The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-17

The Scandinavian society
Of Lakota will erect a new church.
A Jealous woman ear Shevlin took
revenge on her lover by shooting him
Wyndmere has six lumber yard&
Pretty good for a town less than sill
months oil.
A movement is on foot in Michigan
CITY to lay out n forty-acre park ad.
joining the town.
Dickey county has received $5,615 ig
taxes from the 500 and $3,736 from
the Great Northern.
A bank is one Of the prospects fol
Dickey, and other improvements will
be made there in the summer.
The farmers in the vicinity Of Car.
! rington are about to organize for the
purpose of protection from horse and
cattle thieves.
A new postofice will be estab,
lished in Bottineau county, called
Richburg. MI. Beaudoin has been des.
ignated as p. m.
/ The students Of the Valley City Nor
NAL have decided the old college yell
has become stale and q committee has
been ordered to create O new one.
It is said that If North Dakota's
! taxes were lower, immigration would
be much larger and there would be
F., considerable more railroad building.
! Ransom and neighboring counties
are trying to raise $738.50 to pay off
the Indebtedness of st. Vincent do
Paul hospital located at Devils Lake.
Frank Andre of jamestown hired his
horse and buggy three months ag9
! and did not hear from them till an
officer found the outfit at Kensel re-
, Gently.
The checker players at CooperstowQ
have made arrangements to play &
series of games with the jamestown
| players by means Of the postal card
system.
c.. G. Peterson of Valley City has
! purchased q half interest In the Min:
neapolis Department store at PARK
River with G. E. Nelson, formerly th1
sole owner. o..
Local capitalists are contemplating
the construction of telephone LIND
from Towner to Willow City, which
will also give the ranchers the oppor-
tunity Of connections.
Capt. Aud at Dickinson has received
word from Washington that his an.
plication has been granted and a head.
stone will be sent to be placed over
the grave of Corporal Harold Davis.
The government Indian school at Ell.
bowoods is completed and n Of tho
handsomest and most complete Of thu
kind at any agency. No teacher hal
as yet been appointed to take charge.
Griggs county commissioners have .
few thousand dollars they would sparS
to liquidate some of the outstanding
bonds, but the parties holding the
same are said to not be anxious to
cash in.
The rigid quarantine placed over all
cases Of diphtheria in Wells and 4Stuts-
man counties has served to check the
disease and the anxiety of the people
has abated.
Hon. Chas. II. Ebbinghausen Of
Grafton has besn up in Ward county
viewing the land with the idea Of
starting q stock ranch, but found the
country too thickly settled.
v. o. Sargent Of Harvey failed to
appear in answer to the charge Of forg-
ing wheat checks when district court
convened at Fessenden last week. Hit
bond of $500 was forfeited.
The little daughter Of Mr.. Stumpi,
living near Willow City, 'Bottineau
county, vas attacked by four dogs ii
the road and before help could reach
her one Of the child's sides was badly
torn.
w. II. Brown of Devils Lake sold
nine quarter sections Of land n night
after supper, which may indicate
good demand for land, or the beneficial
effect Of a hearty supper, or both.
Probably the oldest horse in th9
state, q mare 80 years old, died at Lii
bon the other day. The mare was tho
property Of Fred Kelly. and he has 4
valuable colt raised by her last year.
Comptroller Of the Currency Dawes
has declared q third dividend Of 20 per
cent in favor of the creditors Of tho
First National Bank Of Pembina, and
the state will receive 81, 1863 as IT'D
portion.
The largest amount of money ever
receipted for at the Dickey county
trerasurer's Office in n day was $1O.-
008.77. Besides this amount there was
about $1,000 that could not be receipt
ed for the same day.
Under section 1 Of the Session Laws
Of 1890 1t is provided that anyone fail.
ing to give notice of q birth o death
in the family is subject to a fine Of $50
and gives all the particulars regarding
such report.
At a mass meeting in Glendale last
week a resolution against the violation
of the prohibition law and the running
Of slot machines, ETC., was adopted,
and names and subscriptions were
taken for a law and order league.
A. M. Halstad Of Jamestown had; an
arm broken while deer hunting out OF
the Missouri. The bones didn't knit
properly aud the fracture is being re,
set in st. Paul and the bones wired
together.
There is considerable kicking wei
the insufficient mail service between
Cooperstown and McFIenry. JesSio
ard Buford get a mail only twice .
week and a mail out twice. McHenry
gets a mail from Cooperstown three
times a week, the postmaster paying
for the delivery of the mail to the de-
pot out Of his own pocket. and only
one mail a week leaves McHenry.
William J. Morgan, Jr.. vice presi,
dent of tie Morgan Iithographing
company. and widely known in theatr1.
cal circles, Is dead at Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr.. Morgan had suffered from q long
illness.
Wheat shippers on the line Of the
Northern Pacific have made applica-
ton for a reduction Of 20 per cent on