Meade County news., 1915-08-12
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.

out the statement of the condition OF
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 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 and the deposits higher
than ever before.
The statement shows total deposits
of $129,918,79S.31 in the 934 state
banks and trust companies at the
close of business June 23 In June a
year ago the deposits were $10l, ,255,-
1886, and February 20, this year, the
date of the last previous statement,
the deposits were $12S,344,O62.67.
The loans and discounts June 23
were $11O,712,S96.91, IL million dol
lars more than last February. The
overdrafts totaled the lowest amount
in the history of Kansas banking,
amounting to 1912, 2,192.70,
1T is the greatest showing Kansas
ever made and the most remarkable
financial statement | have ever seen
in my many years as banker" said
Mr.. Benson.
Caught the Gun Men.-Officers in a
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 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, Minn.
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
in 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 a 75-foot bin
IN the elevator the other morning.
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Lost" Bastow Family Safe.-The
''lost' family of William Bastow of
Valley Center has been found at Lin
coin. Mrs. Merrill Mead of Sedgwick,
q daughter of Mr.. Bastow, wrote sew
eral 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 10. 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 a live electric
light wire.
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Dies of His Wounds.-Tom Maher,
who was shot recently at Seldom, by
Edward Luther, Rock Island con
ductor, died later in a hospital at Nor.
ton.
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Laborer Killed by Traln.-Walter
Flack, laborer, was killed by a Mis-.
souri, Pacific freight train south of the
Union depot at Leavenworth the other
morning.
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Wichita Banker Dies.--George w.
Denton, 65 years old, a pioneer in
Kansas and well known in banking
circles, is dead in Wichita. He was a
director Of the American State Bank
there and owned a controlling interest
IN banks in Kansas, Missouri and Illi-
nois
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Veteran a Suicide.-Henry Baker,
rs years old, veteran of the Civil
War, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart at the home