Sherman County State Bank (Goodland, KS)

Episode Information

Episode UID
2632679991155
Episode Type
Suspension β†’ Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
263267999 hash
Start Date
March 9, 1896
Location
Goodland, Kansas (39.351, -101.710)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
b31821177a7be1fe

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None

Description

Local officials placed the bank in the hands of the bank commissioner and receivers were later appointed; criminal charges against officers are reported.

Events (4)

1. March 9, 1896 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Bank closed and placed in hands of bank commissioner amid apparent insolvency and later reported liabilities exceeding assets; officers later charged with unlawful receiving of deposits and embezzlement.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Sherman county bank closed is doors Monday morning, announcing that the bank was in the hands of Bank Commissioner Breidenthal.
Source
newspapers
2. July 3, 1896 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The State of Kansas, ex rel Attorney General, vs. The Sherman County Bank. Receivership. (listed on district court docket.)
Source
newspapers
3. August 14, 1896 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Sheriff's sale listing Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson, receivers of the Sherman County Bank, defendants.
Source
newspapers
4. April 4, 1898 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Notice for Final Discharge... I will on the 4th day of April, A. D. 1898 ... file my petition ... as such receiver of the Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (14)

Article from The Goodland Republic, December 6, 1895

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The Sherman County bank will reorganize in January. This bank was the first one established in the county and of the ten banks that have done business in the connty, is the only one remaining. Through panic and crop failures this bank has promptly met all its obligations, and this fact alone speaks volumes for its management. During the panic and crop failures the bank has necessarily accumulated more or less bad or doubtful paper. This the management have decided to throw out and reorganize the bank with clean and undoubtee assets, and with a cash reserve large enough to do a safe and profitable business.


Article from Phillipsburg Herald, March 12, 1896

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r -The Sherman county bank closed is doors Monday morning, announeing that the bank was in the hands of Bank Commiasioner Breidenthal. The bank officials claim that they will be able to pay out dollar for dollar, and place the assets at $60,000 and liabilities at $35,000. The county has a deposit $23,000 and Goodland City $5,000 in the bank. This bank held deposits of many railroad men who run into this place. Many of them think they will get their money back. M. B. Tomblin, irrigation commissioner, was the bank's president. -It would be as easy to find a christian in the Fiji Islands as to find an honest free coinage republican politician in the state of Kansas.-Beloit Call. If the Call had said it would be as easy to find a christian among Pop politicians it would have sounded much less ridiculous.-Kirwin Globe. What is the matter with Congressman Baker, Messrs Arnold, Johnson, Smith, Wagoner, Utter, and Baker? These men, though pop politicians. are all regular attendants at church, and all try at least to lead christian lives. Better let men's religion alone. though you don't like their politics, Sandy. -Inquiry has been made regarding the naming of Phillips county and Phillipsburg. Hon. John Bissell is authority for the statement that the name Phillips is that of a soldier who was killed by the Indians years ago, within the confines of what is now our county. Phillipsburg was named after Hon. W. A. Phillips, a congressman of olden time, and who sided with the people in the vicinity in their fight with Kirwin over the location of the county seat. At that time no buildings were in sight for the present town site. Other counties were named in honor of soldiers killed in warfare with Indians, Rooks and Osborne being of the number. -The Conn Bros. had their preiminary trial at Colorado Springs. Friday last, and were bound over to the May term of the district court. Their troubles grew out of a diamond transaction. In December a Chicago firm took their show cases and a portion of their stock for debt; this caused a scare among other creditors, a Denver firm getting in first took the remainder of the goods, among which were abont a thousand dollars worth of diamonds, belonging to a Kansas City house that the boys were holding on consignment. Soon after, J. A. Conn went to Cameron, Mo., where he was. arrested for embezzlement as bailee and taken to Colorado Springs. M. A. Conn came home where he W88 arrested. The boys are out on $700 bail each, and but confident of getting clear of this charge. Public sympathy here is with them, and everybody looks for their release.


Article from The Star, March 18, 1896

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BRIEF MENTION. The parade of striking Baltimore garment workers was not a glittering success. The suspended Dime Savings Bank at Willimantic, Conn., will probably pay about 60 per cent. The quarterly statement mill dividends at Fall River indicates that the season has been prosperous, The Sherman county bank at Goodland, Kan., closed its doors. Assets, $60,000; liabilities, $85,000. The Albion paper company, of Holyoke, N. J., failed. Liabilities between $500,000 and $1,000,000.


Article from The Goodland Republic, July 3, 1896

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THE DISTRICT COURT CASES. Business Now on the Programme for the Coming Term of Court. The following cases are on the docket for trial at the coming session of the district court. which opens here next Monday: State of Kansas VS. M. B. Tomblin. Unlawfully receiving deposits. State of Kansas VS. Presley I. Lancaster. Unlawfully receiving deposits. State of Kansas VS. J. M. Jordan. Unlawfully receiving deposits. State of Kansas VS. Robert Stevens. Rape. Change of veuue from Wallace county. State of Kansas VS. S. T. Barlow. Embezzlement. Hannah Moyer VS. Benjamin Moyer. Divorce. R. Hickling VS. The State Bank of Goodland. For debt. W.F. Federman vs. John D. Cullins, et al. Foreclosure. William H. Male, et al, vs. Lewis F. Meeker, et al. Foreelosure. William H. Male, et al, VS. W. F. Hunter, et al. Foreclosure. William H. Male, et al, VS. Burdsell Crosby, et al. Foreclosure. Charles H. Lee vs. Charles W. Callahan, et al. Foreclosure. Ida Burno VS. Jeheil McDonald, et al. Foreclosure. Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson vs. James Henry, et al. Foreclosure. James Ely vs. John Campbell and Charles Campbell. Action for judgment. Charles H. Lee VS. Joseph S. Warren. Action for judgment. Francis M. Fox VS. Pauline L. Peyton. Action for damage. The State of Kansas, ex rel Attorney General, vs. The Sherman County Bank. Receivership. George Spaun vs. Electa Spaun. Divorce. W. F. Federman VS. City of Goodland. Action for judgment. Receivers of Sherman County Bank VS. Thomas Pollock, et al. Foreclosure. C. M. Millisack vs. The Sherman County Bank. Action for judgment. The City of Goodland VS. The Sherman County Bank. Action for judgment. People's Building, Loan and Saving Association VS. Otho D. Dickey. Confirmation. People's Building, Loan and Saving Association VS. John G. Bourne. Confirmation. People's Building, Loan and Saving Association vs. William Jupe, et al. Confirmation. The Iowa Mortgage Co. VS. John W. Bock, et al. Confirmation. People's Building, Loan and Saving Association VS. Harlan E. DonCarlos. Confirmation. People's Building, Loan and Saving Association VS. Sadie L. Smith, et al. Confirmation. VanPelt & Olney vs. Anna C. Gentry, et al. Confirmation. R. J. Jones, Receiver of Exchange Bank, VS. C.P. Russell, et al. Confirmation. William H. Male, et al, VS. Charley Wright. Confirmation. William H. Male, et al, VS. Sophia Larson. Confirmation. William H. Male, et al, VS. Peter A. Johnson. Confirmation. William H. Male, et al, VS. John W.L. Vogan. Confirmation. A. B. Hickok vs. Barney McCluskey. Confirmation. William H. Male, et al, VS. David Collins, et al. Confirmation. William M. Freeland VS, Louise Hoffman, et al. Confirmation. Commissioners of Sherman County, Kansas, VS. The Sherman County Bank. Action for judgment.


Article from The Goodland Republic, August 14, 1896

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# SHERIFF'S SALE. [First published July 31.] IN the district court of the Thirty-Fourth judi-cial district, sitting in and for the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas. William F. Federman, plaintiff, vs. John D. Cullins, Lyde Cullins (husband and wife), M. B. Tomblin, Lucy C. Tomblin (husband and wife), Chicago Lumber company, the Sherman County Bank, Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson, receivers of the Sherman County Bank, defendants. By virtue of an order of sale issued to me, out of said district court, in the above entitled action, I will on Tuesday, the 1st day of September, A. D. 1896, at two o'clock p. m. of said day, at the east front door of the court house, in the city of Goodland in the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, all the following described real estate, to-wit: The northwest quarter (NWΒΌ) of section twenty-eight (28), in township eight (8), south of range thirty-nine (39) west of the Sixth principal meridian, lying and situate in the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas. The above described real estate is taken as the property of said defendant and is directed by said order of sale to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement, to satisfy said order of sale. HOYT ANDREWS, W. E. DUSTIN, Attorney. Sheriff of Sherman County. Dated at my office in Goodland, Kansas, this 30th day of July, 1896.


Article from Phillipsburg Herald, December 10, 1896

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Among our Neighbors. A Concordia lady said to us the other day: "Why Mr. Davies, I have always been proud of you as a republican editor, and to think now that you're a populist-O my Well, it is too bad. She imagines, of course, (because she reads nothing but goldbug papers, and believes their slanders) that the editor of The Kansan will henceforth and forever quit patronizing the barber shop, that he will never take a bath except when he goes out seining, that he will wear & red flannel shirt and carry a stick of dynamite in his each coat tail pocket. Why, God bless you madam, don't you know that it is love for Kansas, for their country and their homes, that promotes men to break away from party affiliations they have clung to for years to follow their convictions of right government? Don't you know that the "great heft" of the men of the populist party love their children as dearly as you do yours? Don't you know that they strive to maintain the honor of Kansas as earnestly as you do? Don't you know that all on earth these men and women own, who compose the populist party, lies here under the sunny skies of our own beloved Kansas? Well, it's so. just the same-and they are organized into a political party to defend their homes against the encroachment of rapacious greed and organized plunder. That's all. The editor of The Kansan is as proud of his American estizenship as a populist as be ever was when he voted with the republican party. He is just as sensitive about maintaining the honor and dignity of American citizenship as he ever was -Gomer T. Davies. The receivers of the Sherman county bank will pay a 5 per cent dividend on Monday. While this is not all that is expected, the preferred claims will eat up pretty near everything else. It is seldom any bank pays out dollar for dollar, and the Sherman county bank evidently 18 not the sort that will. At the present term of court Judge Smith ordered the Exchange bank receiver to wind up the affairs of the institution and sell the propertv. It has never paid a dividend to its depositors, and the proceeds of the sale will only pay a percentage of the preferred claims. These two failures are monumental for their completeness.-Goodland Republic. J. M. Tadlock, county superintendent of Phillips county, stopped over for a brief visit with his sister Mrs M. Law of Happy township on his way home from the N. W. K. T. A. at Colby last week. Mr. Tadlock was honored with the presidency of the association for the coming year. He was also re-elected at the recent election to a second term as superintendent in Phillips county.-Hill City Reveille. Wanted in Idea can think


Article from The Goodland Republic, December 25, 1896

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[First published December 1.] # Sheriff's Sale IN the district court of Sherman county, state of Kansas, The People's Building Loan and Saving association, a corporation created and duly incorporated under the laws of the state of New York, plaintiffs vs. Elijah W. Penny and Sarah J. Penny (husband and wife), Henry S. Rulon and Hattie L. Rulon (husband and wife), Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson, receivers of The Sherman County Bank of Goodland. Kansas, defendants. By virtue of an order of sale issued to me out of said district court, in the above-entitled action, I will, on Wednesday, the 6th day of January, A. D. 1897, at two o'clock, p. m. of said day at the front door of the court house in the city of Goodland in the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas, offer at public sale and sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, all the following-described real estate, to-wit: Lots seven (7), eight (8), and nine (9), in block thirty-seven (37) in Beahm's addition to Goodland, Kansas, according to the recorded plat thereof, lying and situate in the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas. The above-described real estate is taken as the property of said defendants, and is directed by said order of sale to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement, to satisfy said order of sale. HOYT ANDREWS, W. E. DUSTIN, Attorney. Sheriff Sherman County, Kansas.


Article from The Goodland Republic, January 1, 1897

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(First published December 4.] SHERIFF'S SALE. IN the district court of Sherman county, state of Kansas, The People's Building Loan and Saving association, a corporation created and duly incorporated under the laws of the state of New York, plaintiffs vs. Elijah W. Penny and Sarah J. Penny (husband and wife), Henry S. Rulon and Hattie L. Bulon (husband and wife), Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson, receivers of The Sherman County Bank of Goodland. Kansas. defendants. By virtue of an order of sale issued to me out of said district court, in the above-entitled action, I will, on Wednesday, the 6th day of January, A. D. 1897, at two o'clock, p. m. of said day at the front door of the court house in the city of Goodland in the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas, offer at public sale and sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, all the following-described real estate, to-wit: Lots seven (7), eight (8), and nine (9), in block thirty-seven (37) in Beahm's addition to Goodland, Kansas, according to the recorded plat thereof, lying and situate in the county of Sherman in the state of Kansas. The above-described real estate is taken as the property of said defendants, and is directed by said order of sale to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement, to satisfy said order of sale. HOYT ANDREWS, W. E. DUSTIN, Attorney. Sheriff Sherman County, Kansas.


Article from The Jasper Weekly Courier, January 15, 1897

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Mar. 9.-Sherman county, Goodland, Kan. Bloomfield (Neb.) State Commercial and Savings, San Jose, Cal. Mar 27-Midway (Ky.) Deposit. Mar 30-First national, Morris, Minn. Apr. 4--Farmers', Decatur, III. Apr 11-Chadron (Neb.) Banking Co. Apr. 16-First national, and Liberty savings. Bedford City, Pa. Apr. 22-American national, Denver, Col., $865,231. Apr. 24-Grand Forks (N. D.) national May 1-City savings, Hot Springs, Ark.... Bank of Fairland, III. May 7-Citizens', Union City, Ind. May 14-Sumner national, Wellington, Kan May 19-Citizens', Edwardsburg, Mich. May 26-National, Jefferson. Tex. May 28-Bank of New England, Manchester, N H. June 2-Bank of Maroa, Ill. June 3-Farmers' deposit, Creighton, Mo. June 11-John A. Thompson's bank, Edinburg. Ind First national. Larned, Kan. June 16-First national, and Bank of Cheney Cheney, Wash. June 25-Security savings, Winchester, N. Hinsdale (N. H.) savings. H July 13-Peot It's savings. Lansing, Mich. July 16-First national, Hillsboro, O. July 23-German savings, Omaha July 27-Farmers' bank, Rock Valley, Ia. July 29-Denison (O.) deposit. Aug. 6-American national, New Orleans Conkling Bros, Nevada (Mo.) bankers Banks at Bronaugh and Richards, Mo. Aug. 7-Lake county, East Chicago, Ind. Inghar: county savings, Lansing, Mich. Aug. 11-Security, Duluth, Minn.: $800,000 Murray Hill, New York, $500,000. Aug 12-Bank at National City, Col. Aug 14-State bank. Peru, Ill. Aug 19-Bank of Argentine, Kan. Aug. 21-Bank of Wymore, Neb. Aug 24-Church & Son's state bank at Lowell, Mich Aug. 28-Sioux national, Sioux City, Ia., $900.000 Sept 1-First national, Beatrice. Neb. Sept 2-Manufacturers' bank, West DuJuth, Minn State Loan & Trust Co. bank. Ogalalla, Neb. Sept. 4-First national. Helena, Mont. Sept. 5-Jackson county, Black River Falls, Wis. Sept. 10-Mutual national, New Orleans. Sept. 11-Bankof Commerce, New Orleans. Sept. 14-Bennett national, New Whatcom. Wash Sept. 16-Midland state, Omaha, Neb. Sept 17-Shellsburg (Wis.) bank. Sept. 19-National, Troy, N. Y.; $449,000. Sept. 22-Pawnee (III.) bank. Sept. 23-Mapleton (Minn.) bank. Sept. 25-Argonia (Kan.) state bank. Sent. 26-Tribune (Kan.) bank. Oct. 5-First national, Mount Pleasant, Mich Oct. 7-First national, Ithaca, Mich. Oct. 10-Security Trust Co., Nashua, N. H. Oct. 12-First national, Eddy. N. M. Oct. 14-Marine national, Duluth, Minn Second national, Rockford, Ill Bank of Commerce. Buffalo, N. Y. Bank Oct. 16-Merchant's, Atlanta, Ga of Pukwana, S. D. Oct. 19-Marion (0.) Deposit. Oct. 28-At Big Rapids, Mich., Mecosta savings. Nov. 5-Marine national, Duluth, Minn. Nov. 10-Iowa savings, Sloux City First national, Decorah, la. Nov. 14-La Harpe (III.) bank. Nov 19-First national, Sioux City, Ia Sioux City, Ia. Nov. 22-First national, East Saginaw Mich. Nov. 23-Dakota national, Sloux Falls, S D. Nov. 24-Davis County Savings associa tion Gallatin, Mo. Nov. 28-Citizens' bank, Midlothian, Tex Mis Nov. 30-First national, Tyler, Tex souri national. Kansas City: $1,131,000. Dec. 1-German-American, Portage, Wis Bank of Westport, Mo. Dec. 5-Baxter, of Baxter Springs, Kar Henry county, at Clinton, Mo. Dec. 10-Harlan (Ia.) state Jonatha Easterly, Columbiana (O.) bankers. Dec. 11-National Bank of Commerce Duluth, Minn First national, Niagara N.Y. Dec. 14-First national. Holidaysburg Pa Banks at Martinsburg and William burg, Pa. Dec. -National bank of Illinois, at Ch cago-E. S. Dreyer & Co., Chicago, $1,200,80 Wasmansdorff, Heinemann & Co. Dec. 22-Bank of Minnesota, and Unio stockyards bank, at St. Paul. Dec. 23-Bank of West Superior, Wis American Banking & Trust Co., Aubur Me. Dec. 24-Calumet state bank, Blue Islan III. Dec. 26-Security Mortgage & Trust Co Dallas, Tex.: $2,000,000-Atlas national, Ch cago. Dec. 28-Bank of Superior. Wis Sca dia, at Minneapolis McCoy Banking C Independence, Mo. LARGER COMMERCIAL CONCERN INVOLVING LIABILITIES OF $500,0


Article from The Goodland Republic, January 29, 1897

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[First published December 25.] Publication Notice. IN the district court within and for the county of Sherman and state of Kansas. B. F. Brown, receiver of the Goodland Building and Loan association, plaintiff, vs. W. L. McCurdy, M. B. Tomblin, Lucy C. Tomblin, Eva L. Kellogg. The Sherman County bank and Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson, receivers of the Sherman County bank, defendants. To W. L. McCurdy, M. B. Tomblin, Lucy C. Tomblin, Eva L. Kellogg, The Sherman County bank and Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson, receivers of the Sherman County bank, you and each of you will take notice that B. F. Brown, receiver of the Goodland Building and Loan association, plaintiff, has heretofore filed his petition in the district court within and for the county of Sherman and state of Kansas, against W. L. McCurdy, M. B. Tomblin, Lucy C. Tomblin, Eva L. Kellogg, The Sherman County bank and Charles F. Weber and Alfred Dawson receivers of the Sherman County bank as defendants, and that you and each of you must answer said petition on or before the 10th day of February, 1897, or said petition will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered accordingly against said defendant W. L. McCurdy for the sum of eight hundred fifteen and 50-100 dollars [$815.50] with interest thereon at the rate of 12 per cent per annum from the 25th day of February, 1894, and for the costs of suit; and a further judgment against each and all the above named defendants for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage, given by said defendant W. L. McCurdy to the Goodland Building and Loan association to secure the payment of $1,000.00 and interest dated July 30, 1892, and recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Sherman county, in book 12 of mortgages, page 635, upon the following described real estate, to-wit: Lots eleven [11] and twelve [12] in block sixty-seven [67] in the original town of Goodland lying and situate in the county of Sherman, in the state of Kansas, and adjudging that said plaintiff have the first lien on said premises, to the amount for which judgment will be taken as aforesaid, and ordering said premises to be sold without appraisement, and the proceeds applied to the payment of the amount due plaintiff and costs of suit, and forever barring and foreclosing said defendants, and each of them, of and from all right, title, estate, interest, property and equity of redemption, in or to said premises, or any part thereof. E. F. MURPHY, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: L. H. HANEY Clerk of District Court.


Article from The Goodland Republic, December 24, 1897

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[First published December 3.] Notice for Final Discharge. IN the district court in and for Sherman county, Kansas. The State of Kansas, ex rel Attorney General F. B. Dawes, plaintiff, vs. The Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, defendant. Notice is hereby given that I will on the 4th day of April, A. D. 1898, that being the first day of the regular April term of the district court in Sherman county, Kansas, or as soon thereafter as the same can be heard, I will file my petition in the above named court making a full report of all transactions by me, as such receiver of the Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, together with an application to said court to be discharged from my trust as receiver in the above entitled cause. CHARLES F. WEBER, Receiver.


Article from The Goodland Republic, January 28, 1898

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[First published December 3.] Notice to Final Discharge. IN the district court in and for Sherman county, Kansas. The State of Kansas, ex rel. Attorney General F. B. Dawes, plaintiff, vs. The Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, defendant. Notice is hereby given that I will on the 4th day of April, A. D. 1898, that being the first day of the regular April term of the district court in Sherman county, Kansas, or as soon thereafter as the same can be heard, I will file my petition in the above named court making a full report of all transactions by me, as such receiver of the Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, together with an application to said court to be discharged from my trust as receiver in the above entitled cause. CHARLES F. WEBER, Receiver.


Article from The Goodland Republic, February 25, 1898

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[First published December 3.] Notice for Final Discharge. IN the district court in and for Sherman county, Kansas. The State of Kansas, ex rel. Attorney General F. B. Dawes, plaintiff, vs. The Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, defendant. Notice is hereby given that I will on the 4th day of April, A. D. 1898, that being the first day of the regular April term of the district court in Sherman county, Kansas, or as soon thereafter as the same can be heard, I will file my petition in the above named court making a full report of all transactions by me, as such receiver of the Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, together with an application to said court to be discharged from my trust as receiver in the above entitled cause, CHARLES F. WEBER. Receiver.


Article from The Goodland Republic, March 25, 1898

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[First published December 3.j Notice for Final Discharge. the district court in and for Sherman counIN ty, Kansas. The State of Kausas, ex rel. Attorney General F. B. Dawes, plaintiff, vs. The Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, defendant. Notice is hereby given that I will on the 4th day of April, A. D. 1898, that being the first day of the regular April term of the district court in Sherman county, Kansas, or as. soon thereafter as the same can be heard, I will file my petition in the above named court making a full report of all transactions by me, as such receiver of the Sherman County bank of Goodland, Kansas, together with an application to said court to be discharged from my trust as receiver in the above entitied cause. CHARLES F. WEBER. Receiver.