The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-03-24
The club dances at Monango are YER

George Garbutt has opened a bottllng
factory in Grafton.
The st. Thomas fire department mas
been recognized.
Sixteen l~andseekers from Wahpeton
will settle near BOWbells.
Ferd Piper of Cakes has assumed
charge Of the Lidgerwood hotel.
Contractor Peterson of LaMoure is
missing and the citizens mourn.
N. G. Larimore and James H. Mat
thews Of Larimore are in Washington.
Ole e. Lande has been appointed
postmaster at Galesburg, Trail county.
The North Dakota town that does not
want a fiber mill is yet to be heard
from.
Edward Pierson of Fargo got his
hand into a beef slicer and sliced OF
his finger.
Kate Benson, Il notorious character,
has been arrested at Rosseau for man
slaughter.
At I.angdon the people are already
making preparations for celebrating
the Fourth of July.
G. w. Brady of Oberon has secured an
appointment as engineer ut the Indian
school at Pierre, S. D.
The attempt to convict 4 Napoleon
man of selling beer failed, as the witt
nesses couldn't identify the stuff.
Roy McGregor of Oberon came near
being asphyxiated by coal, gas. bu,
woke up before entirely overcome
Miss Meta Dale of Fargo was ruh
down on Tuesday by a team OF fright
ened bronchos and seliouly injured.
Finley people got the smallpox SCARF
and nearly every one in town has got
n sore arm, the result Of vaccination.
The armory building at Lisbon is I'M
dergOing some Improvements under the
supervision of Capt. Call, of Battery
A.
Conductor Liscum of Fargo was
tLrcwn through a pane of glass in the
cuI.ola Of his caboOse and his face
badly cut.
jamestown aldermen are figuring on
plans to supply the city with water al
proper pressure. What's the matter
with the well?
G. G. Modem. the hardware mer-
chant recently burned out at Sharon
and had to he carried out on his sick
bed, is dead.
Thieves made way with a quantity of
grain belonging to J. Lee near Neche.
but no clue has been found that would
lead to their detection.
Postmaster Swenson of Hoople has
again moved the postoffice to the quar-
tiers formerly occupied and now hopes
that he is settled permanently.
The flow of the water from the arte-
sian well at Portland has greatly di-
unfinished, and means will be taken to
pump the water in case of fire.
Finley has an Improvement associa-
ton which meets monthly and dis
cusses and acts on all matters pertain
ing to the bettterment Of the town.
a Larimore preacher is said to have
preached IN several towns last week
and delivered from one to three ser.
mons each day for the entire week.
Mrs. George Hogan of Bottineau
county went violently insane over re-
]igion and had to be taken to the asy-
lum with her limbs strapped together.
4 brick building will probably be
built in the spring on the site of Sulli-
vans grocery at Wheatland, together
with several ether substantial business
blocks.
The village of Dickinson has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the carryin.
or shooting of firearms within the city
limits. and thus cowboy land is getting
metropolitan.
A man was in such a hurry the other
day to leave jamestown for Grann
Forks that he forgot to pay his beard
bill. He, was invited to stay fifteen
days longer.
In the Boyle land case at Bismarck
where the penitentiary board sought to
condemn thirty acres of land for the
use of the institution, the jury assessed
the damages at $500.
Farmers in the vicinity of Tower
City have discovered a new species of
bacteria prevalent among their stock
and are having considerable trouble i'll
exterminating them.
The mass meeting at Michigan City
called to debate the, new school house
question was somewhat divided i'll
opinion. but a large majority was said
to favor the new building.
The people of Wheatland township
have arrived at the conclusion that
some n cans of fire protection is needed
and before long will probably take the
initiative steps to provide for it.
County Commissioner Rogers of
Barnes county has bought the Root
farm of $40 acres for a consideration
of $4,000, the highest average price
ever paid for land in Barnes county.
Willis Cunningham, an old resident
of Dickinson, died at Tacoma, WASH,
while on the way to Alaska. He vas
stricken with appendicitis and died
while having an operation performed.
An excellent statistical map of North
Dakota has just been issued by Com
missioner Of Agriculture Thomas. The
map outlines the counties and the rail-
road lines and gives agricultural sta
tistics by counties.
An anonymous circular calling for Il
mass meeting of the taxpayers of the
county to meet at Devils Lake to con-
slider the proposition of the county as
Stunning the construction and mainte-
nance Of the bridge at Pelican Point
caused a little ire.
Edgar LaRue, secretary of the Chau-
tauqua at Devils Lake. is in receipt Of
q letter from J. NJ. McCulloch, stating
that he has decided to build a standard
gauge railroad to the ChautauQua
grounds instead Of a narr0w-gauge,
and has ordered material accordingly.
A good sheep story comes from q
Mrs.. Hoagland, north Of R%ichardton.
She says that In 1891 one Of her neigh.
bors gave her a sheep. She says that
- a. nm
enty head, and she is sure that she has
sold seventy head. Last wear che sold.