The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-25
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thing In a base a team.
The Dunn Drug company will erect a
$1,000 building at Park River.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Emmons county court house.
The artesian water at Mayville is said
to kill the grass on the lawns.
A new stone quarry has been discov-
cred within a mile Of Harvey.
Bismarck will be headquarters for a
number Of railway mail clerks.
The Mandan ace track will be in
shape for the speeders this fall.
Bismarck rejoices that there are no
vacant houses there this summer.
The new Polish Catholic church at
Warsaw will be dedicated June Is.
A pest house has been ordered built
by the authorities Of Ward county.
Ex-Sherinf Jones Of Richland is now
deputy OIL inspector at Hankinson.
The stamp merchants over the state
are dispensing the new Pan-American
issue.
Binford, north Of Cooperstown. is said
to be one Of the growing towns OF the
state.
Valley City has an anti-cigarette
league, and sixty-five boys have signed
the pledge.
Emmons county officials will sell the
sixty-nine tracts Of land recently bid IN
on tax sale.
There were over 500 new filings in the
Devils Lake land Office In April and
1877 contests.
Land is in such demand in the west
ern part Of the state that claim-jump-
ing is frequent.
Hunters are elated over the number
of prairie chickens, which are said to
exceed former years.
The assessed valuation of Bottineau
county has increased nearly 200 per
cent during the past year.
Jim Foley has returned from his
Eastern trip, and "Prairie Breezes' will
commence to blow again.
There was a row at Darlington in the
fire department, and the city authorities
effected a reorganization.
A disease exists at Hunter which is
either scarlet fever or measles, the doc
tors are not certain which.
A Bismarck man hooked a sturgeon
with a small hook, tied a rope around
his tail and pulled him out.
County Judge Dorval Of Langdon
stole a march on his friends. and was
recently married in Quebec.
Several head Of cattle in Dickey coun-
ty, while being driven along the road.
became over-heated and died.
Townsite men in Oliver county are
modest. The new townsite OF Gaines
VILE contains only fifty acres.
The Northern Pacific is putting in six
new sidings at Jamestown, and each
will hold more than sixty cars.
F. w. Peavey, the great elevator
man, will put in a line Of elevators on
the line of the Washburn road.
Fred White, a Bismarck druggist, has
removed to Donnybrook, and is sue
ceeded by Mr.. Finney Of Casselton.
Rancher Dinsdale Of Dickinson lost a
herd of sheep, and another ranchman
held him up for SIS for finding Them.
There is a large amount Of freight
transferred from the Northern Pacific
at Bismarck to the new Washburn
road.
A belt Of timber a mile square, near
washburn, was burned over the other
day by a settler carelessly burning
brush.
Eddy county has a resident eighty
years old, who recently rode twenty-five
miles and return, on horseback, the
same day.
The quarantine has been raised on
the Standing Rock reservation, and the
Indians can come to town for the first
time this year.
While blowing with a three-horse
team near Wilton. lightning killed two
Of the horses and stunned the driver
and the third horse. .
At Mandan the %soft-drink establish
ments are getting their soda-fountafns
in order, and the hard-drink fellows are
lodging the officials.
The Fairview farm in Richland coun-
ty will plant 1900 acres Of corn this e a
son. Much Of the wheat was seeded
this spring ON the cor land Of last
year.
Alex Mcdonald Of Grafton has grad
uated at a Detroit medical college, first
In q class Of nifty. It's hard to keep q
North Dakotan down, unless he works
in q well or mine.
J. E. Cronan Of Fargo, who has been
IN Alaska inspecting some marble quar-
ries In which he is interested, IL home
again, and reports prospects good for
business this year.
"a Company D boy who was at the
soldiers home for a time. ~ the result
Of an illness contracted ct the Philip
pines, has been sent to the national
soldiers home in KANSAS.
The banquet IN honor Of the return Of
sergt. Weiland to Langdon from the