Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-01-06

Governor Mills left this morning
for Las Vegas to take an active part
in the statehood campaign.
Insurance Matters.
The Territorial Insurance depart
ment has received an application
from the Sam Houston Life Insur-
ance Company of Dallas, Texas, to
enter the territory to do business.
The department has also received
an interesting memorandum from the
insurance department of the state of
New York in the matter of the appli-
cation of T. Barber for the cancella-
ton of the license to do business in
New York, fourth class, of the Insur-
ance Department of the supreme
Lodge of knights of Pythias. Bar.
ber's complaint was that his insur-
ance dues were raised from $500 to
$24.70 per month and he declares
that in the fourth class mortuary
fund of this society there was on De
cember 81, 1909 but SS09,S76 where
as the reserve to meet outstanding
certificates in such class should have
been about $S,000,000. The applicant
now is IS years of age.
The application was denied how
ever, with the remark that the appli-
cant had been getting his insur-
ance too cheap as had his dead breth-
rem" The department adds however,
"He may with propriety complain
that the state has not protected him
as it should have done. Adequate
laws regulative Of fraternal insur-
ance have for years been urged by
the National Convention of Insurance
Commissioners, but not until this
year have the representatives of the
fraternal societies conceded with suf-
ficient unanimity that such laws are
necessary.
Without the cooperation of such
societies, the passage of such laws
has been found to be-indeed prob
ably is-impossible. The member
therefor who complains because the
state has not interefered in his be-
half will find the reasons for such
want of interference within the soci-
eties themselves.
The department further adds: "No
citizens should be more anxious for
such q regulative law than the men,
bers of such societies themselves
who like the present applicant are of
advanced ages uninsurable else
where, and brought face to face with
the basic folly of fraternal insurance
as it was, the abandonment of which
and thus the lifting of the system it.
self to a higher plane of safety, will
be the certain result of the legisIa-
ton now suggested in New York
state"
Bulletin No. 7.
There is big demand for bulletin
No 7 issued by the New Mexico In,
surance department, the demand
coming from Arizona and Colorado.
To Build Road.
Territorial Engineer Charles D..
Miller has returned from Las Vegas
where he made arrangements for the
establishment of a convict camp of
fifty convicts to be located in the
small canon between Sapello and Ce-
bolla River where work will soon
commence on the Las Vegas-Mora
road. This road is thirty miles long
and the work is quite rough.
January 13 and IA.
Through an error it was stated IN
the New Mexican that the examine
ton of teachers seeking certificates
will be held January 6 and Z The
dates are just week later, January
13 and IA, thus giving ample time.
Consent to Dissolution.
The Portales Concrete Building
Block and Cement company, with Of
flee at Portales, Roosevelt COUNT,
has applied to the territorial secre-
tary for permission to dis solve incor'
poration. w E. Lindsey is the pres
ident, Fred Crosby the secretary and
the board of directors is com oosei IF
Fred Crosby, Armita Crosby, Deane
H. Lindsey and w. e. Lindsey Act
ing SECRETARY Edwin F. Coard issued
a certificate of assent
The territorial secretary has been
notified that certificate of dissolu-
ton has been issued to the C. H.
Sharp Constructing Company of Kan
sas, which was qualified to do bust
ness in New Mexico.
Sending Out Constitutions.
The territorial secretary's office
force is still busy sending out copies
of the constitution, for while all the
voters have been supplied, packages
of 100 copies each are sent to the
hundred members of the constitu,
tional convention. The work of
reading the proof on the journal of
the convention, which will soon be is
sued in pamphlet form, continues.
Miss Virginia Bean has been appoint
ed to assist in the proof-reading
which is a strenuous task.
Board Meets Monday.
The territorial board Of Equaliza.
ton will meet here Monday, January
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