Bank of Willcox (Willcox, AZ)

Episode Information

Episode UID
91013671453
Episode Type
Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
9101367 routing
Routing Number
91-0136
Start Date
January 18, 1921
Location
Willcox, Arizona (32.253, -109.832)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
88e2c1e93e9088e7

Response Measures

None

Description

Receiver appointed by court in Jan 1921 and later Supreme Court decision (1922) references receivership.

Events (3)

1. January 18, 1921 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
named a receiver for the Bank of Willcox The receiver is Herbert Louder of Cochise county
Source
newspapers
2. January 18, 1921 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Judge Albert Sames of Cochise county named a receiver for the bank
Newspaper Excerpt
it was unofficially learned ... that Judge Albert Sames ... ha named a receiver for the Bank of Willcox
Source
newspapers
3. April 28, 1922 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
the Supreme Court ... decision ... in the matter of the receivership of the bank, in which it is held that the state is not a preferred creditor
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from Arizona Republican, January 18, 1921

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Local'Briefs JEWISH WOMEN'S CARD PARTY The Council of Jewish Women will give a social and card party at the Woman's club Thursday afternoon 20 January THESE WILL MARRY Licenses to marry were issued yesterday to Theo dore Watry, 27. of Santa Anna and Nettie A. Gillette 24 of Balboa, Calif. Baptiso Carlos, 54, and Sepia Lewis 50, both of Scottsdale Alfredo S. irraga, 22 and Petra B Perralta. 22, both of Phoenix and Buford S Paulter, 25, and Maria Carletta Diaz Phoenix of 17. both HELD ON CHECK CHARGE-John F. Williamson yesterday was ar raigned before Justice McKee on charge of uttering a bogus check He was released under a bond of $1000 which he furnished to appear for examination to the charge on Januar 20. The complaint was made by Cal Messner, who alleges Williamson gave him a check for $1000 dated December as part payment on a seven and he-half ton Mack truck valued at $2500. The check was returned by the bank he alleges, unpaid. The check was drawn on a Tucson bank GETS DIVORCE On grounds of desertion, Lucy Friedel yesterday was granted a decree of divorce from Joseph Friedel by Judge Lyman FINED FOR TRANSPORTING LIQUOR Aleiandro Montajo, who pleaded guilty in the superior court to a charge of transporting in toxicating liquor, yesterday was fined $150 by Judge Stanford or one day In jail for each $1 of the fine. He paid the fine PYTHIAN SISTERS TO MEET Purity Temple No. 9, Pythian Sisters will meet next Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the K of P. hall CAPTURE STILL IN OPERATION When Officers Crowe and McGrath of the police department and Constable Haze Burch descended suddenly into the basement of the house at 1101 South Third avenue yesterday noon they found a milk can still going full blast and two Mexicans engaged in making "moonshine' whisky The men Vascente Reynoso and Boniface Rev noso, were arrested and placed in the county jail to await arraignment in justice court. About a quart of new "moonshine" whisky and barrel of An mash were found by the officers. oil stove furnished the heat for the cooker. The entire outfit was new and the Mexicans claimed the whisky found by the officers was their first attempt in the making of illicit whisky. WILL NOT TAKE CHECKS-Miss Edith Jacobs, county recorder. yester day made the announcement that she could receive no more personal checks in payment of fees. She has alread been called upon to make good several that had been drawn against insuf. ficient funds Though in many cases she could have no doubt of the sound ness of the checks the situation ob viously calls for the application of blanket rule against personal checks ARGUE APPEAL The case of Clarence Sage, former chief of guards of the United Verde Mining company convicted of rape and sentenced to life term in the penitentiary, was argued in supreme court yesterday on appeal There appeared for the ap. pellant P. A. M'Carron and George B Thatcher of Nevada, and George Purdy Bullard of this city Assistant Attorney General George R Hill appeared for the respondent. The arguments began at the morning session and were not concluded until in the afternoon The only other matter set for hearing was the case of Harry Hurley which to 29 APPOINTED CLERK - It was an nounced at the office of the governor yesterday that John S. Hopley of Tucson had been appointed parole clerk at the penitentiary. It will not be new job for Mr. Hopley who has ha other extensive official experience Beside having served as parole clerk under the first Campbell administra tion, he was chief of police of Tucson and earlier than that, was sheriff Pima county ALL DAY PARTY- Osborn Wo of man's club will give an 1-day part on Wednesday at 11 a. m. All ladie are requested to dress as school chil dren or in old-fashioned dress and bring one article of food for lunch noon. All club are invite AIMS AT DISCOURAGEMENT am going to do all in my power discourage men under the influence o liquor from driving a motor car. was the comment of Judge Thomas ves terday as he imposed a fine of $10 of and added a five-day jail sentenc after W. Grogan entered a plea guilty to driving a car while drunk RECEIVER FOR WILLCOX BANK It was unofficially learned vester day at the office of the state audito ng that Judge Albert Sames of the nev superior court of Cochise county, hav ing charge of non jury cases ha named a receiver for the Bank of Will cox The receiver is Herbert Louder he milk of Cochise county GOES TO COLORADO Col. John al Boniface, instructor of the national ch guard for Arizona. New Mexico an Colorado, left on Sunday night fo te Pueblo to attend the annual armory spection. On his return he will inspe the New Mexico national guard, and o his return in about three weeks wi submit the Arizona national guard he RETURNS FROM NORTH- Fred Weage, United States deputy marsha of returned yesterday from a trip Kingman, where he went to take prisoners from the Kingman jail to th in Yavapai county jail at Prescott fo safe keeping The prisoners were Mik ut Pazin charged with selling intoxicar to Indians and Carl V Bricker, wb is said to be one of the most accom plished criminals ever taken in Art zona. Bricker, who is accused of hav ing robbed a postoffice in a sma town near Indianapolis, Ind. is als said to have had in his possession the time of his arrest stolen auto mobile, while he is declared to have national notoriety as a forger. Bot Pazin and Bricker were arrested William Mahoney, United States der utv marshal at Kingman. FOR STATE CEMENT PLANT The Maricopa County Real Esta: board at its regular weekly lunched in the Y M. yesterday as fave


Article from The Snowflake Herald, April 28, 1922

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Southwest News From All Over New Mexico and Arizona (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) First actual work on the reconstruction of the Apache trail east of Mesa to Roosevelt has been launched. In the arrest of a man who gives his name as "Albert Clark," Santa Fรฉ police think they may have a clue of importance in solving the Vidal Lopez murder mystery. At the recent election held in Tularosa, N. M., a majority of the residents of the city went on record as in favor of the $75,000 bond issue for the building of a new waterworks. The First National Bank of Deming has closed a deal with the bank at Columbus by which the business of the latter will be transferred to Deming and will be handled by the First National here. Reports of the hunters of the Biological Survey show that 126 predatory animals have been killed in New Mexico since the first of the year. In the Black range and the Gila country many-mountain lions have been killed. Children, either in a spirit of play or unmindful of the consequences of their act, almost caused the derailment and possible wrecking of Southern Pacific passenger train at Yuma, Ariz., when they placed several spikes on tracks just south of Yuma. An "International Run" from Phoenix to Nogales, Mexico, is being planned by the Automobile Club of Arizona and the good roads entertainment committee, J. J. Montgomery, chairman, as the crowning feature of the big national good roads convention to be held in Phoenix during the week of April 24. Jewell A. Bostick, charged with importation, possession and transportation of 162 quarts of tequila, has been bound over to the federal grand jury under bond of $2,000 and committed to the Pima county jail, according to commissioner's records filed in the office of the United States District Court at Tucson. Members of the Maricopa county board of supervisors, at a recent meeting, voted to join with the supervisors and commercial bodies of Cochise, Santa Cruz, Pima, Pinal and Yuma counties in requesting the governor of Arizona and the State Highway Department to designate the Southern Arizona Interstate highway a primary interstate route. W. S. Eason, a resident of Deming, N. M., has been held to the grand jury under bond of $500, charged with Illegal voting at the recent election. While it is said that Eason had lived in the state and county the required length of time, he had been in the precinct only two weeks. His ballot was challenged at the polls but he nisisted on casting his ballot. The New Mexico Cowboys' Reunion Association voted to hold the eighth annual roundup at Las Vegas July 3, 4 and 5. Business men have raised the required purse, and the reunion will offer, as usual, $5,000 in prizes for roping, brone riding, steer bulldogging, cowboy and cowgirl races, fancy roping and riding, and all the events that go to make up a first-class rodeo. When the war finance bill, an emergency measure introduced in the Senate by Senator James Scott of Navajo county, became effective with the signing of the bill by Gov. Thomas E. Campbell, loans to Arizona cattle and sheep men by the War Finance Corporation amounting to approximately $1,500,000, which have been held up awaiting the passage of the measure, were released. Apple Blossom day, one of the biggest events in New Mexico, was held in Roswell April 18. All the business houses in the city were closed. On account of the fact that there has been little snow during the winter in the Gila country near Silver City, N. M., all visitors and tourists have been asked by the officials of the forest service to guard against fires during the summer. May and June will be the worst months and special guards will be stationed in then ational forest during these months. The forests have been well posted and everything possible done to save the country from fires. The state of Arizona stands to lose $20,000 as the result of the action of former State Treasurer Harry S. Ross in accepting the bond of the Central Finance Corporation as surety for state funds deposited with the Bank of Willcox. This is the significance of a decision handed down by the Supreme Court at Phoenix in the matter of the receivership of the bank, in which it is held that the state is not a preferred creditor as claimed by the attorney general. Governor Campbell has approved the claim of Frank S. Faurot of Weiser, Idaho, former deputy sheriff of Washington county, Idaho, for the $1,000 re-