The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-12
NORTH DAKOTA

JudgeWinchester is holding court i IN
kiddcr county.
Benson county O.. Gals are to have
more clerical force.
The western part Of the state is still
furnishing many pilgrims to klondlke
. Milton merchants will close bust
ness at 8 p. III. until Aug. l.
Eugene Savory Of Cavalier has been
taken to the insane asylum.
Gov. and Mrs. Briggs are wintering
at San Gabriel, Cal.
Joel T. Means. of Bismarck has been
granted an original pension.
Alonzo Dietz of Northwood has been
granted a pension Of Sc per month.
Cando's new electric light plant will
be in operation this week.
Young men of Wahpeton are organ
iziny 4 reading room club.
Tie 500 road is making q, half rate
on shipments Of seed grain of all kinds.
f. Valley City schools enroll $50 pupils,
in a school population Of 715.
Cass county has a school population
f 7.370-an increase f 2GS over last
year.
w. ]. Knecshaw will be appointed
receiver of the Pembina National
bank.
Dickinson has a school population of
$50. a gain Of II per cent over the
last year.
Indian Agent Getchell held a public
ings since.
The scarlet fever reported from
Or;ska is said to have been without
foundation.
The German Lutheran Synod Of
North and South Dakota will hold it
meeting this year at Casselton.
Wood and timber thieves are reported
operating on school lands in Cavalier
county.
Funds have been secured for bridg-
ing the Red River at Halstad and work
is to commence at once.
The state will pay wolf bounty
certificates in the order in which they
are registered.
The Grand Forks degree team OF the
Rebekahs instituted q court OF that
order in Emerald.
Lidgerwood will vote on the ques-
ton Of bonding for a new school house
on the Goth inst.
The reported crevaSse in the earth
down in Sargent county proves to have
been q fake.
A movement is on foot to erect a
farmers Touring mill at Mandan by a
Joint stock company.
Final proofs last year added nearly
$4,000 to the taxable real estate OF
Stutsman county.
Hon. D. G.. Tufts will enter upon his
duties as receiver of the Fargo land
office within thirty days.
Fire destroyed a large barn on one
Of the Kingman farms near HillsDo-
70. Loss estimated at about $4,000.
The state university at Grand Forks
will have q military instructor de-
tailed by the general government.
There is an epidemic Of scarlet fever
at Kuhn, and seven deaths are re-
ported in one week from the disease.
Surveyors are locating q proposed
drainage ditch to enter sand Hill river
one mile east OF Climax, MINI.
A jamestown blind pigger who broke
Jail at jamestown has been r~ealrested
at Valley City and returned for trial.
Anton Klemsl1ey is under 5000 bonds
at Jamestown for disturbing a saliva
ton Army meeting.
Consignment of forty-seven dogs
passed through Fargo recently en-
to the Klondike.
Anton Arneson, Peter Swanson and
Gust Mauthely of Richland county
I'LL ,cr,o ot tho nnNf form ff Nnl11f
the charge Of Notwithstanding.
Churches and societies at Kuhn are
closed at the request of the board OF
health during the prevalence of scarlet
fever.
Trail county has a balance in it's
treasury of $4,000 and expects to gain
teh other $4,000 before the end Of the
month.
Jeanne Bennefoy Lozano was granted
a divorce from Carlos A. Lozana at
Wahpeton Seward French represented
the plaintiff.
Cant Ingram of jamestown is enter
tanning the idea Of erecting a modern
ffty-room hotel at Grafton to cost $780,.
600.
Surveyor General Blewett is likely
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business interests, at the expiration
Of his term Of office.
In the trial Of the case against Dr..
Cuffe at Pembina where he was ac-
cused of making away with a new born
infant, the jury disagreed.
Salaries of all officials in the Citi-
zens' National Bank, Of Wahpeton
have been raised by the board of d.
rectors.
L.angdon schools are crowded. The
same conditions are reported every
where, necessitating much larger
school buildings.
John Percival and E. A. Maglone of
DEVILS Lake and N. Jacobson, have
organized q state bank at Leeds, with
$1,000 capital.
Parties at Steele who sustained losses
by prairie fire started by a hunting
party from Chicago, have recovered da-
IMAGES in the sum Of 900.
Prcprietors Of the Mcbride drug
store at Rugby have waived examin-
ton and given bonds for trial on the
charge Of illegal sale of liquor.
J. A. johnson of Williamsport, met
with a painful accident i'll the explo-
sion Of a gun. filling his face with
powder and injuring his eyesight.
A newly-elected commissioner in
Mcintosh county forgot to attend the
January meeting of the board until
the sheriff went after him.