The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-20
NORTH DAKOTA
wants a town hall.

Buffalo wants a. town nah. Il
Cass Lake has voted to incorporate
Park Rivers school population is 466.
Casselton has another artesian we'll.
Barnes county has a tnition fund OF
$18,O36.6O.
/. Rails will soon be laid on the new
Washburn road.
The Mimic opera house is undergoing
ley improvements.
The Glendale schools have opened
for the winter term.
+. d. Murphy hiss sold his farm near
Hamilton for $4,000. )
Frank Hovey has been appointed fish
warden Of Nelson county.
Over 800 students are in attendance
at the agricultural college.
Dan Sullivan Of Wahpeton was shot
and killed in Montana.
The. home of J. NJ. Hopkins Of Lari-
more was destroyed by fire.
The state o%ratorical contest will be
held in Fargo in February.
A debating and literary society has
been organized at AbercrOm!,ie.
The new&A..O T.. ": hal at Lakota
will be formally opened Oh Feb. %.
w. J. Hawk has disposed of his ma
chinery business to Timothy Curren.
Leeds has a new Touring mill which
is being operated to it's fullest capacity.
The Pembina district court is in SEES
sion with eighty-nine cases on the cal
endar. rp Vs.
1t is expected the cheese factory at
| Wheatland will resume business in the
spring.
w. Gallup of Casselton is just fin
ishing q. handsome new steel covered
barn.
Some 800 lights have been added to
the Valley City electric light plant re-
Gently.
Mink~are reported plentiful in Rich
land county and trappers are having
good luck.
The additional ward building at the
state insane asylum at jamestown has
fbeen completed.
1t is rumored that two large brick
store buildings will be erected at La.
kota in the spring. .
The depot and freight Office Of the
Northern Pacific at CasseltOn are now
6ghted by electricity. :.
| S. S. Klein has established a broom
factory in Kenmare and has every
Wing in running order:
The citizens of Cathay experienced
! kerosene oil famine last week. and
tome were without light.
Carl Olstad, a member Of Company
6, who served in the Philippines, died
|at Valley City last week. W.
"A chess, checker and whist club has
been organized at Cooperstown and 1t
convenes nightly at the hotel.
A farmers elevator is being talked
|of for Mayville, with a capital of $780,
600 and Il capacity Of $4,000 bushels.
+. e. .Kenaston. Of Wahpeton has
been elected president of the American
T%hreshers' Manufacturers association.
+ A team, ran away at Glendale and
went three miles into the country and
back again where a cowboy captured
them on horseback.
The assessed Valuation of Benson
county is. S1,s20,O55 and. the rate of
taxdtfon s''per cent :,The population of
the'county: is 1000. ,..,s. 4
Andrews. paint ;shsp, and the Midway
cigar. store at Darlington were destroy
FfHby fire, This makes the second fire
for that town within a week. - .
MI. Lorin Nelson. a teacher of.W aash
county and a member of Company @,
has received an appointment in the
census bureau at Washington: ~
|; The. .eitizets Of A~bercrombie have
appointed Il committee to confer With
Of buying q chemical engine. ssE 70
A. little. blaze at the collamercial:
house ia Ellenda1e recently caused con-
siderable excitement. among. the guests
ofAthe. hotel for, q, few: minutes.
:Ex-Senator"Aeouge, Clark of Forest
River has disposed. Of his; property
there and with lis, wife has gone to the
Pacific coast with a view Of locating
there. >'t''-'. ':,a-., 30. "
Hannah" Anderson, aged. twenty, has
been declared insane at Grand Forks
and committed to the asylum: Insan-
ity was the result Of an: attack Of
Typhoid fever. ar '
/. Joe Miller, who Stabbed Adolph
BROKER Dec. 90, . was captured in
Ipswich, S. d., while going under the
nalneaof j. Z. Elwood, and has been
teAESen tip Jamestown. :
A man stole a jug of whisky from
q wagon at Sheldon and the same
night returned 1t to the home Of the
town marshalssthe contents untouched.
Must have been a tough article.
Tie citizehhs aa6ff.>Bowbells are con-
Stantly endeayoring to become metro.
politan, and the next move will be the
Organization Of a literary society.
The Griggs County Fair association
will Olga well on. the fair grounds and
will prepare for a. two days celebra-
ton July 4 and 5, or 3 and 4. Purses
amounting to $1,000 will be- offered. ;.
r.. f. Peterson. a contractor who re-
Gently moved from Devils Lake, to La
Moure, already has a number Of con-
tracts for buildings on which he will
beginswork in the spring.
Some days ago MI. Thomas Of Devils
Lake was appointed a wheat inspector
from this state at Duluth. Now comes
the news Of the appointment Of j. s.
Abrahamson Of Grand Forks to a SINH.
lar position ut Minneapolis.
Ferdinand Rolling, Charged, with
stealing grain, made. his. eseape-from
the jail at Darlington. HE had coinsid.
cradle money on, his person and It III
! thought he has taken.an extended trip
to. other. quarters: ~.