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BANK NOTES. Depositors ask for a Longer Time for Resumption of Business. Prospective Re-opening. General Good Conditon of State Banks. A Bit of Bank History in Connection With the Carrington Bank. Mr. Harry Lloyd of the state bank at LaMoure, furnishes the cheerful news that at a meeting of the principal stockholders of that bank Saturday, it was decided to protect the bank if it would reopen, and arrangements have SO far been made as to practically warrant the statement that the bank will be open again for business in about ten days. This action will be very gratifying to all in LaMoure county, and the home officers, who closed the doors simply to prevent a run and further complications, The people who have always done businees at the LaMoure bank have great faith and confidence in the management, and are willing and anxious to help in getting the institution again on its feet. It is understood that the general business of the bank has been conservative, and successfully conducted, and that there are parties-willing to go ahead as if nothing had occurred, and deposit their funds as heretofore. Concerning the Lloyde bank at Jamestown, the following dispatch, sent out from Washington to the northwestern papers is of interest: The Lloyds National bank at Jamestown, N.D., will be allowed to resume business under conditions laid down by Comptroller Eckele, as follows: First, all moneys owed the bank by directors or officers must be paid or secured at once; second, enough money must be paid in to carry the bank ninety days and enable it to meet all demands from depositors who do not agree to continue their deposits for a time. This money must not be borrowed by the bank, but paid in by the shareholders-new capital, in other words. The probabilities are that the bank will resume with a change of management or not at all. In the latter case a receiver will shortly be named. In reference to the above dispatch it is learned that it is not autbentic and is probably a garbled report of several messages, adjusted to suit the occasion. Mr. Thorne, the bank examiner, says that Comptroller Eckele has been in telegraphic communication with the bank on the subject of resuming business, but that the above dispatch is not authentic, and that nothing concerning the bank's affairs has yet been authoratively published by the comptroller.