The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-06-26
IN NORTH DAKOTA
s]nterestiux News Items From alS
Parts OF the State.

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S. G. Nor has been appointed post
master at buffalo.
A postofficc has been established at
Chilcot, Ward county.
Minot will celebrate Monday, July 5,
as the Fourth of July.
The jamestown asylum advertiseS for
$4,000 pounds of butter for the ensuing
year.
The Dakota division of the Northern
Pacific boasts OF five new bridges 20
far this season.
There is a scarcity Of beef in Ransom
county and butchers are putting up the
price.
Bishop Stanley will visit a large num-
Der of North Dakota towns during this
month.
r. D. Evensizer of Cando has an arte-
sian we'll that flows at the rate Of 300
barrels a day.
There will be four days of the state
fair ut Mimdan this year, Sept. 2S, 20
and 80 and Oct. 1.
Bishop Stanley administered cou-
firmation to about 100 persons at Ellen
dale Sunday. He also delivered a lect-
ure in the evening.
At Fargo, q. G. Stleeter was brought
in from Casselton, and will be held in
the county Jail. He stole a horse from
Fowler Bros, Minneapolis
A chap at Willow City borrowed a
horse from one man, a buggy from an
other, a fur coat from still another, and
moved away-in the night.
Attorney jacobson of Cooperstown
gets three years for collecting a note
and failing to turn over the proceeds.
A siXty-day stay was granted.
John Il. Haynes, convicted at Fargo,
of completely in burglarizing the Great
Northern depot at Hunter, was SEN
fenced to four years at hard b in
the state p~enitentiary.
The rush for government lands in the
Devils Lake district still continues, the
Devils Lake land office having more
business now than at any other time in
its history.
Elsie Hadley and Florence Hicks Of
Glendale had a narrow escape from
death last week. They were run down
by a horse and wagon, and though it
passed over them, they escaped with
out injury.
In North Dakota the following post
offices were increased 500: Fargo, to
$500; Cando, SLIGO; Hillsboro, $1,000;
Devils Lake 81, 700; Mandan, $1,000;
Bismarck, reduced from $1,000 to ST.
500 and Park River, from $t.4OO to ST.
200; st. Thomas is reduced from $1,000
to SLIGO.
Two prisoners made their escape from
the county Jail at Grafton recently, go
ing out through the ventilator to the
roof. District court convened on the
day of their escape, and they got out
Just ahead of their trials. Their names
are Tony Smith and A .Arnott. in for
violating the liquor law. 1t was Arm
otis second appearance, and, if found
guilty, he would have gone to Bis
marck.
The wholesale dealers of the state
held q meeting at Fargo II + rned an
association, the object Of which is to
look after their best interests against
ether wholesalers in the same terrific.
nv. f. F. Grant of Fargo was elected
president; f. S. Lycan of Grand Forks,
vice president, and E. S. Morris of Far
20, secretary.
strengthening is we'll under way at
Dickinson, and the wool-buyers are ON
OOO-pound lot, sold at 10 cents per
OOO-pound lot, sold at 1 Ocents per
Mound. Another lot, coarse, sold at y
cents. Unless the tariff bill takes a
more definite turn as regards wool pro-
lection, this is likely to be about the
ruling prices of the season.
Every inducement seems to be offered
to make Woman's day at Chautauqua
this year a great success. The Great
Northern railroad has granted an eX-
cursion from Wahpeton and all points
north on the Fargo and Mayville lines;
also from Langdon and Devils Lake
md return, one fare for the round trip.
Excursionists going via Fargo can
reach Chautauqua in time for the fore
i DON session of the 9th, 10th and 18th.
Bishop STANLEY speaks On Sunday, the
18th. and this excursion bespeaks a
great treat for North Dakota people.
The past week has made quite an i'm
nroyement in CROPS of all kinds. Heavy
rains in all parts of the state except
the western portion, followed by warm
weather, has revived vegetation that
was suffering from the effects Of heavy
frosts and cold, dry weather. Oats.
barley, corn, potatoes and gardens nave
been killed in most sections, but wheat
has not been killed to any great eN.
tent, and having taken StrOng roOt anu
stooled we'll during the past cold wealth.
er, is now well prepared for the usual
hot summer. Reports are very encour-
aging from nearly all sections, n 1t Is
not probable that the damage done by
the late frosts will be permanent.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Dixson Of Bis
marck, had her husband arrested in
Miles City, Mont, charged with btgamy
and adultery. Sire followed him from
Bismarck, and found him in company
with another woman, and both were
arrested. Dixson was brought to Bis
marck and lodged in Jail, where he has
been ever since. Mrs. Dixson applied
to the supreme court for a writ of ha-
beas corpus to get her erring husband
released. She applied On the ground
that she has not found any information
against her husband, and, under the
law of this state, she is the only person
who can file complaint against him for
the crime alleged. The authorities are
at a loss to explain her change Of
| heart, in wanting to get her husband
out after she and the county have gone
to great expense to apprehend him and
bring him back to Bismarck.
Boiled to Death in Malt.
La Crosse, Wis. June 10. Peter
Sancheck, an employee of the Michels
brewery. fell into a tank Of boiling
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