The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-03-17

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Lake, is dead.
Bowbells is to have q fruit and con-
fectionery store.
Anamoose expects q large immigra-
ton this spring.
Considerable sickness is reported in.
McHenry county.
Col. Robinson is building a new resi-
dence at Mayville.
Mcclellan & Burger are putting in a
lumber yard at Portal.
A boot and shoe store is scheduled at
Paramount this spring.
Abe Smiths livery stable at Bow
bells is nearly completed.
The fans are beginning to agitate.
base ball matters at Cooperstown.
The school entertainment at Leeds.
was one Of the best seen there this sea-
SOn 30
Langdon Masons have some difficulty
in securing q site for the proposed tenn
pfc.
Customs Inspector Murphy will erect
a Ox4O two-stOry building at Portal
this spring.
The horse-whipping episode at Shey-
enne, in which a preacher was whip
ped, will not down.
Eugene Partch of Leeds is tearing
down his residence and will build q
much better one.
Burris & Hardy, merchants of Cath
~, have dissolved partnership, MI.
Burris retiring.
Grand Forks people are endeavoring
IN oo,,w n ~ nvfnnSi0n NJ tho S0n' rnQ6
to that city from Darlington.
II. c. Plumley of Fargo is announced
as a candidate for delegate at large to
the Republican national convention.
There are 100 children of school age
in Foster county, according to the In
J dependent, an increase of 4S9 In ten
years.
Dogs about jamestown have on
tracted the habit OF chasing sheep. and
they are as destructive as Ben C0rbin's
wolves.
Angle bars and other equipments for
the Bismarck, Washburn & Great Falls
road are arriving at Bismarck over the
Northern Pacific.
W. Loughland of Nelson, near Willis
ton, is a sheep raiser, and thinks he Is
euCSCSS1uAs HVSAy ~ VI Ian WV S~NS
one has given birth to twin lambs.
A Mandan man mas plans for q coke
! oven, which will be made, and Ignite
tested, to ascertain as to whether good
/, coke can be made from it or not.
A hotel man was arrested at
Churches Ferry on Tie charge Of habit
ual drunkenness, and sent to Fargo for
treatment at the Kelley institute.
More chicken-pox is reported at Wah-
peton. 1t is claimed that there are sew
! en- new cases. and that there has never
been a cas- of smallpox, as reported.
The mail clerks on the Great North
ern who have been making Minot head
quarters for the last ten years, will
hereafter make Grand Forks their lay
over place.
An endeavor will be made to raise
sufficient funds to insure the erection
of q soldiers monument owe the grave
Of Private Lamb, who was recently
buried ut Hamilton.
Congressman Spalding has recon-
mended that q postofice be established
in the northwestern part Of Stutsman
county, callel Pertle Springs, with G.
W., Gerbeg, postmaster.
The X. P. boys at Casselton have an
established reputation for being royal
good fellows, and their recent social
session was an eXemplifcation OF what
they could do in that line.
T DR.. w. d. Lyle and family nearly
met death at Havana, Sargent county,
from escaping coal gas. The timely
discovery by the doctor prevented the
whole family from asphyxiation.
The stockmen In the western part OF
the state are jubilant over the c0nd1.
ton of the stock, and SO far, with the
exception of a very few herds. stock
has found subsistence on the range.
Cashier Farup Of the State Bank of
Edinburg, makes an excellen showing
in his last call statement. Deposit
line, 4 2,9OS.24, no bills payable ana
the bank less than six months old.
A man named Bergman, who was
saving ice on the river at Minot took
header in eight feet of water. Things
looked dubious for him for q while. bus
he was rescued, and he still cuts Ice.
Fire started in q wardrobe in the
house Of William Van Hovenburg. ct
Yorktown, but by heroic efforts it was
extinguished by his wife, after 500
worth of clothing had been destroyed.
Northern Pacific surveyors are work
ng4west of Mandan, between Sims and
Curlew. There is a large curve be-
tween these towns, and 1t is the tnten-
ton to run a straight line Of track,
thereby shortening the distance about
six miles.
The apportionment Of school funds
through the state at large, and since
the change in the law by which eacn
county gets its own contribution to the
school fund, the majority of the coun-
Ties are gamers. The February app0r-
tiOnment is large.
The Pembina Portland Cement COM
pany has contracted with a COMPANY
for the transportation Of the material
from the mine to the works. a system
Of dump cars will be used, on the gray
ity plan, the weight of the loaded cars
going down pulling the empttes up.
In 1873 Ward Bill and W. n. B.
Clark's stock Of Imerchandise. west OF
the James river, was seized BY Fort
Seward soldiers, who claimed that they
fwere in Indian territory and were sell-
ing liquor to Indians. The claim Q
the stock Of goods has been reported
On fav0rably In congress for the. second