3971. Moscow National Bank (Moscow, ID)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
4584
Charter Number
4584
Start Date
February 3, 1897
Location
Moscow, Idaho (46.732, -117.000)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
0b924266

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
39.4%
Date receivership started
1897-02-04
Date receivership terminated
1903-09-30
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
7.2%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
46.4%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
46.4%

Description

Multiple contemporaneous newspapers report the Moscow National Bank (Moscow, Idaho) was closed by the bank examiner under orders of the Comptroller in early February 1897. A receiver (W. H. Stufflebeam / later Wm. H. Stufflebeam) was appointed and the bank was liquidated (dividends declared), so this is a suspension by government action that resulted in permanent closure/receivership rather than a mere temporary suspension or run.

Events (5)
1. June 17, 1891 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. February 3, 1897 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Closed by bank examiner acting under orders of the Comptroller of the Currency (Comptroller Eckels).
Newspaper Excerpt
Moscow, Idaho-The Moscow National Bank was closed by Bank-Examiner Eugene I. Wilson, of Ellenburg, acting under the orders of Comptroller Eckels.
Source
newspapers
3. February 4, 1897 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
4. February 8, 1897 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
A peculiar complication has arisen respecting the funds of the Idaho state university at Moscow, which were withdrawn from the Moscow National bank at the time of the failure of that concern last week... The receiver appointed by the government is now threatening to bring suit to recover possession of this money. ... R. S. Browne, cashier of the bank, is treasurer of the university. When he found the bank was going, he withdrew $1200 in cash belonging to the university, that he had held on deposit. The receiver appointed by the government ... President Coffin ... dispatched to Moscow to protect the interests ... the threat of the receiver promises to develop into a case ... (Red Lodge Picket, 1897-02-13, referencing events around Feb 8.)
Source
newspapers
5. December 14, 1897 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Receiver W. H. Stufflebeam, of the Moscow National Bank, has forwarded to Comptroller Eckels checks for his signature for the payment of a second dividend of 10 per cent to the depositors of the defunct bank.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (20)
1. February 3, 1897 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA
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Telegraphic Briefs. Charleston, S. C.-Bill Dodgins died in Pickens county, S. C., aged 103 years. New Orleans.-Cardipal Gibbons arrived in the city on a short visit to relatives. New Orleans.-Edward Conery, Sr., the well-known millionaire merchant, died. New Orleans.-George R. Finley, head of the large drug firm of Finley, Dicks, & Co., died. London -Thomas Batement, who was twice president of the Primitive Methodist Conference, is dead. New Orleans.-E. Conrey, Sr., the steamboat king of the South, and one of New Orleans's wealthiest citizens, died. Salt Lake, Utah.-The day's three ballots in the State Legislature for United States Senator developed no material change. Rome, Italy -The University was closed, owing to riotous conduct on the part of the students. Several of the ringleaders were arrested. Spokane, Wash.-The First National Bank of Oakdale, Spokane county, has gone into voluntary liquidation. Depositors are notified to come and get their money. London-The House of Commons, by a vote of 325 to 110, passed the financial proposal in the educational bill to grant to voluntary schools the sum of 5 shillings per child. New Orleans.-The House River and Harbor Committee arrived in the city this morning from Texas, and left immediately on their return trip. They will stop over at Birmingham, and be entertained there. Moscow, Idaho-The Moscow National Bank was closed by Bank-Examiner Eugene I. Wilson, of Ellenburg, acting under the orders of Comptroller Eckels. R. C. Brown is president, and C. M. Brune, cashier. Pittsburg, Pa.-In the Court of Common Pleas, George S. Griscom and H. E. Anderson were appointed receivers for the Pennsylvania Lead Company, of Pittsburg. Judgment was confessed to Trustee Griscom for $949,000. New York.-Bob Fitzsimmons expects to start for Nevada on February 12th, as he wishes to have four weeks' hard training for the big fight. It is likely that a watering-place about three miles from Carson City will be selected. London -Edward R. Taylor, alias Arthur W. Platt, who is under arrest for killing Jesse Tyree in Kentucky, in 1885, was formally extradited in the BowStreet Police Court, and will be taken to America at once by Kentucky officials. Charleston, S. C-A letter from Admiral Bunce to Mayor Smith, says that nearly all the ships of the squadron of evolution will come into the harbor after the manoeuvres outside, and that an exchange of courtesies will be in order, Madrid.-The Infanta Marie Louise Ferdinande, Duchess of Montpensier, is dead; aged 65 years. She was a sister of ex-Queen Isabella II., of Spain; grandmother of the King of Spain, and was married in 1846 to the Duke of Montpensier, who died in 1890. Canton. O.-There are over one hundred cases of typhoid-fever in the city, The cause is attributed to the water-supply. There have been several deaths, Mrs. Emma Troll, formerly an amanuensis for Major McKinley, being among those who have succumbed to the disease. Sterling, Ill-The extensive works of the Keystone Manufacturing Company. Thomas A, Galt president, were closed by the Sheriff, on a levy made in favor of Mr. Galt for $89,085. and the First National Bank of Sterling for $9,996. The Keystone company manufactured all kinds of farming implements.

2. February 6, 1897 The Democratic Advocate Westminster, MD
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timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dispatches. The flour mills of the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, at Orange Grove, Howard county, will dispense with half its working force on the first of March. These mills give employment usually to about thirty men, and there are as many more coopers making flour barrels for the product of the mills. Twenty or thirty men altogether will be thrown out of work. Wm. E. Cotton, tinner and plumber, Baltimore. Md., has failed. The Henry Sears Company, of Chicago, wholesale dealers in cutlery and hardware, assigned Tuesday. Liabilities about $50,000 and assets $80,000. The Moscow, Idaho, National Bank has been closed by the bank examiner. E. C. Hodges & Co., bankers, Boston, Mass., have failed. The Pennsylvania Lead Company, of Pittsburg, went into the hands of receivers on Tuesday. The application was made by Geo. S. Griscom, as trustee, and H. E. Anderson, who set forth in the bill that the defendant company is indebted to Griscom in the amount of $968,060. and that Anderson holds 100 shares of its capital stock of a par value of $100. The Chester County Guarantee, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of Westchester, Pa., claiming assets aggregating $1,000,000, and with deposits of $500,000, suspended business on Tuesday. The directors claim that it is solvent and will pay all indebtedness, if given time. There has been a run on the company for two weeks, in which time $76,000 were paid out. At Sterling, III., on Tuesday the extensive works of the Keystone Manufacturing Company, were closed by the sheriff. On application made by creditors in the Cleveland (0.) Common Pleas Court, W. D. Sayle was appointed receiver for the Ajax Manufacturing Company. The liabilities of the company are placed at $37,500 and assets at $85,000. In Louisville, Ky., S. T. Moore & Co., doing an extensive business as manufacturers'. agents and housefurnishers, have assigned. In Chicago the Lonis K. Comstock Company, contractors for electrical works, have assigned. Two judgments, aggregating $4,925, have been entered against Max Oppenheimer & Co., furniture dealers, New York, and executions against their property were issued to the sheriff. A Butte, Montana, despatch, says that a strike, inaugurated on the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Road by thirty members of the freight crews, on Tuesday night, because one of their number was discharged. threatens to result in a closing down of all the Anaconda Mining properties, which are dependent on the road for supplies, and the enforced idleness of over 6000 men. The labor unions are opposed to the strike. The entire force in the Chicago and Southeastern Railway shops at Lebanon, Indiana. struck on Tuesday for seven months' back pay. As a result the entire road is tied up. The employes III the tin manufacturing plant of Norton Bros., Maywood, Illinois, struck on Tuesday against a ten per cent. reduction in wages. A compromise was subsequently reached, the men accepting a ent of five per cent. The works of the Case Threshing Machine Company at Racine, Wisconsin, are to resume operations next week, after six months' shut down. The United States Rubber Company's factory at Millville, Massachusetts, will close on Saturday night for an indefinite period, owing, it is stated, to over production of rubber boots. Eight hundred people have been employed there on short time for the past few months, following almost a year's idleness.

3. February 6, 1897 The Diamond Drill Crystal Falls, MI
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Suinn 276,874, a falling off of over $5,100,000 as compared with January, 1896. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 1st was: Wheat, 49,591,000 bushels; corn, 21,938,000 busels; oats, 13,172,000 bushels; rye, 3,825,000 bushels; barley, 3,458,000 bushels. Charles Russell and his wife were cremated in their home at North Baltimore, O. The United States supreme court says that states have the constitutional right to tax the entire capital stock of interstate corporations doing business within their limits. Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago, announced that he had been invited by President-elect McKinley to take the comptrollership of the currency and that he would accept the position. Albert Siszaka, a laborer, and his wife Sophia were asphyxiated by coal gas in Chicago. The monthly statement of the comptroller of the currency shows that the circulation of national bank notes during January decreased $568,296. The total amount outstanding was $235,008,085. Theodore Van Horn, a cabinet maker in New York, shot his wife and her employer, Samuel Schulhafer, and then killed himself. During January the coinage executed at the United States mint amounted in value to $9,851,220. A large syndicate of English and American capitalists are effecting a combine of the wood-working machinery manufacturers of the United States. The secretary of war transmitted to the senate an abstract of the militia force of the United States in which he says the number of men available for military duty (unorganized) is 10,149,184. Burglars robbed Bradley's bank at Eldon, Ia., of $7,000 in cash. Fire that broke out in the rear of Scott & Co.'s hardware store in Salt Lake City caused a loss of $230,000. The Venezuelan arbitration treaty was signed at the state department in Washington by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, and Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan minister. A. W. Linderstrom, a farmer at Tacoma, Wash., in a fit of anger, blew out the brains of his five-year-old son and then killed himself. The Pennsylvania state capitol, erected in Harrisburg in 1822, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $1,500,000. Three boys belonging to the family of G. W. Gibson, one boy to the family of Phoenix Gibson and one girl to J. McIlvane were drowned while skating near Pacific Junction, Ia. Edward Butler, the notorious Australian criminal, murderer of 14 men and general desperado, was captured in San Francisco. Judge Joseph McKenna, of San Francisco, has been selected for secretary of the interior in President-elect McKinley's cabinet and he has accepted. The Pennsylvania Lead company went into the hands of receivers at Pittsburgh with liabilities of $1,400,000. The Keystone company, manufacturers of agricultural implements at Sterling, Ill., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $510,000. James Shelhammer, son of a farmer near Apollo, Pa., killed Grace Clark and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. The First national bank at Oakesdale, Wask., went into voluntary liquidation. The Moscow (Idaho) national bank closed its doors with liabilities of $100,000. The burglars who looted the Eldon (Ia.) bank secured bonds worth $50,000, besides $7,000 in money. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Men began its annual meeting in Des Moines, Ia., with delegates present representing 747 companies. The high school and manual training school building in Menominee, Wis., was burned, the loss being $100,000.

4. February 10, 1897 The Ely Miner Ely, MN
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DOMESTIC. Fire that broke cut in the rear of Scott & Co.'s hardware store in Salt Lake City caused a loss of $230,000. A large syndicate of English and American capitalists are effecting a combine of the wood-working machinery manufacturers of the United States. A. W. Linderstrom, a farmer at Tacoma, Wash., in a fit of anger, blew out the brains of his five-year-old son and then killed himself. The Pennsylvania state capitol, crected in Harrisburg in 1822, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $1,500,000. Three boys belonging to the family of G. W. Gibson, one boy to the family of Phoenix Gibson and one girl to J. McIlvane were drowned while skating near Pacific Junction, Ia. Edward Butler, the notorious Australian criminal, murderer of 14 men and general desperado, was captured in San Francisco. Judge Joseph McKenna, of San Francisco, has been selected for secretary of the interior in President-elect McKinley's cabinet and he has accepted. The Pennsylvania Lead company went into the hands of receivers at Pittsburgh with liabilities of $1,400,000. The Keystone company, manufacturers of agricultural implements at Sterling, Ill., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $510,000. James Shelhammer, son of a farmer near Apollo, Pa., killed Grace Clark and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. The First national bank at Oakesdale, Wash., went into voluntary liquidation. The Moscow (Idaho) national bank closed its doors with liabilities of $100,000. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Men began its annual meeting in Des Moines, Ia., with delegates present representing 747 companies. The burglars who looted the Eldon (la.) bank secured bonds worth $50,000, besides $7,000 in money. The high school and manual training school building in Menominee, Wis., was burned, the loss being $100,000. J. L. Rawlins (dem.) was elected United States senator from Utah. John Brown, in a fit of jealousy, shot and killed his sweetheart, Ellen Titiworth. in Wisecounty, Va., and then shot himself. In a railway collision at Arlington, S. D., Conductor Addington, Brakeman Hosiac, John Loftus and W. L. Harrison were killed. It is announced that John Addison Porter, editor of the Hartford (Conn.) Post, will be the private secretary of President-elect McKinley. Seeley Wakeley's house in Grovetown, Mich., was destroyed by fire and his two children, aged two and four years, were burned to death. The schooner Biscayne foundered ten miles off Jupiter inlet, Florida, and Charles Hinson, of New York, Archie Lindsay, of Florida, and Roger Harris, of Key West, were drowned,

5. February 11, 1897 Warren Sheaf Warren, MN
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DOMESTIC. Fire that broke cut in the rear of Scott & Co.'s hardware store in Salt Lake City caused a loss of $230,000. A large syndicate of English and American capitalists are effecting a combine of the wood-working machinery manufacturers of the United States. A. W. Linderstrom, a farmer at Tacoma, Wash., in a fit of anger, blew out the brains of his five-year-old son and then killed himself. The Pennsylvania state capitol, erected in Harrisburg in 1822, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $1,500,000. Three boys belonging to the family of G. W. Gibson, one boy to the family of Phoenix Gibson and one girl to J. McIlvane were drowned while skating near Pacific Junction, Ia. Edward Butler, the notorious Australian criminal, murderer of 14 men and general desperado, was captured in San Francisco. Judge Joseph McKenna, of San Francisco, has been selected for secretary of the interior in President-elect McKinley's cabinet and he has accepted. The Pennsylvania Lead company went into the hands of receivers at Pittsburgh with liabilities of $1,400,000. The Keystone company, manufacturers of agricultural implements at Sterling, Ill., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $510,000. James Shelhammer, son of a farmer near Apollo, Pa., killed Grace Clark and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. The First national bank at Oakesdale, Wash., went into voluntary liquidation. The Moscow (Idaho) national bank closed its doors with liabilities of $100,000. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Men began its annual meeting in Des Moines, Ia., with delegates present representing 747 companies. The burglars who looted the Eldon (la.) bank secured bonds worth $50,000, besides $7,000 in money. The high school and manual training school building in Menominee, Wis., was burned, the loss being $100,000. J. L. Rawlins (dem.) was elected United States senator from Utah. John Brown. in a fit of jealousy. shot and killed his sweetheart. Ellen Titiworth. in Wisecounty, Ya., and then shot himself. In a railway collision at Arlington, D., Conductor Addington, Brakeman Hosiac, John Loftus and W. L. Harrison were killed. It is announced that John Addison Porter, editor of the Hartford (Conn.) Post, will be the private secretary of President-elect McKinley. Seeley Wakeley's house in Grovetown, Mich., was destroyed by fire and his two children, aged two and four years, were burned to death. The schooner Biscayne foundered ten miles off Jupiter inlet, Florida, and Charles Hinson, of New York, Archie Lindsay, of Florida, and Roger Harris, of Key West, were drowned,

6. February 13, 1897 Red Lodge Picket Red Lodge, MT
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FUNDS OF THE IDAHO UNIVERSITY. Contest Over $1200 in the Moscow National Bank. Boise, Idaho, Feb. 8.-A peculiar complication has arisen respecting the funds of the Idaho state university at Moscow, which were withdrawn from the Moscow National bank at the time of the failure of that concern last week. R. S. Browne, cashier of the bank, is treasurer of the university. When he found the bank was going, he withdrew $1200 in cash belonging to the university, that he had held on deposit. The receiver appointed by the government is now threatening to bring suit to recover possession of this money. President Coffin of the board of regents has been dispatched post haste to Moscow to protect the interests of the institution of learning. The threat of the receiver promises to develop into a case that may go to the United States supreme court.

7. February 13, 1897 The L'anse Sentinel L'anse, MI
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DOMESTIC. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 1st was: Wheat, 49,591,000 bushels; corn, 21,938,008 ousels; oats, 12,172,000 bushels; rye, 3,825,000 bushels; barley, 3,458,000 bushels. The United States supreme court says that states have the constitutional right to tax the entire capital stock of interstate corporations doing business within their limits. The monthly statement of the comptroller of the currency shows that the circulation of national bank notes during January decreased $508,206. The total amount outstanding was $235,008. 085. Albert Sinzaka, a laborer. and his wife Sophia were asphyxiated by coal gas in Chicago. Charles G. Dawes. of Chicago. announced that he had been invited by President-elect McKinley to take the comptrollership of the currency and that he would accept the position. Burglars robbed Bradley's bank at Eldon, Ia., of $7,000 in cash. Theodore Van Horn, a cabinet maker in New York, shot his wife and her employer, Samuel Schulhafer, and then killed himself. During January the coinage executed at the United States mint amounted in value to $9,851,220. A large syndicate of English and Ameri *an capitalists are effecting a combine of the wood-working machinery manufacturers of the United States. The secretary of war transmitted to the menate an abstract of the militia force of the United States in which he says the number of men available for military duty (unorganized) is 10,149,184. Fire that broke out in the rear of Scott & Co.'s hardware store in Salt Lake City caused a loss of $230,000. The Venezuelan arbitration treaty was signed at the state department in Washington by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, and Senor Andrade. the Venezuelan minister. A. W. Linderstrom, a farmer at Tacoma, Wash., in a fit of anger, blew out the brains of his five-year-old son and then killed himself. The Pennsylvania state capitol, erected in Harrisburg in 1822, was de. stroyed by fire, the loss being $1,500,000. Three boys belonging to the family of G. W. Gibson, one boy to the family of Phoenix Gibson and one girl to J. MeIlvane were drowned while skating near Pacific Junction. Ia. Edward Butler, the notorious Australian criminal, murderer of 14 men and general desperado, was captured in San Francisco. Judge Joseph McKenna, of San Francisco, has been selected for secretary of the interior in President-elect McKinley's cabinet and he has accepted. The Pennsylvania Lead company went into the hands of receivers at Pittsburgh with liabilities of $1,400,000. The Keystone company. manufacturers of agricultural implements at Sterling, Ill., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $510,000. James Shelhammer, son of a farmer near Apollo, Pa., killed Grace Clark and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. The First national bank at Oakesdale, Wash., went into voluntary liquidation. The Moscow (Idaho) national bank closed its doors with liabilities of $100.000. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Men began its annual meeting in Des Moines, Ia., with delegates present representing 747 companies,

8. February 23, 1897 The Evening Herald Shenandoah, PA
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# AN IDAHO TAILOR'S LUCK. Received Mining Stock Worth $100,000 for a Suit of Clothes. Portland, Ore., Feb. 23.-A well known business man, just back from a trip to Idaho, vouches for the truth of this story of phenomenally good luck: About two weeks ago a miner offered Morris Yenzel, a Moscow (Idaho) tailor, a handful of mining stocks for a suit of clothes. Yenzel refused that sort of currency in payment for his labor and goods, on the ground that he had no luck in stocks. He remarked that five years ago a miner gave him 5,000 shares of stock then supposed to be worth one cent a share for a suit of clothes, but he never realized anything on the stock. The miner said that if it had been Leroi stock it would have made him rich. The tailor was startled, and replied he was quite certain that that was the name of the stock. He could not remember what he did with it, as he never expected it to amount to anything. A few days later Yenzel went to the suspended Moscow National bank for an insurance policy and some other papers deposited there, among which he found the missing 5,000 shares of Leroi stock, now quoted at $8 a share, with accrued dividends. The Leroi mine owners have been negotiating with an English syndicate for the sale of the property, but the latter declined to accept the mine without the transfer of every share of stock so far issued. This lot of 5,000 shares was long advertised for, but now there will be no obstacle to the sale of the property if the owners come to Yenzel's terms. He demands $20 a share, or $100,000 for the whole, and will probably get it.

9. February 24, 1897 Watertown Republican Watertown, WI
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# WAS RICH AND DIDN'T KNOW IT. An Idaho Man Who Thought His Mining Stock Worthless. Portland, Or., Feb. 22. - A well-known business man just back from a trip in Idaho vouches for the truth of this story of phenomenally good luck: About two weeks ago a miner offered Morris Yenzel, a Moscow (Id.) tailor a handful of mining stocks for a suit of clothes. Yenzel refused that sort of currency in payment for his labor and goods on the ground that he had no luck in stocks. He remarked that five years ago a miner gave him 5000 shares of stock, then supposed to be worth 1 cent a share, for a suit of clothing. He never realized anything on the stock. The miner jocosely said that if it had been Leroi stock it would have made him rich. The tailor was startled and replied he was quite certain that that was the name of the stock. He could not remember what he did with it, as he never expected it to amount to anything. A few days later Yenzel went to the suspended Moscow National bank for an insurance policy and some other papers deposited there, among which he found the missing 5000 shares of Leroi stock, now quoted at $8 per share, with accrued dividends. The Leroi mine owners have been negotiating with an English syndicate for the sale of the property, but the latter declined to accept the mine without the transfer of every share of stock so far issued. This lot of 5000 shares was long advertised for without reulto, but now there will be no obstacle to the sale of the property if the owners come to Yenzel's terms. He demands $20 a share, or $100,000 for the whole, and will probably get it.

10. February 24, 1897 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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# A Lucky Tailor. Portland, Ore., Feb. 23. -A well-known business man, just back from a trip in Idaho, vouches for the truth of this story of phenomenally good luck. About two weeks ago, a miner offered Morriss Yenzel, a Moscow, Ida., tailor, a handful of mining stock for a suit of clothes. Yensei refused that sort of currency in payment for his labor and goods, on the ground that he had no luck in stocks. He remarked that five years ago when a miner gave him 5000 shares of stock, then supposed to be worth 1 cent a share, for a suit of chothing, he never realized anything on the stock. The miner said that if it had been Leroi stock it would have made him rich. The tailor was startled and replied that that was the name of the stock. He could not remember what he did with it as he never expected it to amount to anything. A few days later Yenzel went to the suspended Moscow National bank for an insurance policy and some other papers deposited there, among which he found the missing 5000 shares of Leroi stock, now quoted at $8 a share with accrued dividends. The Leroi mine owners have been negotiating with an English syndicate for the sale of the property, but the latter declined to accept, without the transfer of every share of stock so far issued. This lot of 5000 shares was long advertised for, but now there will be no obstacle to the sale of the property, if the owners come to Yenzel's terms. He demands $20 a share, or $100,000 for the whole, and will probably get it.

11. March 4, 1897 The Evening Times Washington, DC
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Scorned the Mining Stock. About two weeks, ago a miner offered Morris Yenzel, a Moscow, Idaho, tailor, a handful of mining stocks for a suit of clothes. Yenzel refused and said that five years ago a miner gave him 5,000 shares of stock, then supposed to be worth a cent a share, for a suit of clothing. He never realized anything on the stock. A few days later Yenzel went to the suspended Moscow National Bank for an insurance policy and some other papers deposited there, among which he found the missing 5,000 shares of Leroi stock, now quoted at $8 per share, with accrued dividends. The Leroi mine owners have been negotiating with an English syndicate for the sale of the property, but the latter declined to acceptthe mine without the transfer of every share of stock so far issued. This lot of 5,000 was long advertised for, but now there will be no obstacle to the sale of the property if the owners come to Yenzel's terms. He demands $20 a share, or $100,000 for the whole, and will probably get it.

12. July 10, 1897 Pullman Herald Pullman, WA
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-E. K. Sheldon, of Colfax, is in Pullman. -F. D. Richardson is in the city from Grangeville, Idaho. -Max Aronson was over from Moscow one day this week. -Receiver Stufflebeam of the Moscow National bank, was in the city Thursday evening. -The Pullman base hall team will-cross bats with the Union Flat team, on the Flat, tomorrow. -The crops are now practically past all danger, and are promising an enormous yield. Fall wheat is "in the dough," and harvest will probably commence within three weeks. The ground is still wet. and can not possibly dry out before the grain is ripe.

13. November 20, 1897 Pullman Herald Pullman, WA
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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for Whitman County. John Herbert Prentice, by his guardian ad litem, Thomas Neill, plaintiff, vs. John Prentice; the Northern Counties Investment Trust, limited; Della V. Jayberg; Henry Chambers & Co.; The Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; Wm. H. Stufflebeam, as receiver of the Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; A. W. Mott; A. B. Jackson; The Security Savings and Trust Company; The Second National Bank of Colfax, Washington, W. F. Burrell and D. P. Thompson, executors, defendants. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: To the said The Northern Counties Investment Trust, limited; The Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; Wm. H. Stufflebeam, as receiver of the Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; The Security Savings & Trust Company; W. F. Burrell and D. P. Thompson, executors, defendants. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 6th day of November, 1897, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff in said action, and serve a copy offyour said answer upon the undersigned attorneys for the plaintiff at their office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to partition the south half of the northeast quarter and lots one and two, in section one, township fourteen (14) north range forty-four (44) east of the Willamette meridian, in Whitman county, state of Washington, and to determine the amounts and priority of the several liens against the interest of the defendant, John Prentice, in and to said real estate, and other proper relief. Dated this 27th day of October, 1897. WYMAN & NEILL, Attorneys for plaintiff. P. O. Address-Colfax, Whitman Co., Washington.

14. December 14, 1897 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT
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Serious Charges Against Nevada Insane Asylum Superintendent. FREAK OF NATURE AT ELKO CHARGES AGAINST THE GRAND JUNCTION TOWN OFFICIALS. Adjutant General Moses Declines Promotion-Quaker Colonists at Payette-Carbon Miner SuicidesButte Butcher's Libel Suit. Idaho. Mrs. J. M. Aldrich, wife of Professor Aldrich, of the state university at Moscow, died at Helena last week. Receiver W. H. Stufflebeam, of the Moscow National Bank, has forwarded to Comptroller Eckels checks for his signature for the payment of a second dividend of 10 per cent to the depositors of the defunct bank. After two years of hard work the new road from Gibbonsville over the Bitter Root range into Montana, has been completed, bringing the town within 65 miles of the railroad at Grantsdale. Payette Independent: Daniel Grise, of the Union Pacific railway land department, with his son, W. M. Grise, and William Caskey all of Ellis, Kan., spent a couple of days this week looking over the Payette valley. These gentlemen belong to the Society of Friends, whose committee recently investigated and made a favorable report on this locality, recommending it to such of the people as may contemplate finding homes in the arid west.

15. December 22, 1897 Elmore Bulletin Rocky Bar, Mountain Home, ID
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ELMORE BULLETIN. G. PAYNE MABEL L PAYNE PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers. Terms of Subscription: 00 One year by mail If nyt paid In (invariably in advance) $2 Six months by mail(invariably nadvance Three Single mos. coqy by mail(invariably in advance IDAHO NEWS. brisk. Business in Franklin is reported The plaining mill in Preston is now in full operation. There is talk of a new telephone line to run from Weiser to Grangeville. A new school house is being vigorously for Malad. All stock urged on the range in Blaine and Lincoln counties is said to be doing well this year, There are now confined in the penitentiary 146 prisoners, the number been increased 171/2 cent having per during the past year. The Stakesberry hotel at purchased by San has parties, been Francisco Meridian who will build a forty-room house. Fifty new buildings are looked for before May. Under the new time card which effect on the & Owyhee the went Nampa into recently railroad, Boise, stop over night en route to Silver is made at Reynolds creek. The comptroller of the currency has declared a second dividend of 10 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Moscow National bank. of Moscow, making in all 20 per cent on the claims, amounting to $83,290. After two years of hard work the fron Gibbonsville range into been new Bitter road Root Montana, over the has completed, bringing the town within 65 miles of the railroad at Grantsdale. One of the things that impressed Gov. Steunenberg during his recent northern trip was the condition of the State normal school at Lewistown. He declares it is the best institution of the kind he ever visited. H. Morgan of Moscow has private to been Hon. appointed W. secretary Heitfield, and has left for Washington, was a member of last He succeeded C. legislature. Mr. Morgan the A. Fuller. elast act of the last session providing that convicts shall be conveyed to the penitetnary by the warden or by guards sent by the warden. is to be submitted to the test of the courts to determine its constitutionality. Uncle Tom Elliott went to Caldwell recently to attend court. It is said Mr. Elliotterossed the plains in and has seen the mining booms worthy of note in Idaho and CAlifornia, but this was his first introduction to a "varnished car. The seventh annual session of Teachers' association in December 28-31. An State Hailey, convenes excel- the programme has been every possible effort of not cellent and the prepared only people of Hailey, but those of the entire Wood River valley, will be made to insure its success. Daniel Grise, of the Union Pacific railway land department. with his son, W. M. Grise, and William Caskey all of Ellis, Kan., spent a couple of days looking over belong to last These week gentlemen Payette valley. the Society of Friends, whose committee a and report on this refavorable recently investigated locality, made commending it to such of the as contemplate finding people may homes in the arid west. The supreme court has declared un sections of inspection law of as the constitutional sheep important 1865, amended by the last session of the legislature. The question was raised in the case of the state vs. James from southeastern from a him who Duckworth, appealed for judgment Idaho, fining violation of the act, he having into the state without them the brought sheep first having dipped by deputy sheep inspector. Harley Stephens, George Fields and Andrew Whitworth recently have been having some sport in trapping, near the BigButtes, in Idaho county, ,having caught four coyotes two eagles. They have the eagles caged and they are ni injured in any way. The largest measures 7 feet and 3 inches from tip to tip, and its claws covera space of 8 inches in diameter. Sam Aekerman, one of the employees of the Sparks-Herrel company was slugged at Rock Creek, Cassia county, a few days ago by a man named Foster. Ackerman had drawn his wages and had been drinking. He was called to the door by Foster who struck him with a bludgeon of some kind. It is supposed that robbery was the object, but, if so, the plan was not successful. Mrs. J.M. Aldrich, wife of Professor of the state at MosAldrich, died university cow, at Helena last week. Another delegation of Kansas Qua kers is looking over the Payette valley with Daniel Grice of the Union Pacific land department.

16. December 24, 1897 Shoshone Journal Shoshone, ID
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IDAHO NEWS. Business in Franklin is reported brisk. The plaining mill in Preston is now in full operation. There is talk of a new telephone line to run from Weiser to Grangeville. A new school house is being vigorously urged for Malad. All stock on the range in Blaine and Lincoln counties is said to be doing well this year. There are now confined in the penitentiary 146 prisoners, the number having been increased 173/2 per cent during the past year. The Stakesberry hotel at Meridian has been purchased by San Francisco parties, who will build a forty-room house. Fifty new buildings are looked for before May. Under the new time card which went into effect recently on the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee railroad. the stop over night en route to Silver is made at Reynolds creek. The comptroller of the currency has declared a second dividend of 10 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Moscow National bank, of Moscow, making in all 20 per centon the claims, amounting to $85,390. After two years of hard work the new road fron Gibbopsville over the Bitter Root range into Montana, has been completed, bringing the town within 65 miles of the railroad at Grantsdale. One of the things that impressed Gov. Steunenberg during his recent northern trip was the condition of the State normal school at Lewistown. He declares it is the best institution of the kind he ever visited. Hon. W. H. Morgan of Moscow has been appointed private secretary to Heitfield, and has left for Washington, Mr. Morgan was a member of the last legislature. He succeeded C. A. Fuller. The last act of the last session providing that convicts shall be conveyed to the penitetnary by the warden or by guards sent by the warden, is to be submitted to the test of the courts to * determine its constitutionality. Uncle Tom Elliott went to Caldwell r recently to attend court. It is said Mr. Elliott crossed the plains in '49 and 1 has seen the mining booms worthy of fl note in Idaho and California, but this t was his first introduction to a "var" fi nished car." a The seventh annual session of the r State Teachers' association convenes K in Halley, December 28-31. An excelcellent programme has been prepared e and every possible effort of not only a the people of Hailey, but those of the st entire Wood River valley, will be CI made to insure its success. it Daniel Grise, of the Union Pacific di railway land department, with his son, at W. M. Grise, and William Caskey all ne of Ellis, Kan., spent a couple of days m last week looking over Payette valley. se These gentlemen belong to the Society of Friends, whose committee be recently investigated and made a fiv favorable report on this locality, reer commending it to such of the people as ex may contemplate finding homes in the W arid west. Vi The supreme court has declared unth constitutional important sections of OV the sheep inspection law of 1865, as ob amended by the last session of the legialature, The question was raised fie n the case of the state vs. James Og Duckworth, from southeastern Idaho, wl who appealed from a judgment fining tio him for violation of the act, he having in brought sheep into the state without me first having them dipped by the to deputy sheep inspector. 801 Harley Stephens, George Fields and Andrew Whitworth recently have beeu having some sport in trapping, near S he BigButtes, in Idaho county having ace caught four coycles two eagles. They Ma have the engleseaged and they are not he injured in any way. The largest I neasures 7 feet and 3 inches from tip R. to tip, and its claws cover+a space of 8 an inches in diameter. eas Sam Ackerman, one of the employees end of the Sparks-Herrel company was and slugged at Rock Creek, Cassia county, Cin few days ago by a man named Fos-

17. January 7, 1898 The State Rights Democrat Albany, OR
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SATURDA V SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. E. B. Piper, is in the city the guest of Mrs Langdon. Mrs. Dr. Frank Skiff, of Portland, is in the city the guest of her mother Mrs. Wm. Faber. Miss Alice Temple, of the Salem schools, returned home today after a visit at Albany and Lebanon. Miss Lulu Burnett of Corvallis and Rev Rhodes were married at Cleveland, Ohio, last Wene daday. Miss Abbie Wright, of the Portland schools, passed through Albany this noon from a visit at Corvallis. L. L Swana 18 spending New Year's with his parents at Crawfordeville, recuperating after his recent illness. Miss Beasie Burkhart and m other are guests: at the home of Mr. Isaac Butler -Independence Enterprise. At the bowling alley yesterday Mr. Frazier broke the Albany record with 72. It had been held by Otto Lee with 70. Hon. T W Davenport and daughter, Alice, returned home last night, after few months' visit in the Eastern cities. -Statesman, D. C. Herrin, grand lecturer for the A. o. U. W. left this morning for Prineville, where he will hold a public meeting Saturday night.-The Dalles .M. Loyd Pruett returned from the Bay today, and presented the DEMOCRAT man with a fine specimen of petrified crab, inside of a stone which be found there Mr. W. P. Connaway, of Independence has been appointed receiver of the Moscow National Bank, of Moscow, Idaho, by the comptroller of the currency. Mr. Connaway is to take the position next Monday. Prof S. A Randle left Tuesday for Enterprise, Wallows county, and will take charge of the public school at that place. He had to seek a dryer climate on account of being afflicted with asthma. -Lebanon Advance. Prof. Johnson, of the State university, and wife, are at Sodaville a few days for the benefit of their health. The Proi. has great faith in the medicinal qualities of the mineral water, and visits the spring one or more times each year.Lebanon Advance. A. F. Ayere has traded his farm near Rock Hill to O.P. Hommel for a farm in Texas. Mr. Ayers and family will remain here for a few months. Mr. Homme! and family recently arrived here from Texas. They will take possession of their new home right away -Lebanon Advance. Ross Deyoe, the Elk City boy who met with the accident while out hun.ing recently, is reported to be getting along nicely and will soon be recovered. He will not be so badly crippled in his bands as was first feared, as the doctor was able to save all of his fingers but one, and he is extremely lucky to get off so easy -Toledo Leader. The Albany papers have suggested the name of Mr. John Pogh, of Shedd as one which will be a possible candidate for the nomination on the republican ticket for sher ff Speaking about possible candidates for this nomination brings to the writers mind that, according to rumor, this part of the county will furnish more than one candidate for this nomination It is said that Mesers. A. J. Kirk, Bert Templeton and J. F. Venner are possible candidates for the republican nomination, while Mr. Geo. McHargue is said to be laying the ground plane to capture the democratic nominalion for this.-Brownsville

18. January 8, 1898 Pullman Herald Pullman, WA
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# SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for Whitman County. John Herbert Prentice, by his guardian ad litem, Thomas Neill, plaintiff, vs. John Prentice; the Northern Counties Investment Trust, limited; Della V. Jayberg; Henry Chambers & Co.; The Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; Wm. H. Stufflebeam, as receiver of the Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; A. W. Mott; A. B. Jackson; The Security Savings and Trust Company; The Second National Bank of Colfax, Washington, W. F. Burrell and D. P. Thompson, executors, defendants. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: To the said The Northern Counties Investment Trust, limited; The Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; Wm. H. Stufflebeam, as receiver of the Moscow National Bank of Moscow, Idaho; The Security Savings & Trust Company; W. F. Burrell and D. P. Thompson, executors, defendants. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 6th day of November, 1897, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff in said action, and serve a copy offyour said answer upon the undersigned attorneys for the plaintiff at their office below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to partition the south half of the north-east quarter and lots one and two, in section one, township fourteen (14) north range forty-four (44) east of the Willamette meridian, in Whitman county, state of Washington, and to determine the amounts and priority of the several liens against the interest of the defendant, John Prentice, in and to said real estate, and other proper relief. Dated this 27th day of October, 1897. WYMAN & NEILL, Attorneys for plaintiff. P. O. Address-Colfax, Whitman Co., Washington.

19. January 11, 1898 The Anaconda Standard Anaconda, MT
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Transfer of a Case. Special Dispatch to the Standard. Boise, Jan. 10.-Judge Beatty has issued an order directing the transfer of the Netherland-American Mortgage company vs. S. Borghoorn and W. H. Shufflebeam, receiver of the Moscow National bank, from the district to the United States court. The suit is brought to recover $2,000 which. it is alleged. Borghoorn, as agent of the company, had on special deposit in the bank at the time of its failure, and became a part of the assets when it passed into the receiver's hands.

20. January 11, 1898 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT
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Idaho Bank Case Transferred. (Special to The Herald.) Boise, Ida., Jan. 10.-Judge Beatty has issued an order directing the transfer of the case of the NetherlandAmerican Mortgage company vs. S. Berghoorn and W. H. Seufflebeam, receiver of the Moscow National bank, from the district to - the United States court. The suit is brought to recover $2,000, which, it is alleged, Berghoorn, as agent of the company, had on special deposit in the bank at the time of its failure, and became a part of the assets when it passed into the receiver's hands.