The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-10-05
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Minot reports q building boom.
jamestown feared an abduction.
Sheep are In demand at Wilton.
McHenry county boasts Of a good po-
tato crop.
Minot is entertaining many land
seekers.
A fire in a Grafton bakery did some
damage. 4
Minto's new iron bridge has been
completed.
The new elevator at Kenmare Is
nearly completed.
Dunseith people are waiting patiently
for a railroad.
A mar is suspected~of ho~rse-poison-
ing at Bowdon.
Cavalier. county people are still after
threshing machines.
Harvey has ITO pupils in the city
achools-as a starter.
Sargent county school lands will not
be leased until April.
Mrs. Senator McCumber has returned
from her European trip.
Many sections of the state will grow
macaroni wheat next year.
Devils Lake has many laborers who
refuse to work for 81 Fer day.
Cando school officials will charge
nonresident pupils for tuition.
The row over the alleged removal of
the De Lamere mill is still on.
A walhalla parson tells Of a cucum-
Der that weighs three pounds.
Russian thistles are reported to be
getting a hump on themselves.
The total valuation Of Dickey county
property for assessment is $2,SSo,112.
demonstrating is becoming unpopu"
lar and unsafe in Autsman county.
Some s~hort-change artists are report
ed to be operating around Portland.
Tower City shooters are reported to
have killed more ducks than was legal.
John Orner reports winter radishes
two feet long OF his Cass county farm.
Miss Kate Robinson was thrown from
4 buggy at Casselton and badly shaken
up.
Osnabrock has a new hotel manage
ment, J. r. Ward now being the land'
lord. 45
The total valuation Of all Stutsman
county property. for taxation. Is $4'-
6o3, 1888.
The postomce at Lewis, eighteen
miles from Kenmare, was robbed ana
set on fire.
Adjutant General and Mrs. Miller
have returned from q visit to the Pan
American.
A large amount Of hay is reported to
have been put W in the hills OF Suits
man county.
Stock in the Stutsman county hills 10
said to be in finer condition tina ever
known before.
On account Of the big crop and the
slow t%hreshing there will be less fall
blowing than usual.
VIII Smiths runaway team created
more excitement at Cesselton than tn7
last divorce scandal.
A ave-year-old Cakes girl had a nm
ger bitten by a horse. and the MEMBER
had to be amputated.
A Stutsman county herder Is said 70
be in trouble because he worked anotn'
er mans team Of mules.
A Fessenden boy bit a hole In his
tongue while playing, and can now talk
in three or four languages.
There was scarcely a town In the
state which did not hold some form OF
memorial service for the president.
Rev. Wheeler, who has been at Will
ston rEtil recently, preached his nrst
sermon to his new charge at Minot.
p. Hanson, who vas operating a
|threshing rig near Litchfield, suffered a
broken arm by getting caught IN q
Wheel.
II is said that n Of the best ad-
dresses on the martyred president was
by Walter Muir, the we'll known Popu'
list Of Hunter.
Cavalier county reports M field OF
oats that averaged 1923 bushels per acre.
But there was only two acres IN that
particular field.
The Fort Totten Indians are said to
stand a good chance Of getting 3 lot OF
back pay from the government on tnat
suit recently brought.
A, Ransom county farmer has sued 9
neighbor for $1,000 damages inflicted py
noxjcus weeds blowing on his farm
from the neighbours land.
states Attorney Burke has turned
over $1,000 to the treasurer OF PenDina
county for moneys secured from the
prosecution Of blind riggers. !.
George CookSof Page reports q pota-
~ ,,,a,I ~ TAO bushels per acre, which