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Show ALLEGED CROOKED"! COMPANY BARRED The Northwestern Mutual Fire Association of Seattle, Wash., Thrown Out of Call- 5 fornla By Supreme Court. 3 Tho action of thi Mate attorn) Koneral In sustaining the dccMon1 of tho California Insuranco depart-1 niont that the Northwestern Mutual Plro nasoclntlon of Settle. Wash I other feather in the cap of Insurance Insur-ance CommlMlom r PhOp.. .y,, Vn. lerwrlters Import, the Idling In-! suranro Journal of the Pacific! t oast, published at San Franclto in Its Im,k. ,,f Juno Id The rommls-' i,?.".?r "?. a,rr.ft,l Le,,n upheld b ! .VV Y?" ,','v, of ,he federal I oourt In hla attitude toward the mutual mu-tual and tho attorney general's ruling rul-ing along lndcmli-rit lines reached trie same conclusion i fill was the second rourt action' In which Commission! r Phelps found hlnwolf because he had rcfus-1 1 license to companies violating (.anrornlaa lawn and that ho was successful In both rases I an clo-l quent testimonial to hi discernment and determination to safeguard Insurance In-surance bujera of California Thls state has been too long the camping camp-ing ground 0f off color Insuranco operator with both the Insuring public and legitimate underwriters suffering from their efforts It required re-quired Commissioner Phelps, hlmsel u practical insurance man. to Institute, Insti-tute, n change and Callfornlans will benefit b his zeal and courage Like other public officials who nro detcrmlnel to do their whole duty, how ex or, Commissioner Phelps has been criticised and lampooned, but It docs not lie In the mouths of his detractors to attack his motlvis or to question his slncerlt) Ho long an printed organs are purchasable, purchas-able, honest officials will be assailed assail-ed for sins of ommlr.lon as well as commission, but Intelligent Insurance Insur-ance men at least will bo ablo to discern tho brazen note of the hired publicist Tho Hun give publicity to the nbovo from the Underwriters lie-port lie-port because, of tho fact that the Northwstcrn Mutual has recent!) established an agenc at Price and Is trying to secure business In this section of I'tah In Salt Luk City n elwhere where the eoniMin) ",. methixls are known, the "1 Aorthwosiern In a Joke, except to 1 l& fol",w?0 hM " "0,,P Hml " Noilliwcirin Mum Pi,j f,,, t The supreme court of Washington I'M refusal to relieve the North- j western Mutual Fire association 5 from irti)tii(.nt of n fire low on j Jtniln Iwlonglng to n Whitman coun- 1 ) farmer ami the compaii) must now pa) the latter' In sura lire am- 1 I.MU.1,I1,! ,' 7"89 The rnrmer j had obtained a erdlct for $8R23 9 against the mutual In the superior ' J-otiii Ml Colfax. Waah , last )enr, : but the romjmny appealed to tho au- ' preme cnuri, which found that as ' the MMiirftl had n sound nluo of : eight hundreil dollar under his pollc) this amount should be de- ' duclel from the original orillct '. against the romtwn) which Is now affirmed ' The cae attracted considerable '. attention beenuse the compan re- fused to pa) the grain grower after " the fire, alleging that he had set ', the fire himself for the Insurance mone) The company aubsequcntly " had the policyholder arrested on n ! chnrge of arson, but the Jury brought In a erdlct or not guilty ' Next the policyholder filed n chll ! suit ngnlnn tho Northwestern Mu- tual to recou-r $5000, the amount ' of tho pollr) The trial Jury found ! for the grain grower, awarding him $Kfi23 HI the amount of tho policy ' and Interest This xerdlct wns np- , pealed b) the compnn) which set up the counter claim that the as- ; Hired hud not paid hi premiums '. when due, although It developed that the company had accepted It ; afterward It will he noted that first the mutual refuted to pay Its pollcyhol- ; der iM'causo It suspected him of , burning his propert), but nfterwnrd adiipUit the defense that the pro- ; mlum had not been paid on the date It wiih due It Is now a )ear and a half since the grain growers' property wn burned |