Commercial Bank (Vancouver, WA)

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ONE BANK SUSPENDS Inability to Realize on Securities and Too Liberal Loans on Realty Given as Cause. Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 20.-The Commercial Bank of Vancouver, President H. C. Phillips, failed to open its doors yesterday. State Bank Examiner J. L. Mohundro is in charge. Inability to realize cash on its securities and too liberal loans on realty, are said to be the principal causes of the bank's embarrassment. It is expected the depositors will sustain no loss.

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FISH POLE DID IT VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 2Unable to enter his home at midnight because he had left his keys in the bank vault, which was locked, M. B. Kies, receiver of the Commercial bank, secured a fishing pole and fished the keys off a shelf through the bars of the vault door.

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M. B. Kies, receiver for the defunct Commercial bank of Vancouver, was getting $175 a month as received but thought it too much so asked the court to cut the pay to $125.

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Bank Appraisers Named

VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 2.-R H, Avann, W. P. Connaway, A. F. Davis, Frank Marshall and C. W. Ryan were named as appraisers of the assets of the defunct Commercial bank. The receiver M. B. Kies, was instructed by Judge R. H. Back, who appointed the appraisers, to prepare an inventory of the assets to assist the appraisers in their work.

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METHODIST CHURCH CONTROVERSY SETTLED BY SUPREME COURT Taylor Street Edifice May Be Locked Up Says State's Highest Court The first Methodist church controversy of Portland and the suit of the state superintendent against L. O. Ralston were the principal cases handed down by the supreme court this morning. The decision of Judge Gatens in the circuit court was affirmed and the decision of Judge R. G. Morrow in the banking case was modified though the main contentions were sustained. The trouble in the church case arose over the consolidation of the Grace Methodist church at Twelfth street and the First Methodist church at Third and Taylor streets in 1912. After half a century of separate congregations the two bodies joined at the Ashland conference four years ago and were consolidated. Both congregations had churches and for a while the congregation held services at one church and then were transferred back to the oth. er. Each transfer found some of the congregations of the original church who refused to worship in the other building. Finally the board of trustees of the church decided to hold the main services at the church on Twelfth street and to close up the church at Third and Taylor streets. A number of the members of the Mirst Methodist church brought suit to enjoin the board from closing up the Taylor street church and in the lower court it was decided against the plaintiffs and the board was given the right to close up the Taylor street church and the plaintiffs appealed. In an opinion Justice Harris held that the lower court was not in error and only modified the decisions of Judge Gatens in that neither party should recover costs in the supreme court. Other Opinions Rendered. The suit of Mary Jacobs against oJhn Jacobs, a suit for Givorce, appealed from Linn county, opinion by Justice Renson, Judge Perey R. Kelly, affirmed. R. N. Doolittle, respondent, against Pacific Coast Safe and Vault works, appellant, an action for damages, appealed from Multnomah county, opinion by Justice Bean, Judge G. N. Davis, affirmed. B. M. Lombard, appellant, against M. B. Kies, receiver of Commercial Bank of Vancouver, Wash., respondent, action for breach of contract, appealed from Washington county, opinion by Justice Benson, Judge J. A. Eakin, reversed. Peter G. Carlson and J. A. Kallstram, appellants, against M. H. O'Connor, suit for specific performance of a contract to sell land, appealed from Multnomah county, opinion by Justice Bean, Judge C. U. Gantenbein, affirmed. Thomas Kay, appellant, against the City of Portland, respondent, suit to recover money alleged due for services rendered, appealed from Multnomah county, opinion by Justice McBride. Judge W. N. Gatens, affirmed.

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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Information of Our Readers. The annual meeting of the Clarke County Good Roads association was held Tuesday. Construction work on Ridgefield's $11,000 municipal water system is progressing rapidly. A land products show will be held in or near Vancouver one week in October or November. Lewis, the town farthest east in eastern Lewis county, has a woman secreary for its commercial club. The state of Washington was the highest of 10 bidders for the Pomeroy school bond issue of $35,000. The commission form of government under the Allen law was lost at a special election at Aberdeen. Mrs. Fannie D. Latham, 85 years old, was cremated in a fire which destroyed the home of her son, A. H. Latham, at Toledo. The Ridgefield commercial club is hard at work on plans for a big horse and cattle show, which will be held some time in June. Clarke county has obtained iron road signs, which will be mounted on pipe set in concrete at all important intersections throughout the county. Three auxiliary lumber schooners will be built on Puget Sound by J. H. Bloedel, president of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber company, of Bellingham. In a head-on collision near Winton, 15 miles west of Leavenworth, between a rotary running east and a freight west, three of the crew were injured. Sixteen miles of closed drains are to be laid this spring and summer in drainage districts in the lower Yakima valley, chiefly in the vicinity of Sunnyside. A petition has been filed by M. B. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership. W. G. Preston, a pioneer miller of Waitsburg, left property worth between $100,000 and $150,000 to Whit man college, subject to a life interest left to his son. The Quiniault Lumber company's mill at Raymond, which has been idle for nearly a year and a half, has started up, giving employment to about eighty men. Ground will be broken within a month or six weeks for the science building, the second new building which the University of Washington is to have this year. Mrs. H. H. Taber, Miss Elizabeth Taylor and Ernest G. Clarke, all of Tacoma, were the first motorists to register at the entrance of the Rainier National park in 1916. The senate naval committee has favorably reported Senator Poindexter's bill appropriating $2,000,000 for equipping Puget Sound navy yard for battleship construction. The state of Washington produced in 1914 over 3,000,000,000 feet of Doug las fir, or approximately over 65 per cent of the Douglas fir produced by the five northwest and coast states. Sixty lumber mills were represent ed at a meeting of manufacturers at Tacoma. Reports on conditions show. ed continued strength in the markets with shipments hampered by lack of cars. The county commissioners are advertising for bids to be opened March 20 for the grading, bridging and graveling of 12½ miles of permanent highway, which will connect Lind and Ralston. The "City Beautiful" campaign of the Aberdeen Civic Improvement association was revived with the announce ment that thousands of flower bulbs would be distributed there free on March 15. Jacob J. Schlee, a wealthy stock raiser and rancher of the Uniontown section, fell from the haymow of his barn in Clarkston and fractured his skull, death resulting in two hours afterward. The Seattle Construction & Dry Dock company was awarded the contract for the construction of a $1,000,000 steel steamship to be built for the Luckenbach Steamship Campany of New York. According to W.R. Jarrall, chief pa. role officer of the state reformatory, that institution is already feeling the good results of prohibition in the decrease of the number of men sent to that institution. The improvement of more than two miles of the streets of Washougal with crushed rock is nearly completed. The work has been carried on since September, except for interruptions Suring bad weather. The Kennewick commercial club passed a resolution favorable to the Shields navigable stream power measure now pending in the senate and sent telegrams to Senators Poin dexter and Jones, urging them to sup port the bill without amendments.

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Principal Events of the Week

Briefly Sketched for Information of Our Readers.

The annual meeting of the Clarke County Good Roads association was held Tuesday.

Construction work on Ridgefield's $11,000 municipal water system is progressing rapidly.

A land products show will be held in or near Vancouver one week in October or November.

Lewis, the town farthest east in eastern Lewis county, has a woman secretary for its commercial club.

The state of Washington was the highest of 10 bidders for the Pomeroy school bond issue of $35,000.

The commission form of government under the Allen law was lost at a special election at Aberdeen.

Mrs. Fannie D. Latham, 85 years old, was cremated in a fire which destroyed the home of her son, A. H. Latham, at Toledo.

The Ridgefield commercial club is hard at work on plans for a big horse and cattle show, which will be held some time in June.

Clarke county has obtained iron road signs, which will be mounted on pipe set in concrete at all important intersections throughout the county.

Three auxiliary lumber schooners will be built on Puget Sound by J. H. Bloedel, president of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber company, of Bellingham.

In a head-on collision near Winton, 15 miles west of Leavenworth, between a rotary running east and a freight west, three of the crew were injured.

Seven miles of closed drains are to be laid this spring and summer in drainage districts in the lower Yakima valley, chiefly in the vicinity of Sunnyside.

A petition has been filed by M. B. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership.

W. G. Preston, a pioneer miller of Waitsburg, left property worth between $100,000 and $150,000 to Whitman college, subject to a life interest left to his son.

The Quiniault Lumber company's mill at Raymond, which has been idle for nearly a year and a half, has started up, giving employment to about eighty men.

Ground will be broken within a month or six weeks for the science building, the second new building which the University of Washington is to have this year.

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Bound for Viadivostek with & cargo of war munitions valued at $7,000,000. 'punos our most nexts 2010 our the steamer Monolulan sailed from Tacoma Leading army, navy and militia of. ficers and civilians from the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, as well as members of congress, were heard at the North west Conference of Preparedness, in Spokane, Monday and Tuesday. A new reclamation plan providing for gravity diversion in the neighborhood of Prosser, with a siphon across the Yakima river was outlined by Arthur P. Davis, director and chief engineer of the federal reclamation serv. ice in a letter to Senator Poindexter. G. W. Gilbreath, inspector-at-large, after an investigation of the fruit trees throughout Garfield county, declared that most of the trees were so infect. up the selate pus 148119 411 AM pe short time they would be useless even as shade trees, not considering the bearing of fruit. According to a formal ruling given to Homer L. Post, prosecuting attorney of Asotin county, by Attorney General W. V. Tanner a druggist can not fill prescriptions for intoxicating liquors issued by physicians who are not licensed to practice medicine under the laws of the state. The car shortage which for 90 days has hampered commerce in the west is virtually over as far as the Pacific northwest is concerned, according to announcements made by Seattle railroad officials. The lines now have sufficient cars to handle traffic for an indefinte period, they said. Cattle losses on the south half of the Colville reservation this winter through blizzards will reach $100,000, is the statement of an Okanogan stock man. He places the number of cattle °H pueu . 098 JW A 2000, 18 1801 -1818 moaj eip you PIP cattiele our ples vation, but from the cold and blissard. Holding that the issues involved are political and that the court has no jurisdiction, Judge D. F. Wright of the Thurston county superior court dismissed the suits brought at Olympia to have the proposed initiative first aid and fish bills held up on the ground that the preambles contain arguments. Little of the enormous fruit tonnage anticipated this fall in the Wenatchee district has been signed up to selling agencies or shippers. The growers are awaiting the final returns of the organizations that handled the 1915 crop to obtain a basis of comparison of the efficiency of the different marketing systems used. Delegates to the Northwest Mining convention at Spokane adopted a resolution asking for a revision of the federal mining laws by a congressional committee. The resolution asserts that the present laws were framed 50 years ago. The convention went on record in favor of having a federal mine experiment station established Spokene. 18 Depositors of the defunct Commercial Bank of Vancouver, which failed for nearly $400,000 December 19, 1910, held a meeting and adopted resolutions objecting to the petition of M. B. Kies, receiver, to the superior court asking permission to advertise for sale to the highest bidder the assets of the institution. Only 20 per cent has been paid to the depositors. With prices ranging about 20 per . 'of's year . jo those адоле cent steady market and a good demand in the United States despite the fact that the foreign business is at a standstill, Tacoma lumbermen express satisfaction with present conditions and foresee further improvement. Practically all Tacoma mills are running, with the exception of the Tacoma Mill com sujuans are ownes pus plant, s,Aund night shifts. Definite steps were taken at a meeting held at Spokane for the organisation of boys' and girls' agricultural clubs in every county in Washington. The active management of the asso clation in each county will be in the hands of a board composed of the state superintendent of public instruction, the director of agricultural extension work, and three individuals selected from the citizens of the county participating in the work. J. S. Waugh, an Aberdeen business man, and County Commissioner Locke claim to have located what appears to be paying quantities of manganese ore in the Quiniault country, north of Aberdeen. They have been staking out. claims and getting samples for some time. Recently the price of this commodity has been soaring, so that the ore can be mined profitably. Sam ples of the ore have been sent to the Tacoma smelters. The ore bed is said 8 se Juj 08 extend, 01 distance of seven miles. Surrounded by the heads of 20 colleges and universities of the east and west, all wearing the robes and in signia of their academic honors, ErHolland

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Bank Receiver Asks Hearing.

VANCOUVER, Wash., July 7.—(Special.)—M. B. Kies, receiver for the Commercial bank that failed in 1910, has filed a petition for a hearing for the purpose of fixing compensation for the attorneys for the receiver, unpaid since 1918, for final distribution of the balance on hand and for his discharge as receiver. Proved claims against the bank totaled $366,712, the petition states. Two dividends of 10 per cent each have been made and a small sum will remain after the attorneys have been paid. Mr. Kies recommends that the balance be distributed to the depositors pro rata.

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Auto Park Receipts. Receipts at the Clarke County Auto park for the period from July 3 to July 8, inclusive, totaled $144, William Paul, chairman of the board of county commissioners, declared today. Receipts for the six-day period were listed as follows: July 3, $19.50; July 4, $27.50; July 5, $35.50; July 6, $16.50; July 7, $23.50 and July 8, $21.50.

Baby Son is Born A baby son was born July 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bennett of Vernonia, Ore., at the home of Mrs. Bennett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Santee, 315 West 29th street. The baby weighed seven and a half pounds and has been named Ralph Howard Bennett. Mrs. Bennett was formerly Miss Laura Santee of this city.

Aid Society Social. The Ladies Aid society of the Brush Prairie Baptist church will hold an ice cream and cake social in the church parlors, Thursday evening, July 10. During the evening a series of stereopticon views of the Oregon trail will be shown. Serving will begin at 7 o'clock and will continue throughout the evening. A cordial invitation is extended to the public.

Meeting Set for Thursday The Ladies Aid and Missionary society of St. Paul's Lutheran church will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, in the parlors of the church. Mrs. T. J. Peterson will be the program leader for the afternoon. The hostesses will include Mrs. Andrew Thompson, Mrs. P. L. Sather, Mrs. M. Thompson and Mrs. Fred Wark. A cordial invitation is extended to all ladies of the church.

Bank Receiver to Report. Superior Judge George B. Simpson Tuesday signed an order fixing Monday, September 8 and the Clarke county superior court room as the time and place for hearing the receiver's final account and petition for distribution in the case of the state of Washington, ex rel, J. L. Mohundro, state bank examiner, versus the Commercial bank of Vancouver, a defunct corporation.

Hall Will Make Address. Joseph E. Hall, county prosecuting attorney, is on two committees that are arranging the program for the annual convention of sheriffs and police, to be held July 21 to 23, inclusive, in Seattle. Mr. Hall was offered an opportunity to speak to the convention on necessary legislation, and today signified his intention of taking advantage of the opportunity. He has not as yet chosen the topic for his address, he added.