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Will Pay 60 Per Cent.-The Citizens State Bank of Chautauqua will pay the depositors between 60 and 70 per cent, according to a statement issued by M. A. Thompson, examiner. F. E. Turner, the boy cashier, is still missing. Thompson has asked that a receiver be appointed.
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PROBE BANK DEAL Attorney General Investigating Troubles of Chautauqua Forgery. More of the troubles of F. E. Turner, the defaulting Chautauqua Springs banker, are being investigated today in the attorney general's office. S. M. Hawkes, assistant attorney general, was today in conference with local attorneys in the Turner case concerning the payment of alleged preferred claims against the bank. It is charged that Turner forged notes to the amount of $35,000, placed the money in the Citizens' State bank of Chautauqua Springs and went to South America. Persons whose names were attached to the notes have now brought suits as preferred creditors to recover the money in the bank. The state and the receiver for the bank will contest these claims. T. A. Cramer of Eldorado and W. H.
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No. 20,613. The Arnold Investment Company, Appellee. vs. The Citizens State Bank of Chautauqua et al., Appellants. Appeal from Chautauqua County. REVERSED. By the Court. Mason, J. Syllabus. The owner of money fraudulently obtained and used in the business of an insolvent bank, by its cashier, is not entitled to repayment by the receiver, in preference to other creditors, except so far as he shows that the assets which reached the hands of the receiver were larger by reason of such transaction that they would otherwise have been; it is not enough to show that the assets of the bank were increased, or that the money was used in reducing its indebtedness. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: [Seal.] D. A. VALENTINE, Clerk Supreme Court.
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Failed Bank to Pay.-S. G. Pottle, receiver of the Citizens State Bank of Chautauqua, of which F. E. Turner, "the boy cashier," was in charge when it was closed more than a year ago by M. A. Thompson, special bank examiner of Kansas, announced that December 18 he will pay a 25 per cent dividend to the depositors and creditors of the bank. Another small dividend may be paid later, Pottle stated. A half dozen legal suits against the bank are now on the court dockets at Sedan or Pawhuska.
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# Eight.Hour Statute for Women Practically a Dead Letter in Kansas at Present. # MANY WORK 10 HOURS A DAY Secretary of the State Welfare Commission's Report Shows the Average Wage Is Small. Of 2,918 women employes in 375 business establishments in Kansas, only 126 are working in places under the eight-hour system, according to investigations by Miss Linna Bresette, secretary of the state industrial welfare commission. Miss Bresette expects to complete her annual report in a few days, and this is one of the things it will show. Twenty per cent of the women employes of the state, so far as the investigation has gone, are working from eight to nine hours a day, or 536 out of the 2,918. A few more than half, or 1,510 of the 2,918 are working from nine to ten hours a day. Nearly one-fourth are working more than ten hours a day. Based on the number of hours worked in a week, the compilation of the report shows 864 are working forty-eight hours a week; 920 from forty-eight to fifty-four hours; 777 from fifty-four to sixty hours and 357 more than sixty hours. Two-thirds of the women employes in these establishments receive less than $8 a week, Miss Bresette's figures show. Twenty-four per cent receive from $8 to $12. Nine per cent are receiving $12 a week or more. Miss Bresette says that most of the laundry employes receive less than $6 a week. Failed Bank to Pay.-S. G. Pottle, receiver of the Citizens State Bank of Chautauqua, of which F. E. Turner, "the boy cashier," was in charge when it was closed more than a year ago by M. A. Thompson, special bank examiner of Kansas, announced that December 18 he will pay a 25 per cent dividend to the depositors and creditors of the bank. Another small dividend may be paid later, Pottle stated. A half dozen legal suits against the bank are now on the court dockets at Sedan or Pawhuska. Eldorado Refinery Sold.-J. J. Taxman and M. Taxman, Illinois refiners and oil operators, have bought the Eldorado Refinery Company's plant at Eldorado and are now in charge. The price paid was $40,000. The Taxman brothers will enlarge and improve the plant, which has a capacity of a thousand barrels a day. Hutchinson Gazette Sold. -Chester C. Leasure of Wichita, formerly a part owner of the Wellington Daily Journal, has bought a half interest in the Gazette at Hutchinson, and with John M. Schwinn will conduct it in the future. Mr. Schwinn has been connected with the Hutchinson News. Hunter Accidentally Shot-Clarence Jones of Wichita died of an accidental gunshot wound in the leg while being taken to a hospital there on a Santa Fe train. He was injured when a shotgun fell from an automobile he was driving on a hunting trip from Norwich. An artery was severed. Daniel Sullivan, 40 years old, a deaf and dumb farmer, living near Solomon, was struck and instantly killed by a Union Pacific train on the Solomon branch near Solomon the other day. The Kansas University wireless station in charge of L. E. Whittemore, instructor of physics at the university, and son of L. D. Whittemore o' Topeka, has reached such a stage of effectiveness that he intercepts messages from stations in Florida, Virginia, Texas and from ships in the Gulf of Mexico. A. H. T. to Meet at Galena. - At least 2,000 delegates are expected at Galena on November 20 at the four-state conference of the Anti-Horse Thief Association. They will come from Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. The conference will discuss conditions in the four states and consider legislation needed. Charles Haines, one of the twenty Kansas University students attacked by typhoid fever a month ago, was the first to be discharged from the University hospital. Others are expected to be released within a few days. Haines, whose home is at Marshville, Ore., was one of the best players on the freshman football eleven before his sickness. The oldest voter in Cottonwood Falls was George W. Jackson, 100 years old., He went to the polls early in the morning and voted the straight Republican ticket. It was the seventy-eighth year from the time he cast his first ballot in 1841, when he voted for William Henry Harrison for