The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-11
IN NORTH DAKOTA
g~nte1esting News Items From ali
PART of the State.

The summer school at the agricul-
tural college at Fargo has closed.
Wheat in Ward county will average
about 16 bushels to the acre.
Burleigh county will exceed all pre-
vious years in cattle shipments.
G. s. Barnes of Duluth will erect a
large Touring mill at Devils Lake.
Burglars went through Thomas Con
nelrs safe at Hamilton and got $2S5
belonging to the hired man.
An escaped convict from the Min
nesota pen was captured near Hun
ter, this state, the other day.
William Foley, a harvest hand, was
run over and killed by a Northern Pa
cific train at Grand Forks.
Arrangements hav been made for
three balloon ascensions during the
Mandan fair.
Burke Corbet Of Grand Forks was
elected vice president for North Da-
kota for the National Bar Association.
John Maschelski, a young Walsh
county Polander, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun.
Plans, have been drawn for a public
park at Bismarck, to be called Lin
coin park.
William McGregor, brakeman on the
Northern Pacific, was killed in the
yards at Dickinson. He was a single
nan
Mrs. S. p. vining of Lisbon was
stricken with paralysis while out BIZ
cycle riding and was found helpless
along side the road.
Morris GUNNER, a farmer near May
vile, shot and killed an unknown man
who was digging potatoes IN his gar
den.
Joseph homeland was accidentally
killed near Bartlett while driving a
team with a load Of hay. He has rela-
tives in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Two horses were killed by lightning
ut the farm of j. g. Meachan neal
Wheatland, and several farm hands
were stunned.
John Houghton of Cooperstown put
his thumb in the way Of q premature
discharge from a shotgun, with the
usual result.
-Four head of cattle belonging to q.
B. Johnson at Hoople We're found to
have tuberculosis and were ordered
killed.
Tax Commissioner Fernald, Of the
Northern Pacific, paid into the county
treasury at Bismarck $4,000, the SANE
being taxes due on the company's
lands in this county.
Receiver Tourtelot has started six
teen suits against the stockholders OF
the defunct Grand Forks bank who
have failed to pay the 100 per cent as
sessment.
Mrs. A. E. Butler, wife of a promi-
nent stockman Of Pierre, was found
dead in bed from apoplexy. The body
will be taken to her old home at Nor
wood Park, ILL.,, for interment.
Two young men, Messrs. Leslie and
Hallock, arrested at Fargo, charged
with violating the game law by refus-
ing to take out nonresident license,
will test the law in the courts.
Nelson Griswold of Minneapolis, a
we'll known resident of that city, was
thrown from a buggy at Buxton, where
he was visiting, and has small chances
of recovery.
Mrs. Frank Yaniseh of Wells county
was knocked down and caught under a
binder and horribly mangled. Her
body was cut in a dozen places and m
foot and leg were badly lacerated.
George Lull, Of Black Hawk, fell
from a school building which he was
repairing, and received internal injur-
les, from the effects of which he died.
He leaves aged parents and was UNI
married.
A section man by the name of
O'Brien was drowned near Windsor
in q slough. He had shot a dN.k and
went in the slough to get it, and the
bottom being soft he was unable to
get out.
Clayton Crews Of Dickinson got full
Of fire water and fired his revolver
p~romiscuously about the streets, struck
and knocked out a deputy sheriff, who
tried to arrest him, but was finally
landed in jai, where he has been held
in $1,000 bonds for trial.
Company G, South Dakota National
Guard Of Bryant is to be mustered
out of service on or about September
/. Company G., formerly Company L.,
has had a stormy career during an ex-
istence of about two years. 1t has
been the cause Of no end of local tur-
MOL. The immediate cause of its aban-
donment is that there are no armory
accommodations and no immediate
prospects of there being any, therefore
it has been thought best to disband.
The eighth annual state w. G. T. u.
convention will be held in Fargo Sept.
II to 20. Preparations are being made
to have it one of the best conventions
he'd in the state. Reduced rates are
granted on all railroads. Miss Eliza
zeth U. Yates. one of the national W.
| G. T. U. organizers, will be in attend
ance and deliver two addresses. Miss
| Yates is a young lady and an eloquent
speaker. The opening evening will be
Y evening.
Northern Pacific Bridge Supervisor
| Frank Ingalls, and crew of men moved
q large grain elevator from the old
site to the new site of Eckleson, near
Jamestown, by loading the building on
fiat cars and hauling it to the new
location, a distance of two miles. The
building was 30 by 60 feet and quite
high. 1t weighed some 125 tons n
was taken to the new site in So min
utes, and without a misllap. The aban-
doning of the old station on account Of
q heavy grade necessitated h re-
| moval of all the buildings.
Paul Paradeaux. of Barnes county,
who lived alone in an old house for
years, was found on the floor Of his
hut, bound hand and foot by strips Of
cloth torn from wheat sacks and tied
together. He was badly burned and
bleeding from the los when found.