The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-04

A town on the Great Northern has
been named after Mark Hanna.
n Fargo dealer was arrested for run
ming a Slot machine, but the case was
dismissed.
1t is stated that beds Of valuable clay
have been discovered in Barnes Oun
ty.
Harry Ferguson fell into a thirty
foot we'll at Milton and was badly, al
though not fatally, injured.
Logan county accepts the PROPOSE
ton Of the Northern Pacific for settle
ment Of taxes.
A. G. Oml;d, a Grand Forks county
farmer, died on shipboard, while re-
turning from q trip to Sweden.
The four men sentenced from La
Moure county to the pen are doing
time.
A ten-year-old Wells county boy was
accidentally shot through the head and
killed while out hunting gophers.
KilHer's store at Dawson vas robbed
recently, mostly Of shoes. Fifty pairs
were taken. No arrests.
Harry Hurley expects to thresh out
eighteen bushels of wheat to the acre
Al SOuASJ
Carl G. Keppler sues the Red River
Valley National Bank at Fargo for
$4,000 personal damages.
Miss Pretson has completed an ex-
tensive tour Of the state in the inter-
ests of the w. G. T. U.
A large amount of horse stealing is
being done in the western part Of Nor
ton county.
An artesian we'll has been sunk near
Hillsboro that is said to flow 5000 bar
rels daily.
Work on the buildings at the fair
grounds has begun and will be rushed
at Jamestown.
Ramsey county comes to the front
with an agricultural association with
q capital stock of $1,000.
The wind and rain has helped the
crops in Stutsman county by destroy
ing the plant lice that have been doing
damage.
Horse thieves are operating around
Larimore. Two horses were stolen out
Of the pasture on the farm Of III. f.
Arnold recently.
Walsh county commissioners have
taken the precaution to have the sup
posed lepers isolated, and have en-
gagged nurses for them.
While unloading some machinery at
Fargo a casting weighing over $40
pounds dropped On Billy Harris foot,
crushing it terribly.
-Four Of the blind-piggers Of Minot
have been arrested and bound yer to
the district court; three others skipped
cut.
Charles Queen, the Enderlin blind
pigger, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to pay $500 and languish 10
days in the county Jail.
Wild geese are breeding in large
numbers in various parts of the state.
The season has certainly been a pro-
pitious one for all web-footed critters.
Eight Trail county farmers are suing
q Duluth commission firm for $4,000,
for wheat that is said to have been
nlisuSed.
D. G. Boyd of Rolla recently met
with a most serious accident, being
thrown from a horse and rendered un-
conscious for two days.
States Attorney johnson has vjgor-
ously prosecuted the cases against the
blind piggers at Minot, and several of
them have been bound over.
Maj. William Camp Of Pembipa is
dying from paralysis. He is n of
the Oldest settlers in that vicinity, and
q brother-in-law-of the late Gen. Han
cock.
An explosion in the 500 Coal mine
at Minot was caused a few days ago
by the carrying of a lighted lamp into
the mine. George Egan was SO badly
burned that he died, and Ed AM q
teamster, was also badly injured.
Mr.. Simon Johns Of Portland, Trail
county, a graduate of the. state mi
versity class Of '95, has been appointed
by State Superintendent Halland as a
clerk in the department Of public in
struction at Bismarck.
In July, at the Devils Lake Chautau-
qua, a state federation of women's
clubs was organized. Delegates from
the different women's clubs of the
state met at Fargo and arranged q
programme for the first annual meet
ing to be held in October.
The total value of the personal prop
erty in the state, as returned by the
county boards of equalization this
year, is $2O,877,448 There r 37,749
| persons assessed, and 1854 school
polls returned.
Mary Sundt, a Norwegian girl twen-
ty-three years of age, who has been in
| this country for a year, was assaulted
by Charles Mccormack, at Larimore.
He hired her as a cook and started
with her for his farm, when he as
saulted her. Mccormack has been ar-
rested and bound over to the district
court in the sum of $500.
Three business places at Devils Lake
were raided by burglars. At Estes
saloon, they broke open the cash regis
ter and took $40. From Branchfiewer
e. Haslam's clothing store some un-
derw'ear was taken. At Fox's meat
market a small sum Of money was &C.
cured from the register. The chief Of
rolice has arrested John Sweeney, a
barber, on suspicion that he was on
nccted with the affair, his shoes fitting
into the footprints leading from the
places.