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WATERVILLE BANK TRUCKS IN MONEY Brings $50,000 to $100,000 From Spokane Under Guard of Armed Men. WATERVILLE, Wash., Nov. 8.—By trucking from $50,000 to $100,000 in coin and currency from Spokane, officials of the Douglas County bank averted what threatened to be a run yesterday. The bank is solvent, but the timid folk became uneasy over the absence of M. E. Lies, president, who was at Portland. Mr. Lies left early Monday on a business trip to the Baird district. He did not return Monday night and, because he is a man of regular habits, some of the population became worried. Several business men left Tuesday morning to search for the banker in the sagebrush country. At Ephrata it was learned that he had bought a railway ticket for Portland. Some of the depositors became worried and two or three withdrew their money from the bank. Officials of the bank hastened to Spokane and obtained from $50,000 to $100,000, which was loaded in a truck and brought to Waterville under a guard of four men, armed with shotguns. Depositors saw the money sacks unloaded at the bank and business was restored to normal. More money was en route from Seattle. Mr. Lies, in a telephone message from Portland, expressed amazement that the community should be upset by his absence. He had been depressed for some time, he said, due to personal affairs instead of financial conditions, which was partly responsible for the community's worry.