The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-22
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Max wittelshoner of Grand Forks is
lead.
casselton is busy preparing for its
street fair.
Wolves are numerous in the vicinity
II Walhalla.
Militia men Of the state are receiving
1ew uniforms. #
Barnes county wheat yields are mos,
unsatisfactory.
Potatoes are reported to have begun
\ second growth.
Many fine crops Of hay are being cut
rom stubble fields.
John G. Sunderman of Pembina gets
4 Sc per month pension. 3"
Mike Blosky of Conway was bound
Sver for beating his wife.
The North Dakota w. c. T. U. meets
1T Devils Lake Sept. 21-25.
Mandan now has a uniform rank Of
Iaccabees. the first in the state.
Grand Forks sportsmen will bring a
est cas- to test the Minnesota game
aw.
Belle Norton, a Fargo cyclist, collld-
I'D with q team and sustained a broken
wrist.
Work is being pushed on the found
htion Of the new N. p depot at Bis
hnarck.
The state university boilers are being
1tted for the use of Ignite coal this
winter.
A. L%angseth, a tailor Of jamestown,
became insane and was committed to
the asylum.
Militia companies throughout the
state r pleased by the receipt Of their
hew uniforms.
A laborer on Tom Dawson's farm.
aear Wheatland, was fined SIS for in
decent exposure.
The Northern Pacific has ordered en-
ployes to keep people with railroad BIZ
cycles of the track.
Judge Shippam of Wahpeton has pur-
chased the townsite Of Bowbells, pay
hg. 5000 cash for 1t.
The tanning mill peddler is reported
20 be making life a burden for the peo-
pie Of Cavalier county.
Kenmare wants a briquette plant. to
~eonvert the Ignite coal into a more
nerchantable qpantity.
Grand Forks is to have an order Of
Johns. Everybody who is named John
Is eligible to membership.
On the Hankinson farm. near Hank
nson, there was a large and fine crop
II apples raised this year.
Matt WEIGH pleaded guilty to horse
ltealing at New Rockford. He had re-
gently married e young girl.
Dickinson people have SUM a well in
The cemetery there, and will beautify
the grounds with trees and shrubs.
The Great Northern is repairing and
improving many Of its depots. That at
tnkster is being touched up just now.
William Dwyer of Medina is interest
ng stockmen Of Illinois Iowa and other
ltates in the grazing lands in his vicin-
ty.
Easton Olson, a farmer living near
dankinson, was kicked in the forehead
BY a horse. The skull was crushed I'M
I'll the brain protruded.
Grain men around Cooperstown ex-
press the opinion that there will be no
wheat in that country that will grade
40, 1 Northern. It is all damaged more
sr less.
Sheriff Roth Of Quincy, ILL.,, will
bring a suit for damages against Sher-
man McKecknie Of Darlington, for let
ting Mrs. Smith, the alleged procuress.
tet away.
The creamery at Tappen is in opera
lion, and starts off with the receipt Of
1000 pounds Of milk per day. at 60
sents per 100. It is a great thing for
The farmers.
One Of the Dunkard farmers who To-
:ated in the northern part Of the state,
recently has become insane. This is
the first case Of insanity reported
among them.
Great Northern Agent Vaughan of
shurchs Ferry goes into the grain busi-
aess, and is succeeded by G. H. Diem.
formerly of McCanna. D. n. Stratton
,ucceeds Mr.. Diem at McCanna.
After three attempts, Mayor Evans
Of Lisbon has at last found a splendid
we'll on his farm, which will furnish
water for his 200 head of stock. A good
investment.
There Is a row at LISBON over the DIS
eyed TACT that Sheriff Lamb a or
aered a two-years' supply Of official
stationery, when he has only four
months to serve.
The two suspected bootleggers ar
:ested at Grand Forks, were released.
They had a hundred bottles half-flled
with alcohol and a quantity Of port
vine. BY adding a spoonful of wine to
the alcohol and filing the bottle with
water, q compound was secured which
looked like whisky.
An Eastern Divorce. who came to
Fargo last spring to establish a resi-
aepce, and decided to take. q claim IN
the northern part Of the state. Is said
to, have raised a large crop Of fiax this
year. and concluded-after the divorce
to marry. a neighboring farmer, who
looked after her claim this summer.
The papers have been served in the
divorce case Of Alice e. Mahnken VS..
Ia. J. Mahnken, both Of Fargo. The
complaint alleges adultery, and the al
legged act 10 said to have been commit
ted In 1896 and 1898. Some time ago
Mrs. Mahnken sued for a.divorce. and
IT was denied. The case was appealed
to the supreme court with the same re-
suit. The case will be tried at the reg