The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-07-02
Butord Will soon have a new gasoline

has been dedicated at Wheelock.
Rolla people have contributed $30t
to properly fence and care for the vii
lage cemetery.
Fessenden's Fourth of July celebra
ton will be a $1,000 affair, with appro
pirate trimmings.
The advent of cement sidewalks al
La Moure is apt to result in = needed
anti-spitt:ng crusade.
Mrs. Mary Filbin of Steele died sud
denly Of heart disease while attending
an old settlers picnic.
The Hamilton Fair association has
appropriated $3.50 for q baseball tour.
nament during the fair.
w. D. Hodgson Of Fargo, a promi-
nent real estate man. is seriously i'll
with acute appendicitis.
Harry Anderson was held to the dis
trict court from Page under $500 bonds
on a charge of burglary.
Wahpeton's M. w. A. baseball team
is said to handle the long willow as
effectively as If it were an Ike
Wednesday nights storm at Cando
possessed some semi.cyclonic features
which threatened to be alarming.
Cass county is said to have more
candidates for sheriff this year than
any other two counties in the state.
The contract for Cooperstown's
handsome new school house has been
let. and the price fixed upon at ST.
TAI.
Ex.County Treasurer wager of Ben
son county has removed to Forsyth,
Mont, where he has business inter
ests.
A Wild baby is reported to have been
born last week at Gsnabrock- Mr.. and
Mrs. Wild are receiving congratula-
lions.
Settlers in northeastern Williams
county are to be served by a mail
route which will shortly be established
from Say.
Somebody started a rumor of a prob
able Int;an uprising at Dunseith which
local parties claim is entirely without
foundation.
Wahpeton entertained the annual
convention OF Richland county w. c.
T. U. ladies' on Tuesday and Wednes-
day of last week.
A Northwestern publisher observes
that none of the worlds fair visitors
from this state have SO far fnund any
fault with the pike. .. ... Il
Emmons county authorities had a
prisoner on the trustY list who has
left his happy home" without leaving
notes on his itinerary.
A firm OF sheep ranctfers--whD are
their wool crop at R11ford
Ire claimed to have over 10000 pounds
If the valuable product.
Prof. j.. F. Callahan of Easseltom and
Miss Sarah L. Roberts OF Valley City
have charge of the teacEsrs' institute
low in ses..,n at Rolla.
The a%nt.:aoise crusade seems to
have got started Just in time to ISSUE
more Fourth OF July celebrations in
North Dakota than ever before.
Pembina county advocates: of drnfn- |
age say the recen rains have proved
IN effective argument in favor Of M (
the proposed drainage bitches. +!
An irreIigious bolt OF lightning /
plunked down onto the Bohemian I
Catholic, church at Wahpeton, but fail
cd to do any particular damage.
The way the Darlington basebalEfsts: |
of goose eggs on to- rival teams
at carnival time seems to be elicfting.
lots Of sympathy for the defeekedl
teams.
Senator D. e. Gear of El1endale. q
lifelong Democrst. IL being
doomed BY some Of the Republicans of
his county as an available cenafda6e
their ticket.
-" George Reyes. a former Eflendele
man, has. been advanced to the posi-
ton Of head clerk in the superirtend- |
Winslow, Arizona.
Litchville business men have laid
in a good supply Of hand IRE extin-
guishers to quell fncipfent .conhagra-
lions until q more elaborate dfe appa- /
ratus can be procured.
The attractlons Oh etkeet
carnival, Ringling's circus and q bunch
of farmers excursions r expected to
bring q record crowd into Fargo the
week beginning July II.
Hans Peterson Of Osnabrock is lying
in a critical condition as the result Of
. stroke Of lightning which struck him
while he was entering his barn a few
days ago. At last accounts he was
slightly improving.
The Br.>.zkes, husband and wife,
who were arrested at Harvey. have
been sentenced to do sixty days time
in the Cass county jail for conspiracy
to defraud through the use Of the
United States mails.
A young man named William E.
Spear suicided at Fargo by the use Of
cocaine. He is learned to have been
a deserter from the United States
navy and is understood to have feared
arrest. i
n Rugby. citizen wants to honor
President Roosevelt by the establish
ment of a children's home on the
presidents old ranch at Medora. pos:
aihlv as "a fitting memoir of the race