Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-07

the list Of great men upon whom great,
ness has been thrust.
THE INSURANCE QUESTION.
The Inter Mountain may publish
whatever list Of insurance companies 1t
sees fit. II there are any insurance
agents in this town who represent com-
!, panies who are interested in the Bonner
loss, If the said agents are not advertis-
ing patrons of the Inter Mountain THE
MINER advises them to strike a double
quick In the direction Of that journals
counting room with an advertisement in
one hand and a check in the other or a
publication may follow which would be a
notice to the public to beware of said
companies, and this, Of course, would be
a detriment to the agents representing
them. Again, If the Inter Mountain or
anyone intimately concerned with it
should happen to be in the insurance
business and it should so happen that
the said Inter Mountain agency should
have no policies with the Bonner COM
pany, the companies which said agency
represents would not appear in the
threatened publication and the effect
thereof would be not only to give it to
the competitive agencies in the
neck but also to boom its own
agency; that is, if it should ap-
pear that that journal is in the in
surance business or anyone 80 closely re-
lated to it that the identity is merged
and the less swallowed up by the greater.
The Inter Mountain threatens to pub
lish the names of the companies inter
ested in the Bonner loss and when it
does THE MINER will endeavor to estab-
lish its motives with a certainty that
will have the force of documentary evil
dence. II the usual Inter Mountain
sharp practice is at the bottom Of the
THE MINER will take pleasure in
bringing it to the surface that the pub ]
Lie may see every side of the insurance !
question. /,
-i-tHS And uil 4
repeat that the facts 60 to prove that the j
insurance companies that have been 8
;rying to avoid the payment of the loss . .
which the Bonner Mercantile company 4
ustained by the fire which occurred on B
Yep. 20 are rotten in principle, though Al
HE MINER has never questioned their o.
nanclal solvency. If they were in :,
olvent there might be some excuse for q,
monkey business which has char m
cterized their relations with the Bon III
er people, but the facts tend to estab- al
sh that they are amply able to pay
ut will not do 81 If they can wi
7oid it, ven by means that an
e rotten in principle. Immediately sill
the Bonner fire, men who have Ii
ways had the reputation of being hon -,
t and who were not stockholders in the ost
inner company, invoiced and examined ito
stock for the sole purpose of ascer- no
ming what loss the fire had o~ceasioned MAJ
4 IL u,os TIM. .,.s. - noo ISL
- ~ poo' the
}. When the adjusters arrived the tnr
rcantile company offered to settle for inf
1000 rather than incur the additional con
) which wonld rasnlt from o lati
q OF business. That offer was refused 49,
1 arbitration agreed upon and as the con
ult a disinterested man of acknowl- who
ed integrity and an expert deter for
ned by a most careful and thorough cum
mination that the loss exceeded $685. s'S:
ino paiu representatives OF the in legi
ance companies had previously de- plot
ed that the loss did not exceed 5000, legi'
upon this basis they wanted to set pear
and because they could not do so w =,
resorted to the system of monkey form
that meets with general condemna- by a
the Inter Mountain excepted. OF The
Sc nobody expects that sheet to con- iegis
n onv,b;nr .h.. reguI
piinc being
to the support of the wrong it the
tive |
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