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RECEIVERSHIP DISSOLUTION HEARIN IN APRIL The hearing yesterday at Carson City in Judge Langan's court on the motion to dissolve the receivership of the State Bank & Trust company, which has been conducted by Frank Wildes and an expensive bookkeeper for the past 14 years, was put over until April 16. Attorney General Fowler. who asked to dissolve the receivership, found that no reports had been filed for years, and the judge made an order that Wildes must file reports from 1916 to January, 1921, and that a new surety bond for the receiver be filed at once One of the receiver's bondsmen has been dead for years. During the legislative investigation Wildes testified before the committee that the reason he had not filed reports was because Judge Langan would not permit him to do so. While testifying before the joint session he denied having made this statement, and it is upon this testimony that he is to be tried for perjury. Langan says he is anxious to close up the affairs of the State bank. The people of the state of Nevada think he should be, after 14 years work on a situation which could have been cleared up insdre of a year. This State Bank fiasco has created a strench in Nevada that cannot be wasted out by all the disinfectants in the world. It now looks as If Wildes will wind up as the owner of the State Bank & Trust company building in Tonopah, as he claims a large amount is due him for his services as receiver these long 14 years that the poor depositors have been waiting for a settlement. How either Langan or Wildes can look a depositor of the State Bank in the face is more than anyone can figure out Think of a court that would allow a receivership of 14 years' duration with many of the depositors dying in the meantime, some of them in straitened circumstances. What will the next chapter of this mess divulge?
