State Bank - Orting, WA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: *
Location: Orting, Washington (47.098, -122.204)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 0d82c765

Response Measures

None

Description

Article (Seattle PI, 1894-06-03) refers to an ex-cashier of the suspended Orting state bank and describes an alleged shortage in the bank's accounts and an indictment of the ex-cashier. No mention of a depositor run or of the bank reopening or being placed in receivership, so this is classified as a suspension without reported run and no evidence of reopening. The suspension appears to be due to an alleged shortage (bank-specific adverse information).

Events (1)

1. * Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Alleged shortage in the accounts of the State Bank of Orting; ex-cashier Thomas D. Yarrington indicted (later discharged).
Newspaper Excerpt: ex-cashier of the suspended Orting state bank.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. June 3, 1894 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA

Article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 3, 1894

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Article Text

Publishers of the Tacoma "Sun" to Be Prosecuted. M'CAIN CONVICTED OF FORGERY For Issuing Bogue Warrants When Assistant Clerk of Tacoms. Sames Wickersham Appointed City Attorney of Twoma-Work on the Meate Cristo Mines w Be PressedWhatcom County Financea TACOMA, June 2-[Special.]-P. B. Eg. bert, Populist member of the legislature and business manager, and L. E. Rader, editor of the Sun, the local Popalist news paper, which issues various county weekly Populist newspapers, were arreated today on a charge of criminal libe! preferred by Thomas D. Yarrington, ex-cashier of the suspended Orting state bank. In the weekly issue of the Sun yesterday, Yarrington's name is printed among the deputy marshals who assisted in the protection of the property of the Northern Pacific railroad during the Commonweal trouble, and after his name are printed the words "Orting bank thief." In commenting on the names the marshals are referred to as "Hanford's thugs," and because of that reflection on Judge Hanford. of the United States district court, it is believed by Mr. Egbert and some of his friends that that court may have him arraigned for contempt The same issue of the Sun contains a rough cut of Gov. Pennoyer and Senator Dolph in a prize ring. under whichin display type are the words: "The Oregon prisefight. Which will win-Pennoyer, the people's representative, or one of Johnny Sherman's friends, Rothschild's American chum?" There is another cut representing seventy-three Commonwealers in the county jail at Seattle, sleeping on the floor, in a room which in a line under the cut is referred to as being 24x36 feet. The cut-is labeled, "Judge Hanford's Seattle Libby Prison." In publishing the list of deputies, the Sun makes the following comment: "Some of Hanford's thugs from Pierce county. who helped to put down a bloody revolution by shooting unarmed United States citizens for trying to leave the state. Cut this out and keep it for future reference. "There are many more besides these and our people, 'the respectable class, will confer a great favor by sending in any names omitted or initials to those we did not get. These people must be remembered by us all, just for sweet future's sake.' There was an alleged shortage in the accounts of the State Bank of Orting and the county grand jury indicted Mr. Yarrington, but in the superior court he was discharged. Mr. Egbert said when asked if he could prove that Mr. Yarrington was a bank thief> "Wait and see. Yes, he was acquitted is the superior court, but how? I'll show it up. I hear there are other deputy marshals who are to sue me, ten in all, I understand. I will stay with them. This is the first list that has ever been published of the deputies, and there is a demand to know just who they were. People want to know. They will remember them." Mr. Egbert's utterances have been considered radical. He stated some time ago that Mr. Rader objected to some of his utterances and kept him from sailing "into the plutes" (plutocrats) as freely as he would like to do. Mr. Egbert and Mr. Rader were brought before Justice of the Peace McMurray and released on their own recognizance.