The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-03

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Erie il said to be growing rapidly.
Hog cholera is reported at Christine.
And now sheyenns wants e fire en-
CINE.
The cando school building Is cons
pleted.
The Ramsey county fiax crop is
yielding well.
Dickinson's, new telephone exchange
10 In operation.
John dollhouse Of Blanchard Will
remove to- Fargo.
Geese hunters report great success
around Church's Ferry.
The Hunter Mercantile company has
sold its stock at Chaffee.
MISC Lottie Miller has been appoints
ed. postmistress at Lucca.
There are now some thirty cases OF
typhoid at the state asylum.
Robert Hamilton of Rolla was
crushed by a threshing engine.
The new Lutheran church at Green
field, Steele county, is completed.
The annual publication Of notices to
subscribers to pay up has begun.
A Sargent county man raised a beet
t~wenty-four inches in circumference.
&. W. c. Lestikow of Grafton, has pur-
chased the Hogs elevator at Walhalies
People on the jamestown & North
ern are still praying o a daily mai
service.
The chairs and scenery for the new
opera house at Casselton have been
ordered. -
Cavalier county claims there will be
thirty more votes this year than two
years ago.
]. w. Higgs Of Glendale has seven
ty-fve acres Of corr that will go fifty
bushels per acre.
A. J. hammers & Co.. lumbermen,
have reorganized as the Clearwater
Logging company.
: Willie Nook, an Glendale boy, has 3
22-caliber bullet in his leg as the result
Of playing with a rife.
Thirteen applicants for druggists
certificates were examined by the
pharmacy board at Fargo.
The North Dakota farmer now po-
litely removes his hat when anyone
mentions flax in his presence.
Long-distance phone service is prov
ing popular along the Cooperstown
branch Of the Northern Pacific.
Ranchmen claim that the range
a is not as nourishing for stock as
It would be had it matured earlier.
Material is en- route for the Ada
electric light plant, which is expected
to be in operation within three months.
A fire did $1,000 damage to the dry
goods Of III. E. Wheeler & Co., at MI
not. The building was damaged 5000.
Langdon is after a rural delivery fol.
the farmers In that vicinity. Congress-
man spalding has the matter In hand.
Steele county had two prisoners for
trial. One died when he heard the
Judge was coming and the other es-
capped.
Some Of the Western papers say that
the range grass is no as good for fat.
tening purposes as IL it had matured
earlier.
This was an unlucky year for the
Headquarters hotel at Grandin. which
recently burned. It had been built
thirteen years.
Some Walsh county farmers plowed
mart Of their wheat under. What they
left yielded well. and they feel that
they were too hasty.
Farm hands in many parts Of the
state are getting 50 per day. and still
there are people who tell us that there
u no work to be got.
s Thomas Cameron of. Crystal got
mixed up with a gas explosion in a
basement, and wears his c~ountenance
In q sling temporarily.
The authorities OF Williston, not be-
ing able to hold Foster on the charge
OF murder, no n being killed, prefer
red atcharge Of embezzlement.
Mrs. Margaret McDonough was fined
80 and sentenced to twenty-five days
IN jail on the charge Of striking q
neighbor woman with q hammer.
The National Bank Of Lakota has
commenced business. It has a capital
Of $4,000. "A. o. Whfpple is president;
a. q. Baird, vice president; r. J.
Drake, cashier.
The east. wall Of the Casselton opera
house bulged out after the roof was
on, and q, part of the building may
have to be torn down to insure q safe
structure.
The attendance at the North Dakota
indian schools was gratifying during
the year ending June 80. 1900. the az
erage attendance being 1,223. outyof an
enrolment Of 1853.
Thomas, who was recently released
from the penitentiary, where he
served q term for forgery, Is under ar
rest at Washburn, charged with att
tempting to set fire to q barn.
Alos Hoffinan.Sfor many years gu
perintendent Of Forts Abercrombie
and Yatesh, died recently In 81. Paul,
II the age tof seventy-seven. He had
been In the Northwest since 134s.
nh young son5sof Richard Smith,
foreman OF the Northern. Pacific shops
ut jamestown. had his eyer injured by
the explosion Of chemicals In the lab
oratdrySo Of the jamestown high school.
. The Sioux 1nnadiIan,ss Rave sold to the
government over 100000 pounds 81
gross beef this week at q cents per
pound. he cattle wereSo { fine quality,
ana VIII net the Indians nearly 10000.
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