The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-23
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| will celebrate the Fourth.
The horse racing at Hope this year
will be a warm proposition.
Fire at Sykeston destroyed smiths
meat market and ice house.
The Great Northern hotel at Cavalier
has undergone extensive repairs.
| At. ISingal Mr. and Mrs. l.. i. Nayes'
celebrated their golden wedding.
Emmons county people will get to-
gether at Braddock on the fourth.
The new ordinance at Drayton gives
the mayor a salary Of $$25 per year,
A daily star route mail service is ad-
yertised for fromsG lasston to Hensel..
O. Il. House of IOgt.a county was ac--
Quilted of the charge Of embezzlement..
One of the trains entering Hanna
ford is known as the "Flying Dutch
man."
Pat Forest, the popular Cando BON
face. is. being boosted for the state leg
islature.
Comrade William Griggs of Lisbon
gets a Sc pension. He is IN the SOL
diers' home.
Devils Lake voted dowI1sa proposj.s
ton to bond the city for $500 ta,ersct
a new city hall.
It is said there are more fake insur-
ance companies this year thar ever.
most Of them hail.
The fire limit is to be observed at
Langdon and a wood and hay market
will be established.
Langdon had another fire scare last
week, but & bucket brigade put q
quietus to the blaze.
Cavalier county officials are dis.
gusted with having to pay the bil1a of
persons quarantined.
A small blaze in the Capital hot$ at
jamestown frightened the boardfrs'
but did little damage. ~
The stockmen in the western part Of
the state will kick on the migratory.
herds eating off the best grass.
Old soldiers are smiling v the
completion of, the hospital in connec-
ton with the home at Lisbon.
John Vasa of Norman county is re-
ported to have been killed by a falling
tree out in the pine country.
Henry Erickson, known as the Nor
| + 4hAANCS, la a y ~
nomination for railroad commissioner.
Two Fessenden men had an argue
ment. One got out of wind and useN
his knifc-and convinced the other fell
low.
A site has been purchased and o
brick block will be erected at Lakota
for the new national bank to be opened
there.
The dry goods store Of A. G. Evans
at Lisbon was almost totally destroyed
by fire. He carried $500 insurance
on, stock and fixtures.
While attempting to board a freight
train in the Bismarck yards James
Martin, a tramp. fell beneath the
wheels and had his leg severed.
Chairman !Gjevre Of the Cavalier
county board called a mass meeting Of
citizens to discuss good roads. A goo6
move which might be followed with
profit elsewhere.
AN alleged oculist got SO fresh at
Minot by ineulting young ladies that
he was rotten egged out Of town. He
is said to have been thoroughly deco.
rated with ancient hen fruit. s.
The tuba player in the Bagley band
went to practicing the other night and
charmed a black bear out of the woods
and up to his house. The musician
roasted on the peak of the roof O
couple of hours keeping very still and
the animal concluded the show was
over and left the premises.
Tie two-year-old daughter Of John
Hanson, while playing with other chill
| 1~r,, ~, Sn NvvsvNrnNs rpv0C r1SCSO1 at -
o'clock one afternoon. and after search
ing all night she was found W and a
half miles away in a swamp exhausted
und wei through, but very much alive.
The Pembina County Fair and Ex-
hibition association has published IT'S
seventh annual premium list. The fait
will be held in Hamilton ON July 10,
10 and 20. An excellent programme
has been arranged, and n large sum of
money will be distributed in premiums.
A Fort Berthold correspondent writes
Of the destruction of the old Arricare.e
medicine lodge above the coolee o.
-Four Bears. which occurred ON May
26. 1t was laid low by a cyclonic
the barbaric rites once SO conspicuous
Ill tuc VNcit udS liz III AnS AAttiAu SAS
lage of old BerthOld.
The Bottineau County Bank has
passed into the hands of the new firm
with Tllurston Stabeck as president.
Miss Thompson will remain for q time
at least until C. L. Newhouse. the
cashier, returns from Revere, Minil.3
where he has gone to set his family
The old bank building remains wit
the old owners, while the real estate
transferred. The building will be used>
for a bank for time, but a little later
the new firm will erect, q brick CT
stone structure on their lots. This
bank is thirteen years old. having been
established by Harmon Bros in 1887.
In 1891 Senator Noble went into it as
cashier. He had had ar interest in it
for some time. though at this time. he
secured a much larger one. In 1893
Mr.. Noble bought q majority Of the in-s
~terests and was elected president. with
Miss N. p. Thompson as cashier. GIt
remained thus until the past week.
Judge Winchester has taxed the
costs In the Mandan blind pig cases,
He allowed a total of between $500.
and $500 az the fees and charges OF
Constable Clark and Ills deputies,
laboutSa sixth Of the claim Of Mr..
Clark, which was for $500. Insthes
charging Of costs. Constable Clark Al
lowed his own fees at S. q day for
each place that was closed and kent
LIN charge Nv the officers 1SIdun WIN.