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schools are again closed, because of improper quarantine regulations. Kidder county claims $57,000 in taxes and penalties from the Northern Pacific which is the amount for which suit has been brought. The taking of the inventory at Standing Rock will be completed this week and Agent Bingenheimer will take charge on Monday next. The Mandan Pioneer discovers that the Northern Pacific will hereafter do much of the machine shop work that has been done at Mandan, at Brainerd, and remove a number of mechanics from Mandan. About $1,000 difference monthly in the payroll. Grand Forks Plaindealer: Senator Gordon's appointment to the receivership of the First National bank of Larimore appears to be a most satisfactory one, and there seems to be a general desire that he accept it, to be followed by an appointment to the position of national bank examiner. E.O. Faulkner, formerly auditor of Walsh county and now receiver of the Pecos Valley railroad, New Mexico, has secured 82,500,000 for extending the road 215 miles from Roswell, N. M., to Washburn, Texas, where it will connect with the Santa Fe system and with the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf. The First National bank of Bathgate has gone into voluntary liquidation. It is said that this is preliminary to closing its affairs preparatory to the organization of a state bank with smaller capital. Local bankers find that the expense account and taxes attending large capital in a national bank offset all the profits. Allen J. Wine, who was once sent enced to the penitentiary, served several weeks, was granted a new trial by the supreme court, and whose case resulted in a disagreement at the second trial, hais been discharged from custody. He has been in jail about two years, and was originally accused of swindling Fargo people out of several thousand dollars on a fake mining deal. Argus: Chief of Police Best arrived from the east last night on the second second of No. 1. He was accompanied by no one and while feeling rather tired after the journey he stated that he was feeling much better than he had expected. He was taken home and it is expected that after a night's rest he will feel much better. He was too tired last evening to talk much. The Ransom Co-operative Creamery association will open its new creamery on Thursday, March 10. A free dinner will be served in a mammoth five pole tent having a capacity of 12,000 people and will be heated by over 3,000 feet of steam pipe, making it as comfortable as any city parlor. A committee of over 00-ladies will preside over the dinner. At a meeting of the officers and stockholders an extensive program was arranged and committees were appointed. Notwithstanding the verdict of the coroner's jury and all indications pointing toward suicido in the case of Harry Randall, whose tragic though mysterious death near Milton was reported several weeks ago, there are a great many who firmly believe that the man was murdered and placed in the position in which he was found by his murderers. It is believed that he had about 81,000 in currency in his dwelling at the time of his death, but no money was found after the tragedy. Startling developments are anticipated shortly. Harvey Herald: A 2-year-old son of J. Boeneth, 8 German farmer residing in the settlement at "406" was burned to death on Monday. It seems that Mrs. Boeneth had left her two children, aged