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Show RECEIVER NAMED FOR DENVER INSTITUTION DENVER. Colo.. July :.The Fidelity Fi-delity Savings association, at 823 Sixteenth street, went Into the hands of a receiver yesterday. Liabilities Li-abilities are placed at $1,000,000, and Attorney J. C. Helm has been made receiver. re-ceiver. E. M. Johnson, president and manager of the institution said tonight: "Our liabilities may be $1,000,000. but I think our assets will balance them. I do not care to go Into a discussion on the Question now and must have time to investigate. I believe we will be able to straighten out our difficulties and keep our business.' The directors of the Institution are E. M. Johnson, E. W. Smith. A. H. Partridge, Part-ridge, J. I. Jones, all of Denver, and M. B. Johnson of Texas. The failure Is due to loans made In Texas and In Louisiana swamp timber lands, fully 80 per cent of the loans of the associations having been made In those two States. |