Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-01
ALLIANCE MUTUAL LIFE As
SURANCE COMPANY.

Life Assurance Society of the United
States. 1t will be remembered, a short
time ago, when the agent for the COM
pany was c~anvassing the town for
the purpose of enlisting the cooper
alton of a sufficient number Of our
prominent citizens to justify the estab-
fishing of a branch office here. that a
letter was received from a we'll known
State official at Carson, denouncing
the concern as a swindle, and charg.
ing that it had failed in every respect
to fulfill the promises made by the
agent to the policy holders in Carson.
Reno and other towns in the west
ern portion of the State. This letter
was shown to the gentlemen who had.
by the investment Of their money,
and by permitting their names to be
used in the Endorsement of the
scheme, so identified themselves with
it., that should the charges in the
Carson letter be verified by the re-
suit of the operations of the company
in tnis section, they would be regard
ed either as the dupes of a confidence
swindle, or in league with its man
ayers to defraud other members of
the community. The Board of hi
rectors Of the proposed branch office
was composed of some of our best
and most prominent citizens, and i'm
mediately upon the receipt of the let
ter above mentioned, they demanded
of the agents here satisfactory proof
Of the falsity of the charges contained
therein as the only condition upon
which they would permit the contin-
ued use of their names in connection
with the movement. This was prompt
~ promised, the agents only asking
sufficient time to produce the neces
sary documentary evidence of the
healthy financial condition of the
company and the legitimate manner
in which they had conducted their
business at Carson and other points
where they had established agencies.
This was, of course, granted, although
but few, to tell the truth, had any
confidence in their ability to clear
away the charges, and the supposed
unfortunate victims were mercilessly
ridiculed by the ways of the town
for allowing themselves to be taken in
by a coupleo of ''grasshopper sufferers"
Even the SENTINEL had its little joke
at their expense. but as justice with us
is paramount to every other consider
a%tion-not even es excepting fun-we are
constrained to the admission that
the evidence produced by Doctor
George A. Moore. the secretary of
the company, in our opinion fully JUS
titles the publication Of the card in to-
days SENTINEL. We have been shown
y statement signed by eighteen policy
holders in the company, residents OF
Carson, which expresses the utmost
confidence in the concern and the full
est Endorsement of the II in
which the affairs of the association
have been conducted at that place.
Among those whose signatures are APP
pended to the statement are Secretary
OF State j. y. Minor, Surveyor General
Day, Hon. X. NJ. Clarke, James Duffy.
Lyman A. Frisbie, John p. Meder and
other we'll known citizens of Carson.
There is similar document from Reno,
signed by a number OF the leading cit
liens of Washoe county. This docu-
ment contains the statement that the
company has, since the organization Ol
its agency there, loaned upon mort
cages and other securities in the
county 8 400 more actual money than
has been collected in that department.
These statements would indicate a diff.
terent feeling by the policy holders Oh
those places towards the company than
was represented to exist. DIR. Moore
has also a letter from VIM. e. Miller.
Chief Justice of Iowa, who holds a
policy in the company and recon-.
mends it as "perfectly sound and or
ganized upon principles mutually just
to insurer and insured" He has also
letters of similar import from Thomas
A. Osborn, Governor of Kansas, and
United States Senator John j. ingalls,,
of the same State. He also produces
satisfactory evidence that the company
j. organized in compliance with the
insurance laws Of Kansas, and that the
assets are over a hundred Thousand
dollars in excess Of their entire liabil-
tiles. We make these statements upon
the strength Of the evidence furnished
us, and in justice to the agents OF the
company, the policy-holders here, and
for the information of all who teel any
interest in the matter.
AT an early hour Saturday morning,
Charles Brown, q miner working III
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