The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-05-26

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2l, weighs 2SS pounds.
There is a scramble for fax seed ID
! some sections:
Cakes is enforcing the dog license
ordinance.
Rain is badly needed at Bismarck
and vicinity.
The Bowesmont ferry across the
Red will be operated free ms year.
Vegetation in the state Is 1artnei
advanced than for many years at ln's
season.
In Osnabrock some n has peer
~ncisoning the pigs that run loose on
the streets.
The jamestown school board a ~
creased the salaries Of q number OF lts
teachers.
Work on the grade for the WASH
burn road is progressing rapidly at q
dozen places. ....
Politics was so warm in Bowuon
that some of the fellows tousht ~ H.
out.
The owners of the Hillsboro starch
factory want the people to plant po-
tatces.
There is said to be a case OF dlpn.
liberia in the Deaf and Dumb school
at Devils Lake.
H, C. Ruhd has secured the contract
for the erection Of the Hughes electric
plant in Bismarck.
Thorpe, the Minot wife murderer,
begged for his death sentence, and was
accommodated.
One of the earliest business build.
ings at Bcttineau has been retired
from circulation.
A laundry team ran away at the
Forks. and the team looked winter
than since the last snow storm.
A German drove into the lake at
Balfour and had a narrow escape
from drowning his team.
The postofice at Parkhurst has been
ordered discontinued, and It's mall
will be sent to Jamestown.
Dirt is now being moved at a dozen
different places along the line Of the
new Washburn road.
Rev. s. E. Ryan, who has just been
transferred to Casselton, is undergoing
an attack Of humps.
Bernard HILBERT has been appointed
postmaster at Boo, and G. 5. Rude at
Mona. both in Cavalier county.
Farmers near Mayville are rejoicing
over having struck good soft arteslan
water; but it is away down, 1863 feet.
The streets Of Darlington are being
S,o~uovod on1 fho hil.orc oro roiOicino
thereat-those who don't own all the
sidewalks. O
Bondsmen Of Park River druggists
have been sued because of violations
Of the prohibition law in relation to
LIQUOR permits.
Tramps get on the Northern Pacific
at Mandan. L caught and fined IN
Bismarck and the capital city people
kick .on having to feed them.
jamestown wants the city ordin-
ance against tramps enforced.
Mimic and Park River are getting
ready for their annual fairs.
Christian Scientists at Hallock have
Incorporated under the state laws,
rented rooms and will hold regular
services in future.
There is an attempt being made to
strictly enforce the Sunday closing
laws, and as is usual in such cases,
there are those who object.
An Indian outbreak occurred In Far
60 the other day. An Indian filled up
with firewater and went scalp hunt
ing. He was landed in the cooler.
Principal Hoover of the Park River
public schools. has succeeded in hav-
ing drawing added to. the curriculum
for the coming year. A special teach
er will be placed in charge.
B%ottineau citizens took UP a collec-
ton for the support of the families of
the Canadian soldiers in the South
African war. and forwarded a neat
sum to Montreal.
The flowing we'll on the hill at Port
land is about played out, and the peo-
pie are beginning to wonder where
the water supply is coming from for
fire protection.
President Harmon has resigned as
the president of the Mardan Fair as
ISOLATION. and was succeeded by Mayor
McGillic. Secretary Kennedy was
succeeded by G. L. Heegaard.
Nineteen land agents were looking
over Northern Pacific land beyond
the Missouri last week. and stockmen
are beginning to fear settlers may en-
croach on the range.
John Needham, formerly of Absar.
aka. now of Hope, was seriously in
iured while chopping kindling wood.
The K caught in the clothes line
and he cut his skull open.
j. ]. Hess. who has oficiated as
yardmaster of the Northern division of
the Great Northern during the past
two years, has been transferred to the
Montana division. and has been given
a car for his private use.
The Mc;Ienry county commission.
ers pigeon-holed the Balfour petition
for a bridge. The citizens became in
dignant and: dug up the funds for a
bridge, which al built in two days,
and everybody Is happy.
The controller Of the currency has
approved the organization of the First
National Bank at L~idgerwood. N. D..
with q capital Of $4,000. ]. Mathews
OF LlQRerWOOO, j. A. Morrow, NJ.
Lynch, ID. III. Slime and Frank Patzek
are named as incorporators.
Rev. G. Barnes. formerly president
Of Fargo college and a genial gentle
nan is said to be supervising three
farms and has splendid prospects. He
has hOsts of friends who will BIZ
pleased to learn of his bright pros
poets.
Jacob Schmidt, the Russian who, it