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mayor but Major Hudson was not there, having slipped off the stage while Col. Harrison was talking. President Levy seemed startled and asked jokingly, "Has the Major gone out to get his jug? He then thanked the two representatives of the city for their kind words and said: "Topeka has ever been known for her enterprise, progress, and royal greetings vouchsafed the sojourner within her gates. Carpenters, masons, tramps and bankers, are equally welcome under the shadows of the capitol dome. Here, over a quarter of a century ago, Colonel C. K. Holliday and a few other leading spirits laid the foundation for the greatest system of railroads in the universe, now traversing the entire western continent, and enhancing the value of every foot of land and every commodity born of the soil, transporting the productions of Kansas to every nook of the civilized world. The Jeffersonian theory of governmental ownership of railroads being yet of the future, after nearly thirty years, the Santa Fe is still in the hands of a-Topekan." Mr. Levy said that no city in the country was SO free from crime, iniquity and trangression of laws as Topeka. He said that years ago the people hanged to a telegraph pole the only real bad man within her borders, but that Wichita was able to supply any wants in that line in the person of Clyde Mattox. The president's annual address was then read. It was filled with facts and figures about the growth of the banking business in the state and the growth of the state. Treasurer J. W. Thurston presented his report showing that he had received during the year $453.99, and that the expenditures amounted to $361.31. The report of the secretary, Wm. Macferran, showed that seventy-nine banking institutions are represented in the membership of the association, and that lie is corresponding with others who will probably soon join the association. Several letters were read from bankers regretting their inability to attend the meeting. J. J. Squires of the Inter-State National bank of Kansas City, Mo., said no members of the association would be ready to admit that there had been a run on his bank during the year, yet if the truth was known there was likely some pretty fast walking on all of them. Before the evening meeting adjourned President Levy announced the following appointments of committees: On nominationsJohn R. Mulvane, Lee Clark. J. A. Swenson, Calvin Hood and L. McKee. On auditing accounts-C. W. Trickett, P. J. Bonebrake, Ira P. Nye, George W. Burr and Guy Lombard.
