The Washburn leader. [volume], May 14, 1904, Image 3

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A big band is assured for Grandln.
Seed wheat is in demand at Saw*
yer.
Balfour business inen favor incorpo
ratlAi.
Napoleon is a popular place for duck
nunters.
Walhalla bas an epidemic of the
mumps.
A Berthold boy was shot through
the heel.
The Granville bottling works are in
operation.
Sandoun in Ransom county has a
dew paper.
Starkweather is to have a $6,500
school house.
The Towner ball team is to be all
home talent.
The Minot telephone exchange hat
been improved.
Ward county people killed thous
ands of gophers.
Wyndmere is to have a fast ball
team this spring.
Ward county will pay out about
$2,00(Kin gfljWeV botmtles.
There waa.'Bot an opposing vote to
incorporation at Westhope.
Jamestownites are after the N. P.
for the long promised depot.
The first payment has been made
on the McHenry county jail.
A thirteen-year-old Des Lacs girl
killed thirty gophers in two days.
Many cattle died arouni Fort Berth
old from some mysterious disease.
Some of the nurses at the asylum
have resigned to go to tlieir claims.
The Stanley grocery stock in Casael
ton is said to have been sold—again.
Nineteen packages Q,f 'oooze were
confiscated at Lansford by the offi
cials.
An effort is being made to establish
a vegetable canning factory at James
town.
The present staff of teachers at Wal
halla is popular and may be re-en
gaged.
The prior of St. Mary's at Richard
ton will be raised to the dignity of an
abbot. '.
Fargo's Baptists, hajre raised $11,000
of the $16,000 desired for a new church
edifice.
The shipment of quails to be turned
/loose in Stutsman county arrived in
good shape.
^Atmospheric electricity is causing a
lot of trouble with the telephone lines
i at Bismarck.
A Sunday school was organized at
Norwich by J. B. Clapp, the Presby
*?•«•. terian worker.
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's? The gopher hunt at Norwich result
ed in the destruction of about 4,000 of
.the little pests.
W. H. Mann sold $530 worth of
regetables off eleven acres at Minot
during last season.
Havana bas signed a fast ball tearin
and is going after the state champion
$ ship in great shape.
German Evangelicals have jUst dedi,
Seated the. first church edifice to be
^'erected at Balfour.
'j' Independent electric light and tele
Tit phone men meet at Grand Forks this
fft'week to reorganise.
linoters are working to secure the
^sbyterian college that seeins to be
o o i n e a u i y
Some of the Williams county publi
cations are so sore at each other that
they do not exchange.
Capt. Heerman, a Devils Lake pio-
(fleer, predicts a good season as a re
sult of the late spring.
A forthcoming directory of Fargo .is
^expected tb.show considerable increase
in the city's population.
Local improvement leagues are se-
curing substantial improvements in
-many towns of the state.
A summer carnival will be held In
Fargo again this season, the dates'hav
ing been set for July 11 to 16.
Mew portofBces have been establish
ed at Gravely, Bottineau 'county, and
Mars ton Moor, Stutsman county.
High school Kthfttet of the .. state,
Mid a meeting^«, the unlrertity
grounds at Grand Hrerks Saturday.
•, A Ward county U«n upset fiotn
a wagon Into four teet water and
lost a podketbook containing o'vter
$600.
A Grafton'man is building his own
automobile, and will have two engines,
lit
one goes bump he can- still get
"home.
(Great efforts are being made in Wil
liains county to Improve the horses
'by the importation pf fine thorough
breds.
Mayor Connolly of Mandan will
'regulate" the resorts hi ^landau. In
other tpwnf the mayora liave to chase
A Residence destroyed" last' week by
at Abercrop^bie^ was the last re
ining relic
(of
ing old Fort Abertrombie. The
itructure was valued at only $300, but
loss, upon historic grounds, is g«n
ly deplored.
illpl.'C. A, Lounsbtfrrjj 6f Fargo
e h^r trunk cfhftck to' a nan whom
supposed was the baggagemaster
eapoli*, and the tranlc, tori
valuable property, has not been
A Pcgftfu ahawi was
tbe property stolan, and, the
ts ef the'trunk were valued at
HAM
Km
Havana has an active base ball as
sociation.
Some cases of glanders are reported
at St. Thomas.
Burglars at Fargo are being roasted
for clumsy work.
Farmers at Penn will build a co
operative creamery.
A new Presbyterian parsonage at
Mandan cost $2,100.
Osnabrock's new national bank is
ready for business.
New Rockford and Cathay will be con
nected by telephone.
Many towns are getting new rural
mail routes this spring.
A Masonic Temple will be erected
at Edgeley this season.
Church people in Souris are support
ing a missionary in China.
A couple of telephone lines in Traill
county have consolidated.
Children at Devils Lake gave a
flower carnival May 6 and 7.
Park River will issue $2,000 for an
addition to the school house.
Additional drainage is being planned
for Walsh countv this season.
German Lutherans will hold serv
ices at Litchville this summer.
Several local bands have reorgan
ized for the summer's oampaign.
Gov. White's proclamation calls for
Afbor day celebration 6n°'Miiy 13..
Senator McCumber will deliver the
Decoration day address at Lakota.
A four-horse runaway created con
sternation in the streets of Fargo.
Jewish people at Grand Forks will
build a large new school this year.
William McMaster, a well-known res
ident of JtfcKinney, was browned last
week.
A number of local gun clubs are
getting ready for a good summer's
sport.
An electro-plating plant is one of
the new industries being installed at
Hillsboro.
At York two ladies narrowly es
caped serious injuries in a runaway
accident.
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A pair of Japs near Sti&gR tackled a
bob cat and laid him out a la war In
the Orient.
Crary people look {or better tibikgs
as a result of the recent incorporation
of their village.
Work on the state papitol extension
wijl be pushed "without interruption
until completed.
Rev. J. C. B. Peck, a clergyman of
Wilton, was recently wedded at Em
erson, Manitoba^
Democrats are said to be considering
M. F. Hegge of Hatton 'as a guberna
torial possibility.
A Glenburn lumber man was stuck
for payment on a bond which he
Bigned ten years ago.
George H. Stevens of Towner has
placed 4,500 head of cattle on Wil
liams county ranges.
D. K. Brightbill of Towner county
is being groomed for a place on the
Republican state ticket.
A school book case from Norwich
has been occupying the attention of
the state supreme court.
Editor Crary of Edmore announces
himself as a candidate for represen
tative from Ramsey county.
Legal business'is so quiet in Sargent,
county that the May term of court will
be convened without a jury.
Ex-Fire Chief Runge of Minneapolis
will be made acting chief of the fire
department at -Grand Forks
The flooded districts are said to
have, had one advantage. The -high
water drowned out the gophers.
Rev. Thomas Dougan, a popular
Langdon divine, has been called to
the pastorate of a church in Chicago.
Lincoln township in Ward county
has had an Increase of 200 per cent
in taxable property since one year
ago.
The Beaver ranch, valued at $76,
000, near Montpeller, is the subject
of somi late litigation in Stutsman'
county. ...
Senator Hansbrough was named to
head ttie Ramsey county delegation to
the Republican state convention at
Fargo.
Some Williams county stockmen are
said to have run their stock into Mon
tana till the North Dakota assessors
got through.
Two deaths resulted from' scarlet
l^Ver at WilUston last. week, and the
disease is rgpprted -prevalent' In sev
eral other localities.
Hie candidacy of H. T. Hegetaon of
l|llton for governor is said to. have
precipitated an unlooked-for factor into
the1 politics of the state.
A Norwich party forged a check on
the local bank, but, when .the money
was not forthcoming he failed to
wait to be apprehended.
It is expected that the Devils. Lake
reservation will be thrown open to set
tlement some time Jnt,August%. The
lands will be sold^t $4.50 per acre.
A number of peripatetic venders^
about the state seem to be coming in
conflict with the peddlers' llc%pse law,
to the disadvantage) of the venders^
A
the buildings cdristf-
section .foreman,at Sawyer step
ped off the railroad bridge to tief a
pile
driver
A
pass and was nearly drown­
ed before, he could be rescued from £hf
river.
There will be one. advanta&a'tabout
tl^e
crops—the
ground will beTsd" warm
when the seed is put ,ln there will be
no'lost iimd and the drop by June 1
may be as tar advanced fia- uvual nt
that season.
Authorities at Sawyer belipve.it will
he Jfune 1 before the river wiU be
within huilm &t -that 'point, iiiA two:
weeks more btfore
dooe en the 'flats.^
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LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION.
To THE VOTEBS OP THE THIRTY
FIFTH
LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT:—
Notice is hereby given that there
will be a Republican Delegate Con
vention held at Washburn, N. D.,
on Monday, the 16th day of May,
1904, at the Court House in said
village at the hour of 4 o'clock M.
for the purpose of selecting one
candidate for State Senator and two
members of the House of Repre
sentatives for North Dakota for the
.thirty-fifth legislative
district. Also
for the purpose of transacting such
other business as may be properly
brought before said conventiob.
The basis of representation in
said legislative convention is the
average number of' votes cast for
the two Rebublican legislative can
didates for the said thirty-fifth leg
islative district receiving respect
ively the highest and lowest vote
in each county in said district at
the last general election, giving one
delegate at large for each county,
and one additional delegate for
each 75 votes or 'major fraction
thereof.
The different counties of said
district will, under the apportion
ment -herein pr6vidfed 'toe entitled
to r6presetittitibn as'foHbWs:—
McLean County, nine delegates,
Mercer County, three delegates,
Oliver County, two delegates.
The Legislative Central Commit
tee for said district will pass upon
the right of those entitled to par
ticipate in tbe preliminary organi
zation and will irn'et for that pur
pose at the Auditor's office in the
Village of Washburn at 3:80 o'clock
on the day of the convention.
The credentials of all delegates
and all notices of contest must be
filed with the. secretary of the com
mittee on or before May 16th, 1904,
at &30 o'clock p. m., and notices of
contests must £»e accompanied by
a written statment of the grounds
of contest.' v?
By order of the Legislative Cen
tral Committee for thc-35th Legis
lative District.
A Republican Judicial Convention.
A Republican Judicial Convention for the
Sixth judicial District of North Dakota will be
held at Mandan, N. I)., at 1 p. m. on Saturday,
May 2i. 1001, aLtee court house In said city, for
the purpose onlaeing in nomination a candi
date for the office of Distrset Judge for said dis
trict. The apportionment for the different
cguntles has been determined by tbe Committee
to be as follows
Billings 1 vote,
Burleigh 5 votes, •,
Kmrnouss votes,
Kidder 2 votes,
McLean 5 votes,
Mercer 2 votes. i
Morton 9 votes, •—-r
Oliver 1 votes.
Stark 7 votes.
The republican judicial committee Till meet
at 10 a. m. on the date of the convention at the
office of the secretary for the puepoae of pass
ing upon the credentials
of
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Contractor and Builder,
Plans drawn and estimates fur
nished. Let me figure pn your
building. Residence fourth house
east of the new school house.
WASHBURN, N, D.
J. P.
Contractor and Builder,
Estimates furnished and Plans
Drawn. Letjne.figureon.
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HANCOCK, N. QAK.
FOR
On Sec. 26,T.145, R. 84.
GOOD DRY COAL
READY TO LOAD
John P. Pask.
GOAL HARBOR
ELBOWOODS
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STAGE LINE
Stages leaves Coal Harbor for
Washburn and Elbowoods at a.m.
Nofl^arriVesatW alshbtixn 11:30 a.tn.
and leaves 1
K)5, No. 2 will not leave
Coal Harbor until arfiyal of No. 1.
Stages NOB. 1 and 2 arrive, at Coal
Harbor 7 K)0p. m.» No. arrives
at Elbowoods at ^7.-00 p. m. Stages
No. 2 and 3 go way of Ga^riwm
BARNEY McOINUBY,
rnpilitor.
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AUG. E. JOHNSON,
P. K. EXSTMAN, Chairman.
Secretary.
the delegates.
i"y '»i£Fkance,
R.M. Tuttlk.
Sp-j ".hm. pro tern.
$50 TO CALIFORNIA AND RETURN
From St. Paul and Minneapolis,
via the Chicago Great Western Ry.
Tickets on sale April 23rd to May
1st, inclusive, good, to return until
June 30th. For further informa
tion apply to
J. P. ELMER, G. P. A.,
Chicago, 111.
THE
..BEST SEPARATOR..
...BUIUT...
MATBRlAb
WORKMANSHIP
..GUARANTEED..
STRICTLY
Dated April 7th, 19M.
J^IRST-CLASS
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Ask Any eenher Who Kuns One.
"THE LIGHT RUNNING"
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WASHBURN and
SUMMONS.
State'*! North Dakota i
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County AfMcLean I
Iq District Court, Sixth judicial District.
E. T. WlbStoif Plaintiff.
.,VS i
Elinor Benedict,
F. *i. Mattoon,
and all other persons I
unknown claiming any estate or Inter-1
est,in or Lien, or Incumbrance upon the
property, d& rib«d in the complaint
and th$ir. lihluiown heirs.
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Defendants.
The State of North Daketa to the above named
Defendant?:
You are' hereby summoned to answer the
com^Bdnt in, the above entitled action, and to
serve a copy of your answer to said complaint
on the sutser{ber at his office In the village of
Washburn In 'said county and state, within
thirty'days-afljer the service of this summons
upon you, exclusive of the day of such service
aqct of.your failure to appear or aaswer
"lB.caseV«,
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judgment will be taken ag&lnst you by default
for the relief {demanded lmthe complaint
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Jantes T. MeCultoch.
Attorney fur Plaintiff, Washburn, N. D.
To-the above named defendants:
You will ptease take notice that the summons
ana-complaint lu the above entitled action was
tiled In tneottce of the Clerk of the District
Ceuiteat Washburn, N. D., oh the 7th, dav of
li 1904.
April 1
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.lames T. McCulloch,
Attorney for Flalntlff, Washburn, N.©.
CONTEST NOTICE.
D^^utment of the Interior. United States
Land Office, Devils I^ake.M. Di April 16,1904.
'A
«uffi lent contest affidavit havlni been filed
la this office bv Relhert N. Sand, Coatestant,
againtt'Homestead entry No. 2629*. made No
vember 16,1901, for Niiseii. awK sefc, seM swM
of secHob 21, township lis, range 76 by Sanford
Irwin, now deceased. Con tea
tee. In which It Is
alleged that Sanford Irwin died Intestate on or
about November 23rd, 1902, leaving DO widow,
children, inar heirs at law with the exception of
a brother, whose preeent name and 'address is
unknown to.deponent, nor any beneflclarles
under section S91 of the Bevisea Statutes of the
United »tates^whq are entitled to perfect said
entry: aad that during the thirteen months that
bare elapsed slaoe the death no heirs of any.
class have lald any claim to said tract that no
heirs of sald eatsyhuji are residing upon or
cultivating said tract as required bt law, aifd
that said alleged absence from-the, said land
was not due to Ills'eiiipleyment In fhb army
navy or marine corps itfthe United States a* a
rlvate soldier, offloer, Beaman or ''marine dur
the war with SMlp.^or. during any other
war In which the united States may be ehtaged
said parties are hereby notified tq appear, res
pond and offer evidence tou6hlliK' safd allega
tion at 10 o'clock a. m.onJiMie 2nd, 1904,
.That said
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THE PETERSON MACHINE COMPANY\
the
GREAT MINNEAPOLIS LINE.
PLANO
If not, you
should give
us a call and
see what
bargains we
offer. 'We
carry a full
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De-
fore, in enryBartz. a notary public, at his office
In Anamoose, North Dakota, ahd that, final
hearing will be held at 10 o'clock?a. m. on June
9th, 1904, before the Kegtater and Receiver at
the U. S. Land Office inDevHs Lake, N. D.
Tbe said oontestant having In a proper »fflda
vlt filed April 26th, 1904 set forth' facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
of this notice cannot be inade, It is hereby or
dered and directed tbatsuch notice be given by
due and proper publication.
6-7 Ole Seramgard, Register.
Record address of Contestee Anamoose. N. P.
CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of tbe Interior,
United States Land Office. Minot, North Dako
ta, April 18,1904.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been filed
In this office by Henry Frtaiiv contestant,
against Homestead entry No. l|647r made No
vembwi8* 1902, for thejfex of atetlon its, town
shlp M&n. of«nge8»,w„oy jo1iann Scbitmel
contestee. U'whlck it la altegedJtluit. laid entry
man nip/wholly Jailed to estaolltib a residence
on said land 'attd that &e has abandoned the
same fora period of more tliac sUc month* last
paft.and that said allegM ^OMiwe from tbe
saldland*as not dUety hl^«iDMminentlii.the
army, navy or nuirineCocpsottBeUhltaiVJStatet
as a private koldlfelr, offlo^r, ojr marine
during the war with Spain or dttittft- any other
war tp which the Untted Sbrtils may be engaged
and said parties are
respond and offer ev
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h|ng sal/ alle-
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FARM, RANCH, COAL or TIMBER LANDS
at Very Reasonable Price* on EITHER SIDE OF TI1E MISSOURI.
Solem & Seltz, Washburn, N. D.
DO YOU TRADE WITH US
GROCERIES,
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
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GROCERIES,
DRY GOODS,
SHOES,
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UMI0P B1ID
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HOUoli lUn-
NISHINGS
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etc., etc.
GEO. U. ROBINSON,
Goal Harbor, North Dakota.
1 The New Firm
We have moved into the Eppinger block and dji
Invite you to' call and inspect our. new goods that &
21are arriving daily. Don't forget the new [loca- &
Stion, west of Grambs Bros. &
Safety und Durability.
Simplicity.
Ease of Operation.
Ease of Steaming.
Strong in Pulling Loads,
reliability of rated power.
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EXTRAS
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you will find
are right and
the Quality
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