The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-11

Wahpeton win do some paving this
spring.
cando has a curfew law. and It Is
enforced.
william Barr is to erect a new hotel
at Knox.
Osnabrock people have haised $500
for q new church.
Merchant Bohrer Of limerick may
remove to Cathay.
II. Cando incorporates, a boom in the
townsite is predicted.
Abercrombie has a torrM school row.,
Hannah wants q race track /.
Bott!neau county will vote on b
question Of issuing $4,000 bonds.
There is said to be a fine quality OF
potters's clay around Donnybrook.
Hebron has a resident who proudly
bears the name Of Ditchenmueller.
Some miscreants stole two doors.
from the Masonic hall at Tower City,
Cando is to vote on the question Of
Incorporating under the general law.
Clint J. Nickells has sold his drug:
store at Great Bend, Richland county.
Richland county lands, that have re-
Gently been proven up on, are listed TOT
taxation.
Park River will vote on bonding the
city for water works n electric
lights.
On account Of the mild winter, manye
Morton county ranchmen did not feed
any hay.
The Casselton fire department will
send a.runninr team to the tournament
at Dickinson.
The officials are making some m
provenents in the Bismarck court
house grounds.
Cavalier claims to be the center Of
Pembina county, and wants a term, OF
court held there.
Joe Huffman of Ludden set fire to a
patch of thistles and the blaze burned
his brother slightly.
The Granville State Bank has been
organized, with four of the Stubbins
family for directors.
Jacob Tollefson of Walcott caught
an old wolf and eight young ones, and
will receive s1S bounty.
President Taylor, Of the Bathgate
schools, may &c to the Philippines to-
engage in educational work
The Northern Pacific cash drawer at.
Valley City was touched up for -
while the agent was at dinner.
DR.. Gibson happened along just in
time to save the Wakeford hotel. Of
Osnabrock from being burned.
A petition is being circulated for q
rural free delivery route covering ter
ritory tributary to Hillsboro.
A new Presbyterian church will be.
built at soper. The congregation has
raised $1,000 for that purpose.
Prof. Hamilton has received a check.
for IS from Senator Mark Hanna for
the school library at Enderlin.
The Monarch elevator at Tappan,
burned. There vas but a small amount
Of grain stored in the building.
Lisbon and jamestown have dis
pensed with music in their public
schools. in the interest Of economy.
The f~ve-year-old daughter of F. n
Dunbar, living near Linton, was badly
burned by her clothing catching on fire
from a stove.
"A couple of Stutsman county farmers
want damages because their horses
were mired and drowned in one of thu
county roads.
A. M. Packard, as grand master Of
the Odd Fellows. has instituted four
new lodges this year, the last be-
ing at Sterling.
One of the first men in Harvey to re-
sumo business after the fire was the
barber, who bought his outfit from "a
Fessenden artist. "a
Fargo will proceed to relet the con.
tract for electric lighting, the present
contract having been declared void by
the supreme court.
James O.. Hamre Of Park River has
opened the first drug store at the.
nameless town near Lunde postofice
in Ramsey county.
H. E. Allen. the Galesburg. Cas-
county, builder, a filed q petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities Of $4,000
and assets Of $4,000.
The Ward county commissioners fur.
nished about 1000, bushels of wheat
and 200 Of fax to settlers. Not much
in a big county like Ward.
The fees in te preliminary hearing OF
the Barry case cost Cavalier county
$22S.50 and it ts expected that the trial
will increase this to $1,000.
Insurance Commissioner Leutz is re-
ported to have disqualified an outside
hail IL. surance company until its finan-
| cial standing can be Investigated.
In the. case Of Kidder County We. ex
County Treasurer Foye, the defendant
has made no answer. Suit is brought
to recover some fees, said to have been
overpaid.
After a brief visit with Mrs. Bidlake
at Langdon, Hon. ohm Bidlake has re-
turned to South America, where he
hopes to realize on valuable conces,
s:ons.
James Davidson, American consul at
Formosa, has been visiting his brother,
Banker Davidson, Of Darlington. The
former was q member Of the Peary
arctic expedition in 1893.
No n seems to be able to definitely
locate the flowing well between La
Moure and Stutsman counties, throw
ing a stream three feet high and sev.
erai inches In diameter"
h At Sharlow, Stutsman county, two Of
Henry spanton's horses got to fighting,
and n Of them committed suicide by
jumping head foremost into a web
tw twenty-five feet deep.
The Fargo city council has taken
preliminary steps toward calling for
bids for q new street lighting contract,