The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-11-14

HOldupS IN the vicinity or Mayv1lle
are said to be rather common this fall
Two new national banks in NORTH
Dakota last month is a pretty good rec
ord.
There is quite a discussion at Chris
tine regarding a proposed bell for the
school.
Courtenay people rejoice over Sc
curing a new crossing over the Soc
tracks.
Elevator agents in some towns com
plain of the small amount of grain
marketed.
The Valley City council is making
another effort to dispose of the electric
light plant.
Church suppers are than usual.
ly prominent over the state, rejecting
a good harvest.
Will Locke lost a hand near Cassel.
ton by the premature explosion of q
dynamite charge.
A large number Of Nebraskans are
locating in the extreme northwestern
part of the state.
The amateur theatrical companies
are beginning to get busy in many
towns in the state.
Geese hunters report a great plenty
Of game and the quality seems to be
as usual this year.
Rev. Fosberg, formerly of Hunter
and Mandan, is the new Methodist
minister at Hannah.
A half breed attempted to run the
town at Rolla and vas finally in the
cooler after a hard struggle.
There is more football enthusiasm
in the colleges this year than usual
and better games are the rule.
Crosby is a town thirty-six miles
west Of Portal and six miles south of
the international boundary line.
Four boys at Steele were given the
option Of paying for damaging a sign
Or being prosecuted, and they paid.
The extended spell of dry weather
has resulted in a number of prairie
fires in the western part of the state.
The Holbrook Mercantile company
will occupy a handsome and commo-
dious new building at Devils Lake next
week.
There doesn't seem to be much of q
land boom on Just now, but a large
number Of farms are quietly changing
ownership.
The new Catholic church at Cassel-
ton was formally dedicated, Bishop
Stanley and Father Quillinan being
the celebrants.
Oscar Young is said to have expert
enced some of the strenuous life at
Wahpeton among footpads, barely
escaping alive.
Two hobos swiped thirteen pairs Of
gloves from an Enderlin store, and as
usual the number proved unlucky and
the men were caught.
Road overseers in the country dis.
tricts are destroying the weeds along
the highways so they won't catch
snowdrifts this winter.
A Valley City man attempted to
cross a track in the rear of a train and
lost a wheel to his buggy when the
cars backed up suddenly.
Telephone extension is in progress
between Kuhn ard Ashley. Napoleon.
Lehr and other towns which will soon
be connected with Fargo.
An Indian at the business end of q
shotgun is said to have separated an
Oberon hunter from a bunch of wild
geese the latter had killed.
J. M. Soby of Crazy was burned
about the face and hands by an explo-
sion of a%cetylene gas. Fortunately
the amount exploded was small.
Aneta citizens are pleased with the
showing their town made in the
Great Northern freight receipts last
year, the amount being $141,00O.
Many fires were caused by threshing
durir, the high wind of last week.
One man at Sawyer burned up his sep
aratcr and twelve stacks of wheat.
According to the last annual census
the Indians on the Standing Rock
agency number $685.. showing a de.
crease Of 18 from last years census.
On one of the rural delivery routes
out of Grand Forks it was impossible
for a long time to get a man to act as
carrier for the salary offered by the
government, $50 per month. The peo-
pie living along the route Clipped in
enough to advance the salary about
5000 a year, and they are now getting
good service.
1t is said the Great Northern detec-
tives are very indignant over the
escape of the men arrested at Minot
On the charge of stealing from box
cars.
The decrease in the price of lax,
coupled with the poor yield in many
places, tends to discourage the plant
ing of SO much of that grain in the
future.
Frank Davis. alias Ginger, who was
sentenced to ten years by Judge Fisk
of Grand Forks on q robbery charge,
has been safely landed in the state
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