The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-02-21

% have been after the piggers at New
Salem and Hebron.
The people Of Granville ordered the
blind piggers out and a new drug store
8 to be established.
Grand Forks county farmers seem
enthusiastic over the central creamery
)lan at Grand Forks.
The new Ignite mines in Williams
county are reported to be turning out
4 high grade of coal.
The churches over the state are
rushing in Endorsements Of the bill. to
knock out cigarettes.
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
ciftc may set the North Goats limited
back an hour or two.
There will be more activity in the
cement business in this state this
spring than formerly.
Rugby ministers should do big bust
ness If those forty-eight Hoosier girls
come there and are wed.
1t is said that the blind pig raids At
Bismarck were planned to head of any
talk of capitol removal.
If Morton county joins Burleigh and
goes dry on booze, there will be some
thing doing on the slope.
There is a plan to have a $4,000
monument erected in the soldiers
home cemetery in Lisbon.
The different nationalities at Valley
City will hold entertainments for the
hpnaht IF tho Nhrorv fund
Ex-State Auditor Porter is said to
have made a nice thing on real estate
deals during the past year..
Some of the early winter visitors are
struggling back from the b%lizzardly
East preparatory tovspring.
A hotel at Pembina was closed by
| attachment and several people had to
seek other boarding places.
The baseball fans at Marion gave 4
dance for the benefit of the team that
will be rounded up this summer. .
Insurance adjusters have been at tho
Troy farm in Kidder county, lokin8
over the ruins of the recent fire. IS
Mohall continues to attract attention
and there will be q lot Of new settlers
attracted to that section of the state.
The Minot people want to see thu
credentials of the next show that
comes along before they buy tickets.
The Northwest Telephone company
will extend its lines up the j. & N. to
Leeds, and from Oberon to Esmond.
Lieut.. Kelly of Company A at Bis,
marck was presented with a sword by
the regulars at the Fort Lincoln post.
Commandant McIlyain of the sol.
diers' home will reside in Enderlin
and look after his big farming inter.
ests.
The new county officials in Nelson
county seem determined to make
things unpleasant for violators of the
law y
It is said enough snow fell in tho
northwestern part of the state to fill
the coulies and insure a good crop next
year.
Harry Forsythe, formerly OF Cakes,
has been arrested on the charge OF
stealing money from a man in Mime.
apolis.
There is considerable talk of cleo
trio railway extensions in North Da.
kota after the line is established in
Fargo.
Uncle Don Stevenson Is mentioned
as the probable successor of Maj.
Bingenheimer at the Standing Rock
agency.
Some Emmons county people who
went to Virginia to look owe the coun.
try have returned, satisfied with North
Dakota. Il
The accidental discharge Of q 20
caliber rifle at Dunseith made a hole
through the foot Of Mrs. Charles
Briggs.
The burglar alarm in a Lisbon bank
went off half-cocked the other night
and half the town vas up to see the
burglars.
Supt. Seymour of the 500 was
thrown by a freight train striking his
car too heavily, and one ear was al.
most severed. n
In Richland county a health board
official was assaulted while putting up
a smallpox card, and the sluggers
were fined $50.
A grain thief broke into q granary
in Bottineau county, and when Z
spring gun was discharged he left
rather suddenly.
Joseph and Oliver Seymour Of Bot
tineau went to Everett, Wash, to visit
two older brothers they had not seen
in ffty-two years.
G. W. Archibald, who was arrested
at Grand Forks on suspicion of being
implicated in Q diamb0nd theft. has
been released on bonds.
Leon De Roche Of Grand Forks has
appealed from the judgment in . d.
vorce case which gave his wife the de.
cree and $1,000 alimony.
A. "A. Amy Of Paramount. . veteran
Of the Mexican and the Civil wars, gets
a pension Of $24 per month. He u
now eighty!two years Of age.
Settlers from Iowa and Illinois de-
clare this Is the most pleasant winter
they ever spent, and the alleged North
Dakota billiards have lost their ter,
rors. ~ Y
A stranger Is said to have STOLEN 4
valuable fur, coat from . travelling man
and jumped OF the train at Vela. going
in the opposite direction by the next
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