6738. Citizens Bank (Kansas City, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
July 18, 1893
Location
Kansas City, Kansas (39.114, -94.627)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
83b5ad4f

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple contemporaneous newspaper dispatches (July 18–19, 1893) report the Citizens' Bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed to open or failed and State Bank Examiner Breidenthal received notice of its failure. Articles do not describe a discrete depositor run on this specific bank (they place it among several small Kansas failures amidst a broader panic caused by Denver failures), and no article clearly states reopening. Therefore classified as a suspension followed by closure/receivership (suspension_closure). Bank charter type is not specified in the sources, so set to unknown. OCR errors in some dispatches (e.g., spelling of Breidenthal) were corrected where obvious.

Events (1)
1. July 18, 1893 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Closed amid the broader July 1893 banking panic triggered by multiple Denver bank failures and statewide financial disturbances; reported as one of several small Kansas bank failures rather than due to a bank-specific scandal or a discrete depositor run on this institution.
Newspaper Excerpt
State Bank Examiner Breidenthal this morning received notice of the failure of the Citizens' Bank of Kansas City, Kan.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (16)
1. July 18, 1893 The Evening World New York, NY
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PANIC ON IN DENVER. Four More Banks Close Their Doors To-Day. Runs Started on All the ClearingHouse Institutions. several Kansas Banks Go Down. with One in Ada. Ohio. DENVER, Col., July 18.-The Union National Bank, of which R. W. Woodbury is President, failed to open its doors this morning. The capital is $1,000,000. No statement can be had. A run is now being made on the City National, German National, First National. Colorado National and all the Clearing-House banks. The panic is on. LATER.-The Commercial National Bank has closed its doors. A notice says: "This bank has gone into liquidation by order of the Board of Directors." The National Bank of Commerce has also closed. Ex-Gov. Job A. Cooper is President of this bank. The Mercantile Bank. a private institution with a capital stock of $100,000, closed its doors at noon. The failure was caused by the failure of the Union National Bank, through which it cleared. C. C. Girda, the City Auditor, is President. W. F. Robinson formerly Treasurer of the Republican Publishing Company. one of the oldest and most respected individuals in the State, has been made assignee. President Woodbury is of the opinion that the Union National Bank will reopen and continue business as before. It is one of the oldest banks in Denver, and has always been regarded as one of its solid ones. The failure of the Chamberlin Investment Company a few days ago affected the Union National, the Company having become indebted to the bank about $50,000. The Commercial National Bank was in bad shape. It has a capital stock of $250,000. and only had $2,000 in cash in the bank. TOLEDO, July 18.-The Citizens' Bank of Ada, O., the most prominent one in Hardin County, failed to open its doors this morning. Its owner, Peter Ahifield, has controlled it for over a quarter of a century, and is one of the wealthiest men of that section. No statement of assets and liabilities, or the cause of failure, can be obtained. FORT SCOTT, Kan. July 18.-The First National Bank, of this city, the oldest financial institution in Southeastern Kansas, has suspended payment. TOPEKA. Kan., July 18.-State Bank Examiner Breidenthal this morning received notice of the failures of the Citizens' Bank, of Kansas City, Kan., of the Bank of Richmond and of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank. at Ossawattomie. The concerns all did a small business. Statements are unobtainable. The opinion is expressed that other institutions throughout the State will soon go under. The Denver bank failures reported above are in addition to the three reported in the same city yesterday, which were as follows: People's Savings Bank: assets, $1,125,667.55; liabilities, $966,996.88 Colora do Savings Bank: assets over liabilities, $73,063.62. Rocky Mountain Dime and Savings Bank: assets, $156,803.53; liabilities. $105, 654.32. The seriousness of the situation is quite evident from the collapse of all f these institutions.

2. July 19, 1893 The Anaconda Standard Anaconda, MT
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Other Failures. FORT SCOTT. Kan.. July 18.-The First National bank. the oldest financial institution in this part of the state, has failed. TOLEDO, July 18.-The Citizens' bank of Ada. the most prominent in Hardin county failed this morning. No statement. DENVER. Colo., July 18.-The McNamara Dry Goods company, one of the largest houses in the West, was closed by attachment this morning. ARMOURDALE. Kan., July 18.-The Citizens bank suspended payment to-day. with assets of $151.500 and liabilities of $126,500. Among the heavy creditors is the county of Wyandotte. which had on deposit $40,000 of its own funds. DENVER. July 18.-Hyman & Co., proprietors of the Bee Hive store; McWhirter & Co., dealers in mantles and tiles; and

3. July 19, 1893 The Herald Los Angeles, CA
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KANSAS BANK FAILURES. Several Large and Many Small Institutions Collapse. TOPEKA, Kan., July 18.-State Bank Examiner Breidenthal this morning received notice of the failure of the Citizens' bank of Kansas City, Kansas; the Bank of Richmond and the Farmers and Merchants bank of The concerns are all small. Other similar failures throughout the state are expected. ARMOURDALE, Kan., July 18. - The Citizens' bank suspended pay ment today with assets $151,500 and liabilities of $126,500. Among the heavy creditors is the county of Wyandotts, which had on deposit $40,000 of itsfunds. FORT SCOTT, Kan., July 18.-The First National-bank, the oldest financial institution in this part of the state, has failed. A notice on the door saye the failure is owing to the steady withdrawal of deposits and inability to collect assets; that the closing of the doors is only temporary; that the assets are more than three times the liabilities, and that depositors will lose nothing. It has a capital of $300,000.

4. July 19, 1893 Wheeling Register Wheeling, WV
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WHEELING, W. VA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY i9, 1893. A BRUTAL MURDER. Citizens' Bank suspended payment to-day MENT AT DENVER. with assets of $151,500 and liabilities of MAY BE A BIG STIKE. A Respected Negro Found Dead-His Wife $126,500. 8 Savings Banks Stirs Up Arreated for the Crime. FORT SCOTT, KAS., July 18.-The First t rougs in the Streets. Special Telegram to the Register. National Bank, of this city, failed to open T for business this morning. It had a capiJuly 18.-No such a BLUEFIELD, W. VA., July 18.-SamGreen and Flint Glass Manufacturers tal stock of $300,000, fully paid in and has tnessed in all the West uel Ford, & colored citizen of this city, I always stood all runs. A run on the Peoare this morning shortwas feully murdered last night. The Demand Reductions. f ple's Savings Bank was started, but the when the banks were body was discovered to-day near his C thirty day law was taken advantage of and their doors for busiresidence with bullet holes in the head. e the bank was saved from being swamped. of the savings banks 6 His wife and Charles Williams, colored, TOPEKA., KAs., July 18.-State Bank I ited the masses. The A NEW APPRENTICE SYSTEM are suspected. His wife is under arExaminer Breidenthal this morning rehouse banks, located ceived notice of the failures of the Citirest with damaging evidence against o KS of each other, were zens' Bank, of Kansas City, Kas., of the her. Williams is missing. Considerable Bank of Richmond, and of the Farmers' ar into the streets the Demanded by the Green Glass excitement prevails among the colored and Merchants' Bank at Ossawattomie. atil officers and special people, and threats of lynching are Manufacturers - This Point is The concerns all did a small business. 1 out to clear the way whispered, as Ford was a good citizen. i Statements are unobtainable. The opinion the Most Important of All and o'clock the Union Nais expressed that other institutions THE CORONER'S VERDICT. Means More than the Proposed tal of $1,060,000, posted throughout the State will soon go under. 7 would not open their Cut in Wages - The Fight for @ Four Persons Held Responsible for the BOSTON, MASS., July 18.-The Amoskeag ted the panic and folthe Secretaryship of the Flints. mills which will close for the month of Deaths at the Cold Storage Building e Commercial National Fire. August according to a vote of its directors otice and then the Naat Manchester, N. H., employs 8,000 CHICAGO, July 18.-The coroner's jury Commerce, and people hands. It has a pay roll of $225,000 per Special Telegram to the Register. investigating the World's Fair Cold will this stop?" A run month and uses 6,000,000 pounds of cotton MARION, IND., July 18.-Another Storage calamity, reached a verdict this started on all the other per week. Other mills are likely to follow evening, as follows: busy session of the American Flint suit. Amoskeag mill is the largest prono great extent upon "We, the jury, !find that the deceased Glass Workers convention was held toducer of manufactured cotton in the world. tional. The First Nacame to his death from injuries and burns day. LONDON, July 18.-In the House of Combe the soundest of all, received at a fire of the Cold Storage buildThe Pressed Ware Committee's remons to-day Prime Minister Gladstone, in ing at the World's Fair grounds on July er 60 per cent. of their port was taken up, and all the items replying to questions asked upon the sub10, 1893; and we, the jury, find from the with a private fund of asking for advance in wages on certain ject, denied that there was artificial reevidence that Charles A. McDonal, John dition to draw upon, striction of the coinage of silver in India. P. Skinner. D. H. Burnham and Edward goods and changes of moves, etc., were, ssible to close their The Austrian system, he said, was analoafter very warm discussion, knocked W. Murphy be held to the grand jury for ado National and sevgous to the new India system of coinage. criminal negligence, and there held until out, and the scale for pressed ware will equally as good condiThe quantity of silver coined in India discharged by due course of law." remain the same as last year. would not be regulated by the convenienae There was no order of arrests made folThe Chimney Committee reported the of the Government, but by the wants of drawing their money lowing the verdict They will be expected addition of two new brands of lamp the country. to furnish bonds to-morrow morning, howsitors, the large holdam hold be chimpava to the list but as the scale in

5. July 19, 1893 The Daily Morning Astorian Astoria, OR
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SEVERE RUN ON DENVER BANKS Several of Them Compelled to Close Their Doors. SMALL DEPOSITORS EXOILED And Entirely Responsible for the Condition of Affairs-The Worst Thought to Be Over. au Associated Press. Alter Denver, July 18.-No None was ever witnessed here before like that of this morning. shortly after the hour when the banks opened for business. The failure three savings banks yesterday had excited the masses, and at the hour of opening the streets were crowded with anxious depositors, The eleven clearing house banks, located within four blocks of each other, were surrounded, and far into the streets the crowd gathered until the police were called to clear a way for traffic. At 10 the Union National, with a capital of $1,000,000, posted a notice that they would not open their doors. This started a panic, and following quickly the Commercial National posted a similar notice, and then the National Bank of Commerce A run was immediately started on all the other banks, although to no great extent upon the Peoples' National. The First National appears in unexceptionable conditon, having over sixty per cent of its deposits on hand, with a private fund of a million and a half in addition to draw upon, making it impossible to close their doors. The Colorado National and several others are equally good. The mob wthdrawing money are all small depositors. The banks are paying all demands except time certificates, der manding that these remain until the expiration of their time. President J. A. Thatcher, of the clearing house, says: "I am confident today will see the worst of this, and that the people will come to their senses." Denver, July 18.-The Mercantile Bank, a private institution, with a capital of $100,000, failed at noon. The failure was caused by that of the Union National, through which it cleared. Denver, Col., July 18.-The Union National Bank has closed. It has a capital of a million dollars. No statement has been made as yet. A run is now being made on the City National, German National, First National, Colorado, National, and all of the eleven clearing house banks. A veritable panic is on. Denver, July 18-The Commercial National Bank has closed its doors. Denver, July 18.-The National Bank of Commerce has closed. Topeka, July 18.-State Bank Eyaminer Briedenthal this morning received notice of the failure of the Citizens' Bank at Kansas City, Kas., the Bank of Richmond and the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Ossawattomie. The concerns are all sma.1. No statements have been male. Other similar failures throughout the state are expected Fort Scott, Kan., July 18.-The First National Bank, the oldest financial institution in this part cf the State, has failed. Toledo, Ohio, July 18.-The Citizens' Bank of Ada, the mose prominent bank in Hardin county, failed this morning. No statement hss as yet been made.

6. July 19, 1893 Grand Rapids Herald Grand Rapids, MI
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Kansas Banks Go Under. TOPREA, Kan., July 18. State Bank Examiner Breidentball this morning recoived notice of the failure of the Citisens' Bank of Kaneas City, Kan., the Bank of Richmond and the Farmars' and Merchants' bank of Omawatomia. The concerns all did a small business ONSAWATOMIX, Kan., July 18.-The Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of this city suspended this morning and is now in the hands of the state bank conamia simen. it is claimed that assets are much larger than liabilities Fort Scott. Kan., July 18.-The First National bank of this city failed to open its doers for business this morn. ing at the usual time, and the first inti. mation any one had of the financial con ditice of the bank was when a sotice was put up on the front door at 9 e'clock.

7. July 19, 1893 The Sun New York, NY
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KANSAS BANK FAILURES. Two Banks Suspend at Fort Scott and Three in Other Town. FORT SCOTT. Kan. July 18.-Two banks closed their doors in this city to-day-the First National Bank. with a capital stock of $300,000. and the People's Savings Bank. with $50,000 capital. For several days past steady withdrawals from these banks have been made. and the aggregate deposits of the First National have been reduced from $215,000 to $130,000.which amount it had at the time of closing. The officers of both banks strongly maintain that their business is only temporarily RUBpended. and that dollar for dollar will be returned to the depositors. The First National people assert that their Assets are more than $390,000. but that is In securities and cannot be immediately realized upon. The First National was organized in 1871. and the People's Bank in 1883. TOPEKA. Kan.. July 18.-State Bank Exam. iner Breidenthal this morning received notice of the failures of the Citizens' Bank of Kansas City. Kansas: of the Bank of Richmond, and of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at ORSAwattomic. The concerns all did a small business. Statements are unobtainable. The opinion is expressed that other institutions throughout the State will soon go under. WASHINGTON. July 18.-Before the office of the Comptroller of the Currency was closed this afternoon information had been received of the failure of three national banks to-day-the Commercial National and the Union National of Denver. and the First National of Fort Scott. Kan. The news of the Denver crash caused some surprise in the Comptroller's office. for it was belloved there that the worst was over and that national banking matters would soon resume their normal condition. The gold reserve took another downward tumble to-day from $188,050,480 its amount yesterday. to $97,672,852. The currency balance to-day was $20,118,160. against $26,117. 918 yesterday. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. in his statement of the exports and import of gold and silver. reports that the exports of gold from the United States during the twelve months ended June 30. 1893, amounted to $108,680,844. and the imports to $21,174,381: excess of exporte. $87,506,463. During the corresponding period of the preceding year the exports were $50,195,327. and the imports $49,699.45 excess of exports. $495,873. The exports of silver during the twelve months ended June 30. 1893, were $40,737,319. and the imports $23,193,252: excess of exports. $17.544.067. During the corresponding period of the preceding year the exports were $32.810,559. and the imports $19,955,086; excess of exports. $12,855,473. During the six months ended June 30 the exports of gold amonnted to $73,717,938. an increase of $32,148,788 over the corresponding period of the preceding year. The Imports were $11,759,043. an increase of $3,723,435.

8. July 19, 1893 Waterbury Evening Democrat Waterbury, CT
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Three Small Banks Suspend. TOPEKA, July 19.-State Bank Examiner Breidenthal received notice of the failure of the Citizens' bank of Kansas City, the Bank of Richmond and the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Osawatomie. The concerns all did a small business.

9. July 19, 1893 Waterbury Evening Democrat Waterbury, CT
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Another Kansas Bank Fails. ARMOURDALE, Kan., July 19.-The Citizen's bank suspended payment, with assets of $151,500 and liabilities of $126,500. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal took possession of the bank.

10. July 19, 1893 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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eastern Kansas. It had a capital stock of $300,000 fully paid in, and has always stood all runs. A run on the People's Savings Bank was started, but the thirty day law was taken advantage of, and the bank was saved from being swamped. Topeka, Kan., July 18.-State Bank Examiner Breidenthal this morning received notice of the fail. ures of the Citizens' Bank of Kansas City, Kan.; of the Bank of Richmond, and of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. at Ossawattomie. The concerns all did a small business. Statements are unobtainable. The opinion Is expressed that other institutions throughout the State will soon go under. Toledo, July 18.-The Citizens' Bank of Ada, the most prominent one in Hardin County, failed to open its doors this morning. Its owner, Peter Ablfield, has controlled it for over a quarter of a century, and is one of the wealthiest men of that section. No statement of assets and liabilities, or the cause of failure, can be obtained. Anacortes, Wash.. July 18.-The Bank of Anacortes failed to open its doors yesterday, owing to inability to realize on securities. The liabilities are $29,000 and the assets, $78,000. Depositors will be paid in full. Kansas City, July 18.-Although last night the bankers of Kansas City did not expect to get through to-day without trouble. none came: and the impresston prevails that to-day marked the beginning of the end of the recent financial flurry. There is evidence to-day that the people have stopped to think. It is a notable fact that no man who had money in the bank of Kansas City or the Missouri National has the slightest doubt of getting every cent of it. The banks in Kansas City which have failed are the National Bank of Kansas City. the Missouri National Bank. the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. and the Bank of Grand Avenue, the latter being a State bank. Armourdale, Kan July 18.-The Citizens' Bank sugpended payment to day with assets of $151.000 and liabilities of $126,500. State Bank Commissioner Breiden that took possession of the bank. Among the heavy creditors of the bank is the county of Wyandotto, which had on deposit some $40,000 of its funds.

11. July 19, 1893 Evening Journal Wilmington, DE
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EARLY NEWS SUMMARY. Held Responsible for Deaths in the Cold Storage Fire. THE JURY RENDERS A DECISION. Director of Works Burnham, Fire Marshal Murphy. President Skinner and Secretary McDonald, of the Hercules Iron Company. That Built the Building, Found{Guilty. The coroner's jury investigating the Cold Storage fire disaster held Director of Works Burnham, Fire Marshal Murphy, President Skinner, of the Hercules Iron Company, that built the building, and Secretary McDonald, of the same com pany, responsible for the deaths. 4 Denver Bank Failures, The Union National, National Bank of Commerce, Commercial National and Mercantile banks, of Denver, failed and the McNanara dry good house and several other business houses went under owing to the financial panic there. Crusade Against Colored People. Founder Bradley, of Asbury Park, has begun a crusade against the col ored people who monopolize the seats on the beach and pavilions. A Celebrated Case Decided. Judge Acheson in the United States Circuit Court at Erie decided the cele brated case of the Stonemetz Printing Machinery Company vs. the Brown Fold ing Machinery Company in favor of the former. Paid $600,000 in Gold. The New York Sub-Treasury was debtor at the Clearing House to the extent of $669,000, and Treasurer Jorden ordered that the difference should again be paid mostly in gold. Of the total amount $600,000 was paid over in gold and the balance in currency notes. Oldest Bank in Kansas Falls. The First National Bank of Fort Scott, Kan., the oldest financial institution in Southeastern Kansas, suspended payment and the Citizens' Bank at Kan. sas City, the bank of Richmond and the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Ossa wattomie have also failed. Prominent Club Man a Forger. : Lloyd Aspinwall, the New York club man, is confined in Yorkville prison, N Y., in default of $5.000 bail, upon the charge of forgery. It is charged that he forged the name of William Aspinwall in indorsing a check. 1 A World's Fair Tradgedy. Miss Emma Garrett, of Philadelphis, who has charge of the Pennsylvania ex t hibit of the work of pupils in institu tions for the blind at the Fair, became 0 insane from overwork and killed herself f by jumping from the fifth story of a hotel. a Meyer, the Poisoner, Arraigned. Dr. Henry C. W. Meyer, the alleged wholesale poisoner, was arraigned be fore Judge Cowing in New York to plead to the indictment charging him with murder. At the request of Lawyer v Joseph Moss. the prisoner's counsel, the judge allowed the case to go over until Thursday.

12. July 21, 1893 The Clarksburg Telegram Clarksburg, WV
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IT'S AWFUL. Leading Institutions of The West go Under. GLORIOUS DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION. In no period of American history has there been such collapsing of what were supposed to be the strongest banks of the country. Nearly all the banks of the famous city of Denver, Colorado, closed their doors without a moment's warning on Tuesday. The great Union National was first to suspend. Its capital stock was over one million dollars. Next the Commercial National and a little låter the Bank of Commerce went under. Frantic mobs rushed wildly about crying "where will it stop." CALAMITIES STILL COME. DENVER, COL.. July 18.-The McNamara Dry Goods Company. one of the largest institutions of the kind here. failed this morning. The liabilities are placed at $260,000. TOLEDO, O., July 18. -The Citizens' Bank, of Ada, the most prominent one in Hardin county, failed to open its doors this morning. ARMOURDALE, KANSAS, July 18. -The Citizens' Bank suspended payment to-day with assets of $151,500 and liabilities of $126, 500. FT. SCOTT, KAS., July 18-The First National Bank, of this city failed to open for business this 1 morning. It had a capital stock of $800,000, fully paid in and has always stood all runs. TOPEKA, KAS., July 18.-The S State Bank Examiner this morning received notice of the failure of the Citizens' Bank, of Kansas N City, Kansas, of the Bank of 0 Richmond, and of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Ossawate tomie. The opinion is expressed t that other institutions through. out the State will soon go under. 1 BOSTON, MASS., July 18.-The Amoskeag mills which will close for the month of August accordvary ing to a vote of its directors at (1) Manchester, N. H., employes 8,000 hands. It has a pay roll of may $225,000 per month and uses 6, 000,000 pounds of cotton per 1 week. Other mills are likely to follow suit. Amoskeag mills is the largest producer of manufactured goods in the world. All the above dispatches were from the news columns of Wednesdays's Wheeling Register.

13. July 26, 1893 The Indiana State Sentinel Indianapolis, IN
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Forced to Suspend. ARMOURDALE, Kas., July 18.-The Citizens' bank suspended payment today, with assets of $151,500 and liabilities of $126,500. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal took possession of the bank. Among the heavy creditors of the bank is the county of Wyandotte, which had on deposit some $40,000 of its funds.

14. July 27, 1893 The Middleburgh Post Middleburg, PA
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Financial and Commercial. ADA, O.-The Citizens' Bank the most prominent in Hardin county, has failed. MADISON. Isp.-The Carrollton Woolen Mill Co., has assigned with liabilities of $7.000. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company has declared a dividend of 14 per cent., payable August 1. The McNamara Dry Goods Company, of Chicago has suspended. It was among the largest houses of its kind in the West. POMONA, CAL-The People's Bank has re. opened with plenty of coin. Only #4 were drawn out the first hour, Deposits were liberal. PARKER, KAN.-The State Bank has failed. STERLIN, CoL-The Bank of Sterlin has assigned. BUZEMAN, Mosr -The Bozeman National Bank has closed. YATES CENTER, KAN.-The Woodson State Bank has'suspended. HUTCHINSON, KAN.-The Hutchinson National Bank has closed its doors. ASPEN. CoL-The J. B. Wheeler Banking Company and the Pioneer Bank have failed OKLAHOMA City-The Bank of Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma National Bank have succumbed to runs and failed. FORT SCOTT, KAN.-The First National Bank the oldest financial institution in Southeastern Kansas suspended payment. ASHLAND, KY.-The Second National Bank which suspended three weeks ago. resumed business Thursday. CHICAGO.-The Chemical National bank will not resume business. The reasons given are the stringency of the money marketand the inability of some stockholders to meet the assessments which would be levied up. on them if the bank resumed. KANSAS CITY, KAN.-The Citizens bank, the Bank of Richmond and the Farmers and Merchants bank at Ossawattomie, also of Kansas, all private institutions, closed their doors. HAREISONVILLE, Mo.-The First National Bank of Harrisonville, suspended payment and is in the hands of the Comptroller of the Currency, NASHUA, N. H.-The Security Trust Comrany closed its doors. It promises to pay depositors in full. ANTHONY. KAS.-The First National Bank and the First National Bank of Calago City, Col., have suspended. THE Bank of Bellville, Republic county, Kan., a private institution with $20,000 capital, has failed. NATIONAL bank examiners have recommended to the Comptroller that the First National Ban 1 of San Bernardino, Cal., which recently failed. be allowed to reopen at once, its affairs being in good condition. New YORK-Charles M. Preston, state bank examiner, reports the banks of this state to be in a good condition generally and be anticipates no failures.

15. December 28, 1894 The Kinsley Graphic Kinsley, KS
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# KANSAS STATE NEWS. A piano tuner was arrested at Fort Scott the other day for forging a check for $23. George W. Kanfield, proprietor of the George W. Kanfield physicians' supply house, of Denver, Col., died while sitting in a chair at his hotel in Fort Scott the other day. He was traveling for his health. Sumner, in Atchison county, which was a prosperous and ambitious city of 2,500 inhabitants in the early days of Kansas, has been abandoned as a town the last house having been removed and the land fenced for farm purposes. The superintendent of the soldiers' Orphans' home at Atchison reports that there are at present 133 children in the home and there are 50 applicants that cannot be admitted on account of the crowded condition of the institution. Capt. Henry Booth, republican, has begun a contest for the seat in the house from the Ninety-second district, for which the certificate of election was issued to A. H. Lupfer, populist. The grounds of contest are alleged fraud, illegal voting and illegal returns. E. H. Snow, state printer, resigned several days ago, because he discovered that "there was a cloud on his title" because of irregularity of his election, and the governor immediately reappointed him to fill the unexpired term ending June 30, 1895. Mr. Snow also filed a new bond. A scheme is reported to be on foot to have the legislature reduce the number of judicial districts in the state in the interest of economy. There are now thirty-five judicial districts and it is thought the number can be severely pruned and thousands of dollars saved to the taxpayers of the state. Mrs. A. D. Matson, who lived alone, was recently found murdered in her home at Topeka. She was prominent as a suffragist and had taken active part in local matters connected with the schools of the city. She was supposed to have been murdered for a small amount of money she had collected for rents. Steve and Charles Webb and Fred Tucker, who were charged with wrecking an eastbound passenger train on the Santa Fe railroad at Barclay on the morning of September 21, 1892, and acquitted, have each filed a suit in the district court of Osage county against the company for $50,000 damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The secretary of the state board of agriculture announces that the supply of the reports on feeding wheat to stock and alfalfa growing has been exhausted. The demand for the reports is great and all applications will be filed, but the documents cannot be forwarded until another addition is printed, and this cannot be done until the legislature makes an appropriation. The supreme court has granted a preliminary habeas corpus in the case of Joseph Perry Smith, held in Wyandotte county on the charge of running a lottery in violation of law. The defendant was released on bail, and the hearing set for January 4. It is expected that the court's decision will settle the disputed question whether lottery gambling may be reached by law in Kansas. The report of an expert in regard to the accounts of the treasurer of Wyandotte county, showed that M. J. McLean, late county treasurer, was short $58,631.09. The greater part of this sum was in the Citizens' bank of Armourdale, when it failed and about $10,000 remained otherwise unaccounted for. The books of the probate judge and other county officials are also to be examined by experts. Physicians of the different schools of medicine formed an association at Topeka some days ago, for the purpose of "mutual protection against quacks and pretenders of all classes." Dr. G. Ivan Pohek, of Wamego, was elected president; Dr. C. F. Menninger, of Topeka, secretary; Dr. J. L. Furber, of Topeka, treasurer; Drs. S. Stewart, of Clay Center, and Furber and Menninger, of Topeka, were appointed as a committee to prepare suitable laws. The sugar factory at Fort Scott has filed a claim with the secretary of the state board of agriculture for the state bounty under the new law on 248,200 pounds of sugar produced during 1894. In filing this claim the company says it does so under protest, as it claims to be entitled to a bounty of 3 cents per pound under the law of 1887, which provided that the 2 cent bounty was to run seven years. In 1891 this section was repealed by the ¾ cent law, and the sugar companies claim the law of 1887 was in the nature of a contract, which cannot be abrogated. Mrs. Alice Stevenson was recently arrested at Kansas City, Kan., for fraudulently obtaining a pension. Several years ago at Atchison, her husband, John Stevenson, died. Afterward she was married to George F. Rocco, but, she says, he had another wife living, from whom he had not been divorced, and she refused to live with him. In making application about two years ago for a pension as the widow of John Stevenson she was advised by her lawyer that no attention would be given the second marriage, as it was illegal and void and would be no barrier to her securing a pension. She acted upon this advice she alleges in good faith, never doubting that she was innocent of wrong doing until arrested.

16. February 18, 1898 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS
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Deputy Bank Commissioner Waterman Files His Report ON ARMOURDALEBANK Condemns Methods of Conducting Receiverships And the Extortions of Attorneys Connected Therewith. The lawyers interested in the receivership proceedings of the Citizens' bank of Armourdale and the lawyers identified with the receivership proceedings in general, are unmercifully scored in a report filed by Deputy Bank Examiner M. A. Waterman with Bank Commissioner Breidenthal today. Mr. Waterman completed an examination of the receivership of the bank this week. At the start of his report Mr. Waterman recommends that bank receivers in future receive a certain per cent for handling the business instead of a stated salary, and then referring to the receivership of the Citizens' bank, especially says: "The manner in which the receiver has been held up for attorneys' fees is infamous in the extreme, and in comparison with which highwaymanship is honorable. These institutions are looked upon by lawyers as legitimate prey, and they flock to them like buzzards and eagles to a new born lamb, and exhibit no more decency or mercy. If their bills or methods are questioned, expert testimony of brother lawyers is called into requisition and the skinning process legalized. The attorneys' bill now under consideration should not be allowed, and the attorneys should be made to disgorge a portion of what they have already received." Scroggs & McFadden of Kansas City, Kan., is the law firm that has been handling the receivership proceedings. The bank burst in 1893, and although it has not paid one cent of dividends since taken charge of by the receiver, the attorneys have received $7,250 for their work - In addition to this, they have bills now pending amounting to in the neighborhood of $8,000.