[Volume XXV
TUE CHICAGO BANKER
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The Central National Bank
DENVER, COLORADO
Established July 1st, 1907
Capital	$ 200,000
Deposits	- $1,328,812
OFFICERS
B. F. SALZER, President	W. M. MARSHALL, Vice-Pres.
J. B. LAZEAR, 2nd Vice-Pres.	W. H. TRASK, Cashier
D IRECTORS
W. M. Marshall, Vice-President W. D. Selder, Cashier Stock Growers’ Bank, Burlington, Colo.
J. V. Cockins, Cashier Central Savings Bank and Trust Co.
D. H. Staley, Cashier First Nat’l Bank, Arvada, Colo.
W. H. Trask, Cashier
B. F. Salzer, President B. F. Salzer Lumber Co. Geo. Richardson, Secretary Farmers’ High Line Canal and Reservoir Co.
W. C. Packard, Dealer in Bonds and Stocks F. H. Johnson, Capitalist
E.	R. Naylor, Capitalist
F.	S. Moore, President Union Health and Accident Co.
Established 1882	Incorporated 1901
Daly Bank and Trust Company
of Butte
BUTTE, MONTANA
Capital Stock -	- $ 100,000
Surplus -	200,000
Deposits -	-	-	2,906,185
OFFIC E RS
JOHN G. MORONY, President	JOHN D. RYAN, Vice-President
C. C. SWINBORNE, Cashier	R. A. KUNKEL, Assistant Cashier
R. W. PLACE, Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS
JOHN G. MORONY	JOHN D. RYAN	MARCUS DALY
C. C. SWINBORNE	R. A. KUNKEL
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The American National of Houston, Tex., formerly known as the American Bank and 1 rust Company, will open for business under the new arrangement on Monday morning. A meeting of the stockholders of the organization will be held on Monday when a number of additional directors will be elected and plans will be mapped out for the conduct of business under the new charter.
President W. E. Richards stated that all of the details for the change had been made and that business will go along Monday as though there had been no alteration of the form of organization. It had been intended that this change should take place some time ago, but there were unavoidable delays in getting the necessary authority from Washington. These were mostly of a minor detail character and have now been attended to and the change will be made without the interruption of business in any manner.
As already stated in The Chicago Banker the reports of the bank show that the institution is in the very best of shape. The deposits now on hand exceed $600,000, as against less than $400,000 three months ago. This large increase is due principally to the fact that the number of depositors has been increased almost 250.
The additional stock in the bank has also been subscribed. It was originally intended to fix this at $250,000, but it is understood that the figure is to be $300,000. It is also stated that the officials of the bank are contemplating larger and more suitable quarters for the bank. A number of propositions are under consideration and a place will probably be selected within a short time. President Richards stated that nothing definite had been determined upon in this regard.
John J. Mitchell
John J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank of this city, says that much improvement in general business has been shown within the past thirty days. '1 have talked with a large number of representative business men in the past few days,” said Mr. Mitchell, “and have failed thus far to discover one case where improvement is not shown. Of course, nobody is going ahead rapidly, but they are getting back into the active channels gradually and confidence is gaining ground. We shall probably have political scares to cope with during the next few months, althoug'h I cannot make myself believe that the effect of these will be other than temporary and without much hindrance to the progress of trade. As yet the improvement has not reached the money market, but it is coming, and rates will be higher in the next six weeks. Our loans now average about ¡\y2 per cent, which is satisfactory, considering the conditions. The figure is not so high as last year, although it is up to the average for a four year period.”
“In the Dead of Night”
Mystery stories come easy to the pen of T. T. McIntyre and his latest^ “In the Dead of Night” is full proof of his expertness at this trying literary style. The incidents for the present tale happened in New York, always at night. It is night when a young man is picked up by a passing cab and is told by the girl occupant that he is wanted at a deathbed. He insists that he doesn’t know the man, but she silences his protests by handing him a check made out in his name. So, helpless, he is conducted to a house, put into a room dark, with two unknown, unseen, and silent companions, to wait until he is brought to the sick man’s bedside, where he is betrothed to the girl who has just picked him up out of the streets, marriage, however, being contingent upon his performance of some unmentionable, mysterious act, after which he is politely kicked out of the house into the arms of a waiting ruffian. After spending• the following day recuperating from the effects of the night’s excitement, he starts out the next night to gather whatever apples fortune will shake down upon his head, and, incidentally, to solve the various mysteries presented to him