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# Earnest Back From Oklahoma. Santa Fe, Nov. 1.-Traveling Auditor Howell Earnest has returned from Lawton, Okla., where he attended court and testified in the case of Charles E. Dennis, receiver for the American Bank and Trust company at Clovis, which went out of business over two years ago, against the Mountain View Bank of Lawton. The Oklahoma court ruled against Dennis recovering the $8,900 for which he sued. The evidence at Lawton seemed to indicate that the books of the American Bank and Trust company had been falsified to the extent of an entry which charged the Mountain View bank with $5,000, although the latter never received the amount, although the same day, L. C. West, who was president of both banks, was credited with $5,000.
