The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-18
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county turned out W NC
jamestown hunters are shooting plo-
yer. The birds are migrating south.
Annie VILLAS, a former teacher at
Fessenden, died recently at
F. B. Feetham and B. J .skulason
have formed law partnership at the
Forks.
Eight miles Of telegraph between
washburn, and Wilton have been COM
pleted.
The last Sargent county prairie hre
started from lightning striking the
ground.
Three drunken men at Devils Lake
had a scrap, and one was pounded into
sobriety.
wahpeton is completing it's sewer
system, and thinks it will be the best
in the state.
J.. B. Ashelman has accepted a posi-
ton as clerk in the Hilton house at
Enderlin.
A young man named Kelly filled up
on booze at Jessie and smashed in a
store door.
It is denied that Ole Ellingson OF
Caledonia died Of injuries received IN
the hail storm.
Hunter has Irvine thieves, according
to a farmer there, who left some out
side at night.
The burglars who have been operat-
ing in Richland county were captured
at Britton, 8. D.
Farmers are warned to pillow all stub
BILE fields this fall, in order to destroy
the grasshoppers' eggs.
Lisbon people enjoy camping out at
Fort Ransom, and the picnic grounds
there have become popular.
Monnett and Lamb, Langdon's crack
tennis experts, won high honors at the
Winnipeg tournament.
Delaney Bros Stock Crowns Bank
at Napoleon, is one Of the new and
strong financial institutions Of the
state.
DR.. Quarry, state superintendent of
health, is improving rapidly at Be-
midi. The scent of the pines is curing
his lung affection.
Ole Rofstad was drowned while bath
ing in the Red river near Halstad. A
companion, Willie Mactine, narrowly
escaped a like fate.
A Stutsman county farmer started
to town with two hogs, and had roast
pork by the time he got in. Both had
died from the excessive heat.
DR.. Baldwin secured a judgment
against Richard. Porter Of Jamestown
for some poker chips purchased in a
game in the early eighties.
A Fargo man says he has one field of
wheat that will go twenty bushels per
acre and another that will run about
twenty acres to the bushel.
A Fessenden dealer had a lot Of
Irvine, and there was no wheat in
Wells county. He shipped it to Hank
inson where it found a ready sale.
Chris Stager Of Sheldon had Alex
Mason arrested on the charge of at
tempting to kill him in a row over
some hay, but the case was dismissed.
A woman named Benson, who has
been stopping at the Klondike restau-
rant at Grand Forks, left suddenly,
and forgot to take her baby, but a few
days old.
A fellow named Bruce was beaten at
Osnabrock for circulating some stories
about some ladies. He had his assail-
ant arrested, but failed to appear
against him.
Mrs. Nygaard of Niagara has insti-
tuted a suit to have a deed for proper
ty given her son set aside, but with
drew the action, and a satisfactory
settlement was effected.
There is to be an open park around
the new Northern Pacific depot at
Bismarck, to be maintained by the
city, and wild animals will not here
after be permitted to roam the streets.
R.. Sykes sued some parties in Wells
county for trespass by stock on his
lands, and the jury brought in a pecu-
liar verdict, IS damage for plaintiff.
and $40 costs and damages for the de.
PENDANTS.
JEFF Barton paid one woman at
Grand Forks 500 damages for injuries
sustained from being run over by his
dray team and bought a buggy for an
other lady, whose rig was smashed in
the same runaway.
Records for early threshing are being
broken in the Red river valley. Al
Grand Forks some grain has been
threshed on the farm of James Cald-
well. The grain is Of excellent quail
ty, and, for the amount Of straw. the
yield is large.
Mrs. Renwick Of Fargo has ar in.
fant which was left with. her to care
for about three weeks ago by q wo.
mar who said she was going to Fes-
sender and would be right back. The
mother, has not returned, and the child
will be placed in the %children's home.
A Fargo man called on a ladv whose
husband was supposed to be out Of
town-but he wasn't. When the h,s-
/ band returned the caller dropped Nv
way Of the back window, and dropped
into an outer cellarway, to the ereat
damage Of his clothing. personal n.
pearance and temper.