The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-04-28
Tho cr,nd,n postofice has a new set

IQere are cl6ASy
Elbow Woods agency.
The Bartlett p~ostoffice mas Dee"
made q money order office.
r p. Rance succeeds Prof. kimDali
as the principal Of the Mimic schooi
The Alliance Hail association Is IN
the field for business again this season.
Albert Thorne, IN Englishman. SUI
|,cided at Portland by the poison route.
An Ontario man is to bring some
French Canadian settlers to a Pemblna
man.
James Liberty Of Mimic has sold MS
Elevator to the Duluth Elevator com
pany.
The st. Anthony and Dakota Eleva-
tor company is erecting an elevator ut
Bartlett.
E. E. Willoughby Of McHenry re-
ports sales Of machinery a~ggregating
$1,000 a day.
The wife and daughter Of X
|Shortridge have located at Devils Lake
to practice o%steopathy.
McTIenry has sixteen bsuiness firms
and more coming in. There is a good
opening for a flour mill.
An Iowa man will submit to the
council of Washburn a proposition to
put in an electric light plant.
At the election Of Company K at
Dickinson H. J. GruscEus was elected
first lieutenant. vice A. J. Osborn.
Prairie fires have been numerous In
the vicinity of Williston, but not near
enough the settlements to do any DAM
age.
Owing to the early seeding this year,
farm hands are scarce. Us the usual IN
fux Of workingmen has not yet ar
rived
Ground has been broken in Bottineau
for O block to be 26x7O and built of
brick made at the Bottineau brick
yards.
Five of the hoboes who held up @
train at Hebron got thirty days. The
others will have a. trial in the district
court.
The weather was never more favor
able for seeding and spring farm work
than it is this year in the Red river
valley.
w. G. Candee Of Dickinson was
stricken with complete paralysis as he
was recovering from an attack OF rhell-
matiSm.
A Wheatland citizen complains that
his seven-year-old sol was brutality
fogged by two Of the local school
teachers.
Attorney Simcoe Of Dickinson has
been i'll since his return from Maine,
where he was called by the illness OF
his father.
The old settlers of Ramsey county
will organize an association and will
! hold their first meeting at the Chau-
tauQua on July 3.
Three brick business blocks, several
residences and nor paving are on the
list as some Of Wahpeton's improve
ments for the year.
Harris drug store and Bishops
butcher shop at Cakes were burglar
lied and Sheriff Axtell is taking steps
toward the capture of the thieves.
A fire started to burn off hay land
got beyond control and a large amount
of hay in stacks belonging to w. Gros-
venor, near Casselton, was burned.
There is plenty Of vacant land about
McHenry that can be bought on easy
terms. but the country is rapidly being
settled with. a good class Of settlers
from the East.
The railroads in this state are
making war on the hoboes who are
caught stealing rides, and one was ar
rested at Bismarck and given ten days
for beating the railroad company.
w. W. Star, a new settler, found $40
on tile streets at Churchs Ferry that
another immigrant had dropped and
left it at the bank for the owner, q
man named Hausman, who rewarded
the man for his honesty.
The board of management Of the
Valley City normal school has re-
elected the old faculty for the ensuing
year with the exceptioneof Miss Har-
ris, who has resigned.
Controller Dawes approved the con-
version of Bottineau County Bank of
Bottineau to the First National bank
with a capital of $4,000. f. B. Noble
and N. E. Thompson are named as in
corporators.
James Wardel, night clerk at the
Ontario hotel at Minot, is missing. to-
gether with some money and a watch
belonging to the proprietor OF the
uOuSCs WdiOGl udS uClCSOAVAC UOAuu
q good reputation.
Mrs. John Proudlove of Bathgate has
begun suit for $1,000 against the Great
Northern Railway company for in
juries received last fall from a fall con
sequent on broken planks in the depot
sidewalk or platform. Her arm was
broken and she received other injuries
for which she thinks 5000 would
about compensate her.
Sheriff Jones closed all the resorts in
Wahpeton and confiscated about $500
worth Of bar fixtures and supplies. No
warrants were issued for the arrest Of
the proprietors Of the places. The raid
has effectually closed the places and
it is said that no criminal proceedings
will be commenced against the owners.
Several sales Of claims taken by
Stutsman county mon are reported at
good figures. James Doods, who lives
near Melville, took a claim in Wells
county two years ago. He borrowed
800 on it and this spring sold his
right for $1,000. Another claim taken
five years ago recently sold for $1,000.
Before justice Nels Bernstein in Sill
vesta township, Walsh county, recent
", a fine Of $50 and costs was imposed
on John Myers, a member Of the school
board, for making an effort to prevent
the Aardahl children, whose father is