The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20
osnabrock wants to incorporate.

It Is said some n Will start q paper
in Carpio, Ward county.
Lieut.. William Mickle will be the new
chief Of police at Grafton.
Mr.. Murphy. Great Northern agent at
| Williston, has been promoted. Fl
Lucca people claim to have the pref
test postof1lce girl in the state.
Base ball agitation has stirred UP
the James and Red river valleys.
Efforts are being made to have q civ-
IL township organized at Granville.
John Rocks, a Westield merchant,
was severely injured in a runaway.
W. E.. Howes, formerly Of Buffalo
and Hunter, may locate at Kindred.
The farmers will not welcome some
Of the mutual hail agents this year.
Richland county will be represented
in the state show at the Pan-American
exhibit.
Mayville people voted to levy a 4
mill tax for the support Of their public
library.
Company D of Devils Lake will soon1
begin the construction Of an armory to
cost $1,000.
The birth of a son was an event at
the home Of Judge Lauder Of Wahpe-
ton recently. =
President Hicks, of the state manual
training school, has been reelected for
another year.
Hunter and Kindred are to play ball.
There'l be a hot time when the editors
start to roofing.
The country around. McHenry, Fos>
ter county is attracting lots of atten-
tion this spring.
Immigrants are 1ocking into Ward
county, as well as Pierce, McHenry.
| Wells and Mclean.
Uncle John De Groat has returned
from Winnipeg, to visit old friends at
| Hillsboro for a short time.
At the next racing meeting at Hope
it is promised no more people Will be
killed from drinking leg-wash
Harry Sylvester, a Willow City boy.
is in the regular army, doing detail
work now as a hospital nurse.
The Rassenella brothers, in Jail at
| Grand Forks for murder, are tractable
! prisoners and make no trouble.
Lieut.. Sunderland of Wahpeton win
SpeUu Tie SuIIIIiIei III 4NOLASs 0Hu LAG
! family will reside at L~idgerwood.
Former Game Warden Bowers viii
locate at Granville, McHenry county.
md go into the machine business.
Fargo returns thanks for the nice
press notices and we'll wishes of the
newspaper boys for the fire festival.
The L.akota effort to override the
states attorney by appealing to the at
torney general, is said to have failed.
The Workmen have a membership OF
1900 in this state. During thep past year
$4,000 in death claims have been paid.
Stutsman county farmers are procur-
ing poison from the county auditor and
preparing to exterminate the gophers.
The Gull River Lumber company is
suing eighty members Of the James,
town boat club for a bill of 500 for
lumber. -,
Nearly all Of the good land in Nc.
Henry county is said to have been filed
on, out many ACCOMPLISHMENTS a be-
secured cheaply.
The case brought by S. l.. Claspell at
Jamestown, to exclude certain n
from the city limits has been appealed
to the supreme court.
The fourth annual race meet at Hope
this year will be held Jun 25th and
26th, and the business men have guar
anteed purses worth $1,000.
o. H. Christopher, a Minot tailor, has
concluded to discard the goose and
thimble for the saddle and quirt, and
will engage In stock raising.
The Walsh county commissioners re-
<,,oaI $4 .olyo M ornrnrriofinn tn helm.
out the Pan-American display, on the
advice of the states attorney.
Work on the city waterworks at Hall
lock will be resumed next week, ana
that place is promised a new hall y
which to hold public meetings.
The Ransom county commissioners
declined to issue seed wheat bonds.
There are about $1,000 d%efaulted obliga-
lions from a former issue in that
ty.
: There is a controversy at Bismarck
over the proposed erection Of o frame
building within the fire limits. Most
towns run against the same sort OF
trouble.
County Surveyor Lawson Of Grand
Forks county broke a blood-vessel J n
one of his eyes while studying some
records in fine writing, and may lose
its sight.
President Worst of the agricultural
college denies the report sent out from
Jamestown that the college authorities
are sending home students who have
smallpox.
+ It is said that A. NJ. Halstead. <
treasurer of Stutsman county, will put
in electrical mining machinery In the
coal mines at Kenmare which he is int~4'
terested in.
Cornelius, Buckley, father OF. Q
Buckley and several other railroad
men well known on the Northern Pa
cifc, died at Jamestown last week az
the age Of eighty-three.
Charles Darling, a crippled merchant
at Jamestown. dropped q coal into 9
can Of kerosene and nearly persisted N
the resulting blaze. He was finally
rescued by men who heard his cries.
The channel Of the Missouri river az
Williston promises to change to me
opposite shore this spring, and =
people Of Williston hope 1t will remain
there, as last year the cutting on the
north shore was dangerously near the
town. sSSs
"A stranger rode tn the Commercial
hotel at Wahpeton IN the spent
two hours between trains IN the hotel