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MINERS LOSE BANK CASE AND $80,000 IN DEPOSITS LOUISVILLE CONCERN GIVEN RIGHT TO HOLD ON TO FUNDS. Retiring Bank Commissioner Renders Decision in Famous Case in Northern Colorado Coal Mining aCmp. One of the last official acts of E. E. Drach, who was removed as state banking commissioner by the Colorado Supreme court on Monday, was to render a decision which rejects the claim of the United Mine Workers of America against the Louisville bank, located in Boulder county, now in the hands of a receiver, and which will, unless the courts intervene, release $80,000 in cash and securiteis to the receiver for the benefit of the depositors. Everett Owen, the receiver, is of opinion that the bank will be reorganized and hopes that the depositors will be paid in full. The decision grew out of the objections raised by James P. Miller, a director of the bank, and one of its principal stockholders, to the allowance of the claim made by the United Mine Workers, on the ground that the funds had been deposited in the bank under an agreement that the money was to be loaned to the American Fuel company, in return for which the coal company was to employ union men in an effort to break the strike in the northern fields. In his decision the state banking commissioner holds that Miller had proved the existence of such an agreement and that the mine workers are liable for debts