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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
ABSTRACT OF STATEMENT,

Il For the Year Ending December 81. 1891.
OF the condition, and affairs Of. the Mutual
Reserve Fund Life Association, OF New York,
organized 1nder the avs Of the state OF New
York, made to the COMMISSIONS of Insurance
Of the state Of North Dakota, in pursuance OF
the laws of said state.
resident....... !. Frederick a. Burnham.
Vice George ID. Eldr1dge.
Secretary. go. j. Charles w. Camp.
Principal Office. .....309 Broadway, New York.
Attorney for service in the state OF North Da.
kota:
Name.:...Hon Ferd Leuts, Com. of InsuraInce.
I. ...... lemar NJ
Organized or Incorporated February 9th, 1SS1.
Commenced Business. 9TH, 1851.
Balance Sheet
Amount of net or invested assets
December 31st of previous year 3 1l,514,VSz u
ii Income During Year 1901
Annual dues as per AN.
contract, without
any deduction
Assessments. Mort
nary, $5,e60,4S0 Sc;
Expense, $495, us 81 6,156,454 46
tl Kent, 'si HlS1:,5; 49,. s2s,1ss So
Cash received from
all other sources,
viz. Fees for alter. As9
ations in policies. 252 W ,n%
- Total income. ....".""""".. I,o66.o8As W
gr| 49, 3Ert5g-# ~. ...T.T--.-
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
8 2~9O,74s,Sse B
8 7~l,274,15o 81
Expenditures

Paid for losses and additions, 4 IA s17 ese a.
Paid for matured endowments 80
and additions...."."""m... s,9es,4 IS
Ppa ai9 for srr.snSsr.j" noi;o;. 1852 800 81
(applied to pay running prem.
iums $40, 152. SO ).".... -. 1417 eoo OK
Reserve values paid on matured ~
deferred dividend policies
(only. the profits on such are
included in dividends ......... $500 ,as ~
Dividends paid to ~policyholders 34i2a 9I 20 70
Installments paid on trust poll. 40
cies and on registered ...... ss s7e "a
Cash paid during the year for o''0'o 90
commissions and salaries..., 1O126 5aa N
Rents paid during the year,. 749' IS55 90 90
Taxes paid during the year,. 1880 S 3
Cash paid for advertising.... i07nI7 s n
Medical examiners fees and sal "
aries -."...;...... e27.s4o 21
penditures"..."". .".". 1,765 Sl4 %
lasrH Total eXDenlitnrea II AKA 400 90
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous.
Whole number of policies
written and paid for in
North Dakota during the
To Ssdr risks taken and paid f sSl
during the year in North Da-
kOta 1512.5 26J m
Total premiume received during
the year in North Dakota ..... S6.Q51 *
Total losses and claims paid
during the year in North Da-s
2s,s2S 4e
during the year ............ Is 1928 46
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA.
Office of Commissioner of Insurance
!, Ferd Leutz, Commissioner of Insurance of
the State of North Dakota, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true abstract Of the
original statement now on file in this Office.
In testimony whereof, I have h~ereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal Of this Office at
Bismarck, this LIST, day Of May, A. p. 1902.
W. c. G~1LBREATH, T
Deputy.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
Office of COMMISSIONS of Insurance.
COMPANIES CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHORITY.
Whereas, the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, OF New YORK, a corporation organized un.
der the laws OF New York, has fled in this Office
business for the year ending December 81,
1901, conformable to the requirements of the
laws OF this state, regulating the business Of
insurance, and.
Whereas, The said company has fled in this
oHcea duly certified copy of its charter with
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
ABSTRACT OF STATEMENT
For the Year Ending December 81. 1907.

For the Year Ending December 81, 1901. =
OF the condition and affairs Of the New York
Life Insurance Company, of New York, organ
lied under thy laws of the state. of New York,
made to the Commissioner of Insurance of the
state Of North Dakota, in pursuance Of the laws
of said state. -.
President........ =. .,,J John A. Mccall
Vice President. Henry Tuck.
/. Chas. G.. Whitney.
Principal Office ..346-S48 Broadway. New Pork.
Attorney for service in the state of North
Dakota:
Name. ....... Commissioners of Insurance.
Location.....-........ II. .".......... Bismarck.
Organized or Incorporated..... 80. ......1841
Business 49,. :. 1845,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
Net amount of uncollected and de-
ferred OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Total non-invested assets.....
Vi Liabilitie.

Losses adjusted, due
and unpaid.......... 4.
Losses adjusted not
due 1886, S2S 81: in
process Of adjust
ment $4l2,775 90
resisted $118,217 IS.
Due and unpaid on
annuity claims......
Salaries, rents and
office expenses due
and accrued.
Advance assessments
1881 Is dividend
obligations $38,925.
Reserve for assess
ment of death losses
occurring prior to
! December 81, 1901,
h u~nreported Oh that
date go.
Auother (not includ.
ing contingent
mortuary) viz: Net
present value of all
outstanding poll
4 cies in fOrce........,,,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23

Whole number of
policies written in
North Dakota dur
ing the year 49,. 349,9S0 90
Total risks taken during the year
in North Dakota ..... 349,98 90
Totalgpremiums received during
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
$l9,O81,Bl7i Al
iii Disbursements During the
Year 1901 5s5
Year 1901

Losses and claims.....
Old age benefits &c.
832 81; Disa bility
benefits, $6,705 H..
Paid members for
dividends sos, 462 Sc
For surrender val
ues $S9.SS1 97......
Commissions and fees
retained by or al.
lowed to agents on
account of fees and
Committing renewal
commissions
Salaries of managers
and agents not paid
by commissions.
oa ia " oMcers,'
coo,9lS l1'..::;.......:...'
oa ninae OF once en-
Meuacal e1alnlhels
iSes' MlStner Palu
Mrect oy N
or ot ne
hent, S 81 aS tax
es, $l5o,o44 q; az
Serti sao s,s an1 1J prlnt-
xne Ses, and r .ei,iii
on reaI estate.,.'''''.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23

..s22.6l9,O6Y Of

Total ..s22, 619, O6Y o.
Total premium income............
Interest and dividends received.
Rents
Income from all other sources....
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
Assets.
Total assets
.....................
Liabilities.

II L O41Oy S4d1ulp III LID. -' H.
process of pay
Policy claims in
process of adjust "
ment, full proofs
not received. -. 1895, $50 81
Policy claims re- III w
sisted by the com
pany ............". l14,422 ~
Total policy claims. s 2,329, O24
Net present value of all out
standing policies and addi-
tional thereto in force Decem-
Der 81, 1901, determined by the
New York insurance depart
ment as follows: Policies
knowna as the company's three
per cent. policies and all poll
cies issued since December 81,
1900, being valued as per the 4
American experience table of
mortality with 8 per cent. in.
terest, and all other policies
being valued as per the COM
tally with ! per cent interest. 2s7,71s,eo4
Dividends due and unpaid. 165, 1895
Premiums paid in advance. 554,462
Amount of policy trust funds
held by the company.... 718,481
Additional reserve on. policies
which the company values on
a higher basis than thatlused
by the New York state insur-
ance department, as above
stated .:... ."....... 5,153,S96
Reserve to provide dividends
payable to policy holders dur.
ing 1902 and in subsequent
years per policy contracts...... IS, 628, 66S
Reserve to provide for aufother
contingenciesm................ 1o.4so,o5s
Total liabilities 8 2so,74s ,sse
Income.
New premiums ."..$ 1S,859,257 81
Renewal premiums 42,710,292l 81
Total ..... 8 1868, $50 O8
Deduct premiums
paid for r%e-insur-
ance ...."...... 156,03O rs
Total premium income... 5s, 412,e19
4nterest ana dividends received 10,592.09O
rents received; ;"..".""".. 1,OOO.6O7
income from all other sources. SOS, $50
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
Contingent Mortuary Liabilities
Miscellaneous

Total contingent mortuary
-.-- GabilitieS .......... 8 10. S15, $50 81
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
Balance,
Invested as follows :

Total disbGTsements. -. 49,. 5 8,97O,625 q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Herr Franz Won Lenbach, the famous
German historical and portrait painter. has
suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
Sven Anders Hedin, the Swedish traveller,
has been invited by several American uni
versities 10 lecture before them on his
explorations. He hopes to be able TO ac-
cept invitations early I'm 1903.
The stokers of Marseilles nave struck for
an increase OF wages. and the movement
threatens TO spread to all the port laborers.
Nine steamers which should have sailed
yesterday were deserted by their crews.
The French minister of war has drawn
attention to the unsanitary condition of the
army, saying that since 1870 Germany had
only lost 1900 soldiers from disease. while
France had lost 5000 from the same cause.
Consumption and typhoid are the principal
factors in the death list.
Shamrock III will be launched at the
end OF March or early in April. She will be
much more ready for sea than was the
Shamrock III. when the latter was launched.
Lady SALISBURY, wife of the commodore
of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, probably
will christen the new challenger.
The continued decline In the price OF sill
yer causes some considerable comment in
English financial circles. According to the
best informed houses IL is regarded as being
directly due TO Chinese flooding the markets
with silver In payment OF the indemnity to
the powers. Prior to the recent disturbances
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
RUSSIAN EXILES STRIKE
NOURISHMENT UNTIL
MORE HUMANITY TREATED.
IBERIA Said to Be Horrible-War-
dens Brutal.

VICTORIA. B. c., Nov. 26.-The steamer
Olympia, which arrived to-day from the
Orient. reports that naval activity still pre-
walls at Hong-Kong. The China mail says
the activity of the naval authorities por-
tends far more serious work than the dem
onstration against China on account of the
Human affair, which was settled by China
acquiescing in the execution of the officials
responsible for the murder of Missionaries
Bruce and Lewis.
From Siam the steamer brought news of
the defeat of a party of military police of
Siam by the Shan rebels and the death of
Captain Jansen, a Dane in the service of
Siam, who commanded the force. King
Chulalongkorn has granted Captain jan
sens mother, who is in Denmark, a pen
sion for life.
From the Siberian convict settlement of
Alexandrovsk news was received that the
convicts have gone on strike, refusing all
nourishment until they are more humanely
treated. A Shanghai paper, the Free Press.
gives some horrible details of the treatment
of these unfortunates, who are mostly edu-
Gated men, sentenced for political offenses.
Tn paper says. on the authority of a re-
cent arrival from Siberia, that they are
loaded with chains, herded in dark, unsani-
tary cells and not taken out into the open
air for weeks at a time. Infectious diseases
have not been removed, being left to suffer
in the overcrowded prison. The result Is
that others have been contaminated. Even
left TO rot among the living. The warden
treats all convicts, healthy and sick alike.
with Incredible brutality. The convicts car
ried out the strike reSolutely. On the third
day many lost consciousness from fasting
but no sufferings induced them to accent
food. The condition of ~convicts in the set
Element of Koktschetavsk is still worse.
Desperate revolts there have been ouelled
only after much bloOdShed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
S~IXTEEN-INCH GUN.
Ii Is Over 40 Feet Long, and Required
Over Four Years to Construct.

ALBANY, n. Y, Nov. 26.-The sixteen
inch coast defense gun which was manu-
featured at the Watervleit arsenal was
shipped to-day TO the Sandy Hook proving
ground and will reach there som time Fri
day. The gun was loaded on a barge which
will carry IL down the Hudson river. I'm
der the direction of Colonel Farley, COM
mandant at the arsenal, the gun was loaded
on a specially constructed car weighing
"a, go pounds and slowly moved to the ar
senal dock, where by means Of an extra
large crane and a mammoth derrick IL was
swung onto the barge.
Following are the dimensions OF this
weapon of coast defense: Length over all.
40 feet 90 inches; diameter at breech, 5 feet;
bore, 16 inches. Its construction was begun
Nav IA, 1898, and ii was finished June II,
1902. Some faint idea of it's power can be
obtained by the statement that it shoots a
proiectile weighing 2,3O pounds a distance
of twenty-one miles. If smokeless powder
is used it will require $40 pounds. or about
1000 pounds of black powder. The crude
steel from which the gun was assembled
weighed 36S. 600 pounds. 1t has cost in ma
terial, labor and machinery about $50, 0O0.
A large amount Of new machinery had to be
made for the work; one of the largest
cranes in the world was built to handle
II: new lathes were secured and an immense
amount of new machinery was purchased.
The cost was so great that II is doubtful If
any more of similar size will be built.
when IL was decided to build this gun Ii
was the intention of the government to
construct about twenty sixteen-inch guns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
RENEWAL OF DISORDER
MORE TROUBLE AT HAVANA GROW
ING OUT OF THE STRIKE.
Motorman and Two Passengers Shot
Rural Guards PatrOling Streets
Political Complications.

HAVANA, Nov. 26.-With the exception
of the cigar makers, all classes of laborers
returned TO work this morning and bust
ness generally has resumed its normal con-
ditions. The cigar makers still have a few
minor points under discussion.
The authorities had begun 10 think that
there was no fear of further disturbances,
but there still remains a feeling of ami
mostly in the hearts of some of the more
demonstrative strikers against the motor
men and car conductors, who are blamed
for breaking up the general strike by their
refusal TO go out. Threats were made dur
ing the afternoon in outlying wards to do
these men injury and these menances cul-
minated at dark this evening in an assault
on several cars. Shots were fired from
housetops in Belascoain street and a motor
man and two passengers were shot, the
motorman being fatally injured.
All the rural guards, with the exception
OF those in the Columbia district, were
summoned to duty in Havana. The streets
through which cars are running are pa
trolled by the guards and two companies
of artillery are stationed in the arsenal
and treasury building ready TO assist the
police, though it is not thought that there
will be any further disorders. The mayors
edict preventing the gathering of groups
In the streets is still in force.
The Discussion. the organ of the adj
ministration, says the mayor and Diego
Tamayao. the acting secretary to the civil
government, are responsible for the blood
shed and that the mayors action in dis
missing Chief of Police Cardenas was a
serious mistake and encouraged the strik-
ers TO disregard the authority of the police.
The Discussion further states that Secre-
tary of State Zaudo is mentioned for Senior
Tamayo's post, Secretary of Finance Monte
is to be secretary of state and Senator
Silva secretary of finance. The position
of secretary of Governor, which Senior
Tamayo held. is considered to be the most
influential politically, as the holder of the
post has jurisdiction over the rural guard.
the police and the postoffices. Senior
Guilberto Gomez, colored, is also men,
toned as the probable successor of Senior
Tamayo. Gualberto Gomez, with General
Maxine Gomez, took a prominent part in
the settlement of the strike. His speech
to the strikers Monday night is said to
have prevented further rioting.
TIL resignation of Senior Tamayo threat
ems political complications in both the
House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
ELECTIONS AND FINANCES.
Business Stability a Result of Re-
cent Vote.
Chicago Bonds and Mortgages.

SulCdSO DODuS anu MOTlSdReS.
Growing out of the result of the elections
will be a renewal of confidence in the per-
manency of conditions. 1t must be admit
ted that this has been slightly shaken dur
ing the past month, the coal strikes and
other labor troubles intensifying the situa-
ton. The settlement of these troubles
made the Nation more confident in the
future, but yet it was feared that there
might be at the election some overwhelm-
ing reversal of policies that would upset
business and cause a halt in the business
life of the Nation. That fear has passed
and the indications for the future have
frightened perceptibly in every section.
The West has shown it's reputation of
Populism. and the East, while it has made
Democratic gains, has done so only so far
as ii has returned to the old sound-money
ideas. This of itself is encouraging. as il
marks the end of the initiation movement
begun ten years ago and which has been
fought through two presidential campaigns.
The next campaign will be based on other
things than the finances. The tariff is
likely TO come TO the fore and there NAV
colonies. Reciprocity is looming big i'm the
congressional programme, and all of these
things combined may be of moment in the
battle to be fought i'm 1904.
In the meanwhile the outlook for a busy.
happy country was never brighter and the
investment interests have encouragement
TO go en- in the development of the mvriad
attractions that are before the capitalists
of the Nation, not only here, but in the
new colonies where business enterprises
need the touch of Yankee thrift and man
agement to give the best returns since Co
lumbus discovered America. Whatever So
luation may come to the trust problem.
however the great combinations of canifai
may be controlled for the peoples benefit
IL is practically certain that il will be done
by the friends OF the business man and of
the progressive citizen, and not by the
friends of the disgruntled rabble-and that
is all that ought 10 be asked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
"PENNY" AND GONE CENT
A Little criticism Which Clings to
speech.

NEW 1OTk commercial.
We plead guilty to a charge brought
against us by the Toledo Blade-and 1t Is
no joke, either. Referring to the Cor1mer-
calls recent comments on the steady APP
proach Of our Postoffice Department 10 the
point of DEMONSTRATION and to it's remark
that penny postage is almost in sight"
our Ohio contemporary says:
1T is a cold, hard. solid fact that we
have had penny postage on letters in the
United States for a good many years. A
penny is an English coin. Its value Is 2
cents. There is no American coin called a
penny. nor is there any warrant whatever
for calling a cent a penny. In value IL Is a
half-penny. What the Commercial means,
and what 1t should have said, is 'one-cent
postage instead of penny postage Why
use a criticism at all-and especially when
IL Is absurdly Incorrect"
There is no really good reason for IL.
Custom. however, through the centuries.
and even l20 odd years after the achieve
ment Of American independence, has some
how kept penny current in our vernac-
ular long after the practical disappear
ance Of pounds, shillings and other Brit
icisms.' There are corners of New Eng
land where the storekeepers still fiaunt
rudely-fashioned placards on their bundles
Of yarn bearing the legend. ''ninepence a
skein." or where the laborer still wants
his mine shillings' a day. We heard a
thrifty housewife up in Maine last sum-
mer declare that no dress goods she can
buy now wears quite as well as the de
laines'' that she used to pay 'four-and-
six a yard for-and she Is by no means an
old woman as age Is reckoned nowadays.
Still, no really self-respecting girl of the
period will be found anywhere with -four
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
TRADE In CANCELLED STAMPS.
i'm China Buy Chfldren
with Them.

New York Sun.
For many years the United States postal
authorities and others have heard rumors
that somebody was willing to pay a fabu-
lous amount for 100000 Cancelled postage
stamps. The somebody MAS never been
definitely named. but it has been vaguely
stated that the proceeds of the stamps
would be devoted to charity and that some
wealthy individual would pay the premium.
Perhaps an episode brought. to light in
Newark may shed a little light upon the
matter. Yesterday Postal Inspector j. L.
Cortelyou.' a brother OF President Roose-
velts secretary, and United states Mar
shall John Garside, Of Newark, arrested
in that city Henry Boisseaue. a French
man, seventy years old, who is an inmate
of the Home of the Little Sisters OF the
Poor. Boisseaue is a veteran OF three wars.
His arrest was brought about by a salve
manufacturer in this city who notified the
postal authorities that he had offered TO
exchange postage stamps for salve TO use
upon his feet. SalveS were sent to him and
washed stamps were received i'm exchange.
IL is said. The old man was then arrested
and his room in the home was visited. AT
least $1,000 stamps were found soaking in a
washtub.
The mother superior of the institution
said that Boisseaue had nothing TO do with
the collection of these stamps. but that he
and other aged inmates were EMPLOYED To-
soak them from the envelopes, dry them
and arrange them for shipment 10 China.
where they brought a good price and were
highly esteemed for wall decorations
Boisseaue said yesterday that he did not
know that he was doing anything wrong i'm
offering Cancelled stamps and that he made
no attempt 10 enace the cancellation marks.
Lawyer Michael L. Barrett went upon his
bond for 500 An examination will be held
on Dec. 5.
The sisters said that the stamps had A
high value in the eyes of the Chinese and
that Christian workers exchanged them for
chlldren who were adopted and brought up
In the Christian faith by the missionaries.
1t has been suspected for years that these
stamps came back 10 San Francisco from
China. retuvenated and gum.ned afresh.
but the postal authorities have never been
able 10 prove a case.