Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-10
CITY ACCOUNTS
State Auditor Prepares to Comply with
Newly Enacted Statute.
UNCERTAIN HOW MUCH HELP he NEEDS
Scramble tor business 60 Make Good
Losses Said to he RcsponsibIe. for
eating Insurance. Rates
IN Iowa.


" run a oANlA WI lN7 iNllAA'AN'N
DIES MONIES, Aug Especial )-Under
the law enacted at the last session Of the
legislature requiring that the state auditor
make an examination OF the accounts Of
all cities of 900 population or over at
least once every two years the work was
commenced today by George Pennel, an in
surance examiner in the auditors once,
VINO began an investigation OF the accounts
Of the city officials of Crestop. Penneu
is an expert accountant in the auditors
Office and has been assisting in the insur-
ance department There are twenty-five
cities in the state with population OF
5,OOO over, but the state law provides
that cities of a population OF less than
5000 can have the accounts examined by
the auditors office II the mayor or city
council or twenty citizens request Il. 1t
Is therefore impossible. for the auditor to
judge how many employees II will require
to do the work. II the accounts Of only
the twenty-five are to be examined 1t will
not require all of one mans time 10 do
the work uf examining each once IN two
years, but should smaller cities make the
request in any great number other ex-
aminers Will have to be put TO work.
Auditor Carroll today announced that the
commission of seven expert accountants
and city officials who will meet to devise
a uniform system Of accounts for cities OF
Iowa will meet on August Is, instead Of
August IA, as at first announced.
The bank examiners of Iowa will meet
, at the state auditors Office the first OF
next week to draw up the blanks on which
the directory boards of the state and saw
ings banks must make the June and De-
cembcr reports to the state auditor. The
law requiring these reports was enacted at
The last session of the legislature.
sun Francisco Fire Cuts Rates.
George ]. Delmage of the Century Fire
Insurance company of this city, in testify
| ing before the insurance commission today,
stated that rates were being cut in this
state on fire insurance and testified that
he believed 1t to be due to the San Fran
cisco fire and earthquake. He testified that
there were companies suffering great less
! in the fire which would pay out, but were
now cutting elsewhere in order to get
big volume of business and make up for
! the loss; that there were others which
! would not pay out and were trying to get
all the business possible before the crash;
and still other companies, not having any
! loss in San Francisco which were COM
PEELED to cut rates TO meet those injured at
: San Francisco and hold their business.
The commission this afternoon took up
! the mutual companies w. T.. Johnston
and f. d. Babcock of Ida Grove, the first
/ the president and the second the secretary
of the Grain Shippers Mutual Insurance
| company; President Miles Of the Hardware
! Dealers Mutual at Mason City, Secretary
/ Ride of the same company of Spencer, +.
! f. Gordon of Sac City OF the Hail Storm
| Mutual and j. 3. Herman and Norman
Dennismore of this city of the Town Dwell
! lers' Mutual, were before the commission
! this afternoon to testify. a... -.-
{ Sets Up Conspiracy Claim.
David Hellyer. who married in this city
and with his wife. Sarah T. Hellyer, moved
TO Falls City, Hob.. and then back to Des
Moines, has appealed to the supreme court
| his suit to recover a deed to property In
this city which his wife secured in all
mony In a divorce proceeding in Nebraska.
| IIellyer is an old soldier. Both had chill
| dren by former marriages. Hellyer as
| serts his wife knew of his physical in
/ frmites before she married him and that
| while I'm Falls City, Neb.. she conspired
| with the neighbors and threatened him
with divorce proceedings unless he decided
| to her his property in Des Moines and
| that one of the neighboTs accompanied her
TO their home and also threatened him.
Now he wishes to have the deed set aside
Democrats Expect Help,
The democratic state central committee is
| arranging to bring in Governor Folk and
! Congressman De Almond and Champ Clarke
| of Missouri. c. A, Towne OF New York and
| w. ]. Bryan of Nebraska to assist them
in the Iowa campaign. AT the headquar-
ters today 1t was stated that arrangements
had been made to this end %.
Hon Thomas Il, Maxwell, formerly a res
| ident OF this city and now resident OF
| Creston, is said to have. been practically
| agreed upon by the democrats of the
Eighth district as the candidate to be nom
mated against Congressman w p. Hep
| burn.