The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
Loans Less and Deposits More
Than Ever Before During
Harvest Season.
EASTERN MONEY NOT NEEDED
Bank Commissioners Report Shows
Most Remarkable Financial Con-
dition Ever Known in State.

the 934 state banks and trust COM
panies, made June %, showing larger
deposits in the state banks than at
any previous time in the history OF
the state.
The really wonderful feature of the
report is that there should be any in
crease at all in deposits. The state
ment was called for just as Kansas
was entering the harvest fields. In
the preceding twenty years the bank
statements showed deposits in June
to be the lowest of the year and the
loans and discounts the highest
The opening of the harvest always
has meant a hard pull on the banks,
forcing them to borrow money in the
East to finance the harvest This
year the loans increased slightly, the
overdrafts went to the lowest amount
in many years end the deposits higher
than ever before.
The statement shows total deposits
of $129,91S, 1881 in the 934 state
banks and trust companies at the
close of business June %. In June
year ago the deposits were $101, 255,-
253.95, and February 20, this year, the
date of the last previous statement,
the deposits were $12S, ,062.67-
The loans and discounts June %
were S11O, 1861, u million dol
lars more than last February. The
overdrafts totaled the lowest amount
in the history of Kansas banking,
amounting to s212,192-70.
1T is the greatest showing Kansas
ever made and the most remarkable
financial statement l have ever seen
in my many years as banker" said
Mr.. Benson.
Caught the Gun Men.-Officers in
raid on a shanty near Arlington, a
spot where many harvest hands have
been held up and robbed on freight
trains, arrested three men believed to
be the leaders of the notorious Rock
Island gun men" They were arrest
| ed near a steep grade, where heavy
freight trains can travel only slowly
and where two murders and five
freight train holdups have occurred
since the harvest began. The three
men carried cards showing them to be
| brakemen of the Northern Pacific and
members of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen at Dillworth, Mimi.
Moving Machine Victim. = Harold
Marley, 10 years old, son of W. P.
Marley, of Kansas City, was the vic
| tim Of peculiar accident on the farm
| OF relative near Anthony, where he
| is spending the summer vacation.
While moving alfalfa he paused to
| adjust the sickle, and the horses
starting forward he became entangled
i'll the machinery His left arm and
| leg were cut.
browns in Bathtub.-Unable to eat
and speak, A. H. Jones, SO years old,
a wealthy realty dealer, committed
suicide by drowning himself in bath
tub at his home in Wichita. He was
found by his son, Arthur Jones.
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Death In Grain EIevator.-Henry
Swader, employed at the Hoffman
Mills at Enterprise, was killed when
he fell from the top of 75-foot bin
in the elevator the other morning.
Lost Bastow Family Safe.-The
lost family of William Bastow of
Valley Center has been found at Lin
coin Mrs. Merrill Mead of Sedgwick,
a daughter of Mr. Bastow, wrote sew
eraI days ago to H. c. Engle, chief of
police of Abilene, saying she had been
unable to obtain news of her people
since they>left Abilene, June 49, Mrs
Mead wrote to Mr.. Engle that the fam
lily was in Lincoln county, travelling
overland in a covered wagon.
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Live Wire Victim in Ellsworth
John Curtis, a street laborer, was
killed at Ellsworth the other day,
when he picked up live electric
light wire.
Dies of His Wounds.-Tom Maher
who was shot recently at Seldom, Big
Edward Luther, Rock Island con
ductor, died later in hospital at Nor
ton.
Laborer Killed by Train.-Walte1
Flack, a laborer, was killed by a Mis-
souri, Pacific freight train south of the
Union depot at Leavenworth the Other
morning.
Wichita Banker Dies.-George W
Denton, SIS years old. a pioneer il
Kansas and well known in banking
circles, is dead in Wichita He was
director of the American State Banl
there and owned a controlling interes
IN banks in Kansas, Missouri and Hi
nois.
Veteran Suicide.-Renry Baker
rs years old. a veteran of the Civi
War. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart at the hom'
of his brother, John Baker, ten mile
northeast of La Crosse recently.
Harvest Hands Neck Broken.-Aus
tin Wagner of Canton, O.. a harves
hand, is in a Sa1ina hospital with hi
neck broken. He is conscious an
talks of the holdup in which he los
his money in a box car and was the
kicked OF the moving train severa
days ago.
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