The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-07
WHO CAVE IT OUT?
Trouble in Knights and Ladies
of Security Over Report.
Claimed That Insurance Com
mission Didn't Authorize 1t.
CHICAGO THE CENTER.
Two Suits for SANDER Have
Been Commenced.
RumOr Is That Others Will Be
Brought.
CHICAGO THE CENTER.

Chicago. Sept. THE Tribune
prints the following:
fractional troubles that have been
brewing in the knights and Ladies of
Security will be brought to a focus
within the next few days, when Dep
uty Insurance Commissioner Isaac NJ.
Jones of Kansas is officially asked to
explain how an unapproved report
came into possession of officers who
were recently ousted.
The report in question was largely
responsible for two Chicago women
being sued for Islander. Other lodge
members are fastening to the front
with apologies in an effort to keep
out of the laws meshes. Insurance
Commissioner Charles w. Barnes, who
repudiates the report. says it was
merely the preliminary notes from
Jones. and that he has not yet had the
opportunity to pass upon it.
Realizing the damage that was COM
ing from the statement. several Chi
cag'o members, among them Aid.
Arthur w. Fulton, a director of the
lodge, have insisted upon Barnes
making a thorough investigation of
the matter and he has promised to
hold a session with the lodge directors
as soon as Jones return from his vaca-
ton. Aid. Fulton is expecting a wire
daily. When full explanations are
made it is understood that the prelim-
mary report will be considerably mod
flied.
DIR. Warner Scores Officers.
DR.. H. A. Warner of Topeka, for 10
years medical director of the lodge,
who is now organizing an opposition or
ganization called the Cosmopolitan Mu-
tural Benefit society, has sent the Tri-
bune a copy of the Jones report, with
singing letter against the present
management.
Commenting on a recent meeting of
directors at Topeka, DIR. Warner points
out that the dissatisfaction in the or
ganization is not due to the defeat of
the writer and his followers. He says:
1T (the dissatisfaction is the result
of the disclosure of some unsavory
facts in connection with the manage
ment of the order, and especially that
part of it which controls the city of
Chicago. together with the startling
fact that the manager, J. NJ. Bair.
whose office is at 1103 Ashland block,
received $3.210.S5 in one year for petty
expenses, to which he was not entitled,
and that during the next four or five
years he received in excess of his legal
allowance $10.075.2o.
Refers to Witnesses.
IF you will call upon Mrs. Amanda
Mcclure, who has been an active work.
er for eight years and a minor officer,
and who was part of the last national
| council, many of the statements in this
| booklet can be verified She resides at
| 209 South Western avenue. Also Mrs.
Catherine F. Phillips. 457 Honore street,
who also was a member of the conven-
| ton.
1.-The death rate in that city is so
great that it has called for $4,000 in
| the last four years in excess of the
amount received from that city and
more than $4,000 since the order was
! established there. Mr.. Bair runs the
order in his own personal interest, be-
| ing solicitor and manager of field
work He selects the medical exam
| liners and approves of death claims-in
| other words. is it
| In justice to the IL 900 members in
| Illinois, 10000 of whom are in Chicago,
| this whole matter ought to be investi-
| gated by your insurance department"
| Mr.. Bair, who has been filling his
present position for ten years, a few
| days ago sued both Mrs. Mcclure and
Mrs. Phillips for SANDER for the al
| legged assertion that he took the
money referred to. He hopes to recov-
| er $4,000 from each woman.
| Trouble Follows Election.
| The societys troubles were kept well
within the order until the national
! council met in Philadelphia last June.