The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-09-24
NORTH DAKOTA

Bottineau IL soon to have a big new
steel bridge.
Clothesline thieves are getting in
their work at Grafton.
jamestown wants a new artesian
we'll to quench its thirst.
Ramsey county's Republican conveD-
ton will be held Oct. 5. !
Late fax has undoubtedly been in.
jured by frost.
Stutsman county reports a gain in
population of at least 400. :
Hunter expects to be connected with
the rest of the world by telephone.
Wild plumming ;c:ties are all the go
now with the COUNTY, lads and lasss.
Work has been, commenced on the
Northern Pacific extension from
Sykeston west to the Missouri.
Two townships adjoining the town
site Of St. John are to be opened to
settlement within a saonth.
:, The G. A. r. and w. R. G. Of Wahpe.
ton have made a liberal contribution to
the Red Cross func.
A we'll filled barn, including ten
horses, belonging to William Allen,
near Lisbon, was destroyed by fire.
Five thousand acres o. wheat was
harvested by the br:i storm which
crossed Cavalier equity last week.
An electric light and water works
system is in prGs1sct at Dickinson, If
the town incorporates.
Walsh county farms that escaped
the hail are getting a. yield of from 20
to 25 bushels of wheat.
Delaney Bros, Logan county stock
men, recently sold a band of 1000 cat
tie to Iowatparties for a snug $4,000.
The 500 road is now running daily
trains over it's Brainerd, extension into
the new town of Wishek.
The equalized valuation of Trail
county property exceeds that Of last
year by half a million.
North Dakota has three Red Cross
societies, which insures good attention
to the North Dakota boys at Manila.
Senator Jud LaMoure, who has been
a sufferer from asthma and other ills,
has lately had an operation performed
on his nose.
J. T.. Mears of Milton, one of the
best-known characters in the northern
part Of the state, is seeking the Office
of sheriff of Cavalier county.
Senator Arnold of Larimore is COM
plotting a history of Grand Forks
county. He promises many data that
have eve before been in print.
John L. Pennington, VINO was gov
'ernor Of Dakota Territory from Janu
airy, 1874, to May, 1873, is editing and
publishing a paper in Alabama.
Commissioner Hicks has completed
the erection of one of the finest farm
residences in Pembina county, at a
cost of $4,000.
State Senator McGilvray has pul.
chased a herd Of seventy-four head Of
registered Polled Angus cattle for his
ranch in Stark county. =.
Sheriff jacobson of Walsh county
hasraided the Conway and Pisek blind
pigs: The Enforcement league is said
to have secured the raid.
Threshers in Stutsman county-get.
ting $1.75 per day--struck for 50, and
their places were quickly supplied by
others willing to work for a fair wage.
The contract has been let for the con-
strIction of the new Catholic cathe-
dral at Fargo to Waterworth & Fee of
Duluth for $4,000.
The fall term of the state agricult-
"ral college opens Sept. %. The trust
ees have been making some extensive
improvements during the vacation.
Manager Wells of the Jamestown
nnoro hOv1So fhronfonc fn c1Oco nm thu
"'shebang'' unless the city. council re-
bates the 500 license imposed.
The first station on the 500 in EN-
mons county, northwest of Napoleon,
will be called Braddock, in honor of
the county's present auditor.
In a boiler explosion at Darlington,
six men We're seriously injured, two
probably fatally. The separator was
burned.
A Wells county farmer, with the aid
of a pack of hounds, is reported to
have captured over 600 wolves this
year.
Contractor Winston is making good
Roadway in cutting down grades on
the Northern Pacific from Apple
creek toward the Missouri.
1t is said that the assault on Secre-
tary Lindelie of the Enforcement
league Of Aneta, will result in their
being no more blind pigs at Aneta.
The state w. G. T. u. convention, to
to be held at Park River from Sept. %
to p, will be one of the most largely
attended in the history of the %organiza-
ticn in this state.
Tom Nicholson, an old-tilner of Sar-
gent county, and once proprietor Of the
town of Nicholson in that county, was
recently killed in Texas, where he had
taken q railroad grading contract.
Aneta, which recently distinguished
itself as the scene of an assault upon
the secretary Of the Enforcement
league, is to have a new Methodist
church.
Col. Morton, one of Fargo's best and
most energetic business men, consid-
ers that the Duluth wheat graders are
giving North Dakota farmers much
the worst of it. ..
There has been some shifting and
changing on the force of customs col
lectors on the northern border. Frank
Gaulke, who was a member Of the
house during the last session, goes to
Antlers from st. John; Judson La
Moure, Jr., is added to the Pembina
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