The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-06-19
lnterestinH news Items From all
Parts Of the State.

strengthening is in progress in the
western part of the state.
Schools about the state are selecting
teachers for the ensuing year.
A train-load Of Russian immigrants
have arrived at Kuhn.
Eight o. ten glandcred horses were
shot ct Finley last week.
Emmons county pioneers will picnic
June 10.
Ohio parties will locate a big stock
ranch in Logan county.
A. lodge of NJ. A. w. has been organ
tied at Nash, Walsh county.
A tombstone weighing half a ton fell
on a Valley City drayman. His collar
bone vas broken.
Philip Gotta, charged with the murder
Of Charles Densmore. has jumped his
bonds and disappeared.
AL Posey of Devils Lake has been ar
rested, charged with stealing nine head
Of cattle.
Over 100 land entries were made in
the Bismarck district during the month
IF May. y
Senator McGillivray of Dickinson gets
tile coal contract for the jamestown
asylum.
The rain struck the James river val
ley Just in time to save the crops from
the blighting effects Of frost.
The G. A: r. post at jamestown will
try to get one of the condemned siege
guns from the general government.
A crippled boy at Bisbee appealed to
tile authorities for protection from ILL
frpotn.nnt from his mother.
The Barnes County w. c. T. U. will
Leal, June 16 and II.
Fred Hidden dropped dead at a farm
near jamestown from the rupture of a
blood-vessel.
j. r. Ireland, the Great Northern
agent at OsanobrocA, is $3.50 short, and
has decamped.
the railroad commissioners will
make their annual inspection Of the
railroads in June.
The Hillsboro starch factory wants
100000 bushels of potatoes to start on
pext fall.
Bixby, the jail-breaker and alleged
housc-burner Of Washburn, has been
recaptured.
The Great Western elevator at Lis
bon, which burned last year, is to be
rebuilt in time for the fall crop.
Normand has pleaded not guilty to
the charges brought against him, and
Tracy Bangs will conduct the case.
The schedule of the affairs Of the
North Dakota Milling company shows
assets of $4,000 and liabilities Of
S111,OOO.
s. II. Dixon of Bismarck has been
brought back from Montana to explain
the charge of adultery preferred by his
wife.
Mayor Dinnie Of Grand Forks has re-
ceived checks for 5000 to pay for the
relief of food sufferers en- the Dakota
side Of the river.
w. l.. Pike of Dickey county, who
was taken to the asylum a few weeks
Ego to be treated Cor insanity, is dead
of acute mania.
A sad accident was the death of the
Mrs. A. p. Bennett of Harvey. by the
falling Upon her of a barn door.
The man who sold whisky to the In
diaEs charged with the Spicer murders
has served his sentence of two months
in Jail and returned to Winona.
Two hundred horses were stolen from
the ranges near .Williston the past
week. There is work for a vigilance
committee.
Two jamestown brothers are under
arrest, charged with %assaulting an
Cakes man, with intent to do great bod
lily harm.
lightning killed four valuable horses
belonging to Orlando Johnson of Val
ley City, the valuable Hambletonian
stallion Patchen Wilkes being among
the number.
Secretary Alger has relieved the
minds of Bismarck people. and told
them work on the fort had been sus-
pended for lack of funds, but that it
would be completed as soo as the
money was in sight.
Al the recent session Of the supreme
court a number of petitions for rehear-
ing were heard, and all were denied
but one. The exception was what is
known as the McGill fax case from
Fargo.
Ernest Kerr, living "a Milton, was
standing neal a threshirg engine when
suddenly the steam began to escape.
frightening his horses. They plunged
forward and knocked the boy down.
Running over him, a wagon wheel
struck him on the breast and head,
crushing the skull and killing him in.
stantly.
There will be a Woman's Day ut the
Devils Lake Chautauqua this year. on
July 9th, when the different societies
of the state have been invited to have
one of their national speakers present.
Miss Paige of Fargo will be the violin
list of the occasion, and Miss Maude
Pratt Of Minneapolis will render several
.whistling solos. Among the speakers
are Mrs. ELLA, Knowles Haskell. assist
ant attorney general of Montana; Mrs.
Eva Mcdonald Valcsch, Of the Mime
| apolis Tribune, who has spent a year
in Europe studying the labor question;
DR.. Cora Smith Eaton, formerly Of
Grand Forks; Mrs. Clara G. Hoffman,
one Of the national w. G. T. u. organic
| ers, and Mrs. Eunice Melville, editress
| of the National Rebekah.. Miss Marie
B. Sem, teacher of, domestic economy
in the state agricultural college and
lately appointed vice president Of North
Dakota for the National Household
! Economic association. will be at the
Chatauqua and conduct a class In DEM
o%nstrative cooking for the week follow
ing Woman's Day.