The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-01-22

The grading on the Fosston extern
sion will be completed July 1.
Sargent county's December school
aEporticnIlont was $9,271.
Cando is to have an electric light
plant.
\ quarter section of land in Hills
boro township, Trail county, sold for
$4,000.
Citizens OF Churchs Ferry offer $50
reward for the conviction OF dog-stcal-
ers and dog-poisoncrs.
A Lisbon business man, John Wheel
don, has been committed to the asy-
lum at jamestown.
A colt killed at Engelvale recently,
is said to have contained several hum
dled feet of tapeworm.
Over $1,000 has been collected in
Cleveland, Ohio, to swell the fund for
the Cuban sufferers.
North DakDra's ice rink crop is I'M
usually large on account Of the alb
sence Of snow.
The people of Hacvana are discuss
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting a beet
sugar mill.
d. ID. lIOChullI VI IL ~ ID IA
from appendicitis, and will have to
suhllit to an operation.
Harvey Harris has accepted the po-
sition Of superintendent of the Bis
marck water works plant.
The schools at Kuhn, LaMoure II
ty. are closed on account of scarlet
fever.
l.. G. Wclton will take charge of the
Dunse:th rostofiice as soon as his
bonds arc accepted.
Two blind iggers failed to come up
for trial at Grand Forks, and their
bonds were declared forfeited.
]. D. Boyes was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary by Judge
Sauter.
The Northern Pacific is now carry
ing dogs to the coast, for the Klondike,
for $500.
The skull of q mound-builder has
been dug up near Lisbon, probably of
the Sioux variety.
Peter Halvorsen and his wife were
asphyxiated by coal gas at New Rock
ford. They are seventy years of age.
The Northern Pacific has paid it's
real estate taxes in Burleigh county
$500.
Fargo wants better telephone SER
vice, and has sent q delegation to
headquarters to see about it.
Andrew johnson Of Wimbledon died
at the state asylum of nee of the
throat.
Crary's new Maccabee hall will be
dedicated with a grand blowout about
Jan. 20.
The ~postoftice at Pisek, Walsh coun-
ty, has been made a mOney-Order Of
The Prouty Live Stock company of
Grand Forks has gone into liQuida-
ton.
The comptroller of the currency has
not vet decided whether OF not to al
low the First National Bank of Penn
bina to resume business.
A number OF the mills in the state
are said to be short of wheat, and sew
eral Of them will have to shut down,
as they can purchase none.
Auditor Schallern of Morton county
is endeavoring to arrange a meeting
of county auditors of the state in the
ear future.
Battery A. at Lisbon has added a
basket ball outfit to it's list Of accout-
rements, and the boys are looking for
ward to some fun during the winter.
4 newly-wedded couple at Towner
threaten to have q posse who sere-
naded them with tin pans, COW bells,
ETC., arrested.
a jury at Valley City acquitted the
maj who assaulted Herbert Root re-
Gently, broke several of his ribs and
otherwise bunged him up.
+, Ransom county farmers have sold
their wheat crop SO freely that it is
doubtful If there is enough left in the
county for seed.
Augustus Baker was bound owe to
the district court at Fargo on the
charge Of incest, and the details of the
crime are said to be most revolving.
At a recent meeting of the town
accept any more license money from
temperance saloons.
A dividend Of 10 per cent has been
declared in favor of the creditors of
the Second National Bank of Grand
Forks, making ~ per cent IN all.
Peter Ranello, a blind -pigger, has
escaped from the Ransom county Jail,
where he was serving ninety days for
violating the prohibition law.
Walter Larimore Of 'Larimore, who
is charged with assault with intent to
kill, was found guilty by the jury of
simple assault.
John Dougherty, in default of $500
bail, is in Jail at Hillsboro, where he
will tarry until June, for bootlegging
in Steele county.
At Williston the county auditor has
issued S92 wolf-bounty certificates, Of:
which yankee Robinson received
2884.
Photographs Of North Dakota farm
scenes are to be used in designing spe-
cial government stamps for the trans.
Mississippi exposition at Omaha. :