Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-06
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Little Interviews Which Were Gath.
cred Up Yesterday.


Little Interviews Which Were Gath
cred Up Yesterday.
A young lawyer-Our profession is a
very curious one. A lawyer stands
we'll in the social ecale, but what
singular ideas OF honesty and integrity
most OF the men who rank as leading
members Of the bar have. Take the
estates of dead persons, for instance. A
man may die reasonably well off, but
unless his heirs watch the proceedings Of
the settlement of the estate with an
eagle eye, the chances are that the lions
share, perhaps should ssy all, OF the
estate will go into the pockets of the
legal fraternity. | do not wish to init
mate that, as rule, this transfer of the
not done in strictly legal manner. The
and any lawyer who has a tangled up
estate and who does not get all that is
worth having, has failing which may
entitle him to rank as philanthropist,
but does not do him credit from busi-
ness standpoint. o. l.. Susand was a
colored barber whom most old residents
will remember. His shop was on North
Main street, near the st. Elmo hotel.
He died about three years ago. Since
that time the public administrator,
aided by some of the best legal talent of
the city, has been wrestling with the
estate. The estate was appraised at
about $4,000. The settlement has pro-
ceeded in every case strictly according
to law, and the result has been
highly gratifying to the profession.
This will be apparent when 1 state to
you that it was difficult to get enough
money from the public administrator to
pay for the lot where poor Susand lies
buried. There was little advertising
done in the papers and the papers have
to discount their bills one-half because
there was not money enough to go
around among the lawyers. If you will
go and look up the bills filed in the es
tate you will soon see why there is no
money. One firm drew $400 for legal
advice, another $3.50, ,eand SO it went. So
far as am informed the attorneys think
that the division was equitable. Still
l suppose there may be some cranks on
the outside who will claim that there
might have been money enough left to
pay for the graveyard plot without
quibbling over it.
Daniel A. Ripley, University see
that yesterdays Times has an item
headed Mr.. Flower in War Times, which
makes out that the governor-elect of
New York was disloyal. At the time of
the breaking out of the war was at
Theresa, Jefferson county, New York. |
knew the whole Flower family, and en-
listed in q company got up by George
Flower, the governors brother, in the
thirty-fifth volunteer regiment. Mr..
Flower never could use such language as
is attributed to him in the story. He
is gentleman and churchman.
know that such sentiments are foreign
to his nature. The story in the Times
was copied from an eastern paper and is
told anonymously. | wish | knew the
writer's name. The story is baseless.
know there can be no truth in it.
Dan Freeman, capitalist and boomer
have Just returned from Santa Bar
bara and Ventura counties, where have
been in the interests of the immigra-
tion convention to be held here on De-
cember 9Th. I saw the leading citizens
and the supervisors, and / think they
will all stand in on the proposition. San
Bernardino county has given US an af-
! firmative answer. Ventura county is q
beautiful section of country. had not
been there for twelve years, and won
dered at the development.
General Manager Burnett, of the
Terminal road think our company
has the best rolling stock in Southern
California, the cars are particularly COM
| Portable and their design is most pleasing
to the eve. When are our nabobs coming
out? Idon't know exactly; I wish they
would come soon. Our little road is
| developing very rapidly.
s. w. Luitwieler- are good.
My business indicates clearly the condi-