The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-07-13
state bounty on wolves quit With.

~ A cream BIatlOH# Alay - $50 49,
Jamestown. 8s
Tramps are less numerous this year
than formerly.
The b~ouleyards in waallhtlallliaa have y
been, improved. 4NS
"a new company has purchased the
flour mill al Bathgate. assS
a grade has been established for the.
sidewalks at Cakes.
All the old pioneers Of Emmons coun-
ty took in the picnic.
School chart f1ends are reported per-
sistent in Walsh county.
Plans are being made to have better
school facilities at Berwick.
Grading on the road to Washburn
will be completed by Sept. ].
If the g%rasshopper don't hurry up tho
crops will be too large to eat.
A little girl at Rugby fell out Of .
road cart and broke her shoulder.
A year ago prairie fires were burning
the parched heritage on the ranges.
The Northern Pacific Is having lots
of trouble with the washouts out west.
The first well for the water works at
Park river did not nave sufficient flow.
The farms around S%heyenne, in Eddy
county, may be connected by phone.
At Wheatland the wind blew seventy
miles per hour during the recent
storm.
Jesse Maurer Of jamestown has Sc
cured an increase Of pension to $40 per
month.
Unusual interest seems to have been
taken in the school election in Rolette
county. ,@g 5
Harry Ferguson had his nose broken
in a ball game between jamestown and
Wimbledon.
Two granaries on the Staples farm,
west of Absaraka, were blown down by
the storm.
Grand Forks gets base ball reports,
by innings when the team is away
from home.
The Rush river north Of Casselton
overlooked its banks as a recult of the
recent rains. r
A fine bull belonging to DR.. Bentley
of Bismarck was killed by the cars at
Apple Creek.
lu0 pGOplC VI JdAACSlOWh o.
through pumping the water gu Of
their cellars yet.
The talk Of an extra session Of tho
legislature seems to a aroused con.
siderable interest.
Swan creek, at Casselton. got swelled
up, and the west side OF the city was
damp for a while. /.
Valley City claims to be out about
81, 200 on broken window glass, as a re.
suit Of recent storms.
Nearly nine inches of rainfall at
Grand Forks in three weeks ought to
moisten things up some.
Tim Leech Of Faribault won a SO
prize at the Fargo fire festival, n
turned it over to the Childrens' home.
The residence of Charles Bowens Of
Fargo was burglarized Monday night
and the contents very roughly handled.
Wells county commissioners ruled
that If county commissioners wanted
telephone service they might pay for 1t.
Complaints are being made about
the alleged disregard of the quarantine
regulations at the Grand Forks pest
house. y9 3
Bismarck is Justly proud Of It's new
depot, and duly grateful to the North
ern Pacific for erecting such a splendid
structure.
Congressman Marshall has been com-
PEELED to employ an additional stenog-
rapher to handle his vqluminous CORE.
spondence. A
T. s. Underhill, Of the famous Spring
Vale stock farm, nea Antelope, is Wis
iting at Williamsport, Pa, and w1lr
take in the Pan-American.
James Simpson recovered $104 from
s. T. Ferguson from damages from g.
prairie fire alleged to nave been started
near Wimbledon by the latter.
There seems to be no foundation for
the report that the Northern Pacific
will buy stock and distribute it among
the farmers, to raise on shares.
A quarter section Of land one mile
north of Washburn was sold for $4,000.
People are beginning to learn that
Western lands are worth something.
The high water has caused thou-
sands of bullheads to congregate in tho
James river at the mill dam. They att
tempt. to get over it. but are unable.
1t is claimed that flax, when stood in
stack all winter, will not grow, and
some farmers in Pierce county have
been compelled to reseed their fields.
Lena Souder, an Emmons county girl,
was to nave married Peter Bareth, q
South Dakotan. The night before the
marriage she skipped to Canada with
another man.
The Presbyterian society at James,
town seems to be going into the reaf
estate business, and. has purchased an-
other house TN addition to the parson.
age already owned.
Mrs. Holley, state superintendent OF
the humane society, finds that the cows
boys in the western part ssof the state
are more cruel to their horses thanSAthe
farmers In the valley. Ns M
W. W. Hurd Of Iowa Falls, iowa, 10
looking up the state laws on incorpora-
tons, with q view to organizing q cons
pany with g capital OF half q million To-
buy North Dakota lands. Fl
Edward Batta, aged eight, son. sof q
farmer living twelve miles north Of
F~essenden, was accidentally shot and
killed by q companion while hunting
gophers with q 22-caliber rife.
Mrs. Linda w. Slaughter 81, Bis--s
marck. by request, 10 writing histori-
cal poem to commemorate the found
Ing of the National Society Of the
Daughters OF the American Revolution.
AT Grand Forks many 81 the tele--
phone poles are wrecked. SOmespeoples3