Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-19
Annual Report of State Auditor
Shows Enormous Business
is Done in State
1906 FIRE PREMIUMS s7oaa,27o
Home and Foreign Companies Divide
tho Business Number of Smaller
Concerns Absorbed and Total Doing
Business in State is Decreased In
terestins Story Told by Report.
es-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April 19.-State Aud
! itor Carroll today completed That pof-
| ton of his annual report on insurance
business which relates to companies
other than life and made public the
general results found on the 1906 bus
| mess.
| Fire insurance companies and asso-
Citations received on Iowa business In
1906 a total of s7,OsS,27O.17 in prem
iums and paid in losses $2,754,314.33.
Mutual companies engaged in tor
| nado. hail and plate glass business re-
1 ceived in premiums s3S1,64.27 and
paid out s7O3O2.
/ Companies engaged in burglary.
casualty or similar business received
/ $677, 1926, and paid out S256,516.95.
There were operating in Iowa a to-
! tai of 14S companies other than the
! strictly mutuals, of which Ill were en-
/ gagged in fire companies. OF these
latter II were Iowa joint stock COM
| panies and 72 non-Iowa joint stock
companies and 19 branches Of foreign
| companies.
| There were 1S2 mutual assessment
associations, 153 being county mu-
| tuals.
| OF the total of $530,936, ,156.42 in
risks written in Iowa in 1906 there was
| this division: Iowa fire companies,
| 1929. 24,03311; non-Iowa fire, $229.-
662,312.17: foreign fire, $52,402, 1874;
| state mutual assessment fire associa-
tions, 32,069.S15; county mutual as
sessment associations, $56,03s,167; tor
nado mutuals, $26. .475,015; hail mutuals,
$5,172,S23; plate glass mutuals, $91, ,829.
4 To this should be added $101,751. .04S.39
! written by companies other than fire
doing casualty fidelity and surety
business.
The fees received by the state aud
! itor from insurance companies and
associations amounted to $55,45110. In
ten years the sum aggregated $464,-
| 55416 Insurance companies paid In
taxes $500. .304.96. The total of insur-
| ance examination fees collected and
paid into the treasury was $5,56376.
During the year there was admitted
to do business in the state nine stock
fire companies. three casualty COM
panies and two assessment associa-
tions. Six mutual companies disap-'
peared by consolidation and twelve
withdrew or ceased to report, most of
| the latter being because of the San
Francisco disaster The percentage of
losses paid to premiums received by
| the Iowa companies was 3l1 ana py
Il mt QG
Mr.. Carroll in summing up, stated
that the business has been, in general.
yery satisfactory, both as to losses and
amount of business transacted. Ref-
erence is made to the new laws, which
are commended, and the leading new
laws are printed in full.
/ .While we hesitate to alarm the peo-
ple of this state onY any condition, we
feel that the prevalence OF menlngltls
4 calls for the most prompt acton OF
the state board and all other health
officers thruout the state" The state
ment adds:
mo epidemic Of recent years has
4 been as threatening to the lives OF
1owans as the present spread of men
ingitis. which has been prevalent In
Missouri and has now invaded this
state" according to an official state
ment issued last night by the board
of health committee appointed to inves-
tigate the spread of that disease.
"As there appears to be no known
method of treating these cases with
success the gravest fears are to be en-
ftertained and the most decided action
to prevent further spread of the dis
ease taken.
"After investigation of cases near at
hand. we recommend to the county
health officers thruout the state that
the most rigid quarantine be estab-
lished. wherever this disease is found,
that the cases be reported at once TO
the secretary of the board and that an
approved method of fumigation for the
premises be secured from the state
board before the rooms or buildings are
placed in general use after housing
case of this nature.
1--WE most earnestly urge that no
public funerals be held in cases OF this
kind and that the citizens cooperate
in every possible way with health Of
fcers 10 prevent spread of this dis
ease.
"rhat almost every cease Of this ma
ture will prove fatal should be suf-
ficient warning to the public and
awaken them to need of the preven-
tive measures urged at this time. We
i have today investigated a case near
Ankeny. where there We're six children
in the family The three girls are
4 strong and healthy. one boy has sue
cumbed to the disease and the other
4 two boys are afflicted and little. if any,
hope is entertained for their recovery.
Married Fifty Years.
Leon. April 19.-James Kessler and
\ Mrs Maria Kessler celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary with
4 dinner and an old time reunion at their
elegant home east of this city few