The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-10
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shop.
Congressman Spalding has arrived a
Fargo.
Work has commenced on a $4,000
town hall at Forman.
The Foresters of Walhalla will give
a masquerade ball on Feb. %.
The Cando lodges have purchased a
fine piano for their lodge room.
Wahpeton whist players are going te
organize a club and rent q hall.
Glendale people, in mass meeting,
adopted resolutions denouncing blind
pigs.
A number Of cases Of CHAMBERS are
renorted in towns in the James River
valley.
Veterinarian Moore is investigating
Wells county cases suspected Of being
CHAMBERS.
One case Of scarlet fever has been
discovered and promptly isolated at
Pembina.
Two fire alarms were turned in at
Devils Lake last week, but both blazes
were slight.
President Hill, Of the Great North
ern gives $1,000 to the bridge project
at Devils Lake.
There is considerable sickness in the
state this season, probably due to the
"green winter"
Restauranter Nelson Of Williston
suddenly disappeared, and his credit
ors are mourning.
A meeting was held at Wyndmere to
consider. the ACCESSIBILITY. Of establish
ing a cheese factory.
Tom Miller Of Devils Lake jumped
from an %overturning load of hay and
broke both ankles. -"
John f. Magher has had the Walhal-
la clay tested, and finds that it will
make excellent brick.
Ebert Clause has been appointed
postmaster at Dazig, Mcintosh county,
vice W. ]. P. Gledt, resigned.
The Great Northern is being congrat-
ulated by the state press for going out
Of the c. o. D. liquor business.
Supt. William T. Garfield, of the Ft.
Totten Indian school, is in Washington
on business before the Indian office.
Carl Madsen of Hunter, who fought
in the Philippines, wants to go to
South Africa and fight. for the Beers.
Mild weather has greatly hindered
the harvesting Of the ice crop ON the
Missouri, and the ice is of poor quail
!ty.
Seven hundred dollars was raised in
one night at. the Baptist church in
Grand Forks for a new church build
ing.
Capt. Welliman Of Frazee has invent.
ed a fax puller which, it is claimed,
will pull flax so as to preserve the
fiber for linen.
William Snyder's jewelry store at
Willist0n was ~burglarized. Eugene
F%reeEafer was arrested and bound
over on the charge.
Mrs. Florence Hall, who conducts
the West hotel at Fairmount secured a
divorce last week from her husband,
who was q; railroad conductor.
Two carlods Of yearling steers
were shipped to a Towner stockman
from Manitoba. The price paid per
head, delivered at Towner, was $23.
The few warm days melted all the
snow in Pembina county, and, owing
to the subsequent freezing, the roads
in some localities are almost impas,
bic.
A separator has been attached to the
machinery at the fiber mill in Fargo,
to catch all the stray grains Of fax
left in the straw. The result Of the
first days operations was twenty BUSH
els Of fax. =
Mrs. s.. j. Joyce of. Walhalla had a
felon on her finger. The finger was
amputated in order to save the hand.
The wound refuses to heal, and she
may lose her hand.
Thomas Lee, near Bottineau, found
a stone in the mountains recently pos
sessing the hardness of a diamond and
cuts glass. He will send it East to be
examined by experts.
7eJoseph Biza and Wenzel Pohonka,
two Richland county men, have been
taken to the ~penitentiary to serve
three months each for the larceny of
lis bushels Of wheat.
Tho seating capacity. Of the Oberon
schools is taxed to Its utmost. Many
new seats have, been: ordered, and 1t
may be necessary to build a larger
school building next year.
Escaping coal gas almost caused the
death Of two Wahpeton men n night
last week. One of them managed to
get to the door and let in a supply Of
fresh air, and both recovered.
There is q short criminal calendar for
the Grafton term of district court, and
there are fewer blind pig cases than
usual. Those penitentiary sentences
have had something to do with it.
Probably the oldest horse in the
state, a mare thirty-two years old.
died at Lisbon the other day. She was
the property Of Fred Kelly, and he has
able colt raised by her last year.
It is said that the Washbum inter
ests have gone over to the Northern
Pacific. The road will be built from
Bismarck north, but managed In the
interests Of the Northern Pacific, and
the 500 will not be built into Bismarck.
Sam Olson; the largest man in the
North Dakota volunteers at Manila, at
one time during their campaigns
weighed only 100 pounds, and was dis
charged and sent home. He, now tips
the beam at 263 pounds and looks the
picture OF health.
In the United States district court IN
Fargo. the petition of Norman Marku-
y ~ ~ o. /