The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-04-14

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The new bank at Napoleon a COM
menced business.
Emn1ons county reports the first prai-
RE fire of the season.
Bottineaul is getting some Of the best
settlers in the state.
Harvey, on the 500, has put in anew
chemical fire extinguisher.
VALLEY City will vote on the PROPOSE
tion to establish q public library.
Several Wahpeton people are prepar-
ing to attend the Paris exposition.
The postofice at Sheldon was en-
tered in the night and some $500 taxi
en-.
Richland county requires sixteen cen-j
sns enumerators. All are appointed
but one.
The annual fair Of Southern Walsh
county will be held in Mimic on July!
3, 4 and 5.
The advance guard Of asngafber OF
M~innesotians have arrived to settle IN
Oliver county .
Daily passenger train service is o
to be resumed on the jamestown Il
Southwestern.
The officers Of the Valley City State
Bank have applied for a charter for a
national bank.
There is talk Of organizing a stock
company to prospect for oil in the
Mouse River valley.
MI. and Mrs. Calvin Holbrook OF
Rugby celebrated the f1ftieth ann1ver.
sary of their wedding.
The survey plats for the Fort Ste
venson reservation have been received
at the Bismarck land Office.
The Northern Pacific is paying OF
tax certificates against lands in Suits
man county, to clear the records.
Edgely has a board Of trade, and that
body is just nov devoting it's energies
In support Of the tracing circuit prop.
osition.
Sheriff Farrow Of Peuabina county
got mixed up with q runaway near
Hamilton. and lost several chunks Of
epiderris.
The Northern Pacific has decided to
stop leasing hay lands. The lands will
be placed on the market at a reason
able price.
D. Hadigan, a Great Northern brake
man, slipped and fell under a train at
st. Thomas, and his hand was severed
at the wrist.
Capt. James clio Of the Second in
lantry, has been detailed by the gov
| eminent as military instructor ut the
| agricultural college.
The time for receiving bids for build
ing the Benson county court house has
been extended by the county commits
sioners to April %.
Supt. Andy Laughlin. Of the census
bureau. has received $500 pounds Of
| census blanks for use in the work OF
enun.erating in this state. e
While loading cartridges. Albert e.
| Beers accidentally struck n with a
hammer. causing an explosing which
resulted in the loss of an eye.
A little prairie fire in Emmons county
last week gave the residents there an
opportunity to timber up their joints
preparatory to spring work.
John McCabe. the man who was Sc
verely burned while building a fire in
the roundhouse at Williston, has been
sent to the hospital at Grand Forks.
While making a coupling on an i'm
migrant train at Glendale, Conductor
John Tompkins was caught between
the cars and had a collar bone broken.
The prospects Of the 500 building
through Barnes county raised the price
Of farm lands. in some instances, to
double the figure at which they were
held before.
August Milbrandt, a prosperous Ger
nan farmer in Sargent county. went
insane over the Boer war. He tele-
graphed President Mckinley to stop
the war at once.
The man named Smith. who was re-
ported to have small pox at Langdon
and created such a scare, has develop
ed a case Of measles, and the excite
ment has subsidized.
Mic Schmid of .Dickey, LaMoure
county, died from the effects Of the
kick Of a horse. He was one Of the
best known and most popular men In
that section Of the state.
The authorities Of Burleigh county
who are investigating the Stark MUIR
der case. have found the revolver Sc
creted by Ira jenkins, and of-which he
at first denied AN knowledge.
I. J. Oliver Of Ransom county, just
back from a trip to Indiana, Gays sew
eral thousand American farmers there
are preparing to Migrate and seek
cheap lands In North Dakota.
A party Of serenaders thought they
would have some fun with q newly
welded Stutsman. county man. He
came out with a loaded shot gun and
made them hustle away p. d. q.
Oliver .Dusocher. q man from Onta-
rio. has bought 1900 acres OF farm
lands near Toilette. Pembina county,
and viii send a colony Of French lam
lilies from Canada to cultivate It.
Some Of the enterprising merchants
at Winiston have put In Soda feunt-
aims, and. in the absence Of other bey-
erages, the boys will cultivate the
taste Of soda water this SUMMER.
Gavin Ross. q. farmer living Just
across the boundary near Emerson.
was killed last week by falling from
his sled. striking his head on the hard
ground and fracturing' his skull.
George Garbutt. who recently opened
the bottling works at Grafton. is max
ing arrangements to have water
shipped from the Walhalla springs TO
use inrthe manufacture Of his goods.
While returning from Armenia. where
he had given q concert, the Casselton
boys; were spilled rather unceremoni-
.ously from their RIG, and their insfrtl-
ments suffered considerably from 4
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