The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-01

A Cathay man was thrown from a.
WACO and suffered a dislocated arm.
Star postal service has been ordered
discontinued from Kindred to Norman,
N. D.
Turtle fishing is the sport at velva,
and some good-sized ones have been
caught.
The Crown Elevator company will, 1t
4. said. erect a 25,0 900 bushel elevator at:
Hickson.
Postof1ce service has been estab-
ushed at Delacs, with L. A. Brown as
postmaster.
Some of the wheat nea Bcwbells 10
expected to yield nearly twenty BUSH
els per acre.
Eight Fargo boys raided a carload
of watermelons, and were in turn raid
ed by the police.
Illegal filings are said to be numer-
Gus in Wells county, and prosecutions
are likely to follow.
Ffaff, the Russian, who killed =
neighbor's COW a Mayville, is held
to the district court.
The dog poisoner is at work In Far
20. and several CANNES, valuable and
yalueless, have become victims.
During the prevalence Of diphtheria
at his home, Maj. Frank White has
taken up his abode in the stable.
Mike Classy, formerly of Bismarck,
committed suicide in the Philippines
by blowing Oft the top Of his head.
Judging from the vim the Fargo pa
pers are putting into 1t, the legislative
campaign must be an interesting one.
T. R. C. Crowell offers to establish 81
flax fiber mill and creamery at La
Moure, If the proper inducements are
held out.
Three carloads Of mules have BEEN
secured to replace the cremated horses
on the Adams farm neal Wahpeton.
A. b. Hardie Of Fargo. announces
that he will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by his wife she hav-
ing left his bed and board.
walhalla denies the claim Of Gale
donia to the oldest mill in the state.
and still claims the championship-as*
the Walhalla mill was started in 1872.
Lightning struck the residence of a
man named Brickley at Williston and
tore the toes from n lady's foot and
paralyzed a leg Of another for two
days.
Cakes is to have the new division
headquarters Of the Northern Pacific
extension, and LaMoure people are
sore. They want to make overtures to-
the 500.
Rugby is to have a new school build
ing that will be a beauty. The town
has grown so rapidly and the children
are so numerous that the new building
Is a necessity.
Dickey county expects to harvest
about the same amount Of wheat as
was seeded in the spring, though there
are some parts of the county that will
60 thirty bushels per acre.
Somebody has been sending anony-
nous ~letters-some of them obscene
to Rev. Miller and the members Of the
Methodist church at jamestown, and
Inspector Land is Investigating.
A new arrangement has been invent
ed by which farmers a rake their
hay as it is cut by an attachment to
the rear Of the mower The device
keeps all the hay raked except the last
s;wath cut.
New wheat is beginning to arrive at
the head Of the lakes. 1t grades No. 1
Hard and No. 1 Northern. Later re-
ceipts may not grade SO we'll, Is the
wet weather has softened the kernel,
and will, in many cases, be found to,
have damaged the grain.
A Pembina county man, whose crop
is very light, was asked If 1t had been
struck by hail. NO." he replied:
"there wasn't a hailstone in that
storm bigger than your fist, and you
couldn't hit the crop with anything
smaller than a wagon Wheel"
The L~idgerwood creamery is COM
pleted and is now in full operation.
The building and machinery is up-to-
pacity for handling $4,000 pounds Of
milk daily. This will prove of special
benefit to the farmers of that section,
and will tend to diversity farming.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany sold 5000, 900 acres Of land the
past fiscal ear. 900. 900 acres going to
the Weyerhaueser timber syndicate,
and all Of the Minnesota patented
lands to a Twin City syndicate. The
sales Of agricultural and grazing lands
were the largest In the history of the
road.
w. H. Sheppard Of Casselton had a
gobbler who wanted to assume duties
generally conceded to the other sex
and sit. He was given some eggs and
stuck to his job faithfully for three
weeks, Matching six turkeys. His
clumsy efforts. however, In attempting
to care for his young brood, resulted
In their early death.
A company has been organized to OPP
crate a stock ranch in Stutsman coun-
ty. They have purchased $4,000 acres
OF range land in the northwestern part
OF the county. M. v. Sanger, Douglas
Leffingwell and Bob ClendenninE of
Fargo. and Tom Fowler Of Mapleton
and Jack Walker Of Darlington, COM
pose the company. The ranch will be
stocked in the spring.
1t Is now known that Roosevelt's
Western tour will bring him to North
dakota. Coming up from South Dako-
"a, ne will leave Aberdeen at S:l5 a..
M. Sept. Is arriving at Edgeley at
1z:4e. leaving Edgeley. via the North
ern Pacific, at 2 a. m., arriving at Far
60 at e:45 p. m, on Sept. Is. From,
Fargo he will go west, stopping briefly
at jamestown and Bismarck.
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