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Show THIS WASHINGTON FURMEHIS STUNG: llt'VH INHUItAN'CI. I'ltOM NOI.TH-WIMTKIIX NOI.TH-WIMTKIIX MirTlMI.. i Cannot Collect Wlirn I'ln Kiihuch ind Is I'unrd to Appeal to the i Coitus to 1 tenner HI ! Takes .Monty of the Akmirtd, It Is Allegtil, nod Ittturiis Nothing.' Tho Northwestern Mutual of Seattle Se-attle has been sued for the recov-1 ery of three thousand dollars, tho! amount of a policy Issued to Duld Woodward of Wathtucna, Wash. ' The policy covered growing grain on tho Insured's farm, nnd following a Tiro which totally destroyed tho property insured, tho association Is roported to hau offered tho assured as-sured threo hundred dollars lu full settlement. This was refused by tho (utter, who has now brought suit In the superior court of Adams county against tho Seattle concern. Commenting' on tho action of tho Seattlo mutual In tho caso Tho Illtxvtlle Times of Ultxvllle. Wash., In a recent edition snlil "This Is n good Illustration of what muy bo expected ex-pected when tho farmers take their Insurance from tho mutual Insurance Insur-ance concerns, which havo no desire or Intention to protect thu policyholders, policy-holders, but morely hope to gut the money from tho farmers In the form ot premiums and to give nothing no-thing In return. It ought to bo a letson to the farmers lu this community, com-munity, which would eauso them to bo moro careful In tho future about placing of contracts of Insurance. "There tiro many good, reliable companies which are doing business In this part ot tho state, which nro nprsiicd by reliable agents, nud which pay their lottos when they x-cur, x-cur, and It Is not necessary for our people to p.uomlie wildcat concerns and pay out their good money for souieihing which Is of no value." The Northwestern Mutual of Seattle Se-attle recently estnbllthod an ngouay at I'riee uud 1 nttemplng to do butlnesti in this toetlou Former Insurim-e Commissioner Wtllard Dune would uot permit the company a lloonie n Utah. It might be well for buyers of fire Insurance U ro-futo ro-futo Northwestern Mutual policies, There ure too many good companies doing business In I'rlco for nnyono to tnko chancet |