The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-09
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Wimbledon will observe the Fourth.
Valley City people r agitating q
street fair.
The Fourth judicial district conven-
tion will be held at Cakes June ~,
The Larimore Roller fills have been
sold to the Imperial Elevator company.
James Clark, the Mclean county
horsethief, was captured by an lndlan'
Great preparations r being made
for the old Settlers picnic at BOttin-
eau
The livery team thought to have been
sold at Davenport was found at Kin
dred. F'
The long drouth and the recent hot
weather is doing up the grass on the
ranges. ~.
Lisbon -four mills are to furnish half
a dozen car loads of -four for a Chica-
go finn
r. H. Smith has been recommended
for postmaster at Mandan, which ends
an old fight.
A Dakota celebration company is in.
corrorated in Delaware with a capital
Of $2,000,OO0.
Windmere puts in a bid for the di-
vision joint on the Minor extension-of
the Northern Pacific. ..-
Mrs. Jennie NJ. Chenerey Of James
town has had a. story accepted by an
Eastern publishing house. =
Two Harvey ladies who Killed a
skunk last week have at last succeeded
in disinfecting their clothing.
The Bowbells Peoples Dry Coal
company has been organized. 1t owns
three mices in Ward county.
Officers are still hunting for Chill
koo, supposed to be the murderer of
Simon Welsh of Bismarck.
Telephone extension is demanded on
the Great Northern west-all the way
from Grand Forks to Minot. q
Charles Rauch, a farm hand. was
badly used up in a runaway accident
near Burlington the other day.
The Sheyenne Star got just one in
suraDce statement, and puts an interro-
cation mark after it's vote Of thanks.
United States deputy marshals have
gathered in a bunch of alleged timber
trespassers in the Rainy River coun-
try.
Hamilton will put in an immense els
tern, equipped With modern filters, to
get a supply of water for drinking pur-
poses.
A new settler from Michigan was
caught in a storm at BOttlneau ana
both his horses were killed by light
ming.
A barn on the Hoover farm, near
Montpelier, was burned. 1t contained.
among other things, 800 bushels Of
wheat.
Mayor johnson of Fargo has closed
up the merry-go-round which was lead
ing the good people Of that city into
evil habits.
company extends to Cakes commune
cation by phone will be opened up
with Aberdeen.
The postofice at Hebron is reported
to have t.een removed to a point ear
the Klondike saloon. Where is the en-
forcement league?
The Fargo, Duluth railroad could
not secure right of way through Moor
head, and the route is now being sur.
veyed south of that city.
Chairman Shea, of the Richland
county Republican central cimmittee,
has been up in the Canadian North
west on a prospecting tour.
The grand stand of the Fosston fair
ground went into the air in a recent
gale of wind, scattering over a two
acre field. 1t will be rebuilt.
A Jamestown man who has kept a
weather record for every day for six
teen years, figures out that this is the
dryest spring and summer in that time.
> The first class to graduate from the
school for the deaf at Devils Lake will
receive their diplomas at the closing
exercises of the school on Monday af-
ternoon, June II.
Mrs. Ida >Langkiet Of Arapahoe,
Okla, wants to ascertain the where
abouts Of her husband. When she last
heard from him, In 1896. he was with
a threshing crew at Dickey.
1t is reported that an effort is being
made to detach one tier Of townships
from the east end of Dickey county
and add the same to Sargent county.
This will remove Cakes into q new
county.
Dan Murphy, one of the Soo's popu-
lar conductors, has taken a vacation
and gone to Mcintosh county to look
over his ranch. 1t is said he likes the
change from .ticket-puncher to COW.
purcher.
Suit has been begun to GUST Miss
Kate Kern from the Soo-Pacific. hotel
at Harvey, which she has operated for
several months. Miss Kern will be re-
membered as%-landiady OF the Sheridan
at Bismarck in 1898. :
Senator McCumber has introduced a
bill for the appointment OF three COM
missioners to treat with the GrOs Ven
tire, MaIdan and Arakaree Indians for
the cession of a portion of their Fort
Berthold reservation, this state.
G. F. MCGOWAN, who lives near
NorthW God, is somewhat exercised
over the disappearance Of his cousin,
who is supposed to have been captured,
by the FilipinOs, while serving as a
soldier in the Philippines. /,
. The Hiram Spade estate, at North
wood, was invent0ried and appraised
at $76,OM. Mrs. Clara Z. Spade, Wild
0w Of deceased, has been appointed
administrative, and NJ. v. Mnwell and
Judge Templeton are engaged as at
torEeys for the estate.
Rev. q. b. Gavin, the lew Methodist
minister, died at Cathay Of heart trou-
BILE. He was formerly located ut VIM
bledon, where he was very popular.
He was to have been married May 81.