The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-30
NORTH DAKOTA

The tow and fiber mill at Armenia II
progressing nicely.
The directory mel are making thu
| rounds of the state.
An addition of four blocks has beer
plated at Tower City.
The new. Cargill elevator at Eckei
son is nearing completion.
BottiEeau's $4,000 school house will
soon be in course of construction.
New Rockford's band wants to play
at the jamestown reception to Compa
ny H.
The festive burglar seems to be get
ting in his jimmie in great shape these
fair autumn days.
The Courtenay school board has ad'
vertised for bids for a new schoolhouse
to cost about $500. go
A vicious horse kicked an eye out OF
a little girl of Galesburg. The child Is
in a serious condition.
With cash flax bringing S1.0S in Du'
i quite We'll with his big crop.
w. 4. Prentice, an old Dickey county
resident. is organizing a colony in that
vicinity to go to Maxim, Tenn.
New buildings and Improvements this
season in Walhalla will figure up, al
the lowest calculation, $4,000.
Game Warden Bowers says there are
more outside hunters in the state now
than ever before at this season.
There will return to North Dakota
$40 non-commissiGhed officers and mel
from the North Dakota regiment.
Present indications are that the
North Dakota wheat crop will bring at
least s. ,OOO,O 600 more than last year.
The safe in the bank of Davenport,
Cass county was blown open by bur.
glars, who secured something like $500.
Joseph Pfeurd of Stutsman county
was accidentally shot through the
condition.
II. r. Lyon, the we'll known miller,
has secured a thirty-years franchise at
Mandan for the maintenance of rs cleo
trio light plant.
Bootleggers are reported operating
near Spiritwood, and frequent quarrels
in neighboring threshing crews ~ the
reported result.
A male patient who escaped from the
state insane asylum about a ApOnth
ago, was captured by a farmer near
Adrian last week.
A young cyclone cavorted down near
Kuhn the other day, and had all kinds
Of fun with people and things, l-at did
no serious damage.
A postoffice will be established at
Bowdon in a few days, with F. F. Ia
thrOp as postmaster, his bond having
been already sent in.
Grafton citizens have purchased a
large silk flag and put W a tall flag
staff in front of Lieut.. Col. Treulaann's
residence, to fly it on.
S. f. Bradish, an ex-cavalry corporal,
disappeared with $40 belonging to his
employer, Henry Rose of Glendale.
lie was last heard of in jamestown.
The industrial school at Glendale
opened with an attendance Of 81. 1t is
expected that the number will be in
creased to 40 before Jan. 1.
Sergt. Phil Short, who was editor of
the Devils Lake News before he went
20 war, has been made official historian
81 the First North Dakota volunteers.
Capt. Eddy wires jamestown from
San Francisco that sixty-three men,
bers Of Company HI will return to the
ttate in a body. \
s. r. Dale's store in Guelph, Dickey
eounty, was broken into last Tuesday
hight, and a large quantity of shoes
md gloves taken.
The large barn Of Herbert Church,
living west of Coopertown, burned,
with three horses, three colts, harness,
etc. Cause unknown.
George Cackle Of Kuhn. sold 238 head
pf cows and heifers last week, which
brought the handsome sum Of $500.
This is an average of $34 per head.
The Mandan state fair officers tele-
graphed Col. Truemann at San Fran
DISCO, offering him and his regiment the
freedom Of the grounds during the fair.
The Farmers & Merchants bank at
Jamestown has organized. with Mi
ehael Murphy, president; G. A. Klaus,
eice president; J. F. Weber, cashier.
The Casselton city council has appro-
priated 5000 for the harvest festival to
occur there Oct. 5 and 6. 1t will be one
9f the biggest times in the history OF
HE county.
A call for $40 per share has been
made on the stockholders of the First
National Bank of Pembina, to make up
phortages to depositors, by the comp
troller of the currency.
Spcrtsmen in the northern part of the
,tate are said to be advocating the
closing Of the hunting season two or
three years, to avoid the determination
u the prairie chicken.
James Maxon, q farm hand on the
Eimball farm, near Larimore, stabbed
The foreman Of the farm the other day,
for ~discharging him. The fbreman's
recovery is p~roblematical.
James Dinnie of Grand Forks has Sc
cured the contract to build the new A
D. U. hall at Lakota. 1t will be two
stories high, with basement, 54x1OO,
and will cost about $4,000.
Jesse Bryant, the, Staples young
man whose feet were brushed at Johns
s0wn, Walsh county, recently, by a
Northern Pacific train, lost both Of
Them, amputatiOn becoming necessary,
The meeting Of the Jamestown Hail
directors to review adjustments and fix
The rate Of levy, occurred at jamestown
Friday. The losses adjusted this sea-
son are the largest in the history Of the
ytate.
The enrolment in the Grand Forks
schools for the fall term is 1,45O, which.
ts quite q perceptible gain over last