The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-10-31
Park River schools are overcrowded.

stock yards enlarged.
The Great Northern is improving it,
buildings at Neche and st. Thomas.
A stock company may be organized
to control the Nor;fwood opera house
Bismarckers promise to royalty en-
terrain the Women's Federated Clubs
in 1904.
Burglars went through the home
President Merifield of the state uni
versity.
A Medina man promises trouble fol
q rancher who is said to have one Of
his horses.
Judge Winchester made the trip to
Oliver county-in an automobile-to
hold court.
Several towns in the state are plan.
ming to assist the North Dakota Chill.
| dren's Home.
Henry Eckles, a Grand Forks county
farmer, was returned to the asylum
for treatment.
The N. P. switching crew at Valley
City has been laid off for the first time
In many years.
The social conditions among the In
dams on the Fort Totten reservation
are said to need improving.
A Grand Forker attempted to fill a
gasoline stove while the thing was
busy-with the usual results.
7. E. Nelson of Hatton is said to
have the finest residence in the state
outside Fargo or Grand Forks.
The people Of Morton county wish to
give irrigation a practical test in some
of the specially favored localities.
The railroads showed their desire to
assist the irrigation convention in
making a one-rate fare for the round
trip.
A section farm near Berea, Barnes
county, sold to a Bohemian family for
$4,000. 1t was regarded as a low
price.
Some people are lingering the breast
bone of the wild goose to tell what
kind of a winter there is headed this
way.
There is a rumpus at Grandin be-
cause some one reported the basement
Of the school building in a filthy con-
dition.
c. F. Merry of Dickinson is working
in Montana with a fire insurance COM
pany organized under the laws of West
Virginia.
A man, named Steinke-at Valley
City-got mixed with a skunk-and
still some people say there's nothing
in a name.
Joseph Donovan, who was reported
killed by being run over by a plow,
was later said to be alive, though ter
ribly mangled.
The new McHenry county Jail will
be built at Towner instead of Gran
Vile as the boomers of that hustling
town had hoped.
The country north of Washburn
along the proposed extension of the
line is among the finest Sec
tons of the state.
Pierce county wants to win the
championship belt as being the only
county in the state that hasn't brought
a candidate for governor.
The increased number of contests
over homesteads is regarded as a
denoting the advance in
The value of the North Dakota land.
Grain men claim that macaront
wheat will stand more bad weather
without the appearance of the berry
being affected than other kinds of
wheat.
About half the school library at
is missing and the teachers
ire on the warpath. 1t is claimed the
books were carried away by grown-up
Albert Krick of Bisbee was operat-
ng a gang pillow. He vas thrown off,
IN arm was broken in two places and
le lay unconscious till found by a
1eighbor.
The people in some sections of La |
Moure county are putting down bored
wells which tap fine artesian water and
also furnish gas to light and heat the
arm homes.
A night operator and a bus driver
ook two apples each from a shipment
It the Great Northern depot at Cassel-
They paid a fine of SIS each, or
$50 per apple.
James Duffy. the railroad man. who
vas arrested for alleged completely IN
he car robberies at Minot, was we'll
at Larimore, where he was for
nerly employed.
The trouble with a Minneapolis con-
'ern will probably result in the estab-
of more local creameries in
his state and the better support of
ONE already in operation.
Secretary Killand expects to have
lis list of awards of the state fair
eady for distribution next week. Con-
iderable work is attached to getting
he books in shape and hence the de-
ay.
Here and there prairie fires m re-
'orted to have destroyed good range
,rass. Farm fields may be protected
rom fire, but the problem of protect
ng the cattle ranges seems to be be-
ond solution.
The people who purchased privileges
t the Wahpeton street fair were up
.gainst hard luck on account of the