The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-15
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NORTH
STATE
NEWS.
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Pembina county appears to have q
pretty good yield Of wheat.
The course of study at the Casselton
schools has been improved.
Between Harvey and New Rockford
the crop is said to be very poor.
The State Bar association will hold
its annual meeting Tuesday. Sept. 1si
A. c. Pollard, a thoroughly practical
miller. has leased the Abercrombie mill.
A Fargo woman kicks because q
policeman ate ice cream while on duty
The farmers are praying for the frost
to t off long enough for the max to
cure.
Guessers up in Walsh county esti-
mate the population at from 10000 to
5000.
The special postal service between
Pilot and McCanna has been discon'
tinued.
Nearly 500 resident hunting permits
nave been issued by the auditor OF Cass
county.
The case against David Gordon for
~..,,no ,,nuor at jamestown may be
dropped.
Ada. sent a special car load Of people
TO Fosston to witness the Ada-fosston
baseball game.
|. Row Roberts, a well known boy OF
Devils Lake, born in Fargo, died from
H. kick Of a horse.
|. Ole Reeveland marketed the first new
wheat at Harvey. His average Is eight
bushels per acre.
County Commissioner Wagar OF
ITower City threshed ten to twelve
bushels Of wheat an acre.
About 5000 acres of Stutsman county
land will be devoted to the raising OF
beets for the sugar factory.
The stone work on the new Sheridan
house at Bismarck is completed ana the
structure is now ready for brick.
None Of the friends or relatives OF
the brakeman, James Monroe, VINO was
killed at Hankinson, can be located.
Much of the wheat south OF Wheat
land is said to have been so badly dam
aged by rain that 1t Is not worth
threshing.
A Jamestown man writes that when
Griffith & Co. get to heaven n Angels
will not be allowed to whoop things up
Sundays. -
The experiment of the government
| with ~artesian wells at the military post
at Bismarck is being watched WIN
considerable interest.
George Ganssle, formerly OF Bath
gate, who has been located In Mime
apolis for some time, may again make
Bafhgate his home.
Daniel Cops, a nine-year-old boy OF
Grafton. was probably fatally injured
by Falling from the roof of a house and
striking a rain barrel.
All the grading on the Milton extern"
sion Of the Northern Pacific has been
completed. It is thirty-two miles long.
Track laying has begun.
It is said that Clint Nickells has pur-
chased the abandoned drug store at
Great Bend and will remove 1t I'd
wyandotte and resume business.
Henry Church Of Paramount tried to
force q shell into a gun. The gun ex-
ploded and the boy received injuries
A Mimic man, now in California,
writes back warning the Walsh county
people not to tackle the Belgian hares.
He claims that they are a great pest.
L. Movious. w. 6. Movious, Frank
Parizek and A. J. Movious are a quar-
tet Of L~idgerwood young men who
have gone to Baltimore to attend a
medical school.
A Mrs. Smith of Quincy, Ill, was ar
rested at Darlington on the charge of
being a fugitive from justice. The off,
Gals did not place her in Jail and she
escaped. The Illinois sheriff arrived the
day after she had vamoosed.
Track laying on the Milnor-Oakes
extension began last week. Mr.. Clancy,
who put in the yard tracks at Minor
and oakes. says they will reach Cakes
in less than thirty days If they are able
to get material fast enough to keep
them going.
A Sargent county farmer who went
to Edmonton to take advantage Of the
cheap Canadian lands, has returned .
sadder and wiser man. He would not
give an acre Of good farming land in
North Dakota for q whole quarter Sec
ton up there.
Myers has Withdrawn from the race
In the Seventh judicial district and will
accept the nomination for states at
torney again. It is said the Pops win
nominate either McClary Of Cavalier
or McMurchie Of Walsh. All look alike
to Kneeshaw.
Little Joe Geiroh Of Wells county,
who lost his right arm and three fingers
from the left hand by being run owe
by q train, is getting along splendidly
and has learned to use q number Of
tools with two fingers. He is only four
years Of age. &
There seems to be some trouble at
Casselton because the proposed band
stand was not erected. Funds were
raised for that purpose by certain
ladies. Some citizens want to blame
the band boys for the delay, and Direc-
tor Putnam says 1t Is an injustice.
"A snake five feet long and as large as
. mans wrist was found and killed in
Lovejoy's store at Grafton last week.
The reptile looked like a boa constric-
tor and no one knows where It came
from. It is supposed to have escaped
from n Of the travelling snake shows,
Gov. FanQner refuses to commute the
sentence Of Ira Jenkins, sentenced for
murder and Ira must hang on Sent. q.
According to q Bismarck correspond,
ent the supreme court has denied =
motion. for q rehearing in the Simpson;
disbar1nent case.
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