Show HALF A MILLION EACH1 7 STEPHENS BROS OF OGDEN FILE BtUTXRUPTCY PETITIONS Assets But 20 In Each Case and Exemption Ex-emption Claimed on that Result of Boom Speculation Two petitions In voluntary bankruptcy bankrupt-cy the combined liabilities aggregating over 1000000 with the combined assets only S40 and claimed to be exempt were filed In the United States court yesterday yester-day Tho petitioners are William J cinch Solomon C Stephens of Ogden and I the claims arc almost identical the dif Terence being in some minor accounts The liabilities or William J Stephens I ftie given aB 5CS9iS30 and those oC Solomon C Stephens us 5C704SSS The i secured claims In each case arc given us aggregating 1219021 I and the petitions peti-tions state that the securities which arc identical In both petitions are valueless I Almost all the liabilities are In tho nature of notes stocks etc The debts are said to have beon contracted by W J Stephens S C Stephens J O Stephens J C Stephens D M Stephens Ste-phens and Paul Beus In different com binations The assets in each petition are given as t2O wearing apparel on which exemption Is claimed i The principal claims are as follows I I First National bank of Ogden mmotei jrMse2i D H Peony Oguen note VJoGOO J O bteplu > ns Ogden note HUCOOJ R J < Tfyloi > Ogden nol KCOOOO AV 1 N Cleveland Morgan note 420357 Alary J Shaw Ogden note 303500 David Ivuy Sacramento note Z < ES > 0 South Ogden Clay Manufacturing company Ogden balance due for subscription to stock 16000000 I South Ogden Land Building and improvement comnunv Ogden I balance duo for subscription 10 ft stock I ICaOOOOO South Ogden Witter company Ogden balance duo for subscription sub-scription to stock KOOOOOO Paul Bell trustee O den ver I diet of Second District court given Juno C 1833 Judgment not tendered I35H Paul Beus Ogden Judgment rendered In Second District Second District court Septem her 23t 1SJH 1120000 Sidney Slovens Ogden Judgment rendered In I Second District court May 20 IKKi I n 163105 J O Armstrong receiver Citizens Citiz-ens Bank of Ogden Judgment rendered Jiuiuiry 17 1KM i M353 Tho petitioners were among the heaviest If not the heaviest speculators specula-tors In Ogden during the boom years from 1SS > to 1S01 They became very heavily involved and when the reac Ilion I-lion came found themselves in somewhat some-what difficult straits A succession of years of bad luck followed them and the petitions are the result |