The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-25

Mergen Bros: OI r Oil
a two-story brick building.
A. ]. Burnett, a former Dickinson at
torney, died in Texas recently.
Late flax is said to be visibly I'M
proved BY the recent heavy rains.
.Plums, cherries and high-bush cram
berries are plentiful around Pemolna'
There is plenty of help to care Tor the
crop in the northern part of the STATE
Three colts belonging to Peter Maine
son of Milton, were killed by lightning.
According to the Williston Herald.
George Marelius is importing Shetlano
ponies.
The heavy rains have delayed n
oonstr,ction Of the ne wopera house at
Casselton.
President Worst expects to go to COL
orado Springs to invite the Farmers
national congress.
Peter Quady, the young boy VINO lost
a leg by being run over at harvey -
able to be up again.
Harvey had a pair of fights ana
three runaways last week, and is as
Stunning H~6LTOpO1lIdL o"Ss
A farmer at Wales, Cavalier county,
is charged by his nephew with Destroy
ing his domestic happiness.
The new town Of Doyan, six miles
east of Crary, Ramsey county, Is sald
to be a hustling little place.
An educated Jap at Williston robbed
some laborers of 5000. He seems to be
learning American ways.
Farmers who had wheat good enough
to harvest are now losing it, as the re-
cent rains sprout the grain in the shock.
There was a woman at the bottom OF
the shooting scrape at Valley CITY
where two young men were filled with
buckshOt.
Treasurer r. Mcbride reports $o2,-
s91. % on hand in Pembina county June
30. Pembina always has a balance on
the right side.
Harry King, a sixteen-year-old boy
living near Valley City, was caught IN
a mower and had his leg broken and
foot badly crushed.
E. Perry, an employe on the Midgely
farm at Wheatland, fell under the
wheels of a wagon and was run over,
his shoulder being dislocated.
Mrs. Frank Bieber of Casseiton was
called to WATERFOWL, Wis.,, by the seri-
Gus illness Of her mother, which ter
minated in death on Wednesday even
ing.
Lewis Pond, the progressive young
farmer Of Church's Ferry, lost his crop
by hail, hut, as he has a diversified
farm, he was dependent UPTON the
wheat crop.
Nepthalie Tracy, a tree peddler, is
under arrest at Langdon, charged With
attempted assault upon Mrs. j. Brad
bury, wife of a farmer living east OF
that town.
According to a correspondent OF the
Argus, a lady barber in A%ugusville was
visited by q Chinaman, who claimed to
be her husband. He broke all her ra-
zors and bought her a ticket for Grand
Forks.
Commissioner Barrett writes the Bis
marck Tribune of the benefits of tree
planting as a means of equalizing rain
fall and preventing storms. Commits
sioner Barrett never loses an opportu-
nifty tho promote tree-culture.
An epidemic of diphtheria Ia broken
out in the vicinity of Valley City.
There are a number of well-defined
cases, but as yet there has been but
one fatality, Mrs. Julia Woodford.
housekeeper at the Lester farm, near
Valley City.
On June 20, DR.. Ridlaub of Fargo
purchased a horse of R. Humphrey,
paying s175 and receivin ga guarantee
Of the animals soundness. On July q
the horse died of pneumonia, and the
doctor has just won a suit for the pur-
chase price Of the horse. He gets $195
and costs.
A brute down in LaMoure county is
said to have left his COW tied in IL
yard two days without water or food
and to have recently left his team in
anything to eat. About q week If be-
ing tied to a stake in the sun without
either food OF water might help him
some.
A curious feature is to be noticed in
many of the wheat field sthis year.
This is a second growth of wheat from
the crown of the old plant, after the
original crop has been cut. On may
fields the growth is six to esight inches
high. In many cases there is a new
growth from seed which failed to germ
mate in the spring, but which has been
started by the later rains.
Ward county is so large that county
division is a popular move. Minot will
be continued al the old county seat
and there is a hot rivalry between
Bowbells and Kenmare for the head
quarters for the proposed new county.
One reason urged for division is the
Size OF Ward, which is so large that,
great expense is attached to the adj
mintstration of its affairs.
Lea Wright of jamestown. as an old
stockman, says it will always be no.
ticed that when nature provides a Sec
ond crop in the fall, as now, 1t means
a hard winter to follow. There was
little growth in the early part of the
season, but it is rapid now after the
ncavy rains. Some good hay has been
spoiled by too early cutting and some.
who thought it wasn't going to rain.
u down all the hay they could and
the showers caught It.
The Freeman shooting case took On a
new phase in Valley City when Free
man, the man who did the shooting on
Saturday evening, wounding Howard
Eittsman and Thomas Liene, was ar