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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
Dogden Observer.

Mrs. Schulstad Of Gary, Mimi,
who came here for months visit
with her sons P. E. and E. G..
Schulstad and her daughter, Mrs.
Ed. Kittelson, was taken i'll after a
weeks stay and had to return
home.
John Wehr was up from Ana
moose on Monday and Tuesday
Mr.. Wehr expects to start in the
real estate business here in the
near future. He has purchased
lots in the eastern part of town and
and will soon begin the erection
of a residence.
A new firm to be known as the
Ober & Ross Land Co.. has been
organized in this town. The in
terested parties are Mr.. Ober Of
Chatfield: Mimi, and Messrs. j. A.
Ross, John A. johnson, and r. M
Hoenish of this place.
And now the news comes to the
effect that farmer at Strawberry
Lake has discovered a supply of
rubies on his claim. He has re-
fused all sorts Of offers for his farm
preferring to make his own fortune
out of it. Verify, there is no end
to the resources of North Dakota.
Eorton Barrett of Eaton Rapids,
boarded the 500 freight train No.
ID just this side of Velva this fore
noon and was ordered off the train
by the brakeman. The place where
he was forced to jump from the
train was high and as soon as he
jumped he rolled back under the
wheels and had his big toe cut off
and was badly injured internally.
He was picked up by the train
and brought to Balfour and turned
over to DR.. Stone in whose care he
now is. He is in constant pain
and it is not known at this time
whether he can live or not.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
Max Enterprise.

The school election Monday
brought out quite number Of vo-
ters, The ladies tooha very pro-
minent part in voting. The ques-
tions to be decided were whether
or not the district issue $1,000
bonds for the erection and furnish
ing of three school houses and the
location Of each. The result was
in favor of bonding and the loca-
tions chosen were the W! Of se4 Of
Sec. 9. the mel Of Sec. 26, and the
nw4 Of Sec. 19.
w. III. Mellinger has on exhibi-
tion in the O X restaurant a
mounted swan which is fine
specimen of this family of water
fowl. He was fortunate enough
to find the bird on the prairie last
spring while hunting where some
hunter had shot it but failed to
find the bird. He sent it to a
Minot taxidermist who mounted it
and this week he received it and
placed it on exhibition in his
restaurant.
A. N. Ahlberg has sold his
property at this place and his
farm near Washburn and will
move to Fargo. He got nice
sum for his farm and received spot
cash for the same.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16

generations for an old tradition
about good or evil to be altered,
even in the face Of positive facts
that show it should be altered.
The officials Of the biological sur
vey therefore make no mistake in
renewing their efforts to spread
the truth about the relation be-
tween birds Of prey on the one side
and crops Of poultry on the other.
Record-Herald.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
MCLEAN COUNTY
HAPPENINGS
Items Of General Interest from the
Various County Newspapers.
Wilton News.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Ghylin re-
turned home Wednesday morning
from st. Paul where they had each
undergone an operation for appen-
dicitis. They are both nearly re
covered. It is an odd circumstance
that both husband and wife should
be attacked by this disease at the
same time. It looks like it might
be considered contagious.
Teddy Newman was hurt in a
peculiar manner Tuesday evening
and is now in the hospital of DR..
Thompson. He was engaged in
fixing a stacker with a hatchet, and
the weapon glanced and cuta deep
cash above the knee, penetrating
to the bone. He will rest a few
days,
Frank A. Ormes Of Arena, in
the northeast corner of Burleigh
county, was arrested by Sheriff
McGillis Sunday, and on Monday
taken before the insanity board
and adjudged insane. He has been
acting very queer Of late. and his
neighbors feared he would do vio-
lence as he was armed with revolv-
ers. He was taken to jamestown.
Wilton has been visited by the
fire fiend twice during the week
and on both occasions the flames
work has been confined to narrow
limits by our engine and cistern.
When the plant and engine was
installed a good deal Of criticism
was heard to the effect that it
would prove Of little value when
the fire came. That those croak-
ers have been pretty thoroughly
squelched goes without saying.
The work Of the engine at both
fires was tirst-class, and without it
in the pool hall fire most of the
business portion of the town would
be in ashes. The engine does not
owe the town one dollar. It has
paid for itself many times.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
Wholly Beneficial Hawks.

Not long ago a writer was en-
gagged in rehabiltating the reputa-
ton of the crows. Now the gov
ernment biological survey is tax.
ing fresh steps for the relief Of
the hawks and owles, whose i'll
repute is largely unjustified. A
dozen years ago the government
published study Of the feeding
habits of these two kinds Of pre-
datory birds,and now it republishes
the study in revised and elab-
Grated form, with urgent appeals
to farmers and legislators to let
the beneficial hawks and owls
have a chance to rid the country
Of gophers. mice, grasshoppers,
reptiles and other pests.
The "hen hawk" comes in for
special mention on account of his
name. Extended observation of
the contents of the stomachs of
the misnamed birds show that they
eat about 80 per cent of injurious
mammals and insects and only
about II Der cent of poultry and
game, And yet the hen hawk suf-
fers death at the hands of the
farmer solely because of his un-
lucky name.
An instance Of the way in which
the biological survey can make
statistics entertaining appears in
what it has to say Of the Swanson
hawk. The Swanson hawk lives
mainly on grasshoppers and prob
ably eats 200 of them every day.
Now, at this rate a flock of 800 of
these hawks would eat 100000
grasshoppers ina month. At l5,4
grains each that many grasshop-
pers would weigh 3.96S pounds or
about two tons. The grasshopper
when alive and hourishing eats his
own weight in produce every day,
Consequently a months foraging
by 800 hawks saves the farmers
about two tons of produce day.
or about sixty tons month.
It would seem from these fig
ures that the farmers ought to
erect monument to hawks but
instead Of that they regard them
as enemies and shoot them. The
Swanson hawk, despite this noble
work, only succeeds in getting list
ed in the class of the mostly
beneficial hawks How much
higher place, then, should be Civ
en- to the wholly beneficial" varie-
ties which include the rough-leg-
ged hawk, the squirrel hawk and
all four varieties Of kites!
AS between cats and birds of
prey the case stands thus: "Only
three or four birds of prey hunt
birds when they can procure rod
ents for food, while the cat seldom
touches mice if she can procure
birds Or young poultry.
Il takes years and sometimes
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
Resp. Yours,
G. 0. Raugust.
Clerk Dis. Court. Mclean Co.

Valley City undoubtedly suffer
ed the most from the heat last week
On the ninth the mercury went as
high as l2O degrees in the sun.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
Obituary..

At eleven O'Clock Saturday
morning at her home in Washburn
Mrs. Byron Currier passed peace
fully away after a long illness.
She had been suffering from loco
motor ataxia since 1890 and the
last five years she has been entire
ly helpless owing to paralysis.
Mrs. Currier leaves a husband and
two sons, Henry and Lloyd, who
have the sincere sympathy of a
large circle Of friends in this town
and. elsewhere in the state where
Mr.. and Mrs. Currier were we'll
know. Mrs, Currier was born in
Wautona, Wis. AZ years ago and
was married in 1879. They have
resided on their farm at Ingersoll
since 1902 until this spring when
they moved into town to be near
a physician. The funeral services
were held at the home Sunday
morning by Rev. Morris and later
at the old home at Ingersoll where
the interment was made.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16

PAPERS
A Few Legal Points Per-
tanning to Application
for Second Papers.
Editor Washburn Leader.
Washburn. n. d.


Washburn, n. d.
Dear Sir:--Pursuant to the many
enquiries received at this office and
in order to give the readers of your
paper a clearer idea as to what is
required of persons applying for
their final naturalization paper
(Second citizen papers) under the
new law regulating the naturaliza-
ton of aliens, in effect since Sept.
27, 1906, will say that if you will
publish the following article cover
ing the main points of said law, in
the columns of your paper, and if
parties desiring to become natural
lied will bear them in mind, it will
in many instances save time and
labor to themselves as we'll as this
office:
l. Persons desiring to become
naturalized citizens and who have
filed their Declaration of Intention
first papers) for at least two years
last past or more and have resided
in the United States for at least
five years, and in the state of
North Dakota for at least one year
last past, must file a petition in
writing in this Office at least 80
days prior to the regular term of
the district court. This petition
must be signed and sworn to per-
sonally by the applicant before
the clerk of court, and must in adj
dition be signed and sworn to by
two witnesses who are citizens of
the United States and who have
known the applicant to be a resi-
dent of North Dakota for at least
one year last past at the time of
filing said petition. The witnesses
must appear in person with the
applicant at the time said petition
is filed and again at the final hear
ing in open court during the regu-
lar term of this court.
2. The petitioner must set
forth date. place and country of
birth.
3. Name and date of departure
from foreign port
4. Date of arrival in the Unit
ed States and name of port If
alien entered the United States by
way of Canada he must state name
of port. If alien entered the q. S.
by way Of Canada he must state
name Of transportation company.
5. Name of vessel must in every
instance be given.
6. If married, the name, place
of birth and present address Of
wife.
Z. Name, date and place of
birth and present residence ofeach
child.
9. Petitioner must also file
copy of his "declaration of inten-
ton first papers, in this Office on
filing said petition.
Petitioners will please bear in
mind that they must have complet-
ed, five years residence in the U,
S. and one year in North Dakota
before said petition can be filed.
Parties able to comply with the
above requirements wishing to Sc
cure their final papers during the
December 1907. term Of the dis
trict court must file their petitions
in this office not later than Sept.
10. 1907.
Resp. Yours,
G. 0. Raugust.
Clerk Dis. Court. Mclean Co.
I = L Il. 4 I
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16
Goodrich Citizen.

Christian Handel went to Wash
burn Tuesday evening to transact
business before the honorable
board q county commissioners.
Miss Johanna Heckenliable has
resigned her position in the post
Office and gone out home to take
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16

On Sunday evening the 18th
Rev. M. B. Morris will speak at
the Congregational church. This
will be his last service here as he
returns to Minneapolis the follow
ing day. He will be glad to meet
with as many as can attend. All
who are interested in maintaining
means Of grace will attend and
every man and woman are most
cordially invited '.The Spirits
and the Bride say Come
The husband and son Of Mrs.
Byron Currier, dece9sed, desire
to publicly return thanks to the
many friends and neighbors who
showed their sympathy during the
long illness Of the deceased.
Byron Currier.
Henry Currier.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
BATTLE BETWEEN RAT AND
CRAB.

d. l.. Van Culin, Paducah station.
er, is fond of salt water crabs. Re-
celving a consignment from Maine,
he took one out to experiment with.
They were numb from the ice pack
ing, and one placed by the warm
stove began TO exhibit signs of life.
Il will just leave him there and
see how long a crab lives out of wat
er," Van Cuiin explained, as he lock-
ed his store for the night
The stationer found no crab when
he returned. A thorough search OF
the ground floor failed to reveal any
thing, but a peculiar knocking sound
from upstairs attracted his attention.
On the top step of the stairs he found
the trouble. The crab, with his grip
pers fast in the sides of a fat rat
was clinging to his captive. The rat,
nearly dead, struggled feebly for re-
lease, and little by little wormed his
way upstairs with the weight of the
crab pulling steadily against him.
The rodent had presumably shifted
at the queer-looking intruder and was
caught before his nimble legs could
carry him out of harms reach
Paducah (Ky.) Dispatch to the Cincin
natl Enquirer
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
A RIVER IN THE OCEAN.

There is a river in the ocean. In
the severest droughts it never fails,
and in the mightiest floods it never
overfows. It's banks and its bottom
are of cold water, while its current
is of warm The Gulf OF Mexico is
its foundation, and it's mouth is in
the Arctic Seas. 1t is the Gulf Stream.
There is in the world no other such
majestic flow of waters. It's current
is more rapid than the Mississippi or
the Amazon, and its volume more than
a thousand times greater.
1t is believed says the Chicago
News, that the warm waters of the
Gulf Stream are nowhere permitted
in the oceanic economy to touch the
bottom of the sea. There is every
where a cushion of cool water be-
tween them and the solid parts of
the earth's crust.
Now. cold water is one If the best
non-conductors of heat, but if the Gulf
Stream were sent. across the Atlantic
in contract with the solid crust of
the earth comparatively good con-
ductor or heat, instead of being sent
across as it is in contact with non
conducting cushion of cool water to
feed it from the bottom, all its heat
would be lost in the first part of the
way, and the soft climate of France
and England would be as that Of
Labrador, severe in the extreme and
ice-bound
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
THE LOST BIRD SURVIVED.

Each day offers some opportunity
to do a kindness. If only everybody
availed themselves, how much nicer
the world would be, as the following
witnesses.
1t was one of the hottest days in
midsummer, the mercury up in the
nineties, and people didn't stop to do
things they were not obliged to do,
says Our Dumb Animals. A delivery
team from one Of our largest Wor-
cester dry goods establishments came
dashing down the street with heavy
load, already late in delivery.
The driver spied a little brown bird
in the middle of the road, and he
Immediately refined in his horse, jump
ed out, lifted it very tenderly and
placed it on the soft, green lawn Of
the house he was passing, and then
jumped on his team again and drove
on.
The kind lady Of the house picked
it up and took it into the house, and
made a nest for it in a waste basket,
and refreshed it with milk and water.
Little robin-red-breast could not speak,
but looked happy out of its great
brown eyes. Then she boiled an egg
and dropped little yellow morsels
into it's open mouth.
That night and the next morning she
nursed the little orphan. The children
laughed at the funny tufts of down
that stuck up out Of its feathers on
each side and on the top Of it's head,
for in truth the little bird wasn't old
enough to fly. She then left it in
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19

given to a little girl near by, but the
other now full grown cat, still Hves
with Buttercup, her foster mother,
VINO every day gives her some nice
warm milk.
S Another COW, this one in New Jer-
sey, adopted and raised family of
ducks. The ducks were Matched in
a leather bed placed in the cows
stall in such way that the heat from
her body kept the eggs warm, and
yet not near enough to her to crush
the shells.
Thirteen out of the setting Of fif-
teen eggs Matched out According to
the Circle Magazine, when the dozen
and one little, fluffy ducks began to
hop about, Bossy, the COW, showed
great interest in them She let them
hop all over her, and the little crea-
lures, never having known any 9th
er mother, ran to her for protection.
When they were big enough to so
to the stream for a swim, she would
wander down with the brood and
stand browsing or drinking while they
played. When she wanted to return
to the pasture she would moo coax
ingly, and in a few minutes the en-
tire brood would gather around her
and follow her to the field. Her
strange family are now good sized
ducks, but Bossy cares for them just
the same and resents any interference.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
ROMANTIC DEVoNsHIRE
The land Made Famous by Ph.Ipotts'
Novels.

Philpotts has made us familiar
with romantic Devonshire, in his fas-
Cinating novels, THE River, Chill
dren of the Mist, etc The charac-
tiers are very human; the people there
drink coffee with the same results as
elsewhere. A writer at Rock House,
Orchard Hill, Bideford, North Devon,
states:
For 80 years drank coffee for
breakfast and dinner but some
years ago I found that it was produc-
ing indigestion and heartburn, and
was making me restless at night.
These symptoms were followed by
brain fag and sluggish mental con-
dition
When / realized this, ] made up
my mind that to quit drinking coffee
and having read OF Postum, con.
cluded to. try it. / had it carefully
made, according to directions, and
found to my agreeable surprise at the
end of a week, that l no longer suf-
fered from either Indigestion, heart
burn, or brain flag, and that ] could
drink it at night and secure restful
and refreshing sleep.
Since that time we have entirely
discontinued the use Of the old kind
of coffee, growing fonder and fonder
of Postum as time goes on. Ny de
gestive organs certainly do their work
much better now than before, re-
suit due to Postum Food Coffee, ana
satisfied
"As table beverage we find (for
all the members of my family use it,
that when properly made it is most
refreshing and agreeable, Of delicious
favour and aroma. Vigilance is,
however, necessary to secure this, for
unless the servants are watched they
are likely to neglect the thorough
boiling which it must have in order
to extract the goodness from the
cereal" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Greek, Mich. Read the little
book, THE Road to WellvilIe, in
pkgs. There's a reason"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
A SLIGHT DISADVANTAGE.

She was only 10 years old, little
Margaret, but there were two younger
children, and she had already taken
upon her shoulders some of the re.
sponsibilities of life, but did not pre-.
tend &c enjoy them ALL
Where are Helen and Agatha?"
asked visitor, who found Margaret
sitting on the door step alone one
afternoon, looking particularly sober.
They're gone off to have what
mother calls mischief and they call
fun" said the solitary one
And you didn't go with them" said
the visitor, with hint of sympathy
in her voice.
"Ch, no. said Margaret. with a
sigh, mother trusts me so dreadfully!
can't have much of any fun
Youths Companion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19

r r.. Richie of the Chicago &N
Northwestern stood on the sidewalk
admhing the big pIate-glass window
in his new Office in the James E'food
building ~
Fine piece that! Gilt lettering on
her cost me $4,000
IF she breaks youll goF broke
Richie"
Covered" 9@
with what? Market street, dust?'
plate glass insurance; jus 1t took 1t
out"
what the glass?"
mo, the policy. I'm WISE to every
insurance wrinkle since last Aprlfs
losses"
Lets see it. Why, this only M
sures the pane against extslplessA,S n
juries, If you have a roufo 1875
or FIRE inside and crack te
you're out" Tetlo./
THE mischief you sayAas Stang
again !"-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
could ID See F0r 4ImssM.

A well-known surgeon was some
what q1ick-tempered If he found
student exceptionally dull, and on ono
occasion, when he had been more than
usually irritated by students dens-
lty, asked him how many times he
thought a fool could hear a name men
toned without remembering II
Il don't know, replied the stu
dent, how many times could you
Tit-Bits.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
Tommx Atkln,a FavorI.e Sea.

Az q matter OF fact the great weak
ness Of Tommy Atkins is not for the
mean music hall song but for senti-
mental ditties bordering on the maud
lin. Any one who has attended a
soldiers "singsong' will know what
we mean, and we have it on the au-
thority Of a war correspondent who
went through the Natal campaign that
the most popular of all the camp
songs was dolorous song called
Mother" Tears and the tomb and
blighted affections form the staple
OF the songs which appeal most eifec-
lively to the private soldier. - The
Spectator.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19

the basket on the lawn. The mother
bird soon found her little one and
came with worms to feed it,
After hopping about on the lawn,
the birding made it's trial fight and
nothing more was seen of it,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-04-19
cow ApoPTs TWo KITTENs.

Out in Fresno, Cal, there is a fine
gentle COW that adopted two kittens
when the mother cat died. She wait
ed every morning until they had been
given their breakfast before eating
her own, and she washed them and
coaxed them to snuggle up under her
neck for their daily maps,
All night they slept in the stall
with her. One Of the kittens was