The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-05-15
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting Jews Items From all
Parts of the state.

The first prairie fire or the season Is
reported nea Williamsport.
A West Point examination will be
held at Grand Forks on June 3.
DR.. Smythe of Bismarck has been ap..
pointed physician for Burleigh county.
Two bootleggers have been arrested
at Wheatland.
George ii. Fay is the new city at
torney of Cakes.
Rolette county is advertising for
school teachers.
Herbert Roots $4,000 damage suit
against Judge Rose has been dropped.
A Barnes county farmer has a hen
that lays eggs weighing five ounces.
Paul Dupash, wanted at Neche for
robbery, was arrested at Hillsboro.
The st. Thomas driving park was
recently damaged by high wind.
Alex. Waite was held to the district
court charged with illegal voting at
LarimOre.
A lot of hoboes got into Il drunken
row at Bismarck and i dozen were
dangerously wounded.
C. Il. v. Draper has been appointed
coroner Of Morton county in place OF
Z. Gilbert, deceased.
The fiend who fired the Mooney Il
McHugh elevator at LangdOn is being
rounded up.
Troop b, First Battalion Cavalry,
located at BOttineau, were Inspected
by Inspector General Creel last week.
The First National bank of Minot,
sus pended, will shortly pay it's depos-
itors Ii per cent.
The Grafton roller mills have orders
for five cars Of flour from Glasgow,
Scotland.
A rev Lutheran church is to be
erected near Bottineau this spring.
The cost will be $1,000.
Ole Wagle, a farmer. was drowned
while fishing in the mill pond Mt Vail
ley City.
James Nelson has been appointed
agent for the Great Northern at Devils
Lake.
Two young men of jamestown have
been sent tt the pcnitentiary i'll o
isiana for robbery.
Valley City will vote May Sd on the
proposition Of issuing bonds to build
an electric light plant.
John johnson of Meckinock, Grand
Forks county, is the father OF triplets,
two boys and a girl.
An effort will be made to secure a
pardon for Kalinsky, the Bottineau
county wife murderer.
Il. NJ. Black, professor of Greek and
mathematics at the Wahpeton college,
has been engaged as principal OF II
Hamilton schools.
A burglar tried to get in his work Mt
C%rawford's store in Nechc. but was de-
tected before he accomplished his pur-
pose.
Percy Smith, the brakeman who's
hand was crushed between the cars at
Rolla last week, is doing we'll and will
not lose his hand.
Ducks are reported as very plentiful
in the vicinity Of jamestown, and the
sDortsmen are looking forward to Il
great, season.
DIR. James Adair of Lisbon, who has
been connected with the National
Guard for some years, died in Maine
a few days ago.
Erard Wooster will sue Ed. Holland
of Burleigh county for $4,000 damages
LUZ CuVSlLS 1AAS AAS0I VA
horse stealing.
Rolla will hold a special election on
May Is for the purpose of voting on
the proposition of rebonding the school
district.
An A. o. U. w. lodge was organized
at Sheyenne last week by Grand Mas
ter Joy Of Hamilton-with fifteen char
ter members.
An ordinance was passed by the city
council of Devils Lake last week by
which dealers in cigarettes will be
compelled to pay 500 license to sell
them
The city council of Bismarck has au-
thorized the purchase of six balls and
chains to be used on city prisoners,
who are to be put to work on the
streets.
A Logan county farmer traded horses
with a n%eighbor, and not liking i
bargain, traded back at night without
the others consent The sheriff has
his case in hand.
c. A. Birdseye, one of the largest
farmers in Dickey county, lost his en-
tire last years crop Of grain by a
prairie fire. The grain was still i'll the
stack, he being unable to get it thresh-
ed on account of the early winter.
The young son of Erick Olson, living
about ten miles southwest Of Minor,
was playing with other children near
his home and fell, breaking n of his
legs below the knee. DR.. J. ID. Mcken-
Zie was called about n week after the
accident occurred, and after admins
tering chloroform to the unfortunate
lad succeeded in reducing the fracture.
Edwin Hommanberg, a lad about IA
years old of Milnor, had the first fin
ger Of his left hand completely blown
off and the second finger badly lacer-
ated by the discharge of a shotgun in
his own hands. The lad had his hand
we the muzzle of the gun, and in
some mysterious way 1t was dis.
charged.
Ole Voegel was drowned in the Shey.
enne river at Valley City while fishing
from a boat just below the mill dam.
He attempted to anchor by throwing
over a large bowlder attached to the
boat by a rope, but being in deeper wa
ter than he supposed the stone dragged
down the boat in a whirling torrent
that carried him under. He leaves q
wife and one son.
The state land department is busy
these days getting out the leases for
lands that were leased this spring. The
I'm oSnp r,,oo tho In rnoof $hof MOS orop