The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-11-18
NORTH DAKOTA

The Great Northern is extending it's
trackage ut Rugby.
Ex-Gov. Allin's wheat averaged twen-
ty bushels to the acre.
What to do about a town hall is the
Tquestion at Edinburg.
Senator and Mrs. Hansbrough have
arrived at Washington.
The new ward building at the James
town asylum is nearing completion.
J. l.. Grandin has given $1,000 to-
ward a library at the Mayville normal
school.
Theopilus Tschabold of Milton has
been granted pension of Sc per
month.
Valley City is looking for a big boom
in the spring, along with the rest of
them.
Jess Hill fell owe q stub switch at
| Havre the other night and broke his
collar bone.
E. v. Knight has sold his 1,1OO-acre
farm, near Sheldon, to John Mcknight
and Peter Boyle.
An injunction has been secured
against c. O. Romanson's drug store
at Willow City.
Ole Asmundson, fifteen years old, of
Cooperstown, had his leg broken by a
horse falling on it.
WaEpeton will probably do about
nice little starter.
The M. E. parsonage at Hope will be
| enlarged and n new church building
| erected next year.
Among other things, the people Of
| Benson county voted to see whether
they would vote bonds.
1t is reported that twenty-five stores
| in North Dakota were burglarized the
| last week in October.
A dancing club has been organized at
| Hope, with Geo. A. Luce as president
and B. G. Shaw secretary.
John Harrington has gone from the
Capital hotel at jamestown to the
Mandan hotel, at Mandan.
A homestead of American Yoelnen
has been organized at Forman, with
Twenty-Five charter members.
Casselton has asked for $4,000 to run
that city for the coming year. This re-
quires a tax levy of 1877 mills.
Ray Fadden. who bit a mans nose
off at East Grand Forks, will answer
to the grand jury for the crime.
Another large party of Iowa land
seekers visited the farming district In
the vicinity of Sheldon last week.
The North Dakota NJ. E. conference
will be held in Grand Forks April IL,
1900. Bishop McCable will preside.
Mrs. Anna Burchall Of Barnes coun-
ty died last week. She left four sons,
all Of whom are we'll known farmers.
Lawrence Patterson. the man who
stole nearly 81 900 in cash from a Lari-
more farmer, has been captured in lll1-
nois.
A sixty-year-old citizen of Stutsman
county is in limbo for trying to regu-
late his domestic affairs with a hatch
ct.
The farmers about Sheldon are COM
mencing to haul their flax straw to the
new fiber mill, which will soon begin
operations.
Mrs. J. HI. Morrison took laudanum
Mt Fargo because her husband came
home drunk and was Jailed. She re-
covered.
Northern Pacific surveyors are run
ming a line form Casselton to Dickey,
and are now about six miles northwest
of Fort Ransom.
Cadet Paul Fretz. from Grand Forks.
at the Annapolis Naval academy, aver
aged 37S out of a possible 4OO-a credit
to him and his Flickertail state.
Literary and various kindred socie-
| ties for social amusement are being or
ganizcd throughout the state. getting
ready for the winter campaign.
The suit against DR.. Rindlaub Of
| Fargo, by the parents of a child al
legged to have been injured by his
treatment, resulted in favor Of the doc
tor.
Deputy State Examiner Wallace has
made the first examination OF the
| Farmers and Merchants State Bank
| at jamestown, and finds everything IN
good shape. -
The foundation for the new Northern
| Pacific machine shop at Mandan is
nearly completed; the roof is being
| placed on the car shops, and the walls
| of the old engine room and coal house
are going up.
Livingstone, the Fargo man, who alb
seconded and got himself killed in order
to see what kind of collins his wife and
mother-in-law would choose for him,
has returned, and will resume his occu-
! patton Of driving a jag-wagon.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision Of Judge Glaspel IN the case
Of w. w. Fegan against the Great
Northern Railroad company. Fegan
sued for $500, and Judge Glaspell de-
cided in favor Of the company.
A prairie fire south Of jamestown
several niles burned over considerable
ground Sunday, and Is believed to nave
DESTROYED either hay or straw stacks,
as evidenced by dense smoke. The IRE
came within three miles Of the city.
North. Dakota has long been famous
for the character of its potatoes. They
are harder and contain q larger per-
centage of starch than those OF almost
any other state. Hundreds OF carloads
are shipped every year to b East n
Southwest, st. Louis and Chicago be-
ing favorite markets. There We're
planted to potatoes In 1893, 1880
acres. The yield in 1893 averaged
g .0o bushels per acre, the total prod
uct being 1,641,776 bushels. Cass coun-
tv takes the lead with $500 acres,
yielding 9e.O2 bushels per acre: Bin.
ings county reports an average yield OF
100 bushels per acre; Pembina, 1872;
walsh, 40; Foster, 1852, and Benson,
Rottineau. Cavalier, Grand Forks, Mel
con. Towner, Trail and Wells all above
100 bushels per acre.