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the Burns and Pinkerton detective agencies and are making every effort to apprehend the source of these ut terances." W. H. Parsons, vice president, de clared bank officers had succeeded in running to earth six persons who had helped cause the run by their unfounded statements, "These six," said Parsons, "will be arrested and prosecuted. We are try ing to find others." Another official said: "The de positors may do as they like. It is their money. They can have it is they wish. But the 'run' seems to be practically over, and the bank is as safe as the United States govern ment." Two newsboys vending early editions on Second ave. startled many citizens by crying "All about the Dexter Horton failure." At the re quest of the newspaper offices these newsboys were arrested, the the newspapers they were selling contained nothing but the most reassur ing accounts of conditions at the bank. Star newsboys were instruct ed to mention nothing about the bank in crying their papers but what was contained in the headlines, Reports put in circulation the last few days that wholesale bakers and grocers / are refusing to accept checks drawn on the Dexter Horton bank were indignantly denied to day. E. Morganstern, secretary of Schwabacher Bros., & Co., Inc., wholesale grocers, declared: "The report is absolutely ridiculous. The Dexter Horton bank is just as safe as the United States treasury. I understand these wild rumors have caused quite a run on the bank. It is an outrage." Gus Rasmussen, president of the Seattle Baking company, when told of the report, said: "We're not refusing Dexter Hor ton checks. We're taking all we can get. I only wish we had a million dollars of them."
