Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-05

I found him at the cashiers desk of the
Ogden State bank at Ogden, asking for
something to do"
1t was the president who sat at that desk
that morning; the cashier was out and
Randall frankly and plainly asked for
something to do" The president was ac-
customed to being asked for almost any
and every place in the bank, but some
| thing to do" was a new one on him. Not
necessary to detail what Randall answered
to the qeustions fired at him. He got
his job, which paid SIS per month. And for
| four months Randall worked for that
prlncely stipend, riding every single day
sixteen miles to work and riding sixteen
miles back when the bank was closed. He
stayed with 1t; was the first at the bank
and the last to leave II. He was ION the
jGb" all day long and all the time. When
he took his first months pay home his
family looked at it with the laconic re-
mark Better come back to the farm, it
| pays better" You watch me-" replied
Randall, I'm make that old man pay me
$l50 month before l leave that bank"
And he did.
OF course it was Luck just pure luck
1t was the sort of Luck that is waiting
outside the barn door at 8 O'Clock in the
morning: the LUCK that waits, just outside
the door to greet the first fellow down to
business, the Luck that helps a man. de-
termined to get across anyway, over the
hard places of life. oh, it was Luck, all
right, nothing but Luck.
All the Way Up. .5.
After about four months he quit carrying
the little red bag of the bank collector
around the down town streets, and by
degrees he worked in every single de-
partment Of the bank up and including the
paying teler's cage, which, you must
know, is next to assistant cashier. Then
the ogden banks wanted a secretary for
the clearing house. And Randall was Sc
lected for that job. 1t was never an easy
one, but when the panic came he was
there. at the desk night and day, ready
for any and every emergency Did they
take Randall out and put in an older man?
Not on your life; they did not. Randall
was there, wise as any of the older
ones; with youth and strength to stand
the strain. He had been everything in a
bank; knew the whole routine, and he
stuck to the Job; nailed to the mast, he
was on deck. And, well, you know how
Ogden, Utah, came through the panic.
Girl and the Bank.
All this time Randall had a sweetheart
\ serious little woman who is his sweet
heart yet. Her folks lived at Hiram, Utah,
and one day, when the panicky times had
quieted down, Randall had a leave of alb
sence. He went to see his girl" She
lived at Hiram with her relatives, and
Randall the night he wanted to come away
found that he couldn't cash a check. How
many people in this town." he asked They
answered, About 5000" why don't you
have a bank?" Have been trying to get
one but there's no one to organize it,"
Randall didn't go back to Ogden that
night, nor the next nor the next And
when he did go back Hiram had bank
at least it was organized-and Randall had
the papers and applications in his pocket.
Promptly these were filed and his reslg-
nation went TO the clearing house of the
associated banks at ogden.
Some Utah Capitalists.
In the First National bank at ogden is a
man named David Eccles That man is
worth $lO,OOO.OOO in his own name and right,
Also there is M S. Browning whose in
come is in excess of $4,000 per year.
Browning is the inventor of the automatic
principle in all the Colts firearms. He
makes lots OF money It's like the Selden
patent to automobiles. This man Brown
ing is many times a millionaire. David
Eccles is the head of the sugar beet in
terests of the inter-mountain county; he
is the head Of the lumber interests of east
ern Oregon. Browning is associated with
him. Mnen that resignation of Randalrs
came to these men there was a consulta-
ton Randalrs Sort of man is hard to
get hold OF; that threshing machine-dock
laborer- smelterman- bank collector clearing
house-seeretary experience that Randall
nad was worth money and Eccles and
Browning could afford to pay. The reslg-
nation was not acted upon. Randall re-
signed again. And one morning Browning
came into his office and asked Randall to
go up the country for few days. Ran
dan thought 1t was a hunting trip; fishing
or something like that. And so Browning,
multi-millionaire. and Randall. the bank
clerk, left for oakley, a Mormon settlement
in Idaho, 50 years old, with one bank In
which Eccles and Browning had large
interest.
Randall saves a Bank.
In plain words. the affairs of the bank at
Oakley were I'm bad Shape" A former
cashier had over-loaned on one account UNI
an there was $4,000 out to an implement
house at Twin Falls. forty miles away; a
sum almost twice as great as one bank Is
permitted to make to any one customer
in the state of Idaho. where the capital
is no greater than was the case in the
instance OF the Oakley state bank Ran
dalrs own story of how he ran the bank
until o'clock in the afternoon; mounted
his horse and rode 20 Twin Falls; ran
the implement house an next day and
mounted that same pinto pony 10 get back