The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-04-14
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Farmers are preparing for seeding.
Settlers are here and more are com
ing. +.
Two feet Of snow at Dickinson last
week.
Valley City people still want an op'
era house.
A farmer near Olga thinks he has
discovered oil. :
Two car loads of settlers have ar
rived at Barlow.
Slatterly Bros. of Botineau are build
ing a stone store.
Grafton's Business Mems club hat
been incorporated.
Cavalier county reports go farms
proved up this spring.
Wells county is. receiving a large
number of new settlers.
S. F. Corwin has been appointed city
assessor at jamestown.
Emmons county is getting a large
number of new settlers.
Poultry fanciers over the state are
adding to their fine birds.
Mrs. Sloan Of Bismarck has started
on her return trip to Alaska.
A considerable number Of cattle are
being shipped into the state.
Wheatland's new town board Is a
work on the wen proposition.
Hope wants a telephone exchange
and is sure Of thirty subscribers.
Bowbells received 135 tons Of mer'
chandise in three days last week.
Lieut.. Gov. Devine has been i'll IN
Minneapolis. but is recovering.
The depot at Forman was destroyed
by fire, caused by q defective due.
There is to be a telephone from Bot
tineau to a point on the Mouse river.
Lieut.. Gov. Devine will, deliver the
Decoration Day address at jamestown
Sheriff Wilson Of Cass county is re-
covering from an operation for hernia.
The Red river valley university at
Wahpeton has closed q successful
term.
Some 1900 Dunkards passed through
Chicago en- route to the Devils Lake
region.
Charles Ekeberg, a prominent resi-
dent Of Hoople, Walsh county, dled IN
Arizona.
Several large stock farms have been
started in the past year in Ransom
county.
All the best land within>a radius OF
thirty miles Of Bottineau has been
taken up m
The twelve-year-old, son Of Railroad
Commissioner John Simons died at
Valley City.
Game Warden Gokey and another
Dawson man shot forty-eight geese
one day last week.
Presiding Elder Klingel Of Pembina
has served his time limit anu
will be transferred.
Frank Ray of Bottineau was arrest
ed on the charge Of monkeying with
goods under bond.
J.. r. Sherwood of Knox lost his
aome by fire while he was attending 8
wedding a mile away.
President. Brown of the Chattsworth,
Lii, Ouuh, 4IdS pu1CAASCu wv VI INV
sections Of land near Page:
+, Farmers institutes throughout the
state are bringing out the merits OF
bronze grass as a fodder plant.
The Wahpeton colony in Southern
is expected to return to this
state about the middle Of April.
John Rockford, a deaf man living at
Devils Lake, stopped in front OF an
engine ana was instantly killed.
J. f callahan of Casselton, 1t is
said. will have charge of the Devils
Lake summer school this season.
The city of Grand Forks will u the
county for delinquent tax interest and
penalties, aggregating some $4,000
The Northern Pacific road estimates
that it carried 500 car loads Of immi-
grant movables to thellstate in March.
The fax filf mill Fargo made q
shipment Of hFnty-ssyen cars Of PROD
uct to its Eastern Establishment last
week.
The new list from the Devils Lake
land Office shows that 700 parties have
recently proved up, on land in Towner
county.
Joseph Kouta. a Bohemian farmer
living near .Pishek, Walsh county was
from his wagon and his neck
Judge Sauter gave Thomas Coleman
De Cavalier i've years in the peniten-
kiary for false afidavita in proving up
on O claim.
Several car loads of telegraph poles
and -piling forsthe Washburn road have
arrived in Bismarcksand are. being,tak-
en- Forth.
Iowa and Nebraska farmers are buy
ing land in Stutsman county. One man
from Nebraska bought a h~alf-section.
Tor $1,000.
About $50 farms have been proved
up on in Cavalier county, and Will BE-
come subject to taxation for the first
time this year "
Charles and Roy Barringer, two
young. men from Forgy, Ohio, have ar
rived at Willow City and. will take UP
there:
The bank building at McHenry is
nearing completion and Cashier T0rgu-
son expects to open the institution Tor
business s0on.s
The new .artesian well at Formnn is
completed and an Enclosure has been
built over. it to keep the refuse matter
from the water.
sheepmen in the vicinity Of Oakes
are arranging for wool warehouse
I'M order that they may have a wool
sales day proclaimed there 81
North Dakota has another grain
growers association; organized at. q
meeting held at Grand Forks Thorn
Dodds of Hope Ii president. 5.