The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-07-14
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SCRIPT. Way of Devils Lake is now
the proprietor Of the Commercial hotel
there.
A Presbyterian church was Dedicated
at Holm es. thirteen miles south or EN-
erado.
Denuty Examiner Wallace checked
I'M Treasurer Ross at Fargo, and FOUND
everything o. K.
The census in Fargo is finished, and
II is believed will show q population OF
10000 or 1900.
Cass county assessors have returned
]nronertv about half a million dollars
higher than in 1892
r. J. McMahon of Hope was acQuit-
ted on a charge Of embezzEng $l,OOo'
from the Plano company.
The saloon Of Barker & Bartee, at
Erderlin was raided and twenty-five
barrels of brandy c~onfiscated.
Farmers in the James River valley
are so anxious to get hay that they are
shortening the crop by cutting TOO ear
~.
Hans Jacobson of Minot was caught
in a rope and dragged some distance
by a horse before he could rescue him
self.
Minot drug stores are permitted to-
fill subscriptions. but are not allowed
to fill booze orders, pending q decision
on their cases.
There is a disposition to sell off stock
on account of short pasturage. Stock
will be worth money, n those VINO
non hold on will do we'll.
E. H. Bly,, formerly the Bismarck ho-
tel man, will erect a building l2O feet
long, near the Missouri river, n raise
chickens and Belgian hares.
The directors of the Mandan fair as
ISOLATION held an enthusiastic meeting
and decided to go ahead with the fair
this fall on a grander scale than ever.
P. E. Byrne, who knows how to talk,
makes a stab at some fellow who un'
dertook to backcap the Northwestern
Mutual of Milwaukee. Pats the boy
who "a do it.
The term of the district court in
Stutsman county has been adjourned
to July 8, when Judge Fisk will be in
attendance to try the Glaspell-P Purchase
case.
Mayor johnson of Fargo sent out
1,5OO letters to prominent men through
the country, asking for books for the
public library. He has heard from 1
per cent of the letters, and has four
teen books.
The Andrews & Gage Elevator COM
pany is closing a number Of its ware.
houses in different parts of the state,
anticipating little business this fall. 1t
is likely that a number Of the Peavey
houses will also be closed.
A number of coach loads of dagoes
were sen east by the Northern Pacific,
the work being concluded for the sea-
son. AS business promises to be light
this fall, the road will not make all the
improvements anticipated.
A visiting geologist to Walhalla has,
during the past month, made several
interesting discoveries in that region,
which he says will be valuable in time
to ccme. He is to write a paper Oh
the subject for one of the leading mag
aZines.
1t takes only a little rain to brace up
the tiller of the soil. After the heavy
storms in the eastern part of the state
last week, there were general reports
Of greatly-improved conditions from
various parts of the state, with hopes
for half a crop in many places.
Conditions through the state are not
as bad as reported. The grain crops
have improved since the recent rains,
and there are many farmers who will
harvest a better crop than they expect
ed. Flax is looking we'll in many local
tiles.
John A. Masters of jamestown left
recently for Denver, Col, where he
and a number Of capitalists plan the
erection Of a $4,000 electric power
plant. The power is secured from
swift-running streams of water and is
carried many miles by wires.
A Dickinson dispatch says: Five
hundred thousand pounds of wool are
in the Dickinson wool warehouse, and
no buyers in the field. The wool men
are indignant ut the seeming scheme to
force prices down, and have COM
menced baling and consigning to Phil
adelphia commission men.
The Walker school house, five miles
north of Curtenay, burned to the
ground recently, and a jug partly filed
with kerosene found near the ruins, Is
believed to be pretty good evidence
that the fire was of incendiafy origin.
The building cost over $500. The
school board has offered a reward Of
800 for the perpetrators.
Old Mr.. Hefta died Mt the home of
his daughter in Pulaski, Walsh county,
at the ripe old age Of 1O5 years. Mr..
Hefta came to Pulaski twenty years
ago, along with the first settlers in the
community, and has resided there con-
tinuously since. He was hale and
hearty up to q few years ago, since
which time he has been almost help
less. i
Andrew F. Blair, an extensive farm
er and prominent citizen Of Cando,
died at st. Barmabas hospital, Mime
apolis. He had gone to Minneapolis
with his wife, with a view Of making
that city his future home, when he was
suddenly taken sick. He was fifty-two
years old and a thirty-second degree
Mason.
A farmer near Bowdon met tho
daughter of a Mclean county tiller Of
the soil and was so smitten with her
charms that he began q correspond.
ence, finally proposing marriage. He
was accepted, the wedding day set and
all arrangements completed. When he
went fOE the bride she didn't know
anything about the deal. Her brother
had carried on the correspondence.
81. T.. Still. division freight agent OF
the Northern Pacific, has been making
q trip through the state looking over
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