The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-06-05
IN NORTH DAKOTA
0Ateresting News Items From all
Parts OF the state.

Parts OF the state.
Three hobos stole some shoes at
Hankinson and got into jail.
A Bismarck store was burglarized
of some pants the other day.
G. A. II. State encampment at Cas-
selton June 8, 10 and II.
Wheatland is to have a new two
story brick hotel.
NJ. NJ. Palmer has been appointed
postmaster at Fort TOtten.
The busted mill dam at Lisbon will
be repaired soon.
The militia encampment grounds at
Devils Lake are being repaired.
Anton Tollestad of Bottineau has
been taken to the insane asylum.
Horse thieves are at work near
HankinsOn.
The Northern Pacific passenger de-
pot at Mandan is being repaired.
Stutsman county got $S,1O3.5 taxes
from. the Northern Pacific.
The sexton at Towner dug up three
Indian skeletons recently, while at
work on a grave
Capt. Badger, Of the United States
army, father Of State Oil Inspector
Badger, is dead.
Charles Sanders fell yer a sack of
merchandise at Grand Forks and
broke four ribs.
The Turtle Mountain Indians have
been holding a medicine" dance. In
dams came for miles to attend.
The Bathgate school directors have
secured the services of the old corps Of
teachers for the city schools.
Actual settlers have purchased 5000
acres of Barnes county soil within the
past thirty days.
Dickinson and Rolla both have petit
lions. before Adjutant General Miller
for the mastering Of a cavalry troop.
Samuel Jones of Power obtains an
original pension, while David Ash Of
Lisbon has an additional granted.
James Barlow, who lives in the town
of Falconer, north of Grand Forks,
was robbed Of $17 by two tramps.
Richard Lamont, the Burleigh coun-
ty jail-breaker. got two years in the
pen" This is his second term.
Walsh county will spend $647.25 in
repairing bridges damaged by high
water.
Nebraska and Iowa cattle buyers
ere securing the southern part of North
Dakota for young stock to ship to
Iowa as feeders.
The store Of v. S. Waldo at Bowes-
mont, Pembina county, was robbed,
the thieves securing about $500 worth
of plumber.
George Wiley of Steele, thirteen
years old, was thrown down and
stepped on by a horse, sustaining a
broken leg.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
will put a crew of 300 men at work in
the near future, repairing the roadbed
between Fargo and OrtOnville.
District court convened at Elendale,
Judge w. 7. Lauder presiding. There
are but three cases on the criminal cal
endar and forty-five on the civil cal
endar.
Mrs. S. T. Satterthwaite, wife of II
of the delegates to the National Re
publican convention, died at Fargo re-
Gently. The remains will be taqen to
st. Clairville, Ohio, for interment.
Prairie fires have been causing some
lively rustling among the farmers near
Medina. Herman Albert had his fire.
break jumped, but managed to save
his home by hard work.
Convicts at the p%enitentiary are be-
ing worked at the capitol on the
streets, and some of them are garden.
ing. Under the anti-convict law they
can no longer be employed in manu-.
featuring after the present contract at
the %penitentiary expires.
Deputy Sheriff Livermore of Bur
leigh county left for Sun Dance, Wyo.,
recently, in charge of Allison Cunning
ham, who is wanted at that place on
the charge of the murder of William
Barnard. The capture was made near
Minot. Cunningham confesses the
crime, which was committed Nov. IL.
The state quartermaster, Col. fuller.
has just received from the quarter
master general Of the United States
army an invoice of supplies and equip
ments. amounting to $3.50. Included
in the invoice. are new uniforms for
the First Regiment. band and a new
regimental silk flag costing about $50.
A man by the name of Brown, an old
gentleman. fell into a ditch and was
.drowLed last Saturday in Pembina
county, just across the line from
Walsh. The ditch was quite deep, and
the old gentleman stopped yer to. dip
up a pail Of water, when he slipped in.
Being quite feeble, he was unable to
get out.
In the district court at Fargo, before
Judge Pollock, the case of the st. Paul
Harvester company VS.. A. H. Lowry
ct al was taken up. The jury returned
q. verdict for plaintiffs in a suit for the
sum Of $1,420.67. The case of the same
company against w. T. Richie was
also taken up. but the jury in this case
returned a verdict for the defendant.
1t is getting to be a daily occurrence
to see strings Of covered wagons trav.
cling to towns in the James river val
ley. Seven outfits Of South Dakota
Germans passed through Jamestown
in one day recently, and some almost
every day this month. They are
bound for the upper James river val
ley and free government lands in the
Mouse river region.
Chief of Police Best, Patrolman Mar.
tinson and ex-Patrolman Trichler of
Fargo have been summoned to Sioux
Falls to testify in the ase Of the gov
eminent against ]. p. Carroll, who is
charged with robbing the p%ostoffice at
that place. Ex-Ald. Laiiy is in Sioux
Falls to establish an alibi for Carroll.
by t%estifying that he was in Fargo at
the time Of the robbery, and represent
ativpS Of the cikv's denartmpnt of