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FICTITIOUS PANIC A MEMORY Cut and Dried Money Squeeze Year Ago Thing of Past. ALL SAY IT WAS UNWARRANTED No Material Trace of Stringency is Now to Be Found in the Healthy Situation of Omaha Today. Attempts to clear up mysteries surrounding the "panic" which "happened" in Omaha a year ago Monday, even a year after it is past, failed utterly. No one but the clearing house knows how many cashier's checks were issued by Omaha banks. It is asserted that only a few checks are standing out as souveniers. But this much of the mystery is cleared up: Nearly all of the banks have more deposits than they had a year ago; all have more cash; and some have loans much less than they had because people are so prosperous that they are paying off all their obligations and "money is a drug on the market." In the attempt to clear up the mystery as to whether people who withdrew their money put it back after the banks showed a tendency to hang onto the gold and silver, this significant statement was obtained from Luther Drake, president of the Merchants' National bank: "From day to day our balances fluctuate more when money is drawn out to meet the ordinary demands of business now than they did a year ago, when the banks put on the lid. That is to say that when $400,000 to $600,000 are drawn from a bank a day, as frequently happens, it makes deposits lower for a day or several days, than they were when people withdrew accounts because of the panic. Yes, they put it back." Foolish Step to Take. Looking back a year the bankers of