The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-01-01
NORTH DAKOTA

There are fifty divorce cases pending
in Grand Forks county.
The Wells county tax cases have
been submitted to the supreme cnurt.
Cakes has n telephone system. put up
by the $780,"
Extra trains are run on the Walhalla
line to handle increased traffic.
Richland county reailzed $4,000
from tax sales.
The Grafton rink is proving a popu-
lar place Of amusement.
Fargo has n $1,000 damage suit aris-
ing from a defective sidewalk.
Rugby people are moving to reol-
ganiZe their immigration association.
Cando will be lighted WITH electricity
in the near future.
The supreme court has adjourned
sine die.
There are thirteen cases of measles
at Courtney.
Wheat thieves are reported in Enc
mons county.
Minor will be made a money-order
office after Jan. !.
The local telephones have been re-
moved from Sheldon.
w. Nj. House has prepared a chart
and atlas of Eichland county.
Judge Glaspell will hold court at
Valley City this week.
The Paramount mil; is completed anl
commenced operations Tuesday.
Mrs. Laura J.. Einshuth is a teacher
in the Darlington schools.
Senator Benedict of Lidgerwood ex-
poets to locate in Wells county.
A steam heating plant has been put
in the Fort Yates school.
The Dual City Gas company at
Grand Forks has quit business. Lack
of patronage.
a. +. Carlson of Valley City was run
over by a wagon, ne~cessitating ampu-
tation of a leg.
Kenney McNutt tried to suicide at
Grand Forks, via the arsenic route.
IIc was pumped out.
H. f. Payne, deputy supreme chief
ranger. will organize a Forester lodge
at Sheldon.
Two drug clerks at HiAsboro AVE
been arrested for violation of the pro-
hibition law.
G. B. Little has applied to the Bis
marck city council for Il ten-years tel
ephone franchise.
Frank Blachboy, a ull-blooded In
dian, has been arrested charged With
robbing the Fort Totten postotiice.
The use of iiyuite coal appears to be
taking Il boom in the eastern part &c
the state.
A. F. Carlson Of Valley City, who
was injured by Il heavy loaded wagon
passing over him, had a leg amputated.
T.. C. Tyler succeeds in the manage
ment of the Great Northwest at st.
John.
1t is probable that the forestry re-
serves in Bottineau county will be re-
stored to the public domain.
The building Of the new electric
light plant is in progress at Devils
Lake.
M. N. Chamberlain, the new post
master at Cakes, was a member VI
President McKinley's regiment.
The timely discovery of a broken
wheel prevented an accident on the
Hannah, Great Northern line.
Two hundred thousand dollars Of
real and chattcl mortgage releases are
on file with the register of deeds in
Walsh county.
Hon. John NJ. Cockrane of Grand
Forks has been retained to defend
Miss Luxton at her trial for the MUIR
der Of Ole HalversOn.
The total sales of land of the Great
Northern land department in the Red
River Valley, for the month of NOvem-
Der were 1880 acres.
The remains Of the Emmons county
man who was killed by drinking am
monia in a Mandan saloon few weeks
ago, have been inferred at Salem, Ore.
The Jury in the suit of Rebecca Cole
man against the City of Fargo for
$4,000 damages, returned a verdict for
$500.
The farm; residence Of f. G. Horton,
ut Edgerley, was destroyed by fire,
the family barely having time to es-
cape in their night clothes.
FraLk Perley, q brakeman employed
on the Bottineal branch of the Great
Northern, lost a finger between the
bumpers.
The ownership of Hunter Island, In
the Rainy Lake river, Is likely to be-
some the subject of international
complications.
A soldier named Bowers, belonging
to Company D, is missing from Fort
Yates, and believed to have walked
into an air hole in the river.
Judge Lauder. has denied a petition
for q grand jury ut Minor, on the
strength of a numerously-signed pro-
test. 4
A Napoleon, n. d., man walked into
the school room, spanked a boy, and
tnen proceeded to the tribunal Of just
ice, plead guilty and paid a fine Of IS.
The agricultural college board has
accepted the heating plant recently
placed in the institution and ordered
it paid for.
increasing demand for lands in the
western part of the state employs two
agents of the Northern Pacific at Dick
inSOn.
Fire destroyed the Northwestern ele-
vator at Bathgate, containing 10000
bushels of wheat. Hard work saved
other warehouses and the depot.
Elizabeth Mcdonald and john Kal-
wee want 5000 each from the city Of
Fargo for damages from defective
sidewalks and bad roads.
Guy Martin, who made a murderous
assault on one Strihl with a rifle at
Buford, has ben held for trial. Strihl
is Improving and will probably recov-