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Suspended Only Temporarily. The Western Farm Mortgage Company, of Lawrence, Kansas, has unfortunately been compelled to suspend business temporarily in this land district and elsewhere. This condition of affairs will work a temporary hardship to about thirty of the patrons of Mr. Geo. C. Ward, the district manager of the company at this place, but the patrons of the company are ready to testify that they have been dealt with honorably. This state of affairs has been brought about by a series of suits brought by J. B. Watkins, of Lawrence, Kansas, against the National Bank of Lawrence, of which institution he (Watkins) is a heavy stockholder. In Watkins's petition, he charges the National Bank with unlawful using of their funds to bolster up the Western Farm Mortgage Company, and makes many scandalous charges affecting the business standing of said company. These charges the company expects to prove malicious and utterly false. In fact, some of these have already been proved to be utterly without foundation. One of Watkins's charges is that the Western Farm Mortgage Company has been unable to furnish the mortgage papers which they certified to be on file in their office, and which furnish the security for debenture bonds guaranteed by the American Loan and Trust Company of New York. This statement, Mr. Snow, secretary of the American Loan and Trust Company, declared to be unqualifiedly false. In addition to the charges contained in the said petition, Watkins has flooded the United States with pamphlets, assailing the financial standing and integrity of the Western Farm Mortgage Company. No financial institution, however solid, could be expected to withstand, without out at least a temporary shock, such an onslaught as this in times of financial depression like the present.