The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11

last week.
Good crops are reported in the Turtle
mountains.
Bismarck has a basketball team COM
posed of girls.
The flour mill at Forest River is be-
ing torn down.
Thirty Iowa land seekers are at VIII
ton after homes.
Michigan City's juvenile band IS saio
to be a hummer.
The Grafton soldier boys had a great
time at Winnipeg.
Ball playing has been prohipiteo III
the streets at Cakes.
The new engine for the Wipo'eo'n
water works has arrived.
Three Michigan girls have taken up
claims in Mclean county.
Mayville people have some great
stories to tell Of the cyclone.
Two Steele county men have a coh-
tract to put up 300 tons of hay.
Two kegs of wine were co~nfscatea II
Valley City but nc arrests were mace
The injunction cases against Caring
ton blind piggers have been dismissed
Towner wants a watering place LOT
the farmers who come IN to 90 DUST
ness.
Track laying has begun on the Mil
nor,Oakes extension CT the Northern
Pacific.
A grocery store and confectionery
were closed at Lisbon because they SOD
hard cider.
The drouth at Dickinson is unprece.
dented, but despite the fact nearly all
the ranchers will get a little new hay.
Attorney F. D. Alexander, formerly a
law partner of Judge Glaspell at
jamestown, died at Fairhaven, Wash.
Good government land is becoming
scarce in Bottineau county as a result
of the numerous settlers in that vicln-
ity.
At Eckelson two farmers fought over
a dog and a Scotchman is said to have
licked his Scandinavian friend to a
finish.
"A Ransom county schoolma'm gam
bled on wheat speculation, lost her roll
and was fired by the school board for
her fun.
Mckinley Rice, infant son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. N. D. Rice Of Wahpeton, drank
kerosene and a physician was called
just in time.
A. H. Ravenstein is said to have
caught Carl Bandf1eld stealing his corn
at Glendale. The latter is said to have
suddenly disappeared.
George Griffith, who was arrested on
the charge of burglary at Cakes, at
tempted to escape from jail at Ellen
dale, but was r%ecaptured.
Former Hotel Keeper Sampey was in
the cyclone and was thrown under his
team near Mayville, but managed to es-
cape with slight injuries.
Miss Tessie Stafford and o. w. James,
both we'll known young people of Wah-
peton, were married at the home Of the
brides brother at Snohomish, WASH,
on July 8.
The Steel county W. c. It. U. elected
Mrs. C. S. Shippy of Hope president.
Mrs. o. G. Majors corresponding secre-
tary and Mrs. A. K. Cochrane record
ing secretary.
Mrs. Holley, state humane agent,
made some horse owners at Minot look
after animals that had been tied too
long in the streets and were being
eaten by hordes of flies.
Carl Kohlman, who had lived at
snyder's Lake, near Cando, was ar
rested on the charge Of obtaining
money under false pretenses and sui
cided by taking strychnine.
Russians who were trespassing on
hay lands near Anamoose refused to
leave when ordered. After curing the
hay the owners burned it and a wagon
belonging to the Russians-for spite.
The Mcintosh family had a reunion
and picnic at David Lanes grove west
Of Crystal Lake last week, at which
Donald Mcintosh of Ormund, Ont, two
sons, two daughters and twenty-three
grandchildren gathered.
The Hope people do not take kindly
to the cutting down of their train facil-
tiles, and even express the wish that
Jim Hill would remove his tracks and
then another road could be induced to
pass through that place.
F. D. Alexander, a well known in
surance man and single dealer, was
found dead in his room on the third
floor Of the Pike block, Fairhaven,
Wash, from gas asphyxiation. He was
formerly a lawyer of Jamestown.
The Foster County State bank pub
fishes its regular report, attested by e.
Delafield Smith, president. 1t has loans
and discounts of $4,000, a goodly
amount Of ready cash on hand and ia
in an exceedingly healthy condition.
Lightning destroyed the house and
contents belonging to G. B. Still. q
farmer living a few miles east of Nc
Henry in Foster county. He and his
wife were in town bSying lumber for a
new addition when the fire occurred.
A cowboy at Rugby was arrested
charged with stealing a spur. The sput
was found in his possession and the
dispenser OF justice fined him $40. In
order to get the money he was Obliged
to sell his pony and now doesn't need
spurs any MORE.
The work Of grading the Oakes-Mil-
nor branch Of the Northern Pacific d
nearly completed and many Of the out
fits have left the work. Track laying
will begin the first of August from
the Cakes end Of the line, and there il
material in the yards at Cakes to begin
with.