The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-11-04
NoRTH DAKOTA

stor route has been ordered at
A Hillsboroite will build u store at
Harvey this fall.
THAT wonderful jamestown artesian
we'll still continues to we'll up.
~ old court house at Williston was.
LID to w. P. Parshall for $4OO.
n Carlos McAllister may start a
class in music at Wheatland.
Robbers secured $40 by burglarizing:
Erred ;Johnson's house near Cakes.
rho Northern Pacific has issued a
new mar to show extensions u west.
Tho fax fiber committee at Mayville.
hos ~, iced; $500 for q site for a new
mill.
Martin O. Brekke, a sevcnty-seven-
rear-old resident of jamestown, is.
dead.
PETER McLachlin has sold his farm,
and will become Il permanent resident
Of Hunter.
poter Morbou was brutally assaulted
ond robbed by two masked men at
Wahpeton.
park River restauranter turned his
wife and baby into the street, n was
run out of town.
Mai. White has gone into the law
business with Attorney S. NJ. Locker
by at Valley City.
1ient. NJ. A. Hildreth of Company B
and r. =. Ingwaldson have formed a
law partnership at Fargo.
Miss Maria Gertrude Murphy, daugh-
tor Of Thomas Murphy of Sanborn,. IS
dead. ut the age Of fifteen.
Cen. Washburn and party are LOOK
inc nm terminal facilities for the Bis
marck-Washburn railroad.
The state transportation committee
got n check from Christiana, Norway,
for So for the soldier boys.
Frank Rutten, Jr., and Miss Carrie
mcnamara were married at Devils
Lake by Rev. Father Placius.
Bottineau raised $3.50 clear of ex-
nenses Mt an entertainment for the
benefit of the returning soldiers.
The eicht-year-old son Of Anton Bak-
pr Of oliver county, while playing With
another boy, had his arm
G.. X. Scales attempted to shoot 4.
e. Dolan at Harvey, and was arrested,
but the prosecution was dropped.
Courtenay has in course of erection a
two-storv. four-room school house, to
|be completed inside Of sixty days.
Officers with search warrants round
cd nm all Casselton the other day, ooK
ING for blind pigs. They found me-.
w. d. Washburn and party were at
Washburn again last week, on busl-
ness connected with that new railroad.
De la Mere has a new saw mill, q
new state bank building, a new hvery
stable and many other improvements
A three-and-a-half-foot ~rattlesnake
with nine rattles was killed in w. II.
|C%ochrane's barn at Bismarck the other
day.
Tom Lamb has returned to Washing
ton. and it is understood has ecure
nm appointment ut the Paris EXPOSE
|tion.
Mayor Patterson's new block ut Bis
marck is about completed, and Is also
about the finest ever in the capital
city.
Receiver Lindstrom Of the Grand
Forks land office has been looking al
tier his farming interests in Benson
county.
The recent rains and SHOWS have
|caught a great many Ward county
farmers with their potato crop only
about half gathered.
Horses have disappeared from VIM
bledon with such frequency that the
citizens are convinced that some timex
lis working overtime.
A pair of threshing hands at valley
City were arrested for stealing a Wo-
mans clothes. They were fined $50
and costs for the job.
The city of Grand Forks is said to
have violated the city ordinance by
erecting a frame annex to the city ha!l
for a machinery shed.s
s. r. Finley of Harvey Is excavatlng
a cellar and building a foundation Ior
q new house on the corner OF Enlers
avenue and Second street.
The citizens committee on reception
to Company c find that they will have
some money, probably $500, to turn
over to the monument fund.
Rev. Powell, the new Congregational
home mission superintendent, Is get
ting into his work over the state ana
receiving some kindly notices.
Enderlin is to vote on the question of
bonding for $4,000 to purchase fire ap-
paratus. and the State Bank Of that
place offers to take all the bonds.
A Canadian attempted to abduct his
children, who were with their mother
near Neche. The little fellows were
rescued by the brother of the woman.
The Baptist parsonage at Coopers-
town caught fire from a lamp, and was
thoroughly soaked by the fire depart
ment before the flames were extln-
guished.
At Sykeston a dam Einety feet at
the base and twelve feet at the top
will be built across the Pipestone, and
. lake of considerable. extent will be
created for ornamental and useful puf-
poses.
At De La Mere some men were fool
Ing with q revolver. The blamed thing
went off-as usual. The bullet went
through the cheek of one man and hit
another in the forehead.
Brakeman Penny was caught under
an engine Of the Great Northern Ct
Rugby and dragged some distance. He
saved his legs by rare presence Of mind
IN holding on to the engine rods.
Owing to the non-arrival Of windows
and finishing material, the new court
mouse at Williston was not in3readipess