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schedules which contain no items. For the first time farm fences, fall plowing, property of secret societies, household pets and scores of other items will be assessed this year. No longer will property owners be able to give a "lump sum" to the assessor. Every item has to be listed at 25 per cent of a fair market value, except moneys and credits, which go in at 5 per cent. John Roland of Stanley will be compelled to face the charge of first de gree murder as the result of the death of Harry Wolcott. His wife also is accused as being an accessory to the crime. The charge of murder was placed against Roland after the board of insanity commissioners had investigated Roland's mental condition and declared him sane. At the preliminary examination before O. M. Kline both Roland and his wife were bound over for trial. Bail was refused. Mrs. Irene Puarie of Slim Buttes was accidentally shot and killed by a young homesteader for whom she had been caring during an illness. The patient and another young man had quarreled during the day and in the evening, when the homesteader was aroused from sleep by a noise just outside the door of his home, he demanded to know who was there. Receiving no answer, and thinking it was the man with whom he had quarreled, he shot through the door and killed Hrs. Puarie. The coroner's jury exonerated him. The payment of $8,000 by the Consolidated Elevator company of Duluth to W. H. Stutsman, chairman of the North Dakota railway commission, saved the holders of $25,000 worth of storage tickets, issued at Davey and Walum, by the North Dakota Grain company, from losses, it was an nounced. The payment was made under the provisions of the law that the purchaser of stored grain must make good to storage ticket holders. The North Dakota commission traced the grain sold by the North Dakota Grain company to the Consolidated Grain company and the latter institution paid up. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 18, 19 and 20, have been selected for the annual North Dakota high school conference, athletic meet and debating and declamatory contest to be held at the state university in Grand Forks. The first day will be given over to the high school conference proper. Friday forenoon Inspector R. R. Edwards will conduct a round table on topics relating to smaller high schools. The athletic field tryouts will be held Friday and the finals on Saturday. The debating contest will take place Friday evening, when the state championship will be settled. On Friday evening the state declamation contest will be held. Twenty thousand coyotes have been slaughtered in the past year, according to the bounty statistics given out by Carl O. Jorgenson, state auditor. The auditor has just completed payment of $50,000 in bounties to the slayers of the coyotes. There was some' irregularity" in the bounty fund, brought about by a legislative transfer of a portion of the money previously levied for wolf bounty purposes, and that fact was responsible for the inability of the state to make payment for the past year, until the present time, the funds now being available through the collection of new taxes. The state pays a bounty of $2.50 for each wolf killed. The crack squad of the cadet battalion of the North Dakota Agricultural college will again go on the vaudeville stage this coming summer, making a tour of approximately 3,000 miles, and this time going through the East. The squad, which scored such a hit at all theaters where it showed last summer through the West, will leave Fargo immediately after the college closes in June. The tour will open in New York, where the equad will show for three consecutive weeks. The tour will then take it to Providence, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and other important centers in the East. The tour will take thirteen weeks, all told. Judge C. A. Pollock at Fargo has ordered the dismissal of the action launched by the receiver of the Medina State bank against Governor L. B. Hanna, E. J. Weiser of Fargo and the First National bank of Fargo. Judge Pollock's dismissal on a demur rer to the complaint was on the find ing that the plaintiff failed to state any cause for action. Its demand for $50,000 for paper which it asserted was removed from the bank just before it was closed was held unjustified. The court holds that on his own pleadings the bank receiver has no cause for action Certain contracts
