The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-04-30
NORTH DAKOTA

"A LoWiLS wen was struck in Dlckey
county at a depth Of only 81 feet.
Tower City schools have an enroll
ment Of 131.
The Missouri is clear Of ice at Fort
Yates.
A huge black bear was seen near
Ulen recently.
Steele had a narrow escape from
destruction by a prairie fire.
Lakota A. o. U. w. will build a hall
to cost $1,000.
Large colonies of Nebraska farmers
are moving to North Dakota.
A MI. Schoonover of Wahpeton has
invented a new rotary engine.
Harvey now has the site and bonus
ready for the new Touring mill.
Murderer Villers is said to be fail
ing.
The town Of Milton is at the high
water mark Of financial prosperity.
Gunder Skaar of Wimbledon, was
bitten on the arm by a stallion, the
bone being broken in two places.
The Mandan Fair Association has
formulated it's a C programme for next
falls fair.
Little Emery Whitcomb of Tower
City is nursing a cash in his head. A
playmate "did it with his little hatch
et."s
Fourteen indictments have been
found. against Towner county blind
piggeEs recently.
Father Craft, an eccentric priest, has
been ordered. off the reservation at
Yates.
The Mandan Fair association has
formulated it's race programme for next
falls fair.
Prairie fire destroyed the entire farm
property of Albert Ellis near James
town. No insurance.
w. r. Fitzpatrick Of Richmond, ILL.,,
has been engaged as principal Of the
Mandan schools. :
Grand Forks county will tax parson-
ages that are rented and made a
source of profit to the church.
II. f. Beckett writes from Klondike to
his wife at Dickinson that he has been
offered $4,000 for his claim.
The Stark county boundary case has
been appealed$to the supreme court by
the opponents of the measure.
The new ward buildings will not be
built at the jamestown asylum this
veal. The sale of the bonds is off.
Grafton parties are doing well ship
ping potatoes to Minneapolis for the
Southern markets.
Jim McCabe of Bathgate lost fifty
head OF cattle in the recent blizzard in
the Northwest Territory.
Depots at all the interior points are
crowded with the luggage and baggage
Of immigrants. Let 'em come.
The Pembina county seat removers
seem to have a difficult time getting
the thing started.
The State of North Dakota has pur-
chased Bismarck school bonds to the
amount Of $25,00O.
Three Valley City bloods were pulled
for disturbing a Salvation army meet
ing.
Chief of Police Burt of Valley City,
was caught mapping the other day-by
a disjointed %stovepipe, and was nearly
a%sphyxiated.
Seven car loads was only n in
'stallment of. Immigrants and goods at
Bisbee the other day, and not a very
good day for immigrants, either.
Wheatland has a bang up hotel now
and the enthusiastic people are out
with a demand for all the Cass county
political conventions this summer.
The finance committee of the grand
lodge of the A. o. u. w. at their re-
cent meeting found the finances of that
order in excellent shape.
A fleet of prairie schooners has ar
rived, at jamestown, en- route to Devils
Lake. They contain settlers from Ne
braska.
It is stated that there will be no base
ball league in the Red river valley
this yea The fans will have to be
satisfied. with amateur ball.
It is reported now that Landlord
viles Of C%asselton, who has mysteri-
ously disappeared, left several hun
dred dollars worth of bad bills.
H. H. Hanson, elevator agent at
Christine. has been held to the district
court in $1,000 bonds for embezzle-
ment.
The, demurrer in the case against FL.
r. Salyards, the indicted Minot banker,
was argued before Judge Amidon at
Grand Forks.
Since aud Goudreau may prove their
ferry boat from CannOnball and make
It q transport across the river be-
tween Mandan and Bismarck.
), With the influx Of immigration horses
ought to bring good prices IN: North
Dakota this season. Horses, not cay
use ponies.
Prairie fires have done considerable.
damage to ranges in Emmons county.
Cooperstown will send a running
team to the next ,iremen's state tour
nament.
Fargo hasn't g6t that new depot yet,
hut is said to have the plans all drawn.
The engine for the NorthVood roller
mills has arrived and will Will &c soon 'u4 D y IN
place.
The Grafton postoffice shows an in
crease for the month of March, 1893,
over the same month last year OF
S115.92, the receipts for the month this
year being S47s.21.
G. C. Thomas Of jamestown is urs-
ing aabrDkcn arm and q c%oncussion Of
the head ID sa result Of q tree claim
argument. The trees didn't fall upon
him. but &. Carsonsdid.
Landlord Viles, Of the Commercial
sHotlse at. ,Casselton, sold the furnish
.inas of theihotel forsnpWards Of $1,000
M skipped, leavingh wife and nume1.'
Gus creditors to mourn !