The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-25
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Bishop Stanley will be at Williston
Aug. Is.
wild ducks are said to be very thick
around velva.
Last week was the hottest in seven
years at Wiliiston. ~
Eight new school houses will be built
In Stutson county this year. .
F4ngal will incorporate and secure
some form Of fire protection.
The News wants a wholesale gro
Gerry house established at H~ankinson.
Potatoes and late corn is said to be
growing faster than anything else.
The team stolen from Keenan's livery
barn at Larimore was found at Wheat
land.
stockmen out west are having a hard
time to get sufficient water for their
herds.
The Missouri River is changing its
bed at Williston and cutting into the
bank.
The Minneapolis Cold Storage Co.
will establish a branch house at Hank
inson.
Ramsey County has $500. school
children, an increase Of 290 for the past
year.
Recent rains have put out western
prairie fires. which is a big thing for
stockmen.
Railroad representatives are on hand
at the meeting Of the state board Of
equalization.
There will be no grand jury at the
October term Of the United States court
at Devils Lake.
VIM. Buswell Of Tower City was
thrown from a rig and suffered a dislo-
Gated shoulder.
The friends Of ]. r. Cruff Of Lucca
ore urging him to become a candidate
for clerk Of court Of Barnes County.
A Stutsman County man is sowing
turnip seed and expects a good crop
now that the rains have commenced.
A cigarette iend started a fire at
Brand ranch, near Kuhn. The big
barns. granary and a stallion were
burned.
Wimbledon isn't satisfied with the
waterworks, electric light and other EVIL
dences of metropolitan. but wants
a new park.
It is thought George Glover who fell
forty-five feet from a railroad bridge at
| Grand Forks, and smashed a few !
on a pile of rocks, will recover.
Tom Thompson was arrested at
Grand Forks on the charge Of being
! the father Of an illegitimate child. He
settled the matter by paying $500.
T. ID. Harold Of wheatland shipped
q car load of wheat Of his wv raising
that yielded ten bushels to the acre and
went 81 pounds to the bushel Of No. l
hard.
Up at Balfour Herman Aierke is con-
testing the claim Of Christian Olson,
deceased, and later developments show
that the dead man has a widow n two
children at Hillsboro.
l. Three Colgate boys rode down to
Kansas on their wheels to help har-
west the big crop and were Disguised
when the ylearned the farmers were
fpaying only a dollar a day. i,
Postmasters throughout the state
have been notified that a military pos
tai station has been established in
China. Uncle Sam is getting postof-
fees all over the world.
Ed Ditman was shot and severely
wounded at Reva, s. D.. by officers
who attempted to arrest him. He is
the young man who stole a horse at
| Cakes, which he left at Eureka in ex-
| change for another.
Col. L%ounsberry has been driving
through Ramsey county and says that
they will have nearly a full crop Of
fax and a half-crop Of wheat up there.
But that was before the rain.
A wahpeton man went to his hay
! claim near Velva and found some one
had cut and cooked his hay. He Sc
cured a team and hauled 1t into town
! and was that much ahead.
VIM. Carlow at H%ankinson, whose
! wife was recently burned to death
while attempting to light a fire by
kersosene, received a letter announcing
the death of his brother by drowning.
Farmers along the Northern Pacific
main line intercept men bound west for
railroad work, and parties Of railroad
laborers grow smaller by degrees, and
beautifully less the further west they
60.
Russians in stutsman county are
coming to American ways Of thinking
and four school houses are to be built
In a Russian settlement. For a long
time the Russians have refused to edu4
cate their children, but they have come
to see their error.
Bfsmarck's big fire was two years
ago Wednesday, and the best Business
wiped out. Since that time BismarcS
has played the Phoenix to perfection,
and is to-day a thriving city, TIE cen
ter OF what will in a very short time
be a porulous and wealthy region.
The resignation Of George Aud. as
captain Of Company K, Of Dickinson.
has been accepted by the department.
Adjutant General Miller placed Lieu.
tenant Oscar Skeen in charge Of the
company. The company will be re-
cruited to the full number allowed by
the department and in due time the
members will elect their own captain,
Captain Aud stands well with the men
and the whole volunteer army of the
state.
George Hughes is pushing the electric
light plant at Dickinson to completion.
The wires and lights are in place and
all awaits the arrival Of engine and
generator. The plant has a capacity
for 1000 lights. The Hughes company
will also put in a telephone exchange.