The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 12, 1917, Page 8

a § BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE DROUTH ACENTS BAD ACTORS 15 SNES CLAIM Declares A.djusters* Misrepresent Department and Bamboozle the Farmer INSURED WRATHY WITH REPORTS OF FRAME-UP Write Governor Frazier Asking Who's Running This Admin- istration Anyway The hide is ripped off certain state agents for the National Union Fire Insurance (Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., with western offices at Watseka, Minn, in an open letter which Insurance Com- missioner S. A. Olsness today add: - es to the public in an effort to clear up misunderstandings resulting from this companys “drouth insurance” op- erations in North Dakota. The commissioner accuses these gentlemen of “damnable practic among which are misrepresentation, falsification, intimidation and repud-/ ion ating that there has been eae} tional ‘Fire e Co, a strong, reliable company, With a capital and surplus of $1,750,000, has been writing | what is called a special crop insur-| ance policy during the past season. Under this contract they guarantee | the farmer $7 per acre, for a premium | rate of 10 per cent against any dam- age except fire, flood and bad hus- bandry. Disastrous Losses. “Owing to the extreme drouth over the entire western North Dakota and | Montana, this company has disastrous losses to meet, and the question is how to extricate themselv The company now has a large force of | field men on the territory, endeavi ing to make settlement, and in th . MAKING HIS” fourth—‘‘sweat dreams.”’ effort some over- lous adjusters, "PILLOW" MAKING HIS BED wiTH PONCHO. The first scene shows Sammy digging up soft earth for his pil -ow, spot for his hip bone. the third sh ows how he ‘‘makes his bed’’ by the second catches him in the pre adinz his poncho. over the mattress of softened earth, and the act of preparing a similarly soft spurred, no doubt, by unholy de-! sire to create for themselves undying feels there is nothing to gain in with the a bankrupt company. fame as faithful servants company. evidently have resorted to questionable tactics. The chief im plements used ure two, namely: Threatening to put the penitentiary insurance under as to the con taking out his application; second, working on the farmers’ sympathy t by pleading bankruptcy. These as- tute agents know that the farmer will yield Bay two ‘irst, out of sympathy, having aah ‘broke or near broke him. self so often; secondiy, LATE MODEL Dodge Bros. Touring Car. Standard equipment, perfect me- chanical condition; used short tirae a3 demonstrator .. $775.00 Missouri Valley Motor-Co. | tsi.” y van 7th at Main St. Our boys Bevo. vessels, der to clear the name of the } Union Fire Insurance Co. and also to pleadings, because of| disprove any charges of there b derstanding with surance commissioner, | submit Lecause he-| the following copy of a telegram sent by myself to the head office at Pitts together with excerp burgh, Pa. from Mr. “National Union Fire Insurance Co., ASTHMA SUFFERER WRITE TODAY and | a the simple home treatment for a which has cured many sand change of climate I want you to try it at my ex- ‘op me a card and [ll maii sample bottle FREE. J. Thomassen, Box A-136, Des Moines, Towa. and bronchi failed, Telephone 234 | Pen’ you a 25e The Navy De; its official seal of endorsement 0: this triumph in soft drinks, by allowing it to be sold and served ca all naval eile aasi sf Most Damnable. “Liat the most damnable of a!l their, underhanded work is when they go, tarmer in the So far as to even tell the claimant, for having obtained his that they are settling all losses at ten | false representation percent, or by giving bac crops when premium note, and that it is done ac-} cording to a fixed understanding with} he insurance commissioner. ossible: fixed *hase’s reply: in the Navy enjoy their artment has put Ashore or afloat, you will find in Bevo a palate-pleasing, refrcshing and nu- tritious beverage. Just the thing to take or cruise —auto trip or camp and for the ice-box at home. along for sail caunok S88 Ta Bevo—the all-year-"round soft drink Bevo is sold in bottles only and is bottIcd exclusively by ANHEUSER-DUSCH—ST. LOUIS. Gamble-Robinsen Truit Co. id T “will tell you of uing In or- tional | sthma Geo. Pa—Re your message of inform Pittsburgh, this morning, can ...yesterday told local agent all djustments must be mad» on basis of ten per cent regardless merits of claim. Information indicates same method used elsewhere pleading bank- ruptcy. 1 insist on immediate expiaa- ation, or department will revoke li- cense at once.-—S. A. Olsness.” Chase in Denial. The National Union's reply comes {hrough s western attorney, Nathan Chase of Minneapolis, who writes \iaaer date of October 5: “I desire to most emphatically state ‘that no officer or reprgsentative ot the National Union Fire Ins. Co., has ever issued such instructions. It was thoroughly and fully uaderstood that no bankruptcy talk was to be made with refereace to the National Union. as it naturally could not afford that sort of thing; and that when settle ments were made on the hasis of re turn premiums, it was to be done be cause of the fact that adjusters were convinced, hy good and sufficient evi dence, that the crops were not in good condition at the time the appli cation was made and that the com pany had consequently been deceived by the applicant.” “Farmers’ Administration.” “I thought this was a ‘farmers’ ad- ministration! What's the matter?” wrathfully asks a Coleharbor farmer, in writing Governor Frazier of an ad- juster’s claims that the plan of set- tlement he proposed, return of prem jum or nothing, had been approved by the insurance department. Other very imper' t letters have come. from of Wishek, where the adjusters seem to be most active. A conference was held with Commissioner Clsness som? time ago, when the insurance men represented that many policies had been obtained through fraud and requested permis- sion to adjust these claims as best they might. ARKLEY LEAVES FOR CAMP GREENE. BERTH Fighting Chaplain of Second As- signed to 116th Engineers at Charlotte Lieut. H. C. the former Second N who has been, Greene to the. 1 last evening for Charlotte, ~y in | response to a wire froin Col. Frank White urging him to report at his ear- liest convenience. At Dickinson on .Wednesday eve- ning, Lieut. Markley received his sec- {end ordination in the Methodist Epts- copal church at the hands of Bishop oke of Mon! who has two sons | eat struggle. The! of the most impres-] ereice ever has wit- Markley at ihe James- and he now ordained minister of the Markley, chaplain of th Dakota, and igned at .Camp ive the cont: neosed Cha his first churc town cer fully Markley assures friends of the Second regiment that if he does not find himself in a position to per- lly direct the expenditure of the ) chaplain’s fund raised for the | henetit of the Second, ne will see that the money is equitauly distributed and that it gets to the various uniis of the regiment, all of which have been re- j tained intact. Of immense im the A. W. Lue Co. advertisement on page 5. Read it and convince your- sel. WANTED. Work i in country petent woman. Las one c'! perienced. Inquire 213 Tenth street. 10-12-1 engineers, left, received » ALIEN WIOOW CANNOT GLAM EXEMPTIONS IK NORTH DAKOTA ESTATE Reverses Lower Supreme Court Tribunal and Denies Aust- tian Woman's Claim An alien widow is not entitled to exemptions specified by, North Dakota statutes, which primarily are for the “protection of the home and _ the state,” rules the supreme court of North Dakota in finding’ that Magda- lena Krumenacker, Austrian widow of Ludvig: Krumenacker, who died in Stark county, in 1914,’ 4 Hinot collect $1,500 allowed her from/-‘her husband’s estate by the district court in Star county. Krumenacker had willed his estate to another Magdalena Krumen- acker, widow of his brother Gustav, and through her the property, valued at about $2,000 after_the payment of all debts, had descended to her daugh- ter, Katie Stecher, and her four chil- dren, all residing in Stark county. An interesting feature of the case is the fact that the supreme court found that Krumenacker was guilty of bigamy when he. married :his house- keeper, Margaret Schummer, in Stark county in 1910, after the district court had granted him a divorce from Mag- dalena. That divorce ‘was not valid, the supreme court rules, because Mag- Fuel Problem Solved You will be interested to know that a new. device for burning kerosene. oil has been patented and 'nerfected. It can be installed in eny type of furnace, hot water or produc'ng sufficient heat to keep eny hotel. apartment house or re- sidence as warm as required in the ‘coldest weather. The burners are simple to oper- ate and are perfectly safe, there are a great many of them in use in different states. They can be seen operating in different types of stoves arid heat- ing plants at 726 Hennopin Ave, Minneapolis. You are invited to call and see demonstration. Your coal worries will be ended as soon; as sig start using the Regal Burn ® REGAL BURNER COMPANY | Rel:able representatives wanted in all Parts of North-Dakota. steam heating plants, cook stoves,|” dalena did not have notice of the | institution against her of proceedings ! on the grounds of desertion. | Evidence seems to indicate that Lud- vig did the deserting, when he left Austria in 1900 for America, after serving a seven months prison sen- tence for beating his fond Magdalena, who had ‘been his wife since 1887.! Had Magdalena been an American she could have collected her $1,500 exemptions as Ludvig's only legal widow, even had his second wife not preceded him to the grave. EXAMINES ELECTRICIANS State Board Holds Sessions in Grand Forks and Fargo State Fire Marshal H. L. Reade, as chairman of the state board of elec- tricians, is conducting examinations in Fargo today. Yesterday a class of ap- plicants was examined at Grand Forks. WANTED. Young lady experienced in office work. 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Dai anh ome EUROPEAN thy and night sf pee ai ‘The NORTHWEST, 100 Rooms _ The McKENZIE, 210 Rooms The SOO, 125 Rooms THE HOTEL CENTER IN BISMARCK, N. D. DW. G. PATTERSON, Owner and Prop. $1.00 per day 50c per day $1.25 per day 75c per wy $1.50 per day upward in America” SAINT PAUL,. MINN.