The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20
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Machinery dealers at Harvey fear
seeder and drill famine.
Down at Cakes they call it chicken
pox. whats in. nance"
Carrington's juvenile band is becom'
ing a popular organization.
The Kindred ball team is the first ir
the field with new uniforms.
Wild fowl are said to 5e quite numer.
GUS in the James river valley. .
Work will be resumed on the North.
ern Pacific depot at Bismarck.
Farmers are using a lot Of strych-
nine this spring to kill gophers.
Minot has bottling works, where pol
and other soft drinks are manufac-
tured.
Box elder sap is climbing upward,
but 1t hasn't been been good sugar
weather.
The Coopestown base ball team starts
in the season with s11.50 left over from
last year.
Tower City is rejoicing over the com.
Indebtedness.
The new council in Bismarck will be
q tie, so far as local party affiliations
are concerned.
North Dakota has nine lady superin-
tendents Of schools, and v of them
are unmarried.
Mayor Rose of jamestown wants a
special police officer appointed to put a
stop to bootlegging.
A quarter-section of land in Cass
county was sold the other day for $4,-
500, or $50 pei acre. :
Bootleggers are reported to be doing
q good business at Darlington since the
blind pigs were closed.
A Steele county man while riding a
mule was fallen upon by the animal
and crushed quite badly.
| The buildings to be erected in the
/ burned district at Harvey will be OF
brick, with sandstone trimmings.
Mrs. Lizzie Ingraham was granted a
divorce at Miles City from Barry In
graham, formerly of Jamestown.
A Wells county feeble-minded boy.
named Adam Heb, has wandered away
and his parents are much alarmed.
The shooting ARRAY across the Mis-
souri, at Buford was quite lively while
It lasted, but no blood was spilled.
Hannah wants the Aneta branch of
the Great Northern extended to that
place, to connect with the Langdon
branch.
New school districts are being organ
ICED. all over the western counties. The
new settlers are of a class thar believe
In education.
The school consolidation idea seems
to be favorably received at Hoople,
where it was discussed at a mass meet
ing the other day.
The insane asylum board is in ses-
| sion, and there are several heads about
the institution that are said to have
that loose feeling.
The insane asylum board has re-
tanned all the officers Of tat institu-
ton, which is a surprise to many who
looked for changes.
The increase of 81 per acre, witch ap-
plies to Northern Pacific lands on April
Is. seems to have stimulated purchas-
ers at present rates.
One man Is county commissioner in
La Moure county and postmaster in a
town in Barnes county, and the papers
want to know how it comes.
DR.. Carver, the famous rife-shot,
may be induced to visit Dickinson dur
ing the firemen's tournament and teach
the cowboy idea how to shoot.
The Great Northern Lank company
is running the old threshink picture,
which shows one threshing outfit to
about each four acres Of territory.
The guardian Of young Gefroh of
Tessenden is again reported in trouble
over the n Of depositing certain
funds belonging to the unfortunate boy.
The time for arranging for the fur
nishing of seed wheat by counties ex-
PRED q week ago, and III only a few
cases was advantage taken of the law.
Gen. Washburn is arranging to put
In q water works system ut Washburn.
The Anamoose ,Litercs-y society has
adjourned after a very successful sea-
son. "a
The Harvey school scandal grows
arace, and all kinds of shortages and
things are alleged. One contractor is
said to have received $1,000 more than
he should.
A bunch Of sheep owned at Bowdon
wandered fifty miles and were found
unframed, Notwithstanding the raven
ing wolves which are said to have
overrun the ranges. {
Some Of the state papers, IRE wonder
ing II Mrs. Patterson can continue as
postmaster at Bismarck, while her
husband worked against the city tick
ct, and things like that.
Register Of Deeds Dickinson of Ben
son county reports .s45 real estate trans
fers during the last three months. The
receipts Of his ollce for February were
! tS3s and for March tss7.