Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-05

Total LIPS 3S2,644 534,3s4, 40;
In two years there has been de-
crease in the total number of compa-
nies reporting in Iowa from 143 to l26
| There was an increase OF five in lowe
companies and two in nonIowa COM
panies; but decrease of twelve in the
number of assessment associations foul
| in accident associations and sin in fra
ternals. The total increase in number
of policies in force was 65,552 and Of in
surance in force S65,960,952
| The division of business among the
various classes of companies authorized
| to do business in the state in 1901 was
as follows:
Level Premium Companies-Iowa
joint stock companies, six; Iowa NUT
uals, six; non-Iowa stock companies
twanty-one; non-Iowa mutuals fifteen
1 Assessment Associations--Io asso-
Citations, ten; non-Iowa associations
nine; Iowa accident associations and
companies, seven; non-lowa accident
associations and companies, two.
| Fraternal Beneficiary Societies-Iowa
| societies. twenty-one; non-Iowa So
| cieties thirty-eight.
| There was u smaller number OF
changes in the companies doing busi-
ness in Iowa during the year than US
ual. Seven companies that had prev
iously been admitted failed to make re-
ports and were cut off the list of ac-
credited companies. namely: Ideal Or
der of Fellowship, Renbeck, Ia: Star of
Jupiter, McCook Neb.; Bohemian Sla-
vonian Benevolent Association, New
York; Massachusetts Mutual Life In
surance Company, Springfield; Broth
erhood Accident Association, Boston:
National Aid Association, Topeka.
kas; United Sons of America, Des
Moines.
Transfers of companies We're author
lied by the department during the year
as follows: Ancient Order of Red
Cross, Waveriy Ia, and knights of ka-
dosh, Des NIoines. to the Bankers I'm
ion of the World, Omaha; Laboring
Mems cooperative Life. Sioux City, to
Merchants Life. Burlington; Utopian
Brotherhood. Des Moines, to the North
western Reserve. Des Moines
The following are the companies that
We're admitted to do business in the
state in 1901: State Mutual, Worcester;
Minnesota Mutual, ST. Paul; Latta Life
Annuity. Des Moines: Tecumseh Life
Springfield; Brotherhood Reserve Life
Des Moines; Fraternal Accident So
ciety, Cedar Rapids: Workingmens
Mutual, New Hartford, Ia; African
Monarchs of America. Sioux City; Fra
ternal Bankers Reserve. Cedar Rap
ids: Northwestern Reserve, Des
Mones; Utopian Brotherhood, Des
Moines
There We're seven laws passed by the
last Legislature affecting insurance.
Provision is made for method of Civ
ing notice of loss. IL method is provided
for withdrawing notes in premium note
compares where they have been de-
posted with the auditor. plate glass,
burglary. credit and health insurance
are permitted and the taxes on foreign
assurance companies are reduced to the
basis of domestic companies These
laws are all given in the annual report.
A good many of the state officers,
high and low. have been investing in
land in the Dakotas the past few years,
hut they did not like the report brought
lack by Fletcher Howard, of the state
pharmacy commission, who has just re-
turned from a trip into South Dakota
and southwestern Minnesota. He says
he saw many fields of corn laid fiat by
the frost and even the small grain
blackened by the freezing of ten days
ago. The crop situation up there is not
as bright as it had been before. and in
many places they have been complain
ing OF not having enough rain.
There are very distinct rumors to the
effect that the end of newspaper con-
solidations has not yet been reached in
Des Mones but these have taken no
definite shape as yet.