The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-03-17
in NORTH DAKOTA

new WOOQmen'S lodge.
M. r. Klinefelter is the new manager
of the opera house at Dickinson.
The body Of Adolph Koplen, Compa-
ny A, Bismarck, is to be brought home
for burial.
A shadow social at Leeds was the
means Of many young people passing a
pleasant evening.
DR.. Minnie o. Perry Of Minneapolis
has located at Dickinson, where She
will practice osteopathy.
Willow City will soon be saying hello
to the rest Of the world. That tele-
phone line is a Jul 60.
Sam Brady of Leeds broke a blood
vessel the other day while coughing
and nearly bled to death.
Rev. Hooking and wife of Walhaila.
will soon leave for a trip through Eng
land, Scotland and Wales.
Representative Spalding has recom'
meIded Ole Landry for postmaster at
Galesburg, Trail county. ....-
The Kidder county term of court has
been adjourned to March 10, ut which
term a jury will be present.
Langdon may get the creamery this
year, but the cheese factory will prob
ably be delayed until next.
The miners out on the slope have
cold snap, getting out Ignite.
-Four Wiper boys, formerly of Hank
inson, + reported to have struck a
mine worth $20,0O0,OO0 out West.
George Mclean of Forest River has
repaired his blacksmith shop. The loss
by fire amounted to about $3.50.
Towner County Bank, Cando has been
doing a good business during the dull
season.
Ferdinand Hans, a farmer who re-
Gently died in Cass county, left an cs-
tate valued at $135, 600 to five children.
Judging by the statement of the
The furniture and fixtures for the
Stock Growers Bank at Napoleon
have arrived, and are said to be ele-
CANT.
Thirty-four settlers from Iowa have
arrived at McHenry, this being the adj
vance guard Of a large body from that
locality.
A freight train on the 500 broke In
two a few miles west of Anamoose and
M car was derailed, causing a delay
Of several hours.
Three hundred feet of new hose and
copper fiues for the fire engine is a late
order from Cando. They are preparing
for q warm time.
New machinery and improvements
will be added to the Vulcan Iron works
at Cando, and the shops will be the
finest in the state.
The home of l.. w. Lyons of Leeds
came very near being destroyed by fire
last week. Fire caught from some
burning grease on the kitchen stove.
Mrs. Heger Of Hillsboro, has pur-
chased the large two-section farm of
John DeGroat, four miles south of the
city, for $4,000. or about $27 per acre.
Charles Nortvedt cut his throat with
"a z in an attempt at suicide at
.Wahpeton, but his knowledge of anat-
omy was poor, and he went to the asy-
lum. ~
At the interstate collegiate contest at
Fargo, e. ID. Stewart of the Agricult-
ural college, won. j. HI. Douglas, Of
the Grand Forks university, won Sec
ond place.
The Indian committee of the senate
has agreed to report $4,000 additional
appropriation to buy supplies and agri-
cultural implements for the Fort Tot
ten Indians.
New settlers are headed toward Port.
al, which settlement is growing fast.
The Mouse River Valley offers rare
opportunities to men who are willing
to work for a fortune. .
Dago pedilers are abroad in the land.
A. Fl. Gray and Cashier Grady of
Valley City have purchased the Gull
River company's business there. The
new company will be known as the
Skeyenne River Lumber company.
Forty-fve cars have been engaged
from the Northern Pacific by Iowa
farmers for transportation of goods
and implements to Bismarck and north
to lands that have been bought in the
Washburn belt.
Prof. Bangs, of the state school for
the deaf, has bought a block of lnnd in
Devils Lake for $4,000. and sold his
farm for $4,000, M of the largest real
estate transactions in the history of the
county,
The Forum Printing company has or
ganized. succeeding the firm Of Ed
wards & Plumley, with A. W. Edwards
as president; q. s. Tyler, vice presi-
dent; H. @. Plumley, treasurer and
manager, and W. r. Edwards, secre-
tary.
Jacob Baumgarten, who walked away
from the jamestown. asylum three
weeks ago, is now ut his home In EN-
mons county, where he seems to be
getting along quite well. He frosted
his feet on the trip, as he took neither
shoes nor stockings, wrapping his feet
in "a quilt.
The organization certificate Of the
Stock Growers Bank of Steele has
been recorded in the office of the regis
ter OF deeds. The bank will be opened
on April /. The shareholders are 81.
10. and j. j. Delaney and F. 3. Church.
Mr.. Church comes from Owatonna,
MINI.
The Great Northern auditor dropped
In on sthe agent at Solway rather u
expectedly to check up the books. The
agent made the excuse that he had to
carry the mail sack to the p%ostofice,
but would return shortly and help in
the matter. He 10 still going. and the
auditor Is finding some diftculty IN
striking a balance 81
The goose wheat fakir Is doing busi-
ness II Sargent county. One farmer
paid so for ten bushels Of the useless
stun. worth $3.50 for chicken feed. For
A3ZtGaGsl 49,