The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-08-26
NORTH DAKOTA

at Edinburg will be heated by steam.
Foss-on's new telephone system ts
being pushed rapidly towards compile
ton.
Some progressive Towner county
farmers arc agitating a farmers insti-
tute.
Prof. c. W. DeGraff of Glendale has
been elected principal of the I.aMoure
schools.
Frank Little Of Crofte lost n granary
and some farm implements by fire. In
cendiary.
A blind pig at Rugby was pulled, n
of the piggers being captured and n
escaping.
Bruce Miller, and Lille Sampson of
Steele were married by Rev. Miller at
Jamestown,
Ex-Gov. Allin reports considerable
damage from rain in the northern part
Of the state.
The product Of the Sheldon mills is
said to be the only kind of flour used
in that section.
The Northwestern company's ele-
vator at Langdon will be completed N
about two weeks. a.. 0
Commissioner Barrett is distributing
n Il load Of stocking fish through the
waters Of the state.
Shippers of wheat want the North
err Pacific to put in loading facilities
at Crystal Springs.
Mrs. Beaverick Of Crystal lost her
reason quite suddenly last week. Her
hobby was religion.
Stutsman county commissioners ap-
p%ropriatcd 500 to aid in properly re-
ceiving Company Fl.
Anthony Hopkins of Darlington, a
we'll known young man, has been sud
denly stricken blind.
The summer school at Mandan closes
nex week, after a very successful
three weeks session.
Treasurer Mitchell of Fargo gets out
a chapter Of his continued and continu-
ous story every day now. m
Sheriff Hogan of Steele county has
resigned, and Samuel L. Linn was ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy.
Robbers entered Lee & Myhre's store
at Colfax, opened the safe and took
$50. all in silver. No trace.
The hail storm in Trail county de-
stroyed from 10000 to 10000 acres Of
grain, according to the Banner.
The Drayton brick yard has a kick
coming. Orders are coming in, so fast
that brick can't be made to fill them.
Figures are being figured for the
building of a farmers elevator at
Lehr, which is somewhere out Kuhn
way.
]. II. Mccullough contracts with the
Devils Lake Chautauqua to have a
short line railroad in operation by next
June.
While mailing some boards or to a
hay rack, Anthony Hopkins of Car
rington was suddenly stricken totally
blind.
Hail insurance agents state that
they pay out mere money in losses
than ever before in the history of the
state.
The ~two-year-old child of John
Schnase of Anamoose fell from a wag-
on loaded with sand under the wheels
md was killed.
The Northern Pacific has two new.
compound ten-wheel engines for ser
vice IN this division-bigger than any,
thing on the road.
Apparently. chickens are very scarce.
Too many land hunters and dog train
ers. One man at SandOun has twenty
i've. dogs to train.
VIM. Menke of Stutsman county
drove over his three-year-old son with
q load Of hay, crushing his skull and
killing him instantly.
There is $500 yet due Miss Penney,
the North Dakota nurse, at Manila,
and the Fargo Red Cross asks Bis
N; rex to contribute $50.
M. j. Moran of Grand Forks secured
the contract to erect the new Eddy
county court house at New Rockford.
The contract price is $16.t Gl.
A colored man by the name Of Billy
Young was arrested Mt Casselton Tor
trying to carve a brakeman on the
Northern Pacific who refused to allow
him to ride on his train.
A Casselton justice decided that it
was not a criminal action fo" a man to
arrive at his boarding house late at
night and enter by way of a window.
provided the doors were locked.
Miss Anna Freeman of Grafton, who
was severely burned with gasoline q
short time ago, died on Wednesday
from the effects Of the burn. The girl
suffered terribly, and death was a re-
lief to her.
People at Elbowoods r considera-
bly, worked up over the discovery or
cinnanon bear tracks in that vicinity.
The bear may be considerably worked
up, too. IL he knows his tracks have
been discovered.
At Richardson, Stark county, q new
Catholic monastery. and school edi1ice
ia being erect.ed, the corner stone Of
which was laid last Sunday. The edi-
flee is to be 100 feet long by ~ feet
wide, two stories and a half high, with
basement under tile whole.
A Ramsey county farm Of $40 acres,
with personal property, was sold for
$1,000. $1,000 being paid in cash. and
the balance due April 1 next. Olaf
Searle, Of the same county, sold 800
acres, with crops, machinery, stock,
etc, for $14 $50, cash, $3.50. Both
sales were made o8West Virginia5 par
ties.
In EmmOns county, at the Northern
Pacific land sale, there vas some lively
bidding on the part of citizens, one
quarter being. bid up to $1;8O0, but the
company bid higher and got the land.
The sales east CT the Missouri river
have been completed, and all the land
went to the Northern Pacific Railway
company. # 6 f
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