The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-30

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BOttineau wants the early-clOSinS
movement.
The Bpttincau County Bank has
changed hands.
Barbara Isaacs. at Grand Forks.
gets a $40 pension.
Simeon I4etrail is quarantined at
Rolla, suspected Of having small poA.
The Presbyterians of Park River are
rejoicing over raising the mortgage on
the church.
Broneho-busting continues to be q
favorite amusement in many Of the
towns out west. .
Miss Fannie Amidon of Fargo, a SIS
ter Of Judge Amidon, has a valuable
claim near Velva.
Sheldon people have no kick con-
ing against the Northern Pacific man.
agen ent this year.
1t is claimed that good fax can be
grown even when seeded as late as the
last week in June.
The question of shallow and deep
blowing is being dicussed in many
sections of the state.
Bishop Parker, the new bishop OF
the NJ. E. church. is visiting his sister
at Logan, near Larimore.
Most of the business men in the new
town Of Balfour are experienced, ana
the new town is prospecting.
Burglars entered Menke's clothing
store at Sanborn last week. Consider
able clothing, ETC., was carried away.
The supreme court has adjourned,
the Simpson disbarment case being
the last in which testimony was tax
en-.
Some Foster county farmers are
making a big fight against the tele-
phone company erecting poles on their
farms.
Cass Lake has a summer visitor who
has been a preacher, a doctor ana .
Judge Of probate. He is preaching at
present.
Frank Fisk of Bottineau, brother Of
Judge Fisk Of Grand Forks, has been
appointed United States commissioner
by Judge Amidon.
A prairie fire occurred at Dawson
last week, and it required a hard fight
to head it off. The occurrence was an
unusual one in June.
President Hill ard President Mellen
arc both Of the opinion that North
western crops are not so bad as they
have been represented.
The water at Hilsboro will be the
best of any town in the Northwest.
1t comes from a big we'll on the ridge,
and is practically pure.
At Mathew, Willie Lex, a fifteen
year.old boy, tied a rope by which he
was leading a colt, around his body,
and was dragged to death.
l.. s. Stafford of Kelso cultivated
some of his wheat With a hoe seeder.
The cultivated part looks all right T.
the other seems a failure.
The first rat yer seen in Grand
Forks was killed in a lumber yard last
week. Rats are as scarce as guberna-
torial nominations in that vicinity.
During a thunder storm in Eddy
county last week. lightning struck he
ground near a farm house. setting fire
to the grass. and the farmer had to
work five hours to eXtinguiSh the fire.
A subject of general comment is the
remarkably healthy color of grain, de-
spite the dry weather. Instead of be-
ing yellow. most Of the grain is dark
green, showing a vigorous condition.
This is doubtless caused by the deep
roofing of the plants in search of
moisture.
BY reason of the almost total de-
%struction by fire of the town Of Edin-
burg, a few months ago, and the fact
that the regular tax assessment on
April 1 would prove a hardship. the
com commissioners Of Walsh county have
evepel things up Ivy making a grant
of $500 to the Edirburg school dis
trict, payable Nov. 1.
Sheriff Bogue of Bismarck. returned
from Glendive with Chalmers. who
was lodged in the county jail. The
governor Of Montana hoEored the re-
QUESTION papers. and Chalmers was
turned over to Sheriff Bogue by the
Glendive sheriff. There was a large
and interested crowd Of spectators at
the train to see the distinguished pris-
n d
1t is reported that Commissioner NJ.
]. Barrett Of Minot has appealed to
the secretary of the interior in regard
to the ruling of the commissioner Of
the general land office. under which
persons acting as United States COM
m%:ssioners cannot appear and practice
before the local or general land office
as attorneys for clients. The decision.
will be awaited with interest.
A claim agent of the Great Northern
was in Minct the other .lay. settling
with some Of the employees of the
company who had been injured at that
point. John Baker. tie fireman. who
bad his hand mashed il, q. wreck some
time ago. tool: $500 ar. called it off.
Alfred Iegher, vino was hurt in the
ice house accident, settled for 500.
One or two other cases were settled.
A frightful accident occurred at the
farm Of Charles Carlson, four miles
west of Minor. in which Jens John
son, a twelve-year-old sboy, lost his
life. A horse the boy was riding BE-
came frightened and he was thrown
from the saddle. His feet caught IN
the stirrups and he was dragged a con-
siderable distance before the lorse
could be stopped. When picked up he
was dead, his neck being broken.
Walhalla people, it appears. have
been eating stolen beef, but neither
they nor the butchers knew it. A
gang Of cattle rustlers has just been
broken up there, after doing a thriv-
Ing business for some time.
While the twin boys OF John John
son of Casselton were playing near
the water tank on the Great Northern
railway, one Of them found a revoly-
.er, and. in examining it. the trigger.
uuno nslllod aud tho ros.olror ill.,.