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ONE BANK SUSPENDS Inability to Realize on Securities and Too Liberal Loans on Realty Given as Cause. Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 20.-The Commercial Bank of Vancouver, President H. C. Phillips, failed to open its doors yesterday. State Bank Examiner J. L. Mohundro is in charge. Inability to realize cash on its securities and too liberal loans on realty, are said to be the principal causes of the bank's embarrassment. It is expected the depositors will sustain no loss.
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Bound for Viadivostek with & cargo of war munitions valued at $7,000,000. 'punos our most nexts 2010 our the steamer Monolulan sailed from Tacoma Leading army, navy and militia of. ficers and civilians from the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, as well as members of congress, were heard at the North west Conference of Preparedness, in Spokane, Monday and Tuesday. A new reclamation plan providing for gravity diversion in the neighborhood of Prosser, with a siphon across the Yakima river was outlined by Arthur P. Davis, director and chief engineer of the federal reclamation serv. ice in a letter to Senator Poindexter. G. W. Gilbreath, inspector-at-large, after an investigation of the fruit trees throughout Garfield county, declared that most of the trees were so infect. up the selate pus 148119 411 AM pe short time they would be useless even as shade trees, not considering the bearing of fruit. According to a formal ruling given to Homer L. Post, prosecuting attorney of Asotin county, by Attorney General W. V. Tanner a druggist can not fill prescriptions for intoxicating liquors issued by physicians who are not licensed to practice medicine under the laws of the state. The car shortage which for 90 days has hampered commerce in the west is virtually over as far as the Pacific northwest is concerned, according to announcements made by Seattle railroad officials. The lines now have sufficient cars to handle traffic for an indefinte period, they said. Cattle losses on the south half of the Colville reservation this winter through blizzards will reach $100,000, is the statement of an Okanogan stock man. He places the number of cattle °H pueu . 098 JW A 2000, 18 1801 -1818 moaj eip you PIP cattiele our ples vation, but from the cold and blissard. Holding that the issues involved are political and that the court has no jurisdiction, Judge D. F. Wright of the Thurston county superior court dismissed the suits brought at Olympia to have the proposed initiative first aid and fish bills held up on the ground that the preambles contain arguments. Little of the enormous fruit tonnage anticipated this fall in the Wenatchee district has been signed up to selling agencies or shippers. The growers are awaiting the final returns of the organizations that handled the 1915 crop to obtain a basis of comparison of the efficiency of the different marketing systems used. Delegates to the Northwest Mining convention at Spokane adopted a resolution asking for a revision of the federal mining laws by a congressional committee. The resolution asserts that the present laws were framed 50 years ago. The convention went on record in favor of having a federal mine experiment station established Spokene. 18 Depositors of the defunct Commercial Bank of Vancouver, which failed for nearly $400,000 December 19, 1910, held a meeting and adopted resolutions objecting to the petition of M. B. Kies, receiver, to the superior court asking permission to advertise for sale to the highest bidder the assets of the institution. Only 20 per cent has been paid to the depositors. With prices ranging about 20 per . 'of's year . jo those адоле cent steady market and a good demand in the United States despite the fact that the foreign business is at a standstill, Tacoma lumbermen express satisfaction with present conditions and foresee further improvement. Practically all Tacoma mills are running, with the exception of the Tacoma Mill com sujuans are ownes pus plant, s,Aund night shifts. Definite steps were taken at a meeting held at Spokane for the organisation of boys' and girls' agricultural clubs in every county in Washington. The active management of the asso clation in each county will be in the hands of a board composed of the state superintendent of public instruction, the director of agricultural extension work, and three individuals selected from the citizens of the county participating in the work. J. S. Waugh, an Aberdeen business man, and County Commissioner Locke claim to have located what appears to be paying quantities of manganese ore in the Quiniault country, north of Aberdeen. They have been staking out. claims and getting samples for some time. Recently the price of this commodity has been soaring, so that the ore can be mined profitably. Sam ples of the ore have been sent to the Tacoma smelters. The ore bed is said 8 se Juj 08 extend, 01 distance of seven miles. Surrounded by the heads of 20 colleges and universities of the east and west, all wearing the robes and in signia of their academic honors, ErHolland