The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-12
There was an oil famine at Empire.
williston had a flour and sugar fam.


Williston had a flour and sugar fam
inc.
The baseball fever is raging at Ed
more.
jamestown schools are to have fre
escapes.
Sheyenne people are planning a big
rabbit hunt.
Souris will build a new school house
this summer.
The Wilton miners want recognition
of the union.
DR.. Dayfoot of Goodrich may re.
move to Dcnhoff.
There are ten prisoners in the Bot
tineau county Jail.
DR.. Thor Moeller of Rolla has 10
Gated at Devils Lake.
Minot is to have free city delivery
and a new p%ostofice. a
Edgeley is to have a 125-barrel
flour mill this season.
Hail insurance agents are already
talking 1904 business.
The school warrant decision is still
being discussed at Rolla.
Glenburn continues to grow and is
long on implement dealers.
A telephone line is to be erected to
connect Flasher with Mandan.
Stutsman county stockmen seem to
have been we'll supplied with hay.
1t is claimed the frost has gone to
a depth of seven feet at Bismarck.
Breeders of high-class poultry at
! Cogswell will organize an association.
The discussion about the Valley City
electric light plant is like the little
brook.
The Williston term of court is long
on damage cases against the Great
Northern.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific will have a union depot at
Grand Forks.
With a Commercial club doing bust
ness, Cooperstown is in line for many
improvements.
Olu Jl1AOlS III 4NOACu D0nOLo ~ Az
greet to hear of the death of Hon. F.
M. Kinter Of La Moure. p
Darlington complains of too much
hardness in the schools and efforts
will be made to remedy it.
A bunch of immigrants arrived at
Harlem recently. The weather was a
trifle chilly for new corners.
The engine on the Denhoff line of
the Northern Pacific was showed up
at Goodrich for several days.
A justice of the peace in North Da-
kota is credited with having recently
granted a divorce to a couple.
Nearly all the farmers around One
NEE are purchasing formaldehyde to
treat the grain to prevent smut.
A young man at Velva was caught
with a lot of plumber on his person and
escaped with a light Jail sentence.
The young men arrested at Kuhn on
a charge of stealing horses in South
Dakota were discharged from custody.
Carpio. people are discussing the
question of retaining the city school
within the town limits if the town is
incorporated.
A New Rockford teacher was fined
IS for severely Furnishing a kid, and
after paying the amount returned to
her school work. /,
The 500 stockyards at Velva are
to be enlarged in anticipation of large
cattle shipments from Texas to Can
ada this spring. The stock are fed at
Velva.
are established in North Dakota. Far
go people may finally reach the point
where they won't have to eat axle
grease, butterine and, oleo.
Residents of the western and north
western sections Of the state claim
there has been more snow this winter
than in many years land are confident
Of a large water supply this summer.
There are indications that a COM
pact baseball league will be formed in
the southern part of the state. Han
kinson, Lidgerwood, 'Forman, Minor:
Cakes and other towns will be in
cluded.
Losses are reported among sheep
men near Dickinson from w%ool-eating
sheep. The habis is said to be not I'M
common, and the wool eaters must
have a regular. course Of treatment to
cure them.
The Kidder county commissioners
levied a tax of $3.50 to be used as a
bounty on gophers, and some Of the
people think more good could. have
been accomplished by. spending that
fund for strychnine::
Opposite the town of Fairview,
Mont, in Allerd county, q new town
by the same name lie. being plated in
North Dakota, twelve miles south of
the new town of Mondak on the Mon
tana-North Dakota line.
Stockmen In Billings county are ex.
periencing .the hardest winter Of any
for seventeen years. For two months
the weather has been~very cold, with
many severe ystorms. Those without
shelter and feed will lose heavily.
The total snowfall in Pembina this
year equals thirty inches, and a repe~
tition Of the food of 1897 is feared.N
The state will,be called upon to aid
in the construction Of a new bridge
over the James river to reach the.
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