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Show RUN ON HELENA BANK. Remark of Practical Joker Frightens Depositors. De-positors. An innocently-intended joke caused quite a run on the Thomas Cruz Savings Sav-ings bank in Helena, Mont., last week, which, before it ended, caused nervous depositors to withdraw more than $200,000 from that institution. When the true status of affairs became known many endeavored to redeposit( their money, but this the bank declined to receive. Thomas Cruz, with the exception of United States Senator Clark, is probably prob-ably the wealthiest man in Montana. He recently sold one mine to the Rothschilds for 81,000,000, after having extracted a similar sum iD gold therefrom. there-from. It appears that a practical joker told a friend in the county treasurer's office that the Cruz bank was in an embarrassed condition, the remark being overheard by a woman who was standing nearby, who thought she was getting an "inside tip," and who i straightway telephoned her husband to withdraw his money. The husband did so and spread the news among a few intimate friends, with the result that nervous depositors withdrew their funds in a lively manner. man-ner. The run was kept up for a week before the depositors realized their error. |