The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-01-14
NORTH DAKoTA

valley City mas 14O lelepliouc SUI
liscribers. ~ s!1i !. r
Judge winchester is holding. q spe-
1cial term: Of court at Mandan.
The. case against the drivers of jag
wagons atFargo has been dismissed.
The early-closing movement is a 60
at I.arimOre. 3itta&
New Rockford has Joined the early
closing procession,
Jamestown is talking to Valley City
over the new telephone line. -
Another Fargo man has been arrest
ed for illegal voting. f..
The long-dktance phones are now
connected with Jamestown,
The pay roll Of the Great Northern at
Devils Lake is $15,OOOia month:
d. D. Wilbur is 'dppointed %sub-agent
at Oak Creek, O. 1.-THE Standing Rock
preservation. ,:a. 80"
Enderlin Baptists1 are trying to get
Rev. w. L. VanHorn Of Fargo to take
charge Of their church.
Maurice NJ. Cook. present. deputy
state treasurer, Will bic retained in his
position by Treasurer Driscoll.
There were nearly SO, 600 bushels of
grain lost in the, Northwestern elevator
fire at Langdon:
The citizens Of Frederick have sub
scribed $ 1000, of the necessary $500
to sink a new artesian well. - .
R. r. Williams, bookkeeper Of the
Plano company at Fargo, has been ad-
judged insane.
Sc 'neers ARE. working in the VI
Clint cargo, anal tile city expects
the s.. cad In the spring.
The. tw~o-yeaf-.oid daughter Of Capt.
4 Mudgett of Company &. now"in the
Philippines, died at Fargo.
The next meeting Of the state educa-
tional association: will be held in Grand
Forks. ..i a., 80
Emil Swanson, who fell from a
bridge at Fargo and suffered a frac-
tured spine,.'i is dead.
State Auditor Carbon will move his
family to Bismarck as o O as he can
find a suitable residence =:
Mrs. Briggs. has just moved from the
~Lexecutive, mansion in. Bismarck to a
residence on lower Fourth street.
Sixteen pupils OF the schon1 at Glen
Iavon, .Emmons county, wefs taken Ill
with measles, ARD the scha1l closed.
August Kuhn, a jamestown fireman,
was seriously injured while attending
Q fire. ;. ID: -
The farm residence Of T. Moran,
near jamestown, burned. Loss. $1,000;
Dartially, insured, =. 49,.
"A Leeds man tried to dry some giant
powder on the stove. He succeeded,
but needs a new roof on:the house.
Sheriff Severn of jamestown has un-
der his; charge seven prisoners, who
are awaiting trial for selling liquor
without a government license.
The Milton engine hou*e, was burned,
Including all the ire-fgi.ting appara-
tus.> The loss is between $1,000 and
$4,000, with no insurance.
Recent advices from Fesseuden are
to the effect that the late drop in tenn
perature has Temporarily checked the
Matching out Of grasshoppers. %
In the district court at Fargo. Judge
Pollock sentenced a numbe: OF gam
blers to Jail. ana ordered the captured
gambling devices burned.
The. two new bridges ACROSS the river
leading to the Valley City mills are
now ready for the iron to be laid-as
well as the grade.
The contract for a steam-heatins
plant for the state normal school was
awarded to A. j.. Craig of Fargo for
50 200. There wore six bidders.
Tie Jamestc - city bsidges at the
mill, the ass u ,,td the greenhouse
have been II, /! by the same COM
pany that built TIE Main street bridge.
President II. X. Lyon. Of the North
Dakota, Millers' association, has start
ed for, Honolulu, where he will spend
the rest. Of his vacation.
Col..Schuler Of Wahpston has had an
operation performed whereby he has
opened his lungs and has had a large
quantity of pus removed. He is re-
covering. p, 81. i:
il the family Of Jacob Basil of Mt.
Carmel, Cavalier county,. tive%deatns
from dipltheria have, occurred within
q week. Two children i!s:a before the
doctor wasscalled. 4
John Montgomery, J. Sorensen and
F. NJ. Youne:M Harvey, Wells connty,
were arrested last week for selling dis
eased or tainted meat. They We're held
to the district court in $500 bonds.
the other day. 1t was extracted from
Gov. Faacher, In. his Bismarck Office.
the other. day. ltYwas extracted form
a letter on his desk. There ,is no clue
I'd the thief.
Gottlieb Wagner. the father Of Mrs.
Echternach OF Casseltony was burned
to death last week while trying to res
cue some stock from his burning barn,
one the Illinois farm.
The pwners of the Riverside tannery
at Jar1estown'ar are planiiritriig. for a num-
her OF: improvements. as;:ashe business
done is becoming attoge,ner too large
Tor the present pla,,;tt e g. take care Of.
Co1sidefsable siclssr.sss is reported
among the Indians west Of the Missou-
II, and: there havesheen a number Of
deaths among thems~ssome Of the very
old Indians.
Tie explosion. ot.a Kerosene lamp set
fire to the residence of. a: Brown Of
Glendale last week. and the building
was burned to- the ground. Mrs.