The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-05-05

Havana will have q 1arIneiS
about June 1.
Valley City blind pigs nave Deen ~
Harvevites defeated Incorporation by
fourteen votes.
Wi]liston is to have a brick ware
house 1880 feet.
,rbora ;s said to be lots Of prairie
chickens this year.
Some Grafton parties have q vapor
launch on the river.
The Northern Pa7lhc station a. DA"S.
ton is being improved.
The Reynolds opera house boast q
fine new drop curtain.
Miss Kate Madden has started a MILL
merry store at B~ottireau.
The Lidgerwood base ball a q
about S175 in the treasury.
Hope is making great preparations
for the midsummer races.
Minor people are arranging ror the
racing season this summer.
w. C. Jones won out IN the contest
for postmaster ut Fort Buford.
Mayyille people are jubilant over the
n]rosnect of a telephone exchange.
Henry Herman, a well known DICK
inson county farmer, died last week..
lanes Glass returned to Glendale to
live after trying it a while IN Montana
Supt. Barrett has secured another car
of younc fish for the streams IN TINS
state.
A rnmher Of artesian wells in the
state are being filled up WIN eu'cA-
sand.
Texas range cattle are being hurried
into the western part of the state u
| Montana.
Mrs. O. A.. Webster, a well known
Grand Forks lady, died suddenly at
| Hot Springs.
The Cass County Medical society has
r%eorganize6 with DR.. E: NJ. barrow
as president.
The erection Of the new business
blocks at Casselton is delayed by scare
ity of material.
Miss Kate Kern is reported prosper
ing at Harvey, where she runs b 500
Pacific hotel.
R. B. Reed of Armenia will have
charge of Whitney & Wheel0ck's new
bank at Sheldon.
The smallpox cases at Lakota are
improving and the disease seems to
be under control.
A farm hand on the Rem Wells place
near jamestown fell under u harrow
and was badly cut up.
No.. NR:1lo~ ,,,o;1 u-o oron driver ar
Fargo, was thrown from his wagon
and suffered serious injuries.
County commissioners n now caus-
ing "noxious weed notices. to appear
in the papers ove the state.
Some. vandal slashed the. tires OF CITY
Attornew Scots bike at Casselton. ana
the law forces are all called out.
Bottineau expects to have a rural
free mail delivery extending as 1ar
north as the Turtle mountains.
Grand Forks is making great prep
arations for the meeting OF n Reo
River Valley Drainage association.
Presiding Elder Cooper, the new
Methodist elder in the Grand Forks
district, has purchased a home az
| Grand Forks.
There seems to be some friction as to
the way Bismarck gets a new deDo
and is likely to lose an old hotel, ano
who's to blame.
The Valley City State Bank declared
: a dividend of 10 per cent on the hrsr
wears business, and put $1,000 into the
surplus fund.
;Jchn johnson Of Bigland township.
Grand Forks county, fell from a wa2-
on. and the wheels passed over MIN,
causing his death.
Emma Aleith, a little Casselton girl.
was assisting at q bonfire. Her cloth
ing caught on fire, but the flames were
extinSuished without injury to the girl.
This promises to be q busy season
for steamboating on the Red river.
Steamboats, have started up the stream
from Grand Forks to haul down grain.
Mules seem to be finding favor In the
place of horses in some localities toy
farm work. and a mar living near For
man recently paid $500 for q team OF
them.
A rate of a fare and one-third has
been secured for the delegates to the
Grand Forks drainage convention, and
it is said that there will be 5000 dele
gates present.
The towns that had the early-closing
movement during the winter are now
running late hours again for the benenS
of the farmers who are too busy to
come to town in. the daytime.
A decision of Judge Fisk at Grand
Forks declares the city taxes levied BY
the city of Wahpeton from 1893 to
1899 illegal and void, owing to defects
in the assessments and levies.
Fargo has a hospital, the former resi-
lence Of Bishop Stanley in Island Park.
1t was opened with q reception to the
doctors Of the city. Archbishop Ire
land was present at the opening.
Joseph Blunga Of Stutsman county
found the fourteen horses missing from
his place for two weeks. They had
been run into the hills by two men,
who seem to have become frightened.
Hon. Thomas Marshall and the De
laney brothers have bought 200 head
OF cattle in Canada and shipped them
into Wells county. They pay 81 9
head import duty, but expect to clear
a handsome profit.
j. ". Smith. the travelling man who
was stabbed by his wife. at Valley City
While ne was abusing her In q state OF
intoxication. is reported not danger.
ously wounded. but his wife is in q pre-
carious condition.