The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

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Sargent county has 1865 children of
school age.
Judge Pollock is holding court at La.
kota.
\ Rebckah lodge has been instituted
at O:kcS.
Viola Il. Woodward of New Rockford
is granted a pension.
Daniel Healy of Armenia has been ap-
pointed Il railway mail clerk.
Game, except wolves, is unusually
scarce this winter in North Dakota.
Wild geese have been seen in Polk
county inside Of the last week.
Col. a. P. Peake of Valley City has
purchased q controlling interest in the
East Lehigh coal mine, near Dickinson.
The quarantine ut Hamilton has been
raised and schools will reopen on the
3ist inst.
All state educational institutions are
o~vcrcrowded and in need of additional
buildings.
Bleckmer is Il new p~ostottice estab-
lished in Richland county, with Otis
Foote as postmaster.
Surveyor General Blewett is figuring
on putting in a -four mill at Dickinson
when his term expires.
Several buildings are being erected
ut Lakota, carpenters working bare
handed. just as In summer.
The Lisbon cheese factory is to be
operated the coming season on a larger
scale that heretofore.
Walsh county reports a school enum-
Grafton of 6,S57, a gain of $40 over
1896.
4. s. ]. Rice. of Omemee, is in Jail ut
Devils Lake, charged with assault with
criminal intent.
Dickinson women are moving toward
the establishment of a free reading
room and public library.
An electric light plant is being put in
at Devils Lake and pipes being laid for
water mains-all in January.
Three brothers Greebe were arrested
and Jailed at Rugby for operating a
blind pig.
George A. Bangs and Ledru Guthrie
have formed a legal partnership 1T
Grand Forks.
A number Of farmers Of Morton
county propose to build a custom grist
mill at Mandan.
United States Court Clerk Montgom-
cry is in Washington settling up his
accounts with the government.
Harvey Randall "a Cavalier county
farmer. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with n rifle.
Rolette county is expecting n rusl Of
immigrants in the spring. Rolette is
one Of the best counties in the state.
Northwood wants a good hotel. and
the party who will erect it will set
$1,000 bonus,
There are 1.105 children of school age
in the last year.
William Lcvincs is under arrest at
Dunseith on the charges of stealing a
yoke of oxen and a load of wheat.
Reynolds Masons are fitting up q
lodge room on the third floor Of the
Rockaway hotel.
Fully 600 new members were initial
ed by lodges Of Workmen throughout
the state last Tuesday.
Daniel Miller, n prominent citizen of
Steele, died suddenly while visiting rel
atives in Pennsylvania.
Judge Winchester suspended sentence
in the case of Robert Taylor, charged
with bootlegging at Steele.
The school population of Stutsman
county has increased IS per cent in five
years.
Harvey Harris has been appointed
sales solicitor for the Northern Pacific
in Burleigh county.
A former Bismarck man, Robert
White, is reported to have located an
Alaska gold claim worth a Million"
December business in the Bismarck
land Office exceeded that for the cor
last decade.
A horse belonging to a MI. Sternberg
at Valley City got tangled up in a wire
fence and was 50 badly injured as to
%nccessitate killing him.
The first land mortgage securities for
loans from the permanent school fund
have been iiled with the state auditor
and warrants drawn therefor.
The epidemic Of scarlet fever in sew
eral towns in Pemhina county has
abated, and closed schools are opening
up.
The Cass county drainage COMMITS
sion will resume work, nov that the
drainage law has been held constitu-
tional.
The two youngest children Of Mrs.
Tr0mer, whose husband was murdered
by Villers. have been adopted by kind
people Of Barnes county.
The bursting Of a blood vessel in the
head caused the death Of r. @. Good
rich, O resident Of Jamestown and
etutsman county for twenty-six years.
Henry Gilmore wants a pardon from
the penitentiary. in order to 60 to klon-
dixie. Feb. Is is the date set for hear
Inc the an%n1icsfi0n for nar6on.