Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-04-05
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OlhIs ouN Gus dS5 ~ III O1ASA NAA'oA
prises, SO that il he had died about
that time. Mr.. Stevenson, the
beneficiary of this will, only newly
married to him, would have aearly
half a millions and his sons simply
a thousand dollars piece and his
three grand children five hundred
a piece; THEREFORE it requires no ar
gument to show that was an I'm
natural will, manifestly unjust,
unless some reason can be assign
ed why he should cut off his two
sons with a shilling. and under the
authorities, the burden OF proof is
upon the ether side to show a rea-
son why G. G. Stevenson should
have even changed the love and
affection that he gave his two sons
all his life up to the time Of the ex-
ecution Of the will-why he should
have changed it.
TIL E STEVENSON BOYS.
How do they stand in the light
OF the evidence? Here are two
young men, the equal of any other
two reared in this OF any other
country for honesty, industry,
sobriety and parental devotion, as
they are praised hero by the var
ious witnesses. We find that Lou
Stevenson came TO Nevada In
1868. Up to the time he was Is
year Of age he never had q penny
Of money OF his own; he worked
on farms, in factories; he did
everything he could get to- do and
turned all his earnings into the
lap of his mother. In 1868 we
find him running sluice-box in
Gold Hill, and when he earned
the sum OF $500, he returned to
his home and spent it in a rudi-
mentary education, In 1872 his
father, in the kindness of his
heart, invested for him 50, $50 in a
lounge factory, and mark your
Honor, one of the witnesses for
the other side testified on the
stand that Mrs. Stevenson declar-
ed in 1875, that G. @. Stevenson
had expended $4,000 on his son,
Lou Stevenson. Still that declar-
alton is admissible, but ours is
not, he says. Is that true? He
invested 50, ESQ; when Lou Steven
son analysed the schedule Of the
property it was discovered that it
was only worth half that sum. It
was the year OF the panic that the
establishment failed, but G. @.
Stevenson never attributed the
failure to any dissipated habits of
his son nor to any imprudent man.
agement or neglect Of any char
acter, but on the contrary, his
faith in him was so strong that
when Lou came back we find him
superintendent of the Justice
mine for three months. We find
him book keeper at the Douglas
mill, and time keeper at the
Buckeye mine, at $50 month,
for his father. We next find him
renting for himself the Williams &
Bixler Lodging House in Virginia,
taking lease for three years at
1926 per month, His father thought
it a good investment and took
him into partnership, and he
managed it 50 skillfully that he
realized q thousand dollars a
month up to the very day the es-
Establishment burned down. $4,000
worth of furniture were DESTROYED
bywater in June, then came the fire
in November. But whose fault
was it that the loss occurred? Not
his-his father refused to insure
the property, and therein it was
lost through the neglect of his
father to insure it. Now your
Honor, that is about all the money
that Lou has ever had advanced
for him during his life Com
ing back from Colorado in 1885,
the very moment he landed in the
country and is introduced to his
step mother, he is saluted with
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