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Show w PAIR ASKED TO EXPLAIN LOIS Two Construction Men on Stand in Trial of Bank Officers BOISE, Idaho. Dec. 19 "R. W. Far-is Far-is and S. E. Burnham, members of tho Western Construction company, whose transactions with the v rland National Na-tional bank figure Largely as an issue is-sue In the trial of Blcknell. Black and Hitt, former official, occupied tho stand Monda under the examination of E. G. Davis, district attorney, fori the greater part of the day. H. E. Bank, bank accountant for the department of justice, also testi- , fled as to overdrafts of the Western j Construction company; O. A. Fans j was called by the government to I explain a loan of $1". B00; M. E. POW- j elson of Melba gave testimony as to $G00i he left with G. R. Hitt, cashier of the bank, to be loaned for him; Sam and Alex Ballantyne. sheepmen;1 John Driscoll. former director of the bunk, and M. B Gwlnn, president of the bank at the time it closed, were also witnesses. |