The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-29
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Medina,s school house ycostS32.5oos
sheyenne wants q curfew ordinance.
There are lots Of SOW thistles around
lPembina. \
Frank 81. Berg Of Bismarck gets . -
pension.
Langdon's militia company is arrang-
ting q drill place.
A Devils Lake correspondent rails
against .tobacco-spitters.
Postoflce service has been established
at Spalding, Stark county.
Bismarck's electric light plant will be
IN operation in a few days.
Michael Porter, ninety-two years OF
age, died at Sanborn last week.
Lightning got it's work in on the tele-
phone poles around Valley City.
Barbara Brash, wife Of Joseph Brash,
committed suicide at Hankinson.
Company D Of Devils Lake is doing
some tall hustling for an armory.
Tom, Collins, an early settler in Cass
county, died at Gardner. last week:
James stanton was arrested at End
..rlin for burglarizing q barber shop.
Over 1000 acres Of wheat in stutsman
county, and 100 bushels was the yield.
Wayne Stanley has been appointed
postmaster at Nicholson, Sargent coun-
ty.a
An unusual number Of deaths are res
ported in the vicinity Of Casselton last
week.
Ignite coal is used in Burleigh and
Mclean counties for fuel for threshing
engines.
The Northwestern Telephone compa-
nv will extend it's lines from Larimore
to Lakota.
T. r. Lengfeld is now proprietor Of
The hotel at Grandin, owned so long by
W. II. Pratt.
A Barnes county man became insane
orooding over the destruction of his
crop by hall.
p. R. Martin offers a reward Of $40
for the arrest of the bootleggers in h
vicinity of Buffalo. IA
Robert Birch has returned to. Bath
gate after two years in the Klondtke.
He cleaned up $4,000.
Machinery dealers state that more
harvesters have been sold this
than ever before. .s..$, ri,
At Courtenay the members of the fire
are said to have turned out
n their night shirts.
The large Tomlinson livery barn at
burned. The insurance had
two weeks before. G.a4..,
Elmer Bilmeyer and two Horton boys
II Fargo are establishing residences on
heir claims near Balfour.
The management Of the .Casselton fair
will have eighty Indians from Fort
Yates as one of the attractions.
Gsselton people expect the exhibit
the agricultural college to be one
Df the attractive features Of the fair.
The quarantine has been raised on
the Turtle Mountain Indians, as the
small pox seems to have been stopped.
The st. John block at Grand Forks
was flooded recently, a water faucet on
Of the upper floors being left open
I'll night. 1879
Alexander Shoes, Bartlett, So; Mi.
shael Fugina, New Rockford, s.; Croy-
Ion F. Atwood, Sanborn, IL. are recent
pensioners.
The Grand Forks Union Aid society
received $120 as the result Of the. ball
game between. the travelling men and
the regulars.
Sheldon was excited last week yer q
report that Banker r. S. Adams Of
Lisbon was killed in a runaway; but
t was a mistake.
Brother sizer is getting himself well
lisliked-not SO much for Righteousness
rake, as for libeling the president-in
The name OF the Deity.
There is a movement on foot in the
state for editors to charge So per line
:or cards of thanks-to see If the nui-S
sance can't be choked off.
The Turtle Mountain reservation
small pox quarantine has been raised.
Ind government agents are out round
ng up fugitive Indians and half breeds.
J. j. Mooney Of Grand Forks was
chosen secretary Of the fusion state
committee. to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation Of =. G. Car
ruth.
"a big wolf attempted to catch q Dick
~ county farmer. who was moving. In
mis- endeavor to escape the man fright
sned the horses and had good rum
lway. ,S$s Il.
William Smell. living twelve miles
aorth Of Brainerd, was killed recently
~ the accidental discharge Of q shot
gun in the hands Of Johnnie Roach, ~
neighbours son. ii
Charles Ferrier. formerly, of Jaxne,-s
Town, who enlisted With the North Da-
gotta regiment as steward, IL Nv run
ning ameat market In Manila andsAc-
sumnlating q fortune. sEsss#
work on the sarteslan well at the MIL.
Aary post at Bismarck has been sus-S
pended. the contractor having found
lftsr digging fifty feet, that he had
hot suitable machinery to continue the
work
The eleven-year-old son of William
Derra3o Wihiamsport,,s swiped hisEtath-
Sr.ss9uns and went hunting. despitesths
threat Sttat he would he licked iiffSsSShes
ia. He rot eight prairie chickens ana,
g1atherswas 10 pleased With Tie bag
n zane that he forsot to- lick hinssl
Thsis Mrs. Smith who was arfsstsdsat,
carrinstnn on the charge \ entlcins
yIonn1 { girls from home = Immoral
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