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THE BANKERS PROTECTED Sioux Falls and Yankton Bankers Limit the Amount That Could he Paid on Check. The bankers of Sioux Falls and Yankton Monday adopted a system of protecting themselves from any possible drawing out of money which would have a tendency help out the money market in the east. The action was not taken from an illconS dition of the bank E, the eastern bankers were not permitting the western banks to draw on their account the western banks followed the same procedure. The banks of those two cities limited the amount to be drawn on a check in twenty-four hours to $25 in Sloux Falls and $10 in Yankton. It is thought that the system will not extend over a day or two. Monday morning the Sioux Falls Press issued an extra edition giving the detail of the action of the Sioux Falls bankers. and the scare head which was stretched across the front page of the paper was enough to frighten the ordinary depositor into trying to make a run on the bank. There was nothing doing in Mitchell all day. The four banks of the city oursued the even tenor of their way without any thought of protecting themselves-for the very good reason that there was no occasion for it. There isn't a bank in the city but what holds in ready cash at least 50 per cent of their deposits and under those circumstances they had no OC asion to place any limit on the amount of checks that should be drawn against an individual account. They stood ready to pay the amount of any check that a depositor wanted to draw. Governor Crawford, in a telephone message to one of the bankers during the day suggested that he declare a legal holidav for several davs, which would prevent any checks being drawn on the banks of the state. I he governor was informed that so far as Mitchell was concerned the bankers did not need a legal holiday in order to render them any assistance. It is speaking well for the banking interests of the city that they were ready to meet any possible emergency that might arise.