The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-08-21
IN NORTH DAKOTA
G~nteresting News Items FROM all
Parts OF the State.

Mrs. s. S%orenson Of Buxton died of
heart disease.
Twenty-Five business houses are be.
ing erected at Walhalla.
Recent rains have injured the hay
crop in Dickey county.
J. d. Barnes, an old resident of Fos-
ter county, is dead.
A 12,OOO-bushel elevator will be
erected in Glen Ullin.
North Dakota elevator rates will be
less this year than last.
A Monarch elevator is being erected
on the site Of the one recently de-
stroyed by fire ut Lisbon.
Matthew Petersen, living fifteen
milesh Of Fargo, dropped dead in the
hay field.
A number of cur loads Of cattle are
billed to be shipped through from
Dickinson.
Mis-. H. S. Oliver was quite badly In
jured at Lisbon by a fall from her BIZ
cycle.
One hundred and fifty teachers are
land county.
The enforcement league has collect
ed 500 at Leeds to be used in getting
evidence against the blind pigs.
There is much interest in the north
ern part of the state over the reported
discovery of gold in Cavalier county.
State Game Warden Bowers has ap-
pointed sixty special deputies, and will
appoint forty more.
Grafton authorities have bought q
potato patch and two hoes for the ben
eft of hungry w%ayfarers.
Stark county commissioners have
contracted with q Minneapolis firm for
$1,000 worth of steel bridges.
Mayville people kick on the absence
of clothing noticeable when bathers
disport in the lake in the city park.
One pack of hounds at Williston has
caught over $500 worth of wolves so
far this season.
Ainsworth, the painter, who at
tempted to commit suicide at Bisbee,
will recover.
Douglas Parks, an escaped prisoner
from the state p%enitentiary of Michi-
gan, was captured in La MOure coun-
ty.
LIZ d. O1CllNIuSOA VI 01Auu YIN
has bought $4,000 worth Of real prop
erty in Grand Forks, and will erect q
business block
Jacob Knoll and wife of Little Heart,
Morton county, have decided ten acres
of land to Bishop Stanley for a church
building.
The property of d. II. Buttz, q farm
er of Buttsville, has gone into the
hands Of q receiver. There are many
creditors.
Judge Amidon has decided not hold
the adjourned May term during the
first week Of September, as had been
announced.
The little daughter of Date Berlin Of
| Wimbledon fell into an open well and
broke her arm, the second child to re-
ceive q similar fall within the past
month.
Judge Amidon rendered q decision
favorable to the sale Of the James
town & Valley City mills Of the Rus
| sell Miller Milling company, to E. p.
Wells of jamestown.
For a public park in Grafton, Stok.
ke's grove of ten acres, for $4,000, and
Hon. Charles Ebbinhausen's grove,
thirteen and one-half acres for $1,6S7,
hre offered the purchasing committee.
G. w. Koerner has become chief own
er of the Cakes roller mills. The
property is at present in the hands Of,
q receiver, but will be turned over to1
the new firm for about $4,000.
A Mcintosh county farmer killeds1
snake four feet in length and iv@
Inches around the body, and in the
snake were ninety little snakes, all
alive and wiggling.
Veterinarian Mackin of Mandan will
endeavor to collect 81 per head and
expenses from Indians who have
brought horses to the state from Mon
tana.
A twelve-year-old boy living near
Langdon endeavored to kill q snake
with a shot gun, and the charge en-
tered his leg, which may have to be
amputated.
Pembina county has organized an in
surance company, and $4,000 worth OF
insurance has been applied for. This
is $4,000 more than the law requires,
and articles of Incorporation will be
applied for at once.
Hancock Bros. Of Fargo will super
intend the building of the hospital for
the North Dakota soldiers home at
Lisbon. t will cost about $1,000 and
accommodate about fifteen men and
ten women patients.
Mrs. j. M. Smith, residing near
| Grand Forks, has been in correspond
ence with attorneys who claim she is
one Of the heirs of Capt. Matt Cleve-
land, who died in the English navy,
leaving a large fortune. Mrs. Smiths
share is modestly put at $250,0OO.
DR.. DeBarge Of Grafton was called
to visit a family living twelve miles
west of Edinborg,, and found two
cases of disease which he pronounced
hprosy. The patients are young men,
one married and the other single, both
Scand:navians.
Con Malloy, employed on the streets
at Fargo, was found dead at his home
on the North Side. He had been on q
protracted drunk, and it is believed he
drank poison in a .fit Of desperation.
No post-mortem will be held, in COM
pliance with the request Of the dead
mans family.
Tie state board has completed its
consideration Of real property and
| made O reduction in values through
out the state that will aggregate prob
ably S 10000 900. The largest decreases
have been made in the counties in the
central and western parts Of the state.
In the Red river valley lands have