The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-06-29
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Wild strawberries are ripe around
Milton.
"A Mayville boy had = toe cut Of BY :
moving machine.
Hon. J. H. Worst will crate at Buff
1alo on the Fourth.
Hay permits In Williams county av-
eraged $3.50 per quarter.
J. T. Thompson Of Hatton has pur-
chased an automobile.
Burleigh county wants 0 people
to farm her fertile. acres.
Land seekers from Iowa are still go
ing into the Washburn. country.
At the Oliver county term Of court
there was only one criminal case.
Nebraska settlers are coming into
North Dakota by the wagon route.
The new uniforms Of the Paramount
band are said to be neat and nobby.
Ex-Congressman Spalding will deliv-
er the Fourth Of July grafton at Aneta.
Little Shell, the famous Indian chief,
who started a war q few years ago, Is
dead.
A man at Aneta will supply skunks
to any one desiring to start q skunk
farm.
The state asylum at Bismarck con
sumes 1,400 pounds Of butter per
month. M
Horse buyers are paying 81 to SIS for
Indian ponies at the Standing Rock
agency.
J. w. sifton, M. D., OF jamestown, is
head physician for Modern Woodmen
Of this state.
Eight students got degrees at the
commencement Of the state agriculture
al college at Fargo.
The new court house at Bottinea will
be of pressed brick, 74x62 feet, three
stories with basement.
Dick Fallon Of Dickey county has
been employed as head farmer on the
Fort Totten reservation.
A flax bug has made his appearance
in the vicinity of Cando, and is doing
much damage to the grain.
A Falrmount man reports the cap.
ture of a black eagle which measured
seven feet and five inches.
When jamestown gets the cement
walk down in the park there will be
considerable improvement.
The bids for coal rejected by the asy-
lum trustees were: Washburn coal,
$3.50; Sims. $2.SS; Lehigh, IS.
North Dakotans. should get cheap in
surance rates. as the big companies are
making reductions on rates to abstain
ers.
William Allen Of Bismarck was adj
Judged a bankrupt in the United States
court at Fargo, according to h Fo-
rum. ar q
Oscar Carter Of Cando drank some
poison his wife had prepared for go
piers, and had q narrow escape from
death.
Mayor Won Patton Of toilette has
caught three catfish Weighing fifteen
pounds each, and is disguised. with his
luck.
The celery industry is nj booming
this year at jamestown. Former cell
ery growers assert there is little profit
in the business.
At Valley City, relatives who had
lost track of each other for forty years
were accidentally reunited and held q
family reunion.
Professors waldron Of the Agricult-
ural college and Osgorne of the Fargo
college will botanic for two days in
the Rocky Mountains.
jamestown is building cement side
walks, at 81 per running foot, 2 IL feet
width, and % 10 cents per square foot
for stone cross walks.
The recent supreme court decision
has relieved a good many Of h West
ern people from paying taxes, and
there is great satisfaction thefeat.
There has been a reorganization Of
the postal service along the Northern
Pacific road, and several clerks have
had to change their places OF residence.
"A. hobo was arrested in Darlington
for breaking into a car load Of house.
hold goods and stealing several articles
afterwards found. He was given ten
days.
Edward Malta, q lad eight years old.
living twelve miles north Of Fessen-
den, was accidentally shot by 9 six
yyear-old lad named Schrader. He died
instantly.
Some OF the I~celanders. who recently
removed from the northern part OF the
state TO Manitoba, were held up and
forced to square old bills before they
got across. II
Earl Grant Of. Leeds and his three
dogs chased wolf into 9 slough, ana
Earl wadedy in, up to his neck, TO get
his wolfship. and ALMOST 9
|foreah he got out. s%E #
The jamestown city council is 9
ing for sale $4,000. of bonds, for improvs
Eine the water system. The council will
also receive tenders for $4,000 Of bonds
that may be sold for the same pur-
pose.
The trustees Of the state agricultural
eollere have letAthe contract for the
new Science hall to Stewart WilsonSf az
sid, 4S1. James Kennedy willSEdo thhe
sewerage work at 1901, and 81 g
rinigton WIN put in the new heating seast'Al
plant. Sss Ass
There ii an epidemic ofs mlshapsEalt
ECarrington. Ed Cross wa kick ~ Y
stheSface byssa vicious Gov. Essa-
Fshrook fell ana broke hIga 1eg and Cotin-
III treasurer KniEht's bot stAllbl ~
$backwlarsda and brokas hisa arm. tsSSH
HE largest cattle saiet s. the North
west is the one made Nv R7aaayS & GI scress.
weliA of Dickinson 10 tho FranAkhltnSScD 4,
The cali II tors 3c..oooS heads..saan I,
H#fhe pfffceg III $Sl:.5 0ssonsSSd i,a1 4deltyNaaryEs
$Tri1is@ 8 acalv1eeAs 3 i SstlhrO1MnSstn but