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

New hay is being sold in the James
town market.
Blackleg is prevalent around Car
riEgton.
Wimbledon will organize a fire de
partmert.
w. f. Hopes is q new attorney q,
Darlington.
Walker Bros. will build a new bricl
block at Fargo.
There is a great demand for James
River valley school lands.
The 500 found it necessary to en-
large the depot at Cakes.
Frank Miller. the first settler in Mel
son county, recently died.
The postoffice at Elm Point, Pembi-
ma county, has been abandoned:
The Misses Schafer of Page are nov
on their claims near Anamoose.
jamestown will have $4,000 worth
Of new buildings this summer.
Bismarck waits to know what has
become of the telephone system.
The fertile Antelope valley, around
Oberon, has a good crop this year.
The Northern Pacific will operate
fountain near its depot at Mandan.
A spotter was in Valley City last
week attempting to get in his work.
Cavalier county will spend $500
for roads and bridges this summer.
Lightning last week destroyed the
house of j. O. Strand, near Wild Rice.
The Trail County Telephone compa-
ny declared a dividend of 80 per cent
Peter Gulson of Belmont township
is under arrest at Hillsboro, charged
with rape.
Bismark's long-distance telephone
does not materialiZe, and the people
want to know.
The ,Walhalla cattle thieves got
terms ranging from twelve to eighteen
months. @
Will Patton Of wahpeton has secured
a position in the census Office al
Washington.
A hobo got gay at Lisbon and began
to shoot at nail heads in the sidewalk.
Heswas jagged.
Walter p. Christian of Orr gets a
Sc pension, and George A. Fisher of
Larimore gets 50.
A tailor at Valley City has mysteri-
ously disappeared, and it is feared he
has committed suicide.
The early settlers picnic at New
Rockford was a happy occasion every
body had a good time.
Hillsboro is putting in a new water
works plant, water being supplied
from a well just back Of town.
Minnewaukan claims that the new
court house to be erected in that city
will be the finest in the state.
DR.. Belyea, recently granted a new
trial by the supreme court, has re-
turned to his old home, Minot.
The Fort Totten Indians are arrang-
ing to celebrate the Fourth more elab-
orately this year than ever before.
Notwithstanding the dry weather,
the breaking plows are operating In
the western and northern parts Of the
state.
A drunken farmer drove his team
into the Sheyenne at Lisbon, and
some goods he had purchased f1oated
down the stream.
/. An effort will be made this year to
raise $4,000 to make needed improve
ments in the Red River Valley uni
versity at Wahpeton. .
The teachers institute in Kidder
county was a great success. Nineteen
teachers attended, and unusual inter
est was taken in the proceedings.
The Northwestern telephone people
are experiencing some trouble in Sc
curing right Of way for their line
80, ~, cf tho fo rms nncys SSN1slsinr.
ton. Il
The Wimbledon people find their
water works system is no good for
fire protection without hose and an
engine, and n'opose to bond the town
to raise the necessary funds.
A nan named Schultz was thrown
from a wagon load Of poles the other
day. neal Bottineau. and 4 sharp piece
Of timber was driven through, b
feshy part Of both legs, causing his
death.
Conductor Charles Perry of the Bot
tineau branch. met with Il painful ac-
cident last week. He attempted to
make a coupling and got his fingers
caught between the drawbars, the re-
suit of which was two badly-smashed
fingers. H.
John. Dan and Mike Schmidke were
arrested in Ransom county on the
charge of stealing 200 bushels of fax
from the elevator at Venlo, on the
500, last March. One CT the men con-
fessed. but claimed the amount was
80 bushels instead of 200.
William Kelly was arrested at Lari-
more on the charge of running a blind
pig, and attempted to escape from the
lookup. He was succeeding finely
when the chief-of-police appeared on
the scenes and placed him in q CELL. He
was taken to Grand Forks.
A case of we'll developed small pox
has been discovered at KeDsal, Stnts-
man county. The patient, q man. was
taken to Couttenay for examination,
where tile disease. was found to be in
an advanced stage. He was returned
to Kensal, wlhsrc quarantine was es-
tablished at once. DR.. Baldwin was
notified Sunday, and At once left for
Kensal to establish proper regulations.
Friends OF Hon. w. w. Barrett.
state superintendent Of forestry; will
be pleased to learn that a few Weeks'
rest and special treatment will. 1t is
thought, restore him to his accus.
toned strength mental and physical.
Ignite coal from the Satterlund
mine. was. successfully used in a test
on a locomotive onfthe Washburn road
the other day, and with this fuel b