Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-31

ing TO the tOliOW1nS:
Condition of American Home Cir
Gle Oct. 81, 1908; Cash on hand. So
S24.S6; reserve fund, invested in
bonds of the Northern Telephone COM
pany.' $4,000
Amount of claims on file and re-
ported, including contested claims.
s34.S49.51.
THE income for the first 10 months
OF 1905 was s94.653.46. Death claims
paid. $59.792.45: expenses. s31.2s7.52."
All Hut Two Sign.
TX NJ. Whitman then took formal
consent to the different members Of
the supreme tribunal and secured
their signatures to 1t. All that he saw
signed it and he reported that he had
seen all of them except two who could
not be reached.
"On Nov. 10 Thomas w. Wilson,
president; NJ. B. CARRIER, secretary;
S. S. McIlvain, treasurer and banker
at Auburn, ILL.,, and Dr. Walters, medi
cal examiner, and George W. Kenney,
councillor, of the American Home Cir
Gle, came to Rock Island and the con.
tract was presented and read and dis
cussed, our side being represented by
our board OF regents, all of whom were
present.
In that contract there was not
word said about selling out the Tri-
Dunes. 1t was just reinsurance of
the members II thc other society.
everything to be under the name of the
Fraternal Tribunes- The contract was
then executed
Changes in Officers.
Following the execution of this
contract, the following changes in Off
Gals were made:
* NJ. Whitman resigned as SUI
preme tribune, and was elected SUI
Preme trustee. Thomas w. Wilson
was elected supreme tribune in his
place.
Wv c. Galloway resigned as vice
supreme tribune, and was elected SUI
preme orator.
Il resigned as supreme secretary
and was elected vice supreme tribune
to succeed Mr.. Galloway, and in
charge of field work, at the same sal
airy that l had received.
m. V. CARRIER was elected supreme
H. A. Weld resigned as supreme
treasurer and was elected as supreme
counsellor.
Or. A. L. Craig resigned and DR..
Walters was elected supreme medical
examiner in his stead, but. DR.. Craig
was to continue to act with him.
After this action the joint meeting
adjourned and those present went to
their homes. AS soon as my success
soT came 10 relieve me | went into the
field work and prosecuted that to the
best of my ability. Everything
seemed to be working nicely. l had
never worked harder in my life. The
results seemed to be coming.
No Further Mention of Cash.
Nothing ever had been said on the
money question since our meeting in
DR.. Craig's Office in the Old Colony
building Sunday afternoon, Oct. %,
unless it was mentioned incidentally.
knew of no conference, and certainly
took no part in one. l didn't see Will
son again until Nov 10, and never had
at any time any conference with him
about the money. All of the talk
had with anybody about the money was
with and in the presence of Whitman
Craig and Weld. and was in substance
as l have given it heretofore
1T must have been close to Thanks
giving, 1908, either the day before or
the day after, that Whitman came into
the Office and handed me certificates
of deposit, issued by the Capital Ma
tional bank of Lansing, Mich, with
which his brother is connected. These
certificates were, one for $4,000, an
other for $500, and gave me bank
book with $500 as q checking account
He came into my Office in the Carse
building and handed me the above
certificates, making no particular re-
n ark exc opt to Lall attention to Them
as he handed them over. The smaller
certificate was left N the Lansing
bank. The $500 one l transferred to
the Continental National bank of Chi
cago. 1 checked against this to linn
tied extent. | felt that it was best not
to invest this money so that
might be in position to hand it back
in the event the affairs of the order
were not properly conducted.
That is just what l did do when
the discovery was made that the re-
serve fund had been touched and that
things were not going right.
Learns Fund is Moved.
The first thought | had that any
thing was wrong was when, on the
day of June 80, 1909, l received a tele-
phone massage from l.. NJ. Campbell
of Peoria to the effect that the reserve
fund had been taken from its accum-
toned place in the Chicago Title and
Trust company. Mr.. Campball had
been in this city during the day, and
we had lunch together. l had asked
him what was the status of the suit
recently started in Peoria regarding
the annulment of the contract between
the two societies. He said if there
was anything new he would call me
up. He did call me at o'clock that
evening and said there was a rumor
to the effect that the reserve fund
had been taken from the Chicago Title