The Washburn leader., 1904-04-30

fargO boys confessed ourglar1Zlng q
local grocery store.
Towner will vote on the question Of
city incorporation May 8.
Two mules and horse perished in
burning barn at Lisbon.
The Bovey-shute Lumber company
may put in yard at Granville.
Petersburg will have a modern
school building to cost 100000.
Supreme Chancellor Bangs reports
2,6O6 Knights Of Pythias in the state
Minor talent gave minstrel show
to raise money for baseball purposes.
| Receiver Fox of the Minot land
office is recovering from q severe i'll.
ness.
Mrs. Frank Haskins, a respected
| pioneer resident of Page vicinity, ia
dead.
Four freight cars loaded with grain
| were ditched by q broken rail west
Of Souris.
Langdon citizens are actively inter-
eeted in the formation of creamery
company.
Minto is to have factory for the
manufacture of hollow cement build
ing blocks.
The people of western McHenry
county engaged in a systematic gopher
hunt recently.
Contractor Stewart Wilson will
build the power house for Fargo's
street railway.
Resources of North Dakota's nation
al banks increased $353,677 since the
January accounting.
Mayor Wall of Fargo has made his
appointments and the new administra.
tion is now running.
The Congregational church at
Crochston has extended call to Rev.
E. S. Shaw of Fargo.
Fears were entertained for the dam
in the Sheyenne river at Lisbon on
account of high water.
An inoffensive young foreigner at
Devils Lake tampered with wood al
cohol and is now no more.
The Grand Forks Agricultural asso-
citation will give it's second annual ex-
position July 2O-23 inclusive.
Reynolds has a legal controversy
over the ownership of the stage fur
nish;ngs in the opera house.
Fargo friends rendered a reception
to Miss Stevens. the winner Of the
intercollegiate oratorical contest
1t is claimed that diversified farm
ing and diversified politics will go
hand in hand in North Dakota this
year.
John Miller, ST., lately deceased at
Hendrum, had large real estate inter-
ests on this side of the river, in Trail
county.
Jacob Madison of Orr, N. D.:
suicided by hanging and left note
explaining his act upon grounds of ill
health.
The Red river began receding from
its high water mark last Wednesday,
and flood conditions are no longer i'm
minent.
Pinkerton detectives are said to
have been investigating railroad men
on the G. N. and there will be some
changes.
1t is said the Minot band is ready
for the seasons work. and the resi-
dents of that city hope they will play
Some too.
The team of Carl Engh, young
farmer near Kindred, tried to cross
the railroad ahead of train and both
horses we're killed.
II the Fargo street car line doesn't
run further than at first projected, it
is claimed lot of west side residents
won't be interested.
Friends of Col. Meredith of Cassel-
ton have some concern over the de-
lay in his recovery after an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Out at Minot the mouse is reported
on the rampage, and every lady in the
wet district Is especially careful not
TO get near the mouse.
Edgar d. Foley of Medora has been
appointed special inspector Of the gen.
eral land Office, with request to re-
port to the department at once.
Raymond Nelson, the young son OF
q Grand Forks marble cutter, was
killed by jumping from moving train
at the university station last week. .
Devils Lake people are enthusiastic
over the passage of Senator Hans
brcugh's Indian reservation bill, which
opens 1O1 900 acres to settlement.
The supreme court has sustained
Judge Cowan in the King-Hanson
case, a prominent matter of litigation
from Towner county. The verdict is
for the plaintiff.
John Murchie, Devils Lake barber:
claims that his 7-year-old daughter
has been kidnapped by relative with
whom she was allowed to visit in
Manitoba last fall.
Burleigh countys sheriff still has a
carload of beer on his hands which
the supreme court says was unlaw-
fully seized, but no provision has been
made for its disposition.
The presentation Of Mendelssohn's
famous oratorio Elijah" at Fargo last
week is thought to have brought more