The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-05-20
NORTH DAKOTA

R DAKOTA
Building has already begun at Car
Isle.
Wahpeton will construct some sew
ers this year.
Langdon builders are o%ver-rushed
with contracts.
Glendale wants those ''hello' ma
chimes right away.
Harvey is to have a new bank, with
q capital Of $4,000.
The Catholic cathedral at Fargo will
be dedicated May 80.
Fessenden has a new drug store. Lou
Is Lew is the proprietor.
United States Senator McCumber is
visiting at West Baden, Ind.
Scarcity Of wheat has compelled a
shutdown Of the Glendale mills.
Spiritwood is having a. scrap over the
location of the p~ostoffice there.
The dog-poisoner is getting in his
deadly work at New Rockford.
Several Sargent county families have
removed to Alberta this spring.
Sargent county commissioners have
offered a Scent gopher bounty.
Mandan may have an electric light
plant and waterworks system soon.
John p. Storms of Wahpeton has
been appointed a railway mail clerk.
Dell Clark, a former Fargo boy, is
said to have struck it rich in Alaska.
Bismarck is reforming, and will close
up all the-barber shops-on Sundays.
There are 10000 acres of government
land in Stutsman county subject to en-.
try.
The Bathgate hotel has been revived
and r%ejuvenated for this seasons bust
cess.
The Modern Woodmen are contem-
plating the erection of a hall at Osna-
brock.
Courtenay people give ice cream So
Gals to raise funds for building side
walks.
ASH E. Hulett Of Power has been
granted an original pension of Sc per
month.
The latest case against doc" Reilly
IF Milton, for blind-pigging was dis
missed.
A cheese factory will be one Of the
many additions Dunseith will have this
summer.
A cycle path between Grand Forks
and Crookston is one of the future pos
sibilities.
Bertha Maria johnson of Minor has
been granted a widows pension OF ~
per month.
Secretary Stickley, of the railroad
commission, has been quite i'll, but Is
improving.
The upper Missouri country is expert
,ncing the greatest boom Of it's history
this spring.
Lieut.. Birkholder, late of the Rough
Riders, will open a cigar factory IN
Dickinson.
Judge Shippam of Wahpeton will act
as Senator McCumber's secretary until
aext December.
Alex. Mckenzie is reported at Look
out Mountain, regaining health and
strength rapidly.
Present indications are that the pro-
posed Stock Growers convention In
Fargo will be a go.
The state Industrial school at Ellen
dale expects to be open to receive pu-
pills in September.
A thousand head Of cattle from the
Canadian Northwest were unloaded at
AnamOOSe last week.,
Langdon has decided to offer a premi-
The council meetings.
w. E. Ditmer has been arrested at
Wahpeton by Cass county officials for
passing bogus checks.
Attorney Arthur p. Guy Of Wishek
GAS been admitted to practice before
the interior department.
The Galesburg hotel, at Galesburg, is
undergoing numerous improvements,
lnder its new management.
Lillian B. Adams of Oklahoma, has
oeen appointed cook at the Standing
Rock Agency, at $3.50 a year.
Twenty new pupils have been re-
funsed admission to- the jamestown
schools, owing to lack Of room
The St. Thomas curfew ordinance
seems to mean something. Youngsters
are arrested there for its violation.
Gov. Fancher has forwarded to the
North Dakota regiment, at Manila, the
81, 800 authorized by the last legisla-
.tare.
Cando is to have q e store. Dave
German is the owner, and he will CON-
mence business as soon as his stock
arrives.
The first Of the Northern Pacific crop
reports shows conditions excellent on
the Dakota division from Fargo to
Mandan.
John Tompson, formerly deputy coun-
.ty auditor of Stutsman county, is suing
the county for $40 claimed to be due
for back salary. \
The demand for residence property
which now exists in Grand Forks far
surpasses that of any preceding period
In the city's history.
Cattle wintered in excellent shape in
the Mouse river country and the North
ern part of the state, the losses not <
.ceeding 3 per cent.
H. l.. Haussaman of Grafton has
been r%eappointed a member of the state
board of pharm. cy by Gov. Fancher
for the ensuing term.