The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-03-31
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the warehouse at tenlO, Nsoln couA
ty.
| A Dunseith lady was baptized
through n hole in the ice a few Gays
ago.
The creditors of the Grand Forks Na'
tional Bank get another 5 per cen divi'
dend.
Will Cole. son of the NJ. and N. agent
at Grand Harbor, has struck 1t rlcn III
Idaho.
Register of deeds fees in Richlano
county for three months reached near
~ $1,000. ~
The Valley City postofice fight mas
been settled and e. X. Myhre carries
/ off the plum.
The Square Butte cheese factory IN
/ Morton county is using 1000 POUNDS u
! milk a day.
Minnewaukan has voted to issue $lO'-
! 600 bonds for the erection OF a new
school house.
A man giving his name as kramer
seems to have been working the valley
City preachers.
Brakeman Robins had the misfortune
to lose a finger while making a coup
ling at Willist9n.
Several new buildings will be built at
, Williston this year, and among them
/ will be a Catholic church.
Thomas Forbes Of Buford, Williams
county, is getting his ferry boat ready
for the spring business.
Mrs. Robert Rowe sold 100 acres OF
land at Minot for $1,000 cash, and Will
build a college in that city.
It is reported that prairie chickens
are being shot up in the Turtle noun
tains, regardless Of the law.
A petition is beingcirculated In vii.
liams county to increase the number OF
county commissioners to five.
The Hauges synod Of the Lutheran
church of Dakota. Iowa and Minnesota
will convene at Grafton June 6.
An attempt to chloroform and rob
Mrs. Stewart, landlady Of the Boston
hotel at Fargo, was frustrated.
Livingstone, the Washington convict
captured at jamestown, has been re-
turned to serve out his sentence.
A paper was signed at Lakota last
| week for the erection of a Jail. The re.
cord stands 1OS for and 1 against.
B. F., q carpenter in the Northern
Pacific round house at Fargo, was bad
ly injured by a fall from a scaffold.
The ice in the Missouri at Mandan
has broken up, and it is expected, with
another warm spell, it will all go out.
Herbert Ingraham and Willie Rogers,
two Perth boys, have enlisted in the
| United States cavalry at Fort Riley,
Kas.
The cowboys Of Dickinson think their
privileges are curtailed since the au-
thorities prohibit the carrying Of fire
arms.
P. p. Rice will build an addition tc
his store at Hope, and will increase his
stock of general merchandise accord
ingly.
State sportsmen will hold a state
shoot at Grand Forks June IL and ID.
Some $4,000 in premiums will be
| offered.
Cashier Jones of the Rugby State
Bank has a string of running horses
that he expects some great things OF
| this season.
Mayor Johnson's forthcoming annual
report will show that 100000 persons
| have registered at the various hotels
there this year.
Elevator companies are rushing the
| wheat out Of the state to- avoid taxa
ton, which will be imposed if it re-
mains after April 1.
Rev. G. L. Arnott Of Elliott has tend.
cred his resignation as pastor o fthe M.
E. church at Elliott, and will leave soon
for Toronto, Canada.
Postmaster Lesh Of Bowbells has ar
ranged to accommodate about zoe
roomers at his farm buildings during
the immigration rush.
Engineer Green and Fireman Keno.
who backed into a Great Northern
train ut Casselton, have been let out Of
of the Northern Pacific service.
Fred Hoisington, general appraiser OF
abandoned military reservations, has
been at old Fort Pembina this week.
and will tackle Fort Buford next.
Out on the stock ranges 1t is reported
that a few cattle have died from black
leg and tn evolves killed a few, but
the aggregate losses have been very
small.
It is said that the new towns along
the railroad extensions in the northern
part Of the state are long on blind pigs,
and enforcement league spoilers are tc
investigate.
W. D. Skidmore, arrested for rape at
Dickinson, and bound over in $4,000
bail, has married the young girl in the
case, and the matter will probably ba
dropped.
A good many farmers in the north.
ern part Of the state are finding that
mules make very serviceable farm ami.
mails and are making purchases for the
spring work.
There is a cas- of small pox in the
family Of Frank Heley at Hankinson.
The family have been quarantined,
and no serious results or spread Of the
disease is anticipated.
Northern Pacific surveyors have com.
pleted their survey from Minor to
Cakes. The Republican expects trains
to be running from st. Paul through
Cakes early In the summer.
Some 1900 hides from the beeves
issued at Standing Rock were shiped
from paddock a few days ago. The
hides sold to the highest bidder
and brought nearly $3.50 each.
Capt. Aud Of Dickinson suggests tina,
on Memorial day this year, an especial
effort be made for the honoring Of thu
heroes Of both var whose bodies rest