The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-07-28

buIl6lk1l COuAINy VIII ST.
lect a ticket Aug. %.
The Lidgerwood creamery starts to
do business next week.
Glasses in penmanship are being or.
CARRIED in jamestown.
The plum crop is reported to be al
failure along the Jim river.
Elmer Bassett and Miss Annie Nor.
den were married at Casselton.
Valley City firemen ~ happy over
the arrival Of a new shipment of hose.
A jamestown jury awarded Thresh.
er Wilson SIS on an old threshing bill.
Uncle Ben Corbin killed sixty wolves
within the last three weeks In Emmons
county.
jamestown people are to be prohib.
tied from jumping on wagons hauling
fire apparatus.
The Hillsboro Park committee has
offered rewards for people who destsRy
park property. m
Hay stacks belonging to ]. A. Jones
of Leeds were burned, and incendiar-
ism is suspected.
J. w. Wilson of Stutsman countXsi is
suing james Barber to recover oman
old threshing bill.
Tracklaying is progressing rapidly on
the Dickey extension OF h Northern
Pacific from Casselhon.
The small child Of Chris Miller of
Square Butte, Morton county,. drank
fly poison and death ensued.
George Mariner Of Stutsman county
Is dead. About two weeks ago he be.
came overheated and caught cold.
Stutsman county people held a ,'mass
meeting to see what could be done to-
ward securing a sugar beet plant.
The s~ix-year-old son of N. B. Merry
Of Stutsman county died from injuries
received in being accidentally shot.
After the storm around Cando hail
stones were found in the meadows
next morning in heaps six inches deep.
The offices of the register. Of deeds
and the county court have been
changed in the Grand Forks court
house.
On account Of the low water in the.
Tongue river the Cavalier County Ce-
ment works may be forced to close
down.
The brick made at Steele are said to
be the best in the state. p. j. Lyons
is the hustler who is backing the con.
Germ.
Chairman Simon. of the railroad com
mission received $50 as accident ill.,
surance while suffering from O broken
arm
Rev. Bishop. pastor of the Methodist
church at Church's Ferry, was pre-.
scented with a COW by ldmirfng parish
toner's.
Crops are short around New Salem,
but the farmers are making money
selling milk to the creamery at that
point. ~
Postal clerks on the Northern Pacific
have been notified Of an increase OF
salary for those in the fourth and fifth
classes.
The old story Of how the town site OF
Mayville was located by means OF a
rounds.
Mrchant Kennedy of Mandan was
standing on a revolving chair, from
which he was thrown and several ribs
were broken.
The returns from the Cass county
primaries indicate that Dwitchell Is in
the lead for sheriff, with Osgood a
close second.
The Great Northern runs only two
trains a week on the Hope line, Mon
days and Fridays, and n on the Port.
land line, Wednesdays.
Miles City authorities deny the re-
port Of the coon killed by q cowboy; IN
which the Harvey negro, G. K. Skales,
was alleged to have been shot.
Bicyclists in Wahpeton IN forming
an organization to oppose the ordin-
ance prohibiting the riding Of bicycles
on the sidewalks in that city.
At Milton, s. j. skulason was at
tackled by cramps whtle bathing, and
was saved from drowning by George
Plain. Both were from Mandan.
Contractor Leach passed through
Washburn last week with a herd Of
cattle for the Indians at Fort Berthoad
and Elbowoods that represented $SOO,-
600.
Floyd Loucks, a seven-ycar-oh Ran
som county boy, fell from the second
story of a barn, and the attending ply
stefan had quite a job patching up the
broken bones.
One OF. the Lisbon battery boys went
up against a prize fighter, and his COM
plexion was changed to a1dark blue.
but It Is said he made the sfugger 60
along ecne.
The controller Of the currency has
declared a fifth dividend. 10 per cent,
in favor Of the Citizens National Bann
of Fargo, making IN an 65 per cent OF.
claims proved amounting to $266.7W.
John Martin Of Crystal died last
week. He was a delegate TO the re-
cent Baptist convention at Bathgate, |
but the members of that church art.
not held responsible FOR his demise.
Jacob 1sey was cleaning clothing
with gasoline at Courtenay. He igDit-
ed a match in his vest pocket and his
clothing was set on fire. He was badly
burned before the flames were extin-
guished.
Judge Bartholomew was called to
| West Superior last week by the death
OF his sister, Mrs. T.. x. Luce. wife Of
n Of the leading lawyers Of the Twin
Cities. Death was caused from ston.
ach trouble.
A. NJ. Greeley Of New Rockford was
seventy-one years old the other day,
and the other members Of the a. Q. u.
w. there gave him a great old time,
concluding with a dance. IN which the