First State Bank - Shattuck, OK

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: October 5, 1911
Location: Shattuck, Oklahoma (36.276, -99.881)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: ce66ac75

Response Measures

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Description

Article (1911-10-05) states the Citizens' State Bank of Covington is in the hands of the state banking board, indicating the bank was taken into custody by regulators (government action). No run is reported in the provided text; closure/placement with the board implies suspension/closure. Limited information — no explicit receiver named — so classified as suspension_closure based on regulator custody.

Events (1)

1. October 5, 1911 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Placed in the hands of the state banking board — taken into custody by state regulators; regulatory action leading to suspension/closure.
Newspaper Excerpt: The Citizens' State bank of Covington ... are in the hands of the state banking board.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. October 5, 1911 Morgan County Republican Versailles, MO

Article from Morgan County Republican, October 5, 1911

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Article Text

FLASHES OF THE WEEK JOTTINGS FROM TELEGRAMS Interesting Items Gathered From All Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Domestic Items. The strike of shopmen and machin1sts on Harriman railroads has been ordered and probably 35,000 men will be involved. Participation of children under 14 years of age in amateur nights at amusement houses is a violation of the child labor law of Oklahoma, and will be stopped. A state spelling bee is being arranged by W. P. Evans, state superintendent of public schools of Missouri. The Citizens' State bank of Covington and the First State bank of Shattuck, Ok., are in the hands of the state banking board. Texas fever has appeared among cattle near Iola, Kan., and a quarantine has been established. Germany's pioneer aviator, Capt. Englehardt, fell and was killed at the Johannisthal meet. Nine of the jury trying Bob Davis for murder at Porum, Ok., are ill, presumably from ptomaine poisoning. Robbers set bales of cotton on fire to detract attention and entered the Santa Fe station at Davenport, Ok., getting $89.90. Fifty cities of Kansas have organIzed a league to study civic needs. Sam R. Johuston, postmaster at Elmo. Mo. was brought to St. Joseph under arrest on the charge of misappropriating $400 of government funds. More than 40 business men of Junetion City have signed a protest against the parole of two men sent to the penitentiary for assault and robbery. Ralph Martin, the suspended sheriff of Cherokee county. Kan., will ask that the order suspending him from office be rescinded on the ground that " It is unconstitutional. Gov. Stubbs has granted a parole to John Dodd, the "man without a friend," who has been in the Kansas t penitentiary 14 years. The cavalry troops will leave Fort Riley Friday night under command t of Maj. Robert E. L. Michie, Thirteenth cavalry, for the practice march S of 500 miles to test the new equipment. 9 President Taft has sent a cablegram of condolence to President Fallieres of France over the loss of I life on the warship Liberte. In the election at Wichita, Mayor Graham was recalled by a vote of almost two to one Dr. W. W. Minick was elected mayor. Commissioners E. M. Leach and R. B. Campbell were also recalled. A survey of the streams of Oklahoma to ascertain their resources in mussel shells for commercial purposes, is being made by Prof. F. B. Isely of the Tonkawa university. Four persons were kiled and scores injured by fire in a four-story brick house in Chicago. When the state board of health is convinced that Kansas City, Kan., really desires good milk it will bring a lot of new prosecutions against milkmen who supply the residents of that town. Lightning struck a Catholic school in Kansas City. Kan., and caused a panic among 150 children. None were hurt. The Retail Merchants' association of Wellington, Kan., gave a barbecue as one of the features of their monthly sale day. Bloodhounds led officers in search of the murderers of Willard McDruff to the door of R. E. Ward's home, near Williamsville, Mo., and he was arrested for the crime. To prove that cold storage foods are wholesome, a luncheon, at which all loods will be strictly cold storage, will be given by Chicago produce merchants. D. B. Warnock, a farmer living near Huron, Kan., has filed a suit for $25,000 damages against J. K. Moore for eloping with his wife and family of three. W. H. Watson was fined $1,000 and given a year in the federal prison and Mrs. Mabel Mosier was sentenced months six to