The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-12-15
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81 s. news. /

Bismarck has 100 cases Of measles.
The Ice men are about the busiest
men in the state.
The Barrie band Is doing some good
practice recently.
The young men Of Crazy have organ~
lied a social club.
Eva Young Of Belfeld has been
granted an So pension.
Towner has a chemical engine, and
q fire company will be organized.
VIM. Burnett of Cummings, the for
mer well known fusionist, Is dead.
At Spiritwood Lake the freeze-up
came so quickly some ducks were froze
in. q
Some Dickinson catt1emen have sent
cattle to South Dakota for winter feed.
ing.
All county treasurers must get bonds
from surety companies-under the new
law.
1t is reported that diphtheria has
again broken out in southern Barnes
county.
I, Charles C. Crum will be the new
postmaster at Grand Rapids in La
Moure county.
A Walhalla man has predicted a mild
winter. He's a brave man-since the
recent snowfall. r
G. A. Soule, roadmaster on the 500 at
Harvey, is missing and a number Of
creditors
The injunction against a Wyndmere
place, in which booze was sold, was
made permanent.
Farmers around Wolcott have nice fat
turkeys, hogs and cattle for sale-in
addition to wheat.
Barnes county is proud of It's distinc-
ton as the sixth county in the state in
point of population.
A Mayville man has q pair of tame
coyotes that were captured in the vest
ern part of the state.
A Leeds man swiped three shirts for
which he was fined $40. He thought
his shirts came high.
Superintendent of Schools Hatton OF
Mclean county killed a ten-pronged
buck in Oliver county.
H. L. Dickinson of Dickinson sold ten
carloads of sheep. which netted be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000.
Mimic officials will punish tough kids
who board trains and make a nuisance
Of themselves generally.
George Griffith pleaded guilty at Eli
lendale to burglary and was sent to the
pen for fourteen months.
jamestown kids are said to be a trife
too anxious to SNOWFALL pedestrians
to suit some of the ladies.
The telegraph wires into the Penn
bina depot are to be gathered in a
cable to prevent humming. "
A peddler attempted to unload some
shoddy clothing on Anamoose people
and rightfully got the 6. b..
Ex-State Treasurer Booker is said to
be recouping in old Mexico, where he
has some valuable interests.
Courtenay has an opportunity to se-
cure an electric light plant If the citi-
zens will take hold Of the matter.
Mayville people are sore because the
fax mill, for which a bonus was raised
and paid-doesn't operate-there.
When steam was turned on in the
new Churchill-T ellner block in James,
town, the pipes burst and the cellar
was flooded. y
A Lakota man picked out a nice place
alongside his barn to dump his ashes.
The fire department saved the building
after a hard fight.
A team at Dickey ran away with a.
wagon and a hind leg OF one of the
horses was nearly sawed of, necessi"
tating shooting the animal.
At Kindred III band has been rel
organized. A number of new members
were taken in and the boys expect to'
do some swell footing soon.
Col. Creel, of the state militia, hopes
to see an encampment another year.
He says it is difficult to keep up in>
terest in the state guard without it.
Sheriff Axtell Of Dickey county was
fined SO at Milbank, s. D., for abduct.
ing a man from South Dakota for
whom requisition papers had been re.
fused.
T%hreshers in the vicinity of Bowdon
charge 81 per hour for threshing-
nothing said about bushels. Laborers
get 50 per day, and hard to get at
that.
A Trail county young married couple
separated owe a father-in-law. made
up again., and are happy-Wn1le th9
father-in-law Is being urged to let his
daughter alone.
The question of the eligibility of Mr..
Lyon to the Office of superintendent Of
schools Of Stutsman county Is raised,
on account of his being a resident Of
the jamestown independent district. I.
The well-boring outfit that has been
used on the second jamestown well is
being shipped to California. The peo-
pie are advised by men, who claim to
know to dynamite, h well. and may
be it will flow. ..s,s .s...,
There will he a Legislative contest in
Sargent county. John Powers, the fu..
sion candidate, will contest the election
Of ). +. Deylin, republican. Devlin a
ten votes to the good. which Powers
claims are fraudulent.
A Meckinock dealer In hides spur-
chased a load Of pelts and stored them
back of his store building. Some boys
swiped the stuff brought the hides
around to the front.door and sold them
over again to the merchant.
The eighteen-mohths-old son d Mr..
and Mrs. Jarvis Of Wimbledon under.
took to poke the. fire with q cejluIoid