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THE LOOTED EL RENO BANK MAKES AN ASSIGNMENT. THE LOSS GREATER THAN REPORTED It Is Not Likely That the Assignment Will Be Permanent and It Is Believed Depositors Will Lose NothingHardly Any Doubt That the Dalton Gang Did the JobThe Pursuit. EL RENO, Ok., July 28.-A courier brought in the intelligence this morning that the fleeing bank robbers passed near Paul's valley, in the Chickasaw nation, going in a southwesterly direction. They were far enough in advance of the pursuing posse to supply themselves with fresh horses and were going at a swiming seen northwest of Paul's gallop valley. Deputy United States Marshal Prater with his posse is still in pursuit, having stuck to the trail all night, but the pursuers are losing ground because their horses are jaded from the long run. The description given by Mrs. Sawyer, the cashier, of the first of the two robbers who entered the bank tallies very closely with that of the bandit leader, Bob Dalton, and it is said that confederates were stationed at points on the streets around the bank. Three Pinkertons, who were in Oklahoma City when notice was wired to President Sawyer at that place of the robbery, were put on the trail and are in pursuit well mounted and armed. A posse has been sent to watch the home of the Daltons' mother on a claim three miles southeast of Kingfisher. The report comes from farmers living in the vicinity of the Dalton home that two men were seen to leave Mrs. Dalton's house late Tuesday evening, riding bay horses and going in the direction of El Reno. There is good ground for the belief that the robbers were hiding at Mrs. Dalton's home, and that a confederate located in M Reno went out there Tuesday afternoon with the information that Sawyer was absent in Oklahoma City and that early the next morning Mrs. Sawyer would be alone in the bank. To divert suspicion and leave the inference that the robbery had been committed by men who had lived in El Reno and were acquainted with the surroundings and the interior workings and management of the bank, the robbers went to Hughes & Co.'s hardware store, two doors from the bank, and purchased a large 45-caliber revolver and while escaping, and before they had gone a block, dropped it at a conspicuous place in the street, so it would be found directly after the alarm should be sounded. It is not known yet how much the robbers secured but it is believed that the amount is much larger than at first reported. Many attachments were issued by the small depositors, but before any of them could be served Mr. Sawyer made a temporary assignment in favor of C. L. Severy of the law firm of Baxter & Severy. Mr. Sawyer has declined all local aid and the rumor is out this morning that capitalists in Lawrence, Kan., and Kansas City have proffered financial aid. Another rumor is in circulation that parties in Norman, Ok., have wired inquiring if the bank can be bought. There is reason to believe the robbery left the bank in a pretty tight place and if the attachments had been served the institution's business would