The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-23
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hammers Bros. & Nelson will erect
a number Of windmills at Solway.
Blind Pigger Jones was ordered out
of Lisbon and his place smashed up.
Miss Kate Olson opened the new
hotel at Finley with u free supper.
Cando will have an old-fashioned
Fourth Of July celebration this year.
Another party of twenty Iowa land
seekers has been in Mcintosh county.
Western range men are complaining
of poor pasturage and light hay crop.
A Bottineau man captured a live tur;
tie III the street and the next day it
rained.
A Darlington man recently captured
six wolf pups and got the bounty
thereon.
Mai. Ralph Hall of Darlington has
four cousins with the British army in
South Africa.
Rugby wants better fire protection
and may purchase a compound chemi-
cal engine.
A rural telephone line runs ton miles
north from Valley City and has nine
subscribers.
In, Pembina county there are some
| complaints of the flax being destroyed
by worm
Commissioner Laxdahl is preparing
a list Of lands to be offered for sale in
the near future.
/ Some OF the boards of county COM
missioners are using W pipe for
culverts with good results.
Railroad Commissioner Erickson at
tended the national meeting of railroad
commissioners at Milwaukee.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Walhalla
are reseding barley and flax land
where the grain has been blown cut. !,
Flax seeding goes on apace, in many
cases wheat fields which have. been
plowed up being sown to the later
crop.
Towner county has purchased a car
load of thing to he used for culverts
instead of planks along the country
roads.
1t is claimed that in a new town in
the northwestern part Of the state the
first building was erected for n blind
pigger.
There is a rumor that the Mandan
liquor cases are about to break out in
a lew place and charges of conspiracy
may be made.
A. sturgeon weighing 100 pounds and
containing twenty pounds of eggs was
caught last week at toilette, Pembina
county, the other day.
Booze is said to he hard to secure at
Harrington since the row there in a
house of ill fame. in which a pair Of
visitors were carved.
The 500 road will ballast a lot of
track and will put n steam shovel III
the Bordulac gravel pit. Two trains
will be run all summer.
HillsbOro is to have a water works
system and the water will bG taken
from wells along the ridge west Of
town instead of the river.
The laying of rails OH the Washburn
road has been completed as far aS
Arnold, the first station on the line out
Of Bismarck, ten miles north.
A sixty-foot extension is to be added
to the Great Northern depot at Lang
don, and the Republican kicks because
1t isn't an entirely new depot.
Peter Kupka. of jamestown was in
the hospital i'll. His little son was
kicked in the head by a horse and his
little girl broke her leg by a fall.
A Hillsboro man tainted and fell
through n glass door. his head and
neck banging OH the Jagged glass. Ills
cuts. were numerous but not serious.
Light frosts are reported in a few
localities. The damage appears to have
been confined to a scOrching. OF the
edges Of leaves OF tender vegetables.
Sheriff McKechnie OF Darlington did
not secure the man TOlan Who had
been held in Montana. The fellow es-
capped before the arrival OF the ofnccr.
Alb Murray Of South Heart was the
victim of q rattlesnakc while getting
out cedar posts in the Bad Lands,
having received a bad bite on the shin.
From all over the state come reports
of the havoc wrought among shade
trees by measuring worms. In mar
places the trees are left entirely bare.
Andrew Higgins of DevAssIsake has
had chills ever since he was born, and
has finally wound up in the James
town asylum. He came from Arkanr
saw.
A little boy in Fargo touched a
match to n load of hay and hay and
wagon went up in smoke. while one
of the farmers horses was badly
burned.
Darlington is rapidly putting OH met
rop0litan airs. 1t hasa tenderloin dis.
trict and a daily paper, and a carving
ARRAY in the former is duly reported
In the latter.
Hereafter in Cavalier county persons
who are quarantined will be expected
to pay to the county the amount ex-
pended fol. their support while de-
tained IL they are financially able to
do SO. ss
Migratory sheepmen in the. western
part of this state and the eastern part
Of Montana will cause some of the
lcattlemen to seek new range for their
Icattle. The sheep are. unlOaded and
feed the grass down 30 closely that
There lie little left for stock.
The. 500 line has builtn twenty-four.
foot addition to- Its depot In Cakes. II
will be used for a freight room. The
work was completed in a few days
after It was begun-before most peo-
pile In Cakes knew they were building.
This will besa great Accommodation to
their blslness at that3point. / a