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THE BOISE STATE BANK SHUTS DOORS [UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.] Boise, Ida., Dec. 19.-The Bolse State Bank was closed today by the state bank examiner. The bank is a small institution, the deposits being less than $150,00. The capital stock is $50,0000. No statement of liabilities has yet been made. Edward Payne is president and chief stock holder. President Payne declares .depositors will be paid in full. The failure caused no runs on the other banks.
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BOISE STATE BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS Financial Circles Shocked by Failure of Institution to Continue Business. CLOSED BY OFFICIALS Clearing House Could Not Come to Aid of Distressed Bank in Time. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Ida., Dec. 19.-The failure of the Boise State bank here today, which proved a shock to financial circles and caused a sensation, started a miniature stampede among frightened depositors of other banking institutions, which was quickly checked by the announcement of the clearing house that all other state and national banks here have from 35 to 60 per cent of their deposits on hand in actual cash and could pay out within twenty-four hours The Bolse State bank was closed by order of State Bank Commissioner V. W. Platt. It is capitalized for $50,000. which is known to be a total loss by the failure, and at the time of its suspension had about $29,000 in cash or collateral representing cash on hand. and its cash liabilities amounted to $187,000. Between 300 and 400 Individual depositors are financially handicapped by the failure coming at this time of the year. when money was in demand for Christmas. All day long a crowd of anxious depositors hung around the bank's entrance endeavoring to secure Information. Commissioner Platt authorized the statement today that the bank's condition was presented to the clearing house last night in the hope that the combined strength of all the banks might be thrown to its assistance. The clearing house estimated that it could stand for a shrinkage of 30 per cent on the loans and discounts, but not more, which it was believed would have to be discounted in the Boise State bank's paper. Failure on the part of the clearing house to relieve the situation and the fact that the reserve of the Boise State bank had fallen below 15 per cent as required by law forced the commissioner to close the institution. It is now believed depositors may be paid In full. The bank carries $170,000 in loans and discounts, and It is estimated that with a depreciation of 50 per cent in these there will still be sufficient to pay depositors. Edward Payne is president of the defunct institution. Its individual deposits on December 5. when the last statement was given. amounted to $99,275.60.
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BANK FAILS (By United Press Leased Wire.) BOISE, Ida., Dec. 20.-The Boise State bank was closed today by the state bank examiner. The bank is a small institution, the deposits being less than $150,000. The capital stock is $50,000.. No statement of liabilities has yet been made. Edward Payne. is president and chief stockholder. President Payne declares depositors will be paid in full. The failure caused no runs on other banks.
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NEWS AROUND THE STATE s S i Items From Various Places 3Reproduced for the Benefit s of our Readers--Stories Res hashed from Exchanges. e A deer was shot Monday in e the town limits at Kamiah. It was the fifth of its kind seen there within the past two weeks. John S. Roberts, formerly of Lewiston, was arrested late last week at Culdesac on a charge of introducing liquor on the reservation. J. Smith, until recently a salesman for the Lewiston Furniture company, was arrested at that place Saturday on a charge of embezzling $40 of the firm's money. J. B. West, Eugene Gasser and Gus Thiessen returned to Lewiston Tuesday from a hunting trip in the upper Clearwater country and had six deer to show for their efforts. The Boise State Bank, a small institution, closed its doors Monday and is in the hands of the state bank examiner. Its failure was due to loaning too much money on bad secuaity. August Hartman, an I. W. W. adherent, was arrested at Lewiston Saturday for assaulting the chief of the fire department. Hartman was in jail when the assault occurred and was taken to the county jail later. The C. A. Hardin crop of about were at 3,000 purchased sacks of Lewiston club wheat Saturday comcents a pany by the for Vollmer-Clearwater 67 bushel, which was from one to two cents a bushel better than the regular market quotations for that grade of wheat at that point. The Genesee high school basket ball team defeated the Spokane high school team at Genesee on Monday evening by a score of te 24 to 20 in a very fast game. a The Spokane team admitted it had lost to a better team and the victory makes the Genesee team champions of the Palouse country. fu At a meeting of the farmers b of SaturL were day the resolutions Ilo-Vollmer section passed railroad asking the Camas Prairie to B change the name of the station y at Vollmer to "Finch" and pledged themselves to support the new town for the permanent county seat of Lewis county. If the railroad company grants the request the Ilo-Vollmer town fight will probably be wiped out for good. da Roy Thompson, a 17-year old B boy residing at Kamiah, had one h leg badly broken at Winona Sunno day by having his horse fall on w him. The boy was running a th horse race with another boy and ill his unshod pony slipped on the as frozen ground and slid for quite de la distance, catching the rider an with the above result. Young Thompson was taken to his home wi at Kamiah for repairs, arriving he there about midnight. de Wa U.S.G. Evans, charged with ch falsifying the records of the an Farmers Bank & Trust Co. of Kendrick while serving the compal pany in the capacity of secretaryaf treasurer, was acquitted by a Re jury in the district court at Moschi cow Saturday on the first ballot. In As there are twelve other counts tes against Evans and he is to be tried on all of them the th above decision is by no-means a be conclusive one. Evans was bonded for $10,000. which sum was
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boise State Bank Closes Its Doors. Boise, Dec. 19-The Boise State bank closed its doors and suspended business on the notice of State Bank Commissioner V. W. Platt today. Financial difficulties which have been pending for a month and which pressed the institution hard are said to have been the cause of the faiture. From the best information obtainable the affairs of the bank are in such condition that the depositors do not stand to lose their funds, but will probably be paid within thirty days. The Boise Clearing House held a meeting into the late hours of last night in an attempt to save the institution, but failed, due as no medium could be provided to prevent the closing of the bank's doors. Commissioner Platt is in complete charge of the institution and following a careful inspection of the bank's books will give out a statement of the actual conditions.
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IDAHO BANK CLOSES DOORS Miniature Stampede of Depositors at Boise Started by Failure of the Boise State Bank. Boise, Idaho.-The failure of the Boise State bank on Tuesday, which proved a shock to financial circles and caused a sensation, started a minia ture stampede among frightened depositors of other banking institutions, which was quickly checked by the announcement of the clearing house that all other state and national banks here have from 35 to 60 per cent of their deposits on hand in actual cash and could pay out within twenty-four hours. The Boise State bank was closed by order of State Bank Commissioner V. W. Platt. It is capitalized for $50, 000, which is known to be a total loss by the failure, and at the time of its suspension had about $29,000 in cash or collateral representing cash on hand, and its cash liabilities amount. ed to $187,000. Between 300 and 400 individual depositors are financially handicapped by the failure coming at this time of the year, when money was in demand for Christmas. All day long a crowd of anxious depositors hung around the bank's entrance en deavoring to secure information.
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NEWS NOTES OF IDAHO The large packing house of the Lew iston Orchards' association will be completed at Lewiston this week. The summer season is on at Spirit lake and all those owning homes are either located or are having their homes put into shape for the season. Philip Dwyer, charged with selling intoxicating liquor to a Nes Perce Indian, was bound over by Commissioner E. O'Neill at Lewiston to appear before the federal court. The Payette valley represents at the present time one of the finest looking and most promising fruit sections in Idaho and a total of 100 cars of peaches will be shipped from that section alone this fall. Traffic was held up on the Grangeville-Lewiston line for several days, owing to the blockade of the tunnel near Grangeville. It was necessary to transfer the passengers and mail from one train to another across the mountain nearly half a mile. William Gray, 50 years old, a resident of Coeur d'Alene, lost his life in Coeur d'Alene lake. Gray was cross ing the lake to Squaw bay in a small boat when the wind blew his hat off. In an effort to get his hat he fell from the boat and was drowned. Genesee and the Palouse country was visited Thursday evening and night by the heaviest wind in twenty years, according to old inhabitants. ***** #1 # 'pujm our jo The mated, was between fifty and sixty miles an hour, with a possible maximiller. JO unus After being lost for over five months the body of Otto Mayer was found near Atlanta. Mayer was a mail carirer and was caught 12. Arenuer *Hile MOUS " up That he lived some time after being caught, was evidenced by the fact that his hair had turned white. He was 21 years old. A valuable booklet, styled a pocket bulletin, which fairly bristles with statistics, comment and comparisons of great benefit to the orchardist, has been issued from the state horticultural department. Features of special interest in the booklet are the spray calendar, an interesting article on insects, diseases and formulas, and in structive suggestions as to the care orchards. Bunox 10 Approximately only 3,000,000 pounds of wool of this year's clip remains un sold in western Idaho, according to re ports, made by several of the woo! buyers who have been in attendance at all the sales. The buyers are well pleased with the amount of wool they have purchased and the general con dition of the crop this year has been good. Within the next few weeks it is believed the entire wool clip will have been sold. When the big dome on the new state capitol building is completed it will contain 200,000 pounds of steel, 130,000 pounds of terra cotta, 290,000 of con crete, 125,000 pounds of stone and 60, 000 pounds of plaster and ceiling, mak ing a total of 805,000 pounds, while, from the ground to the top of the cone cap on the dome which will be decor ated by an eagle, the capitol will proudly stand 200 feet high, a massive pile of granite, stone, steel, concrete and marble. Asking judgment in the sum of $25, 935.79, or for the recovery of nine promissory notes aggregating that amount, V. W. Platt, state bank com missioner, has brought suit in the district court against the Globe Surety company of Kansas City, Mo. This action, which is instituted by Mr. Platt in his capacity of receiver of the defunct Boise State bank, is regarded as one of the most important cases filed in the courts since the suspension of business by that Institution. Suit filed in the United States court by Attorney Myron E. Folsom, representing the Bunker Hill & Sullivan company, throws the ownership of the $2,000,000 shoot of ore opened by the Caledonia Mining company into litiga tion, and starts another of the titanic legal struggles that have been waged over the law of the apex in the courts
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DEPOSITORS OF BOISE STATE BANK TO MEET The depositors of the Bolse State bank will have a meeting next Monday night in the bank room to go over the affairs of the institution, investigate the conditions that have arisen, and to discuss matters that will be of general interest to all of the bank's creditors. Every depositor and stockholder is interested in the outcome of the cases now pending in the district court against the officers of the institution. The present financial standing of the bank and the prospects of paying the depositors back the money that was placed in trust there will be some of the matters that are to be discussed. The affairs of the institution probably cannot be definitely settled until after the cases now pending in court have been determined. V. W. Platt, as receiver of the bank, has brought several actions against persons indebted to the bank, while the grand jury has returned indictments against the officers of the bank.
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The depositors were indignant at the delay, They say that the state bank examiner is hiding behind the statute that does not require him to publish the names of the holders of the paper of a defunct bank and that he refuse to let them know just what good paper there is on hand and what paper is worthless. "If you will show me what paper we have in this bank that can be collected I will see that it is all taken up and that the depositors can have their money within the next 30 days," declared Moses Alexander. The depositors' committee was instructed to ask the court, Judge Davis, for the dismissal of the present receiver and the appointment of another, pre ferably M. P. Meholin. The legislature will probably be called upon to correct the law that does not require the publication of the notes and that enables the state bank examiner to keep the depositors in the dark as to the real value of the paper in their bank. Captain Yates will probably head such a delegation before the banking committee when the legis'ature meets next January/and will present to it the fact that have arisen in connection with the working of the receivership of the Boise State bank. The state bank examiner was vilified as a "politician with a lot of political pull'' and the methods by which the bank was being conducted were denounced as "rotten politics" several times through the course of the heated session of the depositors. Some of the depositors want the names of every holder of paper published in the paper of the city and believe that such a step would bring in the money more readily than any other method that could be suggested. The standing committee consisting of Moses Alexander, John E. Yates, A. W. Wicher, A. B. Crooks and C. K. Clark. was instructed to determine whether or not the receiver could be dismissed and another appointed and to make preparations for the d'scovery of the value of the bank's paper. The committee will also lay plans for ti alteration of state law at next session of the legislature so as to require the state bank examiner to furnish information to the depositors that has been denied to those of the : Boise State as they claim. Clarence Van Deusen, who said he : represented two depositors, declared that the bank held two notes from O. ( I V. Allen, state treasurer, totaling $12,: 500, at least one of which bears the signature of Governor James H. Hawley, and charged that this was the rea son secrecy was being maintained. Mr. Allen made an emphatic denial of this statement today.
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MUST COLLECT TAXES FROM BANK ITSELF The county must collect dellnquent taxes from the stockholders of the Boise State bank rather than from the bank itself. This decision was handed down by Judge Carl A. Davis in the suit of Herbert A. Ellsworth, county assessor, against V. W. Platt, receiver. The court allowed the taxes of the county against the real estate of the bank but refused the collection on the capital stock of the institution. The bank claimed that it was insolvent and that there had been during the year 1911 no undivided profits or surplus in its treasury from which to pay the taxes. It contended that the county should sue the individual members of the corporation for the taxes due upon the stock itself. Taxes on the real estate amounting to $95.99 were allowed and those upon the stock amounting to $1188.25 refused by the court.
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STATE AND COUNTY NEWS Items of Interest Gathered From Exchanges. OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS. Events and Industrial Progress Of the Week. A clear list for indemnity school lands amounting to about 6000 acres been received state land from has just department by Washington, the D.C. The lands were filed on in the Hailey land district. the justice court of Bonners two men are to be for Ferry In critisizing cited contempt of court for a decision of the court as being "crooked" and that it was impossible to "get a square deal" from the court. D. Taylor, whose term as state Jan. 6, has the Tribune, one auditor, S. Caldwell expired purchased of the of county. was formerly of leading Mr. Taylor newspapers Canyon proprietor the Herald at Bonners Ferry. The grand total valuation of all property in Idaho for assessment purposes for the year 1912, as fixed by the state board of equalization is $418,780,390.30, forty per cent of which is $167,512,157.71. The state general tax levy is $720,283.70, besides the special levies. the high school worth while?' was Dr. "Is answered by Edward Elliott a of the University of Wisconsin, in strong address before the State Teachers' association at Boise, Jan. 3. He believes that a high school that is worth while will make life worth while for its pupils in school and later in life. A convention of the state league of commercial clubs of Idaho has been called at Boise to consider questions coming before the legislature. It is claimed the legislature will be asked to appropriate not less than $150,000 for the San Francisco exposition and $10,000 for the Columbia-Celilo-Panama waterways celebration. Under a ruling made by Judge Davis in the suit of Herbert A. Ellsworth, county assessor of Ada county against V. W. Platt, receiver, the cannot collect taxes upon the stock of the capital county defunct ruled that Boise State bank. The court all delinquent taxes must be collected from shareholders of the bank. W. N. Gemmill, judge of the court of domestic relations in Chicago, is anxious to know what provisions Idaho has for taking care of wives and children of incarcerated prisoners. received by from the In ley a letter Chicago Governor judge, Haw- the that are for some legislation anxious writer says people there requiring in that money earned by prisoners jail be set aside for their families' use. In order to make the teachers' profession a more stable one and increase the percentage of those who are en in that work be gaged salaries of should opinion raised, was the concensus of the which of association, the members held State its Teachers' closing session at Boise Jan. 4. At present the average age of school teachers is but 24 years and the average length of service is four years. Governor Hawley is among those who have been invited to attend the banquet which will be given in New York City, March 27, in honor of the completion of that city's highest sky This is the 55 stories high, scraper. building, the Woolworth highest in the world. President Taft, Vicepresident-elect Marshall and other officials are among those who will attend. Official announcement was made at Nampa. Dec. 31, of the sale of the Idaho Northern railroad, commonly known as the Dewey road, to the Oregon Short Line Railroad company. The deed for the transaction bas been executed and the formal transfer of the property took place January 6. After that date the Idaho Northero
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WILL EXAMINE RECORDS. Court Appoints New Receiver for Defunct Bolse Bank. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Feb. 8.-The removal of State Bank Commissioner V. W. Platt as receiver of the defunct Boise State bank was the important development today in the trial of Edward and Eugene Payne, president and cashier, respectively, of the bank, charged with falsifying the records. Judge Carl A. Davis today 19sued- the order that made Ben Q. Pettingill receiver of the bank after 9 o'clock Monday morning, and relieved the present receiver of his duties in handling the property of the defunct institution. While the law prevents the bank commissioner from making a. report of the conditions of any institution in the state, a district judge may require the receiver of the institution to report each and every asset and debt that the bank has. Judge Davis has made the order and the full report, showing every good and every bad note in the place, will hereafter be part of the records of the district court in this county.
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STATE AND COUNTY NEWS Items of Interest Gathered From Exchanges. OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS. Events and Industrial Progress Of the Week. The steel bridge across the St. Maries river near St. Maries IS nearly completed. It cost $18,000, half of which sum was appropriated by the county and the rest by the state legisture of 1911. The omnibus public building bill reported to the lower house of congress last Saturday carries $85,000 for erecting a public building at Twin Falls and $70,000 for a building and site at Sandpoint. House robbers at St. Maries last Saturday ransacked one house where the family was away, but were frightened off when attempting to enter a second house, leaving behind the plunder they had taken from the first. The University of Idaho is to take an important part in stamping out the hog cholera 10 the southern part of the state. The manufacture of hog serum is to be at undertaken bacteriology once by the veterinary, and animal husbandry departments. A fusilade of bullets fired by police in in chase an Spokane of alleged highwayman, last Sunday morning, caused the death of Gustav Froistad of Laclede, Idaho. Though two was in head a died blocks the away, by Froistad stray bullet struck and in the hospital a few hours later. Because of the enthusiasm of the specially trained teachers of Ada county, the rural schools are going to the schools a run their in give position city vocational close training. for no with but With nothing almost enthusiasm equipment, for their work and a like enthusiasm for study in their pupils. the rural schools are said to be learning cooking, sewing, manual training and agriculture. The Boise State bank, it is said, will not over 25 cent pay per to the when its affairs are wound settled. depositors up and State Banking Commissioner Platt turned over to Re. ceiver Pettingill $22,500. The deposits of the bank at the time it was closed amounted to about $140,000. It is not thought that the notes held by bank will the bring much to the depositors, and it is not thought that more than 25 per cent of this amount can be collected. Accused of being overzealous in his enforcement of the law, M. S. Parker has been asked to resign as a deputy under State Pure Food Inspector James H, Wallis. It is claimed Mr. Parker prosecuted too many cases violation of law was one wherein merely technical, the instance being was sellthat was where ing machinery a merchant fined not for labeled with his name and address as required by law. Miss Jessie Hoover, professor of home economics in the state univeris enthusiastic the women's the sity, proposed building concerning at Moscow school. She is delivering a series of lectures to the women of Boise and vicinity upon home economics and sbowing how the high cost of living bugbear may be successfully killed off if the housewife would only use reason when making her purchases from the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. If the legislature should see fit to grant an appropria tion for the building she has several ideas in mind toward developing the best cooks in the world in Idaho.
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GET ONLY 10 PER CENT. Little Money Left After Failure of Bolse State Bank. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, March 6.-The several thousand depositors of the Boise State bank, which failed two years ago, will receive but 10 cents on the dollar, owing to the unfortunate condition in which the assets of the bank were when It went to the wall. Its president, Edward Payne, is now serving an indeterminate sentence at the Idaho state penitentiary, having been found guilty of fraud by the district court. Ben Pettengill, receiver of the bank, filed his report today with the district court. In it he shows that the depositors can only be paid 10 cents on the dollar. The total liabilities of the bank, the report states, amount to $149,018.66.
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and cake on the evening of June 17 on the lawn at Mrs. Lipman's home, 1510 North Thirteenth street. The case of Bea D. Lingenfelter against the Owyhee Land & Irrigation company and others is still on trial before Judge McCarthy and jury with prospect that it will be concluded tonight. G. W. Boynton and D. Mackenzie of Boston, E. D. Smith of Pittfield, Mass., and G. H. More of Bangor, Me., arrived here yesterday and have gone to the Pearl mining district, where they have interests. Marriage licenses were issued today to Arthur Bruce Bloom, of Pierce Park, and Fannie Loyce Adams, of Kingsbury, and to Clifford Gillette Babcock and Elva May Sherrod, both of Glenns Ferry. The Shaw Lumber company and others have filed suit against Alexander T. Ellis and others for work and material furnished on a concrete buildIng, the balance claimed to be due on various counts amounting to $3182.73. Ben Q. Pettengill, as recèiver for the Boise State bank, has filed suit against L. A. Coate asking for foreclosure on stock of the Shafer Creek Lumber company, alleged to have been given as security for a note for $8265 given October 25, 1911. Ray L. Boone and J. R. Sargent, who spent several days here making investigation of the Boise stone quarry and generally looking over Boise with a view to making investments, left yesterday on their return trip to Topeka. Both men were well pleased with the outlook for this section and intimated that they might return. Hannah Baker has filed suit for divorce from William H. Baker. The complaint states that they were married in Boise in 1898 and charges that he has failed to provide for her and their child but has spent his money on other women and has asked her to get a divorce. It claims that he earns monthly wages of from $100 to $125 and has due him $250 from Slick Brothers, whom the ceurt is asked to enjoin from paying the money until this suit is determined.
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BREVITIES A marriage license was issued today to Arthur D. Smith, of Boise, and Mary Blanch Polley, of Eagle. W. H. Rau, who was operated upon a few days ago at a local hospital, was today able to return to his home at 912 Ellis avenue. Chief of Police Reeves, Detectives Hamby and Routson and Patrolman Ed Hill, left this morning for San Francisco to testify in a case pending there. C. Gunderson and daughter, Miss Elsie, Edward Voora and Martin Olsen are all in from Horseshoe Bend purchasing summer supplies for the'r ranches. The Misses Mae and Rosella Noble have returned from a trip of several months abroad. Enroute home they stopped in New York, Washington and other eastern cities. v. W. Platt, receiver for the Boise State bank, was given judgment in the district court today for $1332.30, together with costs and attorney fees, against D. L. Young and others. Miss Harriet Franing, choir director of the Immanuel Methodist church, left at noon today for Chicago, where she accepted an invitation to sing at the wedding of a friend. She will visit her mother and sister at Cleveland while in the east and will be away about two months. Charles Sunderlin, formerly of this city, but now a prominent attorney of Burley, has announced his candidacy for state senator from Cassia county on the Republican ticket in opposition to Senator Haight, who has represented that county for many years in the state senate. C. H. Hodge, the paroled convict who is charged with forging a check for $35 and violating his parole, was brought in from Huntington this morning and arraigned before Judge Adams, who placed his bond at $500. The date of the examination has not yet been set but it will be held the first of next week. H. P. Ashby, deputy state horticultural inspector, last night received word of the death of his brother, J. B. Ashby, who was killed in an automobile accident near Avoca, Ia. No details of the accident were given and Mr. Ashby was unable to make arrangements to leave at this time. J. A. Harader, secretary of the Payette Commercial club for the past eight years and the oldest secretary in point of service in commercial club work in Idaho, has tendered his resignation and accepted the position as secretary of the North Yakima Commercial club. He will take up the duties of his new position about the middle of August. Most of the offices in the federal building are closed this afternoon in accordance with permission and request of the president that federal employes, where possible, work no more than four hours on Saturday during the summer season. The post office remains open and the office of the clerk of the federal court was open to bring up business which could not be put over. Word was received here this morning of the marriage at Victoria, B. C., on June 1, of J. J. Badraun, formerly of Boise, to Miss Henrietta Flecksing of Spokane. The ceremony was performed at the German Lutheran church at Victoria. Mr. and Mrs. Badraun are making their home at Quotsino, B. C., where Mr. Badraun is engaged in mining. During his residence in Boise Mr. Badraun was employed by the Boise Valley Railroad company as conductor on the line between Boise and Nampa A busy session of municipal court was held again this morning. Joe Moustard was fined $10 and costs for fighting and committed and Otto Gindet, for a similar charge. paid a. fine
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# BREVITIES The Boise Council of Women Voters will meet in regular session at 8 o'clock tonight at the city hall. In the case of M. F. Dean against the Wyoming Holding company, Dean Perkins has been appointed temporary receiver for the defendant company. The Boise Realty company has moved its offices from South Tenth street to the rooms formerly occupied by the Payette Lumber company in the Sonna building. Joe, Jim and Tim McCarty each pleaded guilty in the justice court of Judge Adams to battery upon the person of Joe Fisher and each was fined $4 for the offense, which they paid. Division No. 2 of the First Methodist church will give an ice cream social at the home of Mrs. A. P. Wilson, at Fifteenth and Washington streets on Tuesday evening. The public is invited. E. A. Rieger, of the Capital Liquor company, received a wire this morning stating that his brother, Fred J. Rieger, and wife, who has been touring Europe, are at Frankfort-on-the-Main. Bad blood exists between the Austrians and Servians in Boise and it is only the strict watch kept over them by the police which keeps them from mixing. A fight started among them early this morning, but they were immediately dispersed by an officer. A son was born Sunday night to Lieutenant and Mrs. V. R. Bell, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Carlson, 611 Jefferson street. Lieutenant Bell is with his regiment on the Mexican border, but the news of the safe arrival of the heir was flashed to him across the country last night. The case of the state against the Title Guaranty & Surety company upon the official bond of former Bank Commissioner Platt in the matter of the failure of the Boise State bank, was again taken up this morning before Judge McCarthy in the district court, where it is being tried before a jury. Mrs. H. L. Whitehead this morning received a message announcing the death of her mother during the night at Baker City. The cause of death was heart failure. Death came suddenly and wholly unexpected and the news came as a great shock. Mrs. Whitehead and daughter will leave on the evening train for Baker City. With his leg broken in two places below the knee, Judson Smith, a trainer and driver at the fair grounds, was taken to St. Alphonsus hospital yesterday morning and will be a patient there for some time. Mr. Smith attempted to kick a heavy belt off a pulley while it was running at a high speed and his foot caught, throwing him and breaking the limb in two places. Health Officer Parker says no doubt a man by the name of Jose Villa, who died at Arrowrock last Friday and was buried here yesterday, was a relative of General Villa of Mexico. The officer stated that when the deceased went to Arrowrock he requested that if anything should happen to him the general be notified. A message was sent to General Villa from Boise but at last report no answer to it had been received. In the case of the state against May Bradbury, convicted several weeks ago by a jury of running a disorderly house, the fine, then imposed was today altered making the fine $100, together with $6 costs in the probate court, where she was first convicted, and $88.50 in the district court, making a total of $194.50. An order was also issued that in case of failure to pay the fine that she be committed to the county jail one day for each $2 of the fine and costs. Because he collected $15 from two foreigners upon a promise to get them a job for $2 a day and board, Del J. Harris, a laborer, is serving five days in the county jail and must pay a fine of $45, three times the amount received, as provided by law, or else remain in jail until the fine is laid out. Harris fell in with two foreign boys Saturday night and all had a few drinks together, then, according to the boys, he offered to get them a job for $15 and they paid him the money and on Sunday morning he borrowed $5, which they made him give back a little later. Harris declared that he only got $2 from the job, that they spent $5 for booze and about $3 for a room. Following his arrest yesterday afternoon he admitted that he owed the boys $15 and was taken by an officer to several places where he tried to borrow money to pay them back. Two arrests within 24 hours are credited to Robert Miller, who is in the city jail being sobered up sufficiently to appear before Judge Dunlap on the charge of being drunk and abusive. Miller was arrested Saturday evening, released on a $5 cash bond and yesterday again fell into the hands of the law on a similar charge. He resisted arrest the second time and he felt he was being taken in custody a second time on the same charge. Pat Hays, for being drunk, abusive and resisting an officer was fined $20 this morning and committed. M. J. Ford and Aimo Lilza were each fined $5 for being drunk and were committed. N. R. Hubert, for being drunk, forfeited a $5 cash bond. A complaint of cruelty to animals has also been sworn to by Chief Robinson against Hubert.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE UNDER ORDER OF SALE AND DECREE OF FORECLOSURE. In the District Court of the Third Judicial District of the State of Idaho, in and for the County of Ada. ) Emma M. Heckman, Plaintiff, ) vs. ) ) J. H. Newcomer and Annie ) M. Newcomer, husband ) and wife, Abbie J. Allen ) and William L. Allen, ) wife and husband, R. J. ) Butts, D. L. Young and ) Emma F. Young, husband and wife, Harry A. Chase ) ) and Harriet D. Chase, ) husband and wife, James ) Young, and Ben Q. Pettin) gill, Receiver of the Boise ) State Bank, Limited, Defendants. ) Under and by virtue of an order of Sale issued out of the above named Court on a Judgment and Decree recovered and rendered in said Court in the above entitled action in favor of the above named Plaintiff and against the above named Defendants, on the 8th day of May, 1915. Said Writ duly attested on the 25th day of May, 1915, and to the Sheriff of Ada County directed, and to me as such Sheriff delivered for execution, whereby I am commanded and required to notice for sale, and sell the Lands and Prem-
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DEPOSITORS WIN O. W. Allen, whose name headed an alphabetically arranged list, and 218 other depositors of the defunct Boise State bank, whose funds were deposited between the date the bank was examined by the state examiner, October 25-27, 1911, and the date the institution was closel, December 19, 1911, will recover $30,240.98 on the bond of V. W. Platt, former state bank examiner, as the result of an opinion handed down Saturday by the supreme court. The court affirmed a decision by Judge McCarthy of the Third Judicial district, Ada county. The suit was brought by the state against Platt and the Title Guaranty & Surety company of Scranton, Pa., on behalf of all depositors who had placed money in the bank subsequent to Platt's last examination. A judgment was obtained in the district court, and the bonding company appealed. Diversity of citizenship was one of the assignments of error advanced. The supreme court held that, as none of the depositors for whom the suit was brought had a balance of more than three thousand dollars, the case was not one that should go to the United States court. The court also ruled on the question of interest the depositors were entitled to receive, and held that in the absence of a stipulation in the bond to the contrary, interest should begin to accumulate against the bonding company at the same time as against the principal obligator. Interest was therefore allowed to run from the date the bank's doors were closed. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed in every particalar. The opinion was written by Justice Morgan. His decision aws concurred in by Justice Budge.