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children living in Ilwaco. The sentence is the heaviest for such a crime ever imposed in Pacific county. There were two previous failures in the county, those of the First International bank of South Bend and the Raymond Trust company of Raymond. Minimum sentences of two years were imposed upon the chief defalcators. State Deputy Examiner Knapp will take over the failed bank affairs. It will probably pay about 50 cents on the dollar on its deposits of $250,000, officials say. The depositors were mainly Columbia river fishermen, farmers, laborers and business men of small means who had faith in the bank as a community institution. Other banks of the county had steered clear of entanglements with the Ilwaco institution and have shipped in heavy specie supplies to meet any runs.