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STATE BANK AND TRUST RECEIVER ASKS HEAVY DAMAGES ALLEGED FOR DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER Tag! The Bonanza is "it." tiff ever since said appointment ha been, and now is, the duly appoin Balm for the wounded feelings and ed, qualified and acting receiver injured dignity is asked from the the said the State Bank and Trus Bonanza by Frank L. Wildes to the company; that during all of sal extent of $30,000. time the plaintiff has honestly, pro For the first time in several years erly, energetically and lawfully col this publication is made the defendant ducted the affairs of said receivershi and has applied to the same his et in a libel suit. In the language of the poet it is "just one damn thing tire time except when incapacitate after another.' by illness. The suit was filed in the Carson "That on or about the 12th day district court, Judge Langan presidMarch, 1913, at Tonopah, Nevada, th ing, Tuesday and yesterday the padefendants did, wrongfully and wit pers reached this city, the service be malice, publish and cause and pr cure to be published in said new: ing made after this paper had gone to press. paper of and concerning the plaintit The case will be watched with inherein the following words: RECALL OR IMPEACH. terest, not only by the residents of 'Perjury on the part of Fran Nevada but by the entire population of this state for it comes as aclimax L. Wildes, receiver of the Stat of the battle fought by the Bonanza Bank and Trust company, and als in the interests of the depositors of on the part of District Judge Fran the long defunct State Bank and Langan, appears to have been com Trust company. The Bonanza has mitted, according to the startlin evidence placed before the assem long contended that the depositors interests were not being protected by bly yesterday by Assemblyman Ke Receiver Wildes, and for entertain liber of Tonopah. Wildes declare ing this opinion Wildes asks that we that he had devoted his entire tim contribute $30,000 to his upkeep. to the conducting the affairs o The idea! Thirty thousand plunks! the receiver's office when askin Three years salary, according to the for an order allowing him $10,00 yearly salary, and the court in rul handsome sum now allowed by Judge Langan to the receiver. The mat ing also declared that the sum o E ter is hardly worth mentioning, for $10,000 appeared reasonable as th it is believed to be the smallest libel entire time of the receiver was 00 suit ever filed in this state. Several cupied in the performance of hi duties. $50,000 suits have been directed in 'What a farce,' the past against the Bonanza, but to en make a reduction to $30,000 is appali The startling discovery tha et ing. It is ridiculous. Why be a Wildes had drawn a salary of $16 or piker for a mere $20,000. monthly for 16 months from th d Wildes insists that the Bonanza is state, after his appointment as re higuilty of defamation of character. ceiver of the defunct bank, come e Wow! Readers with cracked lips as a fitting climax to the disgrace es should read no further. ful condition that has long beer 'OThe alleged act of violence that tolerated. Wildes drew a salary d wounded the reputation of Wildes was from both the state and from the les supposed to have been committed 01. bank. He could not serve two re March 12, when an editorial appear masters at the same time, nor could leed in which it was declared that he have earned the salary receiv Wildes appears to have committed ed from the state if, according to he perjury. This was in relation to his his statement and also the state ht statement to the Carson court that ment of Judge Langan, that "de he had "devoted his entire time" to devoted his entire time to the bank am the work of the receiver's office, and receivership." at the subsequent disclosure that he had "Judge Langan committed ds breach of public trust in allowing drawn salary from the state as depni uty state treasurer for sixteen or such a salary to his appointee while nd eighteen months after being appointsaid appointee was under salary We ed to the receiver's office, The Bo to the state, and it should be the to nanza contended that Wildes could duty of Langan to immediately sub not serve two masters at the same mit a ruling rescinding his former time, but the rebuke in the form of order. In addition, it should be th the libel suit makes it appear that duty of the court to immediately Wildes is of the opinion that he can remove Wildes from the office he serve two masters without commitnow holds, and in his stead ap ting perjury, point a man whose honesty an The complaint in its entirety, omitintegrity is not doubted. ting the title of the court and cause, "The immediate recall of Judge is given herewith as received yesterLangan, or his impeachment, should day follow as soon as the law will per "The plaintiff complains of the demit such action. The Bonanza con fendants, and for cause of action al tends that Judge Langan is not leges: fit person to occupy the bench o 'That the defendant Tonopah Puba district court, for by the dis OMlishing Company is. and at all times closures as made yesterday, his in herein mentioned was, a corporation ability to protect the depositors clearly shown. It is within th organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of power of the legislature to impeac Nevada: and is and was at said times Langan, and this action should b ernengaged in the business of publishtaken without delay. Furthermore reing, at Tonopah, Nye county, Nevada, the impeachment of the juris 1 by a newspaper known as "The Tonopah should precede the appointment ague Daily Bonanza." a successor to Wildes, for by thi urgThat at all times herein mentioned action the depositors can only land the defendant, W. W. Booth, was the assured of a receiver who will pr the editor and manager of said newstect their interests. ryan peper. "Judge Langan has not performe d by "That on or about the 18th day of his duty in a manner that wou May, 1908, by the district court of protect the interests of the the First Judicial district of the state funet bank's creditors. Had of Nevada, in and for the county of done so he would have ordered DAY Ormsby, in that certain action then initial report of Wildes forward and there pending in said court in to the depositors, instead of bei eries which the state of Nevada, on the redestroyed after being printed. T field lation of John Sparks, et al, was court knows of the disappearan at d plaintiff. and the State Bank and of the reports for the matter h noon. Trust company, a corporation organbeen given publicity, not only brove ized and existing under and by virtue the Bonanza, but in the Goldfie termof the laws of the state of Nevada, Tribune and also the Reno Journ both et al, were defendants, the plaintiff in addition to other state pape vic herein was duly and regularly ap The matter has been discuss The pointed receiver of the said the State broadcast. It is common talk clock Bank and Trust company: that there over the state. And yet Jud after the plaintiff filed his bond in Langan has remained inactive. said court and cause, took the oath "Whatever the motive may such be a that lies behind the inactivity r the of his dutered of office upon of the discharge receiver. and enties as such receiver: that the plain(Continued on page 4)
