The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-09-17
NORTH DAKOTA

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Heavy rains have delayed threshing
in Walsh county.
Wheat around Milton is yielding
twenty bushels per.
Hamilton is well lighted by street
lamps-as far as they 60.
boundaries burned two barns for
Sanborn farmers a few nights ago.
A Valley City firm delivered $1O,3SO
worth of engines and sepnrators in one
day.
Park River lie in a ldaEdary about
pulling down the city hau and build
ing a new one.
Ex-Gov. Shortridge is a resident of
Devils Lake, where he holds q clerk
ship in the land Office.
Fargo's new electric light plant will
be rciay for business Oct. IL, or some
where along there.
Fargo grocers have signed an agree
ment Wherein ce:h promises to keep
open nights as la!s SIS he i%lieases.
Benson County =: considering the adj
visibility Of erecting a new court
house: and Jail.
Evan Jones Of 'TassenGen vas badly
scalded while repairing a threshing ell
CINE boiler.
Harry Smith was arrested at Ellen
dale. charged with setting fire to the
flour mills.
An effort is being made to secure a
pardon for b penitentiary convict
named Lamont.
1t is reported that a Dickinson man
has a mining claim in Alaska that is
worth $4,000.
Gov. Devine has refused to grant an
application for the pardon Of liver ia
| ccbson.
Jamestown celery growers are sup
plying the Northern Pacific dining cars
with celery.
The Courtenay Presbyterian church
has just received q new 1,6OO-pOund,
1925 bell.
1t is said work has begun on q North
ern Pacific extension from Sykeston
west to the Missouri.
Paramount expects to be connected
with the Northwestern telephone sys-
tenn early next spring.
The Grand Forks Red Cross society
has 500 to send to Col. Trueman at
Manila.
Paramount is to have telephone con-
nection with Wahpeton, Hankinson
and the outside world.
Benson cc:.rty's financial report
shows up we'll, with over $4,000 in the
strong box.
LNI1N,,1e1N So S,,,y1h 0v1if01 fvyinr m
fasten the attempt to burn the mill
there upon a man they have under az
rest.
Farmers in some Missouri slope sec
tons will organize to lay for and pun
ish people who %carelessly set prairie
fires.
Farmers of Walsh, Pembina and
Cavalier counties have this year sold
10000 pounds Of wool to the Grand
Forks wooden mills.
The barns of the keystone Land
company, at Mantandon, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at from $4,000 to $1,000; fully insured.
The trustees of the Glendale State
Industrial school have decided to start
ur business ut last, end will put $500
into a building right away.
Andrew Grosdahl, near Wahpeton,
lost his life in a terrible manner, hav-
ing a leg torn off in q separator cylin-
der.
William Forsyth has assumed his
Few duties and title as superintendent
of motive power Of the Northern Pa
cifc. succeeding Mr.. Herr.
A jamestown man who fractured the
game law, paid $50 in fines and costs
for neglecting to procure the necessary
PERMIT.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern Express compa-
MES have brought st. Paul the past
two weeks 50, 900 Of Klondike gold
for the Philadelphia mint.
Mclean county will issue $4,000 Of
6 per cent bonds to take up SIT ,504 of
outstanding warrants. The bonds will
be sold to G. G. Gowran of Grand
Forks.
The will of Gov. Briggs will be pro-
bated Oct. 8. Mrs. Briggs is named as
executrix. The governors estate con
sists of about $4,000 in cash and Sc
curities.
A wedding in Griggs county was in
definitely postponed because the groom
tapped a barrel of beer too soon, got
bowled up, into q scrap and knocked
out generally.
A farmer near Jimtown has hot old
times protecting his hen coop from
weasels, minks, skunks, offers and
lynx. He'd better quit the chicken
business and start a menagerie or a
national park.
To get even with somebody for dis
charging him from a threshing crew,
q thresher at Ardoch fixed the other
hands with croton oil, and was bound
over to the district court in the sum Of
$500.
Cooperstown has a fine steam fire en-
CINE, but it took twenty-five minutes
to raise sufficient steam to operate it,
and while doing so-the building
burned up. The bucket brigade saved
the adjoining property.
Some $1,000 Of the state industrial
school bonds have been disposed of,
and the proceeds are To- ready to be
used in the erection of the school
building at Glendale. 1t is probable
that the foundation will be built this
year, and next year will undoubtedly
ser the school in operation.
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