The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-07-14
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Joe Miller of Cando gets a Sc pen
sion.
Mclean county continues to get good
rains.
Wahpeton" has issued it's sewer war
rants.
The dog -poisoner is busy at New
Rockford.
The Missouri slope will have hay for
everybody.
New, hay is worth $40 per ton at
Jamestown.
The dog-poisoner at Bismarck got
the mayors canine.
At Sheyenne window glass was brok-
en- by hail last week.
T. NJ. Carpenter, oil inspector AT
Hankinson, has resigned.
Hail knocked out what little wheat
was left around Courtenay.
The Emil Pepke diamond case is
sure to 20 to the United States supreme
court.
1t is expected that the new census
will show a population Of $500 for Bis
marck.
A Wimbledon butcher became dis.
couraged over the crop prospects ana
vamoosed.
A fire in the stubble very nearly
Lake last week.
At Aneta a fine grove Of trees was
ruined by a fire starting in some rub
bish adjoining.
Boys at jamestown leaned too heav-
fly on a %plate-glass window, and some
body is SIS out.
Rev. Roberts of the Congregational
church Mt Wimbledon, has accepted a
call in Minnesota.
The La Moure County Insurance
company advertises and offers for sale
all its notes and judgments.
The Elm river, in Cass county, Is dry
at it's mouth, the first time within the
recollection of the Oldest inhabitant.
Six cases Of smallpox have been dis
covered at Ebro, in eastern Polk coun-
ty, and the place has been quarantlned.
Some of the Fargo papers say that
over $500. 600 has been made in wheat
speculation there since the advance be-
gan.
A number of citizens of Stutsman
county want a system of prairie ire
breaks to save the range in dry sea-
sons.
A party of Wimbledon people has
gone to the Mouse River valley to cut
hay, which will be baled and shipped
home.
Montana and South Dakota ranchers
sent 145,OOO pounds of wool to Dickin.
son for sale, and then no buyers ap.
peared.
Eleven horses belonging to Fred Pl-
per, q Cass county farmer, were found
to be affected by CHAMBERS, and were
killed.
Jennie Holman had an attack of
sunstroke at WahpetOn. and her tenn
perature ran to 1O7 before she could be
relieved.
Frank Hughes of Gladstone was ar
rested on the charge of. attempting to
poison some Of the railroad crew for
which he was cooking.
Owing to an error in the survey, the
Turtle Mountain reservation will not
be opened on the date first fixed. The
new date for opening has not yet been
set.
Among the good things baked by Vic
Haslam of Devils Lake for the old set
tiers at C%hautauQua were $50 lOaves OF
bread, one beef, four hogs and five
sheep.
Attorney Remmen is e%recting,a stone
barn 3Ox7O on his raEch near Montpel-
Ter. The wooden one recently burned,
and he is after something less CON-
bustible.
Chief Moose Dung has only forty-six
acres left Of that section OF land at
Thief River Falls that was given him
by the government, and which caused
20 much trouble up there a few years
ago. He has sold 1t and gone into mer-
chandising at the agency.
An attendant at the insane hospital
named Coad has been arrested on the
charge of maltreating a patient named
Gleason, who is likely to die from the
effects of his injuries. Coad has here
tOfore borne q good reputation, and he
SAYS that GleasOn's injuries resulted
from falling down stairs.
Two Nelson county women went to
law over q hen. The Justice kept the
bird until about twilight. and then set
her down between the homes of the
contestants, swhcn she scOOted for
her roost. and the other woman was
soaked for S.. That sort Of.justice is
Solomon, Daniel and Haroun Alras-
child all rolled into one.
Punk" Allen, who took the Valley
City automobile to Fargo for the fire
festival, has been unable to return on
account. of blood poisoning, which at
tackled his right hand. In starting the
machine he repeatedly bruised this
hand, snd the wound. which first ap-
peared to be a simple abrasion of the
skin, has developed into a very serious
case.
John Toffel, who lives on North prai-
RE, near Min0t, lost n span of $500
hsrses in an unusual manner. He was
engaged in filling up an old well-with a
scraper, when the of horse came so
near the brink Gof the well that 1t
caved, letting the horse into it hind
parts foremost, dragging its mate after
It. Both horses went to the bottom Of
the well. 1t took until Monday noon to
get them ont. and. they died four hours
after. Mr.. Tonel had but recently pur-
chased the team, paying $500 cash for
them.
The supply OF water at Glasston,
Pembina county, is.so short that resi-
dents are limited to a pailful a day.
Water is being hauled to Glasston
from the Red river, q distance Of ten
twelve miles. In tanks mounted on
wagons. The crops there! are poor,
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