in Jail and $500 fine, and, in de-
fault of the money, he will serve 100
days in Jail.
Lena Hanson will be tried in the
United States court at Grand Forks
for opening letters belonging to a
namesake and ~abstracting their con.
tents.
George Garrison, a Fargo barber,
has been held to the district court,
charged with going through the pock-
cts Of q customer while shaving him
and relieving him of $50.
There are 1869 pensioners residing
in North Dakota, who drew from the
government last year $222,92O; 4,7O3
in South Dakota, drawing $623,O3O per
annum.