The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-05-08
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From nh
Parts Of the State @'

Grafton has fifty-tive telephones in
operation.
Farmers on the high spots near
Grand Forks have commenced seeding.
The postofice receipts at Devils Lake
for the past year amounted to $5,13I.l6.
Garrett Ruring of Buffalo has been
employed as principal Of the Hunter
schools.
Paulina H. Dobkovetz Of Stutzman
county, wants a divorce from Paul r..
On the grounds Of non-support.
Two prominent Grand Forks young
men were fined 81 each for using pro-
family on the streets.
William Rentoul, one Of the oldest
settlers in North Dakota, died ut his
home in G%alesburg last week.
James LMngdon, the youthful harness
thief at Grand Forks, was convicted,
but given his liberty by the court.
w. A. Williams of ST. Paul has been
appointed chief clerk of the Dakota di-
vision Of the Great Northern.
4. w. Blasky Of Enderlin was bound
over to the district court on the charge
Of robbery.
Harry Lamont, who escaped o the
Burleigh county Jail last week, has been
rccaptured.
Ex-Deputy State Examiner Patterson
will locate in Louisiana, where lie will
represent Il machine company.
The North Dakota Milling Company
Of Grand Forks assigned to HI. J..
Withheld.
Charles Hanson. of Northwood COM
acid. This was the third attempt to
take his life.
Two Mandan young men fought n
duel with bare knuckles over a buxo1n
maid of that town, and Justice Pack
ard fined them SIS each.
Dunkards are purchasing some of the
finest and largest farms near New
Rockford. Others are renting all they
can.
George Forward of Lisbon dug half
an acre of potatoes that have remained
in the ground during winter, and found
them in excellent condition.
The blind pigs ut Church's Ferry
have been declared public %nuisances by
the village trustees land the proprletors
notified to cease business at once
The Wells county people want sa-
looms to run, upon the condition that
the parties who operate them pay q
fine into the treasury.
PostOffces have been discontinued in
the state as follows: Cynch, Morton
county; mail will go to Mandan; Robin
ton Ward county, mail will go to
Velva.
States Attorney Allen Of Burleigh
county has been retained to assist in
the prosecution Of Black Hawk and
Coudot, arrested on suspicion Of having
been concerned in the Spicer murder.
G.. O.. Greftengraff of Mayville, a
graduate of Copenhagen Veterinary
college, drank, by mistake, an ounce
of arsenous acid with caustic potash
in solution. Through the efforts of five
doctors he lived thirty hours, but final
ly died this morning.
Frank Tapelancyr, a farmer near
Portal, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with a razor, nearly severing
his head from the body. He had a
lawsuit with the 500 railroad at the
beginning Of the month in which judg-
ment was given against him. He leaves
q widow and two children.
The tide Of immigration this spring
seems to be setting again toward North
Dakota. Many new settlers are taking
up government land, while some are
purchasing improved farms. The adj
vance in the price Of land is quite no.
ticeable.
George E. Beemer was arrcGted at
Bathgate under a warrant alleging en-
bezzlement. Making use of a favorable
opportunity he eluded the officers in
charge and skipped. obtaining a start
of two and one-half hours before his
absence was discovered. His arrest
and flight have caused a marked SEN
satiOn.
Thirty-five families of Indians from
the Standing Rock reservation moved
their belongings from the reservation
and started for the northern part Of
Burleigh county to settle, but were or
deled back by the Indian agent. At
the same time $50 Indians from Fort
Totten reservation were ordered Off the
reservation at Standing Rock, where
they had been visiting, and will have to
make their way back overland 800
miles to Totten.