The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-22

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& Everson.
FLAX thieves are reported around
Casselman.
cooperstown viii get . knights Of
Pythias lodge.
The newspaper war at Linton is az
vilulent an ever.
Railroads are coming in punches for
Emmons county,
Dr.. Nelson Of Kenmare is laid Up
with a broken leg.
+. \. Bentley Of sanborn has secured
a patent on a fly screen.
The real estate men have their y
day cards out all the time.
The latest pugilistic carnival at Can
do wasn't exactly q success.
The 500 will put another passenger
train on the road from Portal.
A gas lamp exploded at sheyenne
and gave the people a bad fright.
The prevailing epidemic has struck
Jamestown-the lack Of houses for rent.
The Northern Pacific is giving Ignite
coal a thorough test at the anoan
shops.
Gilbert Burge, a patient at the state
asylum from Edinburg, Walsh county
is dead.
A number of Minnesotians are taking
| claims and purchasing land IN EN-
mons county.
A detective accused q Berwick young.
man of the theft OF some boxes, ana
had to recant.
Some men were al Berwick looking
for a location for q blacksmith shop
and a livery stable.
jeff May. who is held on the charge
of murder at Bismarck, was q former
resident of Steele.
J. r. Carley has been recommended
for postmaster at Hillsboro by Con-
gresham Marshall.
Dealers who sell formaldehyde are
begil. ming to advertise their wares 10
catch the early farmer.
]. N. Kunkel Of New Rockford 9
purchased a confectionery store from
j. E. Lobdell of Fessenden.
The Northern Pacific may be COM
PEELED to run three trains daily to &C
commodate the settlers next month.
The Bottineau school pupils held a
midwinter picnic, but it was prior TO
the recent banana-freezing weather.
Mrs. Bunting, who recently secured q
| divorce from her husband n Mandan,
has gone to Detroit. Mich, to reside.
Dr.. Wheeler is being urged to become
a candidate for mayor of Grand FORKS.
Docs one Of the best that ever came
over.
A herd of sheep belonging to- J.rW.
Balch & Son, in Stutstnan county, wan
der, ID away from their pen and sixty OF
them died.
It is now reported that the Northern
Pacific has definitely decided to build
the branch into Emmons county from
| Mckenzie.
A Dickey county farmer sold a num-
Der Of April pigs at Ellendale at $14 per
head. They were fattened on h
and millett.
The locomotives on the washburn
branch had to go to Bismarck to drink,
white the Bismarck water works were
on the bum.
e. 7. Sarles Of Hillsboro should feel
proud Of the kindly words said Of his
/ gubernatorial boom, even IL he
after the job.
DR.. Mcbride Of Rugby is nursing .
severe scalp wound as q result Of being
thrown from his rig while his team
was running away.
The Northern Pacific will build a big
| wool warehouse in Dickinson. b
Press wants 1t to be Of 100000 pounds
capacity. built Of brick.
Denhof .is the new town at the end OF
the Bowdon extension Of the Northern
lPaeiac. There are already several busi-
ness houses and a-drug store.
Mrs. Minnie b. Sears Of Glendale
varies. the monotony q little by adver-
Using that her daughter left home. and
no NOR. Of her bills will be paid.
Valley City and Devils Lake militia
| companies will have new armories by
the end OF the year, and arrangements
are also in progress at Glendale.
The Authorities Of the Bismarck post.
Office are preparing to make things hot
for the loafers In The lobby who make
the place filthy with their e%xpectora-
tons.
Ten Of the thirteen horses supposed
to have been stolen from Ranchman
Gerb " Of Stutsman county. have been
located. They had wandered away in
g. 6ICrm. .E4l 5 a 49, 10 80
An Iowan who saw the corn cribs in
Emmons county wrote home to his wife
that he had struck a young Iowa. and
to sell out and get ready to Q to
North Dakota.
+. w. weego Of Grand Forks advo-
Gates q seven-club base ball league for
the summer, to include Winnipeg.
|Crockston. Grand Forks, Grafton. Lar
imore and Devils Lake. Raise the ante
AMI make It eight.
A black haired, argurnentative cuss
in the western part OF the state claimed
that all great nrens lad dark hair, but
changed his mind when q r~ed-headed
Opponent swiped him n in the Jaw
that laEded him In the coal tox.
The poor, unfortunate pessimist who
wandered from North Dakota after
faintlv endeavoring to win fortune,
must be looking for q man's-siEed q
to kick him around block or two.
when he reads how the state 20 PROS
pering. NJ
A merchant IN the northern part or
the state - said to have had one
mental trouble after marrying 3A&widow
some twenty years his senior. He
lexaminadsbysSthe insanity board. and
phys:claenn prescribed q divorce -