The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-01-08
NORTH DAKOTA

The Congregational church at
jamestown has been newly f%rescoed.-
The state poultry show will be held
at Fargo Jan. lila, 1893. :, .
Three wheat thieves have been ar
rested ut Hannah.
Gov. and Mrs. Briggs will spend the
winter at Los Angeles, Cal. 20.
Cando is to have an electric light
plant. -.
J. ID. Trenholm of Bathgate is or
ganizing Il KlondiAe company.
Judge Lauder has denied a petition
for a grand jury in Sargent county.
Frank Conley is on trial ut Forman
charged with horse stealing.
Grafton has 3S5 children of school
age.
Pembina county has $4,000 head of
live stock.
A large number of Grafton people
will pass the winter in California.
Two farm land sales lea Park Eiv-
err last week involve a consideration OF
$4,000.
Master Frank Joy of Hamilton sus-
tanned Il severe scalp wound in an ac-
cideLt ut school.
The affairs of the defunct North Da-
kota National Bank at Fargo are being
finally wound up.
"A forged school warrant in favor of
II. II. Howard, a former teacher, has
turned up in Emmons county.
The jamestown Y. NJ. G. A. is Or
ganiZed with an entire compliment OF
officers.
County Auditor o. NJ. Fraser Of
Walsh has been appointed United
States commissioner.
George Dixon has instituted a suit
against the city of Grafton for $4,000
for damages to his ribs caused by a
defective sidewalk.
Eighty pei cent of the wheat in
Towner county has been marketed,
and there may be a scarcity of seed.
Harry Ferguson is under arrest at
Milton charged with having threat
ened to burn the Pacific hotel.
Mrs. Anne Ahner gets a divorce from
Frank, at Grand Forks, on the grounds
of cruel and %inl.urnan treatment.
Denny Brosan, formerly Of Devils
Lake, is running a saloon at Dawson
City.
james Kink Of Williston died from
an accidental gunshot wound inflicted
by himself.
A member of the Fargo divorce col.
ony is said to have dropped $1,000 in
wheat options.
\ Woodman lodge vas organized at
Oberon last week, which presages the
steady growth of that northern town.
A number of bears have been killed
by hunters in the Turtle mountains
this winter.
Peter Roiahl, the Trail County Nor
wegian who has leprosy, will probably
be returned to Norway.
Benson county is in good shape-has
sS22j, 600 i'll bank. and is prepared to pay
all outstanding warrants.
The Northern Pacific expects a I per
cen dividend if traffic continues good
to the end of the year.
The insurance companies will catch
it for about 5000 in the Grand
Forks fire.
The prevalence Of scarlet fever at
Jamestown continues, closing Sunday
schools and cEildrens' gatherings.
Three applicants for teachers state
certificates took the examination at
Fargo. None were examined at Devils
Lake.
Hon W. w. Barrett has been appoint
ed by the governor as delegate to rep
resent this state in the national fishery
congress at Tampa. Fla. JAM. 10, Us.
Near WillistcE Lee Robinson killed a
buck deer with twcnty-seven nrOngs on
his horns, the largest ever seen IN that
vicinity.
Somebody killed Lee Feathcrstone, Il
private soldier, of Fort Yates. lie was
found lying in the middle of the road
near Wincla. with a fractured Skull.
Fargo college is badly in need Of
funds, and an effort will be made to
raise about $4,000 to tide over present
contingencies.
Bert Lucas, 4 Benson equity blind
bigger, has been released on Il written
pledge to appear at the May term Of
court.
z. b. Harrison is appointed postmas-
ter at Adler, Nelson county, and Id
ward Smith at Griswold,r LaMourc
county.
An Emmons county man sued anOth-
er for $11.75, and recovered Judgment
for 81 cents, the lawyers coming out
ahead.
Judge Swartz of Casselton has been
ordered taken to the asylum. He has
lost his mind through grieving over the
less of money in the failure Of u bank.
A stratum Of mica of 6ne quality
and two or three feet thick has seen
found at New Rockford, ut a depth Of
twenty feet.
Mrs. Laura ]. E%isenhuth, formerly
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton, is now teaching in the Darlington
schools.
Joseph Valecourt Of Niagara,
charged with selling liquor without a
government license, has been held to
the federal court.
satisfactory %appraisals have been
made on applications for loans aggre-
eating $4,000 asked by Walsh county
farmers.
The winter thus far has been eXcep-
tionally favorable for stock interests,
there having been no storms until a
few days ago.
The jamestown board Of education
las employed Supt. Schmidt to take
the annual school census, as it is de-
sired to secure information in addition
to that required by law.
1t is stated that the Indian Elac&
Hawk is disposed to stay inside the