The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-04-04
Iowans are coming in punches.

Stanley piggers have been warned
to vamoose.
Ransom county is getting a lot Of
Iowa settlers.
Langdon merchants will close their
stores at $3.50.
Crazy is the latest town to have q
bowling alley.
Land seekers keep the liverymen
busy at Mandan.
Another cement mine has been
| opened near Olga.
Bismarck gets another attorney in
A. J. Hedrix of Iowa.
lC~asselton people regret the resigna.
ton of Chief of Police Best.
Minot will have a lot of incombusti.
BILE sidewalks built this spring.
The pupils of the Jamestown high
school are now issuing a paper.
The militia boys are already plan.
ming for the annual encampment.
Il is claimed that a bed of Ignite
har aeea discovered in Richland.
ney General Erich is actively
tah.Ag hold of the work of his Office.
From Sept. 1 to March 1, $50 filings
were made or Emmons county land.
.Renville people wonder if there will
be any more postof1ce changes soon.
Norval Baptie has returned to Bath.
gate after winning many honors in TIE
East. -
Gerald Bosard of Grand Forks has
returned from a trip around the
world. & &
An ,embezzlement microbe must
have been working overtime in Walsh
county.
A would-be shooter is said to have
been FASTENED in his departure from
Edmore.
Ashley. business men held a meet
ing to take the preliminary steps for
Incorporation.
Mayor Dinnie Of Grand Forks has
completed his twenty-year residence
in North Dakota.
With two game wardens, it is pre-
dicted illegal shooting will be prose
cuted vigorously.
Clarence Ellithorpe Of Walhalla
will be principal Of the Willistop
schools next year.
Col. Carroll assumes his duties as
commandant of the North Dakota Sol,
diers' home April l..
jamestown people are preparing to
assume metropolitan airs with free
mail delivery Aug. 1. ,
A scarlet fevere epidemic at Bath.
gate was headed off by prompt action
by the health officials.
Minot police made a second cleanup
of the vags, and are. determined to
run them out of the city.
The Glendale baseballists are pre-
pairing to- go after the scalp Of the
Cakes team this summer.
Ole Lien was fined 500 and given
thirty days. in Jail at Grand Forks on
the charge of swiping $37.
Some of the wild geese that went
north so early seem to have concluded
they were rushing the season.
Charlie Banks of Sheldon, a student
at Culver military academy, has been
winning honors as an athlete.
Rancher Bjorum Of Morton county
ran a big wolf down after a long
horseback chase without dogs.
Attention is called to the fact that
the sports who kill geese this spring
need 1903 hunting permits first.
Willow City has organized a bust
ness mems association that will ad.
vance the interests Of the town.
The farmers will 500 have an op
~portunity to expend some of the en-.
ergy stored up during the winter.
The t%reasurer's Office in Walsh cum
ty is being thoroughly examined since
the reported shortage Of a deputy.
At Grafton all old electric light bills
must be paid before the end Of the
month or the lights will, be smut OF.
George Pike Of Williston has beer
arrested a second time in six weeks
for alleged violation Of the liquor law.
A lot Of people are wondering II
there will be an Improvement in the
quality Of oil to be sold in this state.
Harvey has at last succeeded in in.
cooperating and the men who have so
persistently urged that action are re
joicing.
A new rural route will be estab
lished north Of Sheldon and, the ma.
jority Of the patrons are from Cass
county.
The central part of the state Scent
to be q natural stock country and
great predictions are made for it,
future.
At Dunseith q man swiped ter
cords Of wood from . widow and was
given q short time to settle to avoid
prosecution.
The scheme to transport coal BY
barges on the Missouri is not regard.
ed as a success on account OF the dim.
Guilty OF manipulating such unwieldy
craft on that stream. 4,
Lidgerwood is determined to have
the fastest independent ball team In
the; state this summer, and has q chip
ON ITS shoulder for Cooperstown, Val
ley City;5s orsany other place.
The stage drivers in the northern
part Of the state insist on more