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TRIES TO WRECK SIOUX CITY BANK Treadway, Once Brilliant Lawyer, Almost Starts Run on the Security National. Special to The Journal. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 25.-With his gray locks trembling in a chill east wind, C. C. Treadway, who began practice of the law here in 1856 and is the dean of the Sioux City bar, stood on a principal street corner today and scattered posters in which he declared the $3,000,000 Security National bank, the largest bank in the city, could not pay 3 cents on the dollar. In a detailed statement above his own name he called upon every depositor to withdraw his money. The bank was threatened with a run at noon. W. P. Manley, president of the bank, swore out a warrant for Treadway's arrest for criminal libel. The aged attorney was arrested with a bundle of circulars in his hand. To the court he thundered in sarcasm: "Well, am I to be hanged?" Manley says this remarkable performance by Treadway may be the sequel of testimony given by himself recently in court in which he testified that Treadway's reputation was not the best. Treadway gave a bond for his appearance.
