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Bank Failure at Wichita. Wichita, Ks., May 7.-The State National bank suspended this morning. No statement has been made yet. A large number of depositors are left in bad financial condition. The capital was $100,000 with a surplus of $100,000. No run on other banks.
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A notice was posted on the door of the State National Bank, Wichita, Kan., Mon day. announcing that the bank has sus pended. The institution was considered one of the strongest in that part of the country. L D. Sk nner was pr sident qin the Lombards were interested in it. The bank officers have not de any state ment of its condition. The suspension caused much excirement through ut the city. After having been out over 30 hours the jury in the case against A. A. Cadwallader. x-president of the Superior National Bank, Madison, Wis, returned to the court room late Sunday ni, ht and announced its inability to agree on a verdict. The vote was 8 to 4 for conviction. Calwallader wa charged with embezzlement, abstraction and misapplication of the funds of the bank He was arrested but ran away to Brazil There he was recaptured and brought back for trial. The P T. Barnum estate is to undergo "nother partial distribution, only enoug bei 'g kept intact to pay Mrs. Barnum's an nuity of $40,000 and several smalle) amounts. This is one condition upon which Clinton Barnum Seeley has withdrawn his contest against the executor's report. The estate is valued at about $2,300,000, and of this about $1,500,000 will be retained, in cluding the property at Broadway and Houston streets in New York, which i. valued at about $625,000, and gives an anuual income of $25,000. An Anarchist, at a meeting held Sunday near that of the workingmen at Hyde Park London, said that an eight-hour day mu. obtain, even if it should be necessary to kill Gladstone and murder Lord Rosebery He excited the ire of the crowd and a rusl was made for the platform, the crowd be ing apparently termined to lynch the speaker. He was dragged from the- plat. form and was being roughly handled when rescue by the police. Two other Anarch ists attempted to make inflammator speeches, but were similarly treated. Frank R. Meadowcroft, of the firm of Meadoweroft Bros, bankers, Chicago which failed in the panic last June, wa arrested. turday mght, for fr.ud and -p-nt 12 hours in jail efore bail W 18 given. Meadowcrott Bros. failed on June 5. 1893 and 'ess than one per cent. of the $420,000 which the books showed to be on deposit there, was found by Receiver Crandall Frau was alleged and an investigation followed. Over 100 deposivors were caugh in the crash and as yet there is little to in dicate that the depositors will ever get bac, any port on of their deposits. At Grajaewe, Poland, Mon lav. ั mob of workmen engaged in the construction O1 new barrack buildings made an attack upon the Jewish traders in the Jewish section of the town, looting the shops and houses beating men, insulting women and finally set fire to several stores. Troops were called out and the mob was ordered to disperse. The comm and not being heeded the troops fired. Four men were killed outright and 12 80 b dly injured that they died About 100 others were more or less seriously injur. d b bullets. None of the Jews were seriously hurt. The Punitive expedition under Col. Col ville, sent against King Kabarega of Unybro, has vanquished that King This is the report that comes from Mengo, Unganda The expedition has established a chain of forts from the Albert Nyaoza, on the banks of which Kabar ga had his headqu to Uganda. It is expected the success of the expedition will prove a death blow to the slave trade of this region and will bring Arab influence at an end. A force under Major Owen went to the north end of Albert Nyanza and descended the Nile to Wadelai, wherethe British flag was hoisted A terrible tragedy in high life was enacted in the house of a prominent government fficial at Rome, Sunday evening. A young man named Venzi, belonging to one of the most aristocravic Roman families, called at the house of Signor Liberatti, a high official in the war office, to see Signor Liber atti's daughter, Miss Glorinda, to whom he was betrothed. As she stepped forward to greet him on entering the reception room Vei zi drew a revolver and fired two shots at the girl, both of which took effect, and she fell dead at his feet. Venzi then put the pistol to his head and sent a bullet into
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Failure of a Kansas Bank. WICHITA, Kan., May 7.-The State National Bank of this city suspended to-day. The institution was considered one of the strongest in the West. L. D. Skinner was president and the Lombards were interested in it. Large depositors are left in a bad financial condition. The capital stock of the bank was $100,000 and the advertised surplus $100,000. The county has $28,000 tied up by the suspension. The police fund of $2,500 is also on deposit in this bank. The bank had correspondents all over the Southwest. No run is being made on any of the other banks.
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Kansas Bank Suspends. WICHITA, KAN., May 7.-"Suspend- ed" was the sign on the State National Bank's door here to-day, causing much excitement throughout the city. The institution was considered one of the strongest in the West. L. D. Skinner was president, and the Lombards were interested in it. The bank officers have not yet made any statement of its condition.
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Another Kansas Bank Suspends. WICHITA, Kan., May 8.-The State National bank has suspended. This institution was considered one of the strongest in this section. L. D. Skinner has been president of the bank for twenty-one years. The bank officers have not yet made any statement. Swift & Co. made a deposit of $960 the last thing Saturday night. Large depositors are left in bad financial condition.
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A BUSTED BANK. A Strong Kansas Institution Hangs Up That Sign. WICHITA, Kan., May 7.-"Suspended, State National Bank" was the sign on the bank door this morning, and great alarm prevails in this city. This institution was considered one of the strongest in the West. D. T. Skinner was president and the Lombards were interested in it. The bank officers have not yet made any statement. Smith & Co. made a deposit of $960 the last thing Saturday night. Large depositors are left in a bad financial condition. The capital stock of the State National bank was $100,000, and the advertised surplus $100,000. The county has $28,= 000 tied up by the suspension. The police fund of $2,500 is also on deposit in this bank. The bank had correspondents all over the Southwest. No run is being made on any of the other banks.
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A KANSAS BANK SUSPENDS. State National at Wichita Closes Its Doors Unexpectedly. WICHITA, Kas., May 7.-"Suspended," was the sign on the State National Bank door this morning. This institution was considered one of the strongest in the West. L. D. Skinner was president and the Lombards were interested in it. The bank officers have not yet made any statement of its condition. Large depositors are left in a bad financial condition. The capital stock of the bank is $100, 000 and the advertising surplus $100, 000. The county has 28,000 tied up by the suspension. The police fund of $2,500 is also on deposit in this bank. The bank had correspondents all over the Southwest. No run is being made on anv of the other banks.
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State Bank Collapses. WICHITA, Kan., May 9.- "Suspended" was the sign on the door of the State National bank in this city yesterday and great alarm prevails. This institution was considered one of the strongest in the west.
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LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS. # Stockholder of the State National Predicts an Encouraging Report. David M. Dale was up from his farm near Clearwater yesterday and put in most of his time about the district court enjoying an atmosphere familiar to him in the past. He says that he is not a candidate for the receivership of the State National bank in the accepted sense of that word, but he expects to get the position if any Kansas man gets it. He says there is not enough salary connected with the position to warrant any person making a fight for it. Mr. Dale looks much more robust than before he retired to the farm, and says his health has greatly improved. Talking about the affairs of the bank, there is a probability that a big dividend will be paid soon. It seems that the present comptroller has adopted the policy of making the stockholders put up the liability attached by law to their stock the very first thing and if this policy is carried out in this case the present resources will be increased $75,000 at a low estimate. This is what a stockholder told a reporter for the EAGLE last night and he seemed to know what he was talking about. In addition to this it is said that the examiner is taking in money every day from debtors. The stockholder in question stated that debts owing to the bank are being paid beyond all expectations. He says that when the report of the examiner is made the showing will be very encouraging to creditors.
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Will Probably Resume. WASHINGTON, May 23.-The comptroller has received a request from a former president of the state National bank of Wichita, which recently closed its doors, asking that no receiver be appointed and an opportunity be given the bank to resume business. The request will be complied with.
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TALK OF RESUMING. By Request the Comptroller Withholds Appointment of Rece! ver for State National. A dispatch from Washington says: "The comptroller received today a request from a former president of the State National bank of Wichita, which recently closed its doors, asking that no receiver be appointed and an opportunity be given the bank to resume business. The request will be complied with. It has always been the policy of the present comptroller to give these institutions every opportunity to resume when it could be shown that they could be put in absolutely sound condition. Nothing further will be done until the papers making inquiries and replying to the conditions which will be exacted can be received."
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BANK NEWS. Quite a Probability that the State National Will Resume. It was reported yesterday that some kind of a deal is on hand looking towards the resumption of business of the State National bank that recently suspended. A former officer of the bank was seen and asked concerning the report. "I have no definite information to give you now," said he, "but there are reasonably fair grounds for the report you mention. I will say that it is not only possible, but probable that the bank will resume business."
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KANSAS STATE MATTERS. WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE DOING TO-DAY. Condensed News from All Parts of the Great Sunflower State-A Generainummary of Kansas New. There are several cases of scarlet fever in Salina. All of the old teachers in the Abilene schools have been re-elected for the coming year. A larger acreage of corn has been planted in Rawlins county this year than ever before. A Seneca physian has the contract of caring for the Atchison smallpox patients at $15 day. The old soldiers of Anderson county will hold their annual reunion at Garnett, August 16-18. Dr. W. A. Leigh of Stockton is at last formally announced as a candidate for secretary of state. Comanche county had between $5,000 and $7,000 in the State National bank of Wichita when it failed. A 48-dound catfish caught out of the Verdigris river, near Guilford, was on exhibition in Fredonia the other day. Elias Jordon. a colored boy who was in the fight at Topeka Wednesday afternoon was arrested next day by Officer Campbell. General Sanders' men are slowly deserting the army at LeavenWorth, but the general says only the weakkneed ones are going. Out of the sixty-eight Smith county teachers who took the recent uniform state examination. only ten passed and received certificates. The Uncle Tom's Cabin company that started out from Wichita recently stranded in Missouri before it had been on the road two weeks. Thirteen Barber county townships that had a population of 4,099 in 1893, have this year according to the assessors' returns, but 2,998. The 14-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Howe Hamilton of Augusta drank a consideral amount of concentrated lye a few days ago and cannot live. One hundred and five car loads of grain were inspected by the official state grain inspector at Kansas City, Kan., on Monday, and 143 car loads on Tuesday. 1 Butler county has more corn plant ed. a better stand, cleaner of weeds, evener and better in every way than it has been in ten years, says the El Dorado Republican. Since the first of January the firm of Manker & Orvis of Centralia, Nemaha county, have shipped twenty-nine car loads of horses to St. Louis and other southern markets. There has never been a boy valedictorian among any of the graduates of the Atchison high school. The race for the honor this year was very close between a boy and a girl, and the girl won. About fifteen teachers in the Lawrence public schools will attend the convention of the National Teachers association which will be held at Asbury Park, N. J., the week beginning July 6. S. L. Lambert and T. L) Snooks were arrested at Arkansas City Saturday for forgery. They had cashed bogus checks on the Home National bank to the aggregate amount of nearly $100. The Globe thinks chat the county commissioners of Atchison county may commence the erection of a new 111 court house next fall. Authority for this move was granted several years ago. Dr. Eyth's creamery of this city idoes a $5,000 business per month. a The business last year amounted to over $65,000. Butter is delivered to some of the state institutions.-Enter prise Journal. There is a prospect that Leavenworth may soon have a first-class hotel. The St. Paul owners of the Planters' house have authorized the expenditure of $40,000 in renovating and rebuilding that hostelry. Two men went to Meriden last week with the intention of running a shooting gallery. The citizens, realizing that it would take money out of the town unnecessarily and without leaving an equivalent, circulated a petition requesting the council to refuse the issuance of a license. The license was refused and the men left town. d Salina is having a lot of fun with its graduating class of the high school. Seven members out of the eighteen in the class were refused diplomas last week on account of deficiency in one study in their class work, and their a parents have been making life a good deal of a burden for the superintend ent and board of education.-Abilene Reflector. We talked with quite a number oi farmers Saturday, and everyone spoke in terms that would seem "to indicate a feeling of satisfaction over the present prospects for crops. The farmers got their corn planted in due
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TALK OF RESUMPTION, Strong Probability that the State National Will Resume Again. A special dispatch from Washington yesterday says: "Gay Lombard, cashier of the defunct State National bank at Wichita, called on Comptroller Eckels today. Some time was spent in talking over the affairs of the bank and propositions were discussed for its reopening, but nothing was agreed upon. The comptroller is inclined to favor opening the bank for business, but the original trouble with the directory, which resulted in closing the bank, appears so far to prevail." L. D. Skinner, president of the bank. was sought yesterday for information on the subject, but he, too, was out of town. It was stated that he had gone east with a view to making arrangements to reorganize the bank, and that the outlook was decidedly favorable. One gentleman who knows a good deal about the bank affairs said, "Yes, I look for a resumption of business soon at the bank. Affairs are in very fair shape for a reorganization, and if nothing unforeseen happens, I look for an announcement to be made to that effect the latter part of next week. If a reorganization is not completed by the end of next week, I look for the appointment of a receiver. The comptroller seems to understand the situation thoroughly and he is using his influence to effect a reorganization."
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tracts for threshing 50,000 bushels of wheat in Cowley county this month. 3 Five young men and ten young ladies were confirmed in the Jewish syn agogue at Leavenworth last Sunday. Clay Center has already purchased $400 worth of i!eworks and will shoot them off at the Fourth of July cele. bration. A model school of five rooms is be. ing conducted in connection with the Riley county normal institute at Manhattan. A merry-go-round at Wichita disturbed a W. C. T. U. meeting just across the street and was abated as a nuisance. Adam Yeager, of Lawrence, was struck by lightning and instantly kill ed in his yard during a thunder storm Saturday afternoon. Commencement exercises of the public schools of Douglass county were held last Saturday at Bismarck grove. There were fifty graduates. The scheme of the senior class of the State University to raise a fund for the assistance of poor students has materialized to the extent of $510. Canton, McPherson county, has a chinch bug station for the distribution of Prof. Snow's deadly infection. It is located in the Republican office. At a recent election in Comanche county, it was decided to let the herd law stand as it was. This will put a quietous to the free range question. An eleven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones of Kansas City, Kans., was struck by lightning and almost instantly killed Saturday night. The famous Hilman insurance cases have been set by Judge Thomas for the second Tuesday in January, 1895. Judge Thomas will try them at Leavenworth. Good rains are reported all over the state on Saturday and Sunday. Corn is greatly benefitted and with another good rain in 20 days, it will make a fair crop. Lawrence has sixty miles of sidewalks and a damage suit for $10.000 for a fall sustained Ly a lady on a portion of them which was alleged to be defective. Judge Albion W. Tourgee, of New York, authorof "A Fool's Errand' and "Bricks Without Straw," will deliver an address at the Winfield Chautuaqua assemblv There is some talk to the effect that the State National Bank of Wichita, which failed recently will resume. If there is no resumption a receiver will probably be appointed. The board of education of the Ottawa city schools has elected teachers for the ensuing year. Superintendent F. P. Smith, with nearly the whole corps of old teachers, have been retained. The Bank of Oberlin was closed Saturday by Commissioner Breidenthall, caused by the failure of Steele & Walker, of St. Joe, the latter being president of the bank. There was $14,000 of county funds on deposit. Assets and liabilities unknown. The Missouri river has been steadily raising for severa days and at noon on Monday was in four feet of the danger line at Omaha. Above and below the city the current is doing considerdamage to farm lands. A terrific rain fell all over Northeastern Nebraska Tuesday. Lane county has 41,981 acres of wheat to harvest this year, which at 8 bushels per acre will yield 33,500 bushels of wheat. Deducting 3,150 bushels for seed and 2,000 bushels for bread leaves 28,450 bushels, which at 40 cents cents per bushel means $113,800 for Lane county's wheat fields. C. O. Beardsly, Ben Verbryck and Sam Davis escaped from the city jail at El Dorado one night last week. They removed the bolts from the lower hinge of the iron door, sprung it out, wedged it the bottom and crawled out. Beardsley was serving a sentence of 1,050 and Davis 150 days for violating the prohibitory liquor law. Verbryck was convicted of assaulting an officer and was held for payment of fine and costs. They are still at large. The 6 year old daughter of George Firstenberger was horribly burned at Seneca Saturday morning. It seems that she was playing with some other children in a child's playhouse, and accidentally lighted a match, setting fire to some hay which they had spread around. Her clothes immediately caught fire, and before help could reach her, that she died soon after. A boy probably 16 years of age, giving his name as Louis Kirk. applied to Chief of Police White Tuesday for money with which to buy a ticket to his home in Alexander, Neb,, says the Atchison Champion. Kirk who is a typical country boy. went to Kansas City some time ago to visit his married s'ster. einformed Chief White that e liked Kansas City and would have remained there but for the fact that his sister had taken on too many city airs to suit Rim. Everything went all right until meal time, when young Kirk wanted to eat his potatoes with a spoon, which his sister refused to stand. The country brother insisted on eating potatoes in the good old fashioned way. So much objection was raised to this that life was a bur den, and he decided to run off. He had enough money to buy a ticket to Atchison, but ran short of funds here. He telegraphed his father for money, which was sent to him, and the young man continued his journey There are 285 persons enrolled in the Cowley county Normal institute.
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the peace of Europe. John Yount of Winfield, has contracts for threshing 50,000 bushels of wheat in Cowley county this month. 3 Five young men and ten young ladies were confirmed in the Jewish synagogue at Leavenworth last Sunday. Clay Center has already purchased $400 worth of fiveworks and will shoot them off at the Fourth of July celebration. A model school of five rooms is being conducted in connection with the Riley county normal institute at Manhattan. A merry-go-round at Wichita disturbed a W. C. T. U. meeting just across the street and was abated as a nuisance. Commencement exercises of the public schools of Douglass county were held last Saturday at Bismarck grove. There were fifty graduates. The scheme of the senior class of the State University to raise a fund for the assistance of poor students has materialized to the extent of $510. Canton. McPherson county, has a chinch bug station for the distribution of Prof. Snow's deadly infection. It is located in the Republican office. At a recent election in Comanche county, it was decided to let the herd law stand as it was. This will put a quietous to the free range question. An eleven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones of Kansas City, Kans., was struck by lightning and almost instantly killed Saturday night. The famous Hillman insurance cases have been set by Judge Thomas for the second Tuesday in January, 1895. Judge Thomas will try them at Leavenworth. Good rains are reported all over the state on Saturday and Sunday. Corn is greatly benefitted and with another good rain in 20 days, it will make a fair crop. Lawrence has sixty miles of sidewalks and a damage suit for $10.000 for & fall sustained by a lady on a portion of them which was alleged to be defective. There is some talk to the effect that the State National Bank of Wichita, which failed recently will resume. If there is no resumption a receiver will probably be appointed. The Bank of Oberlin was closed Sat urday by Commissioner Breidenthall, caused by the failure of Steele & Walk er, of St. Joe, the latter being president of the bank. There was $14,000 of county funds on deposit. Assets and liabilities unknown. The Missouri river has been steadily raising for severa days and at noon on Monday was in four feet of the danger line at Omaha. Above and below the city the current is doing considerdamage to farm lands. A terrific rain fell all over Northeastern Nebraska Tuesday. The 6 year old daughter of George Firstenberger was horribly burned at Seneca Saturday morning. It seems that she was playing with some other children in a child's playhouse, and accidentally lighted a match, setting fire to some hay which they had spread around. Her clothes immediately caught fire, and before help could reach her, that she died soon after. A quartette of "lightning rod dis pensers" is doing a thriving business at swindling Labette county farmers. They make contracts at apparently nominal rates, pursuade their patrons to affix their names, and when the work is done they demand payment according to the exact terms of the contract, which calls for several times the amount the farmers expected to pay. The Missouri Pacific lost seven bridges between Preston and Conway Springs by the big rain on Saturday night. Telegraphic communication was carried on by that company by the way of Preston and the Rock Is land wires to Harington. The Missouri Pacific suffered immense damages and it will be a long time before the road will be open for business again.Preston Plaindealer. C. O. Beardsly, Ben Verbryck and Sam Davis escaped from the city jail at El Dorado one night last week. They removed the bolts from the lower hinge of the iron door, sprung it out wedged it out at the bottom and crawl ed out. Beardsley as serving a sout ence of 1,050 and Davis 150 days for violating the prohibitory liquor law Verbryck was convicted of assaulting an officer and was held for payment of fine and costs. They are still at large. A boy probably 16 years of alge, giv. ing his name as Louis Kirk. applied to Chief of Police White Tuesday for money with which to buy a ticket tic his home in Alexander, Neb;, says the Atchison Champion. Kirk who is a typical country boy, went to Kansas City some time ago to visit his married sister. He informed Chief White that be liked Kansas City and would have remained there but for the fact that his sister had taken on too many city airs to suit him. Everything went all right until meal time, when young Kirk wanted to eat his potatoes with a spoon, which his sister refused to stand. The country brother insisted on eating potatoes in the good old fashioned way. So much objection was raised to this that life hur.
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The county has got its money out of the suspended State National bank. When a reporter for the EAGLE called at the court house yesterday County Attorney Boone and Judge T. B. Wall emerged from the county commissioner's office, sweating like industrious Africans at an election, into the corridor to take a bath in the south breeze that blew through. Both of them looked like they had gone through a cyclone and their disordered locks indicated that they had done a good deal of head scratching to develope the ideas, plans and arguments with 'which they conquered. They had just finished their work in securing from James Lombard $19,051.84 and from John B. Carey $9,525.90 making in all $28.557.74. This is the amount of money the county had on deposit in the State National bank at the time of the suspension of that institution. The Carey's were the first to propose to settle with the county if Mr. Lombard would and offered to settle the bond in proportion to the stock each had in the bank. Mr. Boone and Judge Wall then went to Kansas City and by some very clever legal maneuvering presented the matter there in such a forcible manner that Mr. Lombard indicated that he would probably accept the proposition. The final settlement was made yesterday in the county commissioner's office in the presence of all concerned except Mr. Carey who is in California. The settlement is, in a measure, taken as an indication of the future of the bank. Some regard it as not very favorable to the effort being made to reorganize. They argue that if a reorganization was probable in the near future there would be no necessity for the settlement of the bond, as the county could then come in like other creditors. This, however, is only an opinion and it may be wrong. Negotiations for reorganization are still going on and the result will be known within a very few days.
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Is hereby given to all persons who may have claims against The State National Bank of Wichita, Kansas, that the same must be presented to Cyrus A. Leland, receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from this date. or they may be disallowed. JAMES H. Eckels, 52 6t Comptroller of the Currency.
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Is hereby given to all persons who may have claims against The State National Bank of Wichita, Kansas, that the same must be presented to Cyrus A. Leland, receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from this date. or they may be disallowed. JAMES H. ECKELS, 52 6t Comptroller of the Currency.
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Is hereby given to all persons who may have claims against The State National Bank of Wichita, Kansas, that the same must be presented to Cyrus A. Leland, receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from this date, or they may be disallowed. JAMES H. ECKELS, 52 6t Comptroller of the Currency.
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A petition was filed in the district court yesterday which promises to be more than lively. The police commissioners through their attorneys, J. D. Houston and A. J. Myatt, have brought suit against Cyrus A. Leland, receiver of the State National bank, to recover $2,500.10. with interest from last June, which they had on deposit. In their petition they assert that during the year 1893 they had deposited the above sum and that hearing of the rumor that the bank was unsound they intended drawing the money out, but the bank officials gave them good collaterals to the amount of about $3,500 as a security if they would let their deposit stand, which the commissioners agreed to do. They then deposited the notes given by the officialsin the bank, and the police commissioners now allege that the bank people realized the money on the paper given into their safe keeping and used the money regardless of any security to them with the other funds of the bank. It was learned on good authority last evening that the police commissioners could not bring any suit as police commissioners, but that they would have to sue as if they were common citizens and not as officials, as the law says that all funds accruing from fines, &c., must be paid into the city treasurer each evening, and consequently they will probably have to sue Receiver Leland individually,
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COMING LOCAL EVENTS. Queen City Lodge No. 20. D. of H., will meet in their hall tonight. All members of the crew are expected to be present. The Welles Circle of Kings Daughters will meet with Miss Larimer, 728 North Emporia, Thursday moring at 10 o'clock. St. John's Episcopal church. corner Third street and Topeka avenue. Lenten services Thursday at 4:30 p. m. and Friday at 10:30 a. m. Business meeting Young People's Chapter Friday evening in vestry room. All invited. Wichita Consistory No. 2 will work the thirty-first degree at their cathedral. corner of First and Market streets this evening. at 7:30 o'elock sharp. All members who have parts in the work are requested to be present. Sojourning thirty-two degree members cordially invited to be present. C. M. Jones, acting commander. Judge Leland, receiver of the State National bank of Wichita- yesterday obtained an order from Judge Williams to sell some outlying lots of small value belonging to the State National.
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# WICHITA WINS SUIT # JUDGMENT GIVEN AGAINST STATE NATIONAL BANK. Judge Dale Decides That the Money Deposited by the Former Police Commissioners was by Special Agreement and Gives the City Judgment for $2,000 and Makes Their Claim Preferred-History of the Transaction-Judgment Given on Agreed Statement of Facts-General Rejoicing. There is rejoicing in police circles and well there might be, for that department secured a judgment yesterday in the district court for $2,000 against the receiver of the State National bank, which makes this amount and the department a preferred creditor, and as a consequence they will receive their money. It will be remembered that during the administration of Dickson, Brown and Davis, members of the Populist board of police commissioners that by special arrangement with the cashier of the defunct bank, the funds of the board were deposited with the bank to the sum of $2,500. Five hundred dollars of this amount was received, leaving the balance of $2,000 due the department. Suit was brought against the receiver by Joseph Houston for the department and the suit was tried before Judge Reed, who gave judgment against the receiver. The bank, by its attorney, demurred to the judgment and Judge Dale granted the bank a new trial. The evidence was submitted to Judge Dale yesterday on an agreed statement of facts and he rendered a long and thorough decision, going over all the points raised by the attorneys and gave his decision in favor of the police commissioners, adjudging that the claim against the bank was a preferred one, and ordered the receiver to pay over the amount. This will prove a great benefit to the city at this time and there is general rejoicing, not only with the police department and its attorney, but with the council and the taxpayers.