The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27
NORTH DAKOTA

Miss Flanagan Of Gardar fell while
skating and fractured her collar bone.
Seven men with families, from Har-
lem have filed on land in Ward county.
j. D. Truemner has erected a wind
mill near his hardware store at Cava-
lier.
Thieves entered the house of Peter
Lee at Edinburg ard stole about $50 in
cash.
Thomas Moffatt is captain of the
Cheyenne Hose company at Valley
City.
P. Brecker. aged forty years. died at
his hcme near Lidgerwood, of typhoid
fever.
Gertrude Douglass, aged sixteen,
died at her home in DrGyton OF con-
sumption.
Emma Haggarty is postmistress at
Peterson, Cass county, by recent ap-
poi1tment.
T.J. Mcmahon is in the Trail county
Jail awaiting trial on the charge of
embezzlement.
Fred Lee, q Fessenden boy, has
struck a rich lead and silver mine near
| Wallace, Idaho.
Interest continues to increase in the
new law department of the University
Of North Dakota.
Devils Lake citizens are now figuring
on electric lights for the streets of that
1ourishing city.
A new brick block will be erected at
Dunseith, and the material is being
hauled on the ground.
'Schafer, Stark county. is a newly
established %postofice, with Charles
| Schafer as postmaster.
The proposed bridge across the mar
rows at Devils Lake would cost in the
n~eighborhood Of 5000.
Gov. Fancher has been asked to par
| don Joseph II. Till, who was sent to
the. p%enitentiary for life.
Charles Telford has begun the foun-
dalton work for a two-stOry building,
5Ox7O, at Cass Lake.
Some fend entered the barn Of John
Porter near Crystal and cut out the
tongue of one Of his COWS.
Messrs. Brown and Reed of Hamil-
ton, whose buildings were recently de-
stroyed by fire. will rebuild.
The Perth postof1ice is now a money
order Office, which is a great advantage
to the citizens Of that live burg.
At Milton, the freight receipts for
/ December. 1899, exceeded those Of the
same month of 1898 by 7*,10O pounds.
A. ]. Nelson is charged with selling
diseased meat at Ashley and the Nc
Intosh county board of health is after
him.
Wolves are plentiful in the northern
part of the state this winter and are
ioing considerable damage to live
stock.
The cement works at Milton have
been shut down for the remainder OF
the winter on account Of a scarcity OF
water.
The Portland school directors have
sold the old school building to the vii
lage and it will be converted into q,
town hall.
w. X. Haig, q prosperous farmer OF
Northwestern Ramsey county, raised
$1,000 worth Of fax on tifty-tiye acres
Of land.
PAPERS in the northern and western
part Of the state continue the glad
| some tidings Of new settlers and lm-
provemerts.
Ben Fulton of Harlem. for having
| stolen goods in his possession, was
sentenced to spend a year in the state
p%enitentiary.
The people Of Blanchard are becom-
ing interested in a flax fiber mill and
it is likely, that n will be built there
during the year.
Many Of the farmers in the vicinity
Of Ellendale are using Ignite coal at q
cost Of 1915 per ton, and it gives ex-
| cellent satisfaction.
Archie Hendrie. a former Great
| Northern operator ut Wahpeton, is
back from q two-year's stay in Alaska,
where he has been very successful.
A young man named Aanadahl was
bringing his sister to Valley City on
q load Of hay, which tipped over, the
young lady suffering a broken ankle.
The farm residence of Sheriff Bryn-
julson Of Fessenden narrowly escaped
Destruction by fire. The hired man
hung his pantaloons too close to the
stove.
Underwood has a number Of tele-
phones in use, and it. is proposed now
to establish a central station, which
would add greatly to the convenience
of residents.
The commissioners of Benson county
have been making a trip through the
state looking at court houses. They
will erect a $4,000 building and was
to see one that suits them.
The wife of Thomas Bridges Of Oris-
ka, formerly county commissioner Of
| the First district, died at the asylum in
| jamestown last week. Mrs. Bridges
has been an invalid for the past four
teen years.
According to the state records the
flax acreage Of Walsh county the past
year was 24,294 acres. The commits
| sioner estimates the total fax crop of
the state at fifteen bushels per acre, or
| the total crop for the state 7,114,OO0
bushels. The price averages q little
over Sill per bushel.
Tho wOrkmen returning from the
logging camps complain Of unfair
treatment at the hands of the con-
tractors. Some of them say that they
were given to understand they would
receive SIS per month pay, but that in
many instances they received only-S14.
Richard Peacock has begun suit in
Stutsman county against William
Sandy Of Wimbledon for $1,000 dam
ages for alleged malicious Islander and
libel in tho charges and insfnuati0ns
IN the Peacock-Sandy damage suit last