The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-04-05

Mandan is to have a gymnasium.
McHenry is to have another bank.
Dickinson has 1870 telephone subscribe
ers.
The bank at wilton is open for busi-
ness.
Sneak thieves are operating at Grand
Forks.
Valley City has $4,000 in it's strong
box.
House-cleaning ) is the popular pas
time.
Mumps seem to b epidemic at Nc
Henry.
Winston will have a telephone .esx.
change. VI IS !.
The new hospital at Devils Lake is
assured.
The Rebekahs have organized at
Kenmere.
State Health oficer Healy is an act
Wyrdmere people want an electric
light plant.
There may be a Pembina county base
ball league.
The Washburn road is erecting stock
yards at Washburn.
June "a and rs are the dates selected
for the Hope races.
Grand Forkers are already complains
ing Of ~thescorchers.
The people of Perth complain of the
ing Of the scorcaers.
The January taxes in Grand Forks
county were s253. 49, 5.
It is said the Morton county political
scrap is to be to a finish.
Work will soon begin on the reform
school building at Mandan.
Minor thinks it is in the artesian wa.
ter belt, and wants a well.
King John Satterlund is to start a
brick yard at Washburn.
some new business enterprises are to
be established at Cathay.
Jalmar Wigs, .he Milton pitcher. will
play with Portland this year.
The storm of last week tied up the
trains on the 500 at Braddock.
A Grand Forks policeman has re-
signed to become a pawnbroker.
Bismarck is on a cash-paying basis
for the first time in many years.
Dan Campbell, a Bismarck colored
man, has been sent to the asylum.
Among the attractions for Washburn
is a. new band and a fire company.
The other towns in the state envy
Walhalla that excellent spring water.
Business at Harvey is SO great that
the 500 will enlarge the freight depot.
State Senator Sharpe has returned to
North Dakota will have the base ball
epidemic worse than the smallpox this
summer.
The w. c. T. u. lodge at Grand Forks
will not be abandoned, as al first an
nounced.
Somebody will have to quarantine
against the Barnes county epidemic Of
suicides.
Forest River schools are temporarily
closed on account Of the prevailing epi-
demic.
Four-legged hogs are worth 6 cents
cash, per pound and 6 IL in trade at
Anamoose.
The county Jail at Pembina has been
lined with iron sheeting an eighth Of an
inch thick.
The first car load Of Dagoes for sum.
mer work on the Northern Pacific at
Jamestown has arrived.
A death occurred at Everest from
d%iphtheria, the little daughter of Albert
Ratnke being the victim.
At Grafton, it is said, there is q tend
$500 -I-r- S.-s~I-ka. a-HL .r. witch Il
the municipal campaign.
The Masonic temple al Langdon Is q
structure Of which the citizens Of that
town are justly proud.
Tom IIaig was arrested at Devils
Lake On the charge of interfering with
1iremen during q blaze.
Dave Glover was arrested and brought
to Mandan on a charge Of seduction.
preferred by Miss Case.
Barnes county is said to have seven
in the field for sheriff, and
the election eight months away
Devils Lake citizens were so indig-
that. they offered 5000 reward for
the conviction Of a dog-poisoner.
The suit Of Grand Forks. to test the
liability of bank directors. will be OBJ
with considerable interest.
Iowans are shipping in cattle to the
ranges about Mandan, where some big
purchases have recently been made.
It is reported that Postmaster Bulge
and National Bank Examiner Gordon
Of Grand Forks r. to be reappointed.
Not long ago Joe Miller Of Mandan
died and now the death Of his widow %
reported to have OCCURRED in st. Paul.
The Prohibitionists are to do . lot OF
campaigning this hummer. "A number
Of noted speakers have been secured.
North Dakota farmers are urging
Senators Hansbrought and McCumber