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Show STATE DEiANDS KTOWIJ I0IEY HELENA, Mont, March 51. Interest Inter-est In the scandal Involving tine state board of livestock commissioners, as ' tho result of which Sam W. Lang-horno Lang-horno Jr., chief clerk of the board, was sentenced to one year In prison for the forgery of an endorsement to a S4S check, was revived today, when George E. Hurd, special prosecutor, employed by the legislature to probe the case, mado formal demand on the National Bank of Montana and the American National bank for the return re-turn to tho state of ,"319,730, paid out on tho alleged forged endorsements. The full amouut of langhorne's al-legejl al-legejl peculations havo nevor been mado public. The attorney general took charge of the case In Its Inception and sqcured a plea of guilty from the clerk on one count, Bontonco being Imposed Im-posed the next day nfter Langhorne's arrest. The checks for whjch restitution restitu-tion Is now demanded cover a period of less than, two years, while Lang-horno Lang-horno was In the ernploy ot tho board for six years. The two banks mentioned men-tioned were state depositories and carried car-ried the funds of the board. Many of the checks, however, came through tho clearing houao and In that way every bank In the city Is Interested. Inter-ested. At a conference of banker3 to- . rH day It was agreed to deny responsibility responsibil-ity on tho ground that tho forged endorsement wero accopted by the board after the payment of the checks. |