The Farmers State Bank of Sunol, was organized in 1914, and has a capital and surplus of $24,930, and the following officers : T. W.

Rogers, president ; W. G. Nielton, vice-president and G. W. Barlow, cashier.

The Huntsman State Bank, six miles north of Sidney began business in 1919, and now has a surplus of $4,500 and a capital of $10,000. Its officers are : W. A. Sparks, president ; J. A. Chaon, vice-president, and W. E. Cunningham, cashier.

This concludes the list of financial institutions past and present of Cheyenne county and shows a remarkable history. The first flush of the gold years, the bonanza cattle days, the lean years of the droughts, and now the agricultural years of plenty. The great wide wheat fields with their wealth of grain in this county, is reflected in the volume of business shown in the fourteen banks. The only discordant note in the financial history of Cheyenne county in a quarter of a century has been the attempts of the older banks to keep new ones out. The new banks were needed by the growth of business in Sidney and the surrounding country.

The Farmers State Bank of Sunol was robbed July 28, 1916 at noon. The robbery was supposedly planned by R. G. Lukins and Frank Connell, the former acting as lookout while Connell took the money. He locked C. W. Smith, the cashier in the vault and started away with the loot, but two men were in the road. He shot through the windshield and killed them both. Others headed him off, and he ran his car into a corn field. Lukins was arrested in the town and Connel was captured in the willows near Tobin's ranch. He confessed, and both men were sent to the penitentiary.