The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-03-13
IN NORTH DAKOTA
I%nterestinE News Items From ALI
Parts Of the State.

LidgerWOOd'S flour mill opened NJ
again last week.
Sargent county has $4,000 cash OIL
hand.
The Grafton roller mills have shut
down.
%Icelanders have erected Il hall ut
Grafton.
4 wholesale hardware store will he
established at Grand Forks.
Mrs. Margaret Thompson Of Hunter
fell from Il sleigh and broke her arm
Williston trustees will begin building
sidewalks for that town i'll the spring.
The survey for Bismarck's military
pest near Mald1n is still progressing.
Lena Hagan has been appointed post
master ut Walcott. in Richland county.
4. special 0rga nicer is instituting Odd
Fellows lodges in Stark county.
Christine Nelson Of Grand Forks has
been adjudged insane.
Ia grippe is quite generally prevail
ing throughout the state, and in many
localities, fatal.
A Nelson county farmer lost thirty
five turkeys through the depredations
of wolves.
E@Gov. Shortridge's son, Gus. will
go into the grain business ut Duluth
with his father.
The Andrews-Gage elevator burned
at Drayton, 10000 bushels of wheat
burning .
Work will be commenced in a few
days on the Valley City telephone sys-
tenn.
Michael Kcelay fell from a box Il in
the Grand Folks yards. He was Sc
vercly bruised.
Portland found it necessary to add
another room for It's winter term OF
school.
Robert Coulter has been paid $1,000
by the Great Northern in full settle
ment Of the famous Coulter ease.
A man by the name Of Hunter is
under arrest at Lidgerwood. charged
with stealing fifty bushels of flax.
Thomas O"Toole. who was frozen in
a. recent blizzard, had the toes Of both
feet amputated at Grand Forks.
Anton Konia, of Jamestown, is under
arrest charged with burning Il neigh.
boris buildings.
Attorney n. G. Young of Pembina
county, it is said, has not fixed def
nitely upon his new point of location.
Johnson and Lyngved's store at Rut-
land was b%urglarized $25 worth.
Articles Of incorporation Of the Pres
byterian church 1T Courtney have been
filed with the secretary Of state.
Some one put out poison for wolves
near Oberon and nearly all the dogs
in the locality have given up the ghost.
Rev. Joseph Zimmerman, formerly Of
Tower City. died very suddenly at
Groton, S. D.
John Dahl of Milton has been arrest
ed. charged with %assaulting l. l. Often
with a knife.
Since the new board Of university and
school lands took hold of things about
$4,000 has been loaned to school town.
ships.
Wimbledon will have a mock conven-
ton and inaugurate another state adj
ministlation to rival the one now at
Bismarck.
The reform school sentence on Theo.
Bergsland of Grafton has been sus-
pended that he may care for an aged
mother.
Judge Pollock gave the five Cass
county wheat thieves sentences of
twelve and eighteen months, according
to degree Of %culpability proven.
Methodists up at Knox. Benson coun-
ty, are making a quilt to be sold at
auction, the proceeds to go toward
building a church.
A number of cases of typhoid fever
are reported from Drayton and in three
cases the result is from using Red river
water for drinking purposes.
A little Rugby girl in passing a pail
Of boiling water caught her dress Oh
the pail and overturned it, receiving Il
very severe scalding. -.
The Mandan board Of education asks
authority to refund $1,000 Of warrants,
which are now bearing 8 per cent in
terest and which the board thinks can
be placed for 4.
Richland county has closed the long
est continuous term Of court in its his
tory. having been in continuous session
without q break one month and one
day.
Mrs. Laura J. Eisenhuth is studying
law in an office at Darlington. She is
said to expect to complete her study in
the summer and will then begin prac-
tiee.
The wife OF Ole Bostram, a Sargent
county farmer, suddenly left her home
and Il family Of small children last
week and is supposed to have frozen to
death on the prairie.
Supt. Jackson of Pembina county has
the distinction Of having been longest
in continuous service Of any county
superintendent in the state. His pres
ent term will make fifteen years of
service. Superintendent Fox Of Cava-
lier county ONE second with ten
years of service.
Matt We'll Of Lisbon lost a team of
horses by freezing. In the night dur
ing 4 storm the stable door blew open
and the horses were so deeply covered
with snow the poor animals persisted
and q third horse was badly frost
bitten.
The Nelson county Young Mems Re-
publican league held its annual meeting
at Lakota. All the old officers were re-
elected: A. J.. Gronna, president; Il. J.
Gardiner, secretary; ]. p. Martin, treas
urer. There was a good attendance,
and several new members were admit
ted.
On. February 18th Williston was Wis
tied by one Of the worst blizzards of
the season, and February 10th about
five inches of snow fell again. The
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