The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-06
NORTH DAKOTA

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Lakota is elated over promised tele-
phone connections.
The town Of Bisbee will soon be In
c%orporated as a village:
Hornerites are holding religious ser
vices in Pembina county.
Blackleg is still prevalent among cat
tie in the vicinity Of Wilton.
Knut Hagen has been sent to the
asylum from Steele county.
Ed Taylor of Rolla had a finger cut
off last week by q circular saw.
Oscar Greenbaum has received his
commission as postmaster at Binford.
Pat Cooney of Lisbon gets 5000 back
pension and SIP per month from now
on.
A Lisbon child played with matches,
and the insurance companies will set
tie.
A broken needle was removed from
the leg Of a little girl baby at Harkin-
son.
A new business block will be erected
at Mimic in the early spring by H.
Ring.
Mr.. Christ Hagen has sold his inter-
est in the Hillsboro roller mills to T.
H. Dahl.
August Anderson Of Slaughter has
accepted a position as guard at the
p%enitentiary.
The Dickinson bank shows prospect
ty, with especial emphasis on the un-
divided profits.
Fred Leithner of Barnes county, re-
Gently taken to the insane asylum, is
deaf, dumb, and insane.
A young man named w. T. Bingham
fell from an elevator at Hatton and
was partially paralyzed.
William German, an old resident of
Portland. was found dead in his room,
having died from heart disease. )
The bank at Wilton is said to be q
certainty, and other enterprises will
follow in the course of events.
D. A. swanlaw of Langdon has been
offered $4,000 cash for three quarter
sections of land near that place.
Jack Mapes of Crary was arrested
at Lakota on the charge Of selling
grain that did not belong to him.
A STEAK thief entered the apartment
of Miss Raa, a Buffalo school teacher,
recently, and stole SIG from her trunk.
WA. Hughes Of Mimic has accepted
q position with Wyman, Partridge &
Co. Of Minneapolis as travelling sales
man.
R. H. Murphy of Portland had a leg
Oroken while alighting from a street
car in Chicago, while there on business
last week.
Hankinson people are tickled over
the action Of the 500 in promising to
make $4,000 worth OF improvements
IN that town.
1lIkx1ixseeporsets that y,,sspsa!ssyoeas4sss,
soh OF Mrs. Wood Of Hoople, has re-
ceived the appointment of federal
Judge of Alaska.
Roy Ballard, formerly chief Of police
Of Casselton, recently released from
the asylum, has removed to Fargo and
Is driving a hack.
The publication of the provisions Of
the reservoir law has started ranch
men out west to hustling and inyesti-
eating the measure.
Suit is to be brought to compel the
signers Of the bond of eX-TTeasurer
Beaudry to pay the full amount Of the
shortage covered by the bond.
The Mimic flour mill is shut down to
await the placing Of new machinery
therein, which will put the mill on a
standard with anything in the u
try.
At Cooperstown a committee has
peen appointed by the Congregational
church to recommend q successor to
the pulpit recently vacated by Rev. e.
8. Shaw.
Druggist ]. w. Boeing of Mimic is in
the push with the rest of the energetic
business men there, and is placing a
complete new set Of store fixtures In
dis store.
J. B. Meacham Of Wheatland has
oeen having a hard run of luck with
nis horses this year, his latest misfor-
tune being q horse killed by falling
INTO q we'll.
The papers Of the northern part Of
the state show that a great multitude
are taking advantage Of railroad ex.
rursions and are visiting their old
comes in Canada.
Brother Mitchell Of Mimic is now a
%eull-fedged presidential postmaster,
his Office having recently been raised a
grade, necessitating the confirmation
of his appointment by the senate.
A sneak thief stole the outfit of a
eailroad man at Dickinson, and pro-
seeded to adorn himself with the stol-
IN clothes, which the other fellow rec
ognized. Now he's serving time.
The members of the Pioneer Hose
aeam at Bismarck have established O
benefit arrangement, whereby an In.
tured member receives a benefit, and,
!r. case Of death, his family gets SOB.
A German boy at Dickinson was ac-
eidentally shot by his brother. The
gun was loaded with buckshot, which
tore the side of the young mans head
oadly. There is little chance of his re.
eovery.
Andrews, the Casselton negro con-
victed of rape. gets eight years in the
penitentiary. The fact that he wrote
! poem addressed to his attorney
would have settled his case If the 9TH
er charge hadn't,
Architect Ross of Grand Forks has
submitted to Banker Titus Of Mimic
plans for q new bank building, to be
erected In the spring at the latter
place. 1t will be Of pressed brick and
will cost between $4,000 and $1,000.
Rev. Shaw Of Cooperstown, while
'dding to Larabee on his wheel, where
be was to preach that evening, ran in
81 . hod0or hole md waa thrown fO