The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-30

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District court is in session in Valley
City.
Wyndmere is to have a new millinery
store.
A new billiard hall is being built III
Wyndmcre.
Emma H. Cotton, Williamsport, gets
all So pension.
throughout the state. .
The NJ. E. church building at Knox
is nearing completion.
The Washburn 'Townsite company
has been incorporated.
The schools throughout the state arc
being closed for the holidays.
Louis Hong is missing from Emerald
and his friends fear foul play.
The Grand Forks Gun club has
wound up it's business for 1899.
A sneak thief at Buffalo stole SIG
from the trunk of a schoolmarm.
Five new school houses were built in
Rolette county the past summer
The McHenry house at McIIenIy has
been closed for want Of boardcrs.
Courtenay farmers sent two carloads
of horses to the Minnesota pineries. 81,
Some devilish cuss at Tower City
gave his dog a drink of carbolic acid.
The Methodist church building at
Moselle has been moved to Wyndmere.
Stutsman county farmers who held
flax have been selling while the boom
Is on.
Dramatic companies find Dakota to
be Il prolific field. for operations this
year.
Enderlin will bond. for: $4,000 with
which to buy fire fighting apparatus
and sink wells.
Theslax fiber building at Mayville is
completed and now awaits the placing
Of the machinery.
The cheese factory at Lisbon has had
an output of twenty-nine tons Of
cheese this year.
Stone is being hauled for the founda-
ton of the new L. o. o. T.. hall to be
erected at Rugby.
The wholesale houses of the state
are reported as doing a big business
before the holidays.
Adam Walters of Stutsman county
applied to the United States court to be
declared a bankrupt.
Fred Leithner of Barnes county re-
Gently taken to the insane asylum, is
deaf, dumb and insane.
Fred Reuter- is another Mandanite
who refuses to pay any further bills
contracted by his wife.
A dividend Of 20 per cent will be
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tional bank in Pembina.
Henry Koehler was convicted of
burglary at Valley City. He robbed
Will Martins house last summer.
The Rolla school house is too small
for the large attendance. A new build
ing will probably be erected in the
spring.
The new reservoir at Milton has been
completed and filled with water. Mil
ton will now be able to compete with
the demon fire.
The postoffice at Pembina has been
assigned to the presidential class, to
take effect Jan. 1. Salary Of postmaster
increased to $1,000.
W. A. Booth of the Edna stock farm,
near Valley City, sold six head of
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neapolis for $1,000. .
The grand jury at East Grand
Forks has returned a verdict of murder
against Bishop Dorsey, who killed a
man in Dan Sullivan's saloon.
Judge Lauder denied a divorce to the
plaintiff in the Hoge cast at Fargo and
granted the decree to the defendant
wife with $500 a month alimony.
Benjamin Van Sickle was arrested
for slaughtering stock on l.. s. Meyers
ranch in Kidder county, and was ON
mitted to Jail in default of $500 bonds.
Marshal White Of Bottineau seized
twenty-niue cases of groceries. each
containing a jug Of whisky, that A.
agent.
The boiler and radiators for the new
st. Johns Academy. building at James
town have arrived and will be placed
in the building by E. Harrington Of
Fargo.
The Company d boys at Devils Lake
held an enthusiastic meeting for re-
organization and will hold another
meeting to arrange for the securing of
an armory.
r. FL. Murphy, a Trail county farmer,
has purchased $4,000 lot in Chicago
and will build a $50, 600 residence. Mr..
Murphy has made all his money rails
ing wheat.
Benson county asks for bids for the
purchase of $4,000 in the bonds of -
county. The bonds will mature in
twenty years and will bear interest not
to exceed 5 per cent.
Andrew Iokken tried to commit sui
eide by hanging at Preston. Rasom
county, but was discovered and cut
down before dead. Too much mother.
in-law is alleged to be the cause.
Little Cecilia Graham of Rolla was
standing too close to a hot stove the
other day and her dress caught fire.
Luckily the fire was extinguished be-
fore the child had been seriously in
jured.
August FIGHTER and Frank Zimmers
were arrested at Mimic on the charge
Of stealing a load Of wheat from a
farmer. The boys are said to- have
hired a team from Matt Falconer. The
former was bound over and Zimmers
was discharged.
A bank has been started at Sheyenne
by H. Peoples, j. III. Hohl and e. s.
Sivertson Of New Rockford, all well
known gentlemen. The former is q
well known politician and has repre-
scented his district in the legislature.
The railroad company ceased work
at the gravel pit in Steele and shipped