The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-02-23
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tunnellng under the Soc tracks.
Jamestown's city attorney will draw
$3.50, instead of 800, as formerly. -,
The jamestown electric light plant is
to be equipped with new dynamos.
Charles Rattinger OF New Rockford
will take charge of a Brainerd hotel.
Cass and Grand Forks counties are
the only ones that have poorfarms.
The next state meeting of the Royal
Neighbors will be held at jamestown.
The friends of w. H. Juno Of Ayr ex-
tend sympathy on the a of his wife.
Daniel Armstrong fell from a load of
hay at Jamestown and broke his shout
der.
The next meeting of the State Dentai
association will be held in Wahpeton
in July.
Senator Lavayea has a bill to make
the Office of superintendent of farms
elective.
A rural mail delivery has been recon-
mended by Congressman Spalding for
Reynolds.
The Bisbee people discuss the burning
of Ignite coal, but many continue to
use wood.
Gard1. err is anticipating a success Of
the. rural free delivery, to be estab-
lished there.
Leeds has grown so rapidly that two
banks are necessary to lake care Of the
peoples wealth.
William Olsen of Grinnell and c. G.
Phelps Of Darlington have each secured
pensions of Sc per month.
Henry Baker, the Buffalo meat a
ket man, will erect a building on the
site of the n recently burned.
Herb McCready's livery barn was
burned at Valley City. The loss was
fairly we'll covered by insurance.
A bus at wahpeton vas smashed by
a Great Northen freight car, but the
occupants of the bus escaped injury.
The appointment of Dr.. Guest Of Erie
as assistant county physician pleased
the people of that part of Cass county.
A crazy Chinaman wanted to stop of
at Jamestown. He must have had a
hunch that there was bug house,
there. &;
J.. C. Eddy of jamestown, who died
ut Fargo last week, was the first mem
Der Of Company H to die Of disease con-
vracted in the Philippines.
Nonresident land owners in Steel
county have notified their agents to
raise the price Of their holdings. They
have confidence in the country.
The Hebron creamery sold $4,000
worth Of butter from April to January.
And still some Walsh county men i'm
agine that creameries are failures.
The Valley City municipal electric
tight plant is said to have yielded a net
profit to the city Of ST. 900 last year, in
spite of the report that it has been a
losing venture.
Senator Lavayea's bill to repeal the
fight of woman suffrage would have
been no good If it had passed, as the
provision by which women vote is a
constitutional affair.
Jacob Tagert, formerly a printer at
Forman, was killed in the Philippines.
Two brothers were killed by the Filipi-
nos, and he enlisted to avenge them,
with the foregoing result.
The majority of the stock in the Far
go-Edison Electric company has been
bought by local people. Max Stern and
Maurice Kaufman are the largest pur-
chasers. Ed Hughes still retains his
stock.
s The land Office officials expect some
the many claim holders attempt to
prove up on an alleged conference.-the
residence-which, iE reality, has not
been that many days.
B. 8. Russell & Co. Of jamestown
have branch offices at Courtenay, I'm
charge, of r. A. LEM, and at CARING
ton, where B.. d. Russell is the resident
manager. They are old-timers in North
Dakota and know the land WELL,
"A Buffalo boy was to make a declam-
alton, but when the time came he was
attacked with stage fright and ran of
the stage, He stopped at the home of
a farmer and secured a job of doing
chores instead OF going to school.
Two men have been arrested in Far
20 charged with Turing to destruction
three little girls ranging in age from
nine to thirteen years. II the state
ments made are true the brutes ought
to wear stripes the balance Of their
lives.
The supply pipe connecting the stand,
pipe with the Hillsboro water mains
burst the other day, and the water
gushing out ripped up the earth and
flooded the engine house. The town
wa temporarily out of water and in
darkness
Mayville people are said to ha4 ina,..