The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-11-08

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Towner are determined there shall bo
no change.
Many elevators in the state were
compelled to close down because Of in.
ability to secure cars for the ship
ment Of grain.
Some of the lawyers who were adj
mitted after q hard examination seem
inclined to jibe at the attorneys who
drifted in long ago
A McHenry county farmer sold his
fax and blew in all the money in q
poker game at Granville. He fed.
deserving his family. ~
Pat Buckley of Tower City rejoices
ove the fact that he was not caught on
an identification scheme by the last
Tower City forger.
At Cando two farmers e~ndeavored to
settle a dispute by a fist fight. but
Mayor Conyers happened along and
arrested both of them.
C. H. Shells of Edgeley promises tho
farmers Of hat section to secure an
| appropriation to get the experiment
farm there in operation.
About next spring some of the fell
lows who are selling their farms and
moving to the Pacific coast will be
very anxious to getsback.
e. A. Movius, n Of the Richland
county legislative candidates, is recov-
ering from injuries received from be-
ing thrown from q horse.
Many sections of the state are after
those farmers Institutes that Prof.
Kaufman announces. The number
this year will be limited.
A quiet poker game was in progress
at Minor, and some outsider exploded
q bomb under the floor. The session;
was adjourned, instanter.
The people of Devils Lake are jubi>
liant over the prospective removal or
the Great Northern freight division to
that point from Larimore.
Grand Forks claims that the Great
Northern does the third largest pas
senger business out Of that point be-
| tween Minneapolis and Seattle.
A rancher near Williston drove in>
to town. On his return he found g
| hired man had eloped with a pair OF
his horses and the best saddle.
An Arabian peddler in Cavalier
county is said to have frightened q
| lady into having purchased some OF
| his stock by fourishing a revolver.
Mandan promises to rival Bismarck
as q railroad center when the North
ern Pacific gets through building pro.
| ~spective branches from that point.
Farmers around Wheatland and Buff
| falo seem to have harvested a wheat
CROP that averaged around nineteen
bushels. and fax that went twelve. >
Some former residents of Emmons,
| County, who sought their fortunes
| elsewhere, are returning to that sec
ton of the state for permanent homes.
The Sioux Indians, who were em-
| ployed on the N. P. grade in Emmons,
county, gave a war dance the night,
they quit to return to the reservation.
When the ferry and telephone be.
tween Bismarck and Mandan get In
operation, there will be no necessity
for Bismarkers to be dry all the time.l
The gentlemen who backed the Dew,
lis Lake base ball team are determined
to get out Of the business-after losses
two years and the tiasco OF last season.
Sylvie Marriage, a f~our-year-old girl
| of Barlow, was shot in the arm by he
accidental discharge of a gun carried
by a brother. The arm was amputat.
ed. j
Tnere will be general regret among
| the farmers that the state %appropria-
ton for farmers institutes is SO small
that only a few can be held this win.
ter. !
Cavalier county farmers had theit
crops threshed more quickly this year
than usual-owing to the large num-
Der of new machines put in there this
fall.
A would.be hold-up artist at Oberon
| got gay, and Clint Patterson, a black
| swith, knocked him down q few times.
| The fellow finally escaped in the dark.
ness. 4
A prisoner at Darlington wrote a let.
ter admtttiIg his guilt, but begging
mercy-as he had been up against q
piece of hard luck and needed the
shoes he stole.
Many farmers are selling wheat and
fax to save storage and insurance,
and buying options or an equal or
larger amount. to get the benefit Of the
rise later IN.
Finn Leech of Fargo has been sugA
gested for speaker Of the next legis-
lature, but is said to be fernist the
proposition as the speakers seat is
too small.
c. H. Honey of Park River adver.,
tises $25 reward, in addition to the
800 offered by the state, for the ar
rest and conviction Of the man who
stole his horse.
Col. Dick Copeland of Williston 10
making an earnest effort to secure q
pardon for William Ross, the man
who murdered Farmer Walsh, lear
Willow City. 1t is alleged Ross IL
weak-minded.
There wal a little romance to a MINI
~neapolis marriage recently. The groom
was George 8. Peterson Of Cakes, and
the bride was a pretty Tennessee girl
with whom Peterson became acquaint.
ed while with G%rigsby's Rough Riders.
1t is thought that the man found
dead at Crary, had lived at Marion, La
Moure county. 1t is suspected that he
was murdered and placed IN the rail-
road track, where the body was badly
mutilated by a train.
There. will be something doing IL
Mandan and Dickinson both decide to
20 after the See city for the new Cath
Ollie diocese, to be created west of the
Missouri river. Dickinson claims the
rfpht NV TIA central location in the do.