The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
Another store is to be opened at Cass

Shooting nSn at dOOple seems to be
a pleasing pastime.
Chambers is reported as prevalent in
Grand Forks county.
La Moure again takes rank. as a
presidential postoft1ce.
s. G, Hughes is nicely settled in his
new brick store at Mimic.
Wimbledon is soon to have a water
system and fire protection.
The city dads Of Wimbledon have.
ordered a general cleaning up.
One hundred and ten pupils are en-.
rolled in the Cooperstown schools.
The officials of Walhally have dug
three wells for better fire protection.
Fargo college is one of the best ill.,
situations Of learning in the Northwest.
Seventy-ive to one hundred tons Of
fax straw. are being sold daily in Shell
don.
A blind-pigger, arrested at Devils
Lake is awaiting trial under $3.50
bonds.
The druggists cases at Langdon are
not expected to be tried before Feb
ruary.
Bishop Edsall is holding mission ser.
vices in the Episcopal church at
jamestown.
A contest involving land adjoining
the townsite Of Anamoose has been in.
augurated.
Dogs around Hoople are afraid to
venture outside of town for fear of
being eaten up by wolves.
While drying some dynamite at Cas-
selton the other day the stuff went off.
Luckily no one was killed. +
Improvements are numerous in all
oul. country towns and prosperity
seems to have reached all alike.
A playmate tripped Alfred Perry at
Hoople while playing at school and a
broken leg was the result Of the fall.
Ten Langdon youngsters have organ.
lied a brass band and there is a warm
time in that town every other night.
A. Mckinney of Reynolds has dis
posed of his lumber interests to O. C.
Sarles & Co. and will locate ut Cass
Lake.
Benjamin Freeman was convicted Of
burglary at Mandan and sent to the
p%enitentiary for four years and four
months.
The milk sold at Buffalo seems to be
of a peculiar brand and "spotter' has
been hired by the enforcement league
to gather evidence.
A man down near Havana, in Sar-
gent county, hauls eight or nine loads
Of grain to market at once with his
threshing machine.
rIo-,oo Cor,~1>oI1 of L11.u,coJ IoJ
his face smashed in a row in a Lang
been robbed of SIS.
Comrade J. f. Ludvigson of James
town accidentally had a ton plow fall
on the toes of his right foot-and now
he's glad he has any old kind of q foot
left. e
Martin Bic of Reynolds, held o rfrun-
ming a blind pig, furnished a bond in
the sum of $500, with his wife as sure
ty, ard was allowed his liberty until
the next term Of court.
The land office at Minot has done a
big business this month. Up to Nov.
20 there had been made 400 entries
and over seventy contests fled. The
total entries since Jan. / are 992.
Gen. Washburn has just opened the
new elevator at Wilton, on his new
road, and several loads of wheattwe
unloaded in his presence. 1t is expect
ed that iron will be laid as far as Wilt
on by June 1.
Mabel Rudler. eleven. and Rosa,
fourteen. died at Wimbledon last week
Of diphtheria. Another of the family
is down. Three cases in the Olson
family are improving. The schools are
ordered closed.
That the new bridge owe the Red
river at Drayton is Of much advantage
to the town in bringing customers there
from the other side is apparent. The
number of teams coming over in one
day was counted, sere being 165, mud
besides, many on foot.
Father Kenney Of Grafton gives out
the information that the uhs$ii0aion
list for the new Catholic church at that
place has now reached owe $4,000.
Ground will be broken and the fOunda-
ton built next summer. and the church
will be completed in 1901.
Burglars blew open the safe at
Thompson and secured $3.50 from the
general store Of Andrus & Mcmillan.
In their hurry they overlooked an en-
velope containing $187. They attempt
ed to enter the rear of Palmer's grocery
store, but were frightened away.
A confidence mar is said to he OPP
Grating in the northern part Of the
state and inducing farmers to invest
their money with a commission firm
with the assurance from the represent
alive that they will reap a large in
come on the investment. There are q
good many who will gain q little ex-
perience, If nothing else. b
A new phase Of the prohibitory' law
was tested at Glendale recently In the
case Of the State vs.. Snow. The de-
PENDANT was a salesman and drove
over the southern part of the state. ON
one Of his trips he gave a woman a.
drink Of whisky out Of n bottle he was
carrying. There was no evidence to
show that he gave the whisky with
any intention or hope Of its being m
agent to assist him in his sales, but he
was arrested and taken into court on
the charge Of treating. which is against
the law. The jury was out for a 0 y
time and finally disagreed. 1t is the
first case in the state against a man
on the charge of treating. Many peo.s
pie are unaware of that provision IN
the law, as it has always been re-
garded as a dead letter.
An engineer on the Great Northern
| thought he would zee what his engine