The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-02-09
Harvey wants dairy butter.
Bathgate wants a snow boat race.
The Enderlin band has been reorgan-

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Dog prisoners are doing business at
Crazy.
Dickey county is taking UP overdue
gopher warrants.
A wire fence has to have three
~strands-to be legal.
New books have been added to the
Forman school library.
Fargo has an active Roycraft club
with weekly entertainments.
Representative Young Of Valley city
is afflicted with a sore eye.
Dealers are purchasing horses at
Ludington for shipment to Chicago.
Rugby iremen' used the proceeds Of
a recent ball to purchase a fire bell.
Andy Blewett is going 1t alone in
the hardware business at Jamestown.
Forman is rather stuck up because
that town Is 412 feet higher than Fargo.
Michael Karinne was sent to the asy-
lum for the blind from McHenry coun-
ty.
Charles Ladd Of Dickey county has
received an appointment as mail
clerk.
Inc smallpox SCARE s S0OSiAAAA6
along the line Of the, N. p. It was a
mild form.
Farmers institutes are to be held at
Buxton, March 1 and 2, and at Finley,
March 8 and 9.
The Northern Pacific contemplates
two extensions in North Dakota during
the present veal.
H. A. Aim Of wahpeton is making a
good thing out Of his patent lock for
postoff1ce boxes.
Grafton school children have saved
in a savings bank.
George E. Nichols Of Fargo will open
a branch office for the grain firm OF
Van Dusen & Harrington.
Prof. Shepherd Of the agricultural
college recommends Mercer flint corn
for the western part of the state.
Boisterous young men at James,
town were fined for looking too long
on the red wine and getting noisy
about it.
Arnold Bell, who was sent to ther re-
form school from Grandin, will. return
home soon.
Senator LaMoure wants to repeal the
law by which people with insane wives
or husbands ear secure divorces.
Notwithstanding the fact that Osna-
brock blind pigs have been closed. it.
is said to still be possible to obtain a
drink.
A bevy of young jamestown sports
became hilarious, and n roasted the
chief of police, Who advised silence. He
was taxed IS.
The harm of the Cass hotel, at Cassel-
ton caught fire recently, and the fire.
men did a splendid piece of work in.
saving the hotel.
The Great Northern depot at Orr has
been closed for the winter, and now the
people are wondering what a railroad Is
good for, anyhow.
Fred Rhoda Of Williston undertook
to put his revolver in the holster Of his
saddle and got a 44-caliber bullet in his
knee car. He may lose the leg.
Mrs. B.. F. Spaulding, wife Of Repre-.
sentative Spaulding, has Joined her
husband, and will remain in Washing
ton until after the Inauguration.
c. N. Landon Of Nelson county was
driving along the road in a hay rack,
when his gun was accidentally dis
charged and he lost his right hand.
The Devils Lake Chatauqua will ar
range its dates to secur the attrac-
lions that are engaged each year by
the Big Stone and Madison Chautau-
qua
Rugby is all torn up because of a row
over a $40 organ, which seems to have
gotten into the wrong school room, and,
later, INTO the hands Of the city mar
shall.
There are the usual number Of incipi-
ent blazes recorded in the smaller
towns. this winter, and there "a been
many narrow escapes from big confla-
grations.
A Great Northern train struck a
hand car on which some Jap section
hands were riding near Williston. One
of the little fellows suffered a broken
leg and severe scalp cuts.
A h%alf-dozen Indians were arrested
at Devils Lake on the charge Of as
saulting Albert Roberts and his son.
The trouble arose over a dispute as to
whose team should give the right Of
way. 8-| ISL
The immigration departments Of the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
are confident that the number of home-
seekers who will go west this season
will be larger than in any previous
year. z
The attorneys of Walsh county are
all ripped up the back over h efforts
to remove the headquarters Of the Sew
enth judicial district from Grafton to
Pembina, the home OF Judge Knee
shaw. Z
It is said that. some Of the elevators
will supply farmers with seed wheat,
but on condition that the farmers
thus cared for shall in the fall sell
their grain to the companies assisting
ing them.
Emmons county has awarded the
contract and secured the site for a new
court house at Linton. Fort & Ostrurla
Of winona were awarded the contract,
for $1,000. The building is to be CONF
pleted Sept. is.
The work Of the agricultural college
in examining seed wheat for the farm.
ers and endeavoring to ave them a
loss on account Of seeding poor grain.
seems to be fully appreciated by the
men who pay most Of the taxes.
At Cathay. Mrs. John was driving =
team attached to a sleigh, n Of the
horses fell and threw the lady out on