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slaughter of the rabble of the big bag
hunters.
No systematic attempts are made to
hunt geese here, as in some of the west
ern states, but with decoys and pits in
the ground properly arranged fine shoot
ing could still be had in many places.
The principal shooting on them now is
on the duck grounds, where they are an
accidental find, as they are so wary that
they steer clear of any place where
there is much noise. While they fire.
quent these grounds in the early stages
of the country, before there is much
shooting, as soon as the gun becomes
too plenty they seek more open coun-
try, where they can see farther. And they
want more open ground over which to
The herald., 1897-12-26

The large hare. or Jack" weighs some
seven pounds, and can run like the wind.
Few things make better sport with the
rifle on ground where one can see the
missing balls strike. and most of them
will be missing, no matter how well you
may shoot. When standing up to look
at you at what he considers a safe dis
tance-and il generally is-his head
makes one of the finest of still marks.
When running. his whole body is fine
enough mark at any distance for single
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the struggle was TO work off on your
companion such old birds q S happened to
be killed. Many quarrel started over
birds that today would raise a riot in
Delmonico's. There was nothing what
ever the matter with the old birds ex-
cept that they needed a little different
cooking. The main trouble was tha.
chickens were so plenty that many did
not care even for the young ones.
1t has been the same in California, and
all over the plains of the west. with hares
of every kind, including the small ones
called cCtton-tais. Wealthy English
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nivorous wherever there is grass or
grain, and on these it becomes very fat.
and is quite equal sometimes to a
turkey. Next to the wild turkey and
the whooping crane or the big white
sandhill. it is the widest bird of Amer
lea and game to the center. 1t once was
very plenty all over Southern Califor-
mia, but it too wary to enjoy much set
tlement and loves the mere open coun-
try. on some OF the larger plains, like
San Jacinto, It may still be found at
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times, and in broad valley, like War
ners ranch, where there is little to dis
turb it, but a special hunt must be made
for it, and to catch one in the ordinary
line of duck hunting would be almost
equal to bagging a bear while hunting
rabbits.
That charming little bird called jack
snipe, Englishsripe or Wilson's snipe
is found here also, fat and saucy ali
winter. But he is the same as every
where else, elratic in his movemo nts.
The herald., 1897-12-26

The Kings Daughters Of Richmond
are to appeal to the Virginia legislature
to suppress the playing of football with
in the limits Of the state. They say the
game should be discountenanced by ev-
cry civilized community.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
WORK OF ~sCOUNDRELs.

Oflce of the Bismarck Settler
Wrecked and Material Destroyed.
The Bismarck Settler Office, owned
by w. p. Moffet, vas wrecked early
Sunday morning by persons unknown,
who went through the place on a
mission Of destruction. Presses, office
materials, books and other portable
and breakable articles were1earried off
and destroyed. Cases OF. type were
taken and hauled away, forms were
pied and the type in them carried off,
and the Office placed hors du combat.
There is no clew to the perpetrators Of
the deed
The destruction of the Office was dis
covered Sunday morning. At the back
door were the tracks of wagon wheels,
where it is supposed some sort Of a
vehicle was backed up and loaded with
the articles that were taken away.
The tracks of the wagon were fol.
lowed Sunday, and it was found that
the office materials that were taken
had been thrown into the river below
the old brewery.
MI. Moffet places his losses at from
$500 to $500. Part of the type was re-
covered, having been fished up from
the river where it was thrown. One Of
Charley Kupitz's delivery wagons was
used to haul the stuff in, having been
taken from where it was left at night
by the persons who hauled the stuff
away, and it was found this morning
to have some remnants of type in it.
ut is also stated that two wagons were
seen early Sunday morning driving in
the direction of the river-probably
the ones in question.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
A QUEER ADDICTION.

South DakOta Man Steals Another
Mans Wife.
Milbank, s. D., Special.-Police JUS
tice Pasco's court has been occupied
two or three days with a sensational
criminal case, in which Ed Larson Of
Blooming Valley township, e Wall
bay, figured as the defendant upon a
warrant sworn out by Robert Mullarky
of the same town, with having unlaw-
fully abducted the wife of the latter
by means Of intimidation and threats
that he Uarson) would kill Mullarky if
the wife ever returned to live with
him. H
Mr.. and Mrs. Mullarky were married
near Watertown, S. d., June IS last.
Larson and Mul]arky were rival Gun
didates for the, favor Of the young lady,
whose maiden name was Rose Larson
and who is about 20 years old She pre-
ferred Mullarky, but in order to racify
Larson she told him that she would
marry him at some future time. After
she and Mullarky were married she re-
manned at work in Watertown until
her husband could complete a new
house which he was building OF his
farm. Larson visited her at Wtaer-
town, and by means of threats. it is
alleged, induced her to accompany him
to his farm, according to her story.
where he secreted her for more than a
week in his granary,aLd finally brought
her to Millbank and tried to induce her
to commence proceedings for a divorce,
which she refused to do.
She finally got home to her husband,
who, upon hearing her story, had Lar
son arrested. Her evidence before the
court was very definite and straightfor-
ward. Larson was bound over to ap-
pear at the next term of the circuit
court, and furnished the required bond.
1t is not charged that he held or at
tempted criminal intercourse with the
woman while she was under his con
troll.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
A SUSPICIOUS DEATH.
A Traveller Dies I'm q Grand Forks
Hotel AftcrAa Quarrel.

A Traveller Dies i'm q Grand Forks
Hotel Aftersa Quarrel.
Grand Forks, N. D., Specialize. 7.
McKoon was found dead, in the bath
room Of a suite at the Hotel Dacotah
under suspicious circumstances. On
the 18th inst. q. White. H. Y. McKoon
and G. G. Lanehart registered at the
hotel from New ork city. They were
together constantly until yesterday, all
drinking considerably. Yesterday Mr..
Lanehart seemed to have fallen out
with his friends, and paid his bill and
quit. Since then he has not been seen.
White ana the dead man occupied the
same room last night, and the occu-
pants of adjoining rooms claim that
there was considerable trouble in the
room, all night between the two men,
who appeared to be quarreling.
White has been held to await an in
vestigation. He claims that the man
came to his death from an overdose
Of opium. A doct9 was called last
night, and left the man better, and the
explanation is that tie drug brought
on heart disease.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
W.
SHAW FOR GOVERNOR.
Iowa Republicans Nominate a State
Ticket.

Iowa Republicans Nominate a State
Ticket.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Specialize
nomination of the Hon. l.. M. Shaw OF
Crawford county as the standard
bearer of the Hawkeye Republicans In
the coming campaign ended one of the
most protracted and interesting con-
tests in the history of Iowa politics.
Almost q dozen active candidates for
the gubernatorial nomination were In
the field, but most of them dropped out
one by one, Mr.. Shaw gaining on each
withdrawal until four ballots had been
taken, when the nomination was made
unanimous. There were spirited but
short-lived contests yer the other Of
fees, and after the adoption without a
dissenting vote of the report of the
committee on resolutions the conven-
ton adjourned sine die. The balance
of the ticket was completed as follows:
Lieutenant governor, J. G. Millman Of
Harrison county; supreme judge Judge
Waterman of Scott county; railroad
commissioner, G. L. Davidson of Sioux
county: superintendent Of instruction,
II. H.. Barrett Of Mitchell county.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
THREATS OF TRIBAL WAR.

Indian Officials Give No Serious Com
alteration to the Reports From
Chelsea.
Washington, Aug. 25.-1ndian offi-
Gals do not give any serious consider
alton to the reports from Chelsea. l.
T., of the threats of tribal war made
by the Keeteowa society Of full
blooded .Cherokees, on account Of the
contemplated reforms for which the
Dawes commission are negotiating.
The members Of the society, who are
intensely hostile to any change what
vel in the present organization of the
nation. are stated to have threatened
personal violence to the members of
the Cherokee commission, who are to
resume negotiations with the Dawes
commission on Sept. 1, in case they
make an agreement. Indian officials
say they realize that there are bitter
feelings among the full-bloods against
allotments and any changes in the
tribal government, but do not antici-
pate any resort to violence on account
of the methods of the government.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
MINNESOTA.
INVENTOR IN LUCK.

w. l.. Williams' Bicycle Sleigh Will
Make Him Rich.
.Winona, Mimi, Special.-W. L. Will
Jams, inventor Of a Iotary bicycle
sleigh, which many people after seeing
the model last winter didn't take any
stock in, is likely soon to be a rich man
as q result of his invention. w. L.
Williams and w. w. Williams and
their attorney, w. j. Smith, have re-
turned from Chicago, where, under the
firm name Of the Williams Rotary
Sleigh company, they have entered. into
a contract with t;.e Manufacturers and
Merchants Warehouse company Of
Chicago for the sale Of the invention.
MI. Williams is to receive for every
sleigh sold by the Chicago firm q royal
ty Of 81 for each steel sleigh, IS cents
for each senior wooden sleigh, and 20
cents for each junior wooden sleigh.
The Chicago company reserve the right
after paying five years royalty to buy
the patent for $4,000. (.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

The British consul general in Japan,
in a recently issued report, states that
lowing to the financial depression in
America, that country has made its ap-
pearance as a serious competitor with
Europe in the supply Of machinery,
rails, nails and pig iron. It. has been
stated that American nails have becn
sold largely in Japan about the end of
1896 at so per cent. lower than prices
current in the United States, and these
goods altogether defed the COMPETE
ton Of German makers, who have hith-
erto held the trade. About 10000 tons
Of American rails were sold to Japan
ct lower prices than British makers
were willing to accept" Another mat
ter Of some importance, and n which
nay have considerable bearing on the
future Of the American iron and steel
trade. is discussed in MI. ,sanderson's
rsport. It is. that thA United States.
not content with its enormous railway
mileage, is providing means for i'm
proving its water caAriage. The exs
.istinx canals, such al the Erie. the
.Champlain. the oswefo. the Black
River. the Cayuga and Seneca. are to
Is Widened and dedpened. Besides
sthis. ! commission Of fRqniry 40 to
dssp-vatsr canals has recently made .
report S.-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
NORTHWE EST NEWS
SWEPT BY. DISEASE.
Terrible State of Affairs In a Nor
Dakota Settlement.

Terrible State of Affairs In a North
Dakota Settlement.
Grand Forks, N. D., Special.-Dr.
Flaten, state superintendent of health,
has returend from Emmons and Nc
Intosh counties, in the southwestern
part of the state, on the Missouri river,
where a serious epidemic Of diphtheria
has ragged among the settlers, chiefly
Russian immigrants. The disease is
now under control, though it was with
the greatest difficulty that the state su-
Ierintendent and his assistants so far
succeeded in combating the customs
of the people as to give them the very
slightest opportunity at the disease.
The locality is far from any railroad,
and DIR. Flaten had to drive 10 miles
to reach the most distant points In the
infected district.
The number of deaths, all within
three weeks, was thirty-nine.. The
number Of cases is estimated at nearly
300. The disease was brought into the
neighborhood through a family of Rus
sian immigrants who came by way OF
Aberdeen. Had the inhabitants been
allowed to continue in their w ways,
all the children would probably have
eventually fallen prey to the disease.
A feature of the epidemic that has
made it difficult for the board Of health
to combat the disease is the apparent
Indifference of the people. They are
fatalists, and have no use whatever for
doctors, and there is not a physician in
either Mcintosh or Emmons counties,
with IN aggregate population Of about
5000 and an area of $500 square miles.
The state superintendent sent physi-
clans among them, however, and by es-
t%ablishing guarantees and heroic eff
forts otherwise, and impeded in every
way by the ignorant and superstitious
settlers, the disease was prevented
from spreading farther.
The two Of leprosy recently
discovered in Walsh county will be
isolated. The, older of the two unfor-
tuHate victims is about As years Of age
and has a wife and six children. He
has had the disease. nov about four
years. The other victim, a young man
Of 25 years, had had symptoms of the
disease only about a year. The cases
in this country are all foreigners, and
there is no case on record where the
disease has been transmitted by con-
tact with any n in this country.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

Pieces Of an unknown man were
picked up along the Northern Pacific
track, east of jamestown. The head
could not be found. The remains were
those of some tramp who was making
his way along the road.
John F.. Brodie of Lehigh has brought
a $4,000 damage suit against the
Great Northern Railway company for
the death of his little son, eighteen
months old, which occurred ut Leligh,
May IS. Mr.. Brodie lives near the
track, and the child al killed by a
passing train.
Benjamin T. Fay, a farmer living
about twenty miles east of New Rock
ford, accidentally shot and killed his
wife recently. 1t cen that they were
to have a chicken for dinner, and MI.
Fay shot and wounded one Mrs. Fay
and her daughter ran around the
house trying to catch it. He was put
ting another shell in to shoot again,
and he tried to close the gun over his
knee. The cartridge exploded, taking
effect in his wife's face, neck and
breast, killing her instantly. Mr.. Fay
is about sixty-fiye years old, and has
been married to his present wife only
a year. He is nearly insane w the
accident.
Reports are coming in from many
parts Of Stutsman county, which re-
port damage by the breaking down of
the stalks. The damage is serious in
some localities. One farmer living near
Jamestown states that where a few
weeks ago. there was every prospect of
a twenty-bushel crop, there is now a
prospect Of no than IL twelve
bushel yield. The destruction by Hes
sian fly, cut worms and aphis lice has
reduced the general average on his
farm fully 25 per cent. The Alliance
Hail association has received reports
Of twenty losses by hail within the
past twenty-four hours, the losses
ranging from 1000 to 5000 bushels.
Most Of the reports are from north
western Eddy county, with a few from
Pembina and Steele counties, and one
from Stutsman county. 1t is believed
these losses are from broken grain,
and a special agent has been put in the
field to examine. No hail losses have
been received for several weeks, and
less than the average for the entire
season.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
Fatal Kick.

Algona, Iowa, Special.-Hugh Black,
one of the oldest and most respected
farmers about here, was found dead
in his hay field. Mr.. Black went out
to rake hay and not long afterward
the team came to the house. Some Of
the family went to the hay field and
found the body. The doctor called dis
covered the imprint Of a horses foot
on his head, and it is supposed that the
team gave a jump, throwing Black in
front of the rake and behind the
horses, one of the horses kicking him
directly on top Of the head, causing
conclusion of the brain and killing him
instantly.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

The president of the American Asso-
citation of Librarians said, in the recent
general conference of that body, that
the number of volumes in the libraries
of this country had more than trebled
since 1876. The chief aus of this
great increase, he said, is a wholesome
growth of public perception of the
value of good books. This fact, even
more than the willingness Of the rich
to found and endow libraries, is a mat.
ter for national satisfaction. Unused
libraries do not speak we'll for theil
pOssessor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
HER SECRET
Actions Speak for Themselves-He VS..
Willing to Read Her Mind.

Actions Speak for Themselves-He Wa
willing to Read Her Mind.
For many years the young woman
had called upon Ulysses. She had
brought him numberless packages Of
choice cigarettes, as we'll as divers
specimens of the more expensive genus
cigar, says the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
She had repeatedly purchased tickets
for various celebrated prize-f1ghts and
after escorting him thither would see
to it that he had plenty of lemon
cream puffs to MUNICH upon during the
intervals of slugging. Many and many
an evening had she assisted him in in
creasing the numerals upon his poor,
hard-wofking mammals coal and gas
bills, and she had cen four several
sets of new springs added to the par
lor sofa. But hitherto she had not
stood up like a-er-woman and bold
ly declared her love for him and re-
quested to be allowed to pay all his
expenses in the future, in considers
ton of his DOMINIC her last name.
But upon this special evening in
question Ulysses had her dead to
rights. It may have. been the witching
golf costume in old gold and baby
blue that he wore or the shy grace with
which he placed his tiny palm in hers.
However. be this as it may, she could
no longer restrain herself, but impuls-
lively threw her arms about his frail,
shrinking figure and drew him tender
" toward her. As her lips rose from
his she lovingly murmured: This kiss
tells you my secret" And Ulysses, al
he. furtively removed some cut plug
from his mouth, found an opportunity
to observe: would you-you-mind-
saying-it-over-again?"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

Mrs. Hattie B. Bemis, a Nebraska
woman, says it is the farmers wives
who really do the work on their hus-
bands acres, while the men reap the
credit and profit. She proposes to give
the gentler sex a chance to "go it
alone" She owns a tract of land in
Dawes and Sioux counties, Neb., which
she intends to give to a cooperative
community of women on condition
that they work it themselves without
the assistance of male farm hands.
She will furnish them with money to
last until the first crop is harvested,
and will guarantee any Indebtedness
they may incur in the purchase of ma
chinery and stock while getting a
start. She already has in mind twelve
women to whom she proposes to give
the land. All are farmers widows and
all are in destitute circumstances. Mrs.
Bemis thinks they deserve assistance,
and is III they will know fully as
well how to go to work as would a like
number of men. She hopes to make
farming popular with women and de-
clares there is no reason why they
should not find it we'll suited to them.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

Welcoming the United Confederate
Veterans to Nashville for their annual
reunion, the governor Of Tennessee
uttered such sentiments as these: "The
hand of secession will never be lifted
up again." "Let the veterans who wore
the gray salute, with uncovered heads,
the national flag; it is the flag of the
i%nseparable Union" anarchy cannot
live on Southern SOIL" Herein is addi-
tional and good evidence that the Civil
Wal is ended. and that the South will
be loyal in the pending conflict of law
and order with the advocates of an
archy and disorder the trusts and the
combines.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

Reports from Hawaii indicate that
the proposed treaty of annexation is re-
ceived by the press there with feelings
of enthusiastic rejoicing. The only
drawback apparent is a feeling of ap-
prehension as to the position of Japan.
The utterances in the Japanese papers
have been of a disquieting kind, and q
certain feeling of %uneasiness has been
created, which appears to be shared by
the official authorities.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

To give money for votes is univer-
sally conceded to be politically immor-
al, but to give office for votes is vastly
worse, says DR.. G. X. Adams. It has
led to the relegation of the Golden Rule
to the rubbish heap of obsolete non-
sense. In the place of the maxim, do
unto others as you would have others
do unto you," it raises aloft the shame
less substitute, "Do up your political
opponent before he has a chance to dc
you up"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
Charged With Btramy.

Lemars. Iowa, Special.-Mr. Devillo
Weeks, a farmer of Sioux township,
was arraigned in Lemars for bigamy.
The complainant, Hester G. Evans
Weeks, says that she married Weeks
in Whitney county, Indiana, in 1884;
that Weeks deserted her after she had
borne him six children; that she came
out to Leeds to visit her sister, Mrs.
Bennett, and heard that her husband
was living with another woman in
Plymouth county. She charges that he
was married to Mrs. Marcella Kellup
at Vermillion in 1896, the woman with
whom he is now living.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04
KILLED BY DEsPERADOEs.
Picnic Party Terrorized by West
virEinian D~esperadOes.

Picnic Party T%errorized by West
virginian Desperadoes.
G%allipolis, Ohio, Aug. 25. Without
provocation a gang of West Virginia
desperadoes swoped down on a picnic
party at Glenwood. 10 miles below
here, and broke up the party by their
orgies. R%evolvers. knives, names,
and clubs were used. The women
tainted and others fed to the hills.
Lew Holley was killed outright and
William Porter and Van Linkf1eld, two
members of the picnic party, were IA
tally stabbed. Alonzo Porter had his
skull fractured and half Of his face
cut off. John Wallace had a part Of
his hand cut off, an eye guouged out
and otherwise injured. The ruffians
were the members Of the Holley band
Of outlaws, and they have killed at
least a dozen men.