The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-10-22

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accept the fusion nomination for SEN
ator in the Ninth district.
Glendale young ladies organized a
conversation club last week-to discuss
the latest-and other things.
The Grafton History club is among
the new organizations in that city,
with a membership Of twenty-five.
The new German Evangelical church
ut Glendale has been completed and
will be dedicated about Christmas.
Supt. Andrew Sinclair Of Griggs
county is a candidate for reelection
on the "populist ticket.
Alex McKenzie's new block at Bis
marck will be 1OOx9O, two story, brick,
and all right.
The 500 extension is drawing stock
| shipments from the other roads here
tofoEe monopoliZing the cattle trade.
Two boys aged eleven and five years
lost their lives in the burning Of a barn
one. mile from Sanborn.
A barn belonging to John Leatheart,
near Paramount, was destroyed by fire,
seven horses perishing with it.
P. H. Throdahl Of Devils Lake was
knocked out of his buggy, robbed of
$35 and left lying in the rain, stunned.
The foot pads escaped.
Corporal Link Of Company X is the
only North Dakota soldier claiming to
have killed a Spaniard at Manila. He
is said to have killed two.
C. Schultz clothing store at Devils
Lake has been closed by the foreclo-
sure Of q $4,000 mortgage. Assets are
estimated at about $4,000.
The Valley City normal school has
opened the year under exceptionally
Favorable circumstances. The attend
ance has increased % per cent.
The Mayville normal school has the
largest attendance in it's history at
this season Of the year. More room
is badly needed by the school.
Buford cannot be a very tough place,
after all. One solitary desperate was
able to hold up the entire town the
other day.
Attorney General Cowan has given
an opinion-holding that country
boards Of commissioners are author
lied to establish new voting precincts.
jamestown will make up a fund Of
$500 for Company H in Manila, and
the Red Cross society will send Christ
mas boxes.
Attorney Baker of Detroit has put in
a bill for $1,000 to EmmOns county,
for his services in the Northern Pacific
tax cases.
An old gentleman from the country
called at jamestown the other day
and left $40 for the Red Cross society.
He modestly refused to give his name.
Walhalla will have a big time
Thanksgiving Nov. 25- long time
ahead, but preparations are now being
made, and fifty local burnt-cork artists
will furnish most Of the fun.
Mary F.. Cadieux has presented a
claim to the city of jamestown fol
$1,000 damages for a sprained ankle
sustained by stepping on a decayed
plank in the walk.
Lieut. Conllin OF the North Dakota
volunteers, is expected to reach San
Francisco soon on the hospital ship
Rio Janeiro. He will be met there
by his mother.
John Knauf is chairman and e. ].
Gleason secretary Of the Stutsman
county Republican committee with
Alfred Steel chairman Of the execu-
tive committee.
The Methodist parsonage at New
Rockford burned and Rev. G. G. Fair
banks furniture, library and other per-
sonal property was destroyed. Loss
about $500, partly insured.
Hon. F. B. Fancher opened the cam
paign in Barnes county in an address
given at the opera house to a large
audience. His talk was largely de-
voted IN state issues.
Fire destroyed q livery barn owned
by T. w. Baker at Darlington with
all contents, including nine horses,
vehicles, harnesses, etc. Total loss,
about $1,000; insurance, $500.
John Newberry was fined 5000 for
blind plugging in Dickey county and
upon his release from Jail, was ar
rested for the same Offense in La
Moure county.
Such a big mob Of hoboes got into a
f%ree-for-all fight at Hamilton depot
that the train did not dare pull out for
fear Of killing some of them-Or miss
ing some Of the circus.
Tom Marshall's elevator at Cakes is
paying three cents above the market
price for wheat. Tom may not make
q mint of money out of the deal but
the farmers around there will make
a lot, and so will Cakes. And that's
the kind Of citizen Tom Marshall is,
anyway.
The Bismarck Masonic lodges,
whose paraphernalia was all destroyed
BY the fire, have purchased ley robes
and will soon have complete new par
aphernalia with which to work.
Hamilton people protested against
granting a drug store liquor permit
and the county commits sloners are
wrestling hard with themselves wheth-
er to offend the prohlbs or the piggers.
A big fire visited the Delaney Bros.
ranch in Logan county last week and
destroyed all the range but about four
sections, which were. only saved by the
hardest kind of work.