The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-02-13

q phone rates at Glendale have
been advanced.
Bids are, wanted for a new school
house at Hensler, Oliver county.
Mimic people are indignant owe the
! numerous cases Of dog poisoning.
Bids for the new court house in OH.
yer county will be opened March Z.
The Lidgerwood Opera House asso.
citation declared a dividend of S per
cent.
1t is claimed that several McHenry
farmers have failed to advertise stock
taken up.
P. Norum of Hampden had a leg
broken in a runaway several weeks
g and the injury was so serious that
recently the physicians amputated the
leg at the knee.
Binford baseball fans have arranged
a masquerade ball to raise money for
the team.
Forman claims to have Some eligible
bachelors who are great catches for
the leap year girls.
The Linton telephone exchange can.
not accommodate all who wish to be.
come subscribers.
DR.. Stanley of Lidgerwood will re.
tire from the medical profession be-
cause of i'll health.
William Wagner of Harvey pur-
chased the controlling interest in the
Anamoose State bank.
/. Steele county has adopted a new
scale for it's teachers, with $35 az thu
minimum for third grade.
Linton h~orseFa@A ore endeavoring to
get into q racing circuit composed of
North and South Dakota towns.
The cuts on the westhope extension
of the Great Northern were quickly
filled by the recent snowstorm.
Kindred people rejoice because the
butter from the creamery there scored
higher than the exhibit from Davenr
port.
North Dakota will have eight dele
gates at the Aext national Republican
convention instead Of six, as in for
mer years,
Napoleon. was isolated from the rest
of The world for about a week because
of snow blockades in both directions
on the 500.
A Bnttineau county co"n, who beat
a white mai with a billiard cne eG-
capped with & days sentence in Jail on
a plea of guilty.
Uncle Ben Corbin is preparing a re-
vised version of his wolf guide, giving
his seventy years experience in catch
ing the "varmints,"
Frank Ash, postmaster at Beaver,
sixty-fve miles south of Sentinel
Butte, reports grazing good, no snow,
and his sheep %wintering splendidly.
A Sheldon man relieved a farmer by
extracting a tooth in the absence Of
the regular dentist, and may be ar
rested for practicing without a license.
A strange man and a woman opened
q restaurant" at Churchs Ferry, but
moved on at the request of the Off
Gals.
Attorney Simpson won out on the
! Robert Poole case at Dickinson and
Judge Winchester granted the writ re-
leasing the man from Jail.
George Cook, who recently retired
| from the mercantile business at Page
after an experience of twenty-five
years, will deal in real estate.
The Richland county commissioners
had the agreeable task of counting
otter $1O1, 900 of gold, silver and bills
when they checked up the county
| treasurer recently.
Some residents of the country
around Glenburn have published a ne
NAL of the report that they were anx-
| ious to return to their former homes
in Nebraska.
Phil Randall, lawyer, will emove
from Glendale to Little Falls. MINI.
He is captain of the militia organiza.
| ton at Glendale and popular with the
soldier DOyS I'LL OVeT Tue SLaIe.
The Battery A boys have received
their new carbines and other equip
! ments in the way of tents, etc. Their
| new breech-loading field pieces are ex-
pected to arrive about July 1.
The 500 will put in a water tank at
| Anamoose because the water at that
point is said to be less injurious to
the engines than the supply secured
| at some other points along the line.
The people Of Grafton are urged to
take every %precautioa to prevent the
spread of contagious diseases. The
| death of three children of a local min
lister has stirred the people to action.
Near Noel, in Morton county, a wolf
was caught in a trap and took the
outfit with him. The rancher who set
the trap chased the COW killed ten
miles before his wolfship was finally
captured.
Inclusive, Vet Exclusive.
! One of the women passengers on the
| Cedric asked Senator Turner of the